News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
If you want to save/export citations from the catalog, you’ll want to do so using OneSearch instead, as the RefWorks export from the catalog no longer works. The CUNY Office of Library Services says it is unlikely there will be a way to fix this problem.
Another option that offers students more flexibility in the long run is to suggest Zotero instead, which still works fine with the catalog as well as OneSearch and all of our bibliographic databases (and Amazon, nytimes.com, Wikipedia, etc.).
Journals on the Emerald Insight platform will be unavailable for up to 12 hours on Monday, March 2, due to planned maintenance work from the vendor. Work will begin at 2 am and should be done by 2 pm.
The problem reported here earlier with PDFs not loading in EBSCOhost databases is now fixed.
UPDATE 4:00pm: The problem is now fixed.
EBSCOhost is aware of the problem that just started this morning with PDFs (they won’t load) and is working on it. I’ll update here as I get more info.
Beginning at 10 pm Eastern time on Saturday, February 28, and continuing for up to five hours, ProQuest databases and services will be down for planned site maintenance. This affects:
It may also affect the display of book jacket art in the catalog and OneSearch, as ProQuest also owns the Syndetics service that provides that art.
These schedules are now confirmed and posted to the Reference Desk LibGuide.
SRDS is currently unavailable because of procurement issues. We are working to restore access as quickly as possible.
UPDATE 2 July 2015: Access to this database is back.
These schedules are now confirmed and posted to the Reference Desk LibGuide.
We’re getting that question again from SPS students who need to find articles on interpersonal spacing. From what I can tell, the students are required to find research articles on interpersonal spacing that were published in the past ten years. Going to PsycINFO and just searching “interpersonal spacing” doesn’t get you far enough, apparently. Instead, recommend to students that they set up the search this way:
Search box 1: type “personal space” and select “SU Subjects” from the search option
Search box 2: type “interpersonal” but leave search option to default setting of “Select a field (optional)”
Here’s a screenshot of the search boxes:
The trick is not to fall into the trap of assuming that “interpersonal spacing” is the best search. “Personal space” is the subject descriptor that gets used for all the articles that do happen to have “interpersonal spacing.” In the thesaurus, the scope note for “personal space” says the term is defined as “Minimal spatial distance preferred by an individual in his/her relations with others.”
By adding “interpersonal” as an additional search word, the results are a bit more focused on the concept of “interpersonal spacing” than if you just found all the articles that have the “personal space” subject descriptor.
After you run the search, change the sort option from “Relevance” to “Date Newest”
As Randy mentioned in his email this week, reference statistics will be gathered from February 9-20. I’ve taken Randy’s form and uploaded it to the Reference Desk guide on the Forms page.