News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Database description
Collection of Spanish-language books and journals.
Trial ends
28 February 2015
Access
On and off campus via the link on the Trials tab of the databases page (you must log in with the temporary username and password listed below the link to the database)
Feedback
Please share with any faculty who might be interested and recommend they use the trial feedback form (also linked to on the Trials tab on the databases page)
While you can easily run searches in the catalog starting from the “Books” search in the yellow search bar, sometimes you want to get to the catalog interface first so you can run an advanced search. Here’s the fastest way to get there from the library home page: mouse over “Faculty” in the navigation bar to reveal the menu and then click “Library Catalog.”
I just stumbled on the blog written by librarians at the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania): Datapoints. It’s written for the benefit of students and faculty there and is filled with lots of nice screenshots of databases and websites in posts that try to demonstrate how to research various questions or that spotlight a particular tool. Sample posts:
these schedules are now confirmed and posted to the Reference Desk Libguide.
Please let me know if you still experience any issues.
This is news to me: students and faculty at Baruch can activate their library accounts at any CUNY campus library, not just ours. For years, I’d always thought it could only be done here, but apparently I’ve had that wrong. Monique Prince has told me that in fact students and faculty from any CUNY campus can activate their library accounts at any CUNY campus.
Zicklin’s Office of Graduate Programs provides access to the current, daily Financial Times. Current Zicklin graduate students and faculty should use their Baruch email accounts to email the Financial Times contact person to request access. The email contact information is posted in the Reference Wiki under the entry “Financial Times Daily Edition.”
ProQuest has its own LibGuides account and has a nice collection of help guides for its databases, including many of the ones we subscribe to:
I thought some of the content of these guides might give us ideas about things we’d like to add to our guides. ProQuest’s guides may also be easier for us to navigate when we’re looking for help documentation about things like connectors, search syntax, etc.
Database description (from the vendor)
ProQuest International Datasets is a data visualization product with a collection of public and private datasets from national governments, international organizations, and economic research firms. The product offers unrivaled access to social and economic data, at both the national and sub-national level. Once you have found the data you want to use you can quickly create a chart and export it in the format of your choice.
Most of the data is in deep-time series. Country-level data is generally 35 years deep; city-level data generally contains 15-20.
Users can also take advantage of the Upload Content feature to upload their own datasets for use.
Trial ends
28 February 2015
Access
On and off campus
Feedback
Please share with any faculty who might be interested and recommend they use the trial feedback form (also linked to on the Trials tab on the databases page)
Database description (from the vendor)
ProQuest Statistical Insight provides abstracting, indexing, and full text for publications from hundreds of public domain and licensed sources. Institutions can subscribe to the entire collection or to selected modules.
- Federal statistical publications. 5,000 titles/year. Coverage from 1973; full text from 2004.
- State government and business statistical reports. 2,200 titles/year. Coverage from 1980; full text from 2007.
- International statistical publications from the UN, OECD, EU, etc. 2,500 titles/year. Coverage from 1980. Full text from 2007.
- Hundreds of thousands of statistical tables selected from the three publication modules. Tables are individually indexed to ensure precise search and retrieval. Coverage from 1999.
Trial ends
28 February 2015
Access
On and off campus
Feedback
Please share with any faculty who might be interested and recommend they use the trial feedback form (also linked to on the Trials tab on the databases page)