Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2016

Please Report Any Issues with Cambridge Content

Over the holiday weekend (late Sunday night to be exact), Cambridge will be moving all the journal content from one platform and the Cambridge Collections Online ebook content from another platform to a brand new platform for everything (it’s called “Cambridge Core.”) We’ve updated our systems and we’ve heard from Cambridge that  all old URLs will redirect to the new platform, but if you hear of any problem with Cambridge content, please let me or Mike know (with as much detail as you can gather).

Thanks!

New Login Page for OneSearch

Working with the Public Services Committee, the CUNY Office of Library Services has redesigned the login page for OneSearch. The goal of the redesign was to provide clearer login instructions that are customized for each school. Here’s the old design:

OneSearch--Login

And here’s the new one:

OneSearch--new login page--1 September 2016

The login for Baruch still requires the library ID number in both fields (unless the user has changed the password).

This new page doesn’t change an important fact: for many users, there may be no compelling need to sign in. Here are the reasons why a user might want to:

  • To request delivery of books held at other CUNY libraries
  • To see due dates of books they’ve checked out
  • To see what fines they might owe
  • For off campus users only: to see search results from the handful of vendors who don’t want their records to appear to users who haven’t authenticated them in some way: Web of Science, MLA International Bibliography, Arstor, Bureau of National Affairs, RMIT Publishing, American GeoSciences Institute.

 

LibGuides and E-Reserves Down [UPDATED]

UPDATE (1 Sept. 2016, 11:23 am) The problems mentioned below have been fixed. All pages are available again.

Springshare is having system-wide problems this morning. All LibGuides pages (which includes our databases page) and the e-reserves system are not available.

On Springhare’s Twitter account, it sounds like they’ll get it fixed soon.

OneSearch Login Not Working [UPDATED]

UPDATE (31 August 2016) The login problem reported below has been fixed.

I just sent a support ticket to the CUNY Office of Library Services to let them know that the login for OneSearch isn’t working (that would be the login that requires your library ID number). If a student needs to request a book, they can still log into the library catalog and do requests there.

GIS Workshop Registration for Fall 2016 Is Now Open

Registration is now open for the fall semester’s GIS (geographic information systems) Practicum, Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software (featuring QGIS). The sessions will be held in the GIS Lab at Baruch College:

  • Friday Sept 30th
  • Friday Oct 28th
  • Friday Nov 18th

The day-long workshop runs from 9am to 4:30pm. Current CUNY graduate students, faculty, and staff, and full-time Baruch undergrads are eligible to register. Advance registration is required; the fee is $30 and includes a detailed tutorial manual and a light breakfast. Participants must bring their own laptop with QGIS pre-installed in order to take the class. Visit the GIS Practicum page to learn more and to register: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis/gisprac.

Baruch librarians: feel free to circulate this info to students and faculty, but please do not post on listservs.

Four New Databases

We now have access to four new databases, all of which use the Web of Science interface. There are now separate listings for each of these on the A-Z databases list:

  • BIOSIS Citation Index
    • Vendor description
      • Find the first mention of plants, organisms, chemicals, or lab techniques in various life sciences fields.
      • Access over 22 million records from journals, books, reports, meetings, and U.S. patents dating 1926 or later
    • Also listed on subject database pages for biology and science
  • Data Citation Index
    • Vendor description
      • Provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.
    • Anyone care to suggest what subject database lists this one should be on?
  • Derwent Innovations Index
    • Vendor description
      • Conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. This resource merges the value-added patent information from Derwent World Patents Index with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. You can use additional descriptive information and coding to quickly grasp a patent’s significance and its relationship to other patents.
    • Also listed on subject database page for law
  • Zoological Record
    • Vendor description
      • World’s oldest continuing database of animal biology. It is considered the world’s leading taxonomic reference, and with coverage back to 1864, has long acted as the world’s unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.
    • Also listed on subject database pages for biology and science

Books and Conference Proceedings in Web of Science

We have recently expanded our subscription to Web of Science so that additional content with citation counts will show up in search results:

  • books and book chapters (over 70,000 monographs)
  • conference proceedings (over 12,000 covered annually)

For more info:

We have also added additional databases that can be searched in using the same interface; I’ll detail those in a separate blog post.