Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2016

Database Trials: Bloomberg Business Week Archive and Forbes Archive

Database descriptions

Trials end

16 April 2016

Access

On and off campus access.

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)

S&P Capital IQ Working Again from Specified Library Computers

The 12 computers in the library that are supposed to be able to connect to S&P Capital IQ are now able to do so again. Users should look for the desktop icon that says “Launch Capital IQ.” The 12 computers are all located closest to the service elevator on the 2nd floor and includes:

  • six computers for Baruch undergraduate & graduate students only
  • six computers for Baruch graduate students only

Additional computers for Baruch students with S&P Capital IQ access may be found in the Subotnick Center.

Library Website Dysfunctional within Blackboard (UPDATED)

See UPDATE Below

If you are logged into Blackboard and then click the link there for “Baruch Library,” the library website appears within the Blackboard frame. But if you try to run a search in the yellow search bar, the screen blanks out like this:

http://www.screencast.com/t/ZI1lL4taggAe

I’ve reported the problem to BCTC. We saw and fixed this same problem a few years ago. Hopefully, it will be just as easy a fix as it was the last time.

As a workaround, just open the library website in different browser tab or browser window.

UPDATE (21 March 2016) Now if users click the “Baruch Library” link, they will get a message indicating the page will open in a new tab if the browser allows pop ups.

Find It Buttons from SFX and View Online Button in OneSearch Working Again

All issues reported in the last few days with the “Find it” buttons from SFX and the “View Online” button in OneSearch have now been resolved. This includes:

If you run into problems with any of these services and resources, please report them ASAP to Mike Waldman or me.

New Interface and Login Procedure for MRI+

MRI+ (Mediamark Reporter) is now on a new platform. Getting in to the database for the first time is a little bit different. Here’s how a student or faculty member would proceed:

  1. Use the link on our databases page to MRI+ (Mediamark Reporter)
  2. You’ll be taken to a login page from “GfK MRI SMARTSystem”. Click the “Register” link below the login fields.
  3. On the registration page, enter 1EM28TRB as the “Registration Code” and then type in your full number and Baruch email address.
  4. You’ll get a confirmation email moments later. You’ll need to click the link in that confirmation email.
  5. You’ll be taken to a page where you now need to create your own personal password for this system.
  6. After you create a password, go back to the login page and enter your Baruch email address and your personal password.

The branding on the interface is different from the old one. The words MRI are tiny and a logo for “University Reporter” dominates the screen. We may need to think about changing the listing on the databases page for this database.

Problem Linking to EBSCO Content via SFX

See UPDATE below

If you are in OneSearch about to click a “View Online” button or if you are in some database and have clicked a “Find it!” button (both “View Online” in OneSearch and “Find it!” buttons are powered  by our SFX service) and get a link to full text that goes to an EBSCOhost database, odds are that link will fail. You’ll get an error message from “EBSCO Publishing” that says “A System Problem has Occurred” and looks like this:

EBSCO--error page

Ex Libris, the company that provides the SFX service, says that EBSCO changed some settings unexpectedly. Once Ex Libris can update their systems to work with EBSCO, SFX should be working again with EBSCO content. It’s not clear how long this will take (hours? a day?)

In the meanwhile, as a workaround, use the “Journals” search option on the yellow search bar to track down the database that has that periodical you need. Links from there into EBSCO and other databases are fine (the “Journals” system is from Serials Solutions and is unaffected by this problem).

UPDATE (9 March 2016, 10:15 am)

Ex Libris and EBSCOhost have fixed this problem.

Database Trial: Gallup Analytics

Database description

From the vendor:

Gallup Analytics is an online platform that provides subscribers with access to nearly a century of U.S. data and a decade of global tracking data known as the Gallup World Poll. Gallup Analytics allows subscribers to use this wealth of primary data in their work like never before. The online platform includes new data and historical trends at the country, state and U.S. city levels. All trends are easily searchable and exportable. Subscribers can view data by demographic categories, compare results across geographies to develop and report findings, including direct citations of Gallup’s work.

Trial ends

1 May 2016

Access

On and off campus access.

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)

View Online in OneSearch and Find it! Down on March 9

On Wednesday, March 9, from 8 am to 10 am, there will be scheduled maintenance work by CUNY CIS on the server that runs our SFX service that will shut it down.

SFX is the system that makes the “View Online” button in OneSearch work (it connects you to the full text of articles) and it runs the “Find it!” buttons that appear in our databases when you want to check for full text in another database.

Full Text Options for Harvard Business Review

For years, the only access to current issues of Harvard Business Review was in Business Source Complete, which offers articles from 1922 to the present. Now, ABI/INFORM Global indicates that it too has full text access to this publication from November 2015 to the present. It’s best to just ignore this claim from ABI/INFORM Global. Here’s why.

The articles that ABI/INFORM Global claims it has full text access to are in reality just records that link out to the subset of articles that are freely available from Harvard Business Review on the magazine’s website. Here’s a sample record in ABI/INFORM Global:

ABI INFORM Global-HBR article record

Like other periodicals on the open web, Harvard Business Review has set up a monthly limit of free articles that you can access. You can view four articles for free; if you try to view a fifth one, you get a web page on the HBR website blocking you and suggesting that you register on the site (a free proess that gives you access to eight free articles a month). This is all needlessly confusing given that we’ve got full text coverage within another database (albeit, that coverage from Business Source Complete has its own set of headaches regarding download restrictions and direct linking/course reserves restrictions).

We’ve contacted ProQuest to complain about this stretching of the concept of “full text” and have added a note to the A-Z journals lookup in Serials Solutions for the journal that indicate the the ABI/INFORM Global option is not the preferred one.

 

 

 

 

Missing Desktop Icons for S&P Capital IQ – UPDATED 16 Mar 2016

See UPDATE below.

I just submitted a BCTC Help Desk ticket to ask them to replace the missing desktop icons for S&P Capital IQ on the six graduate workstations in the library. Without that desktop icon, there is no way for a graduate student to be able to log into the database. Until the icons are put back on the desktop, we’ll have to refer students to the Subotnick Center for access to that database.

UPDATE 16 March 2016: These 12 computers now have the desktop icon back and can connect to S&P Capital IQ.