Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2017

New Database: Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination

We’ve recently started a subscription to a collection of streaming videos that demonstrate all aspects of physical examination for health care providers. The database is called Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination and is linked to on the main databases page as well as the listings of nursing databases and health databases.

The collection is not yet indexed in the Primo Central Index, which means that records are not yet discoverable in OneSearch. The main point of access for now will be within the database itself.

New Database: Amsterdam News (1922-1993)

We now have a subscription to a new collection on the ProQuest Historical Newspapers platform: Amsterdam News (1922-1993). There is a link to it on the A-Z databases page (under Amsterdam News) and on the page listing news databases.

Records for these articles aren’t yet discoverable in OneSearch (Ex Libris hasn’t yet indexed them yet for inclusion in the Primo Central Index, as the collection is too new). For the near future, the sole point of access to these articles will be through the database itself.

Database Trial: Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Description (from the vendor)

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals, and 100 books. In addition, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.

Trial Ends

October 29, 2017

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).

LibGuides Is Down

Springshare has confirmed on their Twitter account that there is a system-wide problem. We are unable to access:

The Twitter account for Springshare is posting updates (as per usual) for this outage.

Google Scholar Blog

Finding out how Google Scholar works is a bit tricky, as Google is loathe to release too many details about how the service works. One window in to the inner workings can be found by looking at the posts on the Google Scholar Blog, the official blog from Google about the service. Some notable posts from the past year include:

If you direct students and faculty to Google Scholar, please make sure you tell them to use the link to it on our A-Z databases page. Our link is customized so that it automatically does the “Library links” settings in Google Scholar to indicate the searcher is from Baruch, which then ensures that a “Find Full Text at Baruch” link appears next to article that we have access to.

Updates to OneSearch

Allie Verbovetskaya at the CUNY Office of Library Services (she’s the University Web and Mobile Systems Librarian) shared with the Public Services Committee a list of recent updates to the OneSearch system that we should all be aware of:

On Sunday, August 27, 2017, our instance of OneSearch was updated to the latest service pack release of the underlying discovery software. This was a major update and includes many new or updated features:

  • Email Security Improvements
  • Sticky Facets
  • Multiple Facet Selection
  • Sort in “My Saved Items”
  • Featured Results
  • Support of RSS Feeds
  • Personalized Results
  • Search Expansion with Controlled Vocabulary
  • Resource Recommender

You can read more about these features on the “What’s New @ OLS57” blog: https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

If you have any questions about these updates, feel free to ask me about them.