News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
ProQuest just announced additional resources that will have scheduled maintenance on January 19, beginning at 10 pm and ending at 6 am on January 20.
ProQuest Books
Research databases
Reference management/Research support tools
ProQuest will be taking Ebook Central down twice in January for scheduled maintenance:
With the permission of Michael Waldman, I’m publishing here the email that he shared internally today.
There was a recent change in how Aleph handles records that have an Item Status of “Missing” and “Lost”. In the past, in the Catalog, the record was displayed as “Lost”. This was a status that Circulation would add after extensive searching. However at this time many items that were “Missing” (i.e., not fully searched) have been changed to “Lost”.
At this time however, these records are showing “Please check shelf”. I encourage you to send me any such record that you encounter for further investigation, but it is likely that the book is not available (or immediately available) and the patron should be directed to another resource.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
We now have access to one encyclopedia on Oxford’s newish platform, Oxford Research Encyclopedias. This encyclopedia of communication includes nearly 500 entries.
Links to this encyclopedia can be found on the following pages:
At the moment, there isn’t a way to search for entries to it in OneSearch.
For background on the encyclopedia, Oxford University Press offers this video:
Along with all other CUNY libraries, we now have access to IOPscience, a collection of journals and ebooks from IOP Publishing (part of the Institute of Physics). Access to the articles and ebook titles can be found via:
Due to low use, we’ve cancelled our subscription to MagillOnLiterature Plus. For a list of the databases for literature research that we have, please see the English – Databases page and Chris Tuthill’s English research guide.
We now subscribe to Safari, a collection of over 40,000 ebooks in information technology. This database includes all titles published by O’Reilly Media as well as titles from a number of other publishers. The collection also includes videos and a small number of case studies.
To use Safari, you’ll need to use the link on the A-Z database list (there is also a link on the ebooks databases page). Logging in to Safari from on or off campus requires a Baruch or CUNY SPS email address. Once the user provides that email, they are in. If a user wants to be able to use the iOS or Android app and read ebooks offline, they will need to set up an account with Safari using their Baruch or CUNY SPS email address and a password of their own choosing.
The vendor hopes to have their content indexed in the coming months by Ex Libris so records for each ebook can be found in the Primo discovery service (OneSearch here at CUNY).
Between 1 am and 10 am on Thursday, November 22, the catalog will be down for planned maintenance (re-indexing of several fields).
As of October 31, we no longer subscribe to the RealQuest database. Links to it have been removed from the LibGuides system.
Thanks to the ingenuity of folks on the EZproxy mailing list, a solution was found that fixes the off campus access problem we were having with the DSM-5 Library. I’ve applied that fix to the configuration file on our EZproxy server and tested that it works.