Reference at Newman Library

Three New Database Trials from Gale

Through November 23, we have on and off campus access to the following three trials, all of which are linked to on the Trials tab of the databases page.

Gale Interactive: Chemistry

Vendor description: Users can manipulate and explore the periodic table, molecules, and other 3D models, allowing students to better visualize and understand concepts in chemistry. Reference and periodical content provide additional context for further understanding.

Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy

Vendor description: Users can manipulate and explore 3D models, allowing students to better visualize and understand human anatomy. Reference and periodical content provide additional context for further understanding.

Gale Small Business Builder

Note that you will have to create your own account to use the product. Look for the orange “Get Started” button in the center of the home page.

Vendor description: Gale Small Business Builder helps patrons interested in planning and optimizing their businesses or nonprofits. Built for aspiring entrepreneurs and those with existing small businesses, it provides a step-by-step process supported by a rich variety of recognized tools that enable users to produce complete business plans and other documents essential for gaining access to capital and growing their enterprise.

Please share these with relevant faculty and encourage them to use the feedback form linked to on the database trials page.

MLA Moving to Ebsco

You may have noticed on the databases page that there are now links for MLA through both Gale and Ebsco. As of January, Ebsco will have exclusive rights to MLA, and Gale will no longer offer it. Ebsco will offer a full-text version of MLA, but so far we do not have access to that. CUNY Central is providing access and we may get full text at some point.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Gartner Database Login Change

UPDATE (11 September 2018): The information below that was posted yesterday is now out of date, as CUNY CIS has now decided that access to Gartner will be via a direct link instead of via the CUNY Portal. That direct link still requires that users log in with their CUNY Login (see below). Our A-Z link to Gartner will no longer instruct how to connect via the CUNY Portal but instead how to use your CUNY Login.


Access to Gartner continues to require you first to log into the CUNY Portal. What’s new as of 5 pm today is that your login for the CUNY Portal will use the CUNY Login system:

  • Username: Your CUNYfirst username + @login.cuny.edu (e.g., [email protected])
  • Password: Your CUNYfirst password

The separate login credentials we used to use for the CUNY Portal will no longer work. This change is part of the ongoing effort to cut down on the number of login credentials that members of the CUNY community need.

A link for Gartner is still found on our databases page (the link takes you to the CUNY Portal login page).

Problems with Records in OneSearch for New York Times and Wall Street Journal Articles

CUNY OLS and Ex Libris are looking into problems that CUNY and other schools are having with records for New York Times and Wall Street Journal articles. You may find that the “full text available” link for an article leads you to a page in the database that indicates the full text or the article couldn’t be found. If that happens, just go into one of the usual databases for full text access and search by title for the article you need.

With the New York Times, you may also see in your search results in OneSearch multiple records for the exact same article.

As soon as these problems are fixed by Ex Libris, I’ll post an update to the reference blog.