This resource is really more aimed at us, the library staff, than anyone else. ccAdvisor combines the database reviews from the Charleston Advisor with those from CHOICE. There is a link to it on our A-Z databases page.
Year: 2018
New Database: Contemporary Women’s Issues
As part of an expansion across CUNY of Gale database coverage, we now have access to Contemporary Women’s Issues. Here is the vendor’s description:
Contemporary Women’s Issues (CWI), a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, “gray” literature, and the alternative press — with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women’s lives in more than 190 countries. Contemporary Women’s Issues includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contemporary Women’s Issues compiles into a single collection, often overlooked and hard-to-find newsletters and NGO research reports to which most libraries do not subscribe, plus ephemeral literature from leading research institutes and grass roots organizations that is rarely indexed or cataloged.
Contemporary Women’s Issues records are indexed by 17 categories, including subject, region, article type and publication type. Basic searching on the Internet is easy — using keywords, with options to search full-text, enhanced titles, author or book author. Advanced searching is done using convenient pull-down menus for selecting indexed terms.
Links to this database can be found on the A-Z page and the women’s studies databases page.
New Database: TableBase
We’ve got access once again to TableBase (it is now a CUNY-wide subscription). In addition to adding a link to it on the A-Z list, links can be found on the following subject database pages:
- Business
- Company Information
- Industry Information
- Marketing
- Statistics
Business Insights: Essentials Is Upgraded to Business Insights: Global
Thanks to recent deal between Gale and CUNY, we’ve expanded CUNY-wide access to a number of Gale products at a very reasonable cost. We’re now have access (again) to Business Insights: Global, which offers more content than the Business Insights: Essentials product we have had for the past few years. The URL and product name have been updated on the database lists.
Look soon for more announcements on the blog about Gale products.
How to Export Complete Search Results to Zotero
I’ve been getting more requests lately to help faculty and students work with Zotero, some of whom want to know how to take a set of search results and bring them all in to Zotero. I just recorded a pair of videos for one person about how to do that and thought I might as well get more mileage out of that effort by sharing them here, too.
Part 1: Using the “export” option PsycINFO to email yourself a link where you can download the file with the citations:
https://www.screencast.com/t/yZiq25gDIp0u
Part 2: Retrieving the file from the link in the email you receive, unzipping the file, and then importing the file (and all the citations therein) into Zotero:
https://www.screencast.com/t/DbIjhWNv
If you have any questions about this or any other aspect of Zotero, feel free to call me or email at any time.
New Interface: Business Expert Press
The ebook collection from Business Expert Press is on a new platform: iG Publishing. As ProQuest is shuttering its ebrary service, Business Expert Press had to find a new home for its collection of ebooks. The link for Business Expert Press on the databases page and the links for ebook records in OneSearch should take you to the new iG Publishing platform.
Please let me know if you encounter any access issues, as remote access proved to be challenging to get set up.
New Database: GrantForward
We’ve added a new database to the A-Z list: GrantForward. This resource is something that you and the faculty you work with may be especially interested in, as it allows one to search for funding opportunities or research partners for research projects.
If you want to take it a step further, you can create your own personal login and profile so that you can be notified of funding opportunities that match your areas of interest. You choose to make your profile public or private. Here is the public one I put together for myself that doesn’t have all my info yet but enough give you the gist of what you can do with the profile: https://www.grantforward.com/StephenFrancoeur.
If you browse the profiles, you’ll see that many Baruch faculty have already set up profiles here.
New Books Search Options in the Search Bar
Today, the search bar features a new set of options for book searches. If you want to find print and ebooks at the same time, use the first option, “Books (print + ebooks).” Searches run from this option will go to OneSearch, where all of our print and ebooks records can be found. If you want to limit your search to just print books, you’ll want to use the second option, “Books (print).” The second option sends search queries to the catalog, which no longer includes records for most of our ebook collections.
Over the coming months, we’ll be running usability tests and conducting other forms of user research to assess how this change is being received by our students and faculty. If you receive feedback from our users, please pass it along to Michael Waldman or me.
Database Cancellation: Books in Print
The CUNY-wide subscription to Books in Print has ended as of January 31. All links to the database have been removed from our database lists.
It is available from NYPL if you have a NYPL library card.
Troubleshooting Login Problems: Determining What System Is the Problem
If someone is reporting that they can’t log in to something, it’s essential to know precisely which system they are having trouble with before you offer any advice. The best strategy is to ask the patron to describe the login screen that they can’t get past. Get the patron to give you answers to one or more of these questions:
What is the web address of the login page that you can’t get past?
If it begins with…
- https://libsearch.cuny.edu, then that person is trying to log into their library account via the library catalog (see screenshot at bottom of this post)
- https://cuny-pds-lb.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com or with https://onesearch.cuny.edu, then that person is trying to log into their library account via OneSearch (see screenshot at bottom of this post)
- http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu, then that person is trying to log into a database or some other licensed resource (see screenshot at bottom of this post)
- words that sound like some database we subscribe to, then they may be trying to access content we haven’t subscribed to or they may be off campus trying go directly to a database instead of going via our links on the library website
- http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/er, then that person is trying to log into a course page in the e-reserves system (see screenshot at bottom of this post)
Can you describe the login page? What words do you see on it?
- Some patrons won’t be able to provide you with the web address of the login page, so a good strategy to try next is to ask them to describe as much of the page as they can
- If the patron says the page mentions a “library ID #” or “barcode” then it is likely they are trying to log into their library account via the library catalog or OneSearch (see screenshots at bottom of this post)
- If the patron says the page has the “Baruch College” logo on it and asks for a “Baruch Username” and “Baruch Password,” then they are on our remote access page (see screenshot at bottom of this post)
- If the patron says the page has the course number and course name and is asking for a “course password,” then they are in the e-reserves system trying to log into a course page. (see screenshot at bottom of this post)
In another blog post, I’ll outline what advice to offer based on what system is a problem for the patron.
Screenshots of login pages
Library Catalog
OneSearch
Remote Access (also known as EZproxy and the proxy server)
E-Reserves Course Page in the LibGuides System
