News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
If you’re unable to access a journal in Emerald that you’re sure we should have access to, here is a trick that might fix things. Click the “Reset Authentication” button in the header of the page and access may be restored.
Support from Emerald has been looking into weird access problems with cookies ever since they switched over to a new platform in September. If you are still unable to get access, please email Mike Waldman and me.
Between 8 am and 10 am on Saturday, November 9, CUNY CIS will be doing maintenance on systems that will affect the following services:
On Sunday, October 27, from 2 AM – 6 AM, OneSearch may be unavailable while the vendor (Ex Libris) performs maintenance on the server that hosts the service.
The catalog for the library will still be available and can be used to search for print books.
As a reminder, these are the parts of the yellow search box that connect to OneSearch:
Description
Full text access to the complete run of Granta, a literary magazine.
This trial is on the Exact Editions platform where we already have subscription access to the Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
Trial Ends
November 17, 2019
Access
On and off campus. Use the link on the Trials tab on the databases page.
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).
As of today, BMI Research (previously known as Business Monitor Online), is now called FitchConnect and at a new web address. The look and feel is updated from BMI Research but not radically so. There are two notable changes about access, though:
Members of the Baruch and CUNY SPS communities should be able to log in using the same set of credentials they’d use for off campus access to any other database.
If you’ve added a BMI Research database link to a research guide, you’ll see that the link has been automatically relabeled to “FitchConnect (formerly BMI Research).” By the end of the academic year, we’ll drop the “(formerly BMI Research)” bit from the database label. There is also a temporary pointer link in the A-Z database list that’s labeled “BMI Research (now called FitchConnect)” that will remain on the list until the end of the academic year; that link redirects to the new FitchConnect platform.
If you’ve manually typed into your guide the phrase “Business Monitor International” or “BMI” you may want to click through these search links to find what guide pages have that wording and update it (you can ignore the automatically updated database links that say “FitchConnect (formerly BMI Research).”
This week, the APA published a new edition (the 7th) of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association that features tweaked rules about citations. Until we can get a print copy of the manual here, you might want to take a look at these resources from APA about what’s new:
Some time last night, S&P got the database platform working again.
Rita confirmed with S&P that the problems we are seeing today with connecting to S&P NetAdvantage and S&P Capital IQ are on their end, not ours. They said that it is a temporary problem and should get fixed shortly.
Description (from the vendor)
An online U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform with multidisciplinary applications for college students and faculty. Undergraduate and graduate schools use us in their curriculum and research related to social sciences, urban studies, real estate and housing analysis, community and economic development, public administration, public health, policy and political science, education, business, economics, statistics, and geography, among others. Users can leverage thousands of U.S. data indicators in PolicyMap to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block group in many cases, up to a national level, as well as create custom regions, for their research and studies.
Trial Ends
October 31, 2019
Access
On and off campus. Use the link on the Trials tab on the databases page.
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).
Last week, Gale changed the interface for Gale Virtual Reference Library with the product’s new name: Gale eBooks. I’ve updated the A-Z list with the new name and added a link for the old name (both links go to the same database URL).
If you’ve re-used the main database link for “Gale Virtual Reference Library” on one of your guides, it will now show as “Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library).”
Please take a look at your research guides for any text you’ve typed in that mentions “Gale Virtual Reference Library” and consider updating it. Here’s a handy search for all guides that have that phrase on them. Please note that with that search you’ll get some false hits for “Gale Virtual Reference Library” in the next 24 hours, as it takes a day for Springshare to re-index the content of our guides.
Gale has also just renamed a handful of other databases that may not merit the same treatment on our A-Z list. Those databases are the ones on the “In Context” and “OneFile” platforms. Basically, Gale redid the names on these databases so that the company name is clearly a part of the database name. For example, the logo for “Academic OneFile” used prominently atop every page in the database now shows as “Gale Academic OneFile.” Stay tuned…