Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2020

All Content on Gale NewsVault Moved to Gale Primary Sources

Gale has just shuttered an older platform, Gale NewsVault, that had been the location for the following three collections we’ve purchased:

  • Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2014
  • Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
  • Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

These collections can now be found on the Gale Primary Sources platform. The links to them on the A-Z databases page have been updated and the link to Gale NewsVault has been removed. There is also a database link for Gale Primary Sources, which lets you search all three of these collections (and a few others we already had on that platform) at the same time.

New Database: Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

ProQuest has just launched a freely available database called Black Freedom Struggle in the United States. This new resource, which is now listed on our databases pages, brings together primary sources from 1790s to the present from a variety of ProQuest databases, some of which we already have access to and others that are new to us.

Database Trial: Academic Video Online

Description
More than 70,000 streaming video titles spanning a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Trial Ends
November 28, 2020

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).

Setting Up Google Scholar to Link to Our Full Text

As we moved to Alma in August, we also switched the link resolver system that powers the “Find it @ CUNY” button in databases and the “Find Full Text at Baruch” links that appear in Google Scholar search results like these:

Google Scholar search results

Anyone who wants to use the “Find Full Text at Baruch” feature in Google Scholar will have to change any settings they’ve saved in Google Scholar or start from scratch as follows.

STEP 1: On the Google Scholar home page, click the menu icon in the top left corner and then choose “Settings”

Google Scholar settings option in menu

STEP 2: On the settings page, select “Library Links” and then run a search for “baruch” in the search box.

Search for baruch in library links

STEP 3: If the search results show 3 listings, select the middle one only and then click the “Save” button.

Select 2nd listing in results

Background on the problem

In time, there should be only one listing for Baruch in the library links settings. Right now, we’re in a transitional period with our systems and are still waiting for Google Scholar to recognize that we’re about to retire the old SFX link resolver (which is behind the first of the three listings in the library links).

JSTOR Now Offers Proxied Permalinks

JSTOR just added something very useful: a stable URL that has our proxy server prefix added to it. Previously, the stable URL that you were provided with in article records looked like this one:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45164010

That URL is unhelpful to anyone who is off campus, although there is a roundabout way to get it to work.

Now, below the stable URL option is a “Remote Access URL” that you can use that will always work off and on campus, like this one:

http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45164010

In the Library Services wiki page about sharing database links, there is now info about JSTOR’s new proxied links.

 

Interlibrary Loan Page Looks Broken But Does Work

BCTC has been notified about a problem that started today with the display of the login page for the interlibrary loan service. It seems like there is an issue with the CSS that controls the look and feel of the page. While we wait for the page to get fixed, it’s worth knowing that you can still log in and submit requests.

Just scroll down the page to find the boxes where you can type in your Baruch or CUNY SPS username and password to log in. Once you do that, the interior pages for the service all look fine and work as expected.

Growing Collection of Database Tutorials in LibGuides

If you haven’t noticed the new “Database Tutorials” subject category in the research guides home page, it’s worth knowing that within that category are a handful of new guides and older ones:

More are on the way.