News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Earlier this year, all the “Safari” branding was removed and replaced with “O’Reilly.” I’ve added a new temporary listing for “Safari” on our databases pages and renamed the original “Safari” link as “O’Reilly” (which you may see if you’ve added that database link to any of your own LibGuides).
At the end of the spring 2021 semester, I’ll remove the “Safari” listing altogether.
Also known as the “Journal of Visual Experiments,” JoVE provides streaming videos that demonstrate lab techniques, methods, and experiments in the sciences as well as explains various scientific principles in different disciplines. Note that our subscription is only for some of the content from JoVE. We have access to:
Links to JoVE can be found on the A-Z databases page as well as the Biology – Databases and Science – Databases pages.
The problems we were having accessing our subscribed content in Mintel Academic and Mintel Market Sizes have been fixed by the vendor.
I’ve got a support ticket in with Mintel to find out why we are unable to access any content from Mintel Market Sizes and Mintel Academic.
On the EBSCOhost platform, we’ve added a new database called Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collections that features archival collections documenting the history of Latinx and Hispanic culture in the United States from the colonial era to 1960. Includes advertisements; books; broadsides and pamphlets; editorials; essays; letters and telegrams; newspapers; photographs; poems; short stories; and speeches.
The Serials Solutions system behind the “Journals” and “Newspapers+Magazines” search tools will be down for planned maintenance by the vendor from 8 pm to midnight on Friday, June 26.
After a successful trial earlier this year with Very Short Introductions (from Oxford University Press), we were able to purchase one of the five collections (social sciences), which includes 100 books in the following subject areas: anthropology; business and management; criminology and criminal justice; economics; education; environment; human geography; politics; research and information; social work; sociology; and warfare and defense. Some of the books might be useful for faculty looking for textbooks or shorter course readings.
Records for each book should be discoverable in OneSearch in the next week or so. In the meanwhile, you can find a link to Very Short Introductions on the A-Z databases page and on the Ebooks – Databases page. If you’d like to browse the list of social sciences books we have access to, this link should work.
We now have a subscription to GuideStar, which specializes in providing information on close to two million nonprofit organizations operating in the United States. Each organization profile includes the following sections:
You can also download relevant annual IRS filings (such as the form 990) for most organizations.
On the OneSearch research guide, I added a new box at the bottom that is written with our students and faculty in mind and explains the two separate sign in systems that are connected to OneSearch. The goal of this box was address the most common misunderstanding with OneSearch: to find and view search results, you don’t use the Sign In link in the top right corner that asks for your library ID number but instead use the remote authentication login page that comes up after you click “Full text available.”
Feel free to add this new box or any of the other boxes on this guide to your own research guides.
Thanks to Linda, Louise, Chris, and Mike for their input on the drafts of this new element on the OneSearch guide.
From the EZproxy mailing list, I learned about a trick that can help with the periodic access issues users are reporting with S&P NetAdvantage: clearing the browser cache.
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
In a new page in the Library Services Wiki titled “Database Troubleshooting: Clearing Browser Cookies and Cache,” I added this list of links to instructions for each of the major browsers:
Chrome( Google)
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Edge (Microsoft)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027947/microsoft-edge-delete-cookies
Firefox (Mozilla)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
Internet Explorer (Microsoft)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
Safari (Apple)
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/clear-your-browsing-history-sfri47acf5d6/mac