News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Clarivate recently added a new database to the Web of Science interface. The Preprint Citation Index helps you find articles that haven’t been formally published yet but are available on preprint servers and see who has been citing them already.
A direct link to the Preprint Citation Index can now be found on the A-Z databases page on the “O-P” tab. For more info from Clarivate about this new database, see this February 3 announcement.
In our password-protected Public Services Wiki, there are details for library staff explaining how students in a specific art history course can access the “Price Database” within Artnet and journalism students in JRN 3100 can access the AP Stylebook. Because these subscriptions are limited for a particular course, they are not listed on our A-Z databases pages. In case anyone asks us in a reference setting about these, you can find all the info you’ll need to answer those questions in the wiki.
As of today, we’ve temporarily removed all records for Books24x7 from OneSearch. Since last semester, we’ve been working with the vendor on restoring access to this ebook collection. Previously, the link to Books24x7 in the OneSearch records included a note indicating the collection was temporarily unavailable. That message was often not seen by our users, so to prevent further confusion we decided to pull the records out of OneSearch until access is restored. There is some overlap among the Books24x7 collection with the O’Reilly and the Ebook Central collections, so many titles are still available on other platforms and still discoverable in OneSearch because of that overlapping availability.
UPDATE (9:35 AM): Remote access is now working again. The issue may have been due to an expired certificate.
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I am investigating why our remote access via the CUNY Login isn’t working. Once you enter your CUNY Login credentials, you see an error page from CUNY that says:
An error occurred: ActionExecutionException
I’ve submitted a ticket to the CUNY OLS Help Desk to see if the problem is affecting all the CUNY campuses that use the CUNY Login for remote access or not. Oddly enough, if you log into your user account in OneSearch, which also uses the CUNY Login system, there aren’t the same problems we’re seeing with remote database access.
I’ll update this post as I get more information.
Update (2 pm, Feb. 17, 2023): The problem detailed below has been resolved.
On the EZproxy mailing list today, I was alerted to a problem that everyone is having with remote access to the Chronicle of Philanthropy and the Chronicle of Higher Education on the publisher’s website. Off campus users, will be connected to those sites via a link going through our proxy server, will see an error message along the lines of “This web property is not accessible via this address.” The error seems to be connected to the Cloudflare service, something that has come up occasionally with databases we access that also use the Cloudflare service for content delivery.
On campus access is unaffected.
As a workaround for remote users, we do have access via other databases, but those tend to have embargoes on the last month’s content:
UPDATE (27 February 2023) Access to journal issues from the past three years has been restored. If you encounter any further issues, please report them to [email protected]
ORIGINAL POST
I’ve got a support ticket in with Wiley to find out why a large number of the journals we should have access to on the Wiley platform won’t let us view full text (I’ve also contacted our Wiley sales rep). The problem seems to be limited to issues from 2020 to the present. As soon as I hear back from Wiley, I’ll post another update here.
As of this month, we’ve been moved over from the IntelliConnect platform to the AnswerConnect platform. I’ve updated the name of the database in the LibGuides database asset, so if you’ve got a link to “CCH IntelliConnect” on one of your research guides, it should now be displaying as “CCH AnswerConnect.” If you’ve typed in “IntelliConnect” somewhere on your research guides (as a page or box title or in a block of text), you may want to update that to “AnswerConnect.”
If a student or faculty member sees this error message when trying to remotely connect to library resources, please always refer them directly to the BCTC Help Desk or SPS Help Desk:
This is the only remote access error page that has this yellow box on it and that has this unique message:
ERROR: This account doesn’t include remote access to library services from off-campus.
The user should be instructed to contact the BCTC Help Desk or SPS Help Desk and make sure that they clearly communicate that they are seeing this specific error message (this is essential to solving this problem). The user should be encouraged to share a screenshot of that error page or to copy the text of the unique message on it. The BCTC Help Desk or CUNY SPS Help Desk staff will then in turn reach out to the CUNY CIS help desk for help with this, as this is an issue that needs to be fixed in the CUNYfirst system.
In theory, this error message is one that is only supposed to appear when someone has a CUNY Login but no remote access to library databases (such as an alumni), but it seems that the systems that manage identities in the CUNYfirst system can get out of sync, and students who should have access will sometimes see this message.
If you’re not sure how to handle these situations, feel free to send an email to [email protected] (which Mike, Florencia, and I all monitor).
Datasets on WRDS will be unavailable on Wednesday, January 11, from 8 AM – 11 AM for planned maintenance by the vendor.
As of today, the login scheme for O’Reilly will use the CUNY Login instead of the Baruch username and password. To make this happen, O’Reilly had to create a new URL for us. That URL has been updated in the following places:
O’Reilly set up a redirect for the old URL so that if anyone happens to have a link to it (such as on Blackboard or an email message), they’ll get pointed to the new URL if they click on that old link. If you encounter any linking problems with O’Reilly, please email me or Mike Waldman.