Michael Waldman – Page 14 – Reference at Newman Library

June ebrary deletes

As you may already know, every month ebrary sends new titles to the database and deletes some.

The June update is unusual in that 436 titles, a much larger number than usual, is being deleted, the majority of which is from Oxford University Press. Most are older titles. It is impossible for me to know if any of these titles were currently being used so I wanted to alert everyone about this event. The records have already been removed from the catalog. I have a list of them if interested.

We have also received a larger than usual number of new titles, 16,000 of them, that should be loaded by tomorrow.

Chronicle of Higher Education and Chronicle of Philanthropy

We now have IP authenticated access to these two resources, thanks to CUNY OLS.

It can be somewhat misleading as the paid articles have a key next to them, but since we have the subscription, users can click through and access the content.

Bankscope access restored

Bankscope is now available. Thank you for your patience.

Bankscope temporarily unavailable

Bankscope is temporarily unavailable until further notice. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Gale Unavailable on Saturday June 4, 2011

Gale has announced it is performing infrastructure maintenance and will be unavailable from 12am to 12pm on Saturday June 4, 2011. This will affect all Gale products, including Gale Virtual Reference.

The Economist no longer available via LexisNexis

Per an announcement this morning from LexisNexis, The Economist is not longer available in LexisNexis, effective immediately. It is available in these other places (the LexisNexis entry should go away as soon as Serials Solutions updates its knowledge base).

Art Index Now Art Abstracts

It’s still the same interface and content, though.

ScienceDirect Service Interruptions May 21

Science Direct is releasing various enhancements and has announced that this could result in intermittent service interruptions on May 21 from 7:30am on.

New York Times Blogs Now in Lexis Nexis Academic

Lexis Nexis just announced that the all New York Times blogs are now available full-text from October 2009 to present. You can search for New York Times Blogs as a source.

Trial to World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

We have a CUNY-wide trial to World Scholar until the end of May. It is valid on campus only.

This is a new product from Gale that focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean. It contains a wide variety of historical material, at least some of it hard to find. One interesting collection are pamphlets created by various popular Brazilian groups from 1966 to 1986, which were instrumental in bringing about a transition to democracy. As far as I know, this was only available in CD-ROM format in the past.

It also contains a number of historical statistics, even in the areas of business, that I don’t think we find in any of our current resources. It does offer the possibility of having text read to the user, although the voice-machine seems to be more fluent in Spanish than in Portuguese.

This trial is in conjunction with the trial to the Latin American Weekly Report. Please share you comments here or feel free to email me.