Thanks to CUNY Central we now have access to JSTOR Arts and Science Archive Collection IX. While currently the collection has 39 titles, it is expected to grow to at least 150 titles by the end of 2012. Some of the notable titles in this collection that might be of interest at Baruch include The American Sociologist, International Journal of Sociology and Public Affairs Quarterly. More information on this collection, including a complete list of titles, can be found here.
Author: Michael Waldman
Trial to Filmakers Library Online
We have a trial to Filmakers Library Online until June 25, 2011. It is available on campus only.
Filmakers Library Online provides documentaries that might be of interest to many areas across the curriculum – race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 913 titles, equaling approximately 757 hours.
Please share your comments below or to me via email.
bX Recommender Trial Starting April 29
We mentioned the bxRecommender trial a while ago.
The trial will in fact start this Friday, April 29 and will last 60 days.
Some additional information:
bX Recommender is a service from Ex Libris which generates usage-based recommendations for related scholarly materials. (Recommendations appear below Find it! menu links, similar to Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought”). Ex Libris mines customers’ SFX log files, which is data largely unique to academic libraries, to build a data set processed with analytic tools and to develop the recommendations found in the bX Recommender service.
While the data is aggregated from actual searches, this process is anonymized to protect end user and institutional confidentiality.
Users at CUNY campus libraries will view all recommendations available through the bX Recommender service, both those the institution has in full-text and others we may not.
Please encourage end-users to test it out and let me know what they and you think.
Twayne author series now in Gale Virtual Reference
The Twayne author series online is now within the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform, which should make searching easier. There are 866 titles so far.
MARC records will be in the catalog by next week.
Trial to Latin American Weekly Report
We have a CUNY-wide trial to the Latin American Weekly Report until the end of May. Access is on-campus only.
The LatinNews Intelligence Service covers 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries and cover political, security, economic and strategic issues. Information goes back to 1967.
Perhaps the best part of this trial is the access to the Latin American Weekly Report – this is the authoritative, weekly, in depth analysis of political, strategic and key economic developments throughout the region.
It was eagerly awaited by all Latin Americanists when I was in graduate school, and kept in these big binders by the reference desk.
I am interested in your views on whether this would be a useful resource at Baruch. Please share below or email me.
Past Masters – Trial
Thanks to CUNY, we’ve had a trial to Past Masters, a collection of classic e-books.
Please let me know what you think of it.
bX Recommender trial coming to CUNY
CUNY librarians have agreed to a 60 day trial of bX Recommender starting Monday April 11.
bX Recommender works with SFX and with the universe of SFX user-choices across the world to generate citations similar to the one that generated the first SFX link. In other words, when the user has found a citation they like, bX Recommender will suggest other citations that other people who looked at the first citation have also looked at. It’s a version of “others have also liked…” that appears in a variety of other websites.
This additional information will appear in the SFX menu – it will separate the additional citations into those we have access to full-text and those we don’t. This post from the University of Minnesota Libraries might give you an idea of how it will look.
Worldscope subscription cancelled
Our Worldscope subscription has been canceled. We have access until June 15, when I will remove it from the list of databases.
Trial to Cambridge Collections Online
We have a trial to the Cambridge Collections Online until April 26, 2011. On-campus access only.
Cambridge Collections Online offers subject or theme based collections of content within a richly functional, fully cross-searchable online environment.
The Complete Cambridge Companions is available as a complete collection and as two sub-collections comprising the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture.
Also available through Cambridge Collections Online, Shakespeare Survey Online, makes the distinguished 60 year history of the print series available online for the first time and exclusively.
Please let me know what you think of this product, either via email or here in the comments.
IBIS World report on Nuclear Power
IBIS World just released a timely report that looks at the industries of Uranium Mining, Nuclear Power Plant Construction, and Nuclear Power Generation in the US.
You can find it here.