News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
The APABI Digital Library contains a collection of books, newspapers and reference material in Chinese.
If you can search in Chinese, please select “IP” under the account registration box.
You can search in English: select English from the top right corner. Then login using “IP Sign in”
This trial is valid on-campus only and will last until April 14, 2011.
Please comment below or let me know what your thoughts are on this database.
We have a trial to Accessible Archives until March 28, 2011. This is valid on campus only. We have access for the trial to the following historical collections: The Civil War, American County Histories, African American Newspapers, and a number of individual titles.
Please comment below or let me know what your thoughts are on this database.
Please share with your faculty.
CUNY is sponsoring a trial to Past Masters until April 30. It is available on campus only via the databases page or here.
This database contains the works of classic literature, philosophy, political science and more. The e-books are not downloadable to a reader.
While versions of many of these are in the public domain, Past Masters offers scholarly editions with the full academic apparatus of notes/linking/etc. There are also some powerful search features available within and across texts.
While it is a database, each title is purchased individually, so we could pick and choose.
Please let me know what you think, either by email or below in the comments.
Gale’s technical support reports that these 2 resources are currently down.
OCLC decided to continue supporting Dissertation Abstracts on First Search until June 30, 2011, so our access will continue until then.
The Newman Library has started a patron-driven acquisition experiment with about 2,700 books from Coutts’ MyILibrary. The records for these books were carefully selected according to subject matter, publishers, years of publication, price and other variables to give us a current list of titles we do not own but that might be of interest to our users. A purchase is triggered the second time someone looks at the e-book.
How does this work? A user finds an e-book they are interested in in the catalog. They’ll click on the link which will take them to MyILibrary where they will see a Summary page with title and citation information, a brief summary, and a table of contents. This is free viewing. If they go on and take a look inside the book, this will count as a view, whether they look at it for 10 seconds or read the entire e-book. After a second view, the e-book is automatically purchased, and we will own it.
Every month new titles will be added and older ones removed. I will have access to the usage statistics.
The records for these titles have been added to the catalog but they look exactly like any other e-book record, and for obvious reasons, I cannot give an example to look at.
This is just one small part of our total monographic acquisition. It is not intended to replace our regular ordering procedures, but to supplement it.
It is hoped that this will alert us to gaps we might have in our collection, give users the ability to access immediately material of interest to them that we do not already own, and guarantee that there is already a verifiable interest in the e-books we purchase.
It is available online in a number of our databases.
Science Direct announced it will be offline and unavailable on February 26th, from 8am to 8pm.
We have a trial until the end of the month to EBSCO’s new Entrepreneurial Studies database. They have gathered more than125 new periodical titles, but also reference books, case studies, company profiles and videos. I have a list of titles if anyone is interested.
I am very interested in hearing your feedback, either here or via email.