News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
We have a trial to the Alternative Press Index and the Alternative Press Index Archive from EBSCO. They are listed here. The trial lasts until September 14 and is available from off-campus. We currently have access to Alt-Press Watch from Proquest.
Feedback would be welcome.
NOVEL has stopped its subscription to Twayne Authors and we no longer have access to it.
We no longer have access to MarketResearcher.com.
I am working with the vendor to resolve this issue. Thank you for your patience.
From LexisNexis:
LexisNexis Academic is experiencing technical issues with some of our major newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. This is a temporary glitch and we apologize for the inconvenience. These issues will be resolved as soon as possible and these publications will again appear in Academic early tomorrow morning.
From the Office of Library Services:
The CUNY catalog will be unavailable Sunday, May 26th after 6 PM until Monday, May 27th 4 AM . Patrons and staff will not be able to search for, renew, or request items during this time.
We have a CUNY-wide trial to this resource until May 23rd.
This full-text database contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for hundreds of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers including The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, as well as over 150 full-text monographs and books. The database contains comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specializes LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.
You can find the trial here.
I am interested in all and any feedback and please feel free to let interested faculty know about it as well.
Gale has fixed their problem and the databases are available again. Please let me know if you still experience any issues.
It is an issue with Gale, not Baruch. I will keep you updated.
Bankscope is investigating why we are not able to connect remotely.