News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
We now have access to the Latin American Weekly Report. It provides in-depth analysis of political, strategic, and economic developments throughout the region. Once in the database, go to “Access Publications” and select the Latin American Weekly Report. This can be useful to anyone who wants to keep abreast of developments in Latin America, and they do cover all of Latin America, not just the larger countries as if often the case.
We have a trial to the new redesigned Oxford Handbooks. It runs until March 6. It is available on campus only.
Oxford Handbooks Online brings together the world’s leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate. 14 subjects are available:
Archaeology
Business and Management
Classical Studies
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Economics and Finance
History
Law
Linguistics
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Religion
I am very interested in any feedback you may have. Please fill out our new form, leave a comment below or email me directly.
Proquest is now offering the Statistical Abstract of the United States in electronic format.
The online ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. includes monthly updates to tables, deep searching at the line-item level, powerful facets for narrowing search results, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites.
Proquest has published a LibGuide with searching and other information that might be useful as you evaluate this databases.
I am very interested in any feedback you may have. Please fill out our new form, leave a comment below or email me directly.
With the new website, we have implemented a new way to share our trials. They can be found in a separate tab in the alphabetical Databases listing. We have a couple of current trials going on.
Historical Periodicals:
African American Historical Serials Collection
Gateway to North America: People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York
Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books from the New-York Historical Society
These are from EBSCO. These are potential purchases, not subscriptions.
Psychology:
PsycCRITIQUES and PsycEXTRA offer book reviews, technical reports, government documents and other such material relating to Psychology. Also on the EBSCO platform. This is a subscription.
It would be very helpful if you could let me know here or via email if you think these can be used to support the curriculum and how they would fit within our current holdings.
ICPSR is sponsoring a 3 part series on the “Life of a Dataset”. Please note you must register to each one individually. This is free and open to the Baruch community. Questions? Contact Michael Waldman.
Life of a Dataset Part I: The Deposit – Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at 1 pm EST
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/962668858
This stage in a dataset’s life will discuss and describe the opening steps it takes on the path to dissemination through the Web site at www.icpsr.umich.edu. We’ll cover the method of identifying data for acquisition, depositing of study materials (ingest), and the technical support that the Acquisitions unit provides to researchers. Tools for the researcher will be reviewed and the tools that are used by this unit will also be shown.
Life of a Dataset Part II: The Process of Processing – Wednesday, January 23, 2013, at 1 pm EST
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/776530618
This stage in a dataset’s life will describe the process of how the data are reviewed, cleaned, archived, and prepared for dissemination. The working relationship between the processor and the processing supervisor to ensure the confidentiality of respondents will be examined. The tools used by the processor to insure data security and accuracy in processing will be discussed.
Life of a Dataset Part III: Discovery & Dissemination – Wednesday, January 30, 2013, at 1 pm EST
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/804318458
This stage in a dataset’s life will relate how the study’s description is built and the metadata are enriched to aid discovery. We’ll consider how the codebook and other materials are created, and what final steps are taken to preserve the digital data in advance of their release. Finally, we will talk about how the study is released, announced, and disseminated through the ICPSR Web site
Starting Christmas Eve December 24, 2012, at 6 AM until Tuesday, December 25, 2012, at 12 PM (noon) the online catalog will not be available for anyone to search for, renew, or request items.
This is due to scheduled maintenance for the Aleph Library Catalog during the coming holiday break. (The maintenance may be completed in less time than expected.)
A notice will appear in advance on the Web OPAC informing people of the above plans.
We have a trial to Proquest Historical Annual Reports until January 11, 2013. Access is available on campus only for the trial.
This database contains the annual reports (1844-current) available for over 800 companies, 43,000 reports, 1.3M pages. Searchable PDF images with indexed data such as: financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor and related companies. It can also be browsed by company name, related names, industry or date.
It is also cross-searchable with the other Proquest databases (except the statistical ones currently on trial).
Our subscription to Euromonitor has been restored. Please let me know if you still experience any problems.
We have a trial of WordsAnalytics until December 15.
WordsAnalytics treats each paragraph of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing as a separate document, enabling searches of keywords or specific phrases in the filings. Short instructional videos under “Help” provide demonstrations of searches including keyword; section; “most discussed topics,” “redline” comparison of prior filing using the “compare tool” and how to compare several companies.
Please contact Rita Ormsby for more information on the database; please send me any feedback.
The catalog will be down Tuesday 11/13 from 6am to 10am for system maintenance.