News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
We have a trial to McGraw Hill eBook Library until October 31, 2012, on campus only.
McGraw Hill ebooks are not available on other platforms. McGraw Hill offers both a subscription and a purchase model, including subject collections. A list of all titles and titles per collection can be found under “For Librarians”.
I would appreciate any feedback you may have.
I am investigating with the vendor why the problem is.
Our access to Euromonitor has been disabled until we finalize our new license agreement. The license is with the legal team.
Please let me know if you still have trouble.
IBISWorld is currently not connecting, UNLESS your browser has their cookies from a previous session. This is happening both on and off-campus. I have contacted the vendor to solve this problem.
The vendor is looking into the problem.
If you experience any additional problems with the library systems, please contact the CIS Service Desk at (212) 541-0981 or [email protected]. You may also contact a librarian.
The catalog remains unavailable following this morning’s planned server migration. CIS continues to investigate this situation.
As announced by OLS on July 30, 2012, CIS will be migrating the Aleph application to new hardware on Friday August 3rd, 2012 from 6:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M.. For the duration of this maintenance Aleph client services, CUNY+, and all centrally hosted EZproxy instances will be unavailable. The CIS Service Desk will send an announcement when the work is complete. Thank you for your patience.
We have added a new languages databases: Mango Languages.
Mango Languages presents an easy to learn way to learn a new language. Users can view and listen to speakers and can try record their own voice saying words and sentences in the new language (must have a microphone available). Users can choose to go through a Basic Course or the Complete one, which is more comprehensive and includes grammar skills. If a user wants the program to remember where they were, users can create their own account.
The following languages are included: