Reference at Newman Library

Author: Stephen Francoeur

CUNY Login System Down on May 31

CUNY CIS will be updating the CUNY Login system on Saturday, May 31, between 6 AM and 2 PM. In addition to affecting access to Brightspace, CUNYfirst, Zoom, and Microsoft 365, it will also affect two library systems:

  • Remote access to databases and licensed resources
  • Interlibrary loan

If before the maintenance work begins you are already logged into an application or service that uses the CUNY Login for authentication, you will likely not have a problem. But if you are trying to connect and log in to something that uses the CUNY Login system, you may not be able to do so until the work is complete.

Reference USA Historical Data Renamed as Infogroup Historical Business

The listing for Reference USA Historical Data on the databases pages will now be displayed as Infogroup Historical Business. What’s also news here is that the data is now available on the WRDS platform. Ryan Phillips provided this updated description:

(Baruch users only) Provides calendar year-end snapshots of local business data from 1997 to 2024. It contains business identification, location, industry, corporation hierarchy, employment, sales, and most other attributes available in Reference Solutions (including XY coordinates that allow the data to be plotted and mapped using GIS software).

Please note that this name change doesn’t affect our listing for Reference Solutions, which provides current information. Here is the description for that database, which was previously known as Reference USA and continues to focus on offering current information only:

Detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 210 million U.S. residents, 855,000 U.S. health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households.

A-Z List for Journals in OneSearch

With the latest Primo release, the interface in OneSearch now features an A-Z way to browse journals by title (it’s just below the search box on the Journals page). Given the vast number of periodicals we have online access to, the A-Z route isn’t an efficient way to look up a title. For my test today, I went looking for the literary journal Callaloo and found that it was title number 850 in the C’s; that was a LOT of paging through results to verify that we do indeed have access to Callaloo (and that was after I changed the default display from 10 items per page to the max of 50).