News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Since our move from Aleph to Alma in August 2020, the “Browse Search” option in OneSearch now has the expanded ability to let you find ebooks as well as print books. The fields indexed are:
Here’s a screenshot showing how to get to an author browse in OneSearch:
Through March, we have trial access to Academic Video Online, which offers over 72,000 videos. Links to the trial may be found on the “Trials & COVID-19” tab on the A-Z databases list.
In many (but not all) records for journal articles in OneSearch, you’ll find one or more red arrow icons that let you run a new search to find either records for the sources cited in that article or records for sources that have cited the article you’ve found. This ability to navigate in either direction along the chain of citations is similar to what you can do in Web of Science or in Google Scholar. While this feature will aid in the discovery of related items, if you’re looking for an authoritative and more comprehensive source of citation data, Web of Science is the place to go.
In the brief record display that you see in search results pages, some records will feature none of the icons, some will fill feature one of the icons, and others will have both. Here is a screenshot showing two records in the search results where one record has one icon and the other has both:
If you mouse over the icons, you’ll see tool tips that explain what each icon does:
If you click through to the full record for journal article record, at the bottom of the page, you’ll see the icons repeated along with explanation of what each one does:
This page of documentation in the Ex Libris Knowledge Base explains where the citation data comes from and which citations are actually visible when you run searches using the citation trail icons:
Primo currently matches the metadata provided by CrossRef with the records in PC (Primo Central) to build the citation trails. Only records that belong to the collections that your institution has activated in PC will appear in the lists.
We have a new database from Routledge called “History of Economic Thought.” This resource brings together a curated collection of scholarly journal articles and book chapters to provide an in-depth look at the how ideas in economics have evolved.
Links to this database can be found on the A-Z list and on the economics and history databases pages.
Our ILL staff and BCTC are working on the ILLiad server to fix a problem you may have encountered when using the ILL links in a record for OneSearch or WorldCat. When you click a “Request via ILL” link in a OneSearch record (see screenshot below), the ILL page doesn’t load properly (it’s all text with no formatting or design elements).
As a workaround, go to the main page for interlibrary loan in a separate browser tab or window using this URL or by using the navigation options in the website header (links to ILL are found under the “Students” and “Faculty” menus). Once logged in, users can fill in the request form for the item they need. Here is the URL for the ILL page:
As noted in last year’s post here about S&P NetAdvantage login problems, the most common issue is caused by oversized cookies in the user’s browser that get in the way of the login process in EZproxy. While a user might be able to log into some databases , S&P NetAdvantage will be a problem. After making sure that the user is starting from our link to S&P NetAdvantage on the A-Z databases page, there are three different workarounds that usually lead to a successful login:
Moody’s Analytics has decided to rebrand “Economy.com” as “Economic View.” The database asset on our A-Z list has been temporarily renamed “Economic View (formerly Economy.com).” After six months, the asset will just say “Economic View.” This is the third name change for this database since we started subscribing to it, as it was “Dismal Scientist” until 2016.
Please note that our subscription only includes access to the “U.S. / Canada” content. When you first go to the site, you’ll want to click “Global” and then “U.S. / Canada” from the menu to get to the content we have a license for.
The software that runs our remote authentication system, EZproxy, was successfully updated this morning (thank you, BCTC!) Remote access to databases should be operating normally now.
If you encounter any issues with connecting to something, please contact me or Mike Waldman as soon as possible.
From 6 am – 9 am on Tuesday, January 12, all the databases and resources that use EZproxy for authentication will be unavailable while we upgrade the EZproxy software. This affects any resource where the URL begins:
https://remote.baruch.cuny.edu
Searches may still be run in OneSearch as well as in other databases that don’t use EZproxy for authentication (e.g., O’Reilly, WRDS, etc.)
As soon as the work is complete (including testing), an updated blog post will be published here.
The SRDS database will be unavailable from December 26 through January 3 due to planned maintenance by the vendor. A note about the downtime has been added to the database listing on our database pages.