News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Description
Collection of ebooks published by Oxford University Press that offer overviews of a wide range of academic subjects.
Trial Ends
March 4, 2020
Access
On and off campus. Use the link on the Trials tab on the databases page.
Feedback
Please share with any faculty who might be interested and recommend they use the trial feedback form (also linked to on the Trials tab on the databases page).
We now have access to MarketResearch.com, which offers market research reports on a wide range of industries and products.
As you may recall from 2013, when we last had access to this database, the individual pages that provide an overview of each report and a PDF “Download” button also include a scary looking price that can be safely ignored. Next to the price on each report page it says, “(Student downloads are FREE of charge – the price is shown for informational purposes only).”
A link to the database can be found at:
The reports in this database are not indexed in OneSearch, so the only way to find them is by searching directly in the database.
Between 8 am and 2 pm, the interlibrary loan service will be down for maintenance as BCTC updates the ILLiad software on the server. If anyone has any questions, please contact Monique Prince at (646) 312-1670 or via email at [email protected].
If LibGuides happens to be down, there is backup spreadsheet linked to at the top of the “Databases Overview” page in the Library Services wiki (password protected) that has all of our databases and their URLs. I just updated the spreadsheet today with the current information.
Between 10 pm on Saturday, February 8, and 10 am on Sunday, February 9, RefWorks will be unavailable while the vendor does planned maintenance work.
After some back and forth with JAMA’s technical support, we were able to restore off campus access.
Off campus users are presently unable to access articles from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). I’m working with JAMA tech support to see if we can find a solution. On campus access is working.
UPDATE (16 January 2020) Off campus access has been restored.
Recently, Gale overhauled its interfaces for their databases, giving them a unified look as well as some new functionality. Now you can now search across all the key Gale databases that have literary criticism and author bios in a new database called “Gale Literature.” It searches across:
Chris Tuthill and I met recently to discuss these changes and have agreed that on the page listing English databases, we’d simplify the list of “Recommended” databases and put a spotlight on Gale Literature by listing it first. If you’re helping a student who needs literature criticism, work overviews, or bios of an author, please steer them to Gale Literature as their starting point. In some cases (such as a student who needs to search more deeply for works of literary criticism), you can also recommend MLA International Bibliography, which is now exclusively on EBSCO’s platform.
Rosetta Stone is one of two databases we subscribe to that offers foreign language instruction. Getting started in it requires a few more steps than the usual database:
Step 1: After clicking the link for “Rosetta Stone” from our database pages, you’ll see this page with an icon you have to click to proceed.
Step 2: First-time users will have create an account on Rosetta Stone. They can use any email address and password they want. Then they select what language they want to use. Returning users can use the Rosetta Stone credentials they created previously.
Step 3: On the next page, users should click “Launch Rosetta Stone Foundations” to (finally) get to the language lessons.
We now have access to Risk.net, which features “in-depth news and analysis on risk management, derivatives and regulation” as well as a number of journals. Please note that our subscription does not include access to the “Quantum” section of the site.
A link to this database has been added to the A-Z list and to list of finance databases.