Reference at Newman Library

Author: Stephen Francoeur

Two New Databases of Primary Source Material from Adam Matthew Digital

We’ve added two new databases from Adam Matthew Digital that feature recently digitized, historical source material.

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration, and Cultural Exchange

  • Primary documents and sources about the history of 15 key commodities: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
  • Links to it can be found on the following database pages: A-Z, industry information, history

J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America

  • Publications, reports, research, memoranda, correspondence, meeting minutes, creative briefs, scripts, speeches, newsletters, artwork and advertisements created by the staff of the advertising firm J. Walter Thompson.
  • Links to it can be found on the following database pages: A-Z, advertising, and marketing

MyiLibrary Content Now in Ebook Central

ProQuest recently shut down the MyiLibrary ebook platform. All of the ebooks we had there are now found in Ebook Central.

If you have any featured book boxes in your LibGuides that have URLs going straight into the MyiLibrary platform, you will want to update them. The new link can either go to a permalink for the book record in OneSearch or to a permalink to the book in Ebook Central.

New Database: Contemporary Women’s Issues

As part of an expansion across CUNY of Gale database coverage, we now have access to Contemporary Women’s Issues. Here is the vendor’s description:

Contemporary Women’s Issues (CWI), a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, “gray” literature, and the alternative press — with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women’s lives in more than 190 countries. Contemporary Women’s Issues includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contemporary Women’s Issues compiles into a single collection, often overlooked and hard-to-find newsletters and NGO research reports to which most libraries do not subscribe, plus ephemeral literature from leading research institutes and grass roots organizations that is rarely indexed or cataloged.

Contemporary Women’s Issues records are indexed by 17 categories, including subject, region, article type and publication type. Basic searching on the Internet is easy — using keywords, with options to search full-text, enhanced titles, author or book author. Advanced searching is done using convenient pull-down menus for selecting indexed terms.

Links to this database can be found on the A-Z page and the women’s studies databases  page.

Business Insights: Essentials Is Upgraded to Business Insights: Global

Thanks to recent deal between Gale and CUNY, we’ve expanded CUNY-wide access to a number of Gale products at a very reasonable cost. We’re now have access (again) to Business Insights: Global, which offers more content than the Business Insights: Essentials product we have had for the past few years. The URL and product name have been updated on the database lists.

Look soon for more announcements on the blog about Gale products.