News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
This database, which provides streaming video of recordings of productions on the stage, will be of special interest to any faculty member who wants students to view the performance of plays and musicals.
November 14, 2021
On and off campus. Use the link on the Trials tab on the databases page.
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).
The problems that all Wiley customers using EZproxy for authentication were reporting yesterday are still lingering. Users from off campus have been seeing an error message from Wiley that reads “This web property is not accessible via this address” and looks like this:
While we can now view and download PDFs from articles from off campus, if you try to download a book chapter, you’ll likely see this error message. This content should still be available though to users on the campus network.
As soon as Wiley sorts out this mess with their Cloudflare firewall, which as acting as though incoming traffic from EZproxy servers is part of a DDoS attack, I’ll post an update.
UPDATE: As of 11/2/2021, this problem is now fixed. See this blog post for details.
The last day of our subscription to EDGAR Pro is October 19. As a replacement, we have already started our subscription to Calcbench and added a link for it on our A-Z databases page. Here is our description of Calcbench, which is intended serve as a replacement for EDGAR Pro:
Financial data platform providing company financials and fundamental research for over 12,000 listed public companies. Includes financials, footnotes, and source documents of every 10-K, 10-Q, Earnings Releases, proxy statements, 8-Ks, and SEC comment letters. Data is sourced via XBRL from the SEC’s corporate repository, and available in Calcbench as they are filed.
Register for an account using your Baruch email address.
The database link for New York State Newspapers has been removed from our database pages. Recent changes from Gale had left the New York State Newspapers database with just one paper in it, The New York Times, which we already have full text access to within many other Gale databases as well as within ones from ProQuest, Factiva, and Nexis Uni.
If you want to limit a search to just newspapers from New York state, that can be done within Nexis Uni (after running a news search, use the “Location” option in the “Narrow by” section on the left).
Description (from the vendor)
This research and reference website is organized into six categories:
Presidential Elections includes explanations of the presidential electoral process, analyses and data for historical and modern presidential elections, modern voting behavior, key events and issues, and biographies.
Congressional Elections provides explanations of the congressional electoral process, including reapportionment and redistricting; data for historical and modern congressional elections; analyses of modern congressional elections; modern voting behavior; modern district profiles; key events and issues; and biographies.
Gubernatorial Elections presents explanations of the gubernatorial electoral process and data for historical and modern gubernatorial elections.
Campaigns and Elections explores the American system of voting and elections, electoral process and reform, media, interest groups, and the impact of money.
Political Parties covers the party system in America, including party strength and control, and profiles Democratic, Republican, and third parties.
Voters and Demographics covers expansion of voting rights, voter turnout, voting behavior, modern county census data, and modern district profiles.
Trial Ends
October 30, 2021
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).
The A-Z database list now features renamed links that reflect the product branding in the interface and the actual content that we have access to:
Until the end of the year, pointer database links will also be found in our A-Z database list for “Oxford Art Online” and “Oxford Music Online” that redirect to the URLs used for the respective Grove databases.
Please note that on the Grove Art Online database, there is a link back to the larger “Oxford Art Online” platform that features content we don’t have access to, notably the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
To deal with a local power outage, SRDS says that it will be down from 9 PM tonight (Monday, September 13) until 9 PM tomorrow night (Tuesday, September 14).
A recent update from Ex Libris finally let us index our Artstor records in OneSearch. To find images from Artstor in OneSearch, just use the “Images” filter after you run a search. Here’s an example of a search that I ran for the sculptor Louise Bourgeois and then limited it to “Images.”
From 8 pm – 11 pm on Monday, August 30, PrivCo will not be accessible as the company does maintenance on its platform. Thoughtfully, the vendor waited until 3:30 PM on a summer Friday to announce “scheduled maintenance” for the following Monday.
EBSCO fixed the problem on their end that was causing error messages when users tried to go from links in OneSearch records into EBSCOhost databases for the full text (see last week’s blog post for details). Ex Libris is still updating its system in Alma for handling those links based on changes made by EBSCO, so some residual errors may crop up. If you have any linking problems from OneSearch into any database, please report them ASAP to Mike Waldman or me.