Reference at Newman Library

Searching for Negative Business News

Both Factiva and NexisUni offer searchers easy access to negative news stories. In NexisUni you can narrow your search results to Negative News using the filters on the left of the results page. Run your news search, then select the Negative News filter. It will narrow your results to articles that contain negative or critical information about a person or a company. The results can be overwhelming so you might want to search within the results or limit by publication.

Factiva has pre-built searches for narrowing a search for news sentiment, either positive or negative. Set up your search on a person or company or industry and then click on Factiva Expert Search in the search options to choose “News Sentiment”.  The News Sentiment category is further subdivided by Negative News- Corporate, Negative News – People, Negative News – Political, and Negative News for various industry sectors. Make your choice by opening the plus sign to select English language. (You must select a language to add the category to your search).

Factiva Expert Searches are pre-defined search strings created by Factiva search experts to find not only News Sentiment but news on topics and subjects that are often difficult for searchers to compose on their own. Thought leadership, customer service, digital analytics, investor sentiment, and institutional investor risk are some of the topics in Expert Search. There are also a limited number of “Trending Topics” like Brexit.

When Emerald Is Not Accessible

If you’re unable to access a journal in Emerald that you’re sure we should have access to, here is a trick that might fix things. Click the “Reset Authentication” button in the header of the page and access may be restored.

reset authentication button in Emerald

Support from Emerald has been looking into weird access problems with cookies ever since they switched over to a new platform in September. If you are still unable to get access, please email Mike Waldman and me.

November 9 Downtime for Library Catalog and OneSearch

Between 8 am and 10 am on Saturday, November 9, CUNY CIS will be doing maintenance on systems that will affect the following services:

  • The library catalog (also known as CUNY+) may be entirely unavailable
    • Workaround: Use OneSearch to see if we actually have the item
  • OneSearch will be searchable but users won’t be able to get real-time info on the status of print books found, nor will users be able to log into their patron accounts to check loan periods, renew loans, etc.
    • Workaround: Stop by the circulation desk in the library
  • OneSearch will not be able to display the green “full text available” links in records
    • Workaround: Use the A-Z journals search tool to identify what database has access to that journal, magazine, newspaper, etc.
  • Databases will not display the “Find it @ CUNY” buttons or those buttons won’t work
    • Workaround: Use the A-Z journals search tool to identify what database has access to that journal, magazine, newspaper, etc.

Database Trial: Granta

Description
Full text access to the complete run of Granta, a literary magazine.

This trial is on the Exact Editions platform where we already have subscription access to the Times Literary Supplement (TLS).

Trial Ends
November 17, 2019

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).

BMI Research Is Now Called FitchConnect

As of today, BMI Research (previously known as Business Monitor Online), is now called FitchConnect and at a new web address. The look and feel is updated from BMI Research but not radically so. There are two notable changes about access, though:

  1. You will be asked to login even when you are on-campus
  2. The login screen is not the usual one at https://remote.baruch.cuny.edu but instead one that looks like this:

FitchConnect log on screen

Members of the Baruch and CUNY SPS communities should be able to log in using the same set of credentials they’d use for off campus access to any other database.

If you’ve added a BMI Research database link to a research guide, you’ll see that the link has been automatically relabeled to “FitchConnect (formerly BMI Research).” By the end of the academic year, we’ll drop the “(formerly BMI Research)” bit from the database label. There is also a temporary pointer link in the A-Z database list that’s labeled “BMI Research (now called FitchConnect)” that will remain on the list until the end of the academic year; that link redirects to the new FitchConnect platform.

If you’ve manually typed into your guide the phrase “Business Monitor International” or “BMI” you may want to click through these search links to find what guide pages have that wording and update it (you can ignore the automatically updated database links that say “FitchConnect (formerly BMI Research).”

New APA Publication Manual Is Released

This week, the APA published a new edition (the 7th) of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association that features tweaked rules about citations. Until we can get a print copy of the manual here, you might want to take a look at these resources from APA about what’s new: