News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
With the launch of the new interface and URL for Emerald, a number of libraries are reporting problems with remote access. I just used the recommended fix that Emerald has been suggesting and found that it works:
From 6 am – 8 am on Monday, July 22, the catalog will be down for scheduled maintenance (the down time might be closer to just fifteen minutes). This will affect:
Access to DealScan has changed this week. We now can access it on the WRDS platform.
Once you’ve clicked the link on our databases pages for DealScan and logged into WRDS, you’ll see all the datasets we have access to in the “Subscriptions” section of the WRDS home page. Select “Thomson Reuters” from this list of datasets.
On the next page, you’ll see links to various datasets that are part of DealScan that you can work with.
Thanks to the help of BCTC, we’ve got the login working again in LibGuides that lets you use your regular Baruch username and password as an alternative to your LibGuides credentials.
When you go to login, you’ll see the familiar login screen:
On the right side where it says “You may also login using,” click on “Baruch Username and Password,” which will take you to this page to enter those credentials:
The first time you enter your credentials, you’ll get a verification page from Springshare checking that it’s OK for your username (but not password) to be shared with Springshare:
Click “Do Not Ask Me Again” and the “Accept” button and you’ll then be passed on into LibGuides. The next time you go to login, you won’t see this verification page again.
For those interested in the technical side of things, this new set up uses Shibboleth, which is an open-source project that allows for a single sign-on experience in systems that would otherwise require separate credentials for logging in. In the coming year, you can expect to see more systems that will use Shibboleth here at Baruch and across CUNY to simplify the process of logging into different services.
We now have access to over 3000 case studies in a new database, SAGE Business Cases. Links to this database have been added to the A-Z databases page as well as the following subject database pages:
In the next week or so, records for cases should be discoverable in OneSearch.
Emerald Insight switched to a new interface and URL yesterday. Old URLs should redirect to the new one. I’ve updated the URL in the A-Z databases page, so if you’ve added a link to Emerald on one of your LibGuides it will automatically now go to the new URL.
Description
Full text of newspaper articles from the Latin American Newspapers Series 1 (1805-1922) and Latin American Newspapers Series 2 (1822-1922).
Trial Ends
July 31, 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).
The scheduled maintenance work on our EZproxy server, which handles authentication for off campus access to library resources, has been completed this morning. Our EZproxy software has now been upgraded to the latest version.
If you encounter any problems with remote access, please let me or Mike Waldman know.
The EZproxy server will be offline next week for scheduled maintenance as follows:
Monday, June 3: 7:30 am – 8:30 am
Tuesday, June 4: 9:00 am – 10:00 am
During this time, there will be no remote access to library resources.
This morning, I updated all the URLs to Oxford resources on our A-Z list:
If you encounter any issues connecting to these resources, please let me know.
This update from Oxford of URLs from HTTP to HTTPS is yet another example of a trend we’ve been seeing from our vendors over the past few years as they respond to larger movements in the web world to design more secure environments. Developers of web browsers have been adding more features to alert users to websites that use the less secure HTTP protocol and restricting some functionality only to sites that use HTTPS. At the same time, search engines have been tinkering with ranking algorithms to reward HTTPS-enabled sites and deprecate ones still using HTTP.