Reference at Newman Library

Table of Contents Links in OneSearch Results

Following up on our integration of BrowZine into Serials Solutions search results from earlier this month, we’ve found another way to take advantage of BrowZine’s API. Starting today, when you run searches in OneSearch, if there is a table of contents related to a scholarly journal article you’ve found or to a scholarly journal you searched for, relevant records in OneSearch will display a link into BrowZine.

EXAMPLE: When your search results include a record for a journal, such as JAMA.

  • Note the  blue links for “View journal contents” (which go to BrowZine) below the green links for “Full text available” (which go to the full OneSearch record for that journal)

EXAMPLE: When your search results for articles include scholarly journal articles.

  • Note the blue links for “View issue contents” (which go to BrowZine) below the green links for “Full text available” (which go to the full text of each article).

Please note that not every school in CUNY has BrowZine and that among those that do have it, only Baruch has set up this integration (Queens is still testing it out).

If you go to the bottom of the Faculty Services page on the library website, you’ll also find a link to BrowZine in the “journal alerting services” section.

Call for Agenda Items About OneSearch

As the co-chair of the Public Services Committee, I’d like to invite any suggestions for agenda items for the committee’s next meeting (July 26). The committee is charged with advising CUNY OLS on needed changes to the display and functionality of OneSearch (we used to focus on the catalog as well, but work on that has halted as we prepare to move from an ILS to a library services platform).

A draft of the minutes from the previous meeting and a draft of the agenda for the next meeting are available. If you have any suggestions for things the committee should focus on, please add a comment to this blog post or contact me directly.

New Feature Adds Table of Contents Display to Serials Solutions

Using the API from Browzine, we were able to customize the Serials Solutions e-journal portal so that search results will display links to tables of contents for scholarly journals.

Example: search results page for American Quarterly

Search results page

Example: table of contents display in Browzine for American Quarterly

Sample table of contents in Browzine

Caveats

  • Browzine only provides tables of contents for scholarly journals (and not every single one).
  • Browzine does not provide tables of contents for magazines (including Harvard Business Review)
  • The tables of content available usually go back to 2005; if you need older issues, the “All” link on the Browzine page for the journal will take you back to the Serials Solutions page for the journal so you can navigate into a landing page in a database to browse issues there.

In the coming months, we’ll explore integration of the Browzine elsewhere in our systems.

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