Date and Time
Saturday, 20 January 2018, 1 pm – 7 pm.
This downtime had previously been announced for January 27-28 but was moved to January 20.
Affected Services and Resources
- All databases on the ProQuest platform
- RefWorks
New Database: Trade Catalogues and the American Home
We’ve added a new primary source collection to our databases: Trade Catalogues and the American Home. The collection includes hundreds of illustrated product catalogs and other marketing ephemera from 1850 – 1950. Links to this database can be found on the A – Z list of databases and on the history databases page. If you’d like to see a link to this database on other subject database pages, just let me know.
Firefox Problem in OneSearch Is Now Fixed
The November 2017 update of the Primo software has fixed the problem we were seeing with searches run in OneSearch by users in the Firefox browser (see this October 6 blog post for details).
Database Trial: CQ Voting and Elections Collection
Description (from the vendor)
Find top-quality reference narratives and documents on elections, parties, voter behavior, and campaigns. Extract election results by meaningful characteristics: candidate, office, locality, and race type over time. Access U.S. election results across states with great historical depth and accuracy.
Trial Ends
January 19, 2018
Access
On and off campus
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).
Database Trial: Political Handbook of the World
Description (from the vendor)
Political Handbook of the World provides thorough and accurate information on the major aspects of each country’s government and political party system. …[F]eatures country profiles that include:
- Key facts: Political status, area, population, major urban centers, official language, monetary unit, heads of government, heads of state, ambassadors, and U.S. and U.N. representation.
- Government and political history: Historical trends, regime changes, constitutional history, and regional and global policy issues of concern.
- Current Issues: Headline-making events, trends, controversies, and challenges.
- Political parties and organizations: Leading and minor parties, quasi-partisan and extra-systemic organizations, alliances, party histories, ideology, and leadership.
- Legislatures and cabinets: Recent national election results, legislative leaders, cabinet ministers.
- Communications: Names, circulation, and political affiliation of major national media; news agencies; television coverage and Internet usage.
Trial Ends
January 19, 2018
Access
On and off campus
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).
Shortcuts to the OneSearch Interface
If you need to get to the OneSearch interface and don’t want to run a search first, here are some options:
- On the yellow search bar, select the “Articles” option (or “Videos” or “Books + Articles + Videos”) and then click the “Advanced Search” option just below the “Go” button on the search bar.
- On the A-Z list of databases, look for the link to “OneSearch” on the “O-P” tab.
Off Campus Access to S&P NetAdvantage Is Working Again
Users from off campus can now connect to S&P NetAdvantage again. As I had suspected, the settings from S&P had changed with no notification from them and required me to tinker with the settings in our EZproxy server.
Remote Access to S&P NetAdvantage Not Working
If you’re off campus and try to connect to S&P NetAdvantage, you’ll see our login screen first and then after entering your credentials will see this one from S&P, which we should never be seeing and which off campus users won’t be able to get past:
On campus access is fine. It is likely that S&P once again was fiddling around on the back end of their systems and failed to realize that they’d be breaking remote access for academic customers that use EZproxy software (and that’s most of us colleges and universities) to manage off campus access. I’ll have to fiddle around with the settings in EZproxy for this database to see if I can restore remote access. Look for an update here when that fix is made.
Real-Time Availability for Books Restored to OneSearch
Ex Libris fixed a problem that was plaguing the last release of the Primo software that prevented real-time availability of books being displayed in item records if those books were held in other libraries in your consortium. Now, if you click through to the record for a book, you should see up-to-date status info for Baruch’s copy and other CUNY libraries that also have that book.
Sample item record in OneSearch for a book (Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky)
How to Browse by Author or Subject or Call Number in OneSearch
In my last OneSearch tip on the blog, I focused on how to browse by title in the catalog and OneSearch. In the catalog, there are of course other browse options we tend to use a lot, such as browse by author, by LC subject heading, by LC call number:
In OneSearch, you have all these options, too. Just go to the BROWSE mode and click the dropdown menu to pick what you want to browse by:
A caveat about title browse in OneSearch applies here as well for the other kinds of OneSearch browsing. When you use the browse function in OneSearch, the books you find will be almost exclusively print books. What you are browsing in OneSearch are just the records that we’ve carried over from the catalog. In OneSearch, we represent our ebook titles not from catalog records but instead from records in ebook collections that Ex Libris (the vendor behind OneSearch) gets directly from the vendors of the ebook platforms we subscribe to (such as Ebook Central from ProQuest).