Reference at Newman Library – Page 49 – News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).

Planned Maintenance on January 25 Will Affect OneSearch, Catalog, and SFX

Between 8:30 am and 11:30 am on Monday, January 25, a number of key library systems will be down or have limited functionality as planned maintenance work is done on local servers:

the library catalog will be completely down
SFX, which powers the “Find it @ CUNY” button in databases, will be completely down
OneSearch will still be searchable, but you won’t be able to:
- get live availability data for books we own
- place holds or requests for books we own
- check your library account
- link to the full text of articles (because this functionality is powered by SFX, which will be down entirely)

Helping Faculty with Bibliometrics

Here’s a great source from the libraries at the University of Michigan to point you in the right direction for assisting faculty with questions about:

citation analysis for articles and books
journal impact factors
journal rankings
journal acceptance rates

Although we don’t have access to some of the resources the University of Michigan does, the CUNY Graduate Center does (such as Cabell’s and Scopus).

ProQuest, ebrary, and RefWorks Maintenance on January 16

Beginning at 10 pm on January 16 and lasting for up to eight hours (until 6 am on January 17), a number of services from ProQuest will be unavailable as the company does IT upgrades:

All ProQuest databases
ebrary
RefWorks

Credo Reference Temporarily Unavailable

Access to Credo Reference is temporarily unavailable. When we’re able to restore access, I’ll post an update here.

Cancelled Database: LitFinder

The CUNY-wide subscription to LitFinder has ended. Links to the database have been removed from LibGuides.

Catalog experiencing display issues

The catalog is experiencing display issues that seem to be centered around a disconnect between call numbers and the rest of the record (so a call number search for example will not display title information). This is happening both on the public catalog and the GUI. CUNY OLS is investigating. If you find any of these records, please report them to me.

Remote Access for CCH IntelliConnect

I’m not sure what’s going on at Wolters Kluwer with their CCH IntelliConnect database but I’ve now had to update EZproxy settings twice in the past month to keep up with changes Wolters Kluwer has been making on their end. Remote access had once again been disrupted over the weekend; thanks to the help of librarians on the EZproxy mailing list, I’ve got our remote access working again.

If you see any problems with remote access with this or any other database, please let me or Mike know ASAP.

S&P NetAdvantage Working on the New Capital IQ Platform Again

The problems we started having a few weeks ago with S&P NetAdvantage have been fixed. If you go to the databases page, you’ll see that the link to S&P NetAdvantage now goes to new platform (the one that is liberally branded as S&P Capital IQ).

If you find anything amiss in the database, please let me or Mike know.

Library Catalog to Be Down This Wednesday Morning

On Wednesday, December 9, from 8:00 am – 8:30 am, the library catalog will be down for planned maintenance.

Temporary Fix for S&P NetAdvantage

While we wait for S&P to figure out why our library (and other subscribing libraries, too) can’t access NetAdvantage on the new Capital IQ platform, we’ve rolled back our link to NetAdvantage so that it goes to the older interface. The content should be the same regardless of platform.