Reference at Newman Library

Baruch Students and Faculty Can Activate Library Accounts at Any CUNY Campus

This is news to me: students and faculty at Baruch can activate their library accounts at any CUNY campus library, not just ours. For years, I’d always thought it could only be done here, but apparently I’ve had that wrong. Monique Prince has told me that in fact students and faculty from any CUNY campus can activate their library accounts at any CUNY campus.

Financial Times Daily Edition for Zicklin Graduate Students and Faculty

Zicklin’s Office of Graduate Programs provides access to the current, daily Financial Times. Current Zicklin graduate students and faculty should use their Baruch email accounts to email the Financial Times contact person to request access. The email contact information is posted in the Reference Wiki under the entry “Financial Times Daily Edition.”

Guides to ProQuest Databases

ProQuest has its own LibGuides account and has a nice collection of help guides for its databases, including many of the ones we subscribe to:

I thought some of the content of these guides might give us ideas about things we’d like to add to our guides. ProQuest’s guides may also be easier for us to navigate when we’re looking for help documentation about things like connectors, search syntax, etc.

Trial to ProQuest International Datasets

Database description (from the vendor)

ProQuest International Datasets is a data visualization product with a collection of public and private datasets from national governments, international organizations, and economic research firms. The product offers unrivaled access to social and economic data, at both the national and sub-national level. Once you have found the data you want to use you can quickly create a chart and export it in the format of your choice.

Most of the data is in deep-time series. Country-level data is generally 35 years deep; city-level data generally contains 15-20.

Users can also take advantage of the Upload Content feature to upload their own datasets for use.

Trial ends

28 February 2015

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)

Trial to ProQuest Statistical Insight

Database description (from the vendor)

ProQuest Statistical Insight provides abstracting, indexing, and full text for publications from hundreds of public domain and licensed sources. Institutions can subscribe to the entire collection or to selected modules.

  • Federal statistical publications. 5,000 titles/year. Coverage from 1973; full text from 2004.
  • State government and business statistical reports. 2,200 titles/year. Coverage from 1980; full text from 2007.
  • International statistical publications from the UN, OECD, EU, etc. 2,500 titles/year. Coverage from 1980. Full text from 2007.
  • Hundreds of thousands of statistical tables selected from the three publication modules. Tables are individually indexed to ensure precise search and retrieval. Coverage from 1999.

Trial ends

28 February 2015

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)

GIS Practicum Spring 2015

After a hiatus in the fall, the workshops are back! This semester’s GIS (geographic information systems) Practicum, Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software (featuring QGIS), will take place on the following Fridays:

  • February 27th
  • March 27th
  • April 24th

The day-long workshop runs from 9am to 4:30pm. Current CUNY graduate students, faculty, and staff, and full-time Baruch undergrads are eligible to register. Advance registration is required; the fee is $30 and includes a detailed tutorial manual and a light breakfast. Visit the GIS Practicum page to learn more and to register: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis/gisprac.

Registration for both sessions begins on January 30th. Feel free to circulate this info to students and faculty, but please do not post via listservs. I have fliers in my office if anyone would like some to distribute.