Reference at Newman Library

Tag: Databases

Trial: Statistical Abstract of the United States

Proquest is now offering the Statistical Abstract of the United States in electronic format.

The online ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. includes monthly updates to tables, deep searching at the line-item level, powerful facets for narrowing search results, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites.

Proquest has published a LibGuide with searching and other information that might be useful as you evaluate this databases.

 

I am very interested in any feedback you may have. Please fill out our new form, leave a comment below or email me directly.

 

Counseling Therapy and Video Is Now Alexander Street Counseling

Counseling Therapy and Video has now been renamed as Alexander Street Counseling. For the rest of the spring semester, there will be links to it under both names on the Databases page; at the end of the semester, we’ll just keep the link for Alexander Street Counseling. There is a note in the database description for both versions that mentions the name change.

Trials: new look and new trials

With the new website, we have implemented a new way to share our trials. They can be found in a separate tab in the alphabetical Databases listing. We have a couple of current trials going on.

Historical Periodicals:

African American Historical Serials Collection

Gateway to North America: People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York

Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books from the New-York Historical Society

These are from EBSCO. These are potential purchases, not subscriptions.

 

Psychology:

PsycCRITIQUES and PsycEXTRA offer book reviews, technical reports, government documents and other such material relating to Psychology. Also on the EBSCO platform. This is a subscription.

 

It would be very helpful if you could let me know here or via email if you think these can be used to support the curriculum and how they would fit within our current holdings.

 

TRIAL: Proquest Historical Annual Reports

We have a trial to Proquest Historical Annual Reports until January 11, 2013. Access is available on campus only for the trial.

This database contains the annual reports (1844-current) available for over 800 companies, 43,000 reports, 1.3M pages. Searchable PDF images with indexed data such as: financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor and related companies. It can also be browsed by company name, related names, industry or date.

It is also cross-searchable with the other Proquest databases (except the statistical ones currently on trial).

Trial to Two Statistics Databases from ProQuest

The trial to Statistical Insight and Statistical DataSets lasts only until December 15, so we’ll need to gather feedback fast. Please add your thoughts as a comment on this post or email Mike Waldman.

Statistical Insight includes the Statistical Abstract of the United States as well as thousands of other sources. ProQuest says that Statistical DataSets:

includes interactive data, such as EASI Demographical data, so students can easily search and retrieve detailed statistics, such as data for every zip code in the country. Plus, they can customize charts or tables to their needs, and easily drop them into a paper or PowerPoint presentation. Half of the data in Statistical DataSets is not on the open Web because it is licensed content or because the entire dataset is too large for standard web navigation.

With the trial, we were only given one URL to use for both products. If you select either database from the Database page in the library website, you are taken to the Statistical Insight database. If you want to get to Statistical DataSets, you’ll need to select it from the drop-down menu that says “Related Subscriptions.”

For an overview from ProQuest about these two databases, see the ProQuest LibGuide page for them or check out the company’s video overviews on YouTube.

Trial: WordsAnalytics

We have a trial of WordsAnalytics until December 15.

WordsAnalytics treats each paragraph  of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing as a separate document, enabling searches of keywords or specific phrases in the filings.  Short instructional videos under “Help” provide demonstrations of searches including keyword; section; “most discussed topics,”  “redline” comparison of prior filing using the “compare tool” and how to compare several companies.

Please contact Rita Ormsby for more information on the database; please send me any feedback.

 

Library Lit and LISTA Merged into New Database

If you go to the databases page or the list of reusable database links in LibGuides, you’ll no longer see a listing for Library Literature or for Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) but instead just one for Library & Information Science Source. When EBSCO acquired H.W. Wilson last year, it was announced that overlapping products would be merged into new, larger databases. Those mergers are now finally rolling out this month.

Any permalinks you’ve bookmarked or put on web pages will still take you to the right record in the old databases; it’s likely that at some point in the future, EBSCO will automatically redirect you from any old permalinks to the same record in the new database.

Two New Databases with Very Old Content

Thanks to funding from CUNY Central, we recently gained access to a couple of databases from Gale that contain unique historical collections:

  • National Geographic Magazine Archive offers the every single page (even the ads) from the magazine published between 1888 and 1994. It’s a blast to browse.
  • 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, the new champ for the database with the longest name, is best known for providing the largest collection of British newspapers. It also includes pamphlets, broadsides, etc.

New Name and Look for Business and Company Resource Center

This month, Gale switched all customers of Business & Company Resource Center over to the new platform, Business Insights: Essentials. If you go to the Databases page now, you’ll see that the listing there for Business & Company Resource Center has a note indicating the name change. There is also now a separate listing for Business Insights: Essentials. We’ll keep this dual listing for the rest of the year to help users who are accustomed to the former name transition to the new one.

If you have added Business & Company Resource Center to a LibGuide, you’ll want to delete the link and use the new link to Business Insights: Essentials that I’ve added to the LibGuides–Reusable Links page. Instructions for how to reuse an existing link in LibGuides are available here.

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