With the latest Primo release, the interface in OneSearch now features an A-Z way to browse journals by title (it’s just below the search box on the Journals page). Given the vast number of periodicals we have online access to, the A-Z route isn’t an efficient way to look up a title. For my test today, I went looking for the literary journal Callaloo and found that it was title number 850 in the C’s; that was a LOT of paging through results to verify that we do indeed have access to Callaloo (and that was after I changed the default display from 10 items per page to the max of 50).
Tag: New in the Library
New Database: Vivvix
A replacement for Ad$pender.
Offers spending data on advertising via seven media channels and subgroups by brand, company, and industry and features other rankings reports.
New Database: Chicago Manual of Style Online
Listed on the A-Z databases page.
New Database for Test Prep
Another new resource we have access to thanks to NOVELny is Peterson’s Career and Test Prep. Here’s the description of it:
Create your own account to access test prep materials for GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, and as well as vocational exams.
A link to it can now be found on the A-Z databases page.
New Gale Databases
The statewide collection of databases from Gale that we get via NOVELny grew recently. We now have access to the following:
- Gale Books and Authors (book recommendations)
- Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
- Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management
- Gale Legal Forms (downloadable legal forms for NY state use)
All of these are now listed on the A-Z databases page as well as relevant subject database pages.
New Database: Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820
On the Alexander Street platform, we have expanded our collection of archival materials in women’s history with “Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820.” The vendor says that the database:
seeks to enlarge the scope and enhance the significance of the study of empire by creating a 75,000-page database and archive of documents that views the history of modern empires through women’s eyes. Drawn from libraries, archives, and personal collections around the world, many of these documents are available for the first time. We hope they will provide scholars and students with new perspectives on imperial history as a process of political, social, economic and cultural interactions involving indigenous and imperial people, family life, social networks and civil society as well as governments and armies.
Links to this database can be found on the following pages:
If there are other subject databases pages that should feature a link, please let me know.
New Database: LACLI
We’ve added a new, freely available database that a number of CUNY librarians have helped contribute to: LACLI. Here is how the organization behind the database describes itself:
Welcome to LACLI, an international collaboration to create a repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies! LACLI is an essential tool to find websites that provide access to a great variety of resources such as audiovisual materials, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives and more!
LACLI is managed by the Latin America Northeast Libraries Network (LANE), a network of library professionals representing academic and research libraries mainly in the Northeastern United States. LANE is a regional affinity group with ties to the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM).
In addition to a link to this database on our A-Z list, it also can be found on the following subject database pages:
New Database: Vault
We once again have access to Vault, an online library of career resources. A link for it can be found on the A-Z databases page. Users must first register on the site (via our link) and create their own password before they can access Vault.
New Database: Preprint Citation Index
Clarivate recently added a new database to the Web of Science interface. The Preprint Citation Index helps you find articles that haven’t been formally published yet but are available on preprint servers and see who has been citing them already.
A direct link to the Preprint Citation Index can now be found on the A-Z databases page on the “O-P” tab. For more info from Clarivate about this new database, see this February 3 announcement.
New Database: Health Poll Database
We now have access to a second database from the Roper Center called Health Poll Database. Here is their description of it:
The Health Poll database is the most comprehensive database for health-related U.S. survey questions, covering eighty years of national polling. Searchable questions and results, demographic crosstabs, and trends are available on every topic related to health, from social determinants and influences on health to insurance, costs and health-care utilization.
Access to this database is available on and off campus via links found on the following pages of the library website:
Please share news about this new resource with faculty and students you work with.