News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
This database from Alexander Street Press features more than 600 videos for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. You can narrow searches by type of video:
As videos play, a highlighted transcript scrolls along the right side of the screen.
Records for the videos will be loaded into the catalog shortly.
We have a trial from Alexander Street Press’ Ethnographic Video Online until May 8, 2012. Access is on campus only for the trial.
Ethnographic Video Online is a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior.
Thematic areas include: family and race, material culture, language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, marriage, gender, and family roles.
All videos offer accompanying written transcripts where the spoken word is highlighted as it is spoken.
Please leave your comments about this database below or email me directly.
We now have access to Ulrichsweb, which is a great place to go when you need to look up just about any basic information about a periodical, such as:
* This index/access info is general info and not limited to the databases we subscribe to. To see exactly what access we at Baruch have, look on the right side of the screen for our “Find it! @ CUNY” icon that can do a lookup for you in SFX and let you know what online and print access options that are specific to Baruch.
VentureXpert is already part of the SDC Platinum database but seemed to merit its own listing on the databases page. It is only accessible to members of the Baruch community from workstations at the reference desk.
We’ve recently added Google Scholar to our list of databases on the library website and in the set of reusable database links in LibGuides. After looking at the database listings for 66 schools (all the libraries in CUNY, SUNY, the CIC, and the Cal State and UC systems), we found that 48 of those institutions had Google Scholar on their A-Z database lists.
Given that many of our students and faculty already use Google Scholar, we decided that it was worth adding so that we can ensure that our users get the most out it. With that in mind, we created a special link to it that runs the user through our EZproxy system AND sets up the Google Scholar advanced preferences option so that our users will see links to SFX next to most items on the search results page.
As you can see from this screenshot, Google Scholar won’t display the usual “Find It” icon we see in our library databases but instead offers a link labeled “Find Full Text at Baruch.”
As of this week, all of the Wilson databases we had access to on the WilsonWeb platform have moved over to EBSCOhost. Links to these databases have been updated on the library’s databases page and on the LibGuides Reusable Links page. With this move, there are some notable benefits to searchers.
Greater integration with full text
Many article records in WilsonWeb relied on SFX to get you to the full text; now, the records are right within EBSCOhost, which offers a vast trove of full text content. So we’ll see fewer SFX links in Wilson databases than we used to and more direct links to text.
Additional retrospective databases
After the merger, EBSCO gave us access to a bunch of retrospective databases we didn’t have before. Rather than add each one to our databases page as a separate listing, we’ve created a listing in the database that takes you to a page that lets you search the retrospective and the full text editions at the same time. These are the new retrospective indexes we now have:
Ability to search a huge set of databases at once
EBSCO has long offered a nice way to search all their databases at once. With all the new Wilson databases that are part of the platform now, that list of databases that could be searched simultaneously is quite large.
Now that all the Wilson databases are available on the EBSCOhost platform, the next step from EBSCO will be merge some of the similar Wilson and EBSCO databases into one project. This post from InfoDocket last summer shows what database mergers may take place.
We now have access to DealScan on the WRDS platform.
To find the data, please select ThomsonReuters and then WRDS Reuters DealScan.
We have lost access to NYSE TAQ data via WRDS platform. It is unclear at this time if we will regain access to the data on this platform.
Access to the data via DVDs is still possible via Prof. Richard Holowczak at the Subnotick Center.
ebrary now allows their books to be downloaded to reader devices. This is just a short introduction to the download function. More instructions will be forthcoming but since we are already seeing some questions, here is some information.
You will notice a DOWNLOAD button next to the ebrary Reader button if the book is open or under the title if searching for a title from within ebrary.
The download options are as follows:
– by chapter and/or up to 60 pages: this will download a PDF copy of the text; if you need more than 60 pages, you need to logoff and back on. This is a PDF so the quality in the reader tends to not be the best. The PDF can then be moved to a device. The PDF is yours forever.
– by the whole book. This will download to Adobe Digital Edition. Users must have their own log-in to Adobe Digital Edition as well. On their devices they must also have Adobe Digital Editions or Bluefire on the iPad/iPhone/iPod platforms. This will check the book out for 14 days. With ebrary since we have unlimited simultaneous users, multiple users can have the book checked out at any one time. I do not think we have Adobe Digital Editions on our public computers at this time.
If you have specific questions, please email me so I can address them.
We have made a change in policy with regards to Reading Room books; from now on they will appear in the public catalog. The books will still receive a call number of “Reading Room” and will not be shelved in any particular order, but they will show up if you are searching for them in the catalog. This was changed after receiving much feedback from librarians.
To see what’s there you can do the following command search: wow=bb and wcl=leisb