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New database: WestlawNext Patron Access

We now have access to West’s new platform for their traditional print material, called WestlawNext Patron Access. This will be replacing our print subscriptions, which have been cancelled (and were not getting much used).

In this platform, you can search United States federal and state laws, court cases, rules, regulations, selected forms, and topical secondary publications in one search field. Advanced search works best after selecting jurisdiction(s) or content. West Key Numbers, under Tools, offers detailed index of case law materials.

One unfortunate aspect of this database is that searching will retrieve content not in our subscription, which may lead to confusion. We have not lost any content compared to the print subscriptions we had.

Training is being arranged for early December.

New database: Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

We now have access to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, providing searchable access to the following bilingual dictionaries: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. Entries provide pronunciation, examples of use, phrase searching and more. It is possible to search in Chinese and Russian characters.

JSTOR Institutional Finder pilot program

We have signed up for JSTOR’s institutional finder pilot program. This will help our users access content we have access to, in an authenticated manner, even if they are not coming from our database page. This is how it works (from JSTOR):

1. A Baruch College user arrives on a JSTOR article page from a Google search or other referring page

2. An on-campus user will get automatic access to the full-text, but users outside of the Baruch College IP range will be denied access

3. When denied access to the full-text, the user is presented with some options for accessing JSTOR including a link to the JSTOR login page and the Institution Finder ( http://www.jstor.org/action/showLogin ).

4. From there they can search for their institution and follow a link to the Baruch College proxy login page

5. After logging in they are authenticated to JSTOR and will be automatically redirected to the original full-text article.

This should help with the many users who find JSTOR content on the web and then do not know how to get access to its content. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

New resource: Sage Research Methods Online

We have added Sage Research Methods Online to our database collection and it is available via the database page.

Sage Research Methods Online (SRMO) links over 100,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content on research methods, including the entire “Little Green Book” and “Little Blue Book” series. Use this database to help design research projects, conduct research, and write up findings.  SRMO is focused on methodology, not disciplines, so it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.

Please let your faculty and students know about this new resource.

 

Permanent links now available in LexisNexis

LexisNexis has announced that they are supporting the creation of permanent links to their articles. The icon of a clipboard with the link symbol appears on the top right of the screen, near the print and email icons. If you click on that, you will get a link that can be copied and pasted. More information can be found here.

Just a reminder that this link does not contain the remote prefix, so it will be availalable on campus only (or after authenticating). Please contact me if you would like to know how to add the remote prefix.

 

 

 

New Interface for ProQuest Databases

Today we switched over to the new ProQuest interface. The look of this new interface is a lot cleaner and lightweight (this seems to be a mini-trend, as the new Factiva and Passport GMID interfaces feel lighter, too).

What’s New Here?

  • PAIS International is now in ProQuest instead in CSA
  • Links to SFX now include the “Find It” icon instead of just text
  • A “Figures & Tables” search in some databases
  • A “Data & Reports” search in ABI/INFORM Global
  • Historical and non-historical databases can be searched together

Bugs/Quirks

  • If you are looking at the item record for an article where there is no full text, you’ll see two “Find It” icons (see this example). ProQuest told me that they are working on this problem.
  • The link to our Ask a Librarian service went from the top right of the page in the old interface to the bottom right of the new one (but we now can have an icon instead of just a text link).
  • Please contact Mike or me with any problems you find in the new interface.

Fixing Links in LibGuides

The new interface has a new base URL (search.proquest.com). Using a find and replace feature in LibGuides, I was able to update some but not all of the links in LibGuides that went to the old interface (the search and find only works in certain kinds of boxes in the LibGuides system). Please check any links in your guides now to make sure they point to the new URLs.

New Database: GenderWatch

You’ll now find a listing for GenderWatch on the databases page and on the LibGuides page that has canonical links you can re-use in your own guides. Here’s a description from ProQuest about this database:

With archival material dating back to 1970, GenderWatch™ provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. GenderWatch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women’s studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. Combining more than 200 academic, gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides researchers with more than 100,000 articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.

The 200+ titles featured in the GenderWatch database offer unique, distinctive voices seldom heard in mainstream media. Sometimes outspoken, always informative, the collection represents multiple viewpoints from a wide variety of publications. From scholarly analysis to popular opinion, GenderWatch encompasses three decades of gender studies. Titles include: The Advocate, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Divorce Magazine, off our backs, Transitions, and many more.

Subject coverage

Women studies
Men’s studies
Evolution of the women’s movement
Transgendered community
(Changes in) gender roles
Femininity
Gender differences
Gender equity
Gender identity
Gender studies
Masculinity

Introducing Mintel Oxygen and Global Market Navigator

Adding to the market research reports found in such databases as MarketResearch.com and Euromonitor, we have acquired Mintel Oxygen.

Mintel Oxygen reports and news commnetaries cover the UK, Europe, US and international consumer markets in such industries as food, beverage, apparel, beauty and personal, retail, travel and more.  Rather than provide a broad overview of such markets, Mintel reports are distinguished for offering insights on niche markets which are often difficult for researchers to obtain, let alone carve out.

As a complementary product, Mintel Global Market Navigator (GMN), offers ready access to global industry data and country socio-economic information in downloadable formats for users to easily grab and incorporate in their reports.

Please share these widely with Baruch faculty and students global consumer market and industry data or country socio-economic information.