News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
We now have access to a great collection of primary sources that offers newspaper articles from hundreds of papers from 1827-1998. Links to this database can be found on these pages:
Please share the news of this with faculty and students you work with.
HeinOnline just expanded our access to include a collection of legal and historical materials that surrounding the efforts in the United States to define and defend LGBTQ+ rights:
LGBTQ+ Rights charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today. Topics covered include the Defense of Marriage Act, the AIDS crisis, military service by gay and transgender service members, “bathroom bills,” and more. A separate subcollection presents historical texts whose views some readers may find offensive today, showing the prejudicial beliefs that permeated society and helped formed the laws of their time.
Over the years, HeinOnline has been adding all kinds of topical legal materials and government documents that offer a historical perspective on key issues in American history. When you first go to HeinOnline, you can drill down to one of these specific collections by selecting from the dropdown menu in the search bar or by clicking the collection from the list lower down on the page:
Please share news of this new collection with faculty in relevant departments.
We now have access to the Chicago Defender on ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers platform. Coverage for this important newspaper goes from 1909-2010. As is the case with other newspapers that we have on this platform (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amsterdam News), coverage includes not just the articles but also ads and all the images in the articles and ads.
A link to the database may be found on the A-Z databases page and selected subject database pages (News, Black Studies, and History).
Although you can look up a journal record for the Chicago Defender in OneSearch, you won’t be able to find articles from it there. Instead, you’ll need to connect to the database itself and search within it. This is due to limitations in way that Ex Libris has made this collection available within Primo (our OneSearch system).
Please let faculty in relevant departments know about this valuable new resource.
We’ve recently acquired seven new databases on EBSCOhost. Some of these new acquisitions give us deep access to archives of important magazines:
Two other acquisitions provide access to a mix of serials:
Links to all of these databases can be found on our A-Z databases page if you want to access them and search them directly within the native EBSCOhost interface. Links to them will also be added soon on various subject database pages.
The content for these collections is also being indexed in OneSearch; some of it may already be discoverable at the article and journal level while others (such as JET and Ebony will take some time, as Ex Libris hasn’t yet set up discovery access to these newer collections yet in Alma and Primo). As soon as the content is fully discoverable within OneSearch, I’ll post a new item to the reference blog.
Please alert faculty in relevant departments you work with about these new acquisitions.
We now have access to a new streaming video collection that offers not only theatrical productions (over 500) but also commentary, interviews, lesson plans, documentaries, and more about those productions.
Links to this database have been added to the following database pages:
Please alert any faculty who might be interested about this new resource.
Until yesterday, if you wanted to find out what years of online coverage we had for a given periodical, you had to use the “Journal Search” feature in OneSearch, then click through from the results page to view a full record, and then eyeball the list of databases where holdings details are available. Now, there’s a shortcut. When you run a search, you’ll see on the results page a summary of online holdings for each periodical that has any:
When you first see the search results of a journal search, it may take a few seconds for the online holdings summary to load after the “Available online” text. If you click through to the journal record, you’ll see the same summary statement at the top of the record. You can see this from the links below:
As you can see from the sample journal record for Developmental Psychology, if the journal also has print or microform holdings, those don’t display tidy summary statement at the top of the record or in the brief display in the search results; for that info, you’ll still need to scroll down to the Locations section of the record.
When we moved from Primo to Primo VE in August 2020, we lost the ability to have OneSearch index records in CUNY Academic Works. That feature is now finally back thanks to work by CUNY OLS.
The last day of our subscription to EDGAR Pro is October 19. As a replacement, we have already started our subscription to Calcbench and added a link for it on our A-Z databases page. Here is our description of Calcbench, which is intended serve as a replacement for EDGAR Pro:
Financial data platform providing company financials and fundamental research for over 12,000 listed public companies. Includes financials, footnotes, and source documents of every 10-K, 10-Q, Earnings Releases, proxy statements, 8-Ks, and SEC comment letters. Data is sourced via XBRL from the SEC’s corporate repository, and available in Calcbench as they are filed.
Register for an account using your Baruch email address.
This database from HeinOnline offers ebooks, journal articles, special reports, government documents, and legal documents, all relating to the history and administration of the armed forces in the United States. A link to it can be found on the A-Z databases page and on the Government – Databases page. The contents of the database aren’t yet indexed by Alma or Primo, which means the only way to find and use the content is by searching directly in the database.
Here’s a video overview from HeinOnline about this new database:
Roper iPoll provides access not only to polls conducted by the Roper Center but also hundreds of other organizations (corporations, nonprofit groups, research institutes, news organizations, etc.) Not only will the database be useful for anyone looking for data about political attitudes and opinions, it may also be useful for those looking for marketing info (including consumer preferences) and for those who just need a dataset that they can download, manipulate, and analyze.
To give a snapshot of what’s in the database, here’s a quick run through of what happens if you type something like “religion” into the search box:
The HeinOnline database that we had on trial last year is now something we’re subscribed to. The interface may also look familiar to you for another reason: for a while we have had access to a few archival collections on that platform:
We now have the complete “academic” package that includes many more collections, each of which is described in detail on the company LibGuide (note that the LibGuide describes some collections that aren’t part of our subscription).
Links to HeinOnline can be found on:
The contents of our newly subscribed collections can also be found now in OneSearch (at the article, journal, or book level depending on the document).
Please share news of this subscription with faculty you work with.