News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
We now have access to over 3000 case studies in a new database, SAGE Business Cases. Links to this database have been added to the A-Z databases page as well as the following subject database pages:
In the next week or so, records for cases should be discoverable in OneSearch.
Emerald Insight switched to a new interface and URL yesterday. Old URLs should redirect to the new one. I’ve updated the URL in the A-Z databases page, so if you’ve added a link to Emerald on one of your LibGuides it will automatically now go to the new URL.
We’ve re-subscribed to Ad$pender. Our license supports 5 concurrent users. Please remember to always log out via the link in the top right corner of the page instead of just navigating away from the page, which will leave you logged in even though you’re not on the site any more.
Links to Ad$pender can be found on:
Help documentation can be found on this PDF from Kantar Media (the vendor).
The journal platform, Emerald Insight, is getting a major redesign scheduled to launch this July. If you’d like to look at the beta, which has only basic functionality and is not something that is ready for our researchers yet, you can see it at https://beta.emerald.com/insight. There is a link at the top of the beta site where you send feedback to the developers.
We now have an additional level of access to TLS (Times Literary Supplement) that offers a richer experience than what we got from Factiva. If you do a journal lookup for TLS, you’ll see that there is now a link for issues from 2012 to the present from “Digital Editions from Exact Editions.”
We now have access to one encyclopedia on Oxford’s newish platform, Oxford Research Encyclopedias. This encyclopedia of communication includes nearly 500 entries.
Links to this encyclopedia can be found on the following pages:
At the moment, there isn’t a way to search for entries to it in OneSearch.
For background on the encyclopedia, Oxford University Press offers this video:
Along with all other CUNY libraries, we now have access to IOPscience, a collection of journals and ebooks from IOP Publishing (part of the Institute of Physics). Access to the articles and ebook titles can be found via:
We now subscribe to Safari, a collection of over 40,000 ebooks in information technology. This database includes all titles published by O’Reilly Media as well as titles from a number of other publishers. The collection also includes videos and a small number of case studies.
To use Safari, you’ll need to use the link on the A-Z database list (there is also a link on the ebooks databases page). Logging in to Safari from on or off campus requires a Baruch or CUNY SPS email address. Once the user provides that email, they are in. If a user wants to be able to use the iOS or Android app and read ebooks offline, they will need to set up an account with Safari using their Baruch or CUNY SPS email address and a password of their own choosing.
The vendor hopes to have their content indexed in the coming months by Ex Libris so records for each ebook can be found in the Primo discovery service (OneSearch here at CUNY).
On the EBSCO platform, we now have access to the complete run of Life (1936-2000). A link to it can be found on the A-Z databases page, the history databases page, and by searching in the Serials Solutions e-journal system.
This new collection from EBSCO offers in full text thousands of periodicals published in America between 1693 and 1877. Links to it can be found on the A-Z databases page and on the history databases page.