Reference at Newman Library

Tag: New in the Library

New Database: Vault

Each CUNY college now has access to Vault, a great source of career information. This is a database that our students frequently ask us about.

You’ll find links to this database on the following database pages:

  • A-Z list
  • business databases
  • company information databases
  • industry information databases

When I did a query for “libraries,” I found not only career overview articles like this  2009 report on careers in libraries but also profiles of specific library schools, internship listings, job overviews, etc.

New Database: Loeb Classical Library

We now have access to the 520 ebooks in the Loeb Classical Library. Published by Harvard University Press for over a century, these translations of classical works in Greek and Latin are now available online.

Links to this new resource can be found on the A-Z list of databases and on the subject database lists for English, history, and philosophy.

New Databases: American Fiction 1774-1920 and LGBT History and Culture

We purchased two new databases from Gale:

American Fiction, 1774-1920

  • Full text of novels, short stories, romances, fictitious biographies, travel accounts, allegories, and tract-like tales.
  • Links found on
    • A-Z database page
    • English – Databases page

LGBT History and Culture

  • From the vendor: “With material drawn from hundreds of institutions and organizations, including both major international activist organizations and local, grassroots groups, the documents in the Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 present important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. The archive illuminates the experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community. Historical records of political and social organizations founded by LGBTQ individuals are featured, as well as publications by and for lesbians and gays, and extensive coverage of governmental responses to the AIDS crisis. The archive also contains personal correspondence and interviews with numerous LGBTQ individuals, among others. The archive includes gay and lesbian newspapers from more than 35 countries, reports, policy statements, and other documents related to gay rights and health, including the worldwide impact of AIDS, materials tracing LGBTQ activism in Britain from 1950 through 1980, and more.”
  • Links found on:
    • A-Z database page
    • History – Databases page
    • Women’s Studies – Databases page

If there are other subject database pages that we should add links to, please let Mike or me know.

New Platform for ebrary Coming Soon

This is just a heads up that later this year, ProQuest will migrate ebrary over to its new Ebook Central platform. Once the migration takes places, we’ll do the usual things on the database page when a resource gets renamed:

  • Keep the original database listing for a limited time with a note mentioning the new name (“ebrary is now called Ebook Central”)
  • Eventually rename the original listing and move it as needed to a different tab on the Databases page (a pointer at the old resource name may remain for a while that will link to the tab where the newly renamed link can be found)

It looks like all existing ebrary URLs we have in the catalog (and that we may have added to research guides or e-reserves) will automatically redirect to the new platform once that platform is live.

More details here from ProQuest.

New Database: Global Issues in Context

All CUNY libraries now have a new subscription to a Gale database: Global Issues in Context. Here’s Gale’s description of it:

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique “perspectives” articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia – including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs – enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

You’ll now find a link to it on the databases page and on these subject database pages:

  • Journalism
  • Political Science
  • Public Affairs

Expanded Video Content from Kanopy

Since January 2014, we’ve had a small collection of videos listed on the databases page as “Media Education Foundation.” As of last week, we now have access to the entire video collection on that vendor’s platform. You’ll now find a link to Kanopy on the databases page (we’ll keep the separate link for Media Education Foundation for now, as some faculty use it regularly).

Here’s an overview of what we now get from Kanopy:

Over 1,000 documentaries and feature films in the fields of business, communications studies, social sciences, language studies, visual and performing arts, film studies, and history. Includes titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, and other independent and foreign film producers.