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New Database: Mental Measurements Yearbook

We now have access to Mental Measurements Yearbook on the EBSCOhost platform. Access to it can be found on the main A-Z list of databases as well as on the list of psychology databases. This database is unique in providing detailed descriptions of tests and measures used in psychology and other social sciences. Please note that the actual tests and measures are not available in this database, just the descriptions of them.

Suggested uses:

  • need to find a measure for a specific behavior, trait, condition, disorder
  • looking to compare different measures
  • trying to identify the publisher of a specific measure so a copy of the measure can be purchased or licensed

New Database: IEEE Xplore

Thanks to a central purchase from CUNY OLS, we now have access to IEEE Xplore. Here’s how they describe this database:

The IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.

IEEE Xplore provides Web access to more than 3-million full-text documents from some of the world’s most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.

The content in IEEE Xplore comprises over 160 journals, over 1,200 conference proceedings, more than 3,800 technical standards, over 1,000 eBooks and over 300 educational courses. Approximately 25,000 new documents are added to IEEE Xplore each month.

Links to it have been added to the main A-Z databases page and to the following database-by-subject lists:

New Database: S&P Capital IQ

There is now a link on the library databases page for S&P Capital IQ. If you click the link, it takes you to a special page that details access, which is limited to Baruch faculty and students as follows:

  • available on selected computers (12 total) on the 2nd floor to the left of the staircase (the side of the library by the elevators and self-checkout machine)
  • available in the Subotnick Financial Services Center
  • available to Baruch faculty and Baruch doctoral students on their personal computers (instructions we can give them about how to do this can be found in the Library Services Wiki)

Please look for a blog post here in the near future that talks about what content and functionality are unique to S&P Capital IQ.

New Subscription: Rosetta Stone

We now have two services that offer online language instruction: Mango Languages and Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone offers 30 different languages. Getting started in Rosetta Stone requires a few steps which are a bit out of the ordinary:

  1. Go to the link to it on our A-Z list of databases or on the languages databases page
  2. If you’re off campus, you’ll get our usual EZproxy login page requiring a Baruch username and password.
  3. Once you pass through authentication, you’ll see a Rosetta Stone login page that also has an EBSCO logo (EBSCO helps provide access to Rosetta Stone even though the two are separate companies)
  4. On the Rosetta Stone login page, first-time users will have to pick a user name and password and also choose which language they’ll study
  5. After you sign in on the Rosetta Stone page, you get a landing page titled “Rosetta Stone Language Learning Suite” on which you can do a couple of different things:
    1. check your browser’s compatibility with the service using the “First Time Users” link
    2. go straight to the language lessons using the “Launch Rosetta Stone Language Lessons Version 3” link

Our subscription to Rosetta Stone is limited to “Level 1” only, although that does seem like it is pretty substantial once you get into it.

New Subscription: EDGAR Pro

With the assistance of the accounting department, we now have access to EDGAR Pro. You may recall that in September of this year, our subscription to EDGAR Online’s I-Metrix ended. EDGAR Pro, which is from the same company that we got I-Metrix from, is not quite as full-featured–there are no Excel analysis tools–but it does offer deep access to SEC filings. Our current subscription limits us to 4 simultaneous users.

You’ll find links to EDGAR Pro on the main databases page as well as the following subject database pages:

  • Accounting
  • Business
  • Company information
  • Finance
  • Industry information

 Vendor description of content in EDGAR Pro:

  • All SEC filings from 1994 to present – more than 7 million filings
  • One click access to financial statements
  • Initial Public Offerings, IPO & Secondary Public Offerings, SPO with summary and detailed views
  • Institutional ownership including
    • shares held
    • change in percent of portfolio
    • market value
  • Buy and sell activity by company insiders
  • Company summaries which provide an overall picture of the firm through a business description, demographic data, stock holdings by institutions and insiders, and more
  • See the executive compensation section of the most recent proxy statement
  • Stock quotes and charts

Upgrades to MasterFILE and MEDLINE

Thanks to CUNY funding, all CUNY libraries have an upgraded subscription to MEDLINE and MasterFILE from EBSCOhost. We now have access to MasterFILE Complete and MEDLINE Complete, both of which offer more full-text content. On our databases pages, you’ll see that the listing for MasterFILE Premier now says MasterFILE Complete. The listing for MEDLINE remains the same as MEDLINE (EBSCOhost), which is worded that way to distinguish it from other places where students might encounter MEDLINE access: within Web of Science and via PubMed.

Finding Your Way Around the New Value Line Interface

Value Line updated the interface recently. One of the biggest changes is that the data from the Investment Survey has been broken up and scattered across the site. If you want to get a report on company, here’s how. When you first connect to Value Line, you see a screen like this:

Value Line--dashboard

To find a company, use the search box in the top right:

Value Line--search

Once you’ve found the company page, you’ll see all sorts of interactive content. If you want to the familiar PDF company reports  from the Value Line Investment Survey, you’ll find them over on the right where it says “PDF Reports.”

Value Line--company data and reports

Our subscription is limited to just some of the content on the site. If you go to the “Dashboard” from the top level navigation, you can go to the “Quick Links” box on the right side to get to other portions of the content we have access to. In this screenshot of that Quick Links box, I’ve highlighted in green the content we have access to and in pink what we don’t have access to:

Value Line--content we have access to in Quick Links

Those portions are:

  • VLIS Current Issue
  • Summary & Index
  • Selection & Opinion
  • SMC Summary & Index
  • VLIS Rank Changes
  • Supplementary Reports

If  you want to delve deeper into what’s changed and how to find stuff in the new platform, here are some useful links:

If there is some content you still can’t find that you remember from the old platform, please let me know here.

New library research guide on New York’s Non-Profit Revitalization Act

I’ve created a library research guide on New York’s Non-Profit Revitalization Act, 2013, with a 2014 amendment, which is available at http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/nynonprofit2014. (You can also find it on the Newman Library homepage, and click Students, then Research Guides and search nonprofits.)

Most provisions of this act became effective July 1. Publications, non-profit organizations, law firms and cpa firms are offering explanations of the act. The act is the first major revision of the New York’s non-profit act in 40 years.