News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Web of Science has finally updated its interface, something that has been long in coming. Here are the most notable changes:
More details can be found on this blog post from Thomson Reuters.
On January 2, Credo rolled out a new interface. Details of the update can be found on the Credo Help Center.
LexisNexis launched today their new search interface.
Some of the enhancements include:
Here is some material that LexisNexis has put out to help with the transition:
Please let me know if you encounter anything that does not work.
Details about the updates to the look of SRDS can be found on this blog post from the vendor.
NYCdata (http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/) is a public web-based compendium of statistics about the City of New York. Created by the Weissman Center for International Business, this comprehensive resource is organized into categories of statistics (population, business, finance, trade, culture, etc.) and each table references its underlying sources. The data is updated on an on-going basis.
Eugene Sherman, a Fellow at the Weissman Center, and Project Manager Kenya Williams are going to give a 30 minute presentation to the library on Monday Dec 9th at 10am in room 320a. The website recently went through a re-design and they would like to illustrate the updates and generally promote the resource. All are welcome to attend.
Following the lead of the vendor, ISI, we’ve renamed the listings for “ISI Emerging Markets” on our databases pages to “EMIS (Emerging Markets).” A placeholder link has been added to the Is on the databases page for “ISI Emerging Markets (renamed EMIS)” that will remain for a while we transition any existing users to the new name.
Today, EBSCO pushed out a modest set of changes to the search and results pages in all EBSCOhost databases. Overall, the look is cleaner and more modern. Fonts have been changed, more white space is available, and the design of boxes has been simplified. Here are the most notable changes that were detailed on a long blog post from EBSCO today about the update:
This month, Gale launched a new interface to Literature Criticism Online. It’s a much cleaner look for the database and worth checking out, as gives us a sneak peak at the new Artemis interface that will soon be available for all of our Gale databases (this was the subject of last week’s Gale demo here at Baruch).
By way of reminder, Literature Criticism Online is a notable resource for us because:
By the end of the summer, Facts on File will launch the World News Digest database on a new platform. You can preview by that new interface from a link provided at the top of the current interface:
Over the course of several changes to the interface, Facts on File has been making the “World News Digest” part of the name more prominent and the “Facts on File” part less so, as can be seen in this screenshot of the new platform:
With this in mind, we’ll be changing the listing for this database from “Facts on File” to “World News Digest” late next week.
Counseling Therapy and Video has now been renamed as Alexander Street Counseling. For the rest of the spring semester, there will be links to it under both names on the Databases page; at the end of the semester, we’ll just keep the link for Alexander Street Counseling. There is a note in the database description for both versions that mentions the name change.