News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
The problem reported on March 20, 2025, has now been resolved. Linking from course pages in Brightspace is once again leading to specific research guides and/or e-reserves pages. If you hear otherwise, please get all these details and report them to the [email protected] account:
On the OneSearch research guide, I added a new box at the bottom that is written with our students and faculty in mind and explains the two separate sign in systems that are connected to OneSearch. The goal of this box was address the most common misunderstanding with OneSearch: to find and view search results, you don’t use the Sign In link in the top right corner that asks for your library ID number but instead use the remote authentication login page that comes up after you click “Full text available.”
Feel free to add this new box or any of the other boxes on this guide to your own research guides.
Thanks to Linda, Louise, Chris, and Mike for their input on the drafts of this new element on the OneSearch guide.
At the request of the director of the First Year Initiative (formerly known as FRO), I’ve put together a research guide for this year’s text, Russell Shorto’s The Island at the Center of the World.
More info about the program for First Year Students can be found on the Student Affairs website.
Zicklin is planning more hybrid course offerings for the Fall semester. At the request of one of the Management faculty we now have a Research Guide for Business: Open Educational Resources (OER). This will complement our guide to Open Access and OER.
The freshman text for next year will be Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. At the request of Randy, who’s on the committee that selected the book, I’ve put together a research guide for it. Since the readership for the guide will be freshman, I thought that it might be useful to put links to encyclopedia entries and to articles in proper MLA style as a way of modeling what what those citations should look like.
If you see something on this guide that doesn’t look right, please let me know.
I’ve put together a new research guide on Open Access resources. It is located under the Information Studies subject link on the LibGuide homepage. It includes general OA information, OA resources by discipline, and a number of Open Education Resources. Please let me know about any open access resources that I may have failed to include or may not be aware. Hopefully, the guide will grow to include a large number of open resources. You can access the guide here: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/openaccess
As a followup to my post the other day about psychology students with a challenging assignment, I’ve put together this research guide for them and will use it in the three workshops I have scheduled with different sections of that class.
For the 2014-2015 year, the freshman text will be Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. A new research guide has been created for it that features:
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.
A common question in reference comes from psychology students who need to find an article that reports on the results of an empirical study. I’ve put together an annotated screenshot on the Psychology research guide that shows you how to use the Methodology limiter in PsycINFO to find articles tagged with “Empirical Study.”
The methodology limiters have a lot of other goodies. In addition to the Literature Review one that I mentioned in an earlier blog post), there are ones for:
For more, see the “APA Databases Methodology Field Values” page.