News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
We are currently experiencing a problem accessing ebrary from our databases page when on-campus.
ebrary titles can be accessed via the catalog however, and once in there, you can search ebrary. As a reminder, if you add “ebrary” to whatever keyword you are searching in the ALL FIELDS search, you will retrieve ebrary titles only.
I hope this will be resolved shortly but please let me know if you have any questions.
BCTC will upgrade the ezproxy server on September 27th 2011 at 8am so users may encounter sporadic problems accessing our resources, especially remotely. The updgrade should take about 1 hour.
Earlier this week, I reported to the BCTC Help Desk that the research consultations form that students use to request an appointment was not working. When the form is completed and the the “send” button is clicked, the user sees a server error message. As soon as the form system is fixed, I’ll post an update here. In the meanwhile, if students at the reference desk want to request an appointment, you can just have them email Randy with the details or send an email to Randy on their behalf.
Just an update on the Baruch situation regarding EBSCO databases: BCTC is working with OLS/CUNY CIS and EBSCO to resolve this issue. As you may have gathered via CULIBS it’s a system wide problem, maybe even a NY problem.
In any case, feel free to email me with any EBSCO problems you might be experiencing (especially if they are not about timing out).
WRDS has experienced major disk failure which is affecting all WRDS services. They do not have an estimated time for resolution. They are posting updates on their landing page (which can be reached via the databases page, and choosing WRDS).
Access to the FASB Codification from the AAA and FASB, available to Baruch accountancy students and faculty, is working again. Students should receive the passwords and login information from their professors. If for some reason they don’t have this information, the Codification is available through CCH Accounting Research Manager. CCH Accounting Research Manager is available to all Baruch faculty, students and staff.
There seems to be a problem with the password and login information for accounting students logging into the FASB Codification. I have contacted the accountancy professor about this. (I did a workshop Tuesday for the class that has an assignment.)
While this special access is being resolved, students have access to the FASB Codification through CCH Accounting Research Manager. They can learn more through this LibGuide: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/fasbcodification.
Currently this practice program is not available due to some Windows 7 issues. BCTC is working on the problem and will have it resolved in a few days. Students can be referred to 646-312-1010 to obtain status updates.
Today we switched over to the new ProQuest interface. The look of this new interface is a lot cleaner and lightweight (this seems to be a mini-trend, as the new Factiva and Passport GMID interfaces feel lighter, too).
What’s New Here?
Bugs/Quirks
Fixing Links in LibGuides
The new interface has a new base URL (search.proquest.com). Using a find and replace feature in LibGuides, I was able to update some but not all of the links in LibGuides that went to the old interface (the search and find only works in certain kinds of boxes in the LibGuides system). Please check any links in your guides now to make sure they point to the new URLs.
I just created an image that appears in the upper right corner of the EBSCOhost interface that alerts users that PDFs will work in Google in fall 2011. If you click the logo, you are taken to an EBSCOhost support page that offers instructions for making PDFs work in Google Chrome (you have to turn off Chrome’s native PDF reader so that Adobe Acrobat can instead be the default PDF viewer in Chrome).
You can take a peek at the warning image in this screenshot:
