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Trial to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

We have a trial to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online until September 28. It is accessible on-campus only.

Description from Oxford:

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) features essential language resources never before available online – fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.  Offering over 4 million words, phrases and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, OLDO also features native speaker audio pronunciation – allowing you to hear how words actually sound! More than just a dictionary, OLDO offers a complete suite of language learning support materials for users of all levels: click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, hundreds sample letters, CVs and resumes, notes on life and culture, guidance on grammar and idiomatic usage, extensive links to other sites for further research, and more! Updates every six months ensure that the most current meanings and the latest new words are just a click away, making OLDO an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike.

Trial of Euromonitor’s Passport Dashboards



I’m delighted to announce that Euromonitor International has unveiled a new tool called Passport Dashboards. This is a trial with our account and feedback should be sent to me and/or Michael Waldman.

 

What are Dashboards? Dashboards are an interactive extension of the data contained in Passport GMID.  Dashboards allow users/students to visualize the socioeconomic, demographic and industry data in Passport GMID.

 

You can access the Dashboards one of two ways.  First, you can locate Dashboards on the main toolbar next to Countries & Consumers.  The Dashboards can also be found on the individual pages of the Industries and Countries & Consumers tabs.

Baruch also has temporary access to our Passport Industrial reports.  The Industrial reports examine the industrial makeup of 9 of the largest economies in the world.  The reports are astonishingly detailed as we break each economy into 177 industry sectors that comprise total GDP.  Sectors are classified according to ISIC Code.  Topics analyzed include industry attractiveness, buyer & supplier power, the competitive environment, the role of imports & exports, etc.

You can locate the Passport Industrial reports under the Industries tab.

Thanks for your feedback during this trial!

 

 

 

Trial to World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

We have a CUNY-wide trial to World Scholar until the end of May. It is valid on campus only.

This is a new product from Gale that focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean. It contains a wide variety of historical material, at least some of it hard to find. One interesting collection are pamphlets created by various popular Brazilian groups from 1966 to 1986, which were instrumental in bringing about a transition to democracy. As far as I know, this was only available in CD-ROM format in the past.

It also contains a number of historical statistics, even in the areas of business, that I don’t think we find in any of our current resources. It does offer the possibility of having text read to the user, although the voice-machine seems to be more fluent in Spanish than in Portuguese.

This trial is in conjunction with the trial to the Latin American Weekly Report. Please share you comments here or feel free to email me.

Trial to Filmakers Library Online

We have a trial to Filmakers Library Online until June 25, 2011. It is available on campus only.

Filmakers Library Online provides documentaries that might be of interest to many areas across the curriculum – race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 913 titles, equaling approximately 757 hours.

Please share your comments below or to me via email.

bX Recommender Trial Starting April 29

We mentioned the bxRecommender trial a while ago.

The trial will in fact start this Friday, April 29 and will last 60 days.

Some additional information:

bX Recommender is a service from Ex Libris which generates usage-based recommendations for related scholarly materials. (Recommendations appear below Find it! menu links, similar to Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought”). Ex Libris mines customers’ SFX log files, which is data largely unique to academic libraries, to build a data set processed with analytic tools and to develop the recommendations found in the bX Recommender service.

While the data is aggregated from actual searches, this process is anonymized to protect end user and institutional confidentiality.

Users at CUNY campus libraries will view all recommendations available through the bX Recommender service, both those the institution has in full-text and others we may not.

Please encourage end-users to test it out and let me know what they and you think.

Trial to Latin American Weekly Report

We have a CUNY-wide trial to the Latin American Weekly Report until the end of May. Access is on-campus only.

The LatinNews Intelligence Service covers 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries and cover political, security, economic and strategic issues. Information goes back to 1967.

Perhaps the best part of this trial is the access to the Latin American Weekly Report – this is the authoritative, weekly, in depth analysis of political, strategic and key economic developments throughout the region.

It was eagerly awaited by all Latin Americanists when I was in graduate school, and kept in these big binders by the reference desk.

I am interested in your views on whether this would be a useful resource at Baruch. Please share below or email me.

bX Recommender trial coming to CUNY

CUNY librarians have agreed to a 60 day trial of bX Recommender starting Monday April 11.

bX Recommender works with SFX and with the universe of SFX user-choices across the world to generate citations similar to the one that generated the first SFX link. In other words, when the user has found a citation they like, bX Recommender will suggest other citations that other people who looked at the first citation have also looked at. It’s a version of “others have also liked…” that appears in a variety of other websites.

This additional information will appear in the SFX menu – it will separate the additional citations into those we have access to full-text and those we don’t. This post from the University of Minnesota Libraries might give you an idea of how it will look.

Trial to Cambridge Collections Online

We have a trial to the Cambridge Collections Online until April 26, 2011. On-campus access only.

Cambridge Collections Online offers subject or theme based collections of content within a richly functional, fully cross-searchable online environment.

The Complete Cambridge Companions is available as a complete collection and as two sub-collections comprising the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture.

Also available through Cambridge Collections Online, Shakespeare Survey Online, makes the distinguished 60 year history of the print series available online for the first time and exclusively.

Please let me know what you think of this product, either via email or here in the comments.

Trial to APABI Digital Library

The APABI Digital Library contains a collection of books, newspapers and reference material in Chinese.

If you can search in Chinese, please select “IP” under the account registration box.

You can search in English: select English from the top right corner. Then login using “IP Sign in”

This trial is valid on-campus only and will last until April 14, 2011.

Please comment below or let me know what your thoughts are on this database.