News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Description
Contains full text of articles in Foreign Policy as well as original, web-only content.
Trial ends
14 June 2016
Access
On campus only.
Feedback
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Database description (from the vendor)
Built to find and retrieve statistical content, ProQuest Statistical Insight spans more than 600,000 published tables a year on thousands of different topics. It provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.
Trial ends
11 May 2016
Access
On and off campus access.
Feedback
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Database descriptions
Trials end
16 April 2016
Access
On and off campus access.
Feedback
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Database description
Gallup Analytics is an online platform that provides subscribers with access to nearly a century of U.S. data and a decade of global tracking data known as the Gallup World Poll. Gallup Analytics allows subscribers to use this wealth of primary data in their work like never before. The online platform includes new data and historical trends at the country, state and U.S. city levels. All trends are easily searchable and exportable. Subscribers can view data by demographic categories, compare results across geographies to develop and report findings, including direct citations of Gallup’s work.
Trial ends
1 May 2016
Access
On and off campus access.
Feedback
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Database description
Collection of streaming videos that focus on techniques for therapy and counseling.
Trial ends
11 April 2016
Access
On and off campus access.
Feedback
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Through March 31, we have trial access to two new collections from Gale:
Access is available from on and off campus. Links to these two databases can be found on the “Trials” tab of the databases page.
Please share this with any faculty who might help us evaluate them and encourage them to use the form on the trials page for providing feedback.
Database description
From the vendor’s FAQ page:
The World Bank eLibrary contains the full collection of all World Bank publications and research including:
- Books published since the 1990s
- All World Bank Economic Review (WBER) and World Bank Research Observer (WBRO) since 1996
- All Development Outreach issues
- All Policy Research Working Papers since 1995
Trial ends
27 November 2015
Access
On and off campus access.
Feedback
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Database descriptions from the vendor
JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIII
The Arts & Sciences XIII Collection adds an increasingly international set of journals in disciplines including Language & Literature, Art & Art History, Philosophy, and Religion. Represented subdisciplines include European church history and the literature of the American West.
The collection offers a global scope. European countries including Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands each contribute several titles, with an additional title published in South Korea, the Journal of Korean Religions.
The Arts & Sciences XIII Collection also complements JSTOR content in History, Music, and Classical Studies. The collection will contain at least 125 titles by completion.
Title list and bar chart of top disciplines in the collection
JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV
The Arts & Sciences XIV Collection brings together more than 140 journals devoted to the study of culture and communication, from civilization’s earliest traces to the growth and governance of peoples. A group of titles in science and technology also cover aspects of STEM education, and explore the legal implications, cultural impact, and historical development of science and technology. All titles are new to the JSTOR platform at the time of launch. Journals in the collection span 17 countries, 23 disciplines, and date back to 1839. They are drawn primarily from the fields of Archaeology, Language & Literature, Communications Studies, Asian Studies, Political Science, and Education.
Title list and bar chart of top disciplines in the collection
Trial ends
15 December 2015
Access
On and off campus access. Use the main JSTOR link on the A-Z databases page.
There is no way to browse the collections on their own in JSTOR, as the content all mixed in with our existing JSTOR subscriptions. The title lists available from JSTOR (see section above for links) may be the best way to determine the value to us of these collections.
Feedback
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Database description
Videos with leading theorists and practitioners in psychotherapy. The trial access we have is to an exclusive set of videos that aren’t available on the Alexander Street Press platform for Counseling and Therapy in Video (a service we already subscribe to).
Trial ends
30 September 2015
Access
On and off campus access.
Feedback
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Database description (from the vendor)
The Tax and Accounting Center offers practitioners a comprehensive array of analysis, news, primary sources, and practice tools covering federal, international, and state tax issues and financial accounting.
The Tax and Accounting Center is organized by subject or “Practice Area,” accessible via the tabs located at the top of any of the “home” pages. Clicking the “All” tab at the far left will enable you to access all the content that is included in your subscription. Depending on your research needs, you may prefer to limit your view to the subscribed content accessible via the tabs labeled Federal Tax, State Tax, International Tax, Accounting, or Tax Practice Series. Or, you can click the “Practice Areas” tab on the far right to access content in any of the following Practice Areas: Compensation Planning; Estate Planning; Real Estate; Sales and Use Taxes; Tax-Exempt Organizations; and Transfer Pricing.
Trial ends
30 September 2015
Access
User name and password required (visible on database description field below the link). On and off campus via the link on the Trials tab of the databases page.
Feedback
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