Reference at Newman Library

I am working with the vendor to resolve this issue. Thank you for your patience.

From LexisNexis:

LexisNexis Academic is experiencing technical issues with some of our major newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. This is a temporary glitch and we apologize for the inconvenience. These issues will be resolved as soon as possible and these publications will again appear in Academic early tomorrow morning.

From the Office of Library Services:

The CUNY catalog will be unavailable Sunday, May 26th after 6 PM until Monday, May 27th 4 AM . Patrons and staff will not be able to search for, renew, or request items during this time.

We have a CUNY-wide trial to this resource until May 23rd.

This full-text database contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for hundreds of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers including The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, as well as over 150 full-text monographs and books. The database contains comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specializes LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.

You can find the trial here.

I am interested in all and any feedback and please feel free to let interested faculty know about it as well.

Gale has fixed their problem and the databases are available again. Please let me know if you still experience any issues.

It is an issue with Gale, not Baruch. I will keep you updated.

Bankscope is investigating why we are not able to connect remotely.

We now have access to the Latin American Weekly Report. It provides in-depth analysis of political, strategic, and economic developments throughout the region. Once in the database, go to “Access Publications” and select the Latin American Weekly Report. This can be useful to anyone who wants to keep abreast of developments in Latin America, and they do cover all of Latin America, not just the larger countries as if often the case.

We have a trial to the new redesigned Oxford Handbooks. It runs until March 6. It is available on campus only.

Oxford Handbooks Online brings together the world’s leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate. 14 subjects are available:

Archaeology
Business and Management
Classical Studies
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Economics and Finance
History
Law
Linguistics
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Religion

I am very interested in any feedback you may have. Please fill out our new form, leave a comment below or email me directly.

Proquest is now offering the Statistical Abstract of the United States in electronic format.

The online ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. includes monthly updates to tables, deep searching at the line-item level, powerful facets for narrowing search results, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites.

Proquest has published a LibGuide with searching and other information that might be useful as you evaluate this databases.

I am very interested in any feedback you may have. Please fill out our new form, leave a comment below or email me directly.