CUNY recently acquired JSTOR Arts and Sciences V. There are currently 18 titles but the collection will grow to at least 120 titles. This collection has been added to our Find/browse ejournals by title or subject [Serials Solutions].
Blackwell Ejournals Moving to Wiley Interscience
Blackwell ejournals will now be part of Wiley Interscience. Blackwell was purchased by John Wiley & Sons. Blackwell Synergy will close down June 27 at 9 pm and the content will appear on Wiley Interscience on June 30 at 9 pm. It appears the content will be offline during the transition. Journals will automatically be forwarded to their new address.
Grove is Gone …
Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online are now part of Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online respectively.
SpringerLink package ejournals in Serials Solutions and SFX
Earlier this month, we loaded City Tech’s SpringerLink package ejournals into Serials Solutions (“Find/browse ejournals by title or subject”). Be aware that although SpringerLink indicates that it has 1900+ titles, we have access to about 1300+ titles–our ejournal set is custom for CUNY SpringerLink participants. Be aware that the icons indicating access and coverage are not reliable: if you are browsing, the icon seems to indicate partial access. Just click through to the ejournal and you often will find complete coverage.
SpringerLink is also enabled in SFX aka Find it! which means if you search other databases or Google Scholar (provided you’ve customized Google Scholar to link to NYCCT), you can link through to full text in SpringerLink.
RefWorks enabled in CUNY+
Exporting from CUNY+ to RefWorks is now working. Here are some brief instructions:
1. After searching, check off the box to the left of the author on the results screen
2. select save/mail/export from the yellow menu
3. export the selected records to RefWorks (by leaving the e-mail blank and selecting “Full View” as the format). [select “go”]
4. next screen will prompt you to select RefWorks
5. RefWorks will open up and ask you to login if you have already started your session.
New Enhancements for the WilsonWeb CX Edition Interface
from the publisher: New Enhancements for the WilsonWeb CX Edition Interface
* New “My WilsonWeb” profiles. Using their email address as their password, library users can create their own sub-account within WilsonWeb, where they can create and manage saved searches, search histories, email alerts, and RSS feeds.
* RSS feed for new search results. Configure RSS updates via links on the Search Results or Search History pages.
* New “Content Discovery Keys” on Search Results page. Convenient links launch related searches, allow users to narrow results by author, subject, publication year, document type, and database (for multiple-database searches), or select previous searches from the Recent Searches listing. Continue reading “New Enhancements for the WilsonWeb CX Edition Interface”
Pop Culture Universe trial
We’re trialing an interesting new product–Pop Culture Universe. It covers [from the publisher’s website] “new technology (iPods, gaming, gadgets)…Internet memes and chatspeak…movies, TV, radio…music…comics and graphic novels…sports and pastimes…fads, fashion, and fast food.” And it has tools for instructors to incorporate popular culture into the classroom as well as resources for student work. This product is on trial until Sept. 30.
See our trials page. Contact Monica Berger if you want the username/password for off-campus access.
New online dictionaries/audio pronounciation help
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online [OLDO] has been upgraded to now include Russian and Chinese [previous languages include French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Another enhancement–OLDO now offers audio pronunciation. Pronunciation is available for headwords in every language, including Chinese and Russian. To access the pronunciations simply click on the loudspeaker icon next to the appropriate word on the entry page.
Get ready for Ebsco 2.0!
The new interface for EbscoHost databases is coming in July. Get familiar with new features and a new look here.
New content on Oxford African American Studies Center
An additional 600 biographies from the African American National Biography have been added as well as 400 articles from the Oxford Companion to Black British History, the first-ever reference work to explore the story of Britain’s black population over the span of nearly 2,000 years. 30 multimedia clips are new, including Colin Powell speaking on changes in the military, historical footage of civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama, a United Negro College Fund TV Ad, and more.
