New JSTOR collection, Arts & Sciences V

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 [...]

Grove is Gone …

Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online are now part of Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online respectively.

Library Renovation Alert! Summer 2008

The library’s 5th floor will be closed for renovations from Monday, June 30 through Friday, August 22.  The impact on library services will be as follows:
Books located on the 5th (upper) floor of the library (Circulating Stacks – call numbers A through P) will be inaccessible.  If you need a book from the 5th floor, [...]

Library Exhibit Marks 125th Anniversary of Brooklyn Bridge

The Ursula C. Schwerin Library at New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay Street (at Tillary), Atrium 4th Floor, Downtown Brooklyn, is hosting an exhibit marking the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. The exhibit will run through the end August.
The exhibit features materials provided by the College’s Department of Architectural [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Library Website Redesign

The City Tech library will launch its new website redesign this Friday, June 20. To preview the new design, visit this link – http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/redesign/ .
Please use the comment form to send feedback on this new design.