Yes, Bard Library does provide online access to the New York Times for current Bard students, staff and faculty! You can access the NY Times by going to our Databases page and navigating to the letter N and selecting either New York Times From 1851 to 3 Years Ago (Proquest Historical Newspapers) or New York Times From 6/1/1980 – Present (NexisUni). Here’s a short video tutorial on accessing and using these resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmVxhea5Qbk.
How to Access the New York Times Online through the Library Website
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Senior Project Examples
Want to look at examples of previous senior projects for inspiration? Maybe you need ideas for formatting and style? Or maybe you just need a good guide for what a SPROJ should look like in your field? We have created a list of senior project examples that faculty and library staff have selected for you to browse and download: https://libguides.bard.edu/sprojexamples. We will continue to update this list over the next few weeks.
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NEW Trial Databases: RIPM & RIPM Jazz Periodicals
RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals) with Full Text and North American and European Music Periodicals — provides access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. Available until May 31, 2020.
RIPM Jazz Periodicals — a unique, searchable collection of American (U.S) full-text jazz journals and magazines published from 1914 to roughly the year 2000. Developed in collaboration with the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) at Rutgers University and RIPM’s Partner and Participating Libraries, RIPM JAZZ PERIODICALS offers access, for the first time, to this essential documentary resource. All journal issues are out-of-print and rarely accessible, with numerous complete publication runs reconstructed by RIPM. Available until May 31, 2020.
Visit the Stevenson Library Database to access these trial databases.
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Access Senior Projects from Off Campus
Current Bard students, staff and faculty now have remote access to all senior projects on Bard Digital Commons. You can browse and search our collections at https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/undergrad/. Please note that this is a temporary measure to provide access to authorized users who would under normal circumstances have access. All copyrights and license agreements still apply.
To access a campus-only project remotely, click on the “Bard Off Campus Download” button and you will be prompted to enter your Bard username and password. Then you will be taken directly to the PDF of the senior project.
If you do NOT see the Off Campus Download button, that project is available open access.
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Senior Project Template Available in Google Docs
All Bard students now have access to a template in Google Docs for their Senior Project title page and starting your page numbers on the second page. Go here to learn how to access the template: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKhSEKfss8.
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Off Campus Access to Library Databases
Learn how to access Stevenson Library databases from off campus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfME76zfxo
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Stevenson Library Closed
In support of the College’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID19 for the health and safety of our community, Stevenson Library is closed until further notice. The College management apologizes to all the readers for this convience and requests everyone to follow the guidelines issued by the government to stay safe and health during this pandemic. All readers can check this out that clearly states how to build up immunity while sitting at home to prevent COVID affecting possibilities for all the family members. To read many such resourceful articles like this Please visit this page for information about remote library services during this time. Thank you for your understanding during this time.
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Grad School Test Prep from EBSCO LearningExpress
Comprehensive preparation for the most popular graduate school entrance exams.
Grad School Test Prep is an e-learning tool designed to help college students score higher on six of the most popular graduate school admission tests. This trial runs until June 30th.
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New Database: CantApp: The General Prologue
A reading of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in middle English with accompanying translation, notes and glosses. From the University of Wales, edited by Richard North, Barbara Bordalejo, Terry Jones and Peter Robinson, and performed by Colin Gibbings, this website and app include background, context and bibliographies on Chaucer’s times and his work.
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG): A Digital Library of Greek Literature
TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present. The Online TLG contains more than 110 million words from over 10,000 works associated with 4,000 authors and is constantly updated and improved with new features and texts.
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