The Library Instruction Program aims to support faculty at all Hunter locations by offering library instruction through visiting lectures, classes in the specially equipped library classroom, workshops and individual consultations. 

To schedule an Instruction Program service, or for more information about this service, contact Prof. Clay Williams, 772-4137, e-mail (clwillia@hunter.cuny.edu), or look for the form to request library instruction on the homepage. 

• E-alerts and RSS feeds arrive much more quickly than do photocopied TOCs because content is usually added online before the printed issue is available. (And you don’t have to wait for interoffice mail!)
• You can access e-alerts and RSS feeds from home, work or wherever you have Internet access.
• E-alerts and RSS feeds frequently link to the full text of articles listed in the table of contents.

Below are instructions for setting up electronic alerts in various databases.

Academic Search Premier
EBSCOhost databases allow you to create an automatic email alert notification every time a new issue for a selected title is available in a specific database. The email notice will contain a list of articles available for that specific journal issue. To set up a journal alert in EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier:

1. Go to the library website: http://library.hunter.cuny.edu Click on “Databases” on the purple sidebar. The first database you will see is “EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier”.
2. After you enter the database, the first step will be to set up an account with EBSCOhost if you do not already have one. Click on the “Sign in to My EBSCOhost” link in the upper left hand corner of the screen. If you have not already used this feature, click on the “I’m a new user” link to create a profile. You will be asked to choose a user name and password.
3. Setting up the journal alert is easy. Click on the publications button at the top of the screen, and then click on the journal title for which you would like to have an alert. This should bring up an overview screen of this publication. Click on the journal alert link in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This will bring up the “Journal Alert” screen which allows you to determine how long you would like the journal alert to run: One year, one month, two months or six months. Note that one year is the maximum time to run an alert; after that time, if you still want the alert, you will have to set it up again. Select whether you would like the alert to include a link to the table of contents or a link to the articles. If you are creating more than one journal alert, you may want to change the default subject line. Enter your email address(es)—you can add AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, or any other addresses that you check frequently; then click on “save” to return to the publication screen. You may edit journal alerts at any time by logging into this database, and clicking on “My Folder”.

American Chemical Society
Go to the ACS website http://pubs.acs.org/ On the left side bar click on the link “E-mail alerts and RSS Feeds” next to the orange icon. Here you will find detailed information about signing up for alerts and RSS feeds.

Cambridge Journals
You can find a list of the titles here: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/browseJournalsAlphabetically. Click on the orange RSS Feed icon for detailed instructions about setting this up.

EBSCOhost EJS
EBSCOhost EJS is a subscription service which provides free online full text access to many of our print journals. To sign up for EJS alerts, go to http://ejournals.ebsco.com/Home.asp and click on the “sign me up” link in the upper right hand corner. This will take you to the screen to sign up for My EJS. Enter your e-mail address and choose a password, then click on the “sign me up” tab. Click on the “find journals” link and enter the title of the journal for which you would like to set up an alert. Then click on the title of the journal and look for the blue “create alert” tab. Enter your e-mail address and be sure to check off “include table of contents.”

Project Muse
Project Muse uses RSS feeds for their alerts. For this you will need an RSS reader such as Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com. Find the journal on this list on the Project Muse website http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/index.html. Once you are on the journal home page, click Subscribe to RSS Feeds . Then you can copy the XML URL into your RSS reader.

ScienceDirect
In this database, you can search and save searches as alerts which will be delivered to your e-mail box at your choice of frequency. The homepage for ScienceDirect is http://www.sciencedirect.com/. Click on “register,” which is in red and bolded. Fill in the requested information and click on “Done.” The next step is to go back to the homepage (http://www.sciencedirect.com/) and log in with your user name and password. Then put in the title of the journal in the “Search for a Title” box. When the journal title comes up, check off the box on the right side that is labeled “Alert me when new Journal Issues are available.” Then click on “Submit.” You can also search any terms in ScienceDirect within a particular journal or within the whole database, and you can save that search as an alert so that the abstracts of articles that match the search terms will be sent to your e-mail box as they become available in ScienceDirect.

In ScienceDirect you can also receive alerts if you would like to be notified whenever a particular article within the database is cited by another author. Again, you must be logged into ScienceDirect. Next, do a search so that you bring up the full text of the article. To set up a citation alert, you must click on the html version of the article, i.e. “full text and links.” On the right side, under “Actions,” you will see the link “Save as Citation Alert.” This link will take you to the citation alert form where you can name the alert, verify your e-mail address, and determine the frequency of the alert (weekly or monthly).

University of Chicago Press
You can find a list of their journals here: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/. Go to the home page of the journal you’re interested in and then click on the link Subscribe to RSS Feeds . Here you will find detailed instructions for setting up an RSS feed for TOCs of the journal.

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FACULTY DUPLICATING SERVICES

We will provide photocopies of library owned journals for your research and teaching purposes.  Copyright regulations apply to all duplicating requests.

Request forms are available at the Reference Desk on the fourth floor and in Faculty Services, Room E314, Wexler Main Library and also at the branch libraries.  Request forms, along with the material to be duplicated, should be left in the Microform Center on the fourth floor of the Wexler Library or at the Circulation/Reserve desks at the Health Professions and the School of Social Work libraries.

We provide searches through DIALOG online services, offering hundreds of databases, both bibliographic and full-text.  There are some financial limitations on this service because of its high cost.  In general, the libraries will subsidize up to $30.00 per search.

All of the citation indexes, Science, Social Science, Arts and Humanities, are available on the DIALOG system and will be searched for you at no cost. 

Request searches at the Reference Desk on the fourth floor of the Wexler Main Library by contacting Prof. Danise Hoover, 772-4190, or by e-mail  (dhoover@hunter.cuny.edu) or Prof. Patricia Woodard, 650-3653, or by e-mail (pwoodard@hunter.cuny.edu). 

At the Health Professions Library, contact Prof. Laura Cobus, 481-5117, e-mail (lcobus@hunter.cuny.edu) and at the School of Social Work Library, contract Prof. Philip Swan, 452-7078, e-mail (pswan@hunter.cuny.edu) or Ms. Tatiana Manvelidze, 452-7076, e-mail (tkalinin@hunter.cuny.edu).

Reference service by telephone is available during the hours that the Reference Desk is staffed by calling 772-4180.

You also may e-mail your reference question to ASKLIB, the Libraries' online reference service by going to http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/ask_a_librarian.htm, and a reference librarian will e-mail back to you.

In addition, if you have a lengthy research question, you may make an appointment with a member of our Reference Department with familiarity in your field.  Contact Prof. Valeda Dent, 772-4108, (vdent@hunter.cuny.edu).

 Within the Libraries, computers with Internet access are located on the:

First Floor, Wexler Main Library, (FACULTY STUDY ROOM): 
   World Wide Web; e-mail; Wireless Network

Fourth Floor, Wexler Main Library, (REFERENCE): 
  Research Only - World Wide Web; e-mail

Third Floor, Wexler Main Library, (INTERNET/CD-ROM ROOM & LOBBY):
   World Wide Web; e-mail

Health Professions Library, (REFERENCE & HEALTH PROFESSIONS LAB):
   World Wide Web; e-mail

School of Social Work Library, (REFERENCE):
   World Wide Web

The Libraries subscribes to several commercial full-text databases that are available through the World Wide Web.  Those databases that are common to CUNY are most easily accessed through the Hunter College Libraries homepage <http://library.hunter.cuny.edu>  or the CUNY Libraries homepage: <http://libraries.cuny.cuny.edu> (follow the link under "Licensed Resources"). 

At present these databases include Lexis/Nexis, Academic Search Premier, Psycinfo and ERIC.  If  you connect from off-campus through the CUNY Libraries Homepage, many of the licensed resources are accessible with Remote Patron Authentication (RPA).  From the menu, any of the databases that have a small green house icon next to them can be accessed remotely using the bar code from your CUNY ID.

In addition, all Hunter faculty, staff and students may access the licensed World Wide Web resources from home by signing up for an account on the Hunter College Libraries' proxy server. 

Faculty workshops on the use of the Internet can be scheduled during the academic year if requested.  Contact Prof. Danise Hoover (dhoover@hunter.cuny.edu) 772-4190, for further information. 

At the Health Professions Library, contact Prof. Laura Cobus, (lcobus@hunter.cuny.edu) 481-5117, and at the School of Social Work Library, contact Ms. Tatiana Manvelidze,  (tkalinin@hunter.cuny.edu) 452-7076.

Electronic access to journals is an exciting and changing aspect of library service.  Many of the subscriptions to print journals in the Hunter College Libraries include access to the electronic counterpart from Hunter IP addresses, (that is from a Hunter Library workstation, computer lab or office connected to the Hunter network), or from off campus to those using the Hunter Libraries' proxy server, or RPA.  If electronic access is possible to an individual journal title directly, there may be a URL and any necessary passwords included as part of the journal title's CUNY+ record.  For those using the web version of CUNY+, these should appear as "live" links.  The status of Hunter's access to electronic journals is changeable.  As we learn of additional journals with this service, we will update their records. 

EBSCO Online also provides electronic access to many of our journal subscriptions from Hunter Web workstations or through the proxy server.  At present, there are over 500 journals, some available in full text, which can be accessed at <http://www.us.ebsco.com/online/Reader.asp>.  Adobe Acrobat Reader, easily downloadable from <http://www.adobe.com>, is necessary for viewing full text journals.  This service offers natural language searching and searching by publication year or range of years.  If a journal is available in this manner, the unique EBSCO URL may also be part of the CUNY+ record for that title.

In addition, the Hunter College Libraries subscribes to full text journal providers such as Project Muse <http://muse.jhu.edu>, MathSciNet <http://www.ams.org/ mathscinet/>, Academic  IDEAL <http://www.idealibrary.com>, JSTOR <http://www.jstor.org/jstor/>, and a number of science full text providers such as the American Chemical Society (ACS) and American Institute of Physics (AIP).  Again, these are available only from Hunter workstations or through the Libraries' proxy server.

Please note with multiple access points to electronic journals, the number of back issues available may vary from one service to another.  For example, a journal available from EBSCO may offer fewer issues than it does from Academic IDEAL.  It is also important to remember that electronic access generally includes only the more recent issues.  Please consult the Libraries' Web Page (http://library.hunter.cuny.edu), Ms. Lisa Finder, Serials Librarian, 772-4186, (lfinder@hunter.cuny.edu) or the selector in your subject area for clarification or updated information.

CUNY libraries are linked electronically by the CUNY+ integrated library system.  The CUNY+ catalog  provides online access to information about nearly all holdings at all campuses, including books, serials and audiovisual collections. 

CUNY+ can be searched from workstations within the libraries and throughout Hunter.   For remote access, users may visit the 
Hunter College Libraries 
     <http://library.hunter.cuny.edu>, the 
Health Professions Library
     <http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/hpl/>, 
School of Social Work's Library
     <http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/ssw/>
CUNY Libraries homepage
   <http://libraries.cuny.edu> and follow the link, "CUNY+ Online Catalog."

CLICS (CUNY Libraries Inter-Campus Services)

CLICS is a new service that allows you to have books delivered from almost anywhere in the CUNY library system to the Hunter campus. Please click here to link to the official CLICS page for more information.

The Libraries offers a collection of CD-ROM products and electronic fulltext databases at all three libraries. All of the Libraries' internet resources are available from any computer on campus and all are available from home via the proxy server. Select CD-ROM products
are available on some computers only; ask at the Reference desk for
specific locations.  The Libraries do not offer facilities for using personal CD-ROMs on library computers.  Please contact Prof. Danise Hoover, 772-4190 (dhoover@hunter.cuny.edu) for the complete library policy concerning CD-ROMs.

• Faculty loan period:  9 weeks with two 9 week renewals.
• Hunter books may be renewed by e-mail (renewals@hunter.cuny.edu).
• Faculty fines:  $0.10 per day per item, to a maximum of $5.00.
• The Libraries will recall/hold material for faculty.
• Reserve Services:  Books and other required materials for students may be placed on reserve.  Please make arrangements two weeks prior to the start of each semester.  Additional time is required to place CD-ROMs on reserve.
• Courtesy Discharge and Fine Payments:   Books borrowed at other CUNY libraries may be returned at Hunter and other CUNY library fines may be paid at Hunter as well.

The library collections of music CDs and videotapes are available for 7-day loan.  Although not on reserve, these materials are housed at the Reserve Desk.  Listings of music CDs and videotapes are available on CUNY+.  Requests by faculty to put music CDs or videotapes on reserve for class assignments will be processed in the same manner as other library materials.

A facility for quiet private study and research is open on the 1st floor of the library.  Access to the Faculty Study Room is limited by a magnetic card key available at the Circulation Desk.  The facility has study tables, computer work stations with access to the Internet, certain Microsoft Office products, SPSS and SAS, private lockers for books and other research material, and coat racks.  In addition, the room has a scanner and a laser printer.  For additional information, contact Ms. Ingrid Bonadie-Joseph, 650-3732, e-mail (ibonadie@hunter.cuny.edu).