New VIVA Resource: Social Explorer available now

[tcassidy]

Social Explorer
Linker URL: http://library.vccs.edu/license-bin/linker.plx?sociexpl
Description: Gain deep insights into any area of interest - down to a city block, with stunning visualizations and built-in data. Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads that help you reach your goals. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more (Oxford UP).

This electronic resource is a data visualization tool, not a collection of journals/books. As such, it is not currently available in Alma/Primo.

[tcassidy]

Oxford U.P. is providing Social Explorer online training for VIVA member institutions on Thursday, February 7, 2019, 11 a.m. – Noon. 

Register at https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/6786798590679542273

[mhanlin]

This is cool!

[tcassidy]

The first training for Social Explorer is already full with 50 people!

OUP has set up another training for Tuesday, February 12th from 11am-12pm.  You can register here: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/7791577396270242817.

[DeborahB]

Social Explorer
Linker URL: http://library.vccs.edu/license-bin/linker.plx?sociexpl
Description: Gain deep insights into any area of interest - down to a city block, with stunning visualizations and built-in data. Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads that help you reach your goals. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more (Oxford UP).

This electronic resource is a data visualization tool, not a collection of journals/books. As such, it is not currently available in Alma/Primo.

I am a bit confused, does each college use the above Linker URL or go to Linker Codes and use the EZProxy URL for our college? It has been quite a while since I have done this. Does the student have to create an account, use it as guest, or use this at the college and not offsite?

[ealtman]

If the linker is working correctly, it will go to proxy when necessary, and bypass it if not. I believe that this resource redirects after authenticating, so you may not see the proxy info in the URL. Does this seem to be working? Looks like Social Explorer does try to make everyone create an individual account, but I don't think it's mandatory...I was able to access the resource, even though it was still prompting me to create an account.