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Academic OneFile Indexes over 12,000 journals and reference sources in all subjects, with text from 5,913 publications.
Academic Search Complete CUNY's largest interdisciplinary full-text database. Full text of over 8,700 journals, including 7.600 peer-reviewed journals, with indexing for another 4,000 titles. Also includes the text of books, conference papers, conference proceedings, and educational reports.
ACM Digital Library Provides the full-text of Association for Computing Machinery periodicals and proceedings since 1985.
AGRICOLA Citations to literature from 1,400 international journals. Created by the National Library of Agriculture and similar institutions. Useful for researchers in biology and environmental science.
America: History & Life Abstracts of articles and reviews from over 1,700 journals published since 1954.
American Chemical Society Journals (ACS) Full text of 31 ACS journals from their first issues to the present.
American Mathematical Society Journals Full text of 17 AMS journals.
L' Annee philologique French classics journal from 1949 through 2006.
Annual Reviews Full text of 38 Annual Reviews in the social sciences, biomedical sciences, and physical sciences from 1996 to the present. Earlier years of the Annual Reviews of Anthropology, Ecology and Systematics, and Sociology are available from JSTOR. Earlier years of the Annual Reviews of Genetics and Psychology are available from Academic Search Complete. Earlier years of Annual Review of Microbiology are available from Health Reference Center Academic.
Anthropological Index Online AIO indexes current periodicals in the British Museum's Anthropology Library from 1957 to the present.
AnthroSource Archive of 54 American Anthropological Association journals through 2003 and current issues of 15 journals.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text Indexes 350 international and English-language periodicals in mathematics, physics, computer technology, and engineering from October 1983 to the present, with text from 220 journals. Searchable in English, French, and Spanish. Search simultaneously with Applied Science and Technology Retrospective.
Applied Science and Technology Index Retrospective: 1913-1983 Indexes seven decades of articles on the most important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry (including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), plus the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field for the 20th Century. It provides cover-to-cover indexing for more than 2,000 periodicals from 1913 to 1983. Search simultaneously with Applied Science Full Text.
Aristotle Bibliography Bibliography of more than 50,000 books, articles, book reviews,&nb and dissertations dealing with Aristotle and related topics from 1900 to the present.
Art Full Text Indexes 460 journals, providing the full text of many beginning with 1997. In addition to art history and architecture titles, many film journals are included.
Art Index Retrospective Index of art periodicals from 1929 to 1984.
Art Museum Image Gallery Offers over 155,000 images from museum collections around the world. There are also bibliographic records, many with curatorial text, provenance data, detailed or multiple views, and related multimedia.
ARTFL Project Over 2,600 French literary texts from the University of Chicago. The New York Public Library offers a more complete version of ARTFL texts online.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index Part of Web of Science, this database finds bibliographic citations, abstracts, cited references, and the number of times cited for articles from 1,160 international journals in the arts and humanities since 1975 as well as relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Scopus is a similar citation index with limited humanities coverage.
ARTstor Nearly one million images of art and architecture.
arXiv Open access to 712,838 e-prints in biology, computer science, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) Indexes over 500 journals in economics, education, health, political science, psychology, race relations, and sociology from 1987 to the present.
Associations Unlimited (not available remotely) Detailed listings for over 150,000 associations and professional societies worldwide, including 22,500 in the United States.
Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals Indexes 2,800 international journals from 1741 to the present, covering architecture, archaeology, historic preservation, interior design, urban design, and urban planning.
Berkeley Electronic Press Journals Economics journals.
Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640 Primary and secondary sources, as well as manuscript locations, for 180 women writers. Includes bibliographies, catalogs, contextual studies, reference works, essay anthologies, special issues of journals, genre studies, handbooks and pedagogical tools, compilations containing texts, and dissertations.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) Newly hosted by the Getty, the BHA indexes over 4,800 journals and other publications from 1973 to the present, covering the art of Europe and the Americas from the fourth century to the present, painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, decorative and applied arts, popular and folk art, architecture and industrial design, and film. The database includes the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering 2008 and part of 2009.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Primary and secondary sources focusing on Spanish and Hispanic-American literature and culture.
Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983 Citations to 623,000 biographical periodical and book articles published between 1946 and 1983. Search simultaneously with Biography Reference Center.
Biography Reference Center Biographical information about over 550,000 people. Includes 380,000 periodical articles and more than 36,000 images. Over 80,00 profiles from reference works published by Garland, Greenwood, Harvard University Press, Houghton Mifflin, Oryx, Oxford University Press, and H. W. Wilson. There are 5,000 biographies from the 2004 edition of the American National Biography. Search simultaneously with Biography Index Retrospective.
BioMed Central Open-access journals in biology and medicine. As of 2011, 280 titles are available.
Black Drama Includes 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights. Includes information about productions, theaters, theater companies, playbills, photographs, and more.
Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Over 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, speeches, and letters by and interviews with more than 1,000 historical figures.
Book Review Digest Plus Reviews of fiction and nonfiction in the humanities, social sciences, general sciences, and popular topics published in English since 1983. Textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences are not included. Book reviews may also be found in Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Project Muse, and most subject-specific databases.
Books in Print Books in and out of print in all languages from publishers around the world.
Business & Company Resource Center Business periodicals and company profiles
Business Source Complete Full text of over 3,200 scholarly business journals and periodicals as well as indexing for 800 more titles. Also includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, and company profiles.
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Curriculum & Methods Information about scholarly publishing opportunities.
Cambridge Histories Online Full text of 250 Cambridge University Press reference works published since 1960. In addition to history, these titles cover economics, the history of science, the history of the book, language and linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political and social theory, religion, theatre and performing arts, and warfare.
Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog The Center for Research Libraries acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources. Most of the materials are from outside the United States, many are from emerging regions of the world. CRL provides students, faculty, and other researchers liberal access to these rich source materials through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. CRL loan and electronic delivery services are designed to support major research projects, the production of scholarly monographs and studies, dissertations, and graduate and advanced undergraduate seminars.
Chicago Manual of Style Online Full text of 15th edition available includes quick guide; questions and answers, and additional tools.
Chronicle of Higher Education All issues from September 1989 to the present.
Chronicle of Philanthropy All issues from October 1998 to present.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Full text of recent issues of 46 international affairs journals, as well as case studies and working papers. Abstracts only for additional journals. Access from home requires registering for CIAO access while at the Graduate Center.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text Indexing for 3,000 journals in nursing and allied health, with full text for 750 journals and 220 books.
Cinema Image Gallery 200,000 images from the Kobal Collection. Includes film and television stills, on-set shots of actors and directors, set and costume designs, posters, etc.
Citation Indexes (see description=>) The Graduate Center subscribes to Web of Science, providing cited references from thousands of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. The five components of Web of Science may be searched individually or in combination with others. These components are Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science & Humanities. Scopus indexes additional journals in the sciences, social sciences, and medicine. Academic Search Complete, PsycInfo, and some other EBSCO databases also provide cited references.
Cochrane Library Cochrane reviews provide evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. The Cochrane Library also offers technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials.
Communication and Mass Media Complete Includes the full text of over 325 journals in communications and media, as well as citations from several hundred additional titles. Useful for a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences.
Computers and Applied Sciences Complete Indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,200 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. Full text is also available for more than 1,000 periodicals.
Computing Reviews Reviews of books and journal articles covering all aspects of computing. Affiliated with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science This Web of Science database helps researchers access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. Content is not limited to papers published in English and includes data from books, journals, reports, series, and preprints.
Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science & Humanities This Web of Science database helps researchers access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. Content is not limited to papers published in English and includes data from books, journals, reports, series, and preprints.
COS Pivot Grants, internships, and graduate and post-graduate fellowships in all subject areas. Search by keyword; set alerts for relevant opportunities.
CQ Researcher Full-text reports from 1991 to the present on education, the environment, health, international affairs, technology, the U.S. economy, and other political and social issues. Each 12,000-word report includes bibliographies, maps, tables, and pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions.
CUNY Libraries Catalog The CUNY Catalog contains the holdings of the entire CUNY library system. Use to request circulating books from other CUNY libraries through CLICS.
CUNY-wide Databases All of CUNY has access to each of these electronic resources by library barcode number. Each campus subscribes to additional electronic resources.
Dictionary of Economics The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics offers over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 economists.
Digital Dissertations Indexes two-million dissertations from over one-thousand institutions, with citations from 1861-1980 and abstracts from 1980 to present. Includes the full text of most post-1996 CUNY dissertations and many post-1996 dissertations from other institutions. as well as thousands of earlier ones. To limit your search to CUNY dissertations, include 0046 in your search statement, selecting the school name/code search field. Non-U.S.dissertations can be searched in the Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog.
Directory of Open Access Journals Over 7,000 online journals arranged by subject. Supported by SPARC and the Open Society Institute.
DRAM Classical, jazz, and popular music recordings, with liner notes and essays.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Scanned images of the text of over 118,500 books published in English between 1473 and 1700. Includes information about resizing text, printing multiple pages, and citing EEBO titles.
Ebook Library (EBL) EBL offers electronic books in a variety of subjects. Items in EBL are typically course-reserve readings and are listed in the CUNY Catalog. EBL titles are available only to Graduate Center students, faculty, and staff. Downloading these electronic books requires a free download of Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software.
ebrary Approximately 68,000 electronic books in all disciplines from major academic publishers.
EBSCO eBook Collection Formerly known as NetLibrary the EBSCO eBook Collection provides more than 2,800 recent scholarly titles. All available titles also appear in the CUNY Catalog.
EconLit Bibliographic citations of articles from over 750 international journals from 1969 to the present and abstracts of many articles beginning with 1987. Some books, dissertations, conference proceedings, etc. are also indexed.
Economist Historical Archive 1843-2007 Historical archive of The Economist from 1843 to 2007. Search Journals for sources of recent issues.
Education Full Text Abstracts of articles from 770 publications since June 1983 and full text of articles from over 350 publications.
Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 Indexes 500 education periodicals from 1929 through 1983. This database may be searched in conjunction with Education Full Text, which includes articles from recent issues of 350 periodicals.
Education Research Complete Includes full text of nearly 1,200 journals and more than 500 books and monographs. Includes indexing for an additional 1,000 journals.
Educational Curriculum & Methods Information about scholarly publishing opportunities.
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) ECCO offers every page of 150,000 books published during the eighteenth century in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh. In addition to searches by author, title, and publisher, these books may be searched by individual categories such as fine arts, history and geography, law, literature and language, medicine, science, and technology, religion and philosophy, social sciences, general reference, or a combination of subjects. Illustrated works may be searched by cartoon, map, music, portrait, etc.
EJS Full text of over 99 scholarly journals not available from other resources. This product is not related to other EBSCO databases such as Academic Search Complete.
Electronic Books Library's guide to electronic-book collections and access.
Encyclopaedia Islamica Guide to important themes, subjects, and personages related to Islam. Because Encyclopaedia Islamica is in its early stages of development, only entries beginning with A are available.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an Encyclopaedic dictionary of Qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within Qur'anic studies.
Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL) Covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics.
Encyclopedia of Human Relationships Guide to theories, concepts, and empirical findings about human relationships.
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences Complete text of first and second editions and all supplements. Revisions and new articles added quarterly.
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) Critical essays about women, Muslim and non-Muslim, and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations.
EndNote Citation software licensed for CUNY Graduate Center affiliates to download and install on PC or Mac desktops. Generates footnotes and bibliographies in any writing style; manages citations and notes in a private library. Request instruction in using EndNote.
EndNote Web This online companion to EndNote allows citation gathering from anywhere. Generates footnotes and bibliographies in any writing style; manages citations and notes in a private library. Complements EndNote on your desktop; allows shared access to your citations. Request instruction in using EndNote.
English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) The British Library provides free access to records of over 460;000 items published in English between 1473 and 1800.
ERIC (EBSCO version) Bibliographic citations from over 600 education journals from 1966 to the present. ERIC documents, those with ED, not EJ, numbers, are available on microfiche on the second floor of the library from ED 000001 through ED 462533.
ERIC (ProQuest version) Bibliographic citations from over 600 education journals from 1966 to the present. ERIC documents, those with ED, not EJ, numbers, are available on microfiche on the second floor of the library from ED 000001 through ED 462533.
Essay & General Literature Index Contains citations to essays in collections of mostly scholarly works and miscellaneous works published since 1984 in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. While there are no abstracts, complete contents of the volumes are listed. An extremely useful resource for all disciplines because it indexes sources not covered elsewhere.
Essay and General Literature Retrospective Indexes 249,000 essays from collections of essays on many disciplines published in English from 1900 to 1984. Search simultaneously with Essay and General Literature Index.
Ethnic NewsWatch A full-text database for American ethnic newspapers, magazines, and journals in English and Spanish.
Ethnographic Video Online This online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior contains more than 500 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries produced by leading video producers in the discipline; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Wherever possible, videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing, full-text materials.
European Views of the Americas, 1493-1750 Bibliographic guide to European works related to the America. Based upon the authoritative bibliography European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas,1493-1750.
Fiction Connection Books in Print database for finding fiction by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and time.
Film Literature Index Indexes all the content of 150 film and television journals from 30 countries and selectively indexes 200 additional periodicals. Includes 700,000 citations of articles, film reviews, and book reviews from 1976-2001. This resource is not being updated.
Foundation Directory Online Information about 20,000 large and mid-sized U.S. foundations and files for more than half-a-million grants. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search over 110,000 trustee, officer, and donor names.
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online Search for scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals, with more than 6,100 entries, updated quarterly, including detailed descriptions of approximately 2,000 programs which fund individual grant seekers. Accessible only in library. Users must ask reference librarian to log them in.
Full Text Journals Alphabetical list of over 90,000 journal, magazine, newspaper, and newsletter titles available in full text to the Graduate Center community. Many are also available throughout CUNY.
Gale Newsstand More than 1,000 major U.S. newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. Use to supplement the more comprehensive LexisNexis
Gale Virtual Reference Library Full text of over 400 reference books published by Gale, Brill Academic, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Sage, Salem Press, Wiley, and others.
Gartner Gartner provides reports analyzing information technology products and markets, including ranking vendors and explaining how IT is affected by government regulations here and abroad. CUNY does not have access to all Gartner reports. Use the advanced search to access only those available to CUNY. Gartner can be accessed only through the CUNY Portal.
General OneFile Indexes over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books, and multimedia sources, with full text from 7,670 publications.
General Science Full Text Indexes scholarly, professional, and popular science periodicals published from 1984 to the present in the United States and the United Kingdom. Includes text for 105 publications from 1994 to present.
Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, pre-print repositories, universities, and other scholarly organizations. Includes links to resources to which the Graduate Center subscribes.
Grant Advisor Plus
Since 1983, The Grant Advisor newsletter has been a leading source of information on grant, research, and fellowship opportunities for U.S. institutions of higher education and their faculty.
GreenFile Covers global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, pollution, and related issues.
Grolier Reference Online Includes American Language Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed., American Heritage Spanish to English Dictionary, American Heritage English to Spanish Dictionary, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed., and Encyclopedia Americana.
Grove Art Electronic version of Grove's The Dictionary of Art. Also includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and 100,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library. The 34 volumes of the text edition are available in the library's reference collection under Ref. N31.D5 1996.
Grove Music Electronic version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. Also includes The Oxford Companion to Music The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. The 29 volumes of the text edition are available in the library's reference collection under Ref. ML100.N48 2001.
Handbooks in Economics Series Text of 31 Elsevier titles.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index Indexes Latin American economic, political, and social issues as well as arts and letters from 1970 to the present, providing citations of articles from more than 600 journals.
Health Reference Center Academic Health information from over 1,000 periodicals and reference works.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Full text from over 550 scholarly medical journals and abstracts for additional titles. Includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, covering 1,300 generic-drug, patient-education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
HighWire Press HighWire Press offers free access to over 1,900,000 full-text articles from scientific, medical, and psychiatric journals. Not all content is free.
Historical Abstracts Indexes over 1,700 journals in fifty languages as well as dissertations and selected monographs from 1954 to the present.
Humanities Full Text Includes abstracts of articles published in English from 1984 to the present in all fields of the humanities. Includes text from 287 periodicals. Search simultaneously with Humanities International Complete and Humanities Index Retrospective.
Humanities International Complete Indexes over 2,100 humanities sources, including journals, books, and reference works, with full text of 890 journals. In addition to articles and reviews, the database provides abstracts of fiction, poetry, photographs, and drawings. Search simultaneously with Humanities Full Text and Humanities Index Retrospective.
Humanities Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 Indexes humanities journals from 1907 to 1984. Search simultaneously with Humanities Full Text and Humanities International Complete.
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) Indexes journal articles, reviews, and books in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology from 1951 to the present.
ICPSR: Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research Social science data from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library Text of fifteen IEEE journals, nine transactions, and conference proceedings.
In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narratives Index to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in libraries and other repositories around the world.
Index to Current Urban Documents Guide to the reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately five-hundred selected cities in the United States and Canada. Over 2,400 documents indexed annually.
Infoshare Demographic information about New York City drawn from city, state, and federal sources. Also includes some national statistics. Use the raw data to create customized tables. The information in Infoshare is supplemented by many free Web sites, including National Priorities Project Database, which provides a range of statistics relating to labor, poverty, and social programs by state..
International Financial Statistics (IMF) Standard source of international statistics compiled by the International Monetary Fund on all aspects of international and domestic finance. Users can select series of interest, display the selected series in a spreadsheet format, and save the selected series for transfer to other software systems such as Excel. Subscription paid by Student Technology Fee.
Internet Archive Large-scale archive of the Web since 1997.
Iter Bibliography Indexes 1,707 journals published since 1784, over 96,000 books, over 190,000 essays from over 7,300 books,and over 1,500 dissertations since 1990 about the middle ages and renaissance. Bibliography contains more than 1,010,000 records. Find it! does not work with this resource. To see possible links to full text in Iter Bibliography, select the Full Details of a record and then the Check for full text box.
Iter Italicum Bibliography of previously uncatalogued or incompletely cataloged Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. Originally published in six volumes between 1963 and 1992.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Includes Iter Bibliography, Iter Italicum, Milton Bibliography, the journals Early Theatre and Renaissance and Reformation, and the forthcoming Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500-1640and Baptisteria Sacra. Find it! does not work with these resources. To see possible links to full text in Iter Bibliography, select the Full Details of a record and then the Check for full text box.
JAMA The online edition of JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association includes the complete full text of all issues since January 1998, selected text from May 1992 through December 1997, tables of contents and abstracts only from January 1975 to May 1992, and tables of contents only from January 1966 through December 1974. Select Collections to browse through articles on specific topics and to register for e-mail alerts when new articles on topics of interest become available.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism Almost 300 entries on critics, theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Updated annually.
Journal Citation Reports The number of articles published in journals indexed by the Web of Science and the number of citations to individual journals. This information may be viewed by journal name, subject, publisher, and country or territory. Be sure to choose science or social sciences before selecting a subject.
JSTOR The Arts and Sciences I-IX collections of JSTOR offer the full text of 1,729 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage begins with the first issue of most journals and continues through varying periods within the last five years.
JSTOR Plant Science CUNY has a trial through the end of 2012 to the largest online database of plant type specimens. Included are plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, foundational reference works and books, correspondence, and more than 20,000 paintings, photographs, drawings, and other images.
Law Library Microfilm Collection Digitized versions of thousands of legal documents, mostly from government sources. These materials should be of particular interest to researchers in history, political science, and sociology.
Legal Collection Full-text collection of 250 international scholarly law journals.
Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text Indexes 1,025 English-language legal periodicals and offers full text from over 400 publications.
Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 Indexes over 750 legal periodicals published between 1908 and 1981 in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
LexisNexis Full-text news, business, and legal database with access to over 12,000 sources. Offers 1,639 international news sources from around the world, including most of the world's major English-language newspapers, New York Times since June 1,1980, and Chronicle of Higher Education since September 1997. It also includes many non-English language newspaper titles, as well as scholarly journals, trade journals, popular magazines, sources for legislation statues and codes, and news blogs. Also see Newsstand and New York Times Full Text.
Library Literature and Information Science Full Text Indexes 234 library science periodicals as well as books and conference proceedings published since 1984, with full text for some titles since 1994.
Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983 Indexes library literature from 1905 to 1983. Includes full text of Wilson Library Bulletin.
LISTA: Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts with Full Text Full text of 270 journals and nearly 20 monographs, as well as indexing for more than 400 additional journals.
Literary Market Place Directory of American, Canadian, and international publishers. Library no longer subscribes to print edition.
Literature Resources from Gale MLA International Bibliography, as well as more than 10,000 bio-critical essays from Dictionary of Literary Biography; biographical information about over 130,000 writers from Contemporary Authors; all entries from Contemporary Literary Criticismsince volume 95 and complete profiles of more than 200 of the most studied authors from previous editions of CLC; the Scribner Writers Series of 15-to-20-page essays about over 1,600 writers and literary genres; and the full text of 600 books from Twayne's Author Series.
LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Bibliographic citations from over 1,500 linguistic and language periodicals from 1973 to the present.
Making of the Modern World Covers economics, banking, finance, transportation, manufacturing, history, political science, and sociology and includes the text of 59,500 books, pamphlets, essays, and serials published during 1460-1850..
Manuscript: Women's Letters and Diaries Over 69,000 pages of personal writings by American women from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. From the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.
MasterFile Premier 1,750 general reference publications, nearly 500 full-text reference books, and 105,786 full-text primary source documents.
MathSciNet American Mathematical Society's Mathematical Reviews, covering over 1,800 journals.
Medline with Full Text Full text of more than 1,470 medical journals, back to 1965 for some titles, as well as indexing for over 4,800 biomedical journals. Two free versions of Medline, PubMed Central and MedlinePlus, are also available.
Mental Measurements Yearbook Information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the print Mental Measurements Yearbooks from 1989 to the present.
Military and Government Collection Full text of nearly 300 military and general-interest publications as well as indexing and abstracting for an additional 400 titles. Also includes full text of 245 pamphlets.
Milton Bibliography All manuscripts and editions of John Milton's works and all studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations during 1624-1799.
MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography MLA indexes over 3,000 periodicals dealing with literature, language, linguistics, folklore, and popular culture from 1926 to the present. MLA includes the full text from recent issues of 141 journals. This resource is more effective when searched as part of Literature Resources from Gale.
Multi-Database Search This resource allows the simultaneous searching of all the full-text and bibliographic databases to which all of CUNY subscribes and all EBSCO databses to which the Graduate Center subscribes as well as the CUNY Catalog. It does not include the non-EBSCO resources to which the Graduate Center subscribes separately.
Nature Text of all content from 1997 to present. Tables of content from 1950 to present.
Naxos Music Library Online access to over 85,000 tracks from over 5,500 recordings in classical music, jazz, folk music, and world music. The offerings may be browsed by genre or by such categories as chamber music, composers, film music, opera, etc. or searched using the advanced search screen. Please consult the User Instructions.
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research Some or all full text Full text of working papers by over 500 professors. After selecting a title, click on Information for subscribers and others expecting no-cost downloads, and enter your CUNY e-mail address in the form. Access only for those with CUNY e-mail addresses.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 economists..
New York Public Library Databases Holders of New York Public Library cards have access to several bibliographic/full-text databases. See the instructions about applying for a library card.
New York Review of Books All content from 1963 to the present.
New York State Newspapers Full text of Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, Buffalo News, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Times, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Syracuse Herald-American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Westchester Journal News. Also see LexisNexis, Newsstand, and New York Times Full Text.
New York Times Full Text Actual page images from 1851 through 2007. Coverage for the following year added annually. When the results of a search are displayed, you have three retrieval options: 1. bibliographic citation and abstract; 2. article image; 3. page map, displaying the entire page on which the article appears. Current Times content is available from LexisNexis, Newsstand, and New York Times. A digital subscription to the latter is available at a reduced rate for students and faculty.
Newsstand More than 1,000 major U.S. newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. Use to supplement the more comprehensive LexisNexis.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile Also known as Poole's Plus, this database includes over eight million citations to periodical articles, books, patents, and American and British government documents before 1925.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection Includes nearly nine million articles published from 1980 to the present in more than 1,000 journals.
Nursing Resource Center Includes text of more than 20 reference books, over 200 animations from Blausen Medical's Human Atlas, and citations from more than 500 journals.
NYCdata Demographic, political, financial, and cultural information about New York City.
Opposing Viewpoints Social-issues information from newspaper and magazine articles, Gale reference sources, government and organizational statistics, primary documents, and over 1,800 annotated Web sites.
Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art) Electronic version of Grove's The Dictionary of Art. Also includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and 100,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library. The 34 volumes of the text edition are available in the library's reference collection under Ref. N31.D5 1996.
Oxford Bibliographies Online Bibliographies in Atlantic history, biblical studies, Buddhism, cinema and media studies, the classics, Hinduism, international relations, Islamic studies, linguistics, medieval studies, music, philosophy, public health, the Renaissance and Reformation, social work, sociology, and Victorian literature. Bibliographies are drawn from books, journals, and internet resources.
Oxford English Dictionary The complete contents of the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary.
Oxford Handbooks Online Collection of 90 Oxford University Press handbooks in business and management, philosophy, political science, and religion. These titles may also be found in the CUNY Catalog.
Oxford Journals Online Includes the text of 262 Oxford University Press journals from 1996 to the present. Use the database's advanced search function to search by author, article titles, or journal or by year. Although content prior to 1996 may be searched, the Graduate Center has access only to text from 1996 to the present.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online Translations of thousands of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish words and phrases.
Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music) Electronic version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. Also includes The Oxford Companion to Music The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. The 29 volumes of the text edition are available in the library's reference collection under Ref. ML100.N48 2001.
Oxford Reference Online Text of more than 100 Oxford University Press reference works, including Oxford Companions to American Literature, American Theatre, the Bible, British History, Classical Civilization, History of Modern Science, Music, Philosophy, Politics of the World, Shakespeare, United States History, and Western Art.These titles also appear in the CUNY Catalog.
Oxford Scholarship Online Full text of scholarly books published by Oxford University Press. While the Graduate Center subscription allows access to abstracts of books in other disciplines, text is available for titles only in history, linguistics, music, philosophy, political science, and psychology. These titles also appear in the CUNY Catalog.
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service International) Bibliographic citations from journals, books, government documents, and additional sources dealing with public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general from 1972 to the present.
PAIS Archive Bibliographic citations from journals, books, government documents, and additional sources dealing with public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general from 1915-1971.
Palgrave Connect Education Full text of 79 books. These titles also appear in the CUNY Catalog.
Palgrave Connect Language and Linguistics Full text of 16 books. These titles also appear in the CUNY Catalog.
Palgrave Connect Literature Full text of 120 books. These titles also appear in the CUNY Catalog.
Palgrave Connect Social Sciences Full text of 87 books.These titles also appear in the CUNY Catalog.
PEP: Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing provides the full text of 26 psychoanalysis journals from 1871 through 2006, 56 classic psychoanalytic books, and all 24 volumes of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. These titles also appear in the CUNY Catalog.
Philosopher's Index Bibliographic citations from philosophy journals and books in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish from 1940 to the present. Nearly 570 journals from thirty-eight countries are indexed. Approximately eighty percent of citations are from journal articles, the rest from books. More than 10,000 new records are added annually.
PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) Indexes the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health issues related to traumatic events from 1871 to the present. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) Comprehensive full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin.
Professional Development Collection Full text of 550 education journals and more than 200 educational reports. Indexes an additional 150 journals.
Project Muse Full text of 316 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
ProQuest Criminal Science Indexes 250 international criminal justice publications from 1981 to the present, with full text from more than 100 publications.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Indexes two-million dissertations from over one-thousand institutions, with citations from 1861-1980 and abstracts from 1980 to present. Includes the full text of most post-1996 CUNY dissertations and many post-1996 dissertations from other institutions, as well as thousands of earlier ones. To limit your search to CUNY dissertations, include 0046 in your search statement, selecting the school name/code search field. Non-U.S.dissertations can be searched in the Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog.
ProQuest Education Journals Indexes more than 900 education publications from 1988 to the present, with full text from more than 600 titles.
ProQuest Political Science Includes the full text of more than 150 political science and international relations journals. All of these journals are indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
ProQuest Social Science Journals Indexes 570 social science journals, with full text for 340.
ProQuest Sociology Includes the full text of 275 journals in sociology and social work from 1985 to the present.
PsycArticles Covers general psychology and basic, applied, specialized, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. Contains over 150,000 articles from 70 American Psychological Association journals and eight journals from related organizations from 1985 to the present. Also includes letters to the editor and errata.
PsycBooks This American Psychological Association (APA) database provides the full text of more than 2,000 APA books published since 1950, including over 100 out-of-print titles. Also included are 1,500 archival resources from other publishers dating back to the 1660s and more than 1,500 entries from Encyclopedia of Psychology, published in 2000 by APA and Oxford University Press. These titles also appear in the CUNY Catalog.
PsycCritiques Book-review database produced by the American Psychological Association, featuring full text reviews of scholarly and professional books in psychology from 1956 to the present, as well as reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books.
PsycInfo Abstracts of articles from nearly 2,000 journals in thirty-five languages since 1872 and abstracts of books and essays in books from 1987 to the present.
Public Library of Science (PLoS) PLoS Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Medicine, and PLoS Pathogens offer open access to recent scientific reports.
PubMed Central Free scientific and medical abstracts and citations with some text.
Readers' Guide Full Text Indexes popular general-interest periodicals from 1983 to the present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 Indexes popular general-interest periodicals from 1890 to 1982.
RefWorks Online citation management licensed for all CUNY campuses. Generate footnotes and bibliography in any writing style; organize citations and notes in your private library. RefShare allows document access for an invited group. 25 MB limit on individual file size; 5 GB individual account limit. Request instruction in using RefWorks. Group Code: RWGradC
Regional Business News Most recent thirty days of information about business, economic, political, and international news events from business wire sources.
Research Centers Directory Contents of the 2010 edition. Each entry includes address, phone number, e-mail address, URL, description, size of staff, publications, scholarships, awards, etc.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Over 250,000 citations from more than 300 journals and other sources from 1969 to the present.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals International bibliography of writings on musical history and culture from periodicals published in seventeen countries between 1800 and 1950. Included are over 5,000 English translations of foreign-language records.
RISM: Music Manuscripts after 1600 The database, also known as Repertoire international des sources musicales, documents the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools, and private collections. It includes more than 564,000 items by over 19,500 composers. The manuscripts reside in over 740 libraries and archives in 31 countries.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Full text of the ten-volume 1998 reference work.
SAGE Journals Online Full text of 599 SAGE journals in the social sciences, sciences, humanities, technology, and medicine. Offers option of searching SAGE journals to which the Graduate Center does not have full-text access.
Science Citation Index Citations in the scholarly literature from 1899 to the present. Scopus is a similar citation index.
Science Magazine Full text since January 1997.
ScienceDirect Full text from 1980 to the present for more than 2,000 journals and indexing and abstracting of all titles from their first issues. The green subscribed-journal icon indicates which are accessible in full text. Most of these journals are in the sciences and social sciences, but there are a few in the humanities, mostly in linguistics. Select Subscribed Journals in the Source box to limit searches to the journals for which full text is available. To determine which are available in your discipline, click the Browse button at the top of the search screen.
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Scirus Free science search engine includes links to open-access journals.
Scopus Abstract and citation database indexes 15,000 international peer-reviewed journals in the social sciences, sciences, and medicine from 1996 to the present.Web of Science is a similar citation index.
Scribner Writers Online Reference works about American and British writers. May be searched independently or within Gale Virtual Reference Library or Literature Resources from Gale.
Serials Directory Bibliographic and contact information about over 184,000 U.S. and international periodicals.
Social Explorer New York City, Los Angeles, and national demographic maps based on Census data. A companion to Infoshare.
Social Science Citation Index Bibliographic citation, abstract, cited references, and times cited. These records are for articles in major social science journals from 1975 to the present. Scopus is a similar citation index.
Social Sciences Full Text Indexes English-language periodicals in the social sciences from 1983 to the present. Includes abstracts for articles published beginning January 1994. Includes full text from 250 periodicals.
Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1929-1983. Indexes hundreds of important journals in the social sciences.
Social Services Abstracts Abstracts of articles from 1980 to the present.
SocIndex with Full Text Indexing of 2,540 journals in the social sciences, with full text as far back as 1895 for 253 journals, as well as the text for an additional 72 journals, 547 books, and 6,711 American Sociological Association and American Society of Criminology conference papers.
Sociological Abstracts Bibliographic citations from 2,600 journals concerned with sociology and related disciplines from 1963 to the present.
Springer eBook Collection Text of 19,000 Springer books published from 2005 to the present as well as book series dating back to 1997. The titles cover biomedical and life sciences, computer science, medicine, physics, and related fields. These titles may also be found in the CUNY Catalog.
SpringerImages Collection of 1.8 million photographs, graphs, histograms, and tables in science, technology, and medicine.
SpringerLink Full text of recent issues of 1,234 mostly social science and science journals. Only the articles with the green-box symbol are available in full text. Use the advanced search for more accurate results.
SpringerProtocols Biological and medical protocols.
Statistical Insight Demographic information from more than 200 federal agencies, 50 state governments, 100 international intergovernmental organizations, and 500 private and academic sources.
Statistical Theory and Methods Abstracts (STMA-Z) Indexes 111 international statistical journals. Included in Zentralblatt MATH.
Statistics Sources Content of the 2010 edition. Guide to current sources of factual quantitative information about more than 20,000 specific subjects, incorporating almost 135,000 citations and more than 1,600 sources.
Theatre in Video More than 400 videos of drama documentaries and plays by Aeschylus, Albee, Beckett, Chekhov, Fugard, Gogol, Hansberry, Ibsen, Miller, Moliere, O'Neill, Pinter, Pirandello, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Strindberg, Wasserstein, and others.
Theaurus Linguae Graecae Digital collection of mostly literary texts in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium, AD 1453. Included are 12,000 works by 3,700 authors. Users can create a profile to use features such as setting preferences and saving searches.
Thieme Science Collection Text of Plant Biology (2000 to present), Planta Medica (1999 to present), Synlett (2006 to present), and Synthesis (2006 to present).
Trial Databases Electronic resources for which the Graduate Center or all of CUNY has trial access.
Twayne's Author Series Full text of 586 books providing biographical, critical, and bibliographic studies of writers from Chinua Achebe to Emile Zola and overviews of eighteen topics, including French structuralism and women writers of the English renaissance. These writers and topics may also be searched within Literature Resources from Gale.
Urban Studies Abstracts Biographic records in community development, urban affairs, urban history, and related areas from 1973 to the present.
Versatile PhD Service to help humanities and social science PhDs and graduate students identify and prepare for possible non-academic jobs.
Web of Science Cited references in all disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Scopus is a similar citation index.
Wiley Online Library Full-text of some humanities, science, and social science journals published by Wiley and Blackwell. Text is available for most journals beginning in 1997, but the Graduate Center does not have access to any 2012 content.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Offers over 72,000 pages of documents and 800 images from the State Commissions on the Status of Women, with approximately 5,000 pages to be added annually.
Women and Social Movements International, 1840 to Present This digital archive currently includes 145,326 pages of a collection that will eventually offer 150,000 pages of conference proceedings, reports of international women's organizations, publications and web pages of women's non-governmental organizations, and letters, diaries, and memoirs of women active internationally since the mid-nineteenth century.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare published or produced since 1969. Note that full-text links will not appear in this database.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Holdings of thousands of American and international libraries. Make interlibrary-loan requests with the Find it! button. Searchable in English, French, and Spanish.
WorldCat Free union catalog containing the holdings of thousands of libraries. Use the Find-it at CUNY feature to find titles in the CUNY library system and to make interlibrary-loan requests. There is also a Mobile WorldCat.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Provides citations of articles in political science, international relations, international law, public administration, public policy, and related topics from 1975 to the present. It indexes over 1,500 titles, 67% of which are from outside the United States.
Zentralblatt MATH More than 3,000,000 entries from 3,500 journals from 1868 to present.
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