New Databases

As of July 2 the Graduate Center has access to several new electronic resources. The 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media, charting the development of newspapers, the free press, and the concept of news and totaling almost one-million pages and approximately 1,270 titles. National . . . → Read More: New Databases

Database Trials

The Graduate Center has a trial through June 8 to PsycTests, a collection of descriptive summaries, full text, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching. The database serves as a repository for the full text of psychological tests and measures as well . . . → Read More: Database Trials

New Oxford Bibliographies

Oxford Bibliographies Online has added bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Music, and Sociology. Each subject includes bibliographies in approximately fifty more specific categories. These bibliographies join those in Atlantic History, Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Classics, Hinduism, International Relations, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Public Health, Renaissance and Reformation, Social Work, and . . . → Read More: New Oxford Bibliographies

New Database Trials

The Graduate Center has a trial through November 27 to DRAM, a collection of classical, jazz, and popular music recordings; through December 28 to Romanticism Redefined, offering over 160,000 pages of text by writers from Britain, the British Empire, and North America, including poetry, prose, drama, letters, and diaries, along with political, philosophical, scientific, and . . . → Read More: New Database Trials

Database Trials

The Graduate Center has trials through October 13 to Gale News Vault, which includes the archives of several British newspapers from the seventeenth century to the present, including the Times Literary Supplement and the Financial Times, as well as a collection of  nineteenth-century American newspapers, and to the Illustrated London News Historical Archive, including all . . . → Read More: Database Trials

Primary Documents and Newspapers

As of May 31, the Graduate Center subscribes to four new full-text electronic resources.  Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 consists of reports, letters, maps, and other primary documents from the National Archives, London, covering the period from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the Black September war of 1970-1971.  Iraq 1914-1974 includes primary documents from the dismantling of . . . → Read More: Primary Documents and Newspapers

New Electronic Books

As of May 9, the Graduate Center has access to 302 additional electronic books in education, literature, languages and linguistics, and social sciences.  These resources are available through Palgrave Connect Education, Palgrave Connect Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Connect Literature, and Palgrave Connect Social Sciences.  In addition, access to reference books in American and English literature . . . → Read More: New Electronic Books

Black Drama and Women’s Manuscripts

As of May 5, the Graduate Center subscribes to Black Drama, offering 1,462 plays, as well as photographs and other materials related to productions, and Manuscript: Women’s Diaries and Letters, over 69,000 pages of personal writings by American women from the eighteenth, ninteeenth, and twentieth centuries from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.

Bookmark . . . → Read More: Black Drama and Women’s Manuscripts

Black Drama and Women’s Manuscripts

As of May 5, the Graduate Center subscribes to Black Drama, offering 1,462 plays, as well as photographs and other materials related to productions, and Manuscript: Women’s Diaries and Letters, over 69,000 pages of personal writings by American women from the eighteenth, ninteeenth, and twentieth centuries from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.

Bookmark . . . → Read More: Black Drama and Women’s Manuscripts

Oxford Bibliographies Online

As of May 5, the Graduate Center subscribes to Oxford Bibliographies Online, covering Atlantic history, biblical studies, Buddhism, the classics, Hinduism, international relations, medieval studies, philosophy, public health, the Renaissance and Reformation, social work, and Victorian literature.  The bibliographies are drawn from books, journals, and internet resources.

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