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The Graduate Center has a trial through March 31 to Literary Research Guide, the electronic version of the fifth edition of James L. Harner’s annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of literatures in English. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend As of January 25, CUNY has access to 46,000 scholarly books in all disciplines from ebrary. In addition to finding these books through author, title, subject, and keyword searches in the CUNY Catalog, it may be beneficial to browse ebrary directly to see what types of books are available. For example, the 5,723 titles under . . . → Read More: Electronic Books from ebrary  Anthropology, Art History, Biology, Classics, Computer Science, CUNY+, Databases, E-books, Economics, Education, Endnote, English, Enviromental Sciences, Film, French, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, History, LGBT, Linguistics, Music, Nursing, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Refworks, Science, Sociology, Theatre, Women's Studies As of November 17, the Graduate Center subscribes to Oxford Scholarship Online, providing the full text of hundreds of scholarly books published by Oxford University Press. While the Graduate Center’s subscription allows access to abstracts of books in other disciplines, text is available for titles only in economics and finance, history, linguistics, literature, mathematics, music, . . . → Read More: Oxford Scholarship Online The Graduate Center has a trial of this new database of 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. Because this bibliographical database is available only . . . → Read More: Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640 The Graduate Center has a trial through May 22 to Oxford Biblical Studies Online. This resource includes The New Oxford Annotated Bible, The Oxford Bible Commentary, The Apocryphal Old Testament, Concise Concordance to New Revised Standard Version, and New American Bible Concise Concordance. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend CUNY has a trial through August 31, 2010, to LitFinder. This Gale databases provides the text of 150,000 poems, 7,100 short stories, 3,700 essays, 2,400 speeches, and 1,300 plays, as well as 2,300 biographies of writers and 1,800 illustrations. LitFinder also indexes some literary works for which it does not have the rights to the . . . → Read More: LitFinder Researchers may now simultaneously search all EBSCO databases to which the Graduate Center subscribes. EBSCO Multi-Database Search includes Academic Search Premier, America: History and Life, Business Source Premier, CINAHL, Communication and Mass Media Complete, EconLit, GreenFILE, Health Source: Nursing, Historical Abstracts, Humanities International Complete, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE, Military and Government Collection, Philosopher’s Index, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, . . . → Read More: EBSCO Multi-Database Search As of January 27, the Graduate Center subscribes to ARTstor, a database providing nearly one million images in the visual arts. In addition to scholars in art history, ARTstor should be of interest to students in anthropology, classics, history, literature, medieval studies, music, philosophy, renaissance studies, and theatre. Use the advanced search to limit searches . . . → Read More: ARTstor Effective August 16, 2008, the Eighteenth-Century Reading Room will be closed to the public and the collection will be returned to its owner, Charles Tanenbaum, shortly thereafter. The Eighteenth-Century Reading Room blog (http://18thcenturyreadingroom.wordpress.com/) will remain accessible but there are no plans to update it at this time. Information about the Speaker Series will be posted . . . → Read More: 18th Century Reading Room Closing As of June 30, CUNY’s JSTOR subscription includes the JSTOR V Collection, offering 18 additional journals to the more than 900 already available. This collection will total 120 titles by the end of 2009. The newly available titles are The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, Design Quarterly, Environmental History, Film History, Germanic Museum . . . → Read More: JSTOR V Collection |
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