New Databases

The Graduate Center has recently added the following resources.

American History in Video has over 1,600 hours of historical video from commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Filmmakers Library Online includes over 1,000 documentaries about race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal . . . → Read More: New Databases

New Database Trials

The Graduate Center has a trial through May 31 to Gateway to North America: People, Places,and Organizations of 19th Century New York. This resource, drawn from the collections of the New York Historical Society, offers over 1,500 residential and business directories, organization records, urban guidebooks, and similar historical documents. There are also trials through May . . . → Read More: New Database Trials

Spring Break Workshops

Join the Mina Rees Library this week with Spring Break workshops:

Tuesday, March 26th, 6pm Research in Health WebinarTo join the webinar, click this link and ‘Enter as Guest’ This 30 minute webinar will provide an overview of several resources that will help students find information from books, journals, and dissertations. Registration is suggested but not required. Wednesday, March 27, . . . → Read More: Spring Break Workshops

Humanities Research Resources Webinar- Fri. 3/15, 12.30 pm

This 30 minute webinar will provide an overview of several primary and secondary resources useful for research in the humanities including newspaper, ebook, and dissertation databases. Several full text journal databases will be discussed as well. Registration is suggested but not required

The webinar will take place on Friday, March 15 at 12.30 p.m.  to join . . . → Read More: Humanities Research Resources Webinar- Fri. 3/15, 12.30 pm

Orientation to Resources at the NYPL 2/27 & 3/27

The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd St. and 5th Ave. is an historical research library to which Graduate Center scholars have full and complete access. Books and specialized periodicals in the Library’s general collection support research in both American and European history, anthropology, political science, and other research interests in . . . → Read More: Orientation to Resources at the NYPL 2/27 & 3/27

Silent Film Online

The Graduate Center has a trial through October 13 to Silent Film Online, offering 251 titles, including Battleship Potemkin, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The General, Intolerance, Metropolis, and Nosferatu.

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Oxford Index

Use Oxford Index to search simultaneously all the Oxford University Press databases to which the Graduate Center subscribes: Oxford Art Online, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Journals Online, Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford Reference Online, and Oxford Scholarship Online. Because Oxford Index covers all OUP electronic products, . . . → Read More: Oxford Index

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

Video Library Trial

The Graduate Center has a trial through May 30 to Filmakers Library Online, a collection of 913 documentaries covering such topics as anthropology, dance, demographics, economics, education, environment, family, fine arts, health, history, literature, medicine, musicology, poltiics, psychology, race and culture, religion, science and technology, sexuality and gender, sociology, war, and women’s issues.

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Oxford Journals Online

As of November 4, the Graduate Center subscribes to Oxford Journals Online, providing the text of more than 200 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 . . . → Read More: Oxford Journals Online