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The Graduate Center has a trial through June 30 to American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals, offering the text of over 1,500 American periodicals published between 1691 and 1837, including original typography, graphics, and drawings. 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 trials through March 31 to the full-text versions of America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts. America: History and Life Full Text includes text from 222 of the 1,700 journals it indexes, as well as the text of over 90 books. Historical Abstracts Full Text includes the text of 362 of the 1,800 . . . → Read More: History Database Trials 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 CUNY has a trial through May 31 to A to Z Maps Online. Available resources include physical, population, political, environmental, and antique maps. 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 CUNY has a trial through June 30 of this JSTOR collection offering 15,000 pamphlets from the collections of British universities covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of the nineteenth century. The pamphlets are included in the results of JSTOR searches. A detailed description of the 19th Century British Pamphlets Project is available. . . . → Read More: 19th Century British Pamphlets 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 |
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