Expired Trials

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Databases

AKL Online/Artists of the World Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial, ending soon, to this database offering biographical information about more than one million artists. Text available in German only.

Note: trial ends soon

Classical Scores Library Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial through May of this resource providing more than 400,000 pages of important scores and manuscripts.

Note: trial ends May 2

Conference Proceedings Citation Index Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial through December 30 to this resource indexing conference proceedings in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences from 1990 to the present. The humanities-social sciences component and the sciences component may be searched separately, together, or in conjuction with the arts and humanities, science, and social science citation indexes within Web of Science. All available search options are displayed when the Web of Science tab is selected at the top of the search page.

Note: trial ends Dec. 30

Counseling and Therapy in Video Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial, ending soon, to this collection of 159 videos in psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatric counseling, and social work.

Note: trial ends soon

eHRAF Archaeology Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial, ending soon, to this cross-cultural database containing information on the world's prehistory, organized by archaeological traditions. The full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. eHRAF Archaeology is a unique resource designed to facilitate comparative archaeological studies.
Note: trial ends soon

eHRAF World Cultures Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial, ending soon, to this cross-cultural database offering information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups, and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.
Note: trial ends soon

Ethnographic Video Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial, ending soon, to this resource providing 150 hours of ethnographic videos. It may be searched by ethnographer, cultural group, location, subject, date, people, and content type.

Note: trial ends soon

Gale Directory Library Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
CUNY has a trial, ending soon, to this resource of information about funding sources and awards, municipal, state, and federal government organizations, publishers, publications, and broadcast media, research centers, and statistical sources. It includes National Faculty Directory.

Note: trial ends soon

Gale Ready Reference Shelf Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
CUNY has a trial through June 29 to this source of information about associations, research centers, publishers, and publications.

Note: trial ends June 29

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial through June 10 to the 90th edition. Searching by chemical structure requires downloading a Java applet.

Note: trial ends June 10

Index Islamicus Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
International classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world, from archaeology to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, from Iran to Muslim minorities in the United States.
Note: bibliography

Latin American Weekly Report Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
CUNY has a trial, ending soon, to this resource, analyzing economic and political developments in Latin America.

Note: trial ends soon

Literary Research Guide Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Graduate Center has trial, expiring soon, of annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of literatures in English.

Note: trial ends soon

OECD iLibrary Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Books, papers, and statistics from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Note: trial access

Oxford Biblical Studies Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Includes six Oxford editions of the Bible, annotations, commentaries, concordances, and Oxford Companion to the Bible. The Graduate Center's trial ends soon.

Note: trial ends soon

Palgrave Macmillan Journals Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has free access to 85 Palgrave Macmillan journals, most in economics and the social sciences, through March 31.

Note: trial ends April 1

Past Masters Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
CUNY has a trial through April 30 to this collection of primary texts by philosophers and literary figures from Aristotle, Jane Austen, and Francis Bacon to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft, and W. B. Yeats. The texts are scholarly editions from university presses.

Note: trial ends May 1

Political Science Complete Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial through June 28. Includes text of 225 journals not available from other EBSCO databases, as well as 326 books.

Note: trial ends June 28

PRISMA Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial through May 22 to more than one-hundred full-text scholarly journals with articles in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. It offers key titles in English, Spanish and Portuguese indexed in HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index.
Note: trial ends May 22

Rock's Backpages Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial, ending soon, to this archive of rock journalism, offering the text of over 17,000 articles, reviews, and audio files from the 1950s to the present from such publications as Creem, Melody Maker, MOJO, New Musical Express, Rolling Stone, and Trouser Press.

Note: trial ends soon

SAGE Research Methods Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
CUNY has a trial through February 28 to this resource exploring methods of social science research. Included are books, articles, and videos.

Note: trial ends Feb. 28

Springer Materials: Landolt-Bernstein Database Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial, ending soon, to this resource for physical and chemical data in materials science. It covers over 250,000 substance and material systems and over 3,000 properties and includes more than 1.2 million literature citations.

Note: trial ends soon

Taylor and Francis Electronic Books Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial through, ending soon, to this collection of electronic books in all academic disciplines. Select the eBooks and eFocus-Package tabs to browse available titles.

Note: trial ends soon

World History in Video Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial through December 18 to this collection of 152 documentaries exploring world history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century.

Note: trial ends Dec. 18

World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial through September 12 to this collection of primary documents, journal articles, news, maps, statistics, audio, and video.

Note: trial ends September 12

A to Z Maps Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Physical, population, political, environmental, and antique maps.
Note: trial ends June 30

Aluka Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial, ending soon, to Aluka. This new digital library provides access to primary documents related to Africa. While Aluka will eventually include materials related to struggles for freedom in Southern Africa and African cultural heritage sites and landscapes, the trial version offers only sources about African plants, including 280,000 items involving plant specimens, photographs, art, reference works, and archival records of historical expeditions to Africa.
Note: African resources; trial ends soon

America: History and Life Full Text Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Includes text of 222 journals and 90 books.Database Guide (PDF)

Note: trial ends Mar. 31

American History in Video Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Over 2,000 hours of videos covering 1492 to the present.
Note: trial ends Apr. 30

Black Drama: 1850 to Present Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to 8 primary-source Alexander Street Press databases: Black Drama: 1850 to Present, Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Black Women Writers, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction, North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Note: primary sources; trial ends March 31

Black Short Fiction and Folklore Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Short stories and folktales from Africa and the African Diaspora. Stories range from oral traditions dating back hundreds of years to contemporary tales.
Note: stories and folklore; trial ends June 1

Black Women Writers Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to 8 primary-source Alexander Street Press databases: Black Drama: 1850 to Present, Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Black Women Writers, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction, North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Note: primary sources; trial ends March 31

Blackwell Reference Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial through April 23 to Blackwell Reference Online, offering access to 247 reference works in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects covered include African-American philosophy, American immigration, American technology, applied linguistics, art theory, child language, clinical psychology, contemporary Britain, contemporary political philosophy, cultural studies, digital humanities, early modern women's writing, European romanticism, gender studies, Japanese history, literature and film, major contemporary social theorists, medical sociology, Middle East history, social psychology, tragedy, urban economics, and the Vietnam War.
Note: 247 reference works; trial ends April 23

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to 8 primary-source Alexander Street Press databases: Black Drama: 1850 to Present, Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Black Women Writers, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction, North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Note: primary sources; trial ends March 31

Cambridge Collections Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial, ending soon, of Cambridge Collections Online. This database provides the text of 273 books in the Cambridge series devoted to literature, the classics, philosophy, religion, and culture, including companions to Adam Smith, the African American novel, the age of Augustus, American Judaism, American modernism, Arthur Miller, atheism, etc.
Note: 273 scholarly books; trial ends soon

CAMIO Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Art images from museums. Trial ends soon.
Note: trial ends soon

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Approximately 45,300 pages of material, including more than 9,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 17,000 pages of client narratives, and more than 18,000 pages of secondary reference material. The Graduate Center's trial ends soon.
Note: trial ends soon

CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial through March 18 to CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences. This new Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database indexes tables, figures, graphs, charts, and other illustrations from scholarly literature in agriculture, biology, conservation, earth sciences, environmental studies, fish and fisheries, food and food industries, forests and forestry, geography, medical sciences, meteorology, veterinary science, and water resources since 1997.
Note: charts, tables, etc.;? trial ends March 18

Current Issues in Health Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
CUNY has trial, ending soon, to this resource offering 20-30 articles each about 80 health topics, including alcohol abuse, Alzheimer's, autism, bioterrorism, brain diseases, cancer, cloning, cost of health care, depression, drug addiction and treatment, genetic engineering, health care reform, etc.
Note: health information trial ends soon

Current Research@CUNY Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Dissertation Abstracts indexes two-million dissertations from over one-thousand institutions, with citations from 1861 through 1980 and abstracts since 1980. The digitized full text of most CUNY dissertations submitted to UMI since January 1997 is free for users within the Graduate Center and remote access. Note that some dissertation authors have chosen not to allow full-text access and that there is a gap of weeks or months between the time new dissertations are listed and the text becomes available. A guide to the database is available. Also see Finding Ph.D. Dissertations and Master's Theses. To limit your search to CUNY dissertations, include sc(0046) in your search statement. You may also click here to search separately for the full text of CUNY dissertations. Click here to search separately for full-text dissertations (for a fee) from other institutions. Note that you may perform these functions within Dissertation Abstracts as well. CUNY dissertations are available in the Dissertation Reading Room on the first floor of the library, near the reference desk on the second floor, and on microfilm on the second floor. Dissertations may be purchased from Dissertation Abstracts in several formats. Those without access to Dissertation Abstracts should contact UMI. Foreign dissertations can be searched in the Center for Research Libraries' Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database.
Note: recent dissertations

Ecrivains quebecois Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical essays about Quebec writers.
Note: biographies, bibliographies, articles

Electronic Enlightenment Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial, ending soon, of this new Oxford University Press database providing thousands of eighteenth-century manuscripts, letters, and other documents in English, French, German, Italian, and other languages, with annotations.
Note: primary documents trial ends soon

Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Child Development Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Provides an entry point into all of the existing literature on child development from numerous fields of study.
Note: 1,576 science and social science journals

Eureka (Newscan) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Collection of six French-language publications providing news about French canada. Over 1,000 biographies, bibliographies, and critical articles about Quebec writers.
Note: French Canadian news and literary criticism

Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912 Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
CUNY has a trial subscription, ending soon, to issues of this popular illustrated magazine from the War Between the States through the Gilded Age. Access requires using your Graduate Center computer network login to retrieve the necessary user name and password.
Note: trial ends soon

Historical Abstracts Full Text Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Includes text of 362 journals and 130 books. Database Guide (PDF)

Note: trial ends Mar. 31

Human Resources Abstracts Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Bibliographic records covering all aspects of human resources.
Note: bibliographic records

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
CUNY has a trial subscription, ending soon, to this database offering 39 periodicals representing both sides in the War Between the States. Access requires using your Graduate Center computer network login to retrieve the necessary user name and password.
Note: trial ends soon

Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial, soon to expire, to this database offering 1,400 images searchable by place, date, battle/campaign/event, setting, and photographer.
Note: 1,400 images; trial ends soon

Ingenta Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Ingenta indexes over 28,000 academic journals in many disciplines, with full-text article delivery available for a fee. For free access to the articles, check the library's journal holdings. If an article you want is unavailable at the Graduate Center, request it via Interlibrary Loan for free delivery.
Note: academic journals for fee

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Indexing and abstracting for over 430 music periodicals from more than twenty countries. Full text is available for 123 of these journals.
Note: 95 full-text journals; trial ends Apr. 18

International Index to Performing Arts Full Text Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Indexing and abstracting for more than 240 international periodicals in drama, theater, musical theater, opera, dance, performance art, film, and television. Full text is available for 95 of these journals.
Note: 95 full-text journals; trial ends Apr. 18

Latin American Women Writers Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to 8 primary-source Alexander Street Press databases: Black Drama: 1850 to Present, Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Black Women Writers, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction, North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Note: primary sources; trial ends March 31

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to 8 primary-source Alexander Street Press databases: Black Drama: 1850 to Present, Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Black Women Writers, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction, North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Note: primary sources; trial ends March 31

LGBT Life with Full-Text Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full text of 55 historically significant lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender journals, magazines, and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 mongraphs. The Graduate Center's trial ends soon.
Note: trial ends soon

LitFinder Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full 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. CUNY's trial ends soon. LitFinder text appears with the results of searches in Literature Resources from Gale.
Note: trial ends soon

Nation Archive Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to the archives of four popular magazines: The Nation from 1865 to the present,The National Review from 1955 to the present, The New Republic from 1914 to the present, Scientific American from 1993 to the present.
Note: 1865 to present; trial ends March 31

National Review Archive Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to the archives of four popular magazines: The Nation from 1865 to the present,The National Review from 1955 to the present, The New Republic from 1914 to the present, Scientific American from 1993 to the present.
Note: 1955 to present; trial ends March 31

New Republic Archive Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to the archives of four popular magazines: The Nation from 1865 to the present, The National Review from 1955 to the present, The New Republic from 1914 to the present, Scientific American from 1993 to the present.
Note: 1914 to present; trial ends March 31

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to 8 primary-source Alexander Street Press databases: Black Drama: 1850 to Present, Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Black Women Writers, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction, North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Note: primary sources; trial ends March 31

Nursing and Allied Health Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Indexes articles related to nursing from over 1,000 periodicals and includes text from more than 400.

Old New York Times link Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
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Note: 1851-2007

Palgrave Connect History Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center trial of full-text books published in 2006 ends March 31.
Note: trial ends March 31

Points of View Reference Center Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Presents multiple points of view on 250 political, scientific, and social issues such as cloning, immigration, Iraq, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, and tax cuts. Includes Video Encyclopedia of the Twentieth Century.
Note: examines 250 issues; trial ends Dec. 31

Pop Culture Universe Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Resources from Greenwood Press reference works about arts and visual culture, business and advertising, ethnic and group culture, film, food and drink, literature, music, politics, recreation and leisure, religion and spirituality, sports, television and radio, and technology and media from the 1920s to the present. A title list is available.
Note: trial ends soon

Prisma: Publicaiones y Revistas Sociales y Humaniticas Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial through May 10 to Prisma: Publicaiones y Revistas Sociales y Humaniticas, offering the full text of journals in Spanish, Portuguese, and English covering the humanities and social sciences in Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Obtaining the password for this database requires logging into your Graduate Center computer network account.
Note: Spanish and Portuguese journals; trial ends May 10

Science Reference Center Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
639 full-text titles from reference works, biographies, and periodicals, covering all science disciplines.
Note: 639 full-text titles

Scientific American Archive Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to the archives of four popular magazines: The Nation from 1865 to the present, The National Review from 1955 to the present, The New Republic from 1914 to the present, Scientific American from 1993 to the present.
Note: 1993 to present; trial ends March 31

TopicSearch Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text information about economic, political, and social issues, medical and scientific developments, etc. from over 1,750 journals, magazines, international and regional newspapers, government sources, pamphlets, public opinion polls, biographical dictionaries, and similar sources. Includes color images.
Note: current-awareness information

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Text of 112 self-help, how-to, and etiquette books published between 1859 and 1980 reveal the mores of the past.
Note: 112 books; trial ends soon

Twentieth Century Drama Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Graduate Center has a trial through April 8 to Twentieth Century Drama, offering the full text of 1,250 international plays in English from 1890 to 2003. Obtaining the password for this database requires logging into your Graduate Center computer network account.
Note: 1,250 plays; trial ends April 8

xreferplus Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
All of CUNY has a trial through March 31 to xreferplus. This database offers 2,887,964 entries from 256 reference works in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences from 55 publishers. A title list is available.
Note: 256 reference works;? trial ends March 31

Video

Education in Video Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial through May 30 to this collection of 118 documentaries, lectures, and teaching demonstrations.

Note: trial ends May 30

Filmakers Library Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The Graduate Center has a trial through May 30 to this 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.

Note: trial ends May 30