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 | Academic Search Complete   |
over 7,100 journals in all disciplines more info |
| | CUNY's primary full-text database. Full text of over 7,100 journals in all disciplines, with indexing for another 4,000 titles. Also includes the text of books, conference papers, conference proceedings, and educational reports. |
| | Art Full Text |
full text version of Art Index more info |
| | The full-text version of Art Index indexes 460 journals, providing the full text of many beginning with 1997. In addition to art history and architecture titles, many film journals are included. A list of available titles can be generated by going here and selecting Journal Directory. A guide to the database is available. |
| | Art Museum Image Gallery |
155,000 images from museum collections more info |
| | Over 155,000 images from museum collections around the world. There are also bibliographic records, many with curatorial text, provenance data, detailed or multiple views, and related multimedia. |
| | Arts & Humanities Citation Index |
cited references since 1975 more info |
| | Part of Web of Science, this database finds bibliographic citations, abstracts, cited references, and the number of times cited for articles from 1,160 international journals in the arts and humanities since 1975 as well as relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journal. Approximately 2,300 new records containing 15,525 new references are added each week. To search only this portion of Web of Science, scroll to bottom of search screen and check only Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Scopus is a similar citation index emphasizing the sciences and social sciences, with some humanities coverage. |
| | ARTstor |
one million images more info |
| | Nearly one million images of art and architecture. Online help. |
| | Bibliography of the History of Art |
indexes over 4,800 journals more info |
| | Indexes over 4,800 journals and other publications from 1973 to the present, covering the art of Europe and the Americas from the fourth century to the present, painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, decorative and applied arts, popular and folk art, architecture and industrial design, and film.
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| | Biography Reference Bank |
550,000 biographies more info |
| | Biographical information about over 550,000 people. Includes 380,000 periodical articles and more than 36,000 images. Over 80,00 profiles from reference works published by Garland, Greenwood, Harvard University Press, Houghton Mifflin, Oryx, Oxford University Press, and H. W. Wilson. There are 5,000 biographies from the 2004 edition of the American National Biography. A complete list of such sources is available. |
| | Chicago Manual of Style Online |
text of 15th ed. more info |
| | Electronic version of the style guide includes text of fifteenth edition, as well as quick guide, questions and answers, and additional tools. |
| | Cinema Image Gallery |
200,000 film images more info |
| | 200,000 images from the Kobal Collection. Includes film and television stills, on-set shots of actors and directors, set and costume designs, posters, etc. |
| | Communication and Mass Media Complete |
over 325 journals more info |
| | Includes the full text of over 325 journals in communications and media, as well as citations from several hundred additional titles. To determine its usefulness for a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences, consult the publications list within the database. |
| | Digital Dissertations/Abstracts and Full Text |
citations, abstracts, recent text more info |
| | 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. Most post-1997 dissertations from other institutions are also available from some institutions. To limit your search to CUNY dissertations, include sc(0046) in your search statement. Foreign dissertations can be searched in the Center for Research Libraries' Dissertations from Outside the U.S. and Canada Database, though this resource is no longer being updated. |
 | Directory of Open Access Journals |
free full-text journals more info |
| | Over 3,200 online journals arranged by subject. Supported by SPARC and the Open Society Institute. |
| | Essay & General Literature Index |
indexes essay collections more info |
| | Contains citations to essays in collections of mostly scholarly works and miscellaneous works published since 1984 in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. While there are no abstracts, complete contents of the volumes are listed. An extremely useful resource for all disciplines because it indexes sources not covered elsewhere. |
| | Gale Virtual Reference Library |
200 reference books more info |
| | Full text of 200 reference books published by Gale, including American Civil War Reference Library; Ancient Europe, 8000 BC to AD 1000; Encyclopedia of Aging; Encyclopedia of American Religions; Encyclopedia of Small Business; Encyclopedia of World Biography; Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America; Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History; Vietnam War Reference Library; World Education Encyclopedia. |
| | Humanities Full Text |
indexes journals since 1984 more info |
| | Includes abstracts of articles published in English from 1984 to the present in all fields of the humanities. Includes text from 287 periodicals. |
| | Humanities International Complete |
890 journals more info |
| | Indexes over 2,100 humanities sources, including journals, books, and reference works, with full text of 890 journals. In addition to articles and reviews, the database provides abstracts of fiction, poetry, photographs, and drawings. |
| | JSTOR |
814 scholarly journals more info |
| | The Arts and Sciences I-VII collections of JSTOR offer the full text of 814 scholarly journals in African studies, African-American studies, American Indian studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, Asian studies, business, classical studies, ecology, economics, education, feminist and women's studies, film studies, finance, folklore, geography, history, history of science, language, Latin American studies, law, literature, mathematics, Middle East studies, music, performing arts, philosophy, political science, population studies, psychology, public policy and administration, religion, Slavic studies, sociology, and statistics. (Science titles are available at Hunter, Medgar Evers, New York Tech, and Staten Island, additional business titles at Baruch, Hunter, and Queens.) These JSTOR collections will include 982 titles by the end of 2010. Coverage begins with the first issue of each journal and continues through varying periods within the last five years. Click here for a list of the journals by subject and the available dates. Click
here for an alphabetical list. To establish links to JSTOR articles, click here. JSTOR online help. |
| | LexisNexis |
news, business, legal, and medical database more info |
| | Full-text news, business, legal, and medical database with access to over 12,000 sources. Offers 1,639 news sources from around the world, including most of the world's major English-language newspapers, including The New York Times since June 1, 1980, and Chronicle of Higher Education since September 1997. It also includes many non-English language newspaper titles, as well as scholarly journals, trade journals, popular magazines, sources for legislation statues and codes, scientific and medical publications, and news blogs. |
| | Literature Resources from Gale |
biographies & criticism more info |
| | More than 10,000 bio-critical essays from Dictionary of Literary Biography; biographical information about over 130,000 writers from Contemporary Authors; all entries from Contemporary Literary Criticism since volume 95 and complete profiles of more than 200 of the most studied authors from previous editions of CLC; the Scribner Writers Series of 15-to-20-page essays about over 1,600 writers and literary genres; and the full text of 600 books from Twayne's Author Series. A more detailed description is available. |
| | MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography |
literature & language index more info |
| | MLA, available through Gale's Literature Resource Center, indexes over 3,000 periodicals dealing with literature, language, linguistics, folklore, and popular culture from 1926 to the present. MLA includes the full text from recent issues of 141 journals. A guide to the database is available. |
| | Multi-Database Search |
search all CUNY-wide electronic resources simultaneously more info |
| | This resource allows the simultaneous searching of the full-text and bibliographic databases to which all of CUNY subscribes,as well as the CUNY+ Online Catalog and all EBSCO databases to which the Graduate Center subscribes. It does not include the non-EBSCO resources to which the Graduate Center subscribes independently of CUNY. |
| | NetLibrary |
2,594 scholarly books more info |
| | NetLibrary hosts a collection of 2,594 recent scholarly titles as electronic books. These titles represent all disciplines and are aimed at both undergraduate and graduate research needs. While all of CUNY shares a core of NetLibrary titles, several campuses, including the Graduate Center, have purchased additional titles. NetLibrary also provides access to over 3,400 public-domain titles. While no title list is provided within NetLibrary, one can be created by going to CUNY+, limiting the search to the Graduate Center, and performing the keyword search netlibrary. To use NetLibrary from home, you must first connect to the site on any CUNY campus and click on Create a free account. Accounts can also be created by connecting to NetLibrary remotely. Titles may be checked out for only twenty-four hours. Student accounts are purged at the end of each spring semester, necessitating creating new accounts. This brief guide may also be helpful. Several CUNY campuses own NetLibrary titles not available to Graduate Center affiliates. Mac users must download a free PDF browser plug-in for off-campus use. New York Public Library Electronic books are also available from New York Public Library. Links to numerous sources of public-domain books can be found at The Online Books Page. |
| | New York Public Library Electronic Resources in Film |
more info |
| | Resources available at NYPL's Humanities and Social Sciences Library. |
| | New York Times Full Text |
1851-2006 more info |
| | Actual page images from 1851 through 2006. The coverage for more recent years will become available later. When the results of a search are displayed, you have three retrieval options: 1. bibliographic citation and abstract; 2. article image (retrieved with Adobe Acrobat Reader); 3. page map, displaying the entire page on which the article appears. The full text of the Times since June 1, 1980, is available from Lexis-Nexis. |
| | Oxford Reference Online |
over 100 reference works more info |
| | Text of more than 100 Oxford University Press reference works, including Oxford Companions to American Literature, American Theatre, the Bible, British History, Classical Civilization, History of Modern Science, Music, Philosophy, Politics of the World, Shakespeare, United States History, and Western Art. |
| | Oxford Scholarship Online |
text of scholarly books in humanities and social sciences more info |
| | Text of hundreds of Oxford University Press books in economics and finance, history, linguistics, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and psychology. |
| | Project Muse |
316 scholarly journals more info |
| | Full text of 316 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Click here for a list of the available titles. |
| | ProQuest Platinum Periodicals |
1,509 periodicals more info |
| | Full text of 1,509 periodicals in all disciplines. A title list is available. |
| | Readers' Guide Full-Text |
popular periodicals since 1983 more info |
| | Indexes popular general-interest periodicals from 1983 to the present. |
| | Readers' Guide Retrospective |
indexes periodicals since 1890 more info |
| | Indexes popular general-interest periodicals from 1890 to 1982. |
| | SAGE Communication Studies Collection |
19 journals since 1955 more info |
| | Full text of 19 SAGE communication journals from 1955 to the present. |
| | Theatre in Video  |
over 250 videos more info |
| | 279 videos of plays or drama documentaries. See Alan Arkin, Peggy Ashcroft, Marie-Christine Barrault, Claire Bloom, Zoe Caldwell, Richard Dreyfuss, John Gielgud, Lou Gossett, Jr., Philip Baker Hall, Julie Harris, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, James Earl Jones, Walter Matthau, Helen Mirren, Laurence Olivier, Michel Piccoli, Meryl Streep, John Thaw, Cicely Tyson, Jon Voight, Eli Wallach, and others in plays by Aeschylus, Beckett, Chekhov, Fugard, Gogol, Hansberry, Ibsen, Moliere, O'Neill, Pinter, Pirandello, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Strindberg, and others. |
| | Twayne's Author Series |
biography & criticism more info |
| | Full text of 586 books providing biographical, critical, and bibliographic studies of writers from Chinua Achebe to Emile Zola and overviews of eighteen topics, including French structuralism, Native American literature, and women writers of the English renaissance. These writers and topics may also be searched within Literature Resources from Gale. |
| | World Shakespeare Bibliography |
index of criticism since 1969 more info |
| | Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare published or produced since 1969. The more than 83,000 records in 92 languages cite several hundred-thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings. Note that full-text links will not appear in this database. |
| | WorldCat (FirstSearch) |
holdings of thousands of libraries; make ILL requests through Find it! more info |
| | Holdings of thousands of American and international libraries. Make ILL requests with the Find it! button. Searchable in English, French, and Spanish. See a document guide or online tutorial to the database. See also the freely accessible version of WorldCat. |
| | Worldcat.org |
free catalog of the holdings of thousands of libraries; request ILL items with find-it more info |
| | Free union catalog containing the holdings of thousands of libraries. Use the Find-it at CUNY feature to look up titles in the CUNY library system and to make ILL requests. |
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| | Hollywood Elsewhere |
more info |
| | News, reviews, and commentary. |
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| | MLA Style FAQ |
more info |
| | Answered by MLA |
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| | B-Movie Classics |
free video more info |
| | Free video of such 1950s and 1960s classics as Dark Star, Dragstrip Girl, Hercules Unchained, Teenage Caveman, etc. |
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| | Library of Congress Motion Picture and Television Reading Room |
more info |
| | Access and information services for film and television professionals, archivists, scholars, and researchers. |
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| | Cinématheque Francaise |
more info |
| | Exhibitions, screenings, etc. |
| | George Eastman House |
more info |
| | Museum of film and photography |
| | Museum of Modern Art Film Calendar |
more info |
| | Exhibitions, screenings, talks, etc. |
| | Museum of the Moving Image |
more info |
| | Exhibitions, screenings, talks, etc. |
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| | Arts and Letters Daily |
more info |
| | Links to news items in the humanities. |
| | Movie City News |
more info |
| | News and reviews. |
| | New York Times Film Reviews |
more info |
| | Recent reviews and articles. Older content available from
New York Times Full Text and LexisNexis. |
| | Rotten Tomatoes |
more info |
| | Reviews |
| | Village Voice Film Reviews |
more info |
| | Recent reviews and news. |
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| | American Film Institute |
more info |
| | Education, preservation, etc. |
| | Anthology Film Archives |
more info |
| | International center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet, and Japanese film. |
| | British Film Institute |
more info |
| | Exhibitions, screenings, etc. |
| | Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas |
more info |
| | Screenings, talks, etc. |
| | Film Forum |
more info |
| | Independent, classic, and restored films. |
| | Film Society of Lincoln Center |
more info |
| | Screenings, talks, New York Film Festival, Film Comment, etc. |
| | Women in Film |
more info |
| | Promoting and mentoring women in film. |
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| | All Movie Guide |
more info |
| | Credits, synopses, etc. |
| | BBC Audio Interviews: Actors  |
more info |
| | Bates, Dench, Gielgud, etc. |
| | BBC Audio Interviews: Filmmakers |
more info |
| | Altman, Coppola, Hitchcock, Lean, etc. |
| | Calling the Shots |
interviews with directors more info |
| | BBC interviews with contemporary film directors. |
| | CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture |
more info |
| | Quarterly peer-reviewed open-access journal published by Purdue University Press. |
| | Europa Film Treasures |
Films from 1898 to present more info |
| | Silent and avant-garde films. Free streaming access. |
| | Internet Movie Database |
more info |
| | Credits, news, etc. |
| | Mike Wallace Interview |
arts interviews more info |
| | Television interviews with writers, actors, and others in the arts conducted in 1957-1958. |
| | Museum of the Moving Image Source |
film research more info |
| | Scholarly film articles and detailed guide to film resources online. |
| | Studies in French Cinema |
Open-access, peer-reviewed journal more info |
| | Open-access, peer-reviewed journal published three times a year by the Association for Studies in French Cinema |
| | Turner Classic Movies Database |
more info |
| | Plot summaries, etc. |
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