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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. |
| America: History & Life |
indexes over 1,700 journals more info |
| | Abstracts of articles and reviews from over 1,700 journals published since 1954. |
| 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. |
| Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes |
more info |
| | Primary and secondary sources focusing on Spanish and Hispanic-American literature and culture. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Ethnic News Watch |
American ethnic newspapers, etc. more info |
| | A full-text database for American ethnic newspapers, magazines, and journals in English and Spanish. |
| Film Literature Index |
free 1976-2001 index more info |
| | Indexes all the content of 150 film and television journals from 30 countries and selectively indexes 200 additional periodicals. Includes 700,000 citations of articles, film reviews, and book reviews from 1976-2001. This resource is not being updated. Also see Searching for DVDs and Videocassettes in CUNY+. |
| Grove Art |
art dictionary more info |
| | Electronic version of Grove's The Dictionary of Art. Also includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and 100,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library. The 34 volumes of the text edition of Grove Art are available in the library's reference collection under Ref. N31.D5 1996. Also see the library's guide to the database. |
| Grove Music |
music dictionary more info |
| | Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. Also includes The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. The 29 volumes of the text edition are available in the library's reference collection under Ref. ML100.N48 2001. The Concise Grove is free from WQXR. Grove Music also includes the contents of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. A guide to the database is available. Also see the library's guide to the database, as well as
Searching for Music Scores and Sound Recordings in CUNY+. |
| HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index |
indexes over 600 journals more info |
| | Indexes Latin American economic, political, and social issues as well as arts and letters from 1970 to the present, providing citations of articles from more than 600 journals. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| LitFinder |
thousands of literary works; trial ends August 31, 2010 more info |
| | 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 has a trial through August 31, 2010. LitFinder text appears with the results of searches in Literature Resources from Gale. |
| LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts |
indexes 1,500 journals more info |
| | Bibliographic citations from over 1,500 linguistic and language periodicals from 1973 to the present. A detailed description of LLBA 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. |
| Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art) |
art dictionary more info |
| | Electronic version of Grove's The Dictionary of Art. Also includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and 100,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library. The 34 volumes of the text edition of Grove Art are available in the library's reference collection under Ref. N31.D5 1996. Also see the library's guide to the database. |
| Oxford Language Dictionaries Online |
language dictionaries more info |
| | Translations of over 2,000 French, German, Italian, and Spanish words and phrases.
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| Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music) |
music dictionary more info |
| | Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. Also includes The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. The 29 volumes of the text edition are available in the library's reference collection under Ref. ML100.N48 2001. The Concise Grove is free from WQXR. Oxford Music Online also includes the contents of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. A guide to the database is available. Also see the library's guide to the database, as well as Searching for Music Scores and Sound Recordings in CUNY+. |
| 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. |
| Social Sciences Citation Index |
cited references since 1990 more info |
| | Bibliographic citation, abstract, cited references, and times cited. These records are for articles in major social science journals from 1975 to the present. To search only this portion of Web of Science, scroll to bottom of search screen and check only Social Sciences Citation Index. Scopus is a similar citation index. |
| Social Services Abstracts |
indexes journals since 1980 more info |
| | Abstracts of articles from 1980 to the present. |
| SocIndex with Full Text |
journals, books, conference papers more info |
| | This EBSCO database indexes 2,540 journals in the social sciences, with full text as far back as 1895 for 253 journals, as well as the text for an additional 72 journals, 547 books, and 6,711 American Sociological Association and American Society of Criminology conference papers. |
| Sociological Abstracts |
indexes 2,600 journals more info |
| | Bibliographic citations from 2,600 journals concerned with sociology and related disciplines from 1963 to the present. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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| Handbook of Latin American Studies |
Library of Congress bibliography on Latin America more info |
| | A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by academics, edited by staff of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. |
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| lanic (Latin American Network Information Center) |
directory of organizations more info |
| | A directory of organizations produced by the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin. In English, Spanish and Portuguese. |