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 | 19th Century Masterfile |
index of documents before 1925 more info |
| | Also known as Poole's Plus, this database includes over eight million citations to periodical articles, books, patents, and American and British government documents before 1925. Note that full-text links will not appear in this database.  |
| | 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. |
| | ACLS Humanities E-Book Project |
1,700 books more info |
| | Over 1,700 titles from 250 publishers selected by the American Council of Learned Societies for their lasting research value in the humanities. A title list is available. |
| | America: History & Life |
indexes over 1,700 journals more info |
| | Abstracts of articles and reviews from over 1,700 journals published since 1954. |
| | Annual Reviews |
all 38 titles more info |
| | Full text of 38 Annual Reviews in the social sciences, biomedical sciences, and physical sciences from 1996 to the present. Earlier years of the Annual Reviews of Anthropology, Ecology and Systematics, and Sociology are available from JSTOR. Earlier years of the Annual Reviews of Genetics and Psychology are available from Academic Search Premier. Earlier years of Annual Review of Microbiology are available from Health Reference Center. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present |
monographs, essays, etc. more info |
| | Over 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, speeches, letters, and interviews. The 1,100 figures covered, when the database is complete, will include James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ralph Bunche, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Huey Newton, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Bobby Seale, Booker T. Washington, Cornel West, and Richard Wright. |
| | Book Review Digest Plus |
excerpts from reviews more info |
| | Provides excerpts from reviews of fiction and nonfiction in the humanities, social sciences, general sciences, and popular topics published in English since 1983. Full text from a core of 45 periodicals, with additional text from other Wilson databases. Textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences are not included. Also see
Finding Book Reviews. |
| | 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. |
| | CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online |
46 international affairs journals more info |
| | Full text of recent issues of 46 international affairs journals, as well as case studies and working papers. Abstracts only for additional journals. Access from home requires registering for CIAO access while at the Graduate Center. |
| | 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. |
| | Early English Books Online (EEBO) |
118,500 books more info |
| | Scanned images of the text of over 118,500 books published in English between 1473 and 1700. Information about resizing text, printing multiple pages, and citing EEBO titles is available. |
| | Economist |
1843-2003 archive more info |
| | Historical archive of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. Search Journals for sources of recent issues. |
| | Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) |
over 150,000 books more info |
| | ECCO offers every page of 150,000 books published during the eighteenth century in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh. In addition to searches by author, title, and publisher, these books may be searched by individual categories such as fine arts, history and geography, law, literature and language, medicine, science, and technology, religion and philosophy, social sciences, general reference, or a combination of two or more subjects. Illustrated works may be searched by cartoon, map, music, portrait, etc. ECCO may also be browsed by author and title. |
| | 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. |
 | H-POL |
more info |
| | Scholarly discussion of American political history. |
| | Historical Abstracts |
indexes over 1,700 journals more info |
| | Indexes over 1,700 journals in fifty languages as well as dissertations and selected monographs from 1954 to the present. |
| | 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. |
| | In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narratives |
index to repositories more info |
| | Index to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in libraries and other repositories around the world. |
| | Infoshare |
New York City demographics more info |
| | Demographic information about New York City drawn from city, state, and federal sources. Also includes some national statistics. Use the raw data to create customized tables. The information in Infoshare is supplemented by many free Web sites, including National Priorities Project Database, which provides a range of statistics relating to labor, poverty, and social programs by state. |
| | Iter Bibliography |
secondary medieval and renaissance bibliography more info |
| | Indexes 1,707 journals published since 1784, over 96,000 books, over 190,000 essays from over 7,300 books, and over 1,500 dissertations since 1990 about the middle ages and renaissance. Bibliography contains more than 1,010,000 records. Find it! does not work with this resource. To see possible links to full text in Iter Bibliography, select the Full Details of a record and then the Check for full text box. |
| | Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
bibliographies more info |
| | Graduate Center's subscription includes Iter Bibliography, Iter Italicum, Milton Bibliography, the journals Early Theatre and Renaissance and Reformation, and the forthcoming Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500-1640 and Baptisteria Sacra. Find it! does not work with these resources. To see possible links to full text in Iter Bibliography, select the Full Details of a record and then the Check for full text box. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | Making of the Modern World |
economics texts 1450-1905 more info |
| | The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature covers economics, banking, finance, transportation, manufacturing, history, political science, and sociology and includes the text of 61,000 books published during 1460-1850 as well as 466 pre-1906 serials. |
| | 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 State Newspapers |
10 newspapers more info |
| | Full text of Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, Buffalo News, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Times, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Syracuse Herald-American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Westchester Journal News. Also see LexisNexis, New York Times Full Text, and Custom Newspapers. |
| | 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. |
| | Nineteenth Century Masterfile |
index of documents before 1925 more info |
| | Also known as Poole's Plus, this database includes over eight million citations to periodical articles, books, patents, and American and British government documents before 1925. |
| | 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. |
| | SAGE Political Science Collection |
29 journals since 1890 more info |
| | Full text of 29 SAGE political science journals from 1890 to the present. |
| | SAGE Premier |
510 SAGE Journals more info |
| | Full text of 510 SAGE journals in the social sciences, sciences, humanities, technology, and medicine. |
| | Scopus |
science & social science index more info |
| | Abstract and citation database indexes 15,000 international peer-reviewed journals in the social sciences, sciences, and medicine from 1996 to the present. A more detailed description is available, as is a very helpful tutorial. |
| | 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 Sciences Full Text |
indexes articles since 1983 more info |
| | Indexes English-language periodicals in the social sciences from 1983 to the present. Includes abstracts for articles published beginning January 1994. Includes full text from 250 periodicals. |
| | 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. |
| | Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 |
primary sources more info |
| | Offers over 72,000 pages of documents and 800 images from the State Commissions on the Status of Women, with approximately 5,000 pages to be added annually. Also included is the first three volumes of Harvard University Press's Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, with the remaining volumes to be added in 2009-2010. |
| | 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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| | Oxford English Dictionary |
complete second edition more info |
| | The complete contents of the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. A tutorial is available. |
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| | MLA Style FAQ |
more info |
| | Answered by MLA |
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| | Bureau of Labor Statistics |
more info |
| | The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. |
| | Google U.S. Government Search |
more info |
| | Government Document Search Engine.
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| | Government Document Center (Univ. of Michigan) |
more info |
| | The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news. |
| | Military & Government Collection |
300 military publications more info |
| | Full text of nearly 300 military and general-interest publications as well as indexing and abstracting for an additional 400 titles. Also includes full text of 245 pamphlets. |
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| | Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: Avalon Project at Yale Law School |
more info |
| | Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. |
| | Nineteenth Century Serials Edition |
6 periodicals more info |
| | Complete runs of five nineteenth-century periodicals and a decade of a sixth. Includes advertisements. Free access provided by King's College, London. |
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| | American Social History Project at the Graduate Center |
more info |
| | American Social History Project at the Graduate Center |
| | Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service |
more info |
| | Research on early modern English manuscript materials. |
| | Chronology of US Historical Documents |
more info |
| | US Historical Documents |
| | Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World |
more info |
| | Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
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| | Directory of Open Access Journals in History |
more info |
| | Directory of Open Access Journals in History |
| | Gotham Center for New York City History at the Graduate Center |
more info |
| | Gotham Center for New York City History at the Graduate Center |
| | Historical Photo Database |
more info |
| | Links to websites with historical photographs from 1900 to 1940 |
| | The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown Uni.) |
more info |
| | Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
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| | Medieval Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center |
more info |
| | Medieval Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center |
| | Old York Library |
more info |
| | A collection of New York City books, photos, prints, maps, newspapers, postcards pamphlets, memorabilia and artifacts |
| | Renaissance Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center |
more info |
| | Renaissance Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center |
| | Russian and East European History |
more info |
| | Web directory by the History Department, Tennessee Technological University. |
| | Virtual Library--History |
more info |
| | Virtual Library--History |
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