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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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | Grolier Reference Online |
encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases more info |
| | Includes American Language Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed., American Heritage Spanish to English Dictionary, American Heritage English to Spanish Dictionary, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed., and Encyclopedia Americana. |
| | 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. |
| | Journal Citation Reports |
Web of Science citation statistics more info |
| | The number of articles published in journals indexed by the Web of Science and the number of citations to individual journals. This information may be viewed by journal name, subject, publisher, and country or territory. Be sure to choose science or social sciences before selecting a subject. Statistics are available only for 2007. Data for 2008 is expected to become available in the summer of 2009. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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 Linguistics |
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| | Resources available at NYPL's Humanities and Social Sciences Library. |
| | Oxford English Dictionary |
complete second edition more info |
| | The complete contents of the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. A tutorial is available. |
| | 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 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. |
| | RefWorks |
Web-based citation management more info |
| | Web-based citation management software licensed to all CUNY affiliates. See also Zotero and EndNote. Generate footnotes and bibliography in any writing style; organize citations and notes in our own private library. |
| | SAGE Premier |
510 SAGE Journals more info |
| | Full text of 510 SAGE journals in the social sciences, sciences, humanities, technology, and medicine. |
| | ScienceDirect |
1,576 science and social science journals more info |
| | Full text from 1980 to the present for 1,576 journals and indexing and abstracting of all titles from their first issues. While all titles may be searched, CUNY has full-text access only for those journals to whose print versions either CUNY or SUNY subscribes. The green subscribed-journal icon indicates which are accessible in full text. Most of these journals are in the sciences and social sciences, but there are a few in the humanities, mostly in linguistics. To determine which are available in your discipline, click the Journals button at the top of the search screen. Select Subscribed Journals in the Display box and by Subject in the Sort box. Also see Scirus: For Scientific Information Only, which searches the Web and ScienceDirect at once. |
| | 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. |
| | SpringerLink |
1,234 science & social science journals more info |
| | Full text of recent issues of 1,234 mostly social science and science journals.. Only the articles with the green-box symbol are available in full text. While the default search screen is Articles by citation, choose the Articles by text tab for most searches. SpringerLink can also be found at Baruch, Bronx Community College, Brooklyn, City College, Hunter, John Jay, Lehman, Queens, and Staten Island. |
| | 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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| | American Association for Applied Linguistics |
more info |
| | Professional organization whose members engage in research and practice in applied language issues. |
| | American Dialect Society |
more info |
| | Dedicated to the study of the English language in North America and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it. |
| | Association for Computational Linguistics  |
more info |
| | International scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation. |
| | Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing |
more info |
| | Supporting the application of computing in the study of language and literature. |
| | British Association for Applied Linguistics |
more info |
| | Forum for those interested in language and the applications of linguistics. |
| | Center for Applied Linguistics |
more info |
| | Providing a comprehensive range of research-based information, tools, and resources related to language and culture. |
| | Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas |
more info |
| | Promoting the study of the history of all branches of linguistic thought, theoretical and applied, and including non-European traditions. |
| | International Phonetic Association |
more info |
| | Promoting the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. |
| | International Quantitative Linguistics Association |
more info |
| | Applying quantitative mathematical methods to all aspects of language and text phenomena, including the areas of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics, etc., and on all levels of linguistic analysis. |
| | Linguistic Data Consortium |
more info |
| | Supporting language-related education, research, and technology development by creating and sharing linguistic resources: data, tools, and standards. |
| | Linguistic Society of America |
more info |
| | Supporting and disseminating linguistic scholarship both to professional linguists and to the general public. |
| | Modern Language Association |
more info |
| | Official site. |
| | Society for Germanic Linguistics |
more info |
| | Largest organization in North America serving the broad community of scholars teaching and researching in Germanic linguistics and philology, from formal syntax and phonology through historical linguistics to textual editing. |
| | Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
more info |
| | Advancing the scientific study of the languages of the native peoples of North, Central, and South America. |
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| | MLA Style FAQ |
more info |
| | Answered by MLA |
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| | Arts and Letters Daily |
more info |
| | Links to news items in the humanities. |
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| | Ethnologue: Languages of the World |
more info |
| | Encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages. |
| | Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics |
more info |
| | Annual series representing work of faculty, graduate students and people affiliated with the Department of Linguistics at Harvard. |
| | Issues in Applied Lingustics |
more info |
| | Open-access, peer-reviewed journal in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, language analysis, language assessment, language education, language use, and research methodology. |
| | Linguist List |
more info |
| | Conferences, jobs, etc. |
| | Linguistics, Natural Language, and Computational Linguistics Meta-index |
more info |
| | Directory of sites. |
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