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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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
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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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) |
free access more info |
| | British Library provides free access to records of over 460,000 items published in English between 1473 and 1800. |
| | 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. |
| | 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+. |
| | 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. |
| | 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+. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
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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 Theatre |
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. |
| | 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 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 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. |
| | 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. |
| | RILM Music Abstracts |
indexes over 300 journals more info |
| | Over 250,000 citations from more than 300 journals and others sources from 1969 to the present. This database is updated monthly. Also see Searching for Music Scores and Sound Recordings in CUNY+. |
| | RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals |
1800-1950 more info |
| | International bibliography of writings on musical history and culture from periodicals published in seventeen countries between 1800 and 1950. Included are over 5,000 English translations of foreign-language records. The database is the creation of the International Musicological Society, the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres, and UNESCO's International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies, with contributions from individual scholars, archivists, and librarians in North America and Europe. Coverage of Latin American publications is being planned. Approximately 20,000 records are added annually. Also see Searching for Music Scores and Sound Recordings in CUNY+. |
| | RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 |
guide to manuscripts, libretti, etc. more info |
| | The database, also known as Repertoire international des sources musicales, aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools, and private collections and is considered the most comprehensive annotated guide to such sources. It includes more than 564,000 items by over 19,500 composers. The manuscripts reside in over 740 libraries and archives in 31 countries. At least 20,000 new records are added each year.Also see Searching for Music Scores and Sound Recordings in CUNY+. |
| | SAGE Premier |
510 SAGE Journals more info |
| | Full text of 510 SAGE journals in the social sciences, sciences, humanities, technology, and medicine. |
| | 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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| | Centre for Research in Early English Drama |
more info |
| | Research in English theater from middle ages to 1642. |
| | International Federation for Theatre Research |
more info |
| | Promoting collaboration and the exchange of information between individuals and organizations concerned with theatre research. |
| | International Theatre Institute |
more info |
| | Promoting international exchange of knowledge and practice in theatre arts |
| | League of Historic American Theatres |
more info |
| | Promoting the rescue, rehabilitation and sustainable operation of historic theatres throughout North America. |
| | Modern Language Association |
more info |
| | Official site. |
| | Performance Studies International |
more info |
| | Promoting communication and exchange between scholars and practitioners working in the field of performance. |
| | Society for Theatre Research |
more info |
| | Resources for those interested in the history and technique of the British theatre. |
| | Theatre Historical Society of America |
more info |
| | Recording and preserving the architectural, cultural, and society history of American theatres. |
| | Theatre Library Association |
more info |
| | Preserving theatrical materials. |
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| | MLA Style FAQ |
more info |
| | Answered by MLA |
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| | Folger Shakespeare Library |
more info |
| | Renaissance resources. |
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| | Performing Arts Encyclopedia |
more info |
| | Resources at the Library of Congress. |
| | SIBMAS: International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts |
more info |
| | Promoting research, practical and theoretical, in the documentation of the performing arts. |
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| | Arts and Letters Daily |
more info |
| | Links to news items in the humanities. |
| | New York Times Film Reviews |
more info |
| | Recent reviews and articles. Older content available from
New York Times Full Text and LexisNexis. |
| | New York Times Theater Reviews |
more info |
| | Includes archives back to 1905. |
| | NY Theatre |
more info |
| | News and reviews. |
| | Village Voice Film Reviews |
more info |
| | Recent reviews and news. |
| | Village Voice Theater Reviews |
more info |
| | Recent reviews and news. |
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| | Comedie Francaise |
more info |
| | Theatrical company. |
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| | BBC Audio Interviews: Actors  |
more info |
| | Bates, Dench, Gielgud, etc. |
| | BBC Audio Interviews: Filmmakers |
more info |
| | Altman, Coppola, Hitchcock, Lean, etc. |
| | BBC Audio Interviews: Playwrights |
more info |
| | Coward, Orton, Pinter, Shaw, etc. |
| | Broadway Photographs: Art Photography and the American Stage, 1900-1930 |
more info |
| | Arranged by performers and photographers. |
| | Calling the Shots |
interviews with directors more info |
| | BBC interviews with contemporary film directors. |
| | Drama, Theater, and Performance Art Studies |
more info |
| | Voice of the Shuttle links. |
| | Europa Film Treasures |
Films from 1898 to present more info |
| | Silent and avant-garde films. Free streaming access. |
| | Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD) |
more info |
| | Descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world. |
| | Internet Broadway Database |
more info |
| | Records of productions from beginning to present. |
| | Mike Wallace Interview |
arts interviews more info |
| | Television interviews with writers, actors, and others in the arts conducted in 1957-1958. |
| | Official London Theatre Guide |
more info |
| | Current productions and news. |
| | Playbill |
more info |
| | Current productions and news. |
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