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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. |
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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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | Index to Current Urban Documents |
guide to governmental reports more info |
| | Guide to the reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately five-hundred selected cities in the United States and Canada. Over 2,400 documents indexed annually. |
| | 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. |
| | Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR) |
social science data sets more info |
| | Social science data from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | Urban Studies Abstracts |
article abstracts since 1973 more info |
| | Biographic records in community development, urban affairs, urban history, and related areas from 1973 to the present. |
| | Web of Science |
cited references in all disciplines more info |
| | The Graduate Center subscribes to the full run of Web of Science, covering the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. After performing a search, click the Web of Science button for a complete record, which includes a bibliographic citation, abstract, cited references, and times cited. |
| | 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. |
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 | American Planning Association |
more info |
| | A nonprofit public interest and research organization committed to urban, suburban, regional, and rural planning. |
| | Urban History Association |
more info |
| | Dedicated to stimulating interest and forwarding research and study in the history of the city in all periods and geographical areas. It is affiliated with the International Planning History Society.
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| | American Housing Survey (AHS) |
more info |
| | Data on the Nation's housing, household characteristics, income, housing and neighborhood quality, housing costs, equipment and fuels, size of housing unit, and recent movers. |
| | County and City Data Books |
more info |
| | This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000). |
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| | Urban Landscape Digital Image Access Project |
more info |
| | A database of images from various collections held by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. The database contains 1000 images pertaining to the theme "The Urban Landscape," from fourteen different collections. |
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| | City Journal |
more info |
| | Magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute. |
| | Radical Urban Theory |
more info |
| | Writings on the modern urban condition. |
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| | Center for an Urban Future |
more info |
| | A public policy organization dedicated to improving the overall health of New York City and serving its long-term interests by targeting problems facing low-income and working-class neighborhoods in all five boroughs.
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| | Great Cities Institute (GCI) |
more info |
| | The Great Cities Institute (GCI) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) conducts and supports engaged, interdisciplinary, high-impact, research and partnerships that address key urban issues on a local and global scale.
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| | Society for American City and Regional Planning History ((SACRPH) |
more info |
| | An interdisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting scholarship on the planning of cities and metropolitan regions over time, and to bridging the gap between the scholarly study of cities and the practice of urban planning. |
| | Urban Ecology |
more info |
| | Urban Ecology was founded in 1975 by visionary architects and activists who believed that cities should serve both people and nature. |
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| | City Population |
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| | Population of the major cities and agglomerations for each country. |
| | H-URBAN |
more info |
| | A moderated, multi-disciplinary forum for discussion and dissemination of scholarship on urban history and urban studies. |
| | Old York Library |
more info |
| | A collection of New York City books, photos, prints, maps, newspapers, postcards pamphlets, memorabilia and artifacts |
| | State of the Cities Data Set (SOCDS) |
more info |
| | The SOCDS provides data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs. |
| | Taub Urban Research Center |
more info |
| | Hub for urban policy research. Its mission is to produce cutting-edge research on pressing urban issues that can help to promote the healthy functioning of cities.
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| | Urban Environmental Management |
more info |
| | WWW Virtual Library on Urban Environmental Management. |
| | Urban Reinventors Online Urban Journal |
more info |
| | A collection of writings, commentaries, reportages, photographic galleries, films and videos on urban topics. Each thematic issue is meant to lead the reader into a fascinating journey around the bright and dark sides of our contemporary urban condition.
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| | Urban Studies Links from H-Net |
more info |
| | Links to websites related to urban history or urban studies. |
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