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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. |
| | 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. |
| | Chronicle of Higher Education |
current issue more info |
| | To browse the current issue, you must enter your Graduate Center computer network user name and password. In addition, the text of The Chronicle of Higher Education is available from September 1997 to the present through
LexisNexis. Select Power Search and then, from the Sources dropdown menu, University Wire. As with all titles available through
LexisNexis, there is no browsing. You must search for specific subjects, authors, or articles. |
| | 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in the Center for Research Libraries' Dissertations from Outside the U.S. and Canada Database, though this resource is no longer being updated. |
| | Education Full Text |
text from 350 journals more info |
| | Abstracts of articles from over 600 publications since June 1983 and full text of articles from over 350 publications, many beginning with 1996. Through June 2010, the database may be searched in combination with Education Index Retrospective. |
| | Education Full Text and Education Index Retrospective |
indexes journals from 1929 to present more info |
| | The bibliographic citations in Education Index Retrospective may be searched in combination with Education Full Text. Education Index Retrospective provides bibliographic citations to 500 periodicals published between 1929 and 1983. Education Full Text includes text from recent issues of 350 periodicals. |
| | Education Index Retrospective |
bibliographic citations 1929-1983 more info |
| | Bibliographic citations for over 500 education publications from 1929 through 1983. |
| | Education Research Complete |
1,700 journals and books more info |
| | Includes full text of nearly 1,200 journals and more than 500 books and monographs. Includes indexing for an additional 1,000 journals. |
| | Educational Curriculum & Methods |
scholarly publishing opportunities more info |
| | Information about scholarly publishing opportunities. |
| | ERIC (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts version) |
indexes education resources more info |
| | ERIC provides bibliographic citations from over 600 education journals from 1966 to the present. A guide to the database is available. ERIC documents, those with ED, not EJ, numbers, are available on microfiche on the second floor of the library from ED 000001 through ED 462533. Other ERIC documents may be available at the government's ERIC site. |
 | ERIC (DOE version) |
more info |
| | The open access version of ERIC, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the Dept. of Education (DOE). |
| | ERIC (EBSCO version) |
indexes education resources more info |
| | ERIC provides bibliographic citations from over 600 education journals from 1966 to the present. ERIC documents, those with ED, not EJ, numbers, are available on microfiche on the second floor of the library from ED 000001 through ED 462533. Other ERIC documents may be available at the government's ERIC site. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | Professional Development Collection |
education journals & reports more info |
| | Provides the full text of 550 education journals and more than 200 educational reports. Indexes an additional 150 journals. |
| | PsycArticles |
APA journals more info |
| | Covers general psychology and basic, applied, specialized, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. Contains over 25,000 articles from 45 American Psychological Association journals and eight journals from related organizations from 1985 to the present. Also includes letters to the editor and errata. Purchased with Student Technology Fee funds. |
| | PsycBooks |
500 APA books more info |
| | This American Psychological Association (APA) database provides the full text of more than 500 APA books published from 1950 through 2003, including over 100 out-of-print titles. Also included are 75 archival resources from other publishers dating back to the early nineteenth century and more than 1,500 entries from Encyclopedia of Psychology, published in 2000 by APA and Oxford University Press. |
| | PsycInfo |
abstracts since 1872 more info |
| | The Web version of Psychological Abstracts provides abstracts of articles from nearly 2,000 journals in thirty-five languages since 1872 and abstracts of books and essays in books from 1987 to the present. |
| | SAGE Education Collection |
36 journals since 1917 more info |
| | Full text of 36 SAGE education journals from 1917 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | Wiley InterScience Journals |
over 300 science and social science journals more info |
| | Full-text of more than 300 social science and science journals published by Wiley and Blackwell is available on fourteen CUNY campuses: Baruch, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Bronx Community College, Brooklyn, City, Graduate Center, Hunter, John Jay, Kingsborough Community College, Lehman, Medgar Evers, Queens, Staten Island, and York. The text is available for most journals beginning in 1997. Many Wiley journals provide online access to accepted articles before the print editions are published. Note that search results are displayed for more than 600 journals, not just those to which the Graduate Center has access. If link does not lead to text, the Graduate Center does not have access. All available titles are listed at Journals. |
| | 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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| | Teachers |
more info |
| | From the Library of Congress, a web site designed to help teachers use primary resources in their teaching. Includes digital collections and links to professional development tutorials |
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