Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials,
including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals,
and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Try their Basic Search Tutorial
or their Advanced Search Tutorial.
AccuNet
AP Multimedia Archive
Over 700,000 from the Associated Press's current year's photo report, together with a
selection of other 20th Century and contemporary images from world wide sources.
provides FULL TEXT for Association of Computing Machinery periodicals and proceedings from 1985.
ACS Chemical Journals
has more than 26 journals with FULL TEXT articles online from 1996 to present,
through the American Chemical Society.
AIDSearch
- Subject index to HIV and AIDS research (free registration required)
America History and Life -
Citations and abstracts of journal articles, book and media
reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S.
and Canada from more than 2,100 journals in forty languages.
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a Tutorial
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Index covers every area of science, engineering and technology. Included are over 350 trade and
industrial publications, etc., from 1983.
Art Index
Over 400 leading art publications from around the world with information compiled by specialists with expertise in all fields of art to provide an international perspective; from 1984 to present.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901)
collects phrases and proverbs from sources as far back as the ancient world,
but nothing from the twentieth century here.
contains citations to yearly interviews, obituaries, and bibliographies from more than
3,000 periodicals and over 2000 current books; covered from 1984 to present.
BIOSIS
- for access contact the Library (982-4010)
Book Index with Reviewsnew
Available through June 2007 from EBSCO and Baker & Taylor.
BIR is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats,
including large print, books on tape, etc.
Book Review Digest
contains citations and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language books since 1983 in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Britannica Online
provides FULL TEXT articles, with more than 231,000 index entries and relevant Internet links from the print edition plus more;
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Britannica Book of the Year.
Britannica World Data Analyst
View PDFs with up-to-date information for individual countries;
Create tables and charts comparing countries across multiple statistical categories, or focus on statistics for a single country.
Data reflects the most recent available statistics.
Business & Company Resources
is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Try the Baruch College Tutorial.
Business Source Premier
provides FULL TEXT for 2,260 scholarly business journals in management, economics,
finance, accounting, and much more.
Business Wire News (Regional Business News)FULL TEXT newswire database contains wires from around the world covering business,
economic, political, and international news events from the past 30 days.
Cambridge Journals Online -
new
The online content delivery service for Cambridge University Press’s collection of
over 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Click on the link to "Browse Journals by Title or Subject" to see the complete list, or
Access the Subscribed List here.
Chemical & Engineering News Online - from ACS with links to academic, corporate, and government Web sites. Free to all CUNY users, but registration is required.
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature: includes abstracts and references.
On campus links to some full text articles from Ideal, ScienceDirect, and Wiley InterScience
Clinical
Pharmacology: provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant
drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional
supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Drugs
may be searched by their generic or brand names. Clinical Pharmacology also
contains Patient Education Records.
Clinical Reference Systems
- Thousands of essays in English and Spanish, many with images, about such topics as adult health,
behavioral health, drug and medication information, sports medicine, and women's health.
Communication Studies from SAGEnew -
offers the text of 19 SAGE communication journals, including Discourse & Society, New Media & Society,
and Written Communication. CUNY now subscribes to seven SAGE journal collections (listed under "SAGE").
Communications and Mass Media Complete
Consists of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association
(NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State
University). This database provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers,
and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media,
as well as full text of over 200 journals.
Country Studies
- Information about countries world-wide from the Library of Congress,
updated from their printed publications.
CQ Press In Context
A free, nonpartisan resource for information on pivotal events and issues shaping today’s
world of government and politics.
CQ Researcher
The award-winning CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.
Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.
Custom Newspapers
- Full text of 150 national and international newspapers. A list of available
titles can be found by entering the database and clicking the browse button.
Directory of Open Access Journals
This service contains some free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
that aims to cover all subjects and languages.
There are now 766 journals in the directory, which contain thousands of articles.
Dissertation Abstracts International -
indexes 1.6 million dissertations and includes citations from 1861 through 1980.
For access to this database, contact the Library (982-4010)
EbscoHost Databases
Selected databases are available through Ebsco such as
CINAHL, EconLit, ERIC, PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts, etc.
EconLit
Indexes and abstracts of the contents of over 400, primarily English-language
journals as well as articles in collective volumes; citations from 1969, abstracts from 1987 to present.
Full text links through EBSCO and other databases.
Education:
A SAGE Full-Text Collection
includes the full text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies,
some journals going back 36 years with over 7,000 articles.
Subjects covered include methodology, higher education, secondary education,
vocational, measurement & testing, and educational psychology. See the list
of journal
titles included in the Collection.
Education Full Text
contains citations from 1983 and some FULL TEXT articles from 1994
in more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks.
provides FULL TEXT articles, with more than 231,000 index entries and relevant Internet links from the print edition plus more;
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Britannica Book of the Year.
View PDFs with up-to-date information for individual countries;
Create tables and charts comparing countries across multiple statistical categories, or focus on statistics for a single country.
Data reflects the most recent available statistics.
Essay and General Literature Index
contains citations to essays and articles
in collections and miscellaneous works published in English,
with more than 300 volumes added annually.
Ethnic Newswatch
is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story,"
ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990.
Fergusons Career Guidance Center
has industry overviews and resources, career descriptions, scholarships, academic programs and employability skills.
FindArticles.com
- INDEX to locate articles in all subjects, with some full text:
business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Title index available.
FirstSearch Databases - for access to additional databases such as ArticleFirst, Biosis, ContentsFirst - contact the Library (982-4010)
Film Literature Index
Contains 700,000 citations to articles on film, television and video
including production reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. Available FREE
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Over 200 eBook reference works including multi-volume encyclopedias,
biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references,
and specialized reference sources.
Click their "show all" link or the "Title List" link for complete listings.
General Science Abstracts
has indexes to popular and some scholarly articles in magazines and journals
on a range of science subjects; indexes from 1984, abstracts from 1993.
Google Scholar
" Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles,
from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research."
Grove Dictionary of Art
The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day,
and the electronic FULL TEXT version of the 34-volume reference work.
Grove Dictionary of Music Online
includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition).
HAPI: Health & Psychosocial Instruments Database
- Material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians, such as questionnaires, interviews, tests, rating scales, and coding schemes.
Health Reference Center
includes some FULL TEXT articles on fitness,
pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, etc., from 1994.
Health Sciences SAGE Collection
Full text of 30 SAGE journals in nursing and health-related fields from 1982 to the present.
Fourteen journals are available from their first issues.
Health Source
is the Nursing/Academic Edition for nearly 520 scholarly FULL TEXT
journals in many new medical disciplines, with abstracts for over 500 additional journals.
HighWire Press
- Available through Standford University.
As of 1/29/07, they are assisting in the online publication of 1,582,365 free full-text articles and 4,111,735 total articles.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes over 18,000 articles based on review of over 2,100 journals published worldwide, plus books, from 1982. Links to JSTOR are now available.
Click here for a list of the journal titles indexed.
Humanities Abstracts
Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
ICPSR
(Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) -
CSI is a member of this organization, which supplies data sets and other information.
More Information)
IEEE Digital Library
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library provides online access to 20 FULL TEXTsociety magazines and transactions and over 900 selected conference proceedings. Click here for content.
In the First Person (Ebsco)
Is an in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
It lets you keyword search more than 650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life.
It also contains pointers to some 3,500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.
Informe! (Revistas en Espanol)
includes the FULL TEXT of over 100 national and international newspapers; for the list click "Browse" and select up to 10 titles to search.
Infoshare
- Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and much more.
Internet Movie Database -
Contains information about actors, actresses, directors, producers, designers, etc.,
for thousands of films from the earliest through the most recent.
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association.
JSTOR
has FULL TEXT articles from the first issue of several hundred journals
in the Arts & Sciences I & II, General Science, Language & Literature collections.
Try their Search Tutorial or
their Browse Tutorial.
Kluwer
Journals Online: now SpringerLink
Through a consortial arrangement, several CUNY colleges now have access to over
two hundred titles in FULL TEXT from Kluwer/Springer, which in addition
are linked through our EBSCO databases.
is a FULL TEXT database that provides a wide range of news,
business, legal and reference information from over 5000 sources, compiled specifically
for the research needs of academic institutions.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Ebsco) -
This Library Reference Center is specifically designed to help librarians worldwide learn more about technology,
trends and changes in library science. The database contains over three years of indexing and abstracts
from more than 90 of the most popular library titles.
Indexes articles and book reviews in library and information science
periodicals. Includes full-text coverage for selected periodicals from
1994 to present.
American and British Literature. Master index to 675 volumes
of 32 literary series published by Gale Research Inc.
More than 110,000 author names & pseudonyms, and over 120,000 titles.
Criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews, explications, articles, reading lists,
and authors' works in FULL TEXT from Gale's Contemporary Authors, and Literature Criticism series.
Management
and Organizational Studies SAGE Collectionnew
- Full text of 44 SAGE journals in management, organization studies, business, human resources,
marketing, public policy, public administration, and industrial relations from 1947 to the present.
Twenty-one journals are available from their first issues.
MasterFile Premier
1,880 FULL TEXT periodicals, plus biographies and primary sources.
MathSciNet
- searches over 58 years of Mathematical Reviews and
Current Mathematical Publications with some FULL TEXT reviews.
MEDLINE (PubMed),
the database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine,
provides FREE access to bibliographic information in the MEDLINE database.
Over 3,500 journals cover clinical medicine,
experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing and many other topics.
PubMed Central lists over fifty full text journals.
MEDLINEplus:
has FREE access with extensive information for health professionals
and consumers from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources
on hundreds of diseases and conditions.
There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and
dictionaries, information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, and links
to clinical trials.
MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost):
The database with MeSh subject headings produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine
is available through the EBSCOhost online system, which has links to some FULL TEXT articles.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
This database is equivalent to the print version and has FULL TEXT reviews only of more than 2,000 commercially-available educational, personality, aptitude, psychological, achievement and intelligence tests, but not the tests themselves
Merck Index Online -
(Free) The online FULL TEXT edition of The Merck Index is available in text format
or an interactive edition.
Military and Government Collection
is a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The database provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
MLA
Abstracts and Bibliography from Modern Language Association.
Nature Magazinenew
- International Weekly journal of science, with many subject areas:
Chemistry; Clinical Practice & Research; Earth & Environment; Life sciences; Physical sciences.
Access full text back to 1997.
NetLibrary E-Books
- Browse or check out an electronic book after you
Create an Account on campus only, then accessible from home or off-campus with FULL TEXT of entire books online.
New England Journal of Medicine
is one of the premier medical publications, with FULL TEXT from 1993 to present, and abstracts from 1975 to 1992.
NEWSPAPERS:
The New York Times Historical from 1851
Searchable FULL TEXT from the first issue with page format results from 1851-2003.
(Recent issues available from Lexis-Nexis)
New York State Newspapers FULL TEXTBinghamton 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.
Custom Newspapers Full Text
includes the FULL TEXT of 150 national and international newspapers; for the list click "Browse" and select up to 10 titles to search.
Informe! (Revistas en Espanol)
includes the FULL TEXT of over 100 national and international newspapers; for the list click "Browse" and select up to 10 titles to search.
National Newspaper Index
Five major newspaprs indexed: Christian Science Monitor (from 1/1979); Los Angeles Times (from 1/1982); New York Times (from 1/1979); New York Times Book Review (from 1/1977); New York Times Magazine (from 2/1977); Wall Street Journal (from 1/1979) Washington Post (from 2/1980).
Nursing
and Health Sciences SAGE Collection
Full text of 30 SAGE journals in nursing and health-related fields from 1982 to the present.
Fourteen journals are available from their first issues.
NOAH
- NY Online Access to Health with FULL TEXT articles.
Occupational Outlook Handbook is available online as well as in print format.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information,
designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.
Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions,
the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
Online Books -
This website contains FULL TEXT books that are freely readable over the Internet.
It also aims to encourage the development of such on-line books.
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Centernew
provides information on top social issues such as birth control, civil rights, crime, Women's rights and more.
Available material for each topic includes articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents,
links to web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Perseus Digital Library -
Its first project was Greek literature and archaeology; it is now an evolving digital library
for the humanities, with interactions through time, space, and language.
Philosophers' Index
contains citations from the fields of law, religion, science, history, education, and language from 1940 to the present.
Physical Review and Prola
inludes FULL TEXT articles from Physical Review A, B, E, Letters, and the archived back files from1893 for some journals.
PLOS Biology
- Public Library of Science Biology journal available without fees.
PLOS Medicine
- Public Library of Science Medical journal available without fees.
Political
Science SAGE Collection
- Full text of 25 SAGE political science journals from 1981 to the present. Nine journals are available from their first issues.
Population Index from Princeton provides citations only for publications.
Project Muse
- Project MUSE® offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
PsycArticles
- contains more than 25,000 FULL TEXT articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. Links available through PsycInfo.
Psychology:
A SAGE Full-Text Collection (CSA) includes the full text of
30 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals
going back 22 years, and encompasses over 21,600
articles. Subjects covered include applied psychology, assessment, child
development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology,
and social psychology.
PsycInfo contains
more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters,
books, dissertations and technical reports. Summaries of world literature in
psychology and related disciplines; over 1700 periodicals in 27 languages.
More than 60,000 records are added each year through weekly updates.
PubList
- Database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals.
Readers
Guide Retrospective (up to 1982)
The complete database will cover the years 1890 through 1982. The current coverage includes the years 1963 through 1982.
RefWorks
- Collect, manage, format, and share citations and references.
For the college login information, contact the Library Reference Desk (718.982.4010) or
Patrick Williams in CELT at (718.982.4097).
Resources for College Libraries -
From ACRL's Choice and Bowker, the core list shows 65,000 titles in 58 subjects, specifically for academic libraries.
Science Magazine -
new
The premier publication for the latest in science research. Arrives weekly, available from 1997. Index included back to Volume 1 in 1880.
ScienceDirect
provides FULL TEXT for almost 1000 titles from 1997; Abstracts from 1995,
as well as indexing to over 1200 titles from Elsevier.
SciFinder Scholar
is the electronic version "Chemical Abstracts". It provides comprehensive coverage of the world literature of
chemistry including journal articles, book chapters, online publications, patents, conference proceedings,
theses and dissertations, technical reports, government documents, etc.
See details
about its coverage and access information, on-campus use only.
Extensive index to scholarly articles in professional journals.
SocIndex FTnew
- offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and
closely related areas of study.
The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus
designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
This product also contains informative abstracts for 640 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
- Full text of 34 SAGE sociology journals from 1967 to the present. Twelve journals are available from their first issues.
SpringerLink
(formerly Kluwer Journals)
Through a consortial arrangement, several CUNY colleges now have access to over
two hundred titles in FULL TEXT from Kluwer/Springer, which in addition
are linked through our EBSCO databases.
TOPICsearch
is a current events database for social, policial, economic, and scientific issues, with FULL TEXT to over 64,000 articles from more than 3000 diverse sources.
Twayne's Author Series -
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters
books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
TurnItIn -
TurnItIn allows you to compare the text of student papers with websites, other student papers,
and full-text periodical databases to determine whether or not any of their content is plagiarized.
Contact Patrick Williams in CELT to receive the CSI account code and password to set up your account (718.982.4097).
UlrichsWeb Periodical Database
provides data on over 210,000 regularly published and irregularly issued serials
including over 47,000 cessations since 1979.
This reference provides purchasing and contact information
(conventional and electronic) for over 90,000 publishers in 200 countries.
UnionList descriptions of periodicals and library holdings from all OCLC libraries worldwide
- for access to this database, contact the Library (982-4010)
U. S. Bureau of Statistics from the Department of Labor
is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes,
and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies,
State and local governments, business, and labor.
U.S. Government Manual
is the FULL TEXT online handbook for the Federal Government, and includes
information on agencies, officials, programs, and organizations.
U.S. House of Representatives contains
biographical information by name, by state, or by class, as well as committees, legislation histories, and more.
U.S. Senate contains
biographical information by name, by state, or by class, as well as committees, legislation histories, and more.
Web of Science from ISI -
CUNY TRIAL through May 31, 2007.
Includes Science, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes.
Click here for Web of Knowledge,
including Zoological Records, BIOSIS Previews, Derwent Innovations Index, and ISI Proceedings.
Wiley
Interscience Over 100 FULL TEXT journals
online from Wiley for sciences and social sciences, with tables of contents
for hundreds of additional journals.
WORLDCAT
Includes over 40,000,000 records of any type of material cataloged by thousands of OCLC member libraries.
Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
