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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 to improve your searching skills.
ACM Digital Library 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.
The American Civil War Research Database new is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded semiannually
Anthropological Index Online searches journal articles from the British Library's catalog.
AP Images - 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.
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.
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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.
Biography Reference Bank new contains some FULL TEXT as well as citations to yearly interviews, obituaries, and bibliographies from more than 3,000 periodicals and over 2000 current books; covered from 1984 to present.
Black Thought and Culture new from Alexander Street Press, is a FULL TEXT database, and contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Usually complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, letters and other fugitive material.
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.
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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.
Child Abuse and Neglect Index - Subject index but free registration required

Chronicle of Higher Education - new The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. With CSI library's Chronicle site license purchase, you can access all of The Chronicle's Web pages. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday. You can search articles from The Chronicle since 1989, and browse issues of The Chronicle of Higher Education since January 6, 1995, by date.
CIAO = Columbia International Affairs Online - new is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.
CINAHL PLUS with FT - new - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature: includes abstracts, references, and much full text. On campus links to other full text databases as well.
Cochrane Library for Healthcare - is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information, from other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials – all the current evidence in one single environment.
Communication Studies from SAGE new - 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").
Community of Science - This tool enables you to research funding opportunities across a wide spectrum of sources and subject matters. search the world's most comprehensive funding resource, with more than 22,000 records representing nearly 400,000 opportunities, worth over $33 billion. Free registration enables searching from anywhere.
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.
County and City Data Books (GEOSTAT) Contains the online version of the 1988 and 1994 Data Books.
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.
CUNY Libraries Electronic Resources List of all databases and e-journals acquired by CUNY Central.
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.
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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)
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Earthscape - new An online resource on the global environment. Eathscape is a comprehensive aggregation of resources in the Earth and Environmental Sciences. This summer, Earthscape adds publications from the United Nations Environment Programme as well as various organizations addressing environmental issues across Asia.
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.
Education Statistics at a Glance from the Digest of Education Statistics with full text of several sources.
Encyclopaedia 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.
Encyclopaedia 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.
ERIC (Documents from 1994-2003) - government source now holds FULL TEXT books and reports published through ERIC.
ERIC from EBSCO provides full text options from a variety of sources. Try the Hunter College ERIC Tutorials, but use the CSI link to ERIC for remote access.
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.
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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

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia with FULL TEXT articles on a wide range of topics.
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Gale Virtual Reference - new titles - Now over 400 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.
GARTNER - Available only through the CUNY Portal. The Gartner database provides research and analysis about the global information technology industry. Gartner is currently available only via the CUNY portal. Users must click here to log-in in order to access it.
General Science Collection - (NOVEL) Provides information on all aspects of the scientific world. The database offers FULL TEXT coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications including Archaeology, Astronomy, International Wildlife, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others. Subject areas covered include the observation, description, identification, and experimental investigation of phenomena, and the application of science to industrial or commercial objectives.
General Science Full Text - new fulltext - has indexes and FULL TEXT 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."
GreenFILE new Abstracts and select full-text of articles from scholarly, government, and general interest publications that address human impact on the environment. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Grove Art Online Grove Art Online is now Oxford Art Online
Grove Music Online Grove Music Online is now Oxford Music Online
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HAPI: Health & Psychosocial Instruments Database - Material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians, such as questionnaires, interviews, tests, rating scales, and coding schemes.
Health & Wellness Resource Center Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, HWRC delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness.
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.
Humanities Full Text new fulltext Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
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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.
IMDB - Internet Movie Database - Contains information about actors, actresses, directors, producers, designers, etc., for thousands of films from the earliest through the most recent.
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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 and Browse Tutorials.
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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.
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LearningExpress Library new - Practise tests and guides: TOEFL, Teachers' certificates, reading and math, GRE, SAT, ACT, etc. From CUNY.
Legal Resources from FindLaw available to all users. Laws and cases, law schools, law reviews, exams, business law, etc.
Lexis-Nexis Academic 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.
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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.
Library Literature Full Text Library Literature Full Text (CUNY) Indexes articles and book reviews in library and information science periodicals. Includes full-text coverage for selected periodicals from 1994 to present.
Literary Index 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.
Literature Resource Center Criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews, explications, articles, reading lists, and authors' works in FULL TEXT from Gale's Contemporary Authors, and Literature Criticism series.
LLMC (Law Library Microfilm Collection Digital) - available to CUNY Campuses. World's largest collection of legal literature and government documents.
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Management and Organizational Studies SAGE Collection new - 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 Includes periodicals, biographies and primary sources, with nearly 500 FULL TEXT reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
MathSciNet - searches over 58 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications with some FULL TEXT reviews.
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Index - Searchable index of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Search for your topic and then locate the appropriate volume on the shelf in the Reference area [Call Number: Q121.M3 2007].
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 International Bibliography Search over two million bibliographic citations to journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations on language, literature, literary theory and criticism.
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Nature Magazine new - 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:
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 Times - Some content is available back to 1981; free registration is required to view articles.
New York Times (Lexis-Nexis) - FULL TEXT from June 1980. Abstracts from 1969.
New York Times is available in other formats at CSI
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.
Financial Times - From the middle of October 2007 visitors to the FT's website will be able to see up to 30 articles a month for free.
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).
New York State Newspapers FULL TEXT Binghamton 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.
Staten Island Advance (NY) from August 2006 (Lexis-Nexis): The current circulation is 68,700 daily and 88,300 Sunday. The Advance was first published in 1886 by the printer John J. Crawford and the businessman James C. Kennedy as the Richmond County Advance.
Wall Street Journal - FULL TEXT of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to present.
New York Public Library Resources - Additional databases like "Facts.com," "Books in Print," "World Book."
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.
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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 Center new 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.
Optical Society of America - Journal A & Journal B - "A" has developments in any field of classical optics, image science, and vision; "B" deals with optics, lasers, and nonlinear optics.
Oxford Art Online - new content - Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online) is a gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Users can choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. This functionality allows access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online.
Oxford English Dictionary - "The Definitive Record of the English Language" with the complete 2nd edition online, plus updates as entered.
Oxford Music Online - new content - Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online) is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference books in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes).
Oxford Reference Online new - Reference works including dictionaries and encyclopedias, maps, who's who. Click here for the SUBJECT lists.
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Palgrave Dictionary of Economics new Full text of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition. Contains nearly 2000 articles covering all aspects of economic theory, research, and history.
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 (EBSCO) 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 from 1893 for some journals.
Physical Review A
Physical Review B
Physical Review E
Physical Review Letters
PROLA
Physics Journals from AIP with 26 FULL TEXT journals available.
Physics Journals from IOP Over 10 FULL TEXT journals available.
PLOS Biology - Public Library of Science biology journals available without fees.
PLOS Medicine - Public Library of Science medical journals 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.
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Readers Guide Full Text (1983 to present) new fulltext Index and abstracts as well as FULL TEXT to a range of popular magazine articles.
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.
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SAGE Collections - Search all of the collectons listed below together by subject area.
SAGE Communication Studies
SAGE Education Collection
SAGE Health Sciences Collection
SAGE Management and Organizational Studies Collection
SAGE Political Science Collection
SAGE Psychology Collection
SAGE Sociology Collection
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.
Science Reference Center (NOVEL) - A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-specific content. Designed to support middle and high school curriculum, Science Reference Center encompasses all disciplines of science. Biology, chemistry, earth, space, life, physical, and environmental sciences are covered as well as health and medicine, science in society, science as inquiry, history of science, technology, scientists, and wildlife. With 639 full text titles from reference books, encyclopedias, periodicals, newspapers, biographies and images.
ScienceDirect provides FULL TEXT for almost 2000 titles from 1995 in addition to abstracts from much earlier dates. ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
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.
Social Explorer - new - Features thousands of interactive demographic maps and reports from 1940 to 2000, as well as a full-featured reporting engine that makes historical demographic research fast and easy.
Social Sciences Full Text - new full text - Extensive index and FULL TEXT to scholarly articles in professional journals.
SocIndex FT - new - 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.
Sociology SAGE Collection - 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.
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THOMAS: Congressional Information contains FULL TEXT of public bills and laws, committee reports, etc.
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.
Trial Databases from CUNY
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).
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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)
United Nations web site offers a wealth of information for all subjects, and the following guides may help to locate relevant information.
"Twelve Portals to the E World of United Nations Documents" from Princeton.
"The E World of United Nations Documents" from Princeton.
U.S. Bureau of Labor 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. Census The official web site for the 2000 and 1990 census, with some information from the 1930 census, and the 2008 Statistical Abstract of the United States online.
U.S. Congressional Directory contains members of the latest Congress, now the 107th for 2001-2002, and back to the 104th Congress from 1995-1996.
U.S. Government Catalog of Publications (MOCAT) lists citations for any government publication.
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.

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ValueLine available from the Reference Desk only.
Virtual Reference from Gale - 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.
Wall Street Journal - FULL TEXT of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to present.
Wiley Interscience Over 200 FULL TEXT journals online from Wiley for sciences and social sciences, with tables of contents for hundreds of additional journals. Click here for list of titles available to CUNY.
Women and Social Movements new This Scholar's Edition will also include the full text of the complete five volumes of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, available for the first time in electronic form. It also includes 74 document projects with 2,200 documents, 29,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,600 primary authors. It includes as well book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
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.

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