Popular Journal/Publisher Packages for Science Research
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American Chemical Society PublicationsGraduate Center access to ACS Publications includes full text of 56 ACS journals from their first issues to the present, current and legacy magazines, as well as the following:
- ACS Division Proceedings Online: Browse Proceedings by Division.
- The ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information (3rd Ed.)
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American Institute of Physics JournalsJournals from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and AIP member societies. The Graduate Center Library's subscription includes Applied Physics Letters, Chaos, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, Physics Today, and Review of Scientific Instruments.
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American Physical Society Physical Review JournalsAmerican Physical Society (APS) Physical Review Journals contains the full text of journals published by the American Physical Society. This includes important titles like Physical Review, and Physical Review Letters.
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Annual ReviewsFull text of 49 Annual Reviews in the social sciences, biomedical sciences, and physical sciences with full back files (click through to see the list of available titles).
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IEEE XploreThe IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. IEEE Xplore provides Web access to more than 3-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
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IOPscience ExtraSearch across and access full text of all current and archived journals, as well as e-books from the Institute of Physics (IOP).
- IOP Journal List
- IOP Book List
- IOP Conference Proceedings are also available open access (no login required).
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IOP Conference ProceedingsThe open access IOP Conference Series. Key publishing subject areas include: physics, materials science, environmental science, bioscience, engineering, computational science and mathematics.
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Nature Archive and Nature JournalsFull text of the journal Nature content from 1869 to present, as well as many other Nature titles--click more to see list of journals that are accessible.
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PNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America from 1915 to the present.
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Optics InfobaseOSA offers the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content. This repository includes content from OSA's prestigious journals and co-publications. For full list of journals included, click "more"
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Medicine, and PLoS Pathogens offer open access to recent scientific reports.
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ScienceDirectFull text from 1997 to the present for 2,568 journals and indexing and abstracting of 3,711 titles from their first issues. Most of these journals are in the sciences and social sciences, but there are several in the humanities, mostly in linguistics. The Graduate Center access does not include any electronic books.
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Science MagazineFull text of Science Magazine since 1880.
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SpringerLinkThe Graduate Center has full-text access to recent issues of 2,117 of the 2,970 mostly social science and science journals in this database. Only the articles with a Download PDF link are available in full text.
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Wiley Online LibraryFull text of over 1,600 journals, mostly in the sciences and social sciences, with a few in the humanities. The text of most of these titles is available from 1997 to the present, with earlier access for some titles.
Popular Databases for Science Research
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AGRICOLA Citations to literature created by the National Library of Agriculture and similar institutions. Drawn from 1,400 international journals. Covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the fifteenth century. Useful for researchers in biology and environmental science.
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Applied Science & Technology Source Full-text of over 1,200 journals with coverage dating back to 1913.
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arXiv Open access to over 70,000 e-prints in biology, computer science, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
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General Science Full Text Indexes scholarly, professional, and popular science periodicals published from 1984 to the present in the United States and the United Kingdom. Includes text for 93 publications from 1994 to present.
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Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to search broadly 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.
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GreenFILE Covers global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, pollution, and related issues.
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Gale In Context: Environmental Studies Gale In Context: Environmental Studies focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. Provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics, covering relevant categories including energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, economic development. Also offers interactive maps and contextual multimedia, customizable journals and news, refereed case studies.
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Medline Complete Full text of 2,500 medical journals, back to 1902 for some titles, as well as indexing for over 4,800 biomedical journals. See this guide for more information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central.
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PubMed More than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. See this guide for more information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central.
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PubMed Central Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). See this guide for more information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central.
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Science in Context Science In Context showcases how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues ranging from bacteria to obesity and weather. The collection includes millions of full-text articles that includes national and global publications as well as 200+ experiments, projects, and top reference content.
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Scientific Style and Format Online Now in its eighth edition, the indispensable reference for authors, editors, publishers, students, and translators in all areas of science and related fields has been fully revised by the Council of Science Editors to reflect today’s best practices in scientific publishing.
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SciFinder Scholar Requires registration. An index of chemical and other scientific literature that pulls from the CAplus database of U.S. and international patents, CASREACT, the CAS Registry and Medline. Includes journal articles, substances, reactions, patents and more.
Graduate Center credentials are required for accessing SciFinder Scholar, both on-campus and remotely. To access SciFinder Scholar materials wherever you are, you must register with a gc.cuny.edu or gradcenter.cuny.edu email address. Follow the link below to register. -
SciFinder Scholar (new users register here) Description of this database.
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Web of Science Cited references in all disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Drawn from the top 15% of scholarly journals in more than 250 categories.
Web of Science Core Collection includes: Citation Indexes, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Social Science & Humanities, Book Citation Index–Science, Book Citation Index–Social Sciences & Humanities, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus.
Other databases included in "All Databases" search:
- BIOSIS Citation Index: covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
- Current Contents Connect: tables of contents and bibliographic information from leading scholarly journals and books.
- Data Citation Index: data sets from a wide range of international data repositories
- Derwent Innovations Index: patents and patent citations.
- KCI-Korean Journal Database: managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
- MEDLINE: managed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Russian Science Citation Index: managed by the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY.RU), Russia's largest research information provider.
- SciELO Citation Index: open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
- Zoological Record: taxonomic records, oldest continuing database of animal biology.
GC-Customized Google Scholar and PubMed
Like to use Google Scholar? Bookmark the GC-customized version of Google Scholar. It adds GC library links to articles we have access to, which will vastly improve your Google Scholar experience. When the full text isn't available, the "Find It" links will auto-fill the GC ILL form for you. See ASRC ILL Instructions (above).
Like to use PubMed? Bookmark the GC-customized version of PubMed. Unlike regular PubMed, it includes “Find It” buttons that direct you to full text via the GC library. When the full text isn’t available, the “Find It” buttons will auto-fill the GC ILL form for you.
All Graduate Center Databases
The databases you see on this page are just a small subset of all of the databases (collections of resources) available to you through the Graduate Center Library. See the full A-Z list to see all databases from every discipline.
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Suggest a journal subscriptionThe Graduate Center Library welcomes journal subscription suggestions from the Graduate Center community. The library will carefully consider requests that are consistent with our Collection Policy.