Popular Journal/Publisher Packages for Science Research
- American Chemical Society PublicationsGraduate Center access to ACS Publications includes full text of more than 80 ACS journals from their first issues to the present; current and legacy magazines; and the following:
- ACS Division Proceedings Online: Browse Proceedings by Division
- ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
- 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 Reviews, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Physics Today, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Review of Scientific Instruments, American Journal of Physics, Physics of Fluids, and AIP Advances.
- American Physical Society Physical Review JournalsContains the full text of journals published by the American Physical Society, including important titles like Physical Review, and Physical Review Letters. Journals cover quantum information science; atomic, molecular, and optical physics; condensed matter and materials physics; particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology; statistical, nonlinear, biological and soft matter physics; accelerator science and technology; theoretical applications of physics; and research on fluids and materials.
- Annual Reviews
Full text of 51 Annual Review journals in the social sciences, biomedical/life sciences, physical sciences and economics. The literature reviews synthesize current understanding of a topic, set the work in historical context, and include extensive bibliographies. Search across or browse reviews and journals in more than 45 scientific disciplines, including anthropology, astrophysics, biochemistry, criminology, earth and planetary sciences, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology.
- Cell Press JournalsCell Press publishes over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies. Browse through for Cell content as well as:
- 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 5.5 million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. Includes journals, conference papers, technical standards, books, and courses.
- 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).
- IOP Conference ProceedingsThe IOP Conference Series includes open access proceedings from science conferences held worldwide. Key topics include physics, materials science, environmental science, bioscience, engineering, computational science, and mathematics.
- Nature Journals and ArchiveFull text of the journal Nature from 1869 to present, as well as many other Nature titles. Click more to see a selection from among the dozens of journals that are accessible.
- PNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America from 1915 to the present.
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)PLOS is a nonprofit, open access publisher of the peer reviewed, Plan S compliant, and open data compliant journals PLOS Biology, PLOS Climate, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Digital Health, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS ONE, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, and PLOS Water.
- ScienceDirectFull text for 2,600+ peer-reviewed journals and indexing and abstracting for many additional titles from their first issues. Most of the journals are in the sciences and social sciences, but there are several in the humanities, mostly in linguistics. Graduate Center access also includes indexing, abstracts, and tables of contents (but not full text) for thousands of e-books.
- Science MagazineFull text of Science Magazine since 1880. Search across the full run of the publication or browse by issue. To reach the magazine archive, select Journals from the menu and then click on Science. On the Science page, select Archive to view issues by decade, then navigate to specific years and issues. Click on 1940s to display earlier decades.
- SpringerLinkThe Graduate Center has full-text access to recent issues of over 3,000 mostly social science and science journals in this database. Only the articles with a Download PDF link are available in full text. Also includes thousands of titles from the Springer Ebook Collection, which can be accessed separately.
- Wiley Online LibraryFull text of over 1,600 journals (most from 1997-present), 250 reference works, and thousands of online books in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Search across the database using the basic or advanced search options or use the subject filters to explore content by topic.
Popular Databases for Science Research
- AGRICOLA A database produced by the National Library of Agriculture consisting of citations to journal articles (including abstracts) and bibliographic records describing monographs, serials, audiovisual materials and online content from around the world. Contains 5.2 million+ records and includes printed works from as far back as the 15th century encompassing all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
- Applied Science & Technology Source Contains full text for almost 1,200 journals along with citations to millions of articles within a wide variety of applied science and computing disciplines, including aeronautics, nuclear engineering, and neural networks. Coverage dates back to 1909.
- arXiv Open access to nearly 2 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
- General Science Full Text Indexes nearly 300 scholarly, professional, and popular science periodicals published from 1984 to the present in the United States and the United Kingdom. Includes full text for more than 100 publications from 1995 to the present. Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology, and more.
- 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. Follow the steps to customize Google Scholar to make it easy to find full text at the GC.
- GreenFILE A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering all aspects of the human impact on the environment, including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1 million records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15 thousand records.
- Medline Complete Full text of 2,500 medical journals, back to 1865 for some titles, as well as indexing for over 5,600 current biomedical journals. See this guide for more information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central.
- PubMed More than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals, and online books. See this guide for information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central. By using this link, users will provided links to full-text resources available through the GC library.
- PubMed Central PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). See this guide for information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central.
- Scientific Style and Format Online Now in its ninth edition, The CSE Manual, 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.
- CAS SciFinder-n Requires registration. CAS SciFinder-n, formerly SciFinder Scholar, is 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. CAS SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and more. Both Graduate Center credentials and a SciFinder-n account are required for accessing CAS SciFinder-n remotely. New users must register first with a gc.cuny.edu or gradcenter.cuny.edu email address. Follow the "new users" link to register.
- SpringerProtocols SpringerProtocols is a database of over 80,000 reproducible step-by-step laboratory protocols and methods in biomedicine and life sciences. Covers a range of subject areas including biochemistry, genetics, infectious diseases, molecular biology, neuroscience, and many others.
- Web of Science Massive multidisciplinary index of scholarly publications, with especially strong coverage of the sciences and social sciences. Includes numerous sub-databases, most notably the Web of Science Core Collection, which provides cover-to-cover indexing of 21,000+ peer-reviewed journals. Includes citation data for publications, allowing searchers to identify highly cited articles, find citations to a given article/author, and track citations over time. Includes detailed author records and several unique search capabilities, such as the ability to search by author affiliation, grant number, or chemical structure. Also includes awarded grant information and associated publications.
GC-Customized Google Scholar and PubMed
Like to use Google Scholar? Set up 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
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