Popular Journal/Publisher Packages for Science Research
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American Chemical Society Publications This link opens in a new windowGraduate 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
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American Institute of Physics Journals This link opens in a new windowJournals 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.
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American Physical Society Physical Review Journals This link opens in a new windowContains 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.
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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowFull 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.
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Cell Press Journals This link opens in a new windowCell 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:
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IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowThe 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.
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IOPscience Extra This link opens in a new windowSearch 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 Proceedings This link opens in a new windowThe 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.
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Nature Archive and Nature Journals This link opens in a new windowFull 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.
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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 Infobase This link opens in a new windowOSA offers the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content. This repository includes content from OSA's prestigious journals and co-publications. For a full list of journals included, click "more"
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Public Library of Science (PLOS) This link opens in a new windowPLOS 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.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowFull 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.
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Science Magazine This link opens in a new windowFull 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.
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SpringerLink This link opens in a new windowThe 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 Library This link opens in a new windowFull 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.
We are experiencing access issues with some Wiley ebooks, apologies for the inconvenience. Wiley is currently working on a resolution, in the meantime book chapters from Wiley titles can be requested via Interlibrary Loan. Ask a Librarian for additional help!
Popular Databases for Science Research
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AGRICOLA This link opens in a new windowA 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.
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Applied Science & Technology Source This link opens in a new windowContains 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.
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arXiv This link opens in a new windowOpen 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.
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General Science Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndexes 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.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle 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.
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GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowA 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.
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Gale In Context: Environmental Studies This link opens in a new windowGale 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 over 400 topics in a range of categories including energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, economic development, land and water use, and pollution. Also offers interactive maps and contextual multimedia, customizable journals and news, refereed case studies.
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Medline Complete This link opens in a new windowFull 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.
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PubMed This link opens in a new windowMore than 34 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 information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central.
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PubMed Central This link opens in a new windowPubMed 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.
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Science in Context This link opens in a new windowScience In Context showcases how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues ranging from bacteria to obesity to weather patterns. The collection includes millions of full-text articles from national and global publications; 200+ experiments and projects; 330+ interactive simulations; and reference sources covering biology, chemistry, earth and environmental science, and physics.
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Scientific Style and Format Online This link opens in a new windowNow 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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CAS SciFinder-n This link opens in a new windowRequires 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 link below to register. -
CAS SciFinder-n (new users register here) This link opens in a new windowDescription of this database.
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SpringerProtocols This link opens in a new windowSpringerProtocols 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.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCited 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
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