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  • Accessible Archives

    Full-text access to 18th and 19th century American newspapers, magazines, books, and other publications. Collections include African American newspapers, Civil War publications, anti-slavery periodicals, early women’s magazines, a collection of women’s suffrage periodicals, and publications by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and more. Over 170 books and more than 70 journals are included.

  • ACLS Humanities E-book
    A fully searchable online collection of over 5,700 scholarly ebooks in the humanities from 125 publishers. Offered through a collaboration between the American Council of Learned Societies, Michigan Publishing (Univ. of Michigan), and the open source Fulcrum publishing platform.
  • Advances in Computers (ebook series)
    Published since 1960, Advances in Computers covers innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. The Graduate Center has access to this book series from Volume 66, 2006, to the present.
  • Berghahn Open Access Books
    Open Access books and journals in the social sciences and humanities. Subject coverage includes history, social and cultural anthropology, archaeology, sociology, mobility studies, environmental studies, and film studies.
  • Big Ten Open Books
    Big Ten Open Books is a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The first collection is on the subject of Gender and Sexuality studies. Participating presses are Indiana University Press, Michigan State University Press, Northwestern University Press, Purdue University Press, University of Michigan Press, and University of Wisconsin Press.

    This collection has established a model for unified, open-access publishing of scholarly monographs. It creates open content, on open infrastructure, using open distribution models - to envision a robust programmatic future for open monograph publishing. This work is aligned with the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s development of the BIG Collection's ambition of uniting the collections of the libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Public Knowledge program.
  • Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    Over 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, speeches, letters, political leaflets, periodicals, trial transcripts, and interviews by major American Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders, covering over 250 years of history. Writers include James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ralph Bunche, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Huey Newton, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Bobby Seale, Booker T. Washington, Cornel West, Richard Wright, and many others. Search across the collection or browse by person, subject, title, historical event, content type, place, or publisher.
  • Brill Online Bibliographies via NYPL
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    Search seven bibliography eBooks published by Brill: ABIA - Index of South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology, Bibliography of Arabic Books Online, Book History Online, Index Islamicus, Index to the Study of Religions, Linguistic Bibliography, and The International Aristotle Bibliography.
  • Brill Online Reference Works

    A selection of Brill Online Reference Works. The GC Library subscribes to a few titles (which have a green icon next to them on the front page): 
     

  • Cairn.info via NYPL
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    Cairn.info is an online collection of French language periodicals and ebooks in the social sciences and humanities. It was formed by four European publishing houses (Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte and Erès).
  • Cambridge Core via NYPL
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    Access to the full text of over 500 books published by Cambridge University Press and covering the humanities, social and natural sciences, medicine, and English language teaching. Please note: NYPL has access to content published beginning in 2015. Search this collection in addition to GC holdings for alternative coverage and titles.
  • Cambridge Histories Online
    First published in 1902, Cambridge Histories span subject areas across the humanities and social sciences. The GC’s subscription includes over 400 titles in American History; Ancient & Classical Studies; Asian History, British & European History; Global History, Literature, Middle East & African Studies, Music & Theatre; Philosophy & Political Thought; and Religion.

    **GC-subscribed Cambridge content is discoverable in CUNY OneSearch.
  • De Gruyter University Press E-Book Collections via NYPL
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    The Walter de Gruyter University Press E-Book Collections offers full text access to over 1,000 academic monographs published in 2019, from eight university presses: Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Rutgers University Press, University of Toronto Press, University of California Press, University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Digital Public Library of America
    The DPLA is a discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions across the U.S. Browse this all-digital library by topic or contributing partner or search across nearly 48 million images, texts, videos, and sounds simultaneously. Also includes online exhibitions and primary source sets. Filter search results by usage rights, format, date, location, language, contributor, etc. And view full items to learn more about the collections that contain them.
  • Digitalia via NYPL
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    Digitalia is a multidisciplinary database of e-books and ejournals in Spanish from publishers from Spain and Latin America.
  • Directory of Open Access Books
    DOAB is a community-driven service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université that indexes and provides access to 48,856 scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books from 682 publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
  • Duke University Press Books
    The Duke University Press book collections provide access to over 2,900 e-books in the humanities and social sciences. Search across the collection or browse by subject.
  • Early English Books Online
    Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. EEBO includes over 146,000 titles published in English and more than 30 other languages from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the ages of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Transcriptions are available for approximately 50% of the texts.
  • Ebook Central

    Ebook Central combines what were formerly ebrary and Ebook Library (EBL) into one new platform. Contains electronic books in all disciplines from a number of academic publishers. Available titles may also be found in OneSearch.

  • EBSCO Ebook Collection
    Formerly known as NetLibrary, the EBSCO eBook Collection provides more than 2,800 scholarly and popular titles. Browse by subject category or search across the collection to find full text ebooks. Create a free account to enable full downloads.
  • eHRAF World Cultures
    eHRAF World Cultures is an online cross-cultural and ethnographic database containing descriptive information on cultures (based on the Outline of World Cultures or OWC) and ethnic groups from around the world. Each culture collection in eHRAF contains a variety of documents (books, articles, monographs, and dissertations) that have been subject-indexed at the paragraph level by trained anthropologists according to HRAF’s comprehensive Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM). This feature extends search capability well beyond keyword searching, allowing for precise culture and subject retrieval, even in a foreign language. As an ethnographic database, eHRAF appeals to many academic disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, and any other area with an interest in cultural diversity or anthropology.
  • Eighteenth Century Collection Online
    ECCO contains digitized versions of the 180,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed between 1701 and 1800 that are cataloged in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The majority of the works are in English with several thousand in French or Latin, and smaller numbers in Ancient Greek, German, Italian, Scots Gaelic, Spanish and Welsh, and other languages. Use the Advanced Search option to limit results by language and/or collection categories such as fine arts, history and geography, law, literature and language, medicine, science, and technology, religion and philosophy, social sciences, general reference, or a combination of subjects. Illustrated works may be searched by cartoon, map, music, portrait, etc.
  • Gale Ebooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)
    Full text of over 1,800 reference works published by Gale, Brill Academic, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Sage, Salem Press, Wiley, and others. Titles include American Civil War Reference Library, Ancient Europe, 8000 BC to AD 1000, Encyclopedia of Aging, Encyclopedia of American Religions, Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, Magill's Survey of World Literature, Vietnam War Reference Library; World Education Encyclopedia.
  • Gale Literature
    Gale Literature searches multiple databases at once, combining Gale Literature Resource Center (biographies, overviews, criticism, audio interviews, and reviews), Gale LitFinder (full text poems, plays, short stories, and speeches from all eras), and Gale eBooks (reference sources). It also includes the Gale Literary Index covering 165,000 authors and 215,000 works, and workflow tools to analyze information.
  • Handbooks in Economics
    Full text of 41 Elsevier handbooks in the Economics series. Subject coverage includes Computational, Innovation, and Social Economics, Econometrics, Economic Forecasting and Growth, and many other topics.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library
    Millions of books digitized by a variety of major research institutions. See this post for more information about public domain items available to all via HathiTrust.
  • Internet Archive
    The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form with a mission to provide universal access to all knowledge. The archive contains tens of millions of books and texts, audio recordings, videos, images, and software programs, and 625 billion web pages.
  • JSTOR Ebooks

    A selection of electronic books from scholarly publishers. All permanently held ebooks are cataloged in OneSearch, and additional titles can be found in the JSTOR interface directly. Over 8,000 open access ebooks are available through JSTOR, and the GC also has access to Path to Open titles. Full chapters can be downloaded as PDFs, without limit to the number of chapters.

  • Library of Congress Open Access Books
    A growing online collection of contemporary open access e-books available for download from the website of the Library of Congress. Currently consisting of nearly 4,000 titles, the e-books span a wide range of subjects including history, criticism and interpretation, research, area studies, law and government, politics, economics, the humanities, environmental studies, and the social sciences.
  • Loeb Classical Library
    Harvard University Press presents an interconnected, fully searchable, growing, virtual library of Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts.
  • Milne Open Textbooks
    Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks (formerly SUNY Open Textbooks), a catalog of approximately 100 open access textbooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
  • MIT OpenCourseWare
    OCW is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses covering the entire MIT curriculum. Each OCW course includes a syllabus, instructional material, and learning activities. Many courses also have complete video lectures, free online textbooks, and faculty teaching insights. Some of the online textbooks are open-licensed electronic versions of print books while others are self-published online books or comprehensive course notes which can serve as alternatives to conventional textbooks. Content can be downloaded and shared, and/or modified, remixed, and reused (with attribution).
  • MIT Press Direct to Open Ebooks
    A collection of MIT Press scholarly ebooks, both monographs and edited collections.

    Via our participation in this program, the GC library allows more MIT press books to be published with open access licenses and gains access to a backfile of older titles still in copyright.
  • NCBI Bookshelf
    A searchable open access collection of more than 9,000 books, reports, databases, and other scholarly literature in biology, medicine, and the life sciences developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health. For more information, see the Quick Start Guide and FAQs.
  • New York Public Library Remote Access to Collections and Services
    Many of NYPL's research collections and services are available remotely with a library card. Access databases, ebooks, digitized collections, and research guides and consult with librarians via email or online. Apply for a library card online to access to an array of digital resources including e-books, audiobooks, databases, and more.
  • OAPEN Library
    The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
  • Open Library
    An initiative of the Internet Archive, Open Library is a universal catalog with the goal to create a web page for every book ever published. The catalog provides links to the Internet Archive’s collections with over 1.7 million public domain books available for download, and hundreds of thousands of ebooks that can be borrowed via controlled digital lending. Some digitized books are available only to the print disabled. See information about creating an account and borrowing from the Open Library and FAQs for further details.
  • Open Research Library
    The Open Research Library (ORL) is an aggregation of peer-reviewed, open access, scholarly monographs hosted on the BiblioBoard platform. The ORL will eventually consist of the most comprehensive worldwide collection of peer-reviewed open access books. Search across the entire library or browse curated collections on topics such as art, architecture, biography, education, history, science, the social sciences, philosophy, and more. Filter results by language, publisher, or license.
  • Open Textbook Library
    A growing library of more than one thousand open textbooks that are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. Browse by subject or search across the library to find titles. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.
  • OpenStax
    OpenStax (formerly OpenStax College) is a nonprofit educational technology initiative based at Rice University. Since 2012, OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print.
  • Overdrive via NYPL
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    Access movies, video, audiobooks, and e-books via this third-party app for use with a wide variety of e-readers including Kindle, portable devices, PCs, and Macs.
  • Oxford Academic
    A new unified platform for Oxford University Press’s journals and many of its academic book collections that allows cross searching and browsing of content. Browse or search across all content or just within Journals, Books, or Subjects. Limit results to subscribed materials by filtering for Purchased Content, Open Access, and/or Free items. Available titles may be found in OneSearch. For other disciplines, check availability via the New York Public Library remotely.
  • Oxford Bibliographies Online via NYPL
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    A collection of research guides for a wide variety of subjects. Includes topic overviews and annotated bibliographies.
  • Oxford Handbooks Online
    Collection of 600+ Oxford University Press handbooks in a wide range of subjects. Select “Unlocked” to see available titles, which may also be found in OneSearch. Other than Music, our collections do not include titles published after 2014. Those handbooks are available through the New York Public Library remotely.
  • Oxford Scholarly Editions Online via NYPL
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    OSEO provides an interlinked collection of authoritative Oxford editions of major works from the humanities. Search this collection in addition to GC holdings for alternative coverage and titles.
  • Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 eBooks, mostly items in the public domain. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. An open access crowdsourced project.
  • Project Muse (including Ebooks) via NYPL
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    The New York Public Library's Project Muse offerings include ebooks that can be downloaded as PDFs by chapter.
  • Project Muse E-Books
    Over 70,000 e-books in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fields covered include cultural studies, economics, education, gender studies, history, literature and literary criticism, mathematics, medicine and health, music, political science, visual and performing arts, and many others.
  • PsycBooks (now also includes APA Handbooks)
    This American Psychological Association (APA) database provides the full text of more than 4,500 scholarly and professional books published by the APA, including over 100 out-of-print titles, the APA Handbooks in Psychology series, and the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. Also includes a substantial backfile of classic and historical works, with the earliest title dating to 1620. Available titles may also be found in OneSearch.
  • Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP)
    The PEP-Web Archive provides the full text of 83 psychoanalytic journals dating back to 1918 (most with a three- to five-year embargo of current articles), 98 psychoanalytic books, and all 24 volumes of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud cross-linked to the corresponding text in the German Freud Gesammelte Werke. Also includes a collection of archival video lectures and documentaries.

    Create a free personal account to access additional features, such as saving searches, or enabling 90-day access without having to log in. A personal account is not required in order to search, browse or access full text on PEP.
  • Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle
    This resource is a searchable collection of works focusing in the period between 1800 and 1830. Includes canonical and previously unrecognized writers from Britain, the British Empire, and North America. Also contains a complete digital version of The Wordsworth Circle journal.
  • Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
    An online collection based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time. Contains 65,000 books, pamphlets, newspapers, political tracts, sermons, maps, legislation, and literature about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin features original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, politics, culture, contemporary opinions, religious history, and more. Covers North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean.
  • SAGE Knowledge Handbooks
    Handbooks covering such subjects as digital dissertations, multicultural measures, environmental change, economic geography, historical theory, international relations, Islamic studies, performance studies, qualitative and quantitative research in psychology, race and ethnic studies, social anthropology, sociolinguistics, and theories of social psychology.

    To find available content:
    • Select “SAGE Reference”
    • Click on “Browse SAGE Reference”
    • Find and click on "Handbooks" under "By Content Types"
    • Select “Content available to me" under “Quick Filters” and Click “Apply Filter” to limit your results to just those handbook titles available at the Graduate Center.
  • SAGE Research Methods
    An online collection of more than 1,000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos on how to design and carry out research projects. Browse by discipline or search for a particular research approach (i.e., qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic) and see descriptions and examples from books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, journals, and videos. Read more in our GC Library blog post about Sage Research Methods.
  • Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
    Consists of more than five million pages of books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from the collections of more than 60 libraries in the U.S. and U.K. The database is arranged in four parts: Debates over Slavery and Abolition; Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; The Institution of Slavery; and the Age of Emancipation. Search across the full resource or explore the 71 separate collections of personal papers, organizational records, court cases, deposit ledgers, U.S. and international government documents, and more. Research tools include a global chronology and 18 subject bibliographies.
  • Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
    This collection includes every U.S. federal, state and colony statute passed on slavery, all reported state and federal judicial cases on slavery, Congressional debates from the Continental Congress to 1880, more than a thousand books and pamphlets from the 19th century, including essays and articles in obscure journals. The growing collection also includes modern histories of slavery, modern law review articles on the subject, and an extensive bibliography. Much of the secondary source material in the collection is based on the holdings of the Buffalo Public Library's rare book collection. See the Comprehensive Users Guide for full search details.
  • Social Theory
    More than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons. Search across the resource or browse authors, titles, theories, or subjects.
  • Springer Ebook Collection
    Text of over 40,000 Springer books published from 2005 to 2015, selected book series dating back to 1997, and an additional 10,000 open access titles. Subjects include biomedical and life sciences, computer science, medicine, mathematics, physics, and related fields. Available titles may also be found in OneSearch.
  • Standard Ebooks
    The Standard Ebooks project is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks. The text and cover art in our ebooks is already believed to be in the public domain, and Standard Ebook dedicates its own work to the public domain, thus releasing whole ebooks files themselves into the public domain. All books are available without DRM and in four file formats for download, including epub.
  • Torrossa via NYPL
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    Torrossa includes the content of Casalini's Editoria Italiana Online, Edición Española Online, EIO-Fabrizio Serra E-Journal, Franco Angeli Riviste E-journal, and Biblioteca Italiana Zanichelli collections.
  • University of Alberta Press Open Access Titles
    The University of Alberta Press makes significant titles Open Access rather than letting them go out of print, keeping them available to researchers and the general public. The books listed here are all free to download and share.
  • University of Calgary Press Open Access Books
    Click on any title on the page, then scroll down until you see the "Read Free" tab. Download the full book or individual chapters. Information about (re)use of these titles under the Creative Commons license is prominently displayed in the front matter of each download. Additional Open Access works from University of Calgary are available in their institutional repository, PRISM.
  • University Press Scholarship Online via NYPL
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    University Press Scholarship Online offers full text of over 7,000 academic monographs in 21 subject areas covering the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and law from six leading university presses.
  • Very Short Introductions via NYPL
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    The full text of the entire catalog of Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions series. The books in this platform offer concise overviews to a range of academic subjects in the arts & humanities, law, medicine & health, science & mathematics, and social sciences.
  • Wiley E-books
    Thousands of online books in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, including chemistry, earth science, education, engineering, environmental studies, food science, health and health care, linguistics, mathematics, nanotechnology, polymer science and technology, psychology, statistics, and many others.
  • Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
    The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text items. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, teaching tools, and reference works.
  • Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present
    This digital archive includes 150,000 pages of conference proceedings, reports of international women's organizations, publications and web pages of women's non-governmental organizations, and letters, diaries, and memoirs of women active internationally since the mid-nineteenth century. It also includes photographs and videos of major events and activists in the history of women’s international social movements as well as scholarly essays exploring themes illuminated by materials in the archive.
  • Academic OneFile
    Provides full-text articles in all subject areas from over 19,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources as well as thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR (National Public Radio) and CNN, and videos from BBC Worldwide Learning. Subjects covered include biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.
  • Academic Search Complete
    A multi-disciplinary database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, the database includes indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications, such as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. While full text is available as far back as 1887 for a few titles, the text of most titles is available only for the past decade or two.
  • America: History & Life
    Abstracts of articles covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes 1,700 journals from 1964 to present and includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
  • Book Review Digest Plus
    Reviews of fiction and nonfiction in the humanities, social sciences, general sciences, and popular topics published in English since 1983. Includes over 600,000 full-text book reviews and more than 2 million citations to reviews. Textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences are not included. Book reviews may also be found in Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Project Muse, and most subject-specific databases.
  • Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982
    Provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles in the humanities, social sciences, general sciences, and popular topics published in English from 1903 through 1982. Covers 300,000 books and cites over 1.5 million book reviews found in over 500 popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Entries include bibliographic information and book summaries. Book reviews may also be found in Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Project Muse, and most subject-specific databases.
  • Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
    This site from the Library of Congress includes a searchable directory containing information on more than 150,000 newspapers published in the U.S. since 1690. It also includes searchable digitized images of 3,600 selected local and regional newspapers published from 1777 to 1963, including more than 20 New York papers.
  • Computing Reviews
    With coverage dating back to May 1985, Computing Reviews covers all aspects of computing science. It contains reviews of published journal articles, conference papers, whole proceedings, books and theses, but does not review software, hardware, gadgets or websites. Affiliated with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and ThinkLoud.
  • Gale OneFile: News
    Provides access to more than 3,000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
  • JSTOR
    A digital library containing journals, books, images, and primary sources. The GC’s subscription includes JSTOR’s Arts and Sciences I-XII collections of scholarly journals across the social sciences and humanities. Coverage begins with the first issue of almost every journal and continues through varying periods within the last five years. Also included are more than 700 freely accessible collections of illustrations, letters, literary documents, newspapers, magazines, photographs, postcards, and yearbooks; open access alternative press publications from the latter half of the 20th century; and thousands of research reports. 3+ million images in Artstor are also now discoverable in JSTOR. Browse content by subject, title, or collection, or search across the full resource. Register for a free personal account to save materials and organize your work.
  • London Review of Books
    Full text of every issue of the London Review of Books from 1979 to the present. Covers arts and culture, biography and memoir, history and classics, literature and criticism, philosophy and law, politics and economics, psychology and anthropology, and science and technology.
  • MathSciNet

    American Mathematical Society's Mathematical Reviews, covering over 1,800 journals. Also includes citations to articles dating back to the early 1800s. 

    The link above leads to the Ebsco interface, but you can also use the American Mathematical Society version of MathSciNet. See the Quickstart Guide for more details about the AMS version.  

  • New York Review of Books
    Full text of all New York Review of Books content from the first issue in 1963 to the present. Browse by year or issue or search across the archive by article title, author, book, contributor, or subject.
  • New York Times Academic Pass
    All of CUNY has access to the NYTimes Academic Pass. Anyone with a valid CUNY email address can sign up for free access to the NYTimes.com website and smartphone apps. Please see the full instructions for signing up.
  • New York Times Archive, 1851-2018
    Actual page images from 1851 through 2018. Following years are added annually. When the results of a search are displayed, you have three retrieval options: 1. bibliographic citation and abstract; 2. article image (retrieved with Adobe Acrobat Reader); 3. page map, displaying the entire page on which the article appears. For current access, see New York Times Academic Pass.
  • Nexis Uni (previously LexisNexis)

    Nexis Uni is a full-text news, business, and legal database with sources from around the world, including local, regional, national, and international newspapers, scholarly journals, trade journals, and popular magazines, television and radio broadcasts, and newswires and blogs. Legal sources include federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790. Also contains business information on U.S. and international companies (see Dossier section) and patent data (see TotalPatent One section). 

  • Nineteenth (19th) Century British Newspapers
    The GC’s subscription includes Parts I and II, comprised of 69 titles published between 1800 and 1900, selected by the British Library to best represent 19th century Britain. Includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Also includes newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present.
  • Readers' Guide Full Text Mega
    Includes indexing of over 450 periodicals from 1983 to the present and searchable full text of articles from over 250 popular general-interest periodicals from 1994 to the present. PDF page images of full-text articles provide access to illustrations, photographs and other graphical content.
  • Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
    Provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 popular general-interest periodicals from 1890-1982, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
  • Seventeenth-Eighteenth (17th-18th) Century Burney Collection Newspapers
    The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, charting the development of the concept of news, newspapers, and the free press, totals almost one-million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles.
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