E-Journals - directories
- Directory of Open Access JournalsOver 7,000 free online journals arranged by subject.
- E-Journals at the GCSearch the Grad Center e-journal collections by journal title or browse by subject.
Best Bets
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowFull text of nearly 4,000 scholarly business journals and periodicals as well as indexing for 7,000 titles. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
- EconLit This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics. Also includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and book reviews dating back to 1886. EconLit is updated weekly and contains more than 1.6 million records.
- Economist Historical Archive: 1843-2020 This link opens in a new windowHistorical archive of The Economist from 1843 to 2020 covering political, business, scientific, technological, and cultural issues around the world. Search across the archive or browse complete issues by date. Use the Journals tab to identify databases containing recent issues.
- Making of the Modern World This link opens in a new windowThe Making of the Modern World: Part I, The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, covers economics, banking, finance, transportation, manufacturing, history, political science, and sociology, and includes the text of over 62,400 books, pamphlets, essays, and serials published between 1450 and 1850. Part II, 1851-1914, consists of monographs, reports, correspondence, speeches, and surveys from around the world. The documents cover social, economic, and business history, political science, technology, industrialization, and the birth of the modern corporation, allowing researchers to trace the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the political and social conditions of nineteenth-century workers, factory owners and national economies.
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowProvides full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering metropolitan and rural areas within the United States and Canadian provinces. Includes newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, trade publications, magazines and newswires, including content from publishers such as The Washington Post, Crain’s New York Business, and PR Newswire US.
- Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new windowAn international business resource containing more than 460,000 detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports. It also includes company histories, industry essays, case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for global economies. Research tools include interactive comparison charts for countries, companies, and industries, and a glossary of business terms. Updated daily.
Interdisciplinary Resources
While these databases don't focus on arts and humanities they do index relevant journals and newspapers. Includes scholarly and general publications.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowProvides 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 This link opens in a new windowA 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.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA 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.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowThe CUNY and Graduate Center subscriptions provide access to the full text of nearly 400 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences along with over 70,000 e-books and 4,600 open access books. Select “Browse All Muse” and filter by Access type “Only content I have access to” to see subscribed and OA content. Or look for the green check mark and OA icons that appear next to accessible titles when searching across the platform. E-books are also available via the separate link to Project Muse E-Books.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature, including journal articles and books. The Graduate Center Library has created a customized version that knows the library’s electronic journal holdings and links you directly to the articles in the library’s databases.
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Note: If you’re off campus, you’ll be prompted to log in with your GC credentials before you can access library subscriptions.
Article & Journal Impact
Article Impact: One measure of the impact of an article is the number of times it has been cited by other articles. These databases offer robust cited reference searching:
- 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.
- 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.
Journal Impact: A journal's impact is calculated by analyzing (in different ways by different tools) how frequently its articles are cited. Journal-level metrics are provided by:
- Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new windowPresents an array of citation-based metrics for journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. Provides Journal Impact Factor (i.e., average number of citations in a given year to articles published by that journal in the previous two years, averaged over the number of articles published in those two years) for many but not all covered journals. Search or browse the database by journal (title or ISSN), subject category, or publisher. Compare metrics for up to four journals simultaneously.
For more information, see the Research Metrics guide.