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To find specialized information sources within a discipline or academic field, search one of our specialized databases, or browse through our online journals.
Use the search box below to find a database (for example, "Social Explorer" or "CQ Researcher").
Just getting started? Try these all-purpose databases to begin your search for scholarly journal articles:
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Specialized Databases
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Brill Online Reference Works This link opens in a new windowA 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):
- Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL)
- Foreign Law Guide
- Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
- Qurʾānic Studies Online (includes Concordance et Indices de la Tradition Musulmane, Dictionary of Qurʾanic Usage, Early Western Korans, Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadīth, and Qurʾān Concordance)
- Encyclopaedia of Islam (in multiple editions and with a Historical Atlas of Islam)
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Britannica Academic This link opens in a new windowThis database combines Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, as well as content from magazines and academic journals, an interactive world atlas, a country comparison tool, and more.
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Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowFirst published in 1902, Cambridge Histories has over 300 volumes spanning fifteen subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.
**GC-subscribed Cambridge content is discoverable in CUNY OneSearch. You can also use Cambridge Core to search all of the GC-subscribed material at once; check the box next to "Only search content I have access to." -
Gale Ebooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new windowFull 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.
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General OneFile This link opens in a new windowIndexes over 14,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books, and multimedia sources, along with over 200,000 images, 3,300 audio files, and thousands of videos. Includes full text from 8,070 publications.
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Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowSearch the Grove Dictionary of Art via the Oxford Art Online platform. Grove contains entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as bibliographies for further research and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford’s partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations. Browse through Timelines of World Art, Subject Guides or Resources for Educators created by organizations like MoMA and the Met. *Oxford's home page features a prominent login which is optional (use it to save searches and content to a personal account).
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Grove Music Online This link opens in a new windowSearch the Grove Dictionary of Music via the Oxford Music Online platform. Based on a work first published in 1879, Grove has been in continuous publication and has been the foremost English-language encyclopedia of music. Includes over 52,000 articles charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe. Hundreds of new articles and article revisions are added each year. *Oxford's home page features a prominent login which is optional (use it to save searches and content to a personal account).
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MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new windowFull text from over 2,300 mostly popular and general-interest periodicals, with full-text as far back as 1922. Also includes more than 1,000 reference books, 160,400+ primary source documents, and an image collection of over 1 million photos, maps, and flags.
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Oxford Dictionaries This link opens in a new windowFormerly Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. Translations of thousands of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish words and phrases.
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Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowText of nearly 400 Oxford University Press reference works in 25 core subject areas. Titles include Oxford Companions to American Literature, American Theatre, the Bible, British History, Classical Civilization, History of Modern Science, Music, Philosophy, Politics of the World, Shakespeare, United States History, and Western Art. Available titles may be found in OneSearch.
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SAGE Knowledge Handbooks This link opens in a new windowHandbooks 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:
- Find and click "Handbooks" under "Browse by Content Type."
- Under "Refine by" on the right hand side, select "Available to me." This will limit your results to just those handbook titles available at the Graduate Center.
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SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new windowThis resource collects materials about the research process and helps researchers design their projects. 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.
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Statistics Sources This link opens in a new windowContent of the 2010 edition. Guide to current sources of factual quantitative information about more than 20,000 specific subjects, incorporating almost 135,000 citations and more than 1,600 sources. Provides the widest possible range of print and nonprint, published and unpublished, and electronic and other forms of U.S. and international statistical data on industrial, business, social, educational, financial, and other topics.
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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.
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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.
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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowFull-text reports on a wide range of topics including health, education, the environment, technology, the U.S. government and economy, international affairs, crime, civil liberties, social movements, transportation, agriculture, and other political and social issues. Reports are 12,000 words long and include topic overviews, background information, statistics, chronologies, maps, current outlook, pro/con statements, and extensive bibliographies. The CQ Researcher archive goes back to 1923 and includes reports from its predecessor publication, Editorial Research Reports.
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Infoshare This link opens in a new windowPopulation statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data, and other demographic information about New York City drawn from city, state, and federal sources. Profile or compare areas across the city and state, or use the raw data to create customized tables.
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Left Index This link opens in a new windowGuide to the literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Topics covered include art and aesthetics, ecology and environment, education, history, the labor movement, law and globalization, philosophy, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, and sociology. Includes more than 507,000 citations and abstracts (with some full text) and spans from 1982 and earlier to present.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new windowCovers a range of social issues including racism, capital punishment, global warming, and voting rights with reference sources, newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly journals, court cases, government documents, statistics, viewpoints, maps, images, audio, video, primary documents, and websites.
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Roper iPoll (formerly Roper Center Archives) This link opens in a new windowThe largest collection of poll data anywhere—1935 to present, all U.S. polling firms, broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more.
Access through the Graduate Center Library enables you to view poll questions, save up to 50 questions, search abstracts and download documentation. You can also download datasets when on campus. Create a free personal account* to access additional resources and features: save up to 500 questions at once, download datasets from off-campus, and use the Roper Explorer analytical tool with its crosstabs functionality.
Learn more about how to use Roper iPoll online: Roper Tutorials.
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Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowNew York City, Los Angeles, and national demographic maps based on Census data. A companion to Infoshare.
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Social Sciences Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowThis collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including deep indexing and full text from over 1000 important social science journals
Search Social Sciences Premium as a whole or via individual databases in the following collections:
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SocIndex with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndexing of 2,540 journals in the social sciences, with full text as far back as 1895 for 848 journals, as well as the text of more than 40,000 conference papers from such organizations as American Sociological Association and American Society of Criminology.
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U.S. History in Context This link opens in a new windowContent includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers.
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Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present This link opens in a new windowThis digital archive currently includes 145,326 pages of a collection that will eventually offer 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.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive index of articles from over 2,500 journals published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. The database contains more than 800,000 records from the 1930s to the present with selective coverage dating back to the 1740s. It also includes nearly 13,000 citations for architects' obituaries.
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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowFull-text reports on a wide range of topics including health, education, the environment, technology, the U.S. government and economy, international affairs, crime, civil liberties, social movements, transportation, agriculture, and other political and social issues. Reports are 12,000 words long and include topic overviews, background information, statistics, chronologies, maps, current outlook, pro/con statements, and extensive bibliographies. The CQ Researcher archive goes back to 1923 and includes reports from its predecessor publication, Editorial Research Reports.
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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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ICPSR: Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research This link opens in a new windowICPSR, the world's largest collection of digital social science data, maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. ICPSR data cover sociology, political science, economics, demography, education, child care, health care, crime, minority populations, aging, terrorism, substance abuse, mental health, public policy, international relations, and more. First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account; thereafter, you will need your email address and password to download data.
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Index to Current Urban Documents This link opens in a new windowContains over 31,000 reports generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies from more than 500 major cities in the U.S. and Canada. The core of the collection contains fiscal (budgets and financial reports) and architecture & planning documents (city, county and regional plans). The index also provides information on urban-related issues from hazardous waste disposal to arts in the community.
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Infoshare This link opens in a new windowPopulation statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data, and other demographic information about New York City drawn from city, state, and federal sources. Profile or compare areas across the city and state, or use the raw data to create customized tables.
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LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new windowFull text from over 150 LGBTQi (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Intersex) journals, magazines, and newspapers and over 150 books. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBTQ+ Thesaurus containing over 10,000 terms.
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PAIS Index - International and Archive This link opens in a new windowBibliographic citations from international sources including journals, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more, covering public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general from 1915 to the present.
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Statistical Insight This link opens in a new windowDemographic information from more than 200 federal agencies, 50 state governments, 100 international intergovernmental organizations, and 500 private and academic sources.
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Urban Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new windowBiographic records in community development, urban affairs, urban history, and related areas from 1973 to the present.
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Gun Regulation and Legislation in America This link opens in a new windowMore than 750 titles dealing with U.S. gun regulation and legislation. Included are periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports, Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. Links to nearly 500 scholarly articles, an extensive bibliography, and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject are also provided. Research the National Firearms Act, the Miller and Heller decisions, and other key aspects of this subject.
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Law Library Microfilm Collection This link opens in a new windowLLMC Digital includes thousands of digitized historical legal and government documents, including federal, state, and territorial governments of the U.S., and government publications from Canada, the U.K., Germany, and other countries. It also includes collections of Indigenous law, international law, and multi-jurisdictional special focus collections, such as Roman law, Islamic law, and Canon law. These materials should be of particular interest to researchers in history, political science, and sociology.
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Legal Source This link opens in a new windowInformation on current issues, studies and trends in the legal world, with over 1,200 full-text scholarly law journals and over 2.5 million records, including book reviews and case citations. Topic coverage includes criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor and human resource law, ethics, the environment, and more. Coverage dates back to 1908.
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LegalTrac This link opens in a new windowLegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text. The American Association of Law Libraries endorses LegalTrac and its special advisory committee selects, reviews, and enhances the content of this resource. The database offers coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni is a full-text news, business, and legal database with 17,000 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 more than 80 million U.S. and international companies.