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.
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):
This collection provides full-text access to e-books from De Gruyter imprints and other university presses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Books in the CUNY Libraries are organized using the Library of Congress Classification system, which uses an alpha-numeric code to represent subjects. To browse migration-related books in the stacks, head towards the aisles labeled with these codes to find the most relevant titles.