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* Search Multiple Anthropology Databases (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Search several databases at the same time; includes: Academic Search Complete, Anthrosource, Sociological Abstracts and more
 
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Search several databases at the same time; includes: Art Index, Humanities Full Text, and more.
 
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Search several databases at the same time; includes NetLibrary, Psychbooks, Worldcat and more
 
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Search several databases at the same time; includes: Ethnic Newswatch, Historical New York Times, Lexis-Nexis and more…
 
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Search several databases at the same time; includes: Business and Company Resource Center, Business Source Complete, EconLit, and more
 
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Search several databases at the same time; includes Applied Science and Technology Index, Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies, SCOPUS
 
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Search several databases at the same time; includes: Education Full Text, Education Research Complete, ERIC
 
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Search several databases at the same time; includes: Gale Virtual Reference Library and more.
 
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Search several databases at the same time; includes: Academic Search Complete, CUNY+, Gale Virtual Reference Library and more
 
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Search several databases at the same time; includes: Contemporary Women's Issues, SocINDEX with Full Text, Women and Social Movements in the United States, and more…
 
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOHost) (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides full text for over 7,000 peer-reviewed journals and magazines, as well as books, conference papers and proceedings, and educational reports covering almost all academic areas of study.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource ACM Digital Library (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Contains over 102,000 full-text articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
 
AGRICOLA
Index to books and journal articles in agriculture; useful for forensic science.
 
Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
Approx. 100,000 citations to articles, books, and reports on alcohol abuse and alcoholism, 1960's-.
 
Technology Fee Resource America History and Life (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Index to journal articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada in 1,700 journals; also includes citations and links to book and media reviews; links to full text 1964-.
 
Technology Fee Resource American Chemical Society Journals (CUNY USE ONLY)
FULL-TEXT articles from the full runs of 25 of the American Chemical Society journals.
  Alternate access via library barcode

American Factfinder
Population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau; includes 2000 census.
 
American Memory Historical Collections
Part of the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program, these are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text of American history.
 
Amnesty International Annual Reports
FULL-TEXT of Amnesty's Annual Reports, 1993-.
 
Amnesty International Country Reports
FULL-TEXT of Amnesty's Country Reports, 1996-.
 
Amnesty International Cumulative Guide (LIBRARY USE ONLY)
Index to Amnesty International microfiche collection, 1962-1996.
 
Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Indexes anthropology and related journals back to the 1970's. Excellent source for cross-cultural studies of crime, drug use, and violence.
 
Technology Fee Resource AnthroSource (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
From the American Anthropological Association, includes current issues of 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications through the end of 2006, plus an electronic archive of all AAA journals.
 
Applied Science and Technology Index (CUNY USE ONLY)
Index to articles in journals and trade publications covering applied science, including engineering, math, physics, and computer technology; 1983- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Art Index (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes 220 leading art periodicals; 1984- .
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Art Museum Image Gallery (CUNY USE ONLY)
A rich digital source of images and related multimedia of ancient to contemporary art, gathered from museums around the world.
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Biography Reference Bank (CUNY USE ONLY)
Original biographical profiles plus feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, and obituaries; covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images
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Technology Fee Resource Biography Resource Center (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Combines biographies from Gale encyclopedias with full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
 
Black Drama (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Fulltext of over 1,400 plays by playwrights from the USA, the Caribbean , English-speaking countries in Africa. Excellent source for Harlem Renaissance writers.
 
Black Thought and Culture (CUNY USE ONLY)
Contains 1297 sources from 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, and including interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, letters and other fugitive material.
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Book Review Digest (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes and provides excerpts from book reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction, 1983- .
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Technology Fee Resource Books in Print (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Bowker's Global Books in Print is searchable by keyword and browsable by subject, author, title, etc.; also includes Forthcoming Books, and book reviews.
 
Bureau of Justice Statistics Web site
FULL-TEXT statistical reports on all aspects of criminal justice in the US.
 
Business Source Complete (EBSCOHost) (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides full text for over 3,000 peer-reviewed journals and magazines, as well as country and industry reports, and case studies covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Capital Punishment Statistics
FULL-TEXT statistical reports on capital punishment in the US from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
 
Census of Population and Housing 2000
Gateway to the 2000 Census from the U.S. Census Bureau.
 
ChemID
a chemical dictionary file for over 339,000 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest.
 
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Comprehensive source for theory and research in foreign affairs; includes working papers from university research institutes and NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and conference proceedings
 
CINAHL (CUNY USE ONLY)
The database equivalent of the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. New web browser access.
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Cinema Image Gallery (CUNY USE ONLY)
Contains over 150,000 quality images from television, the movies, and the entertainment industry.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes close to 100 journals plus encyclopedias and handbooks in the fields of communications and mass media.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Contemporary Women's Issues (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Covers over 600 sources and includes FULL-TEXT from alternative presses, reports, journals, newsletters, etc. New web browser access.
 
Corrections Statistics
FULL-TEXT reports on capital punishment, jails, prisons, probation, and parole; from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
 
Country Studies
Library of Congress authored books describing and analyzing the political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions of over 100 countries
 
Courts and Sentencing Statistics
FULL-TEXT reports on the courts and sentencing of criminals in the US; from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
 
Technology Fee Resource CQ Almanac (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Provides details about legislation in the House and Senate for years 1945 through 2006. Includes both the bills proposed and the legislation passed. Covers topics such as immigration, taxation, health care reform, etc.
 
CQ Electronic Library (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Twelve CQ publications available - including online editions of Congress and the Nation, Supreme Court Yearbook, and Vital Statistics on American Politics.
 
CQ Global Researcher (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Reports on international topics such as torture, nationalization of energy resources , peacekeeping around the world, etc.
 
Technology Fee Resource CQ Researcher Plus Archive (CUNY USE ONLY)
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. 1923- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource CQ Supreme Court Collection (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary on Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution
 
Technology Fee Resource CQ Weekly (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Weekly reports on the activities of the U.S. Congress including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes; 1983- .
 
Crime and Victims Statistics
FULL-TEXT statistical reports on victims of crimes and incidents of crimes; from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
 
Criminal Justice Abstracts (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Index to scholarly articles in criminal justice with links to full text, 1968-.
 
Criminal Justice Data for New York State
FULL-TEXT statistical reports on criminal justice in NY state; from the NY Division of Criminal Justice Services.
 
Criminal Justice Periodical Index (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Indexes and abstracts approximately 150 national and international publications in criminal justice, with FULL-TEXT and images for 25 of those titles, 1980- .
 
Technology Fee Resource Current Urban Documents (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Indexes reports from local government agencies and organizations (including police, fire, and other public safety agenices) in 500 cities in the U.S. and Canada; includes full text PDF documents.
 
Custom Newspapers (CUNY USE ONLY)
Contains 150 full-text newspapers, incl. the latest 365 days of the NY Times; plus indexes and abstracts for the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post; plus Wall St. Journal Abstracts.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Digital Dissertations) (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Indexes over 1,560, 000 dissertations and theses from institutions in the North America and Europe from 1861; abstracts from 1980; full text of all dissertations from 1997- ; NOTE NEW INTERFACE.
 
Technology Fee Resource DSM-IV-TR (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
The standard diagnostic tool used by mental health professionals; each psychiatric disorder with its corresponding diagnostic code is accompanied by a set of diagnostic criteria and descriptive details.
 
Duke University Press Journals (CUNY USE ONLY)
A collection of over 30 scholarly journals, primarily in the humanites and social sciences; mostly 2000- .
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Earthscape (CUNY USE ONLY)
A comprehensive aggregation of resources in the Earth and Environmental Sciences. The four sections give to the teacher, student, scientist, or decision-maker instant access to the tools needed to understand our planet.
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ebrary (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
collection of ebooks on scholarly subjects purchased for use by John Jay students and faculty.
 
EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides full text for over 7,000 peer-reviewed journals and magazines, as well as books, conference papers and proceedings, and educational reports covering almost all academic areas of study.
  Alternate access via library barcode

EBSCOHost Business Source Complete (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides full text for over 3,000 peer-reviewed journals and magazines, as well as country and industry reports, and case studies covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.
  Alternate access via library barcode

EBSCOHost MasterFILE Premier (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides full text for nearly 1,880 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, etc.
  Alternate access via library barcode

EBSCOhost Military and Government Collection (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals with current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Econlit (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Indexes and abstracts more than 450 international economic journals, and includes includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers; 1969- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Economist Historical Archive (CUNY USE ONLY)
Complete fulltext from 1843 to 2003 of The Economist; essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs, business and trade worldwide.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Education Full Text (CUNY USE ONLY)
Fulltext of over 350 education journals back to 1996, plus the Education Index Retrospective, which provides the index to over 500 periodicals dating back to1929.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Education Research Complete (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides full text for over 1,200 journals covering areas of curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (CUNY USE ONLY)
A digital archive of 150,000 books published in the eighteenth century, covering a broad spectrum of topics like law, history, science, and art.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Emerald Fulltext (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
A collection of over a hundred leading management and library and information services journals.
 
Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Electronic equivalent of the 3-volume encyclopedia.
 
ERIC (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes journal articles and documents in educations, 1966- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Essay and General Literature Index (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes annually more than 300 volumes of essays and articles in collections published in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 1985- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Ethnic Newswatch (CUNY USE ONLY)
FULL-TEXT collection of more than 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press; includes over 130,000 articles in Spanish.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Expenditure and Employment Statistics
FULL-TEXT statistical reports on expenditure and employment in the criminal justice system in the US; from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
 
Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS) (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Reports by industry practitioners on wireless communications, data networking, security, streaming media, government information technology and healthcare IT topics, information management, the internet and web.
 
Faulkner Security Management Practices (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Reports by industry practitioners on facility, IT, network, personnel, financial and legal security, risk and crisis management, and public safety.
 
FedStats
Gateway to U.S. government statistics from over 100 agencies.
 
Technology Fee Resource Fire Codes Online (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Online version of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) National Fire Codes; only one user at a time. PLEASE LOG OFF WHEN DONE.
 
FIREDOC
Index to over 70,000 technical documents, conference proceedings, and journal articles on all aspects of fire science, safety and engineering; some entries have links to online BFRL Publications.
 
FireINF (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Index, but not full text, for documents concerning fire, emergency management and forensics; some documentation of European legislation in these area, with heavy focus on British publications .
 
Technology Fee Resource Forensic Bibliographic Database (FORS) (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Multidisciplinary index to the literature of the forensic sciences, 1976- .
 
Technology Fee Resource FORENSICnetBASE (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
A searchable collection of over 120 reference books in forensic science and related fields.
 
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (CUNY USE ONLY)
Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Gale Business and Company Resource Center (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides full text information on companies, markets and industries from business, trade journals, and newspapers, in addition to downloadable directory profiles, market and rankings reports.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Gale Literature Resource Center (CUNY USE ONLY)
Literature reference database provides access to full text biographies, critical analyses, and bibliographies of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers
  Alternate access via library barcode

Gale Virtual Reference Library (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of more than 250 specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical directories and other reference books in the subject fields of criminal justice, economics, history, literature, psychology, religion, science, world cultures, etc.
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Gartner Resource Center (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides research and analysis with on the global information technology industry; includes research papers on best practices and emerging industries and technologies.
 
General Science Full Text (CUNY USE ONLY)
Comprehensive indexing and abstracting of 150 popular and professional science journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain, 1984- , with full text of selected journals 1994-.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Google Book Search
Google is in the process of scanning complete books from some of the world's great libraries. Books in the public domain can be read in their entirety; other books will have snippets displayed.
 
Google Scholar
Crawls (indexes) the content of publishers' websites, scholarly journals, indexes, academic websites, institutional repositories, etc. to find information of a scholarly nature. Does not provide comprehensive coverage of any one field.
 
GreenFILE
Provides scholarly, government and general-interest information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment; topics include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Grolier Online (CUNY USE ONLY)
Contains the Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Grove Art (CUNY USE ONLY)
Now known as Oxford Art Online.
 
Grove Music (CUNY USE ONLY)
Now known as Oxford Music Online
 
Guide to Law Online
An annotated guide to national and international sources of government and legal information prepared by the Law Library of Congress; includes links to treaties and constitutions, and codes.
 
Technology Fee Resource Health and Safety Science Abstracts (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Published in association with the Univ. of Southern California Inst. of Safety and Systems Management, this database indexes work relating to public health, occupational safety, emergency management, toxicology, fire safety, and security; 1981- .
 
Health and Wellness Resource Center (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and wellness information in encyclopedias, magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical source.
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Health Reference Center Academic (CUNY USE ONLY)
Offers accessible health information from a wide variety of personal health sources as well as the full text of nursing and allied health journals; provided by the NYS Library with federal LSTA funds.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides over 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines and abstracts and indexing for over 560 journals.
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Technology Fee Resource Hein Online (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Full text of over 200 law journals from volume 1 of their publication, as well as the Federal Register, Presidential Documents, Attorney Generals Opinions, and treaties.
 
Technology Fee Resource Historical Abstracts (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present; indexes more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages; links to full text; 1955-
 
History Cooperative (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Provides full text for 21 history journals, generally since 2001, with links to United States history sites and the Booker T. Washington Papers.
 
Humanities Full Text (CUNY USE ONLY)
Comprehensive indexing and abstracting of 400 English-language periodicals in archaeology, classics, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion, 1984- , with selected full text from 1994.
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ICPSR (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research provides access to an archive of social science data. Faculty and students at member institutions (like CUNY) can download datasets for statistical manipulation. For advanced users.
 
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries….
An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are either freely available on the Web or in subscription-only databases. (Note: The JJ library does not subscribe)
 
Technology Fee Resource Index to Current Urban Documents (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Indexes reports from local government agencies and organizations (including police, fire, and other public safety agenices) in 500 cities in the U.S. and Canada; includes full text PDF documents.
 
Index to Legal Periodicals (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Index to articles in law journals, 1981- ; some links to full text.
 
Informe! (Revistas en Espanol) (CUNY USE ONLY)
This fulltext periodical database is in Spanish and is best searched in Spanish as well; has full text of 50 Spanish and bilingual periodicals; topics covered include business, health, technology, culture and other general subjects.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource InfoSECURITY netBASE (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
A searchable collection of over 60 handbooks on information technology security.
 
Infoshare Online (CUNY USE ONLY)
Has population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and more for New York City.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security.
 
IREB Bibliographic Database
Index to scientific articles on alcohol from French- and English-language journals.
 
Technology Fee Resource JSTOR (CUNY USE ONLY)
A searchable collection of the complete runs (minus the most recent 2 to 5 years) of over 300 of the most significant scholarly journals. Note: articles may take a long time to print.
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Justice Information Center
A well organized website with direct access to full-text government documents as well as links to other sites.
 
Law Enforcement Statistics
FULL-TEXT statistical reports on federal, state, local, and campus law enforcement; from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
 
Learning Resource Center of the National Fire Academy
Library catalog of the National Fire Academy; indexes journal articles, books, and reports in fire science and emergency management; items not owned by John Jay may be available via ILL.
 
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic (CUNY USE ONLY)
FULL TEXT of federal and state laws, federal and state cases, constitutions, municipal codes, law review articles, as well as articles from U.S. and foreign newspapers, magazines, trade publications and journals.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes more than 220 periodicals and other publications in library and information science; 1984- , with full text from 1994.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Full Tex (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedingsin librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, etc., 1960s-
  Alternate access via library barcode

Literature Resources from Gale (CUNY USE ONLY)
Searches across several major literature databases and provides information on authors and their works, literary movements, and genres.
 
Litfinder (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of literary works from over 80,000 authors, including canonical, contemporary, award-winning and emerging authors. Also biographical essays, topic overviews and work overviews.
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Technology Fee Resource LLMC (Law Library Microfilm Collection) - Digital (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
An archival collection of legal materials, with historical federal legislative, executive and judicial papers (including temp. commisions like the Wickersham Comm.), selected state documents, and historically significant international documents.
 
Making of the Modern World (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides the full text of 61,000 works of literature in business, politics, and economics published from 1450 to 1850; includes the full Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature.
  Alternate access via library barcode

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOHost) (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides full text for nearly 1,880 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, etc.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource MathSciNet (CUNY USE ONLY)
Index to articles in mathematics.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Medline (via PubMed)
National Library of Medicine's database (via PubMed interface) of more than 8.8 million references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals; links to full-text (for sale).
 
Medline with Full Text (EBSCOhost) (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides the Medline index and full text for over 1,470 journals covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.
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MEDLINEplus
Provides access to authoritative consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine and other organizations; has full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.
 
Technology Fee Resource Mental Measurements Yearbook (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests of educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas; Yearbooks 9 through 15.
 
Military and Government Collection (EBSCOHost) (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals with current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
  Alternate access via library barcode

MLA Bibliography (CUNY USE ONLY)
Index to scholarly journal articles on language and literature, 1963- ; note: most are not owned by John Jay
  Alternate access via library barcode

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Holds over 550 data collections relating to criminal justice from federal and state agencies, and grant-funded projects; provides browsing and downloading access to most of this data and documentation
 
National Newspaper Index (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes the top five U.S. newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post; 1977-
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource NAXOS Music Library (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
A comprehensive collection of classical music available online, comprising the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.
 
NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
Deparment of Justice service; searches (and often provides full text) federal, state, local, and foundation reports, as well as abstracts of journal articles and other websites; search results provide full text first.
 
NCJRS Database via CSA (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Has abstracts of more than 195,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research; use FindIt! to connect to full text
 
Technology Fee Resource NetLibrary electronic books (CUNY USE ONLY)
John Jay users have access to nearly 6,000 commercially published electronic books, including 200 recently-published titles in criminal justice.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations; full-text is free for all; excellent source for international dissertations.
 
New York City Municipal Code, Charter and Rules (CUNY USE ONLY)
Available in the LexisNexis Academic service. Use the Sources tab and type "new york municipal" in the Find a Source box on the right side.
  Alternate access via library barcode

New York Code, Rules, and Regulations (NYCRR) (CUNY USE ONLY)
Available in the LexisNexis Academic service. Use the Legal tab and select Federal & State Codes from the column on the right and then select NY from the drop down list of sources on the search form.
  Alternate access via library barcode

New York Law (CUNY USE ONLY)
Available in the LexisNexis Academic service. Use the Legal tab and then review the choices in the column on the right.
  Alternate access via library barcode

New York Police Manual (LIBRARY USE ONLY)
Manual for Police in New York State, latest edition. Available only on the FULLTEXT computers in the Reference area
 
New York State Newspapers (CUNY USE ONLY)
FULL TEXT of 10 newspapers from NY State, including the Buffalo News, the Syracuse Herald American, the New York Post and the New York Observer.
  Alternate access via library barcode

New York Times Historical File (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full article images of The New York Times 1851-2003.
  Alternate access via library barcode

NewsLink
Contains links to thousands of online newspapers, magazines, and media (TV/radio) sites, usually with free, full-text access to the publication.
 
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Biennial publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; describes what workers do, working conditions, training and education needed, earnings and job prospects in a wide variety of occupations.
 
Online Books Page
Provides author, title, and subject access to over 25,000 non-copyrighted online books freely available on the Web.
 
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides a one-stop source for information on social issues; access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Organized Crime and Corruption Database
Indexes books, newspaper articles, magazines and journals on organized crime; from the Nathanson Centre of York Univ.
 
Oxford Art Online (CUNY USE ONLY)
Access to the entire text of the 34 vol. Dictionary of Art with updates and links to images.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Oxford English Dictionary Online (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
The complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series; the worldwide standard source for English word definitions, word pronunciation, word history and usage.
 
Oxford Music Online (CUNY USE ONLY)
Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Oxford Reference Online Premium (CUNY USE ONLY)
Access to over 175 reference books from Oxford University Press, including language dictionaries, and reference works in art, science, classics, business, history, law, literature, medicine, geography, performing arts, philosophy, and social science
  Alternate access via library barcode

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (CUNY USE ONLY)
Contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Philosopher's Index (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Index to books and nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages; links to full text, 1940-.
 
Polling the Nations (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the US and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time; includes polls from Harris, Pew, New York Times, CBS, Fox, CNN, universities and interest groups.
 
Professional Development Collection (CUNY USE ONLY)
Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers.
 
Technology Fee Resource Project MUSE (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of nearly 200 scholarly journals from 30 publishers.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Proquest Historical Newspapers (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Contains the fulltext of hundreds of local and national newspapers and magazines dating from the 1980s and 1990s.
 
Proquest Platinum (CUNY USE ONLY)
Index with full-text, of articles published in over 2,000 journals and magazines, plus some newspapers. General broad coverage, not discipline specific.
 
Prosecution Statistics
FULL-TEXT reports on prosecution in the US; from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
 
Protection of Assets (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Online access to the Protection of Assets Manual and Bulletin, the basic manual for security personnel.
 
Psyc Combined Databases (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Search PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts), PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycEXTRA all together with one search.
 
Technology Fee Resource PsycARTICLES (CUNY USE ONLY)
Contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals - 50 published by the APA and 13 from allied organizations; 1988- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource PsycBOOKS (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Contains more than 1,400 books published by APA, including 700 classics; also more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
 
Technology Fee Resource PsycCRITIQUES (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
A database of reviews of books and films from the American Psychological Association.
 
Technology Fee Resource PsycEXTRA (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
A bibliographic and full text companion database to the scholarly PsycINFO database; consists of technical and annual reports, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more.
 
PsycINFO (CUNY USE ONLY)
Index to psychology articles in journals and books, 1887- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Public Administration Abstracts (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Focuses on public administration and related areas as organizational structures, public service personnel, economic issues, taxation, society issues, theory and research in the field.
 
Pubmed
Searches the National Library of Medicine's database of more than 8.8 million references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals; links to full-text (some are for sale)
  Alternate access via library barcode

Readers' Guide Full Text Mega Edition (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes and abstracts 250 popular magazines, 1983- , with full text of selected titles from 1994.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Readers' Guide Retrospective (CUNY USE ONLY)
The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, with comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States; 1963-1982.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Refworks (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
A web-based bibliographic citation management service that is useful for tracking citations, generating bibliographies & citing sources in papers, etc.
 
Regional Business News (CUNY USE ONLY)
The most recent 30 days of information from a collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Resources for College Libraries (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Provides a core list of 65,000 (print and electronic) titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects selected for academic libraries by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers.
 
Sage Communications Studies Journals (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of 19 journals in communications, 1955- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Sage Criminology Full Text Collection (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Full text of journals in criminal justice, corrections, penology, policing published by Sage, 1955- .
 
Sage e-Reference Collection (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
A collection of over 70 subject encyclopedias, including major titles in criminal justice, research methods, psychology, and social issues from Sage publishers.
 
Sage Education Full Text Collection (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of journals in Methodology, higher education, secondary education, vocational, measurement & testing, educational psychology published by Sage, 1926- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Sage Health Sciences Full Text Collection (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of journals in social studies of health, public policy, health services & administration, health education, community/public health nursing published by Sage, 1894- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Sage Management and Organization Studies Collection (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of journals in organizations studies, management, business, human resource, marketing, public policy, public administration, industrial relations published by Sage, 1947- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Sage Political Science Full Text Collection (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of journals in political science, American government, policy studies published by Sage, 1912- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Sage Psychology Full Text Collection (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of journals in applied psychology, assessment, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, social psychology published by Sage, 1944-
  Alternate access via library barcode

Sage Sociology Full Text Collection (CUNY USE ONLY)
Full text of journals in Social structure, inequality, social change, social problems published by Sage, 1952- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Science Direct (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Full text of over 1500 journals in the sciences and social sciences. JJ users have access to those marked "subscribed."
 
Technology Fee Resource SCOPUS (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Offers access to 14,000 peer-reviewed journal titles from more than 4,000 international publishers in science, technology, social science and medicine; 1960's- .
 
Shepard's Citations (CUNY USE ONLY)
Search for cited cases; check the validity of a citation. Available in the LexisNexis Academic service. Use the Legal tab and then select Shepard's Citations from the column on the right.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Social Explorer (CUNY USE ONLY)
Displays interactive maps of U.S. Census data going back to 1940 (for NYC back to 1910). All CUNY users have access to the subscription data.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Social Sciences Full Text (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes more than 415 English-language periodicals in anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies, 1983- , with selected full text from 1994
  Alternate access via library barcode

Social Services Abstracts (CUNY USE ONLY)
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development; 1980- .
  Alternate access via library barcode

SocINDEX with Full Text (CUNY USE ONLY)
A new index for sociology; contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals; also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Sociological Abstracts (CSA) (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Abstracts for scholarly articles, books, and dissertations, 1952 - ; links to full text through FindIt!
 
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online
FULL-TEXT, with statistics, of the current Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics; with ongoing updates; print version available at Reference Desk.
 
Springerlink Online (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals published by Springer as well as Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997- ,
 
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Entries in this encycloedia are maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. Access is unlimited and free to everyone.
 
Statistics on Drugs and Crime
FULL-TEXT statistical reports on drugs and crime from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
 
Testing & Education Resource Center (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Provides info. on undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as interactive online practice tests for entrance exams and certification and licensing tests, including LSAT, GRE, and SAT; as well as civil service exams; includes Peterson's Guides;
 
TOXNET
Indexes journal articles, books, and reports (written for scientists) on the toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals, 1965-.
 
Technology Fee Resource TRACFED (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
TRACFED provides data about federal enforcement activities -- criminal, civil, and administrative -- as well as detailed information about federal staffing, federal funds, and the diverse characteristics of counties, federal districts, and states.
 
Transportation Article File
Indexes articles in journals and books on transportation; from Northwestern University Transportation Library.
 
Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS) Online
Provides access to 400,000 bibliographic records covering transportation research published in books, journal articles, technical reports and other media
 
Twayne Authors Series (CUNY USE ONLY)
Contains the full text of 600 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource U.S. Government Online (Facts on File) (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Information about three branches of government, key players in federal government (current and past administrations), and news on political topics.
 
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Ulrichsweb provides detailed bibliographic information on a quarter-million publications from more than 130,000 publishers in 200 countries,
 
Uniform Crime Reports
Full-text, with statistics, of the FBI's compendium of crime statistics, since 1995; includes preliminary reports; the print version is available at the reference desk.
 
Urban Studies Abstracts (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Database with abstracts of articles and reports about crime and other urban problems, possible solutions, studies of police departments, social welfare agencies, etc. Links to fulltext for many items.
 
USA Counties
Compiles useful demographic, economic, and governmental information spanning several years and sources for county comparisons and profiles.
 
USP-NA (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
U.S. Pharmacopeia. A guide through the pharmaceutical process; a source for FDA-enforceable quality standards for drugs, dietary supplements, excipients, procedures for tests, assays, analytical methods and more.
 
VictimLaw
Database about victims rights and protections including Constitutional provisions, statutes, court rules, administrative code provisions, case summaries, and attorney general opinions; also includes overviews of the justice system and a glossary.
 
Technology Fee Resource Vital Statistics on America Politics (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Provides summary data on political behavior such as: voter turnout, election results, public opinion, media trends, campaign financing, etc. Some charts provide data since the 1790s, but most focus on the 1940s until 2006. Data can be downloaded.
 
Web of Knowledge (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
JJ provides access to the Web of Science subset of the Web of Knowledge with searching and citation checking through the use of Science Citation Index (1997- ), Social Science Citation Index (1956- ), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975- )
 
Web of Science (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Consists of Science Citation Index (1997- ), Social Science Citation Index (1956- ), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975- ); use it for keyword searches, or to find out who has cited seminal works in almost all fields.
 
WESTLAW (LIBRARY USE ONLY)
FULL-TEXT of federal and state laws and cases and law review articles. For use by John Jay students and faculty only. For access, show your John Jay ID at the reference desk.
 
Westlaw Campus (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Fulltext of state and federal cases, law reviews, news information and legal reference sources like American Jurisprudence, the ALR, and the Keycite citator service.
 
Technology Fee Resource Wiley Interscience (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Full text of almost 400 scholarly journals published by Wiley Publishers.
 
Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000 (CUNY USE ONLY)
Brings together more than 2200 primary documents, books, 800 images, scholarly essays, book reviews, audio recordings, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.
  Alternate access via library barcode

World Health Organization Statistical Information System
A guide to health and health-related statistical information from the World Health Organization; includes statistics on AIDS/HIV and other diseases.
 
WorldCat (CUNY USE ONLY)
A union catalog of libraries around the world; includes books, media, manuscripts, etc. dating back to the 12th century.
  Alternate access via library barcode

Technology Fee Resource Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (JOHN JAY USE ONLY)
Indexes journals in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy; 1975- .
 
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