All library databases
** Guide to Africana Studies |
A library guide to researching topics in Africana Studies |
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**An Introduction to Archival Research |
Library guide introducing users to archival research Access level: Freely available to the public |
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**Guide to Primary Sources |
A library guide to researching primary sources. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Academic OneFile |
Access to thousands of articles in scholarly journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. For movie reviews search by document type. (from NOVELny) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Academic Search Complete |
Access to articles from magazines and peer-reviewed journals, as well as books, conference papers and proceedings, and educational reports from almost all academic areas of study. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Academic Video Online (AVON, Alexander Street Press) |
66,000 hours of video content from many disciplines on the Alexander Street platform. The database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive titles. There are thousands of award-winning films, Academy,® Emmy,® and Peabody® winners along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. Access level: John Jay |
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ACLS Humanities Ebooks |
Collection of over 4,000 books of high quality in the humanities that are recommended and reviewed by scholars frequently cited in the literature offered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in collaboration with other learned societies. Access level: John Jay |
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ACM Digital Library |
Full text of over 300,000 articles published by the Association of Computing Machinery and indexes over 1.6 million articles, books, reports and conference proceedings in the computing literature. Access level: John Jay |
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AGRICOLA (National Agriculture Society) |
Catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century. Useful for forensic science. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (NIH) |
Portal created by he National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to support researchers and practitioners searching for information related to alcohol research. Includes links to a number of databases, journals, and Web sites focused on alcohol research and related topics. Also included is a link to the archived Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH), produced by NIAAA from 1972 through December 2003. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Alexander Street Press collections |
Search all video and other content available on the Alexander Street Press platform. Access level: John Jay |
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America: History and Life |
Index and some fulltext to journal articles and reviews on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Inlcudes CLIO notes (see top of interface) providing chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and themes in history. Access level: John Jay |
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American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodical Collection |
Provides digital access to the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collections to American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. The fifty thematic subsets include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century. Access level: John Jay |
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American Chemical Society Journals |
Full-text of articles from a collection of the American Chemical Society journals. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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American History in Video |
More than 5,000 hours of videos from commercial and governmental sources, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Note: The content of this collection is now available through Academic Video Online (AVON/Alexander Street Press). Access level: John Jay |
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American Memory Collections (LOC) |
Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Amnesty International Library |
Makes available the text of news and newsletters, reports, actions, press releases, and other information about human rights issues around the world. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Annual Reviews |
Collection of Annual Review Journals featuring literature reviews in the fields of Social Science. Access level: John Jay |
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AnthroSource |
From the American Anthropology Association, provides full access to AAA's current publications including an archive of all AAA journals. Access level: John Jay |
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Applied Science & Technology Source |
Articles in journals and trade publications covering the applied sciences, including engineering, math, physics, and computer technology with coverage dating back to 1913. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts |
Indexes subjects in the applied social sciences including mental health services, social work, and substance abuse. (Content from Applied Science & Technology (formerly owned by Wilson) is now part of this database.) Access level: John Jay |
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Art Abstracts |
Index to articles in leading periodicals in the Arts from 1984 to the present. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Art Museum Image Gallery |
A rich digital source of images and related multimedia of ancient to contemporary art, gathered from museums around the world. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Artemis Literary Sources |
See Gale Literary Sources Access level: John Jay |
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ArXiv |
Well-established open-access pre-print server hosting unpublished e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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bioArXiv |
A free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Biography In Context |
More than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study, including videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Biography Reference Center |
Original biographical profiles plus feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, obituaries, and images. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Black Drama |
Full text of plays by playwrights from the USA, the Caribbean, and English-speaking countries in Africa. Excellent source for Harlem Renaissance writers. Access level: John Jay |
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Black Thought and Culture |
Contains the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, and includes interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other ephemeral material. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Book Review Digest Plus |
Provides excerpts or the full text of book reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction works from 1983 to the present. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Book Review Index Online (Full Text) |
A comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Britannica Academic |
Multi-disciplinary reference resource designed for college and academic libraries providing access to over 100,000 articles; 1,000s of illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and over 75,000 definitions -- including pronunciation guides and word histories -- from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Bureau of Justice Statistics |
Searchable statistical reports on all aspects of criminal justice in the US. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Burney Newspaper Collection--17th and 18th Centuries |
A comprehensive collection of early English newspapers from London, the British Isles, and colonies, including many American titles. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Business Insights: Global |
Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports; thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection; case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Business Source Complete |
Full text of peer-reviewed journals and magazines, country and industry reports, and case studies covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Census Data (formerly available through American Factfinder) |
Census.gov is the new government platform for delivering data through many individual tools (e.g., American FactFinder, OnTheMap, My Congressional District) to a model where those tools’ capabilities are integrated and served on a single platform. including the following data:
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Census of Population and Housing 2010 |
Gateway to the 2010 Census from the U. S. Census Bureau. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers |
Provides access to America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 and the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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CIA World Factbook |
An annual publication of the CIA providing a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 266 U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world. Includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and Standard Time Zones of the World map. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) |
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. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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CINAHL |
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature with links to full text. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Communication & Mass Media Complete |
Journal articles, encyclopedias and handbooks in the fields of communications and mass media. For film reviews search by document type. For motion pictures search by subject. Access level: John Jay |
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Contemporary Women's Issues |
A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, “gray” literature, and the alternative press — with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women’s lives in more than 190 countries. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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CORE - (U.K.) |
Search for open access scholarly articles from institutions across the world. CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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CORE: Open Access for the Humanities |
Articles, book chapters and other documents authored by humanities researchers and posted on Humanities Commons, a non-profit, academic social networking site. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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CoreData.nyc |
Research tool for New York City housing and demographic information created by the Furman Center at NYU. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Counseling and Therapy in Video Volume 1 |
375 hours of videos of dramatized consultations, counseling sessions, and scenes, as well as documentaries, interviews and lectures. Note: Licensed in perpetuity. Access level: John Jay |
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Country Studies (LOC) |
Library of Congress authored books describing and analyzing the political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions of over 100 countries Access level: Freely available to the public |
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CQ Almanac |
Chronicles and analyzes major bills and legislation in the House and Senate from 1945 through 2012. Includes legislative overviews, key votes, vote studies, roll call votes and public laws. Access level: John Jay |
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CQ Press Electronic Library |
Provides access to CQ publications available online including CQ Almanac, CQ Researcher Plus Archive, CQ Magazine (formerly CQ Weekly), Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America and Supreme Court Yearbook. Also provides access to these CQ resources now available on the Sage Knowledge Platform: Congress and the Nation, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, Historic Document Series, Vital Statistics on American Politics and the Washington Information Directory. More about how to use CQ publications » Access level: John Jay |
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CQ Press Voting and Elections Collection |
Find data and analysis on all aspects of American elections. Provides in-depth insight into the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships. A video tutorital on how to use this collection can be found at https://youtu.be/abOfvhakHg8
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CQ Researcher Plus Archive |
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. Also Reports on international topics such as torture, nationalization of energy resources, peacekeeping around the world, etc. Coverage from 1923 to the present. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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CRCnetBase databases |
Use this platform to search all Taylor and Francis ebook content including the CRCnetBase database collections at one time; FORENSICnetBASE; InfoSECURITYnetBASE; AND STATSnetBASE. Note: It is no longer possible to limit your search to just the CRCnetBASEcollections. Access level: John Jay |
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Crime Report (www.thecrimereport.org) |
Comprehensive news service published by the Center for Media, Crime and Justice, at John Jay College, covering challenges and issues of 21st century criminal justice in the United States. Access level: John Jay |
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Crime, Punishment and Popular Culture,1790-1920 |
Archive containing manuscripts, books, broadsheets and periodicals from 1790 - 1920. Collection covers Europe, North America, India and the Antipodes. Includes raw data about crime, its solutions, and the popular response. Access level: John Jay |
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Fulltext |
Provides scholarly articles and annotations of books and book chapters in criminal justice. Coverage from 1968 to the present. Access level: John Jay |
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Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video |
Over 400 documentaries, training videos, and interviews illustrating the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals in the criminal justice system. Note: The content of this collection is now available through Academic Video Online (AVON/Alexander Street Press). Access level: John Jay |
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Criminal Justice Data for New York State |
Searchable statistical reports on criminal justice in NY state from the NY Division of Criminal Justice Services. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Criminal Justice Periodical Index |
Articles and images from national and international publications in criminal justice. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Access level: John Jay |
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Criminal Trial Transcripts Collection, Lloyd Sealy Library |
An index to the Lloyd Sealy Library's Trial Transcripts of the County of New York 1883-1927. Several transcripts have been digitized and are available online. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Criminology & Criminal Justice Videos (Sage) |
Over 150 hours of videos including documentaries, interviews, and tutorials featuring criminologists talking about their work, case studies that show how that research affects policy and practices; films that take you inside forensics labs, correctional facilities, court rooms and the criminal investigation process. Access level: John Jay |
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CUNY Graduate Center Legacy (Retrospective) Dissertations, 1965-2014 |
Electronic access to over 12,000 dissertations and capstones from the Graduate Center of the CIty University of New York published between 1965 and 2014. Requires authentication with a CUNY library barcode number. For more information read here. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Dictionary of Old English |
Defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language, complementing the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period 1100 - 1500 A.D.) and the Oxford English Dictionary (which documents the development of the English language to the present), the three together providing a full description of the vocabulary of English. Also see Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus which contains at least one copy of every surviving Old English text. Access level: John Jay |
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Digital Collections, Lloyd Sealy Library |
Photographs, images, and other materials digitized from the Special Collections at John Jay College Library. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Digital Commons Network |
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Digital Public Library of America |
Portal to digital content held at the nations' archives, libraries, museums and other cultural heritage organizations. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Directory of Open Access Books |
A discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) |
A curated, independent, searchable directory of open access peer-reviewed journals. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Dissertation and Theses Full Text |
Full text of dissertations published from 1997 and abstracts from 1980. Also, Indexes close to two million dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe from 1861. When searching OneSearch Access level: John Jay |
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Diversity Studies Collection |
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines from AcademicOneFile and General OneFile databases that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. Access level: John Jay |
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Docuseek2 Complete collection |
Over 800 documentaries and social issues films from Icarus, BullFrog and other distributors. Issues covered include history, politics, anthropology, human rights, and justice and environment broadly interpreted. Access level: John Jay |
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DOI Finder Tool |
Get persistent DOI links for your references or bibliography. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Drug Information Portal |
A gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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DSM Legacy Collection |
DSM Legacy collection including DSM-I, DSM-II, DSM-III, DSM-III-R, DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR. 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. Access level: John Jay |
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DSM-5 |
The most current edition of 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. Access level: John Jay |
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Early English Books Online |
EEBO contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. Access level: John Jay |
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Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary) |
A constantly expanding collection of thousands of ebooks in a broad variety of disciplines from ProQuest (formerly Ebrary). Access level: John Jay |
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Ebook Collection from Ebscohost (formerly Netlibrary) |
Access to thousands of commercially published electronic books in various disciplines, including recently-published titles in criminal justice (formerly Netlibary) Access level: John Jay |
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EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete |
Access to articles from magazines and peer-reviewed journals, as well as books, conference papers and proceedings, and educational reports from almost all academic areas of study. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Econlit |
Access to articles in international economic journals, as well as essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. Coverage from 1969 to the present. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: John Jay |
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Economist Historical Archive |
The full text of The Economist from 1843 to 2013. Essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs, business and trade worldwide. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Education Source |
For full-text resources in education with coverage dating back to 1929. (Content from Education Index and Retrospective (formerly owned by Wilson) is now part of this database.) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online |
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 CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Emerald Fulltext |
A collection of close to two hundred leading management and library and information services journals. Access level: John Jay |
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Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences |
Electronic equivalent of the 3-volume encyclopedia. Access level: John Jay |
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Environmental Studies and Policy |
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies from the Academic OneFile and General OneFile databases. Access level: John Jay |
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ERIC |
Provides access to journal articles and documents in education. Coverage from 1966 to the present. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Essay and General Literature Index |
Index to 65,000 essays in 5,300 anthologies and collections. Coverage spans a range of the humanities and social sciences. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Ethnic Newswatch |
Provides access to more than 200 newspapers, magazines and journals from the ethnic, minority and native press. Includes materials in Spanish. To find movie reviews limit the document type to movie review. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Europeana |
Europeana provides direct access to more than 15 million photos, paintings, film clips, audio files, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers, and archival papers from major European cultural institutions. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Fatal Encounters |
National database of people killed during interactions with law enforcement since 2000. Content based on a combination of media sources, public documents and information uploaded by volunteers. Users can search by name or by state, then depending on results, can search by county, year, age, race or signs of mental illness. Note: This database is a work in progress, and like any open web resource, seek to corroborate any data with other sources such as the Uniform Crime Reports database maintained by the FBI and accessible through the library website. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS) |
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.
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Faulkner Security Management Practices |
Reports by industry practitioners on facility, IT, network, personnel, financial and legal security, risk and crisis management, and public safety. Due to budgetary constraints access to this database has been cancelled effective January 1, 2021. Access level: John Jay |
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FedStats |
Gateway to U.S. government statistics from over 100 agencies. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Film Platform |
Contemporary, award winning documentaries of social, political and cultural importance, chosen for an academic audience. Subject matter includes human rights, crime, genocide, environment, psychology, politics, sociology, disability studies, African-American studies, Asian studies, Jewish studies, gender studies.
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Films on Demand (Infobase Learning) |
A comprehensive streaming video collection of 1,000s of full length educational videos and clips covering a broad range of topics. You can search by title, by keywords in segments, browsing titles alphabetically, and browsing or searching within the subject area. Most of the titles in the collection have closed-captioning and many have interactive transcripts. Access level: John Jay |
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Fire Codes Online |
Online version of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) National Fire Codes. Access level: John Jay |
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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. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Flickr: the Commons |
The project currently includes over 200,000 images from more than 50 international cultural heritage institutions. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Foreign Policy |
Foreign Policy website including access to Foreign Policy Magazine Alternate access via CUNY login credentials |
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Foreign Policy magazine |
Access Foreign Policy magazine from 1970 to present and its website, which focuses on leading global issues in national security, technology, markets, and energy & resources. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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FORENSICnetBASE |
This collection of over 300 reference books in forensic science and related fields is included in search results on the Taylor and Francis platform. Note: It is no longer possible to limit your search to just this collection. Access level: John Jay |
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Gale EBooks (Gale Virtual Reference) |
Hundreds of specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical directories and other ebooks in the subject fields of criminal justice, economics, history, literature, psychology, religion, science, world cultures, and more. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Gale Literary Sources |
Portal for cross-searching literary databases from Gale, including these databases: Alternate access via CUNY login credentials Access level: CUNY |
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Gale Primary Sources |
Cross-search dozens of historical archives covering hundreds of years of history through this single platform. Resources include monographs, manuscripts, trial transcripts, newspapers, maps, and photographs. Individual databases collections include :
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (now called Gale EBooks) |
Hundreds of specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical directories and other reference books in the subject fields of criminal justice, economics, history, literature, psychology, religion, science, world cultures, and more. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Gartner Resource Center |
Research and analysis on the global information technology industry; includes research papers on best practices and emerging industries and technologies. The Gartner database is currently available only via the CUNY portal. After logging in, look under the "IT Research" heading for the link to Gartner.
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Gender Studies Collection |
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues from the Academic OneFile and General OneFile databases. Access level: John Jay |
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General OneFile |
Access to articles in general periodicals, newspapers, reference books, as well as multimedia sources. Subjects include humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, and politics. (from NOVELny) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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General Science Full Text |
Access to popular and professional science journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain. Coverage from 1984 to the present. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Getty Publications Virtual Library |
Provides free online access to more than 250 backlist titles published by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Research Institute, with new titles added on an ongoing basis. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Global Issues In Context |
Focuses on issues beyond the United States, with news articles, videos, statistics, reference materials & some academic articles. Includes foreign, English language newspaper articles written for readers in other countries. User friendly; focus is on broad topics. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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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. Some books will display in part. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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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. Enter through the library's website so that you will be linked to the library's licensed resources. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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govinfo (U.S. government information) |
govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government (replaced FDsys). Publications on govinfo include:
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Grant Forward |
Search engine dedicated to helping institutions and individuals find grants to fund their research. It provides a personalized funding recommendation service to simplify the grant search process. Please note that users have to set up individual accounts and will be recognized by their email domains. Access level: John Jay |
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GreenFILE |
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, and more. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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GREENR (Global Reference On The Environment/Energy/And Natural Resources) |
Topics include global warming, food safety, access to health care, and the impact of economic development on international relations. Reader-friendly; may be especially appreciated by non-science majors and beginning science students. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Guide to Law Online (LOC) |
An annotated guide to national and international sources of government and legal information prepared by the Law Library of Congress; includes links to treaties, constitutions, and codes. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Gun Regulation and Legislation in America |
Brings together over 500 relevant titles including periodicals, federal legislative histories, congressional hearings, Congressional Research Study (CRS) Reports and Supreme Court Briefs. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Health & Wellness Resource Center |
Reader-friendly collections of articles on common health issues, grouped by topic. Includes some academic articles. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Health Policy Reference Center |
Articles about health policy and administration in academic journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Health Reference Center Academic |
Access to nursing and allied health journals, other medical journals, newsletters and consumer health magazines. (from NOVELny) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
Access to articles in scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Hein Online |
Several historical American and international law collections incuding law reviews and journals from their first volume of publication, the Federal Register, Presidential Documents, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Attorney Generals Opinions, World Constitutions, legal classics, and the newest collection, Slavery in America and the World; History, Culture and Law. A comprehensive user's guide to this database is available at https://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/HOLUserGuide.pdf. Access level: John Jay |
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Historic American Newspapers (LOC) |
Contains historic newspapers from 1836-1922 and a U.S. Newspaper Directory for American newspapers published between 1690-present. Website produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Historical Abstracts |
Provides access to academic historical journals that cover the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Coverage is from 1955 to the present. Access level: John Jay |
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History of Capital Punishment Database |
Collection of materials from the National Death Penalty Archives on the nature, history, operation, effects, psychology, desirability, and compatibility with religious and moral precepts, of the death penalty. Includes periodicals, trials, hearings, bibliographies and other related works. Access level: John Jay |
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Humanities Source |
Articles in all aspects of the humanities including art, literature, music and philosophy, with access dating back to 1907. (Content from Humanities Index (formerly owned by Wilson) is now part of this database.) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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ICPSR |
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research provides access to an archive of social science data from more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations. It maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files and hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
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IEEE Xplore Digital Library |
Provides unlimited, full-text access to the entire IEEE and IET collection of journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, plus all active and historical IEEE standards. Great for electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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IEEPassport.org |
Comprehensive search engine for exploring 9,500 study abroad programs. Directory by country, field of study, cost, length of study, etc. Includes sources of scholarship funding, internships, and other information about study abroad. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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IMDb |
Collection of movie information. IMDb tries to catalog every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where one can find reviews and fan sites on the web. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Independent Voices |
Nn open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (see Legal Source) |
Now part of Legal Source, the Ebsco database providing articles on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world with coverage dating back to 1908. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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InfoSECURITY netBASE |
This collection of over 60 handbooks on information technology security, is included in search results on the Taylor and Francis platform. Note: It is no longer possible to limit your search to just this collection. Access level: John Jay |
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Infoshare Online |
Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and more for New York City. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Infotrac Newsstand (now called Gale OneFile:News) |
Provides access to thousands of newspapers from the U.S. and foreign presses including images, audio and video clips, including, when available to the top five U.S. newspapers: The New York Times,The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Coverage from 1977 to the present. (from NOVELny) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences |
An index to the social sciences that is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Access level: John Jay |
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International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015, Second edition |
26 volumes of authoritative information from the behavioral and social sciences fields. Discusses history, current trends and future directions. Each article highlights further reading. Access level: John Jay |
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International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center |
Selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. Access level: John Jay |
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
Open access encyclopedia providing detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.
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IOP (Institute of Physics) books and journals |
A wide range of content from the leading voices in physics. Includes the physics of spectroscopy, cancer, the environment, green energy, the atmosphere, astronomy, optics & photonics, bio & medical physics, geophysics, nanotechology, materials & plasmas, mathematics & computation, quantum, classical and nuclear physics. Over 100 journals in the IOPScience Extra Collection, and books in the IOP Publishing Concise Physics, Series 1 through 4, and IOP Publishing Expanding Physics, Series 1 through 4. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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JSTOR |
A searchable collection of the complete runs (minus the most recent 2 to 5 years) of hundreds of the most significant scholarly journals. To focus on a discipline, select Narrow by Discipline -- e.g., Film Studies. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Kanopy |
We provide access to Kanopy titles if needed by faculty for use in class. Faculty may request the library purchase a 12 month long license to view a specific title by sending an email to the media librarian Ellen Sexton esexton at jjay.cuny.edu
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Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) |
Portal to select internet resources relating to Latin American studies organized by subject and country, providing access to a wide variety of full-text resources. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Legal Source |
Articles on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world with coverage dating back to 1908. Content from Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (formerly owned by Wilson) is now part of this database. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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LGBT Life |
Contains the full text for hundreds of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers as well as monographs and books. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Library & Information Science Source |
Articles in the field of library, information science, and education techology. (Content from Library Literature and Information Scrience (formerly owned by Wilson) is now part of this database.) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts |
Covers all aspects of the study of language and to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Access level: John Jay |
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LitCovid |
A curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus, from the National Library of Medicine. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Literature Resource Center |
Provides access to full text biographies, critical analyses, reviews, and bibliographies of work from novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Litfinder |
Provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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LLMC (Law Library Microfilm Collection) - Digital |
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. For infomation on how to search this database see this brief video (click Tutorial). Access level: John Jay |
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Loeb Classical Library (digital) |
Provided by the Harvard University Press, this online resource provides more than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts in a modern interface that allows readers to browse, search, bookmark, and annotate content. Content cannot be downloaded or printed. (Note: The library has the print edition of the Loeb Classical Library).
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Making of the Modern World |
Provides the full text of 61,000 works of literature in business, politics, and economics published from 1450 to 1850. Includes the full Goldsmiths Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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MasterFILE Complete |
Articles from many popular sources covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and more. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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MathSciNet |
Articles in mathematics from the American Mathematical Society. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Medline Complete |
Provides many of the materials indexed in Medline. Covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Medline via PubMed (NIH) |
National Library of Medicine's database (via PubMed interface) of millions of references to articles published in licensed or freely available biomedical journals. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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MedlinePlus (NIH) |
Provides access to authoritative consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine and other organizations as well as drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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MedRxiv |
A free, preprint server for medical research. Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been peer-reviewed. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: Freely available to the public |
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Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print |
Access to all twenty reference yearbooks; covers commercially available English-language research instruments (questionnaires, surveys, diagnostic tests, attitude scales, standardized tests) used by educators and psychologists to measure human educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. Typical MMY test entries include descriptive information, two professional reviews, and reviewer references, written with the goal of encouraging informed test selection. Access level: John Jay |
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MetPublications |
A portal to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's comprehensive book and online publishing program with close to 700 titles published from 1964 to the present. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Military and Government Collection |
Articles from journals and other periodicals and current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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MLA International Bibliography |
Index to scholarly journal articles on language and literature and critical analysis of films. Coverage from 1926 to the present (Note: many are not available at John Jay.) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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National Archive of Criminal Justice Data |
Data collections relating to criminal justice from federal and state agencies, and grant-funded projects. Provides documentation, and browsing and downloading access to most of the data. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers |
Full-text of NBER Working Papers from November 1994 to the present -- approximately 500 papers are published annually. The NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies. Download the newest working papers at https://www.nber.org/new.html Access level: John Jay |
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National Geographic Magazine Archive |
The complete archive from 1888 to 1994 of the award-winning magazine, which features in-depth coverage of cultures, nature, science, technology, and the environment; and spectacular photographic essays. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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National Newspapers Core (see US Major Dailies Collection) |
Provides full text access to
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National Registry of Exonerations |
Provides detailed information about all known exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in the United States from 1989 to the present. Includes statistical and interactive displays that allow you to sort the data based on different issues including by DNA and Non-DNA exonerations, type of crime, race and contributing factors. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Nature |
Nature Journals is a database providing access to the full content of the premier science journal Nature, as well as the following 28 additional journals published by Nature: Nature Biotechnology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature Genetics, Nature Geoscience, Nature Immunology, Nature Materials, Nature Medicine, Nature Methods, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Nature Protocols, Nature Reviews Cancer, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature Reviews Microbiology, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, and Scientific American. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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NAXOS Music Library |
A comprehensive collection of classical music available online, comprising the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues, which include Classical, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Access level: John Jay |
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NCBI Bookshelf (NIH) |
A growing collection of searchable biomedical books hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, which advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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NCJRS — National Criminal Justice Reference Service |
Searches and often provides the full text of federal, state, local, and foundation reports, as well as abstracts of journal articles and other websites. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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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. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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New York City Charter, Code, and Rules |
Searchable and browsable public portal to the laws of New York City including: New York City Charter, New York City Administrative Code and the Rules of the City of New York. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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New York City Crime Map |
Interactive crime map created by the NYPD showing date and location for the seven major NYS penal law felonies (murder, rape, robbery, felonious assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny motor vehicle). Data available for current and previous calendar year and by month within each period. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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New York Code, Rules, and Regulations - NYCRR |
Click on title to access in LexisNexis Academic and then click on TOC - Table of Contents -- in upper left hand side of screen Or arrows to browse. See subject guide on Finding Legal Information for more information. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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New York Law Journal |
New York’s daily legal newspaper. (Ignore the Sign In button, it never goes away.) |
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New York Public Library Databases |
Holders of New York Public Library cards have access to 100s of electronic databases, many of which are accessible wherever you have an Internet connection. Any person who lives, works, attends school or pays property taxes in New York State is eligible to receive a New York Public Library card free of charge. You can apply for a NYPL card online and pick it up at the nearest NYPL location. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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New York State Newspapers Infotrac |
Access to a few dozen New York newspapers including the NY Post, The NY Times, The Informed Constituent (Albany), The Buffalo News, The Herald American (Syracuse) and Newsday (Long Island). (from NOVELny). Note: Scroll down to find link for New York Newspapers Search. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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New York State Penal Law |
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New York State Slavery Records Index |
A searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and their owners, beginning as early as 1525 and ending during the Civil War. Data comes from census records, slave trade transactions, cemetery records, birth certifications, manumissions, ship inventories, newspaper accounts, private narratives, legal documents and many other sources. The index contains over 35,000 records and it is expected to grow as John Jay College professors and students locate and assemble data from additional sources. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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New York Times |
Full text access to the New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast) from June 1, 1980 to present. (Part of National Newpaper Core database). Access level: John Jay |
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New York Times Digital Edition |
All members of the John Jay Community with a valid John Jay email address may sign up for complimentary access to the New York Times digital edition (nytimes.com and smartphone apps). Claim or renew your academic pass and see more details. Access level: John Jay |
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New York Times Historical File |
Full text of articles and page images of the New York Times from 1851 to 2014. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Newspaper archives |
Freely available list of newspaper archives. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) |
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources formerly found through the LexisNexisAcademic platform - including federal and state laws and cases, constitutions, municipal codes and law reveiw articles. The interface is designed to offer quick discovery across all content types. Register for a personal NexisUni id to use personalization features such as Alerts, saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents .
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NFPA Codes Online |
Online version of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) National Fire Codes. Access level: John Jay |
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online |
An eclectic collection of digital collections of primary source materials mostly from British and American libraries. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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NYC Department of Records and Municipal Archives Photo Gallery |
Online gallery with more than 900,000 images—the largest collection of historical images of New York City in the world. The Online Gallery provides free and open research access to items digitized from the Municipal Archives' collections, including photographs, maps, motion pictures and audio recordings. Read the full press release.Access level: Freely available to the public |
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NYC Health Data |
Interactive visualization tools, downloadable datasets and rigorous research on New Yorkers’ health provided by the New York City Health Department. Includes data about the social, economic and health conditions and outcomes of New Yorkers, neighborhood-by-neighborhood; over 200 NYC environmental health indicators in charts, maps and scatter plots; and tools to analyze and visualize NYC health data from surveys, disease reports and vital records by sex, race/ethnicity, age and other stratifications. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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NYPL Digital Collections |
Explore 700,000+ items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. New materials are added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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NYS Historic Newspapers |
The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Occupational Outlook Handbook (DOL) |
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. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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OER Metafinder tool |
This OER Metafinder tool from the George Mason University Libraries is a federated search tool that allows users to search metadata from seventeen digital libraries and repositories, including the Digital Public Library of America, OER Commons, OpenStax, MERLOT, HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive and NYPL Digital Collections. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Online Books Page |
Provides author, title, and subject access to hundreds of thousands of non-copyrighted online books freely available on the Web. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Open Library |
Open Library, a book digitization project of the Internet Archive, provides access to millions of books. Books in the public domain can be downloaded for free by anyone. Books that are still subject to copyright can be borrowed via controlled digital lending. An account is not needed to search this collection, but you need to create an Open Library account to either read on their Internet Archive book reader or download to epub/pdf. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context |
Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, and multimedia on social issues (from NOVELny). Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Oxford Art Online |
Access to the entire text of the 34 vol. Dictionary of Art from Grove, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, with updates and links to images. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Oxford Bibliographies Online |
Topic overviews and bibliographies on pertinent topics in African Studies, Atlantic History, Chinese Studies, Criminal Justice, Islamic Studies, Latino Studies, Military History and Psychology with links to the full text of sources when available. Access level: John Jay |
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Oxford English Dictionary Online |
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. Access level: CUNY |
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Oxford Music Online |
Comprises The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Oxford Reference Online Premium |
Over 200 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 CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice |
In-depth, peer-reviewed long-form articles on foundational and cutting-edge topics in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Access level: John Jay |
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PAIS International |
The Public Affairs Information Service was established to chronicle the world's public affairs, public and social policies, international relations, and world politics. The database contains and index to journal articles, government documents, grey literature and other materials from 1997 forward. Access level: John Jay |
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Philosopher's Index |
Index to books and journals with some links to full text. Coverage from 1902 to the present. Access level: John Jay |
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Philpapers |
PhilPapers is a directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers and serves as the largest open access archive in philosophy. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress) |
Bibliographic database covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress (PILOTS) and other mental-health conditions resulting from traumatic events. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs and produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Access level: John Jay |
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Pivot |
Comprehensive source of global funding opportunities. Users must set up individual accounts using their CUNY email. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (LOC) |
Photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings from the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Professional Development Collection |
Highly specialized collection of electronic information for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. Access level: CUNY |
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Project MUSE |
An interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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ProQuest Dissertation and Theses Full Text |
Full text of dissertations published from 1997 and abstracts from 1980. Also, Indexes close to two million dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe from 1861. Access level: John Jay |
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Protection of Assets |
Online access to the Protection of Assets Manual and Bulletin, the basic manual for security personnel. Access level: John Jay |
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PsyArXiv |
A fairly new searchable preprint server for hosting unpublished academic papers in psychology. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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PsycARTICLES |
Thousands of articles from journals published by the APA and allied organizations. Coverage from 1988 to the present. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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PsycBOOKS |
Books published by the APA, including 700 classics and more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. Access level: John Jay |
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PsycEXTRA |
Companion database to the scholarly PsycINFO database. It consists of technical and annual reports, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. Access level: John Jay |
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Psychiatry Online |
The homepage of the American Psychiatric Association with links to several of its journals, textbooks, and the DSM-5. Access level: John Jay |
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Psychological Experiments Online |
Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia collection that pairs audio and video recordings of experiments in psychology with thousands of pages of primary-source documents. It includes notes from experiment participants, journal articles, books, field notes, and final reports in topics from obedience to authority and conformity to operant. The collection contains over 70 streaming videos totaling more than 45 hours of viewing time. Videos include lectures, presentations, documentaries, experiment footage and interviews. Access level: John Jay |
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PsycINFO |
The most comprehensive index and access to materials in psychology articles and books. Coverage from 1887 to the present. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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PsycInfo |
PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts) searches PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycEXTRA in one search. Access level: John Jay |
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Public Administration Abstracts |
Information on public administration and related areas such as organizational structures, public service personnel, economic issues, taxation, society issues, theory and research in the field. Access level: John Jay |
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Public Library of Law |
A collection of free law materials including case law, statutes, regulations, court rules, and federal and state constitutions. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Well known open access publisher, founded as a non-profit in 2001 to transform research communication by publishing journals with rigorous reporting and peer review. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Pubmed (NIH) |
Searches citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Some are free or available via a John Jay subscription. Some are for sale. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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PubMed Central |
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Readers' Guide Full Text Mega Edition |
Provides access to general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. from 1983 to the present as well as comprehensive indexing to periodicals published from 1890 to 1982. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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RefWorks |
A web-based bibliographic citation management service that is useful for tracking citations, generating bibliographies and citing sources in papers. More about RefWorks. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Regional Business News |
Covers regional business news in metro and rural areas within the United States. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Sage Journals |
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Sage Knowledge Collection |
Hundreds of ebooks and subject encyclopedias, including major titles in criminal justice, research methods, psychology, and social issues from Sage and CQ Press. Access level: John Jay |
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Scholastic (formerly Grolier Online) |
Contains the Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge. (from NOVELny) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Science (AAAS publication) |
Prestigious weekly from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Includes a magazine section and peer reviewed articles.(from 1997 to present) Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Science Direct |
Access to journals in the sciences and social sciences. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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SCOPUS |
Abstract and citation database to peer-reviewed journal titles from international publishers in science, technology, social science and medicine. Results can be refined by author affiliation, funding source, and more. Coverage from the 1960's to the present. When searching OneSearch Access level: John Jay |
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Serials Directory |
Provides access to bibliographic information and pricing for popular serials.Contains nearly 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from more than 108,000 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Shepard's Citations |
Search for cited cases and check the validity of a citation. Available only through LexisNexis Academic. Click on 'Search by content type' on the upper right, then find Shepherd's Citations under 'Legal.' Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery |
Includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law |
Brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Much of the non-legal material in this collection is based on the holdings of the Buffalo Public Library. Its rare book collection contains hundreds of nineteenth century pamphlets and books on slavery. A quick reference guide on how to ue this collection can be found at https://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/SlaveryQRG.pdf Access level: Freely available to the public |
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SocArXiv |
SocArXiv is a free and publicly accessible platform for social scientists to upload working papers, pre-prints, published papers, data, and code. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Social Explorer |
Displays interactive maps of U.S. Census data going back to 1790, U.S. election data, U.S. crime data (FBI/UCR), World Development Indicators, and more. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Social Sciences Full Text |
Provides accesses to journals in anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies from 1983 to the present and indexes material from 1929 to 1983. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Social Sciences Premium Collection (ProQuest) |
Compilation of ProQuest collections in the social sciences with deep coverage of sociology, politics (including PAIS International), criminal justice, education (including ERIC), and linguistics. Provides abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more. Access level: John Jay |
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Social Services Abstracts |
Accesses journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, and current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Access level: John Jay |
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SocINDEX with Full Text |
Contains core coverage journals dating back to 1895, and some priority coverage journals. Also includes full text for many books, monographs, and conference papers. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Sociological Abstracts |
Scholarly articles, books, and dissertations in sociology and subdisciplines. Coverage from 1952 to the present. Access level: John Jay |
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Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online |
Statistics from the current Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics with ongoing updates and the archive back to 1994. The print version is available at the Reference Desk. |
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Springerlink Online |
Hundreds of scholarly journals and Ebooks published by Springer (or formerly by Palgrave), as well as online Reference books--not all indexed Ebooks are available fulltext. Coverage from 1997 to the present. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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SSRN |
Very large, well established repository of social science (and other) academic papers. It was founded in 1994 as an open repository, but bought in 2017 by a for-profit publisher, Elsevier. The vast majority of the papers hosted on the site are free to download. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
Entries are maintained and kept up to date by experts in the field. Access is unlimited and free to everyone. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Statistical Abstract of the U.S. |
Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Current print edition of ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is available at the reference desk -- HA 202.A5.
Access level: John Jay |
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STATSnetBASE |
This collection of 400 reference books in statistics, is included in search results on the Taylor and Francis platform. Note: It is no longer possible to limit your search to just this collection. Access level: John Jay |
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Supreme Court Database (NSF) |
Provides legal scholars with extensive data, like background issues, reasons for acceptance, chronology, outcome impacts, and judge's opinions, for Supreme Court Cases since 1953. Funded by the National Science Foundation. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Taylor & Francis ebooks |
Use this platform to search all Taylor and Francis ebook content including the CRCnetBase database collections at one time; FORENSICnetBASE; InfoSECURITYnetBASE; AND STATSnetBASE. Access level: John Jay |
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Testing & Education Reference Center |
Provides information on undergraduate and graduate programs and interactive online practice tests for entrance exams, certifications, and licensing tests, including LSAT, GRE, and SAT, as well as civil service exams. Includes Peterson's Guides. Access level: John Jay |
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TOXNET (NIH) |
Indexes journal articles, books, and reports (written for scientists) on the toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals. Coverage from 1965 to the present. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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TRACFED |
Data about federal enforcement activities -- criminal, civil, and administrative -- including detailed information about federal staffing, federal enforcement agencies, and income and demographic statistics. Access level: John Jay |
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Transportation Article File |
Index to articles in journals and books on transportation from Northwestern University's Transportation Library. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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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 Access level: Freely available to the public |
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U.S. Fire Administration Library (FEMA) |
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 Interlibrary Loan. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Ulrich's Global Serials Directory |
A source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types. Access level: John Jay |
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Umbra Search |
A searchable collection of over 500,000 primary source documents relating to African American history and culture digitized by over 1,000 libraries libraries and archives across the country. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Uniform Crime Reports (FBI) |
The FBI's compendium of crime statistics. It includes volumes from 1995 to the present. The print version is available at the Reference Desk. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Urban Studies Abstracts |
Articles and reports as well as book abstracts about crime and other urban problems, possible solutions, studies of police departments, social welfare agencies, and more. Access level: John Jay |
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US Major Dailies (formerly National Newspapers Core) |
Provides full text access to
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Vault Career Guides |
Vault provides detailed information on companies, industries, and professions and offers detailed information including education requirements, skill requirements, salaries, advancement prospects, and more. Vault also provides comprehensive career guides. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Very Short Introductions |
Short but authoritative introductions to topics written by authors who are experts in their field. These short introductions cover a range of subjects in the arts and humanities, law, medicine and health, science and mathematics and the social sciences. Access level: John Jay |
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VictimLaw |
Information on victims rights and protections including Constitutional provisions, statutes, court rules, administrative code provisions, case summaries, and attorney general opinions. Includes overviews of the justice system and a glossary. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Vital Statistics on American Politics |
Provides summary data on political behavior such as voter turnout, election results, public opinion, media trends, campaign financing and more. Some charts provide data from the 1790s, but most focus on the 1940s to 2012. Data can be downloaded. Access level: John Jay |
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Wall Street Journal |
Fulltext of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the Present. Access level: John Jay |
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Wall Street Journal Digital - complimentary account |
All members of the CUNY community can set up an individual account to the Wall Street Journal's digital edition. |
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Web of Science |
Subscription to database expired June 30, 2019. Please select another database.
Access level: John Jay |
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Wiley Online Library |
Full text of over 1,400 journals from Wiley-Blackwell Publishers and over 20,000 ebooks. (Note: You can search all Wiley ePublications on this platform, but you can only access the full text of the Wiley journals subscribed to by John Jay). Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000 |
Brings together primary documents, books, 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 CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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World Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnLline) |
Provides access to the current constitution of every country in its native language (English translations for most), and links to related scholarly articles, books, bibliographies, and web sites. More information on how to search this database can be found at https://help.heinonline.org/kb/how-to-search-in-world-constitutions-illustrated/ Access level: John Jay |
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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. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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World Legal Information Institute |
A free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility providing access to over 1230 databases from 123 jurisdictions developed collaboratively by 14 Legal Information Institutes including the Cornell Legal Information Institute. A good resource for finding contemporary legal materials from foreign countries. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean |
Brings together primary source documents relating to Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news-feeds; reference materials; maps; statistics; audio and video. Covers politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science and technology. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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WorldCat |
A union catalog of libraries around the world. Includes books, media, manuscripts, and other formats dating back to the 12th century. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts |
Journal articles and book abstracts in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Coverage from 1975 to the present. Access level: John Jay |
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