All Library Databases



Alphabetical list of databases
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
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
OneSearch
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
OneSearch
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.

Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials
RefWorks

A web-based bibliographic citation management service that is useful for tracking citations, generating bibliographies and citing sources in papers. More about RefWorks.

Access level: CUNY
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Regional Business News

Covers regional business news in metro and rural areas within the United States.

Access level: CUNY
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Research Forensic Library

a curated collection of publicly-accessible material relating to forensic sciences.  Based at Florida International University.

Access level: Freely available to the public
Roper Ipoll

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, currently located at Cornell University, is an archive of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys.

Access level: John Jay
Sage Journals
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
OneSearch
SAGE Research Methods Videos

Includes over 400  tutorials, interviews, video case studies, and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process. You can search videos by method; by discipline (criminology, economics, sociology, etc.); or by video type (i.e. interview, tutorial, case studies, etc.).

Access level: John Jay
OneSearch
Scholastic (formerly Grolier Online)

Contains the Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge. (from NOVELny)

Access level: CUNY
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Science (AAAS publication)

Weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. With other journals from AAAS.

Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials OneSearch
Science Direct

Access to journals in the sciences and social sciences.

Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials OneSearch Tech fee
Science in Context

Full text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

Access level: John Jay
Access 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  using your CUNYfirst login credentials to include this database in your search.

Access level: John Jay
OneSearch Tech fee
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.

Access level: CUNY
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Shepard's Citations

Search for cited cases and check the validity of a citation.


Available only through NexisUni. Go to case to find Shepherd's Citations.

Access 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.

Access 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