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  African American Experience

Covers African American history and culture from its African origins to the present day, in addition to a collection of over 500 searchable titles.
Frequency: Annually Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  ALLDATA Online

Provides comprehensive resource for automotive (1982-to-current) diagnostic and repair information. Online SEARCH feature allows people to locate information quickly.

  Alt HealthWatch EBSCO

Focus on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

  America: History and Life

Indexes the scholarly literature of the history and culture of Canada and the United States from prehistoric times to the present.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1954-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Art Full Text

Indexes and abstracts articles from an international selection of periodicals including French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and English-language journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: Indexing 1984-present, Abstracting 1994-present, Full-text 1997-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Art Index Retrospective

Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1929-1984 Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Art Sales Index

Includes auction sales results from 1980-89, searchable by artist's name, dates, nationality, century, the title, description, medium, or dimensions of a picture, the auctioneer, date of sale, lot number, sale estimates, and the hammer price in pounds, dollars or local currency.
Coverage: 1980-present

  ARTbibliographies Modern

Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements.
Frequency: Semi-annually Coverage: 1974-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  ARTstor

ARTstor is an independent not-for-profit organization that develops, stores and distributes electronically digital images and related scholarly materials for the study of art, architecture, and other fields in the humanities.
Output type(s): Download,Print

  ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials provides the full-text access to major religion and theology journals. ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials contains full-text journals in English and other major European languages, and covers all aspects of religion.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: 1949-present Output type(s): Print,Email

  ATLA Religion Databases

Contains citations to articles, books, theses, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: Varies according to publication Output type(s): Print,Email

  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Indexes articles on architecture in its broadest sense, including archaeology, decorative arts, interior design, furniture, landscape architecture, and city planning from 1930s to present.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: 1934-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Baseball Digest

Baseball Digest is America's longest-running, baseball-only publication, with its first issue appearing on newsstands in 1942.
Coverage: 1945-2007

  Bibliography of Native North Americans

Citations to literature about native peoples of North America, including Aleuts; Eskimos or Inuit of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and eastern Siberia; and other native peoples of Canada, the United States, and Mexico north of the northern boundary of Mesoamerica.
Frequency: Annually Coverage: 16th century-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Indexes biographical listings in dictionaries and encyclopedias covering millions individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
Frequency: Semi-annually Coverage: n/a Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Book Review Digest Retrospective

Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: 1905-1982 Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Book Review Index Online

Book Review Index Online is a comprehensive source for book reviews from 1965 to the present and covers review published in nearly 500 periodicals and newspapers.
Coverage: 1965-present

  BrainPOP

Watch fun animated online movies that help with school assignments. Hundreds of BrainPOP videos explain a wide variety of concepts in Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Art & Music, Health and Technology.
Frequency: Annually Output type(s): Download

  Career Cruising

Privacy Policy: This database collects personal information from users as part of its service. This information is stored by the vendor that creates the database and is subject to that vendor's private policy. We encourage you to read that vendor's private policy. The information you enter into this database is not stored by The New York Public Library. Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities.
Frequency: Annually Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Career Library

Coin Career Library offers students, counselors, teachers, and parents a centralized location to work together on career guidance. This product brings together the proven reliability and ease of the Coin Career Guidance system, and the accessibility of the Internet, to make quick and easy-to-use career exploration and planning.

  Christian Science Monitor (1988-present)

A major daily newspaper covering national and international news. Published in the US and noted for unbiased, concise and comprehensive coverage.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: Sep 30, 1988 (Volume 80, Issue 215)-present

  Design and Applied Arts Index

International index to design and craft journals.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1973-present Output type(s): Print,Email

Dissertation Abstracts  >  See Proquest Dissertations and Theses

  Ebony Magazine

Ebony, a monthly magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has published continuously since the Autumn of 1945. A digest-sized sister magazine, Jet, is also published by Johnson Publishing.
Coverage: 1959-2008

  EconLit

Indexes and abstracts international literature on economics. Also includes the full-text for more than 480 journals.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: 1969-current Output type(s): Print,Email

  Economist Intelligence Unit

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) includes Country Reports and Country Profile guides.
Frequency: Ongoing Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Education Full Text

A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
Output type(s): Print,Email

  Foundation Directory Online Professional

Foundation Directory Online was developed by the Foundation Center, a nonprofit organization founded over 50 years ago to open up U.S. foundations to public view.
Frequency: Continuously Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Grolier Online

Includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Frequency: Periodically Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

Grove Art Online  >  See Oxford Art Online

Grove Music Online  >  See Oxford Music Online

  Historical Abstracts

Abstracts of journal articles on world history since 1450, excluding U.S. and Canadian history, which is covered by America: History and Life.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1954-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Historical Statistics of the United States

This compendium of statistics provides quantitative, historical data about American social, economic and political conditions and development. The data is provided in both PDF and Excel formats. This is the online version of the 2006 print edition.
Coverage: The database covers the Colonial period until the year 2000.

  Humanities Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals, including scholarly journals, in the diverse subject areas of the humanities.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: Varies Output type(s): Print,Email

  International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text

Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 periodical titles and more than 50 books & monographs.
Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Jet Magazine

JET is an American weekly marketed toward African American readers, founded in 1951 by John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois.
Coverage: 1950-2008

  JSTOR

A searchable, digitized archive -- from the first date of publication to the last three to five years -- of major scholarly journals in many academic fields.
Frequency: Periodically Coverage: Varies Output type(s): Download,Print

  Latin American Newstand

ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format.
Frequency: Ongoing Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Latino American Experience

Contains the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present.
Frequency: Annually Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Left Index

Topics covered include politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1982-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  LGBT Life with Full Text (formerly GLBT Life)

LGBT Life provides complete indexing and abstracting of content related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender studies in over 230 journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Frequency: Weekly Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts

Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1973-present Output type(s): Print,Email

  Literary Manuscripts

Literary Manuscripts is drawn from the nineteenth century holdings of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: 1480-Present Output type(s): Download,Print

  LitFinder

An online source that includes three separate databases: Poem Finder, Story Finder and Essay/Speech/Play Finder.

  Los Angeles Times (1985-present)

Full-text of the daily paper.
Frequency: Continuously Coverage: 1985-present

  MagillOnLiterature Plus

Combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors, this database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.

  Mango Languages

Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for nine different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish speakers. A text translator is also provided.
Frequency: Annually Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Marquis Who's Who on the Web

Basic biographical information on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals worldwide from all fields of endeavor.
Frequency: Daily

  MLA Directory of Periodicals

The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

  MLA International Bibliography

Indexes scholarship in world literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, film, linguistics, and folklore.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1963-present Output type(s): Print,Email

  National Newspapers (ProQuest)

Searchable full text from the 1980's to the present of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: Varies by publication Output type(s): Print,Email

  New York Magazine

New York Magazine covers, analyzes, comments on and defines the news, culture, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion and personalities that drive New York City. New York Magazine, founded in April 1968, reaches 1.6 million readers each week and is published by New York Media Holdings, LLC.
Coverage: 1968-2007

  New York Times (1980-present)

Full-text articles from The New York Times.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: 1980-present Output type(s): Print,Email

  New Yorker

The Complete New Yorker on 8 DVDs. The full archive of the 4000+ issues published between 1925 and February 2005, including cartoons and advertisements. Available at the Mid-Manhattan Library, third floor, Language and Literature Collection.

  Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

A comprehensive full-text database that provides a wide scope of knowledge for nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.
Frequency: Annually Coverage: Current Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Oxford Music Online

Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. Contains the redesigned Grove Music Online, as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.

  Oxford Art Online

Contains the redesigned Grove Art Online, as well as The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms.

  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Contains over 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times through the most recent years.
Frequency: Tri-annually Output type(s): Print,Email

PA Research  >  See ProQuest Research Library

  PAIS International

Indexes journals, reports, and other documents that cover public policy, cultural and social issues, and international relations.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1972-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Philosopher's Index

Indexes and abstracts the literature on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics,law, religion and science from periodicals, monographs, and other documents.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1940-present (with some earlier articles retrospectively indexed) Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  PoemFinder

A searchable database of indexed poems; some available full-text. At the Mid-Manhattan Library, please use LitFinder for access to this database.
Coverage: Antiquity-present Output type(s): Print

  Polling the Nations

Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full-text of 500,000 questions and responses from 14,000+ surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and 100 other countries around the world.
Coverage: 1986-present

  Popular Science

Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.
Coverage: 1872-2008

  Prevention Magazine

Prevention is the #1 healthy lifestyle magazine brand and the 10th largest magazine in the nation, with more than 11 million readers. The top online health magazine destination, Prevention.com has 1.6 million unique visitors each month.
Coverage: 2006-2008

  Proquest Dissertations and Theses

Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Abstracts from 1980 - present.
Frequency: Annually Coverage: 1861-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  ProQuest Platinum

Periodicals covering a broad range of material: business, education, general reference, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas.
Frequency: Periodically Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  ProQuest Research Library

Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest. Full text is available for nearly two-thirds of its titles.
Frequency: Continuously Coverage: Varies according to publication Output type(s): Print,Email

  PsycARTICLES

Provides full-text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, from 1988 to the present.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: 1988-present Output type(s): Print,Email

  PsycINFO

Indexes literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Frequency: Weekly Coverage: 1880s-present Output type(s): Print,Email

  Reference USA

Provides addresses, sales information, executives, for over 11 million U.S. companies.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: n/a Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Science.gov

Science.gov is a gateway to government science information and research results, and provides a search of over 36 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information.

  Short Story Index

An index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. The periodicals are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.

  SOCIndex

SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database.
Frequency: Continuously Coverage: 1895-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Sociological Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1963-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email

  Wall Street Journal (1984-present)

Full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: 1984-present Output type(s): Print,Email

  Washington Post (1987-present)

Full-text articles from the Washington Post.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: 1987-present Output type(s): Print,Email

Who's Who on the Web  >  See Marquis Who's Who on the Web

  Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Indexes journals covering political science and related fields.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1975-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email