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  1 Step by Stephen Morse

Easy to use search forms for a wide variety of genealogical resources including Passengers Lists, New York State Census AD/ED finder, and much more. more info

  1 Step Census Locators (1910, 1920, 1930)

Search for Enumeration Districts by address for large cities including New York. more info

  19th Century African American Newspapers

see African American Newspapers: The 19th Century

  19th Century Masterfile

Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents published in the 19th century. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  2009 Video Voter Guide

Learn about the candidates running in the New York City primary election on September 15, 2009. more info

  A2A - Access to Archives

Contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day. more info

  ABES: Annotated Bibliography of English Studies

Covers secondary literature in English Studies in four main subject areas: Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, and Film Studies. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Academic Search Premier  

Provides full text for 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals

Supplements the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  AccessUN

Index, articles and full-text database of United Nations documents covering 1998-2003. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ACLS History E-Book Project

see ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

  ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

Provides online access to a fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors

Provides links to websites of publishers throughout the world, searchable by alphabetical, geographical, and topical lists. more info

  Advertising Red Books Online

Directory. Includes information necessary for thorough advertising research on agencies and advertisers. The Agency Database contains detailed profiles of nearly 13,500 U.S. and international advertising agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, breakdown of gross billings by media, and contact information on agency personnel. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  African American Newspapers: The 19th Century

Searchable full-text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  African-American History Online  

Covering more than 500 years of African-American history, features biographies, primary sources, images, timelines, and maps and charts. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  African-American Poetry

African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  Agricola

AGRICOLA is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. more info

  AHDS (Arts & Humanities Data Service)/Performing Arts

Searchable collection of online digital resources in the performing arts, mostly from Britain. more info

  ALLDATA Online

Provides comprehensive resource for automotive (1982-to-current) diagnostic and repair information. Online SEARCH feature allows people to locate information quickly. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Mid-Manhattan Library; Science, Industry and Business Library; St. George Library Center

  All-Russia Census 2002

The latest All-Russia Population Census took place on October 9-16, 2002. Conducted by Goskomstat, the State Committee on Statistics of the Russian Federation, this is first official census of modern Russia. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Alt HealthWatch EBSCO

Focus on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library

  Alternative Press Index

Indexes and abstracts alternative, radical, and leftist publications. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Alternative Press Index Archive

Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  AMA Physician Select

Provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO). more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  American Book Prices Current

Contains annual records of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, and broadsides sold at auction in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Australia, and other locations, for the auction years starting with 1975. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  American Broadsides and Ephemera

Digital collection of broadsides printed between 1820-1900 and ephemera, such as invitations, menus and programs, printed between 1760-1900. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  American Drama

Containing more than 1,100 dramatic works from the early 18th Century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714–1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists featured in this release include Clyde Fitch, Augustin Daly, David Belasco, James Herne and Joaquin Miller. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  American Fact Finder

Provides statistics for population, housing, industry, and business. more info

  American Film Scripts Online

Current edition includes 823 authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays, formatted in the conventional screenplay format. Also includes a bibliographic and biographic database of directors and writers. Search by character, scene, race, nationality, age, subject, and year of writing, as well as by author and title. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  American Indian History Online  

Covering more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders of over 500 Native American groups, this database provides entries on primary source documents, biographies, maps & charts, images, and timelines. It also features searchable tribe and culture area indexes, as well as the ability to search for tribes by region. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  American Memory

A rich collection of primary source material relating to U.S. history and culture, compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. more info

  American National Biography

Offers portraits of more than 18,000 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  American Periodical Series Online

APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,100 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  American State Papers, 1789-1838

U.S. legislative and executive materials originating from 1789 -1838 but not published until the second and third quarters of the 19th century. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  American Women's History  

Provides direct access to thousand of entries—biographies, historical and topical entries, speeches, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and photographs—that are essential to understanding the experiences of American women throughout our nation’s history. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  America's Historical Newspapers

Full-text digital images of American newspapers published from 1690-1922. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Amnesty International Library

Provides full text of many of the human rights organization's recent publications, including annual reports back to 1993, country reports, and thematic reports. more info

  AncestorsOnBoard.com

Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1890-1960 (work in progress). View index for free but you must pay to view information on passenger lists. more info

  Ancestry Library Edition

Access to more than 5 billion names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and UK & Ireland records. Library version of Ancestry.com. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Ancient & Medieval History Online  

This database provides a balanced, global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient centers of civilization—Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia, spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature

Contains citations to books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 to the present. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Anthropological Index Online

Indexes articles in journals received by the British Museum's Department of Ethnography library. Particular emphasis is given to social and cultural anthropology and the archaeology of Eastern and Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Antique Map Price Guide

Record of antiquarian map trade appraisals derived from over 20,000 dealer and auction catalogs from the last 25 years. more info
Availability:   Map Division (Room 117 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  AP Multimedia Archive  

Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Archival Materials Access Tool (AMAT)

Contains over 3000 entries for significant archival collections of the New York Public Library. Each entry includes the collection's name and holding division, and often includes links to catalog records and online finding aids when available. more info

  Archival Resources (RLG)

see ArchiveGrid (formerly RLG Archival Resources)

  ArchiveGrid (formerly RLG Archival Resources)

Provides researchers with comprehensive access to information about collections of manuscripts and archives. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Archives and Manuscript Collections

A selective guide to archives and manuscript collections. Includes national libraries, state archives and libraries, college and university collections, and society archives. more info

  Archives Hub (UK)

A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges. more info

  Archives Portal

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, provides a list of links to archives around the world with a Web presence. more info

  Archives USA

Provides information and detailed indexing to manuscript collections from over 5,000 U.S. repositories. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ArchNet -- Archaeology

Indexes resources in archaeology and anthropology on the Internet. more info

  ARL Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

Provides access to the tables of contents of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America. more info

  Art and Architecture Thesaurus

Provides a structured vocabulary of around 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture. more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Art Index Retrospective

Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info

  ARTbibliographies Modern

Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Artfact - Only available in HSSL Room 300

Provides access to more than 4 million auction records -- some with images -- covering the fine and decorative arts such as sculpture, painting, prints, photographs, collectibles and jewelry. more info
Availability:   Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection (Room 300 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  ARTFL

A collection of nearly 2000 electronic French texts, including classic literary works, nonfiction, and technical writing. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Artnet

Contains fine arts auction records -- many with images --from international and national auction sales. Database is updated daily with records from 1989 to present, searchable by artist's name. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Indexes articles and provides cited references found in over 1,130 journals in a wide variety of arts and humanities subjects. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  AskART

AskArt covers American artists providing biography, images, citations, museums owning their work and galleries representing the artist's work. more info
Availability:   Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection (Room 300 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Associations on the Net

A collection of websites providing information about a wide variety of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions. more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ATLA Religion Databases

Contains citations to articles, books, theses, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942)

The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)

The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Atlas Etnograficas De Cuba

Provides an historical and ethnographic overview of traditional and popular culture in Cuba. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  Auto/Biography

Auto/Biography is an international and interdisciplinary journal addressing theoretical, epistemological, and empirical issues relating to autobiographical and biographical research. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Babel Fish

see English-to-other-Language Translation Dictionaries

  Bar Ilan's Judaic Library -- Only available in HSSL Room 111

Full-text, searchable versions of the Bible, Targum, and medieval rabbinic commentaries; Palestinian Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and Rashi, halakhic and aggadic midrashim; codes of Jewish law; and responsa. more info
Availability:   Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Bartleby.com Great Books Online

Full-text access to a variety of standard reference books, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. more info

  Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Online version of the 1901 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations may be browsed by author (chronologically or alphabetically). more info

  Baseball Digest

Baseball Digest is America's longest-running, baseball-only publication, with its first issue appearing on newsstands in 1942. more info

  Better Business Bureau

Check reports on New York businesses and charities. more info

  Bible in English

Contains 20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, five New Testament texts, two versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Bibliografia Nacional Espanola desde 1976

Contains records of the national bibliography of Spain. more info
Availability:   General Research Division (Room 315 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Bibliography of American Literature

Describes the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930 more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Bibliography of the Hebrew Book

Complete bibliography of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino printed books, 1469-1960. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Bibliography of the History of Art

Includes and extends the Repertoire d' Art et d' Archeologie from 1973-1989 and the International Repertory of the Literature of Art from 1975-1989, covering European and American art from antiquity to present. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Includes full-text works of Spanish-language literature, both classics and lesser known works. more info

  Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present

Provides biographical information on the more than 13,000 persons who have served in the United States Congress, including those who served in the Continental Congress. more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Biography Index

Indexes English-language biographical material appearing in books, magazines, and selected newspapers. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Biography Resource Center  

Provides biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Black Studies Center

This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies combines: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, and historical newspaper articles. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Black Studies on Disk

Black Studies on Disk. Publisher's last update: 2004 more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  Bloomberg

The interactive network of Bloomberg Financial Markets offers up-to-date pricing information, history, data, analytics, and multimedia news. Find pricing and yields for stocks, bonds, mutual funds, economic statistics of global markets. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Book Review Digest Retrospective

Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Bookfinder

Searches several online bookstores at once. more info

  Books in Print  

A new interface from Books in Print, designed specifically for patrons. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Books in Print -- Professional  

Contains records of over three million English-language book titles currently in print and records for forthcoming and out-of-print books. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Boston Globe (1872-1926)

The Boston Globe, considered the mainstay of Boston and New England, is a unique full-image archive offering complete coverage from 1872-1925. Contains key content on topics such as American industrialization and modern urban development. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939

Searchable database of passengers leaving Bremen for the years 1920 to 1939. more info

  British National Bibliography

Contains bibliographic records for books and first issues of serials published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Also includes cataloging-in-publication data about forthcoming books and serials. more info
Availability:   General Research Division (Room 315 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (1841-1902)

Developed by the Brooklyn Public Library, this free database provides access to the full-text of the Eagle from 1841 to 1902. more info

  Brooklyn Public Library Catalog

The catalog for the Brooklyn Public Library. more info

  Buildings Information System, NYC Dept. of Buildings

Search for general information on a property in New York City, including block and lot number, census track and landmark status. more info

  Burke's Peerage and Gentry Online

Records the lineages of significant families from politics, royalty and nobility in the British Isles. Includes information on American families with British ancestry and American Presidential Families. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Business & Company Resource Center    

Includes company profiles, executives, mergers & acquisitions,ticker symbols,news & magazine articles, company histories and chronologies, financials, balance sheets, and more. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Business Monitor Online

Market research reports on 175 global markets and Industry reports on 14 major industry sectors. Multinational company profiles, macroeconomic data, country risk analysis, country forecasts, and country updates. Articles and analysis section includes : Fixed income, Equities, Currencies, Politics, Economics, Co & Industry.(selection varies depending on geography). Company research includes links to global subsidiaries and peers/competitors, Foreign Direct Investments for major FDI multinationals with details of investments; Projects section covers key ventures of multinational companies, including deal details. Print or download, PDF for many files. (Please logout when you are finished using this database to allow others to log in.) more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Business Source Premier EBSCO  

Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Butler Group CIO Knowledge Center

This database has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please see a librarian for alternative resources. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Canadiana.org (formerly Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions)

Indexes the microform collection Canadiana. which contains over 60,000 monograph titles covering 300 years of Canadian history. more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Career Resource Site - Wet Feet

Find Wet Feet Insider Guides, Career & Industry guides, Employer Guides, Videos and more. Link to job and resume information.(Note: To download a guide, copy the password which displays within brackets: guides will not open without the password and won't reopen without same password after download.) more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  CARES Directory

Search for social and health service organizations in the greater New York area. more info

  CASSIS: Classification and Search Support Information System

Indexing (1969 - Present) and abstracting (1994 - Present) for U.S. patents and current and pending federally registered Trademarks (1790 - Present), as well as information on patent classifications and assignments. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Castle Garden Immigration Center, 1830-1892

Index of more than 10 million immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1830-1892. Searching via S. Morse's One Step Search Form. more info

  Catalogues Raisonnés

A searchable database listing published catalogues raisonnés, and ones in preperation. A catalogue raisonné is a comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known works of an artist, either in a particular medium or all media. more info

  Catholic Encyclopedia

Contains full and authoritative information on Catholic interests, action, and doctrine. more info

  Census CD

Includes the full set of Census data from Block Group level up to the nation, all 16 geographies included in the Census long form databases STF3A to D, all tracts, places, counties, states, Congressional districts, Zip codes, etc., for over 375,000 geographic locations in the US. It has all 3,500+ Census demographic variables for every area along with millions of street addresses from Tiger94, all distributed by the US Census Bureau. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Census: State and County Quick Facts

Tables of data from various Census Bureau programs, including profiles at national, state, and county levels. more info

  Charity Navigator

Evaluates the financial health of America's largest charities. more info

  Chicago Defender (1905-1975)

Searchable full-text and page images from The Chicago Defender archive. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Chicago Manual of Style Online

Searchable, online version of the Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition) providing two basic documentation systems, the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the concise author-date system used by those in the physical, natural, and social sciences. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Chicago Tribune (1849-1986)

Searchable full-text and page images from the Chicago Tribune archive. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Chiefs of State and Cabinet Ministers of Foreign Governments

Provides an alphabetical listing by country of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of foreign governments. more info

  China Academic Journals

Full-text articles from Chinese academic journals. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Chinese E-Journal Collection (Qikan)  

Provides access to full text of 200 popular journals in Chinese language. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Chinese Pamphlets

Chinese pamphlets, picture books and other propaganda issued during the early years of the People’s Republic of China between 1947 and 1954. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Seward Park; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. Published every weekday. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Chronicling America is a prototype Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program. more info

  CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Cimorelli's Ship Information

Arrival dates and names of passenger ships which arrived at U.S. ports. This is not a database of passenger names but of ships. more info

  Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

Contains basic facts about servicemen who served during the Civil War and regimental histories. more info

  Civil War: a newspaper perspective

Contains selected full-text articles from issues of the New York Herald, the Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer. more info
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  Columbia Earthscape

Resource that connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions. Selected full text resources on earth-systems science and impacts on public policy. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Columbia Gazetteer of the World  

A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Columbia Granger's World of Poetry  

This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Compendex® including Historical Archive

Information from engineering and technological literature. Locate articles in all fields of engineering. Journal articles, technical reports, monographs, and conference proceedings are included. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Congressional Directory

Provides contact information for members of the United States Congress. more info

  Congressional Documents & Debates, 1774-1875

Includes the records and acts of the U.S. Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress. more info

  Congressional Indexes 1789-1969

Includes U.S. House and Senate documents and reports, committee hearings, unpublished hearings, and commitee prints. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980

A digital reproduction of the key publications of the United States Congress, the Congressional Serial Set documents the official activities of the House and the Senate, including the journals, reports and documents. IN PROGRESS. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Congressional Universe

Provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Contemporary Authors  

Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Corriere Della Sera

Italian newspaper more info

  Country Studies - Library of Congress

Details of a country's political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions. more info

  Credo Reference  

This database which includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries provides a full text collection for over 270 reference works. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Custom Newspapers    

Searchable full-text of 300 plus newspapers, both national and international. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Dance Heritage Coalition

This site is a tutorial for in-depth dance research, focusing on primary sources available in archives and research libraries. Also provides access to finding aids for archival collections in several repositories, including New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, Ohio State University, and the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum. more info

  Dance on Disc

Published by G. K. Hall / Thomson-Gale, this CD-ROM contains approximately 245,000 bibliographic records representing holdings of the Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Publisher's last update: 2004. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Dante Project (Dartmouth)

Searchable collection of texts including the Italian text of the Divine Comedy and commentaries. more info

  DAR Genealogical Records Index

Indexes unpublished genealogical materials, mainly bible and cemetery transcriptions, collected by DAR members. New York state volumes held at NYPL Milstein Division. more info

  Death Indexes and Records Online

Directory of online death indexes and records listed by state, including death certificate, obituaries, cemetery burials & probate records. more info

  Design and Applied Arts Index

International index to design and craft journals. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Deutsche Nationalbibliographie -- Only available in HSSL Room 315

Contains all the records of the German National Bibliography from the following series: book trade publications, non-book trade publications, maps, and dissertations. more info
Availability:   General Research Division (Room 315 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Dictionary of Canadian Artists

A biographical database of Canadian artists more info

  Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

The Dictionary of Canadian biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (DCB/DBC) is a scholarly research and publishing project carried out jointly by the University of Toronto and the Université Laval. Recognized for the high level of excellence it has achieved, it is generally considered one of the most important undertakings in the country in the field of the humanities. more info

  Dictionary of Literary Biography  

Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. This is available in the Literature Resource Center. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Digital Gallery, NYPL

see NYPL Digital Gallery

  Digital Library Collections, NYPL

see NYPL Digital Library Collections

  Digital Scriptorium

Images of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts. more info

  Digital South Asia Library

On-line information about contemporary and historical South Asia – including full-text documents, statistical data, electronic images, cartographic representations, and pedagogical resources for language instruction. more info

  Directories in Print  

A guide to more than 10,000 business, professional, industrial, and other directories published in the United States. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries

Contains listings for American companies that have a substantial investment in overseas operations-wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States

Foreign companies listed have a substantial investment in American operations-wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Directory of Scholars in Brazilian Studies

Directory includes: Scholars who teach Brazilian Studies at the college/university level; Scholars who have published in the field of Brazilian Studies; and Ph.D. candidates in Brazilian Studies (ABD) more info

  Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers  

A directory of special libraries and information centers, covering all disciplines and specialties. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Dissertation Abstracts

see Proquest Dissertations and Theses

  Dun & Bradstreet's International Million Dollar Database

Provides information on over 1,600,000 international companies. Find specific companies, industries, and size new markets by using multiple selection criteria. Search or limit by SIC code, total employees, legal status, annual US sales dollar equivalent, and more, plus identify up to four (4) executives on the world's largest entities. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database

D&B Million Dollar Database provides information on over 1,500,000 US and Canadian leading public and private businesses. Company information includes industry information with up to 24 individual 8-digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)

Provides full text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides and periodicals published in America from 1639-1800. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)

Provides full-text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides, state papers and government publications published in America from 1801-1819. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Early American Newspapers

see America's Historical Newspapers

  Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Provides full text, digital images of every book printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and every book in the English language printed abroad, from 1475 to 1700. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Early English books Online Text Creation Partnership

The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an exceptional partnership to create structured SGML/XML text editions for a significant portion of the Short Title Catalog of Early English books published between 1473 and 1700. ProQuest has already created digital images for nearly 125,000 works, distributed under the title Early English Books Online. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  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. more info

  EBSCO Animals (grades 5-12)  

Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to nature and habitat of familiar animals. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  EBSCO Primary Search    

Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  EBSCO Research Databases

Provides full-text coverage of periodicals, including newspapers, covering nearly all subjects. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  EBSCOhost  

Abstracts and full-text of a wide variety of publications. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  EconLit

Indexes and abstracts international literature on economics. Also includes the full-text for more than 480 journals. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Economist Intelligence Unit

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) includes Country Reports and Country Profile guides. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library

  Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Provides full text, digital images of English-language books, pamphlets, broadsides and other materials published in the United Kingdom between 1701-1800. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Eighteenth Century Journals II

Provides full-text, digital images from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  El Diario La Prensa NY

The largest and oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper in New York City. more info

  Electronic access to music journals

Alphabetical list of music journals with links to full-text electronic access. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Electronic Enlightenment  

Electronic Enlightenment is a database which provides unrivalled online access to 18th-century primary sources that can be searched or browsed as a complete collection. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Ellis Island: American Family Immigration History Center

Covers the period 1892-1924 when 22 million passengers and crew members entered the Port of New York through Ellis Island. Search for an immigrant's name and view a digitized page of the passenger manifest. more info

  Ellis Island: Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step

An enhanced search of the Ellis Island Database (1892-1924). more info

  e-Marketer

Market research information related to e-business, online marketing and emerging technologies. eMarketer aggregates and analyzes e-business research from over 1,700 sources and brings it together in one place. Research is presented in analyst reports and an "eStat Database" feature which is a comprehensive compilation of up-to-date e-business and online marketing statistics. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Emerging Markets - Internet Securities

Full-text articles, news, company, industry and market information for emerging market countries around the world. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  emusicquest

Cross-indexes the Music-In-Print series. Searches listings of sacred choral, classical vocal, orchestral, string, woodwind, guitar, piano, band, handbell, harp, percussion and brass music in print. New entries and categories are added regularly. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos  

La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Encyclopedia Americana  

The online version of encyclopedia with an added news database. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Encyclopedia Judaica

Full-text searchable database of the 22 volumes. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Encyclopedia of American Religions  

An encyclopedia of religions in the United States, including mainstream as well as small marginal groups. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Encyclopedia of Associations  

Includes nonprofit voluntary membership organizations, such as professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations  

A directory of executive advisory bodies in the United States. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Energy Administration Information

Energy statistics from the U.S. Government. more info

  England and Wales 1911 Census

The 1911 census is a record of everyone who lived in England and Wales in 1911. Searching the index is free but there is a fee for viewing the digitized record. more info

  England and Wales Historical Directories

A digital library of local and trade directories from England and Wales from 1750-1919. more info

  English Short Title Catalogue

Descriptions of English printing from 1473 to 1800. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  English-to-other-Language Translation Dictionaries

Links to Alta Vista's Translator and other French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish to English (and vice versa) dictionaries. more info

  E-print Network

The Department of Energy's E-PRINT Network is a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE. more info

  ERIC (CSA)

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ERIC (EBSCO)  

U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ERIC Document Reproduction Service

From the U.S. Department of Education, ready access to documents in the education field. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Ethnic NewsWatch

Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Eureka - RLG Union Catalog

see RLG Union Catalog

  Euromonitor (Now Passport)

Market intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. Includes integrated access to statistics, market analysis, and commentary on emerging trends. Please Note conditions of access to this service: Euromonitor is provided at NYPL for personal research or private study only, and cannot be sold or re-distributed to third parties. Library users may browse, search the service and display Intelligence on screen, and may print out no more than up twenty pages or equivalent of information per session. Direct downloading by library users is not permitted. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Europa: Gateway to the European Union

Current information on the member countries of the European Union, including statistical data, policies, news, official documents, legal texts, and other publications. more info

  European Library, The

Combined searching of the resources of European national libraries. more info

  Evans Digital Edition

see Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)

  Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920

This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Faber Poetry Library

Contains the works of 42 poets comprising 124 volumes of poetry. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)

Includes content from more than 20,000 news sources, including newspapers, TV transcripts, newswires, and business magazines. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Facts On File History Database Center  

Comprised of the World History Online, Ancient History & Culture, American Women's History, African-American History & Culture and American Indian History & Culture, this interface allows us to search across all five history databases more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Fagan Finder

Provides links to quotation, proverb, aphorism, and slogan sites, and the means for searching particular types of quotes. more info

  Family History Archive

Digitized full-text family histories. more info

  FamilySearch Genealogy Service

Produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), this site searches genealogical records worldwide including Ancestral Files, International Genealogical Index, and census and other vital statistics sources. more info

  FamilySearch Record Search (Pilot)

Search indexed records for your ancestors worldwide. Under development. New content added monthly. more info

  FEDSTATS

National statistics from the U.S. Federal Government in the areas of Agriculture, Education, Income, Natural Resources, Crime, Energy, Labor, Safety, Demographics, Environment, National Accounts, Transportation, Economic, and Health. more info

  Ferguson's Career Guidance Center  

Offers detailed descriptions of more than 2,000 popular jobs in 94 industries, as well as over 23,000 resources to help people select, plan, and advance their careers. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus

Formerly known as Film/TV Documentation Collections, FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Fiction Connection  

Use this readers advisory tool to discover titles similar to books you already enjoy. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Film & Television Literature Index

Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Film Indexes Online

Includes Film Index International (British Film Institute) and the AFI Catalog (American Film Institute), covering all eras of filmmaking from the early silents to recent box-office hits. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Film Literature Index

Film Literature Index annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries and 200 other scholarly and popular periodicals. more info

  Film/TV Documentation Collections

A section of the International Film Archive database produced by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), which contains information about the holdings of more than 145 of the world's foremost film archives, libraries, and educational institutions. Contact information, descriptions of the collections, types of material collected, and access guidelines are provided. Updated biannually. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  FirstSearch (OCLC)

see OCLC FirstSearch

  Food Science and Technology Abstracts

Locate articles in over 1,800 journals as well as patents, standards, conference proceedings, research reports, and legislation. Includes food processing, composition, basic food science, hygiene, economics, processing, packaging, and additives. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Footnote

Searchable digitized images of millions of historical primary documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents, many from the National Archives. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Foreign Relations of the United States

This digital facsimile of FRUS is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. An almost complete run from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired. more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Foundation Finder

Basic information about private and community foundations within the U.S. more info

  Foundation Grants to Individuals Online

An online database of more than 6,200 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Countee Cullen Branch; St. George Library Center

  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

German newspaper more info

  Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874

Freedman's Bank Records are a great source for genealogists researching their African American heritage. This database is an index to registers of signatures of depositors and includes images of the original documents. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO[grades 5-8]  

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Galante's Venture Capital & Private Equity Directory

Search venture capital firms using browse option (alphabetically) or by investment criteria. Investment criteria include company location, type of firm, activity level, investment size, geographic preference or industry preference. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Gale Directory of Databases  

Gale's Ready Reference Shelf is an online directory of organizations, databases, and publications. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media  

Includes television stations, radio stations, and cable television companies in the United States and Canada. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Gale's Ready Reference Shelf  

Online directory of organizations, associations, databases, broadcast media, and publications. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  GalleryGuide.org

Search for art exhibitions, openings, shows, services, and more. more info

  George Eastman House Catalog

Photographers, collections, and exhibition catalogs can be searched in this extensive index. more info

  Germans to the U.S.: 1850-1897

Index of German immigrants arriving in the Port of New York. more info

  Getty Provenance Index

Information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art; gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files. more info

  Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Terms

A structured vocabulary of geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types. Focuses on places important for the study of art and architecture. more info

  Google Book Search

Google Books enables you to search the full-text of scanned books (contributed by The New York Public Library, other libraries and publishers) via the Web, and to read selections of the full-text of these digitized texts. more info

  Gordon's Photo Prices -- Only available in HSSL Rooms 300 and 308

International coverage of photographs sold at auction from 1985 to the present. more info
Availability:   Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection (Room 300 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building); Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection (Room 308 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Gordon's Print Prices -- Only available in HSSL Rooms 300 and 308

International coverage of prints sold at auction from 1985 to the present. more info
Availability:   Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection (Room 300 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building); Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection (Room 308 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Government Research Centers Directory

An online directory from publisher Gale. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  GPO Access

A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free access to a wide array of databases and other online tools produced by the federal government. Includes the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register (1994- ), and published versions of bills (1993- ). more info

  GreenFILE

Abstracts and indexes articles on the environment with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn

Founded in 1838, this cemetery was the place many famous New Yorkers who died during the second half of the 19th century were buried. It is still an operating cemetery with approximately 600,000 graves. Look for the search form under “Burial Inquiry.” more info

  Griffith’s Valuation

First full-scale valuation of property in Ireland published between 1847 and 1864. It allows researchers to locate 'occupants' to see who lived where. more info

  Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia  

The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Grove Art Online

see Oxford Art Online

  Grove Music Online

see Oxford Music Online

  Guardian and Observer (1791-2003)

The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Handbook of Latin American Studies

Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American Studies. more info

  HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)

Indexes books, articles, reviews, bibliographies, and literary works appearing in scholarly journals covering Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic America. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  HarpWeek

The online version of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), the leading American illustrated magazine of its day, covering political, military, social, and cultural stories. HarpWeek may be browsed by date or literary genre; the full text is searchable by keywords. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Hartford Courant (1764-1984)

The Hartford Courant (1764-1984) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module    

Provides access to medical, health, and wellness information, including full-text magazines, journals, pamphlets, as well as "Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine". more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Health Source: Consumer Edition EBSCO  

Full text for journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition EBSCO  

Includes scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  HeritageQuest Online

Search U.S. Federal Census records, digitized family and local history books, an index to genealogical and local history periodicals, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files and the Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Historical Census Browser

Provides population and economic census data for U.S. states and counties from the years 1790-1960. more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  History Guide

Subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history with a focus on Anglo-American history and the history of Central and Western Europe. more info

  History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  History Resource Center: US  

Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  History Resource Center: World  

A comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles, primary sources, images, maps and charts which provide geographic and chronological research materials for the study of world history. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  H-Net

International consortium of scholars and teachers for advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. more info

  Hoover's

Provides company and industry information on 43,000 private and public companies, and 600 industries. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

HCPP delivers searchable full text for each Parliamentary paper, along with a detailed subject index. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Humanities Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals, including scholarly journals, in the diverse subject areas of the humanities. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  HyperHistory Online

3,000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps. more info

  ICON: International Coaltion on Newspapers

The International Coalition on Newspapers is a coordinated multi-institutional effort to increase the availability of international newspaper collections by improving both bibliographic and physical access to global newspaper collections. more info

  Illustrated Incunable Short-title Catalogue (Illustrated ISTC), 2nd Ed.

Illustrated descriptions for every recorded edition published from movable type from 1450 to 1500. more info
Availability:   General Research Division (Room 315 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  iLove Languages

Access to online dictionaries, language lessons, translation services, and other language-related Internet resources. more info

  Index to Art in Canada to 1930

An index to works of art listed in Canadian exhibition, auction and collection catalogues. more info

  Index to Jewish Periodicals

This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals

Indexes periodical issues' entire contents: articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements. NOTE: This database is currently experiencing intermittent service outages. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series

The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series is a tool for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, as it indexes each individual piece in a collection. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Index to the Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection

Provides access to over 25,000 titles available in the Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Index Translationum

Contains information on books translated and published in about a hundred of UNESCO's member states since 1979 in all disciplines. more info

  Information Please Almanac

Includes full-text of the Information Please Almanac as well as an online dictionary and an online encyclopedia. more info

  Infoshare Online

Provides a wide range of data on the neighborhoods of New York City -- population, immigration, land use, public assistance, birth, death, hospitalization and much else. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  International Database

Provides demographic and socioeconomic statistics for 227 countries and areas of the world. more info

  International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions

The SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime). Not only basic information about the institution is provided, but also information about collections found within the institutions. more info

  International Index for the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPA)

IIPA covers the subjects of dance, film, television, drama, recorded sound,theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. Contains over 172,013 records providing current and retrospective coverage, with citations dating back to 1864. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  International Index to Black Periodicals

see Black Studies Center

  International Index to Film Periodicals

Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) as part of the International Film Archive database, this cumulative index contains almost 230,000 citations to articles from academic and popular film journals. Full bibliographic descriptions and comprehensive subject headings are provided. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text

Indexes over 350 and provides full text for nearly 100 international music periodicals from more than twenty countries, with over 50 of the publications indexed exclusively in IIMP. IIMP is both current and retrospective with over 30,000 records dating from 1996 to the present and other records dating as far back as 1874. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  International Index to Television Periodicals

Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives as part of the International Film Archive database, this index contains circa 50,000 citations on television subjects from film and television periodicals. Since 2000, however, indexing related to television has been restricted to articles appearing in film journals and periodicals; periodicals relating solely to television are no longer indexed. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  International Research Centers Directory  

A directory of research institutes and scientific bureaus throughout the world. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Internet Archives: Text Archives

Text Archive enables you to search and view the full-text of scanned books via the Web. more info

  Internet Broadway Database

A definitive source for the facts on Broadway musicals and plays from Aristophanes to Ziegfeld. more info

  Internet Movie Database

Fully-searchable database of film information. more info

  Internet Resources in Dance

Selected by librarians in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts more info

  Internet Resources in Film

Selected by Librarians in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and the Dance and Drama Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. more info

  Internet Resources in Music

Selected by librarians in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts more info

  Internet Resources in Recorded Sound

Selected by librarians in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts more info

  Internet Resources in Theatre

Selected by librarians in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and in the Dance and Drama Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. more info

  Investext Plus

Search investment analyst's reports on companies & industries from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Search by company, industry, or keyword. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Italians to the U.S.: 1855-1900

Index of Italian immigrants arriving in the Port of New York. more info

  Jane Austen Information Page

Contains the author's novels, unfinished works, juvenilia, and miscellaneous fragments. more info

  JapanKnowledge Classics

Includes Nihon daihyakka zensho, Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Imidas, Gendai yogo no kiso chishiki, Nihon jinmei daijiten, JK Who’s Who, Japanese-English dictionaries, and full-text journal Shukan ekonomisuto (April 2002 – current); full-text of books in the Toyo bunko series; and other fully searchable sound and visual databases. Requires Japanese capable browser. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Jerusalem Post -- Only available in SAS Room 111

Full-text, searchable database of the daily newspaper. more info
Availability:   Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Jerusalem Report -- Only available in SAS Room 111

Full-text, searchable database of the bi-weekly news magazine. more info
Availability:   Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  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. more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986

The Kaiser Index to Black Resources or the Black Studies Database (BSD) includes more than 170,000 citations drawn from significant and influential journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the Black experience from 1948-1986. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  Kids Search    

An interface that is designed especially for grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  King James Bible

Provides full-text searching and browsing features. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

Access to electronic resources in medieval studies worldwide. more info

  Lands & Peoples  

An encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events geared to student readers. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  LANE - Latin America North East Libraries Consortium

Provides information about the availability of Latin American research resources in the region. more info

  LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center

A selective guide to Latin American internet resources organized by subject and country. Provides access to a wide variety of full-text resources. more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Latino American Experience  

Contains the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Le Monde

Paris, France newspaper more info

  LearningExpressLibrary  

Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Leonard's Combined Price Index of Art Auctions -- Only available in SAS Room 300

Provides broad coverage of American auction houses, dealers and galleries. more info
Availability:   Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection (Room 300 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Lexis Nexis Digital Congressional Hearings Digital Collection

Provides access to every published and unpublished hearings from 1824 to the present. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Library Literature  

Indexes periodicals and books, reports, pamphlets, and library school theses on all aspects of library and information science. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Library of Congress Music Catalog

A cumulative bibliography of works currently cataloged by the Library of Congress and several other North American libraries, including music scores, sheet music, libretti, books about music and musicians, and sound recordings of all types. (Adapted from the print version, which it continues). more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Library of Congress Online Catalog

The catalog of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. more info

  Libweb: Library Servers via WWW

Links to libraries around the world. more info

  Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin

The ASLO Bulletin was launched in 1992 as an informal means of communication among members, and in 2001 was renamed the Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin as part of a major revision of its purpose and content. It is published four times annually and includes peer-reviewed articles, informational and opinion articles concerning events within and beyond the society, meeting announcements, and advertisements. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

L&O:Methods considers manuscripts whose primary focus is methodological, and that deal with problems in the aquatic sciences. In order to provide the most rapid publication consistent with high standards, the journal appears in electronic format only, and the entire submission and review system is online. Articles are posted as soon as they are accepted and formatted for publication. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts

Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Literature Online

A searchable library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key secondary sources. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Literature Resource Center  

Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database

An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video, and art. more info

  LitFinder

An online source that includes three separate databases: Poem Finder, Story Finder and Essay/Speech/Play Finder. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)

First hand coverage of the grass-roots struggle against the racially restrictive housing covenants of the 1940s. Considered to be the major newspaper of the Black community in Los Angeles during the 20th century. The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)

Searchable full-text and page images from the Los Angeles Times archive. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Los Angeles Times (1985-present)

Full-text of the daily paper. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Seward Park; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  LRS- NY State Legislative Retrieval System

Full-text database of New York State legislative information. Access bill status, bill text, and summary. Includes Committee agendas, floor calendars, daily sheets, chapters for the current year, veto and approval messages, and related documents. Searchable by bill number, word or phrase, or search links. Provides NY State legislative information going back to 1995. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library

  Making of America (Cornell University Site)

Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. more info

  Making of America (University of Michigan Site)

Materials accessible here are University of Michigan Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. more info

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Map Collection, Perry-Castaneda

Displays selected digitized images from the printed map collection housed at the University of Texas at Austin. more info

  Market Research.com Academic

Full-text service of market research reports on many topics. Includes more than 40,000 market intelligence publications from 350 publishers worldwide. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Martindale.com

An online directory of lawyers and law firms around the world. more info

  MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)

Contains full-text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  MathSci Disc

Indexes journals on mathematics, statistics, and computer science. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Mayer International Auction Records -- Only available in HSSL Room 300

Lists items that sold at auction from 1987 to 1997. more info
Availability:   Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection (Room 300 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  MEDLINE

Compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and published on the Web by Community of Science, MEDLINE® is the world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information. It contains records from over 4,900 publications from 1950 to present. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  MEDLINEplus

Allows users to search about specific conditions using dictionaries, MEDLINE, PUBMED and other resources. more info

  Menu Collection Database

The database contains thousands of records describing the menus in the NYPL's collection. Menus are available in the Rare Book Division. more info

  MergentOnline (formerly FISonline)

Information on more than 21,000 US and international companies, including 10,000 NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchange companies. All SEC (EDGAR) filings and domestic and international annual reports are included. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  MetOpera Database

An up-to-date chronicle of every Metropolitan Opera performance since 1883 with information on performers, operas and ballets. more info

  Metropolitan Museum of Art: Watsonline

Search the online catalogue of the Watson Library. more info

  Middle Search Plus  

Provides fulltext access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Mighty Map

Real estate database for NYC buildings data. Provides information on buildings, lots, owners, tax liens, auctions, foreclosure sales, zoning, traffic counts, land use, subway locations, lis pendens, building permits, tax values, comparables, and more. Real estate brokers can check comparables, identify foreclosure sales and property auctions, and find developable property in the five boroughs. Comps (deed transactions) are updated monthly. Provides phone numbers of business and residential owner, including condos. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  MLA International Bibliography

Indexes scholarship in world literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, film, linguistics, and folklore. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Modern Language Association Language map

The Modern Language Association's interactive map of languages spoken throughout the United States. more info

  Modern World History Online  

Covers the important civilizations and cultures of world history from prehistoric times through the modern era. Topical entries, biographies, maps, primary source documents, and timelines provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, and events that have defined world history. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Monthly Catalog of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)

Citations to publications of U.S. Government agencies. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Morningstar Library Edition

Access Morningstar financial reports, screening, analyst reports and porfolio screening. Use the Help & Education link to access information about this database and online course modules on investing. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Movie Review Query Engine

Provides links to reviews of 48,000+ films, both historical and contemporary, from websites, newspapers, and magazines across the United States and Canada. more info

  MTA

Website of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. more info

  Museum of the City of New York: Byron Collection

This database consists of over 22,000 photographs of New York City and its environs taken by the Byron Company between 1890 and 1942. more info

  Music Index Online: a subject-author guide to music periodical literature

Indexes over 655 international music periodicals. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Music Opera Dance and Drama in Asia, the Pacific and North America

A directory or arts organizations in North America, Asia and the Pacific. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Musical America

The electronic version of Musical America. Includes a directory. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  MyCITI Map Portal

Through a partnership between the Municipal Art Society and the City of New York, users can access an enhanced New York City Map Portal for detailed maps, building and property data, subway information, community statistics and more. more info

  NARA's 1930 Census Microfilm Locator

An online database listing every roll of microfilm in the 1930 census, searchable by over 120,000 geographic locations. more info

  Nation Archive (1865-present)

The archive contains PDF page images and searchable text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865 to the present. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  National Archives (formerly Historical Manuscripts Commission)

The United Kingdom's central advisory body on archives and manuscripts relating to British history. more info

  National Newspaper Index (1977-present)    

Indexing of America's top newspapers in one search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Countee Cullen Branch; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Search

Search more than 80,000 records from the Catalog of American Portraits. more info

  Naturalization Index to New York Petitions, 1792-1989

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. This database contains an index to the petitions for naturalization filed in various federal, state and local courts in New York City. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Naturalization index to records at the Kings County Clerk's Office, 1907-1924

Index to the Kings County (Brooklyn) naturalization records located in the Kings County Clerk's Office. more info

  Naturalization Indexes for Greater New York

Indexes to naturalization records of the Eastern District (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau, Suffolk) 1865-1957, the Southern District (Manhattan & Bronx) 1824-1959, Bronx County Supreme Court 1914-1952, Queens County Clerk's Office, 1906-1957, Nassau County 1899-1989, Suffolk County 1865-1981, and Military Naturalizations for the New York Tri-State Area. more info

  Naturalization Petition Index at the New York County Supreme Court, 1907-1924

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. more info
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  Nature (1869-present)

Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. Nature also provides news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Nelson's Marketplace

Includes three directories: Nelson's Directory of Investment Managers which provides profiles of 2,000 institutional money managers and their 8,000 investment products. Company profiles may be saved individually in PDF format, printed, or saved to disk or USB flash drive. Also includes Nelson's Directory of Plan Sponsors and Nelson's Directory of Pension Fund Consultants- This database is not on all networked computers. Please see a staff person at the EIC desk to access this resource. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  New Book of Knowledge  

An online version of the print encyclopedia for children plus NBK News, weekly current events stories plus special features geared especially for young students. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New Book of Popular Science (for students)  

A science encyclopedia with over 400 articles geared to student readers. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New England Ancestors

Databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Highlights include full-text access to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register from 1847 to 1994 and the Massachusetts Vital Records to 1910. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)

Searchable full-text and page images of the leading Black newspaper of the 20th century. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York Ancestors

New York records and resources available from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  New York City (Manhattan) Building Permits Database, 1900-1986

A digitized version of the New York City (Manhattan) building permits from 1900-1986, searchable by address, owner, architect, building type and other fields. more info

  New York City Census FactFinder

Department of City Planning reference collection including access to New York City population information from the 2000 U.S. Census. more info

  New York City Death Index (1891-1948)

A searchable database of the death indexes for Manhattan (1891-1894), Manhattan and Brooklyn (1895-1897) and All Boroughs (1898-1948). more info

  New York City Digital Collection of Historical Books

A subset of the Making of America digital library (the University of Michigan site), this collection consists of 335 volumes focusing on New York City, including several editions of the Directory of social and health agencies of New York City. The “Refine this search” link at the top of the page allows you to search by keyword within this collection. more info

  New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

The NYC agency that is responsible for identifying and designating the city's landmarks and historic districts. Some recent publications are available for download from this Web site. more info

  New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Designation Reports

Provides free online access to the collection of Landmark designation reports. more info

  New York City Marriages: Brides Index (1866?-1937)

A searchable database of the brides indexes for Manhattan 1866-1937; Kings County (Brooklyn) 1871-1913 and 1931-1937; Bronx 1899-1937; Queens 1904-1937; Richmond (Staten Island) 1898-1937. Not all years are 100% complete. more info

  New York City Marriages: Grooms Index (1864?-1936)

A searchable database of the groom indexes for Brooklyn, 1864-1907, Manhattan, 1866-1907, Staten Island, 1898-1907, and All Boroughs,1908-1936. more info

  New York City Property Mapping Information

LotInfo Pro provides access to lot information data including building footprints and dimensions, assessed and sale valuation and ownership. more info
Availability:   Map Division (Room 117 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  New York City Views

Images of New York City from the NYPL Digital Gallery, a free resource of images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of the Library. This link goes directly to image collections from the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. more info

  New York Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under the Birth, Marriage & Death category. Digitized version of Gertrude A. Barber's extracts of deaths recorded in the "Brooklyn Eagle" (1841-1890) and the "New York Evening Post" (1801-1890). more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York Emigrant Savings Bank, 1850-1883

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. The Emigrant Savings Bank was established in 1850 by members of the Irish Emigrant Society. The bank kept records on depositors and borrowers that provide the name of the depositor, account date, and year and place of birth, if given. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York Herald (1840-1865)

Searchable full-text and page images from the New York Herald, 1840-1865. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  New York Heritage.org

New York Heritage.org is a portal to free digital collections about New York State's people, places, and institutions contributed by libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions. more info

  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. more info

  New York Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1880

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under the Birth, Marriage & Death category. Digitized version of Gertrude A. Barber's extracts of marriages recorded in the "Brooklyn Eagle" (1841-1880) and the "New York Evening Post" (1801-1837). more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. Index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1820-1957. In addition, the names found in the index are linked to actual images of the passenger manifests. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York State Census 1905/15/25 - Obtaining AD/ED for NYC

Work in progress - The 1905/15/25 New York State census records are arranged by Assembly District (AD) and Election District (ED) and are only available on microfilm. In order to locate a person, you first need to know their address and then you need to convert that address into AD/ED. This website will help you obtain this information. more info

  New York State County Histories

Full-text searchable 19th century histories of counties in all of New York state. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  New York State Historical Literature

A digital collection of hundreds of pamphlets and monographs chosen from Cornell University Library's extensive collection of New York State Literature. more info

  New York State Literary Web Site

Literary maps of New York City and New York State. Click on author images and counties for biographies, literary organizations and sites, bookstores, and libraries. more info

  New York State Newspapers  

A collection of major New York State newspapers, available in full-text. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York State Tax Forms

You can find all forms and instructions that were previously printed for income tax returns. more info

  New York State Unit History Project

Digital library of New York State military unit histories including Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and Korean War. more info

  New York Times (1851-2006)

Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York Times (1980-present)

Full-text articles from The New York Times. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Countee Cullen Branch; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York Times (1985-present) and New York Post (2000-present)    

Full text of the New York Times (1985-present) and New York Post (2000-present). more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York Tribune (1841-1922)

The New York Tribune (1841-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  New York Tribune Index, 1875-1906

Indexing provided by 19th Century Masterfile. Look for New York Daily Tribune Index, 1875-1906. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library

  Newsletters in Print  

A directory of newsletters in the United States, covering many subjects. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  NewsLink

Links to Web sites of media sources, including newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and publishers more info

  Newspaper Indexes, Archives & Morgues

Contains links to national and international newspaper archives and indexes available over the Internet. more info

  Newspaper Source (EBSCO)  

Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide

A scholarly e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Nineteenth Century Masterfile

see 19th Century Masterfile

  Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection (Index)

see Index to the Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection

  NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)

A guide to the latest health information and resources.
Acceso Computarizado a la Salud de Nueva York (NOAH, siglas en inglés) le proporciona al consumidor información sobre la salud en inglés y en español. more info

  Nobel Prizes and Laureates

Search the Nobel e-Museum for information about the prize and past winners. more info

  NUCMC

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections more info

  Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea  

Una enciclopedia en el idioma español que contiene aproximadamente quince mil artí­culos con más de seis mil photos. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  NYCdata

NYCData is a compendium of factual data organized by 16 topics ranging from population and culture to historical labor force figures and consumer prices. more info

  NYPL Catalog

The online catalog for the The New York Public Library. more info

  NYPL Digital Gallery

Provides access to over 685,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. more info

  NYPL Digital Library Collections

Gateway to The New York Public Library’s rare and unique collections in digitized form. more info

  OASIS

Access an interactive mapping system for New York City, supplemented by aerial photography, building and property data, environmental information, and data analysis tools. more info

  OCLC FirstSearch

Provides access to a wide variety of articles in a number of databases as well as a union catalog of books in libraries all over the world more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  OCLC WorldCat

see WorldCat -- OCLC

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies

A collection of Medieval Studies resources on the Internet more info

  Origins Network

Irish, British and Scottish genealogy information online, featuring the Griffith's Valuation of Ireland. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Oxford Classical Dictionary

The online version of The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Oxford English Dictionary (OED), 2nd Edition

The online edition of the 20-volume dictionary. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  P4A Antiques Reference Database

Information in the database is drawn from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States, plus other selected specialist auctions. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  PA Research

see ProQuest Research Library

  PAIS Archive

Provides historical perspective on many of the 20th-century's public and social policies. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  PAIS International

Indexes journals, reports, and other documents that cover public policy, cultural and social issues, and international relations. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Palgrave Dictionary of Economics  

The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Palmer List of Merchant Vessels

This list consists of descriptions of historical merchant vessels including photographs whenever possible. more info

  Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier

Digital library site devoted to Spanish exploration and settlement in North America from the 15th to the early 19th centuries. more info

  Past Masters - Philosophy

A searchable database that contains scholarly texts by major western philosophers. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Patents Searching

Searchable full text and bibliographic patent databases from the US Patent and Trademark Office, from 1 January 1976 to the most recent weekly issue date. more info

  Patrologia Latina

The electronic version of the complete set Jacques-Paul Migne's collection of the works of the Church Fathers. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  People's Daily -- Only available in SAS Room 315(South Hall).

The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. With current circulation of 3 million, it offers the Chinese government's policies as well as selective national and international news. Provides full-text coverage of daily issues between 1946 to 2005. more info
Availability:   General Research Division (Room 315 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Performing Arts Yearbook for Europe

Directory of Performing Arts organizations in Europe, including the fields of music, dance, theatre and puppetry. Searchable by name or location. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Periodicals Index Online

An interdisciplinary and international index to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Over 4,700 journals are included. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Perseus Digital Library

An online collection of textual and visual materials illustrating the Archaic and Classical Greek world. more info

  PERSI - The PERiodical Source Index

A subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals since 1800. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Philosopher's Index

Indexes and abstracts the literature on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics,law, religion and science from periodicals, monographs, and other documents. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Picture Collection Online, NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library

A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. more info

  Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)

One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  PoemFinder

A searchable database of indexed poems; some available full-text. At the Mid-Manhattan Library, please use LitFinder for access to this database. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)

Available as part of the 19th Century Masterfile, Poole's Index contains indexing of general periodicals published in the United States from 1802 through 1906. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Popular Science

Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects. more info

  Population Index

A searchable database of annotated citations from books, journals, working papers, dissertations, and bibliographies in the field of demographics and population more info

  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. more info

  Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)

The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division’s catalog to about 65% of the Division's holdings. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one million digital images in all. more info

  Private School Review

Provides profiles of private elementary day schools & high schools more info

  Professional Development Collection EBSCO  

Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 450 full-text journals, designed for professional educators. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Project Muse

A full-text database of recent issues of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. **For best results use the browser Internet Explorer when using the database offsite. Firefox and Safari browsers will not produce a log in screen. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Promt

Magazine and newspaper index for companies and industries focusing on markets and products around the world. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Proquest Dissertations and Theses

Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Abstracts from 1980 - present. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ProQuest Civil War Era (1840-1865)

Combines complete runs of eight newspaper titles, covering 1840-1865, as well as nearly 2,000 pamphlets covering a wide range of topics, focusing on the entire era — from Manifest Destiny through the end of the Civil War. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ProQuest Historical African American Newspapers

Simultaneous search of the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002). more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ProQuest Historical Database

Searchable full-text and page images from the Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942), the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Boston Globe (1872-1926), Chicago Defender (1905-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), the Guardian & Observer (1791-2003), the Hartford Courant (1764-1984), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), New York Times (1851-2006), New York Tribune (1841-1922), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), the San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Wall Street Journal (1889-1992), Washington Post (1877-1993), ProQuest Civil War Era database including New York Herald (1840-1865) and thousands of magazine articles published from 1740 to 1940. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  ProQuest Historical New York Newspapers & Magazines

Simultaneous search of the New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), The New York Herald (1840-1865), The New York Times (1851-2005), The New York Tribune (1900-1910), The Wall Street Journal (1889-1990) and and thousands of magazine articles published from 1740 to 1940. more info
Availability:   Countee Cullen Branch; Grand Concourse; Parkchester; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Seward Park; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Seward Park; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  PsycARTICLES

Provides full-text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, from 1988 to the present. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Psychoanalytic Literature Jourlit/Bookrev Database

A searchable index to journals, books, and book reviews in the field of psychoanalysis more info

  Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection  

A full-text database of journal articles covering topics such as psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and experimental methods. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  PsycINFO

Indexes literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Publishers Directory  

A directory of United States and Canadian publishers. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  PubWEST

Search patents using the public version of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Web-based Examiners Search Tool database (PubWEST). This is one of the databases the USPTO makes available to professional searchers. Search and view all U.S. patents, applications published since March 15, 2001, and abstracts of European and Japanese patents. Images of many other foreign patents are available for viewing and printing. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Pulitzer Prizes

A Web site that includes an archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning works from past years including photos, editorial cartoons, music clips, and the full text of all articles. more info

  Queens Library Catalog

The catalog for the Queens Public Library. more info

  Rambi: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies

A bibliography of articles on Jewish studies in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages. more info

  Rarebooks.info

Bibliography of rare books available for consultation on the internet. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Readers' Guide Abstracts

Readers' Guide Abstracts combines Readers' Guide indexing with high-quality informative abstracts. Indexing begins in 1983 and abstracting begins in 1984. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Readers' Guide Retro (1890-1982)

Indexes the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Reed Design Registry: Directory of US Architecture Firms (formerly ProFile)

Search for architecture firms and businesses in the United States. more info

  Reference USA

Provides addresses, sales information, executives, for over 11 million U.S. companies. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Mid-Manhattan Library; Science, Industry and Business Library; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Regents Exam Prep Center

Created by the Oswego City School District, this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant. more info

  Regional Business News (formerly Business News Wire)  

Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Business News Wire is now called "Regional Business News" more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Regional One Source

Statistical reference source provides access to U.S. data from 29 top-level subjects to 39,000 data items. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Religion and Philosophy Collection  

A full-text database of journal articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Renaissance Dante in Print

An online exhibition of Renaissance editions of Dante's works. more info

  Research Centers Directory  

A directory of reseach centers, covering all subjects and disciplines. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Resources for Children with Special Needs

Provides information about programs and services for children birth to 21 with disabilities and other special needs in the NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. It includes national organizations and residential programs such as camps and schools that serve children from New York City more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature

The online version of the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1969-present) is a continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 202 languages from 3,700 journals. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals: 1800-1950

An index of specialized music journals, daily newspapers, articles in literary periodicals, theatrical journals and magazines, as well as engravings and lithographs in the illustrated press. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600

Documents the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. The RISM databases represent a worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times through ca. 1850. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  RLG Union Catalog

An online catalog of materials from approximately fifty research libraries. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Romantic Circles: Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, and their Contemporaries

A Web site that provides scholarly resources for the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. more info

  Russian National Bibliography

Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Russians to the U.S.: 1834-1897

Index of Russian immigrants arriving in the Port of New York. more info

  San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922)

The San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970

Access to large-scale maps for towns and cities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Scholarly Societies

Links to Web sites of scholarly societies all over the world. more info

  Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience

This resource provides a core collection of primary and secondary resources in Black Studies, including full-text articles, book chapters, dissertations, reference materials, timelines, images and multimedia. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Science Citation Index

Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. Indexes 5,900 journals in 150 scientific disciplines. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Science Full Text Select

Full text articles to a broad range of science literature. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Science Online  

Covers Animal Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, General Science, Genetics and Cell Biology, Human Anatomy, and more. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info

  Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot

From 1831 through 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a "Missing Friends" column with advertisements from people looking for "lost" friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This collection of 31,711 records is available here as a searchable online database. more info

  Searchasaurus [grades 1-3]    

Full-text articles from over 80 magazines and pamphlets appropriate for children in grades 1-3. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Shakespeare, Arden Edition

Contains every play, poem, and sonnet drawn from the standard, modern text of the Arden Shakespeare, 2nd edition. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Shakespeare, Editions and Adaptations

Contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  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. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  SimplyMap

Simply Map includes thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  SIRIS: Smithsonian Institution Research Information System

Provides access to Smithsonian's library catalogs, archival resources, bibliographies and more. more info

  Slave Trade CD-ROM

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database contains detailed information on two-thirds (27,227) of the slaving voyages that sailed between 1650 and 1867. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu

From the Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, a collection of 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu. The materials, in Arabic, provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007

This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Small Business Resource Center  

Covers major areas of starting and operating a business, including sample business plans, how-to articles, overviews, and directories. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Social Sciences Citation Index

Indexes articles and provides cited references found in over 1,700 leading social science journals in more than fifty subjects. Also includes articles from over 3,000 science and technology journals. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Social Security Death Index

An index to basic information about persons with Social Security numbers whose deaths have been reported to the Social Security Administration. more info

  Social Services Abstracts

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare and community development. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  SOCIndex

SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Sociological Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Soncino Classics -- Only available in SAS Room 111

Full-text, searchable Bible, Babylonian Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, and Zohar in Hebrew or Aramaic and in English translation. more info
Availability:   Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  SONIC: Sound Online Inventory and Catalog

Inventory and catalog of a large selection of recordings (music and spoken word, including radio) from the Recorded Sound Section of the Library of Congress more info

  Soundex Converter

"The soundex system is a method of indexing names in the 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 US Censuses." more info

  SourceOECD

SourceOECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This library comprises 20 book collections by theme, containing all of the OECD monographs and reports, 24 periodicals, a reference title, and the OECD statistical databases. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Spanish and Portuguese printing in the Northern Netherlands 1584-1825 -- Only available in HSSL Room 111

A descriptive bibliography of 816 printed works compiled by Harm den Boer, University of Amsterdam. more info
Availability:   Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Sports Business Research Network

Locate statistical market research data for 63 sports, 85 product categories, plus full-text articles and reports in more than 10 leading trade publications covering U.S. and international sports marketing and sporting goods business. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  SRDS

Comprehensive database of media and marketing information. Offers coverage of traditional media--such as magazines, newspapers, television and radio--as well as today's alternative marketing opportunities such as online, out-of-home and direct marketing. Catalogs more than 60,000 media properties in all. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Standard and Poor's Net Advantage

Includes Standard & Poor's Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund Reports, The Outlook, Standard & Poor's Register, Stock Guide, and Standard & Poor's Stock Reports. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Statistical Universe

Indexes and abstracts statistical sources from government and nongovernment agencies. Some graphs are available. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  STAT-USA/Internet

International trade and export information from the U.S. Department of Commerce including the National Trade Databank (NTDB), Foreign Traders index, and market research reports by product and country. Other national economic statistics too. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  TableBase

TableBase is a database comprised of tabular information of a strategic nature. The tables provide information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics. Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade association reports, and governmental reports. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Tax Forms, Federal and State

Download and print federal and state tax forms for all 50 states. more info

  Telephone Directories (Infobel.com)

Search for a telephone number using online versions of international yellow pages, white pages, business directories, and reverse directories. more info

  Telephone Directories (Numberway.com)

Search for a telephone number using online versions of international yellow pages, white pages, business directories, and reverse directories. more info

  Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database

This database documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States, tracing performance programming from early live presentations on experimental TV stations, to contemporary productions released on broadcast television, various cable forms, and home video. more info

  Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University

Provides abstracts of network news broadcasts. more info

  The Independent

United Kingdom and Worldwide News more info

  The Jazz Discography

The Jazz Discography is the world's largest and most complete source of information about jazz records and jazz recording sessions. This is an online subscription service that allows subscribers to access the most up-to-date version of the Jazz Discography database. more info
Availability:   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  The Nation Archive, 1865-

see Nation Archive (1865-present)

  The Scientist

The Scientist reports on and analyzes the issues and events that impact the world of life scientists. Articles cover a variety of topics such as vaccines on trial, reducing malaria to its constituent parts, and survival in the microfluidic market. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Thesaurus linguae Graecae (TLG)

The TLG digital library now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, in excess of 80 million words. Topics include Greek literature, history, and culture. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet

Provides full-text access to the Congressional Record, bills, public and private laws, roll call votes, and schedules of both houses. more info

  Times Literary Supplement

Search the complete facsimile edition and exhaustive index for articles, biographical information on contributors, and new information on previously anonymous contributors. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Times of London (1785-1985)

Searchable full-text and page images of The Times of London archive. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  TOL: Transitions Online

Provides access to TOL, a news magazine that covers Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. more info

  TopoZonePro

Web-based software allows users to manipulate and print (in color) over 55,000 topographic maps of any of the 50 United States. Also includes 1m resolution aerial photos for the entire country. more info
Availability:   Map Division (Room 117 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Trademark Electronic Search System (Tess)

Searchable trademark database from the US Patent and Trademark Office, which includes the full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks. This site is a resource for application and general information about trademarks. more info

  Twayne's Authors Series    

Contains the full text of frequently-used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Twentieth Century African American Poetry

The Database of Twentieth Century African-American Poetry is a collection of poetry written by important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  U.S. Census

Provides in-depth U.S. census data. more info

  Ulrich's Periodicals Directory  

Directory of international magazines, journals, annuals, irregular publications, and newspapers. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Union List of Artists Names

Contains biographical information about artists and architects, including variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants. more info

  United Nations Documents and Publications Index

UN materials searchable by subject, session, document number, UN sales number, title and country. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  United Nations Official Documents System (ODS)

ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  United Nations Treaty Series

Collection of over 34,000 treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946 more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

  United States Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980

see Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980

  United States Copyright Office

Links to general information and publications about copyright and the copyrighting process. more info

  United States Exports History: Historical Summary

U.S. Bureau of the Census annual summaries of export shipments from 1991-1995. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  United States Exports of Merchandise

From the Bureau of the Census, International Harmonized System, Commodity Classification and Harmonized Tariff Schedules by country and by customs district. Monthly and annual summaries. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  United States Government Manual

Contains comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the federal government. more info

  United States Government Printing Office

Provides free electronic access to a catalog of products published by the Federal Government. more info

  United States Imports History: Historical Summary

From the U.S. Bureau of the Census: Annual import statistics for the years 1991 - 1995. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  United States Imports of Merchandise

From the Bureau of the Census, International Harmonized System, Commodity Classification and Harmonized Tariff Schedules by country and by customs district. Monthly and annual summaries. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  United States National Archives and Records Administration

An independent Federal agency that preserves U.S. historical documents and oversees the management of all Federal records. more info

  United States Postal Service

Provides acccess to publications and products including a ZIP code finder, post office locator, forms, tracking and confirmation, and a rate calculator. more info

  United States State Department: Major Publications

Provides access to publications of the US State Department prior to January 21, 2001. more info

  Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography

Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Universal Database of Russian Newspapers

Provides access to the full-text of current issues of Russian newspapers. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Universities Worldwide

Search home pages of colleges and universities. more info

  USATrade

Provides official exports and imports data on more than 17,000 commodities. Reveals what merchandise is being shipped, where it is being shipped, and how much it is worth. Includes quantity and value of exports and imports by 2-, 4-, 6-, and 10 digit Harmonized System codes plus the total quantity and value of exports and imports for more than 250 countries and each customs district more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Valley of the Kings Online

Contains an interactive atlas of more than 250 tomb mappings,narrated tours of the Valley, a 3-D exploration of one of the largest tombs, images, articles,a glossary, bibliography and timeline. more info

  Value Line Research Center

On-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Vault

Premier career resource. Find career guides, industry guides, company and employer profiles, topics guides and more. Industry overviews bring you inside 40 top industries, from investment management to manufacturing. Find details on career path, salary ranges, industry outlook and more. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  Victorian Women Writers Project

A full-text library of works by British women writers of the nineteenth century. more info

  Virtual Gramophone/Canadian Historical Sound Recordings

The Virtual Gramophone/Canadian Historical Sound Recordings is a multimedia Web site devoted to the first half-century of recorded sound in Canada. more info

  Vital Records Information

This site explains how to obtain vital records (such as birth certificates, death records, marriage licenses) from each state, territory and county of the United States. more info

  Voltaire Electronique -- Only available in HSSL Room 315

Includes all of Voltaire's literary works, searchable by keyword, title, literary form, and date of edition. more info
Availability:   General Research Division (Room 315 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)

  Wall Street Journal (1889-1992)

Searchable full-text and page images from the Wall Street Journal archive. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Countee Cullen Branch; Grand Concourse; Parkchester; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Seward Park; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Wall Street Journal (1984-present)

Full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Seward Park; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Wall Street Transcript

Access issues of the Wall Street Transcript online. more info
Availability:   Science, Industry and Business Library

  War of the Rebellion: Compilation of the Official Records

Contains the full-text of all 128 volumes of The Official records of the Union and Confederate armies, originally published between 1881-1901. more info

  Washington Post (1877-1993)

Searchable full-text and page images from the Washington Post archive. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Washington Post (1987-present)

Full-text articles from the Washington Post. more info
Availability:   Bronx Library Center; Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Seward Park; St. George Library Center; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  WATCH: Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders

Contains the names and addresses of copyright holders, or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed in North America and the United Kingdom. more info

  Web of Science

Provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged

Search the complete dictionary published in 1961 and subsequent updates. more info
Availability:   Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Westchester County Archives

A database of public records of Westchester County, New York from 1680 to the present. more info

  What Do I Read Next?  

Suggests new fiction and nonfiction titles to read. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Who's Who on the Web

see Marquis Who's Who on the Web

  William Blake Archive

Provide access to major works of visual and literary art by William Blake. more info

  Women's Wear Daily (WWD) Online

The electronic version of the fashion industry's daily news source. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  World Biographical Information System (WBIS) Online

Contains short biographical information on millions of people worldwide from the 8th century B.C. to the present. more info
Availability:   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  World Book Online Reference Center  

Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps and more. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  World Buddhist Directory

Directory of Buddhist organizations throughout the world. more info

  World Factbook

Covers the following for countries around the world: maps, current issues, history, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. more info

  World Shakespeare Bibliography

Provides annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  WorldCat -- OCLC  

Search for materials held in libraries around the world. more info
Availability:   Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  WorldCat.org

Free access to the OCLC WorldCat catalog, which searches many libraries at once. Look for books, music, videos and more and then locate it in a library nearby. more info

  Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Indexes journals covering political science and related fields. more info
Availability:   Mid-Manhattan Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  Wright American Fiction

Provides electronic, full-text access to almost every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. more info

  Your Dictionary

Provides access to language and language-related products and services on the Web. more info