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19th Century African American Newspapers
see African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
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
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AccessUN
Index, articles and full-text database of United Nations documents covering 1998-2003. more info
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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
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African American Experience
Covers African American history and culture from its African origins to the present day, in addition to a collection of over 500 searchable titles. more info
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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
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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
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African-American Poetry
African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. more info
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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
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Alt HealthWatch EBSCO
Focus on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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America's Historical Newspapers
Full-text digital images of American newspapers published from 1690-1922. more info
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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
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.
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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
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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
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ARTFL
A collection of nearly 2000 electronic French texts, including classic literary works, nonfiction, and technical writing. more info
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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
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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
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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
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Bartleby.com Great Books Online
Full-text access to a variety of standard reference books, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. 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
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.
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Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Includes full-text works of Spanish-language literature, both classics and lesser known works. more info
Biography Resource Center
Provides biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. more info
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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
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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
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Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939
Searchable database of passengers leaving Bremen for the years 1920 to 1939. more info
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
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.
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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
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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.)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Census: State and County Quick Facts
Tables of data from various Census Bureau programs, including profiles at national, state, and county levels. more info
Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
Searchable full-text and page images from The Chicago Defender archive. more info
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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
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Chicago Tribune (1849-1986)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Chicago Tribune archive. more info
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China Academic Journals
Full-text articles from Chinese academic journals. more info
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Chinese E-Journal Collection (Qikan)
Provides access to full text of 200 popular journals in Chinese language. more info
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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
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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. more info
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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
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Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries. more info
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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
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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
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Congressional Universe
Provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. more info
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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
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Custom Newspapers
Searchable full-text of 300 plus newspapers, both national and international. more info
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Dante Project (Dartmouth)
Searchable collection of texts including the Italian text of the Divine Comedy and commentaries. 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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Primary Search
Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
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EBSCO Research Databases
Provides full-text coverage of periodicals, including newspapers, covering nearly all subjects. more info
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EBSCOhost
Abstracts and full-text of a wide variety of publications. more info
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Economist Intelligence Unit
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) includes Country Reports and Country Profile guides. more info
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Emerging Markets - Internet Securities
Full-text articles, news, company, industry and market information for emerging market countries around the world. more info
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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 (EBSCO)
U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. more info
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ERIC Document Reproduction Service
From the U.S. Department of Education, ready access to documents in the education field. more info
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America. more info
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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.
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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
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
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Faber Poetry Library
Contains the works of 42 poets comprising 124 volumes of poetry.
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Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)
Includes content from more than 20,000 news sources, including newspapers, TV transcripts, newswires, and business magazines. more info
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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
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Family History Archive
Digitized full-text family histories. 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
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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
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FirstSearch (OCLC)
see OCLC FirstSearch
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
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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
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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
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
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Grove Art Online
see Oxford Art Online
Grove Music Online
see Oxford Music Online
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
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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
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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
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition EBSCO
Includes scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. more info
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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
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Historical Census Browser
Provides population and economic census data for U.S. states and counties from the years 1790-1960. more info
History Resource Center: US
Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps. more info
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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
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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
HCPP delivers searchable full text for each Parliamentary paper, along with a detailed subject index. more info
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HyperHistory Online
3,000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps. 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
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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
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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
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International Index to Black Periodicals
see Black Studies Center
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
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Internet Archives: Text Archives
Text Archive enables you to search and view the full-text of scanned books via the Web. 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
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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
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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
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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
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King James Bible
Provides full-text searching and browsing features. more info
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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
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Latino American Experience
Contains the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present. more info
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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
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Lexis Nexis Digital Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
Provides access to every published and unpublished hearings from 1824 to the present. more info
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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
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Literature Online
A searchable library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key secondary sources. more info
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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
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LitFinder
An online source that includes three separate databases: Poem Finder, Story Finder and Essay/Speech/Play Finder.
more info
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Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Los Angeles Times archive. more info
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Los Angeles Times (1985-present)
Full-text of the daily paper. more info
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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
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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
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Mid-Manhattan Library
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
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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
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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
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Mayer International Auction Records -- Only available in HSSL Room 300
Lists items that sold at auction from 1987 to 1997. more info
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Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection (Room 300 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
MEDLINEplus
Allows users to search about specific conditions using dictionaries, MEDLINE, PUBMED and other resources. more info
Middle Search Plus
Provides fulltext access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students. more info
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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
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Science, Industry and Business Library
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
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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
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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
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
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
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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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
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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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
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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
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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
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New York Ancestors
New York records and resources available from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. more info
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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 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 Herald (1840-1865)
Searchable full-text and page images from the New York Herald, 1840-1865. more info
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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 State County Histories
Full-text searchable 19th century histories of counties in all of New York state. more info
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New York State Newspapers
A collection of major New York State newspapers, available in full-text. more info
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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
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New York Times (1980-present)
Full-text articles from The New York Times.
more info
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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
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NewsLink
Links to Web sites of media sources, including newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and publishers 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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED), 2nd Edition
The online edition of the 20-volume dictionary. more info
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PA Research
see ProQuest Research Library
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
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Past Masters - Philosophy
A searchable database that contains scholarly texts by major western philosophers. more info
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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
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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
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General Research Division (Room 315 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
Perseus Digital Library
An online collection of textual and visual materials illustrating the Archaic and Classical Greek world. more info
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
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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
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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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Countee Cullen Branch;
Grand Concourse;
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Seward Park;
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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
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PsycARTICLES
Provides full-text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, from 1988 to the present. more info
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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
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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
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Religion and Philosophy Collection
A full-text database of journal articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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Renaissance Dante in Print
An online exhibition of Renaissance editions of Dante's works. more info
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
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
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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
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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
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
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Shakespeare, Arden Edition
Contains every play, poem, and sonnet drawn from the standard, modern text of the Arden Shakespeare, 2nd edition. more info
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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
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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
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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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
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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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
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Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
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
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Science, Industry and Business Library
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
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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
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Science, Industry and Business Library
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
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Science, Industry and Business Library
Tax Forms, Federal and State
Download and print federal and state tax forms for all 50 states. more info
The Nation Archive, 1865-
see Nation Archive (1865-present)
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
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Branch Libraries;
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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Times of London (1785-1985)
Searchable full-text and page images of The Times of London archive. more info
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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
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
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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
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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
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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
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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 Government Printing Office
Provides free electronic access to a catalog of products published by the Federal Government. 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 Newspapers
Provides access to the full-text of current issues of Russian newspapers. more info
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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Bronx Library Center;
Countee Cullen Branch;
Grand Concourse;
Parkchester;
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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
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Bronx Library Center;
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Wall Street Transcript
Access issues of the Wall Street Transcript online. more info
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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
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Washington Post (1987-present)
Full-text articles from the Washington Post. more info
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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
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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
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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
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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
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes journals covering political science and related fields. more info
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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