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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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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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Humanities Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals, including scholarly journals, in the diverse subject areas of the humanities.
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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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19th Century Masterfile
Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents published in the 19th century. more info
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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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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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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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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
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Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals
Supplements the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. 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 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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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
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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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America's Historical Newspapers
Full-text digital images of American newspapers published from 1690-1922. more info
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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
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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
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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
ArchiveGrid (formerly RLG Archival Resources)
Provides researchers with comprehensive access to information about collections of manuscripts and archives. more info
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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.
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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
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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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Art Index Retrospective
Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984. more info
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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
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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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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
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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
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AskART
AskArt covers American artists providing biography, images, citations, museums owning their work and galleries representing the artist's work. 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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ATLA Religion Databases
Contains citations to articles, books, theses, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology. more info
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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
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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
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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Bibliografia Nacional Espanola desde 1976
Contains records of the national bibliography of Spain. more info
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Bibliography of American Literature
Describes the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930 more info
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Bibliography of the Hebrew Book
Complete bibliography of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino printed books, 1469-1960. more info
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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
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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
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Includes full-text works of Spanish-language literature, both classics and lesser known works. more info
Book Review Digest Retrospective
Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. more info
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Book Review Digest Retrospective
Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. more info
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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
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Books in Print
A new interface from Books in Print, designed specifically for patrons.
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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
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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
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
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
Chicago Tribune (1849-1986)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Chicago Tribune archive. 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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Contemporary Authors
Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors. more info
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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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Dante Project (Dartmouth)
Searchable collection of texts including the Italian text of the Divine Comedy and commentaries. more info
Design and Applied Arts Index
International index to design and craft journals. more info
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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 Gallery, NYPL
see NYPL Digital Gallery
Digital Scriptorium
Images of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts. more info
Dissertation Abstracts
see Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Early American Newspapers
see America's Historical Newspapers
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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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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Encyclopedia Americana
The online version of encyclopedia with an added news database. more info
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Encyclopedia Judaica
Full-text searchable database of the 22 volumes. more info
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Encyclopedia of American Religions
An encyclopedia of religions in the United States, including mainstream as well as small marginal groups. more info
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English Short Title Catalogue
Descriptions of English printing from 1473 to 1800. more info
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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
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.
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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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Evans Digital Edition
see Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Faber Poetry Library
Contains the works of 42 poets comprising 124 volumes of poetry.
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Fagan Finder
Provides links to quotation, proverb, aphorism, and slogan sites, and the means for searching particular types of quotes. more info
Fiction Connection
Use this readers advisory tool to discover titles similar to books you already enjoy. more info
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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
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Film Literature Index
Film Literature Index annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries and 200 other scholarly and popular periodicals.
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FirstSearch (OCLC)
see OCLC FirstSearch
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
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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
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
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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
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia. more info
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Grove Art Online
see Oxford Art Online
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
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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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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.
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H-Net
International consortium of scholars and teachers for advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. 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
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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
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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
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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
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Index to the Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection
Provides access to over 25,000 titles available in the Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection. more info
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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
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 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
Internet Archives: Text Archives
Text Archive enables you to search and view the full-text of scanned books via the Web. 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
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Jerusalem Post -- Only available in SAS Room 111
Full-text, searchable database of the daily newspaper. 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
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
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Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection (Room 300 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
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
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Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. 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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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
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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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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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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
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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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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Watsonline
Search the online catalogue of the Watson Library. more info
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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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
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MLA International Bibliography
Indexes scholarship in world literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, film, linguistics, and folklore. more info
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Modern Language Association Language map
The Modern Language Association's interactive map of languages spoken throughout the United States. 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
National Archives (formerly Historical Manuscripts Commission)
The United Kingdom's central advisory body on archives and manuscripts relating to British history. more info
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 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 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 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 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.
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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
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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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Nineteenth Century Masterfile
see 19th Century Masterfile
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
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.
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NYPL Digital Library Collections
Gateway to The New York Public Library’s rare and unique collections in digitized form. 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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ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
A collection of Medieval Studies resources on the Internet more info
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 Classical Dictionary
The online version of The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition.
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED), 2nd Edition
The online edition of the 20-volume dictionary. more info
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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
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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.
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Past Masters - Philosophy
A searchable database that contains scholarly texts by major western philosophers. more info
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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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Periodicals Index Online
An interdisciplinary and international index to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Over 4,700 journals are included. more info
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Perseus Digital Library
An online collection of textual and visual materials illustrating the Archaic and Classical Greek world. more info
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
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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
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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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
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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
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Abstracts from 1980 - present. more info
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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.
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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
Rarebooks.info
Bibliography of rare books available for consultation on the internet. more info
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Readers' Guide Abstracts
Readers' Guide Abstracts combines Readers' Guide indexing with high-quality informative abstracts.
Indexing begins in 1983 and abstracting begins in 1984.
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Readers' Guide Retro (1890-1982)
Indexes the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. more info
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Reed Design Registry: Directory of US Architecture Firms (formerly ProFile)
Search for architecture firms and businesses in the United States. more info
Religion and Philosophy Collection
A full-text database of journal articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. more info
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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
Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
Access to large-scale maps for towns and cities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. more info
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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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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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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.
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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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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
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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
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
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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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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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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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Union List of Artists Names
Contains biographical information about artists and architects, including variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants. more info
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.
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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
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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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
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
Search the complete dictionary published in 1961 and subsequent updates. more info
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What Do I Read Next?
Suggests new fiction and nonfiction titles to read. more info
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William Blake Archive
Provide access to major works of visual and literary art by William Blake. 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
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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
