Starting date: 1984
(1994 for abstracts).
Updated weekly.
Availability: campuswide.
Covers core periodicals in disciplines such as language and
literature, archaeology, area studies, classical studies, folklore,
history, journalism and communications, religion and theology,
and philosophy.
For a list of the titles indexed,
click here.
Corresponds
to the printed Humanities Index.
Starting date: 1983
(1994 for abstracts).
Updated weekly.
Availability: campuswide.
Covers core periodicals in disciplines such as anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, and sociology.
For a list of the titles indexed, click here.
Corresponds
to the printed Social Sciences Index.
Dates vary.
Availability: campuswide.
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals with high-quality page images. It does not contain current issues.
Focused on the arts and humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection contains 150 titles. The collection makes available additional journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
For a list of the titles with dates of coverage, click here.
Film Literature
Index
Coverage dates: 1976-2001
Updated annually.
Availability: public.
Indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover
and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.
Corresponds to the printed publication of the same title.
Starting
date: 1983 (1984 for abstracts).
Updated monthly.
Availability: campuswide.
Corresponds to the printed index The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, covering popular magazines.
For a list of the titles indexed, click here.
Starting dates:
Christian Science Monitor: 1980
Los Angeles Times: 1982
New York Times: 1980
Wall Street Journal (Eastern): March 2004
Wall Street Journal (Western): 1980
Washington Post: Feb. 1980
Updated weekly.
Availability: campuswide.
Front-to-back indexing of the Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. All articles, news reports, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, product evaluations, biographical pieces, poetry, recipes, columns, cartoons and illustrations, and reviews are included. The only items not included are weather charts, stock market tables, crossword puzzles, and horoscopes.
Also included are national and international news stories written by the staff writers of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Other types of articles from these two papers are indexed selectively.
See also the New York Newspapers database (below) for full text articles from The New York Times.
Subsidized by the New York State Library through an LSTA grant from the
Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. Part of the New York
Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVEL).
Custom Newspapers
Starting dates vary (earliest are 1996).
Updated daily.
Availability: campuswide.
Over 150 full text newspapers, national and international. For a list of specific titles with dates of coverage, click here
Subsidized by the
New York State Library through an LSTA grant from the Federal Institute
of Museum and Library Services. Part of the New York Online Virtual Electronic
Library (NOVEL).
New York State Newspapers
Starting dates vary (earliest are 1995)
Updated: daily.
Availability: campuswide.
Full text from major New York State newspapers including The New York Times (1995- ),
the New York Post (2001- ), and the New York Observer (2001- ). Others included are the
Buffalo News (1996- ), Post-Standard (Syracuse, 2001- ), and
Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, 1999- ).
Subsidized by the
New York State Library through an LSTA grant from the Federal Institute
of Museum and Library Services. Part of the New York Online Virtual Electronic
Library (NOVEL).
The New York Times Archive
Starting date: 1851
Availability: public
Directly from The New York Times Web site. Full text is free for most articles from 1987 to the present and from 1851-1922. (Articles from 1923-1986 are available for a fee.)
Requires user registration.
The Historical New York Times
Dates: 1851-2004.
Availability: campuswide.
Includes searchable full text and PDF images for The New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and The New York Times (1857-2004).
PLEASE
NOTE: This database is an ongoing project of the publisher. Coverage for
later years will be added as the project progresses.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)
Starting date: 1690.
Availability: public..
Search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
AP Images
Starting date: 1826
(Dates vary. See description.)
Availability: campuswide
Photographs, audio sound bytes, graphics and text from the Associated Press. One million
photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago. Tens of thousands of graphics,
more than 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920s, and news stories and headlines dating
from 1997.
Wilson
Select Plus
Starting Date: 1994
Updated weekly.
Availability:
campuswide.
Full text articles from a subset of H.W. Wilson's indexes, including
Humanities Index and Social Sciences Index.
For a list
of the journal titles, click here.
ArticleFirst
Starting date: 1990
Updated daily.
Availability: campuswide.
An index to articles in thousands of journals, covering a wide range of subject areas.
For
a list of the journals indexed,
click here.
Starting
dates vary
Availability: campuswide.
Full text from over 700 periodicals, some including PDF images; indexing and abstracts for over 2,000 periodicals covering nearly all subjects, including art, architecture, engineering, design, business, history, economics and much more.
Click here for a list of included titles.
Starting
date: 1966
Updated monthly.
Availability: campuswide.
Contains annotated references to non-journal material issued
in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal
articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals
in Education (CIJE).
Starting
date: 1976
Updated monthly.
Availability:
campuswide.
Produced by the U.S. Government Printing Office, this catalog
covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional
reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials;
and documents issued by executive departments.
Starting
date: October 1993
Updated semimonthly.
Availability:
campuswide.
An index to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences,
expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. Covers published
information received by the British Library Document Supply
Center.
Starting
date: October 1993. Updated semimonthly.
Availability:
campuswide.
Provides an overview of an event's activities by listing the
papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions,
workshops, congresses, and symposia. Covers published information
received by the British Library Document Supply Center.
Open J-Gate
Starting dates vary.
Availability: public.
An electronic gateway to global journal literature in the open access domain, including over 4,400 journal titles. Browse the journal list here.
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences: Web Library
Availability: public.
A compilation of public domain texts and faculty lectures focusing on history, economics and philosophy, from the Web site of the Cooper Union Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Project Gutenberg
Availability: public.
Project Gutenberg, an online library, contains electronic texts (e-texts) of books and other works in the public domain. Includes classic literature, such as Alice in Wonderland and Paradise Lost, and reference works, such as Roget's Thesaurus.
Twayne's Authors Series
Availability: campuswide.
The content of over 600 books that comprise three print series: United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors. The series is devoted to literary critical interpretation and discussion.
The Online Books Page
Availability: public.
More than 25,000 free, legally accessible electronic books and serials. Created and maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
Gutenberg-e
Availability: public.
A specialized collection of electronic books produced through a collaboration between the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press. Topics include Africa, colonial Latin America, and South Asia; Europe before 1800; military history and history of foreign relations; history of North America before 1900; and women's history or history of gender
Includes 22 titles as of November, 2007. (Not affiliated with Project Gutenberg.)
Refdesk.com: Facts Subject Index
Availability: public.
Links to a wide array of free reference sources, such as dictionaries, atlases and maps, encyclopedias, grammar and style guides, and phone books.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Date: Current
Updated irregularly.
Availability: campuswide.
Over 100 core reference titles from Oxford University Press, plus more than 50,000 additional in-depth, scholarly articles from titles in the Oxford Companions series and all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. For a complete list of sources, see http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/SUBJECTSBOOKS.html
Encyclopędia Britannica Online
Date: Current
Updated monthly.
Availability: campuswide.
Encyclopędia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, the Britannica Book of the Year, and an Internet directory with links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
The Oxford English Dictionary
Availability:
campuswide.
The new online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, providing unparalleled access to the wealth of material contained in the acclaimed 20-volume Second Edition of the OED and the 3 volumes of Additions.
OneLook Dictionaries
Availability: public.
Find word definitions using a search engine linked to more than 700 online dictionaries.
WordReference.com
Availability: public.
An online foreign language dictionary, featuring English translation to and from Spanish, German, Italian and French.
Business & Company Resources Center
Availability: campuswide.
Includes company profiles, industry ranking, products and brands, stock prices, investment reports, industry statistics, corporate chronologies and histories, consumer marketing data, emerging technology reports, industry newsletters and business journals, press releases, and more.
For a list of sources, click here.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Availability: campuswide.
Medical, statistical, health, and wellness information, including reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative sources.
For a list of sources, click here.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Availability: campuswide.
16 searchable online reference titles focusing on health, history, and business.
American National Biography
Availability: campuswide.
Profiles of more than 18,000 persons who have influenced and shaped American history and culture, from the well-known to the infamous and the obscure. Updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency.
The FindLaw Constitutional Law Center
Availability: public.
An educational resource site dedicated to the United States Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court. Designed with students and the general public in mind, the FindLaw Constitutional Law Center features historical documents, biographies, and Supreme Court decisions.
Updated
annually.
Availability: campuswide.
A fundamental reference source including biographies, encyclopedia
entries, facts, and statistics.