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| 19th Century Masterfile | Nineteenth century (1802 to 1906) newspapers. Type: Indexing. More… | |
| ABI/INFORM Dateline | North American business periodicals and information on over 60,000 companies. Type: Citations and abstracts. More… | |
| ABI/INFORM Global | A database that covers business, finance and economics, ABI/INFORM Global contains journals (including the Wall Street Journal) and company profiles. Type: Full text. More… | |
| ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry | More than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus, including publications on finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and other major industries. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Academic Search Complete | A full text database, with over 5,500 full-text periodicals, including over 4,000 peer-reviewed journals; also indexes and abstracts of over 10,000 publications including journals, monographs, reports, & conference proceedings; includes PDF content back to 1865, and searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 titles. Type: Full text, indexes and abstracts. More… | |
| Accessible Archives | Online databases of primary source material from 18th & 19th centuries, including coverage of the Colonial Period, The French & Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, African-American History, and the Industrial Revolution. Type: Full text. More… | |
| African American Experience | African American history and culture is broken into topics such as history, biography, literature, arts, culture, business, civil rights, politics, sports, education, science, and more. Type: Full text. More… | |
| African American Newspapers: The 19th Century | The database consists of six newspapers: The Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, Frederick Douglass Paper, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, and The Christian Recorder. Dates covered are 1827-1902. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Alt-Health Watch | 50,000 articles on holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, from 1990 on. Type: Full text. More… | |
| AMED (Alternative Medicine) | AMED (provided by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library) is an alternative medicine database including information on complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, palliative care, and more. Coverage begins in 1979 for some titles. Type: index. More… | |
| America: History and Life | Historical coverage of the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present from over 2,000 journals from 1964 on. Includes fulltext linking to matching Oxford University Press and Project Muse journals. Type: Abstracts and some full text. More… | |
| America's Historical Newspapers | Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 present states. The over 150 New York newspaper selections include newspapers from Albany, Ballston Spa, Cooperstown, Hudson, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Schenectady, Sing-Sing, Troy, and Utica. (PDF option available on view screen.) Type: Full text. More… | |
| America's Newspapers: New York | Full text coverage of a wide range of New York State newspapers from Albany, Batavia, Binghamton, Buffalo, Elmira, Ithaca, Lewisboro, Long Island, New York City, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Saratoga, Suffolk county, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, Watertown, and Westchester county. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Anthropology Plus | Contains two major anthropology indexes from the late 1800s to present, covering all branches of anthropology, as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture and interdisciplinary studies. Type: index only. More… | |
| AnthroSource | AnthroSource contains a retrospective archive of peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, and bulletins published by the American Anthropological Association. Type: Abstracts. More… | |
| Applied Science and Technology Abstracts | Applied sciences such as acoustics, aeronautics, artificial intelligence, chemistry, computers, engineering, geology, and plastics. Type: Indexing and abstracts. More… | |
| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals | Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes the current periodical literature of architecture and design. Type: Index. More… | |
| Big Online America | Big Online contains information on the largest private and public foundations, as well as grants from U.S. government and Canadian government, foundations and corporate donors. Type: Directory. More… | |
| Biographies Plus Illustrated | Biographies, obituaries and some photographs. Type: Citations, abstracts, and some full text. More… | |
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index | Citations for over 12 million entries for current and historical persons. Type: Citations. More… | |
| Biological Abstracts | Contains abstracts and indexing for life science journal literature. Some topics included are aquaculture, biology, botany, conservation, ecology, neurophysiology, pathology, and veterinary medicine. Type: Abstracts, some full text. More… | |
| Biological Sciences | Scientific and technical research literature in the biological sciences. Type: Indexing and abstracts. More… | |
| BioOne | Comprised of bioscience research journals published mainly by small societies and non-commercial publishers, BioOne contains full-text articles on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Books in Print | Lists books currently available from publishers, due out soon, and no longer in print. Type: Bibliographic information. More… | |
| Business & Company ASAP | Contains full-text articles on companies, markets and industries, with coverage of business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles from 1980 to the present. Type: Full text (mostly). NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Business & Company Resource Center | Includes company profiles, brand information, company histories, financial reports, periodical articles, and links to relevant Web sites. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| CIS | CIS (Congressional Information Service) provides access to Government Periodicals Universe, History Universe, State Capital Universe and Statistical Universe. Type: Indexing, some full text. More… | |
| Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective | Historical articles (November 1860 to April 1865) from the New York Herald, Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Congressional Universe | Includes the full text of Congressional working papers, statutes-at- large and legislation. Type: Index and Full text. More… | |
| CorpTech Online Directory | A comprehensive source of information on 50,000 U.S. high technology manufacturing companies. Type: Directory. More… | |
| CSA | Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) publishes abstracts and indexes to scientific and technical research literature Type: Indexing and abstracts. More… | |
| EBSCO Electronic Journals Service (EJS) | EJS provides access to journals the State Library receives from EBSCO in print. Topics covered include psychology, education, medicine, economics, geology, criminal justice, information science, physics, history, and more. If you are asked to submit payment, please contact the library and let us know which journal(s) you were trying to reach. EJS also indexes (and in some cases abstracts) titles from thousands of journals which the State Library does not subscribe to and for which there is no full text. Contact your library to find out how to get a copy of these articles. Type: Full text and tables of contents. More… | |
| EBSCOhost | A collection of databases covering a wide range of subjects. Other EBSCOhost interfaces include: Text Only (for slower modem connections), EBSCOhost Español, and EBSCOhost Français. Type: Indexing, abstracts and some full text. More… | |
| EconLit | EconLit indexes economics and finance literature from around the world contained in journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations. Type: Indexing, abstracts, full text. More… | |
| Education Full Text | English-language periodicals and yearbooks relating to education. Type: Indexing (1983 on); abstracts (Jan. 1994 on); some full text (Jan. 1996 on). More… | |
| Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management 1981- | This database provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources. More… |
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| ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) | Education-related journals and research/technical reports from 1966 on. Type: Full text for ERIC Digests and some articles. More… | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library - Business | Selected resources from the Gale Virtual Reference Library (reference e-books) that cover business-related topics such as small business, e-commerce, and business plans. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library - Health and Medicine | Selected resources from the Gale Virtual Reference Library (reference e-books) that cover health-related topics such as medicine, alternative medicine, cancer and genetic disorders. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library - History | Selected resources from the Gale Virtual Reference Library (reference e-books) that cover historical topics such as American history, European history, the Middle East and historical costume and fashion. The historical e-books contain original source documents as well as encyclopedic articles. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) - All | The NOVEL subscription to the Gale Virtual Reference Library includes reference e-books that cover historical, business, literature, science and health or medical subjects. The historical e-books contain original source documents as well as encyclopedic articles. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| General Science Collection | This database offers full text coverage back to 1992 for more than 60 of the popular science journals. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| GeoRef | Geology of North America (1785 on) and for the rest of the world (1933 on). Type: Indexing and abstracts. More… | |
| Godey's Ladys Book | In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes & remedies, etc. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Government Periodicals Universe | Government periodicals covering research in business, education, health, social science and science. Type: Indexing. More… | |
| Health & Wellness Resource Center | This database contains articles from medical publications and general interest publications on medical topics; medical pamphlets; a health organization directory; medical and alternative health encyclopedias; a medical dictionary; drug and herb information; health assessment tools; and links to health news and Internet sources. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Health Reference Center-Academic | Covers fitness, health, and health care, from 1996 on. Type: Full text (mostly). NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Health Source: Consumer Edition | Journals, pamphlets and some books covering health, nutrition, and medical self-care. Type: Indexing and abstracts (1984 on), full text (1990 on). More… | |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | Journals, pamphlets and some books covering health, nutrition, and medical self-care. Type: Full Text. More… | |
| HeritageQuest Online | Contains the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), full text of the Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Legislation and Administration Relating to Participation in the Revolutionary War, full text of Registers of signatures of despositors in branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company 1865 - 1874, full text of ProQuest's Genealogy and Local History Collection of 25,000+ family and local history books and the full text of the 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1860 -1880 and 1900-1920 census for the entire United States. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Historical Newspapers | Full text of the New York Times (December 1851- December 2001). Type: Full text. More… | |
| Index to Current Urban Documents | Reports and research from public agencies and research organizations in New York and New England. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Index to Early American Periodicals (1700-1935) | New York State Library microform collection. Index to periodicals published between 1700 and 1850. Type: Indexing. More… | |
| Industry Standards | A list of the various standards databases to which the Library subscribes. ASME, ASQ and IEEE are available remotely; remainder are available on site only. Type: Standards. More… | |
| Informe Revistas en Espanol - English interface | This full text periodical database is in Spanish and is best searched in Spanish as well. Topics covered include business, health, technology, culture and other general subjects. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Informe Revistas en Espanol - Spanish interface | This full-text periodical database is in Spanish. In this version, the interface is in Spanish as well. Topics covered include business, health, technology, culture and other general subjects. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| InfoTrac | Gale databases include LegalTrac, Business and Company, Health Reference Center - Academic, and Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Type: Multiple databases. More… | |
| InfoTrac Custom Newspapers | This full text newspaper database has seven New York Newspapers including the New York Times from 2000 on, and over fifty national and international newspapers. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| InfoTrac Junior | Contains magazine and newspaper articles and some excerpts from reference books suitable for junior high school students. General interest topics. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| InfoTrac Nursing and Allied Health Collection | Academic journals, magazines, books and news items cover all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. Includes some content that is indexed in CINAHL. Type: Indexing, abstracts and some full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| JSTOR - Arts and Sciences Collection | The Arts and Sciences collections I, II, III, and IV contain more than 240 titles in over forty disciplines. For a full listing of journals go to www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html. Type: Full text. More… | |
| JSTOR - Sciences (Biology, Ecology and Health and General Science) | Contains full text from extensive back files of scholarly journals related to biological, health and general sciences, including ecology and botany. A list of the journals in this collection can be found at http://www.jstor.org/about/biosci.list.html. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Kids Search | Kids Search, an interface to the Primary Search database, is designed for K-5 students. It contains full text for over 50 popular, elementary school magazines, over 100 student pamphlets, an encyclopedia and a dictionary. Type: full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| LegalTrac | Major legal publications, from 1980 on. Type: Indexing, some full text. More… | |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) | LISTA indexes over 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on subjects related to librarianship and information management. Coverage extends back to the mid-1960s. Type: Indexing and abstracts. More… | |
| Loislaw | Loislaw contains federal law, federal regulations, state law, state regulations, court rules and court cases for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Type: Full text. More… | |
| MasterFILE Premier | Over 1,800 full text journals in business, health, consumer information, education and science. Type: Indexing and abstracts (1984 on), full-text journals (from 1990). More… | |
| MasterFILE Select | Full text from more than 780 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, humanities, and multi-cultural periodicals. Type: Indexing and abstracts (1984 on), full-text journals (from 1990). NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| MEDLINE | Journals, from 1966 on, in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine. Type: Citations and abstracts. More… | |
| MLA Bibliography | Over 6,000 journals from 1963 on, covering literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Type: Citations. More… | |
| National Climatic Data Center. (NOAA) | Publications of the National Climatic Data Center. Includes satellite resources, climate resources and radar resources. Type: Full text. More… | |
| National Newspaper Index | Provides indexing (1977 to present) of America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Type: Indexing only. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database | A bibliographic and partial full text database that provides clinical data on natural medicines, herbal medicines and dietary supplements. Type: Full text. More… | |
| netLibrary | Electronic books (3,772 copyrighted titles and thousands in the public domain). Type: Full text. More… | |
| New York State Newspapers | A subset of InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, this database has seven newspapers from around New York State in full-text, including the New York Times from 2000. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| New York Times - Historical | Full text of the New York Times (1851-2001). Part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Newsbank | Online service that includes access to the following databases: America's Newspapers: New York and America's Historical Newspapers (1690 - 1922). Type: Full text. More… | |
| Newspaper Source | Over 150 U.S. and international newspapers. Type: Indexing and abstracts, selected full text. More… | |
| NTIS | National Technical Information Service (NTIS) includes over 700,000 summaries, from 1964 on, of government-sponsored research. Type: Abstracts. More… | |
| OCLC FirstSearch | Online service that includes access to the following databases: WorldCat, Books in Print, and MLA International Bibliography. Type: Multiple databases. More… | |
| Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online | Definitions, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words from across the English-speaking world. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Oxford Reference Online CORE | Oxford Reference Online contains approximately 100 reference books and dictionaries in a wide variety of fields including art, language, general reference, law, performing arts, history, politics, science, and medicine. Type: Full text. More… | |
| PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) | Articles, books, conference proceedings, etc. related to public affairs. Type: Indexing and abstracts. More… | |
| Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800) | Considered The New York Times of the 18th century, the Gazette provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County 1809-1870 | This database is primarily a listing of marriages, deaths and obituaries from the Village Record, published in West Chester, PA. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870 | Consisting of of five Delaware County newspapers. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Primary Search | Contains full text of 57 children's magazines plus almanacs and an encyclopedia. Indexing and abstracting for 80+ titles. (For a more graphical interface, see Searchasaurus.) Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Project Muse | Over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, mathematics and social sciences. Type: Full text. More… | |
| PsycArticles | PsycArticles contains full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from American Psychological Association and affiliated journals. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Type: Full text. More… | |
| PsycBooks | PsycBooks has over 21,000 chapters from over 1,400 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It includes over 700 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology and over 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. Type: Full text. More… | |
| PsycINFO | PsycINFO contains indexing and abstracts of journal articles (1887 to present), book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in the field of psychology. Type: indexing and abstracts. More… | |
| Readers Guide Full Text 1983-present | Popular, general-interest magazines published in the United States and Canada. Type: Indexing and abstracting, some full text (1994 on). More… | |
| Readers Guide Retrospective | Popular, general-interest magazines published in the United States (currently 1969 through 1982). Type: Indexing. More… | |
| Reference USA | Telephone directory information for individuals; directory plus additional information for businesses. Type: Telephone directory information. More… | |
| Sanborn Maps | Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides access to large-scale maps (50 feet to an inch) of towns and cities in New York. Type: Full text and maps. More… | |
| Science Reference Center | Contains hundreds of science reference books, and periodicals, covering topics in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, medicine, history of science, physics, science and society, scientists, and technology. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| ScienceDirect | A database for scientific research that contains more than 1,800 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Scipio: Art & Rare Book Sales Catalogs | Scipio:1599- Art & Rare Book Sales Catalogs describes art auction & rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held. Type: Index. More… | |
| Searchasaurus | An interface to Primary Search, which contains full-text articles from elementary school magazines, an encyclopedia and a dictionary. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Serials Directory | Serials and many newspapers. Type: Bibliographic information and prices. More… | |
| State Capital Universe | Contains bills, regulations, and statutes; information about state legislators, issues and policy; state newspapers of record. Type: Full text. More… | |
| Statistical Universe | Documents contained in American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), Index to International Statistics (IIS). Type: Indexing and full text. More… | |
| TopicSearch | Covers social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Formats include magazine and newspaper articles, pamphlets, book reviews, opinion polls and government information. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Twayne Authors Series - World, English, and US Authors | Contains the full text of the Twayne Literary Masters books which provide biographical and literarary criticism information on a wide variety of World, US, or English authors. Type: Full text. NOVELNY Database. More… | |
| Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide | Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide indexes the literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. All aspects of wildlife and wildlife management are covered. Type: Citations and abstracts. More… | |
| WilsonWeb | A collection of databases covering a wide range of subjects, including education, biography, and general interest. Type: Indexing, abstracts and some full text. More… | |
| WorldCat | Union catalog describing some 40 million items owned by libraries around the world. Type: Bibliographic information. More… | |
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