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Academic OneFile

Collection of journal articles, abstracts, ebooks, and magazine & newspaper articles, covering all subjects.

Academic OneFile Select

Resource for academic research. Includes scholarly journals and selected general interest titles in a wide variety of subjects.

AccessScience

Articles from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.

American History, 1493-1945

A collection of primary source documents that cover American history from the early settlers up until the end of World War II.

APA PsycArticles

Articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and allied organizations.

APA PsycInfo

Abstracts and some full-text to journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations from major psychological organizations.

Art Abstracts

Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film and architecture.

ARTstor

Digital library in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.

AtoZ World Travel

Travel resource with information about points of interest, security, transportation, food and restaurants, culture, and language.

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Biography In Context

Biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study.

Birds of the World

Birds of the World feature 10,721 species accounts from Cornell University’s Macaulay Library.

Book Review Digest Plus

Reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, providing review excerpts and full-text reviews (1983-present). Includes children’s books as well as books for adults and young adults.

Business Collection

Coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.

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CINAHL Complete

The Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) provides scholarly and professional journal articles, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and test preparations, from 1937- present.

Computer Database

Business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.

Contemporary Women’s Issues

A focus on critical issues and events influencing women’s lives in more than 190 countries with content from mainstream periodicals, “gray” literature, and the alternative press.

Credo Reference

Reference library of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations.

Criminal Justice & Criminology

HeinOnline’s database assists in your research of criminal behavior, the criminal justice system, and the societal impact of crime.

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Digital Theatre+

Full-length filmed stage performances of classic and modern plays, along with interviews and workshops with those involved in the playmaking process.

Digital Transgender Archive

An international collaboration of colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections based in Worcester, Massachusetts, at the College of the Holy Cross.

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EBSCO eBook Collection

Access to electronic books that can be searched as a collection or accessed as individual titles through our library’s online catalog.

EBSCOhost Espanol (Spanish)

Spanish-language interface to select EBSCO databases (articles are in English and databases must be searched in English).

EconLit

The American Economic Association’s electronic database.

Education Source

Articles from education journals, periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. 

Educator’s Reference Complete

Access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties. Also contains federal and international reports and publications.

ERIC (via EBSCO)

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education; contains digests, abstracts for journal articles, research reports, conference papers, books, and teaching guides.

ERIC (web interface)

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education; contains digests, abstracts for journal articles, research reports, conference papers, books, and teaching guides.

Ethnic NewsWatch

An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

Ethnologue

Over 7,000 recognized languages are listed with a profile of the language and a map of where it’s spoken.

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Foreign Policy

Originally-reported articles focusing on leading global issues in national security, technology, markets, and energy & resources.

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Gale Ebooks

Variety of reference books covering arts, biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, information & publishing, law, library science, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation & world, religion, science, social science, and technology.

Gale Ebooks: General Reference

Variety of reference books covering arts, biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, information & publishing, law, library science, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation & world, religion, science, social science, and technology.

Gale Ebooks: Law

Reference books, including the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution and West’s Encyclopedia of American Law.

Gale In Context: US History

Includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, as well as rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers.

Gale Literature

Author biographies, bibliographies, and literary criticism, including Shakespearean, contemporary, poetry, nineteenth-century, and short story criticisms.  See the video tutorial.

Gender Studies Collection

Collection of journal articles, abstracts, ebooks, and magazine & newspaper articles, covering all subjects.

General OneFile

Collection of journal articles, abstracts, ebooks, and magazine & newspaper articles, covering all subjects.

Getty Library Catalog

European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007 from the Getty Research Institute.

Global Issues In Context

Contains news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, and statistics.

Global Road Warrior

Country-by-country resource for learning about culture, customs, history, and language.

Google Scholar

Search engine for scholarly literature on the Internet.

GreenFILE

Information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.

Grove Art Online

Scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art.

Grove Music Online

Contains full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

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Health & Wellness

Provides information on health-related issues, including alternative medical practices.

Health and Medicine

Articles on health including fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, and public health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Articles as well as generic drug patient education sheets from the American Hospital Formulary Service Consumer Medication Information (AHFSCM) guide.

HeinOnline

Historical and government documents, including U.S. statutory materials, U.S. congressional documents, U.S. treaties, constitutions of the world, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to state and federal case law.

History Reference Center

Collection of articles from history periodicals, reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books.

Humanities Source

Humanities articles: art, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, literary criticism, music, the performing arts, philosophy & religion.

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IBISWorld

Access over 1,300 industries to create business plans and case studies across multiple disciplines. Use the iExpert Summary Report to study high-level industry information before a job interview.

ICE Video Library

International Clinical Educator’s (ICE) library includes streaming video collections of real patients and therapists in occupational therapy and physical therapy programs, as well as downloadable texts and workbooks with assignments, and practice labs.

IEEE Xplore

Scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.

Informe Academico

Access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America.

Infoshare Online

Demographic data for New York City, New York State, and the United States.

Internet Archive

Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and websites.

IOPscience

IOPScience is the Institute of Physics online service for scientific, technical, and medical journal content.

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JAMA Network

Home of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), an international peer-reviewed general medical journal (1998-present).

Job & Career Accelerator

Powerful tools and expert guidance to help you find a job. Create an account to track your progress.

JoVE Chemistry

Video modules that explain key concepts in general chemistry.

JoVe General Laboratory Techniques

Video modules demonstrating how to use standard pieces of laboratory equipment essential in many experiments, as well as how to perform basic laboratory functions.

JSTOR

Scholarly journal articles in area studies, art, business & economics, history, humanities, law, medicine & allied health, science & mathematics, and social sciences.  See the video tutorial.

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Legal Source

Articles from 1908 to the present on current issues and trends of the legal world.

LegalTrac

Indexing for major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals.

LGBTQ+ Source

Collection of LGBT monographs, journals, magazines and regional newspapers.

Litfinder

Poems and poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.

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MAS Ultra

Popular magazine database specifically for high school libraries.

MathSciNet

Articles, reviews, abstracts, and citations dealing with mathematical sciences, provided by the American Mathematical Society.

MEDLINE Complete

Information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences (1870-present).

MedlinePlus

Consumer and professional health and medical information, drug information, and a medical dictionary. Contains overviews of health and care issues, tutorials and clinical trial information.

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The National Academies Press

Reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Includes ebooks on a wide range of topics in science.

National Archives: Women

A list of women’s history websites curated by the Archives Library Information Center (ALIC).

Nature

Research in all fields of science and technology (1997-present).

New York Slavery Records Index

Compiled by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, this is a publicly searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and their owners, beginning as early as 1525 and ending during the Civil War.

The New York Times (via nytimes.com — register using your LaGuardia email address)

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Nexis Uni

Access to newspapers from around the world. Also contains legal and business information. Look up patents with TotalPatent One.

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The Online Books Page

Open-access electronic books, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Opposing Viewpoints

Source for information on today’s most controversial and talked about social issues; features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, websites, and magazine & newspaper articles.  See the video tutorial.

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Pivot-RP

Locate and secure research funding, courtesy of the Grants Office.

PLOS Biology

Open-access medical journal from the Public Library of Science (PLOS) (2004-present).

PLOS Medicine

Open-access medical journal from the Public Library of Science (PLOS) (2004-present).

PrepSTEP™ for Colleges (formerly LearningExpress)

Provides test preparation and practice tests (such as TOEFL, GED, TEAS, CNA, TASC, CLEP, LSAT, and firefighters’ exam) as well as self-testing on math, writing, and grammar. Includes job search and workplace skills preparation. Must create an account to use.

Project Muse

A collection of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and more.

PubMed

Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

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Queens Public Library

Many area public libraries are making additional content available electronically.

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Readers’ Guide

Contains popular general-interest journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.

Regional Business News

Coverage of business journals, newspapers, and newswires within the U.S. (1984-present)

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Salem Press

Access to electronic books that can be searched as a collection or accessed as individual titles through our library’s online catalog.

Science In Context

Articles from national and global publications as well as experiments and projects.

Science magazine

Scientific research, global news, and commentary. Includes ScienceNOW, a collection of daily news briefs (1997-present).

ScienceDirect

Articles in the physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

The Serials Directory

Access to bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.

Social Explorer

Demographic data, maps, and profile reports of the United States.

SpringerLink

Scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.

Statista

Provides access to recent statistics and studies including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases. Includes a powerful Business Plan export tool.

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Wiley Online Library

Covers life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

WorldCat

Find books in other libraries.


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