Places to Start Your Research

Not sure which database to use? Try these.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full-text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.

Ancestry Library Edition
Access to billions of names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records and Passenger Lists. Library version of Ancestry.com.

Biography in Context
Provides biographical information on more than 380,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.

Business Source Premier
Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more.

Credo Reference
Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. Includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries.

Google Books
Search the full-text of scanned books via the Web, and to read selections of the full-text of these digitized texts.

JSTOR
An interdisciplinary digital archive of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.

New York Times (1851-2008)
Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive.

New York Times (1985-present) and New York Post (2000-present)
Searchable full-text of the New York Times and New York Post.) 

NYPL Digital Gallery
Provides free access to over 800,000 images digitized from the New York Public Library's vast collections, including historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED), 2nd Edition
A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Project Muse
Provides full-text access to over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly journals and top quality book-length scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

World Book Online Reference Center
Access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, and maps from World Book Kids,  World Book Student, World Book Advance (high school and college) and Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos.

WorldCat (OCLC)
Search for materials held in libraries around the world.