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659 resources found.
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
The Burney Newspapers comprise the most comprehensive collection of early English newspapers anywhere in the world, including newspapers, newsbooks, and Acts of Parliament -- from London, the British Isles, and the Colonies.
1940 Census
Free access to the digital images of the 1940 Unites States Federal Census. Additionally, the entire 1940 census will be indexed by a community of volunteers and made available for free.
1940s New York: Explore the 1943 New York City Market Analysis
The 250-page Market Analysis provides hundreds of photos and color-coded maps, statistics, and short narratives about neighborhoods across the city. The statistics and maps are based on the 1940 Census, providing a rich complement to the individual 1940 Census records that are available online.
19th Century Masterfile
Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents published in the 19th century.
2002 Economic Census. Industry series reports.
See reports available in each sector of NAICS codes.
A2A - Access to Archives
Contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
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.
Academic One File
This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Academic Search Premier
A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals.
Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals
Access provides a unique indexing resource for popular periodicals. It indexes approximately eighty-five of the most important popular periodicals. Access also indexes new national publications as they first appear and most major city and regional magazines.
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.
AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
Provides links to websites of publishers throughout the world, searchable by alphabetical, geographical, and topical lists.
Advertising Red Books Online
This directory includes information necessary for advertising research on agencies and advertisers.
African American Experience
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience from more than 35 states.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Searchable full-text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
More than 170 periodicals, published in 26 states, by and about African Americans. Includes academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, and annual reports.
Agricola
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
AHDS (Arts & Humanities Data Service)/Performing Arts
Searchable collection of online digital resources in the performing arts, mostly from Britain.
All-Russia Census 2002
The latest All-Russia Population Census took place on October 9-16, 2002. Conducted by Goskomstat, the State Committee on Statistics of the Russian Federation, this is first official census of modern Russia.
ALLDATA Online
Provides comprehensive resource for automotive (1982-to-current) diagnostic and repair information. Online SEARCH feature allows people to locate information quickly.
Alternative Press Index
The Alternative Press Index indexes more than 300 alternative, radical, and left publications that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change.
Alternative Press Index Archive
An index to alternative press published in the United States and around the world.
AMA Doctor Finder
Provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO).
Amazing Animals of the World
Detailed facts about where each animal lives, what it eats, how it sounds, and why it might be endangered today or in the near future helps students conduct meaningful research and prepare reports.
America's Historical Imprints
Search full-text early American books, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and rare printed materials. Combined search of American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900) and Early American Imprints (1639-1819).
America's Historical Newspapers
Searchable full-text and page images of newspapers from across the county including early newspapers, 1690-1922, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980.
America: History and Life with Full Text
Indexes the scholarly literature of the history and culture of Canada and the United States from prehistoric times to the present.
American Ancestors
Databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Highlights include full-text access to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register from 1847 to 1994 and the Massachusetts Vital Records to 1910.
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.
American Broadsides and Ephemera
Digital collection of broadsides printed between 1820-1900 and ephemera, such as invitations, menus and programs, printed between 1760-1900.
American Drama
Containing more than 1,100 dramatic works from the early 18th Century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714
American Fact Finder
Provides statistics for population, housing, industry, and business.
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.
American Indian Experience
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of American Indians.
American Memory
A rich collection of primary source material relating to U.S. history and culture, compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
American National Biography
Offers portraits of more than 18,000 men and women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.
American Periodicals (1740-1940)
APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,800 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940. Also contains titles archived at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), including labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically-significant titles.
American State Papers, 1789-1838
U.S. legislative and executive materials originating from 1789 -1838 but not published until the second and third quarters of the 19th century.
Amnesty International Library
Provides full text of many of the human rights organization's recent publications, including annual reports back to 1993, country reports, and thematic reports.
AncestorsOnBoard.com
Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1890-1960. View index for free but you must pay to view information on passenger lists.
Ancestry Library Edition
Access to more than 7 billion names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and UK & Ireland records. Library version of Ancestry.com.
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.
Anthropological Index Online
Indexes articles in journals received by the British Museum's Department of Ethnography library. Particular emphasis is given to social and cultural anthropology and the archaeology of Eastern and Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Antique Map Price Guide
Record of antiquarian map trade appraisals derived from over 20,000 dealer and auction catalogs from the last 25 years.
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.
ArchiveGrid (formerly RLG Archival Resources)
Provides researchers with comprehensive access to information about collections of manuscripts and archives.
Archives and Manuscript Collections
A selective guide, from Columbia University, to archives and manuscript collections. Includes national libraries, state archives and libraries, college and university collections, and society archives.
Archives Hub (UK)
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.
Archives of American Art
A tool to locate artist papers and gallery records.
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.
Archives USA
Provides information and detailed indexing to manuscript collections from over 5,000 U.S. repositories.
ArchNet -- Archaeology
Indexes resources in archaeology and anthropology on the Internet. Includes region-specific archaeological Websites and those dedicated to a particular subject area such as archeometry, ceramics, and lithics.
ARL Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
Provides access to the tables of contents of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.
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.
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.
Art Index Retrospective
Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements.
Artcyclopedia
A comprehensive index of artists represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.
Artfact - Only available in SASB 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.
ARTFL
A collection of nearly 2000 electronic French texts, including classic literary works, nonfiction, and technical writing.
ArtInfo: 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.
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.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, and other fields in the humanities and sciences.
ArXiv
ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
AskART
AskArt covers American artists providing biography, images, citations, museums owning their work and galleries representing the artist's work.
Available only in Room 300, the Art & Architecture Division.
Associations on the Net
A collection of websites providing information about a wide variety of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions.
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.
ATLA Religion Databases
Contains citations to articles, books, theses, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology.
Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945)
The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Covers every change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2010.
Auto/Biography
Auto/Biography is an international and interdisciplinary journal addressing theoretical, epistemological, and empirical issues relating to autobiographical and biographical research.
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.
Bartleby.com Great Books Online
Full-text access to a variety of standard reference books, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Online version of the 1901 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations may be browsed by author (chronologically or alphabetically).
Baseball Digest
Baseball Digest is America's longest-running, baseball-only publication, with its first issue appearing on newsstands in 1942.
Berg Fashion Library
Berg Fashion Library provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion.
Better Business Bureau
Check reports on New York businesses and charities.
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.
Bibliografia Nacional Espanola desde 1976
Contains records of the national bibliography of Spain.
Bibliographia Cartographica
International Documentation of Cartographic Literature database from the Berlin State Library indexes cartographic literature from over 5,000 monographs and nearly 80 journal titles published internationally.
Bibliography of American Literature
Describes the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Citations to literature about native peoples of North America, including Aleuts; Eskimos or Inuit of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and eastern Siberia; and other native peoples of Canada, the United States, and Mexico north of the northern boundary of Mesoamerica.
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book
Complete bibliography of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino printed books, 1469-1960.
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.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Includes full-text works of Spanish-language literature, both classics and lesser known works.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
Provides biographical information on the more than 13,000 persons who have served in the United States Congress, including those who served in the Continental Congress.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Indexes biographical listings in dictionaries and encyclopedias covering millions individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
Biography in Context
Provides biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.
Biography Index
Indexes English-language biographical material appearing in books, magazines, and selected newspapers.
Bisonnette on Fashion: A Visual Dictionary
Timeline of changes in silhouettes, accessories, lingerie and hairstyles from 18th to 20th century for men, women and children on Kent State University Museum site. Uses detailed photos of original garments.
Black Studies Center
This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies combines: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, and historical newspaper articles.
Bloomberg
The interactive network of Bloomberg Financial Markets offers up-to-date pricing information, history, data, analytics, and multimedia news. A generous gift of Bloomberg, L.P. This database is not on all networked computers. Reserve this database at the EIC desk.
BobCat -- The Catalog for New York University Libraries
The online catalog of the holdings of NYU.
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.
Bookfinder
Searches several online bookstores at once. Search for new, used, and/or out of print books, then connect to an individual online bookstores.
Bookflix
BookFlix pairs classic fictional video storybooks from Weston Woods with nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic. (PreK - 3)
Books in Print
A bibliographic database of over 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and video titles, as well as 12 million international titles, currently in print and information on forthcoming and out-of-print books. Also offers: reviews; tables of contents; cover images; author biographies; awards information; and annotations.
Boston Globe (1872-1981)
The Boston Globe, considered the mainstay of Boston and New England, is a unique full-image archive offering complete coverage from 1872-1981.
Boston Globe (1997-present)
Full text of the Boston Globe through ProQuest's Newspaper Premier database, 1997-present.
BrainPOP
Watch fun animated online movies that help with school assignments. Hundreds of BrainPOP videos explain a wide variety of concepts in Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Art & Music, Health and Technology.
Bremen Passenger Lists, 1920-1939
Searchable database of passengers leaving Bremen for the years 1920 to 1939.
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.
British Newspapers 1600-1900
Provides researchers with the most comprehensive collection of national and regional newspapers of Victorian Britain available.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (1841-1902)
Developed by the Brooklyn Public Library, this free database provides access to the full-text of the Eagle from 1841 to 1902.
Brooklyn Public Library Catalog
The catalog for the Brooklyn Public Library.
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.
Burke's Peerage and Gentry Online
More than 1 million names in 15,000+ records of British, Irish and American royalty, the peerage, presidential and other important families. Each has been meticulously researched by a team of professional genealogists to ensure the information is accurate, reliable and up-to-date.
Business & Company Resource Center
Includes company profiles,executives, mergers & acquisitions,ticker symbols, news & magazine articles, company histories and chronologies, financials, balance sheets, financial ratios, rankings, suits & claims (for civil claims suits in the area of Human Resources only), products & brands, industry overviews and associations.
Business Insights: Essentials
Business Insights provides in depth coverage of businesses, including company profiles, industry profiles, products and brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories and full text periodical articles. Formerly known as Business & Company Resource Center.
Business Monitor Online
Market research reports on 175 global markets and Industry reports on 14 major industry sectors. Multinational company profiles, macroeconomic data, country risk analysis, country forecasts, and country updates.
Business Source Premier EBSCO
Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more
Butler Group CIO Knowledge Center
Information Technology market research database includes IT research, analysis, and advice. Track IT news and trends, view analysis of major vendor technologies, find Independent Software Vendors (ISV database), and find information about IT service contracts.
Cairn.Info
Cairn.info is an online collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines.
Canadiana Discovery Portal
A free service that enables users to search across the valuable and diverse digital collections of Canada’s libraries, museums and archives.
Career Cruising
Privacy Policy: This database collects personal information from users as part of its service. This information is stored by the vendor that creates the database and is subject to that vendor's private policy. We encourage you to read that vendor's private policy. The information you enter into this database is not stored by The New York Public Library. Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities.
Career Insider (Vault)
Premier career resource. Find career guides, industry guides, company and employer profiles, topics guides and more. Industry overviews bring you inside 40 top industries, from investment management to manufacturing. Find details on career path, salary ranges, industry outlook and more.
CASSIS: Classification and Search Support Information System
Indexing (1969 - Present) and abstracting (1994 - Present) for U.S. patents and current and pending federally registered Trademarks (1790 - Present), as well as information on patent classifications and assignments.
Castle Garden Immigration Center, 1830-1891
Index of more than 10 million immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1830-1891 (before Ellis Island). Searching via Stephen Morse's One Step Search Form.
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.
Catholic Encyclopedia
Contains full and authoritative information on Catholic interests, action, and doctrine.
CCH Omnitax Library
Includes all the information from more than a dozen of its well-known tax resources. Foremost are the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, the Estate and Gift Tax Reporter, the Internal Revenue Manual and the New York Tax Reporter. But the Library also includes the Tax Cases, including memoranda, revenue rulings, Treasury decisions, comprehensive presentations of the tax treaties and a range of the IRS Publications. There are also several current awareness news sources and tax guides.
Census CD
Includes the full set of Census data from Block Group level up to the nation, all 16 geographies included in the Census long form databases STF3A to D, all tracts, places, counties, states, Congressional districts, Zip codes, etc., for over 375,000 geographic locations in the US. It has all 3,500+ Census demographic variables for every area along with millions of street addresses from Tiger94, all distributed by the US Census Bureau.
Census: State and County Quick Facts
Tables of data from various Census Bureau programs, including profiles at national, state, and county levels.
Charity Navigator
Evaluates the financial health of America's largest charities.
Charity Navigator
Evaluates the financial health of over 5,300 of America's largest charities. Find companies and organization which may be non-profit or not for profits- includes financial information.
Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
Searchable full-text and page images from The Chicago Defender archive.
Chicago Tribune (1849-1988)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Chicago Tribune archive.
Chicago Tribune (1989-present)
Full text of the Chicago Tribune, 1989-present.
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Ministers of Foreign Governments
Provides an alphabetical listing by country of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of foreign governments.
Chinese E-Journal Collection (Qikan)
Provides access to full text of 150 popular journals in Chinese language.
Chinese Pamphlets (1947-1954)
Chinese pamphlets, picture books and other propaganda issued during the early period of the People's Republic of China.
Christian Science Monitor (September, 1988-present)
A major daily newspaper covering national and international news. Published in the US and noted for unbiased, concise and comprehensive coverage.
Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. Published every weekday.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Contains basic facts about servicemen who served during the Civil War and regimental histories.
Civil War: a newspaper perspective
Contains selected full-text articles from issues of the New York Herald, the Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer.
Classic Mexican Cinema Online
This resource, the first online collection from Latin America published by Brill, covers the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to 1960. It features popular film periodicals, such as Cinema Reporter and Cinema Mundial, together with lobby cards and the personal scrap book of filmmaker Fernando de Fuentes.
CLIO -- Columbia University Catalog
The online catalog of Columbia University.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries.
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.
Compact Memory
Compact Memory offers actual reproductions of the most important research journals for German-Jewish history and genealogy research, covering the entire German-speaking world. Since some of these journals carried news about Jews in areas outside Germany as well, they are worth consulting for news of other locations, such as the United States and Russia.
Compendex Historical Archive
Information from engineering and technological literature. Locate articles in all fields of engineering. Journal articles, technical reports, monographs, and conference proceedings are included. Backfiles available from 1884-1969.
Congressional Directory
Official directory of the U.S. Congress, includes short biographies of each member of the Senate and House, committee memberships, and terms of service.
Congressional Documents & Debates, 1774-1875
This free site brings together online the records and acts of the U.S. Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress. Find congressional journals, debate proceedings, statutes, bills, and official reports.
Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
A digital reproduction of the key publications of the United States Congress, the Congressional Serial Set documents the official activities of the House and the Senate, including the journals, reports and documents. IN PROGRESS.
Congressional Universe
Provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.
Consumer Expenditure Survey
Provides information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics.
Contemporary Authors
Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum - CVA
An illustrated catalog of more than 100,000 ancient vases.
Corriere Della Sera
Italian newspaper
Country Studies - Library of Congress
Details of a country's political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions.
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.
CUNY Online Catalog
Search the holdings of the City University of New York.
Current Biography Illustrated
Full text of Current Biography magazine.
Custom Newspapers
Searchable full-text of 300 plus newspapers, both national and international.
D&B Million Dollar Directory
Newly expanded directory provides information on 14 million companies in the U.S. Search by company on first screen, or use Advanced Search to select criteria to build a list of companies by location, industry, SIC or NAICs code, size, sales, etc. See the Zip code listings for all 5 boroughs.
Dance Heritage Coalition
A tutorial for in-depth dance research, focusing on primary sources in archives and research libraries. Provides access to finding aids for collections in libraries, including NYPL, Library of Congress, Ohio State University, and the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum.
Dante Project (Dartmouth)
Searchable collection of texts including the Italian text of the Divine Comedy and commentaries.
DAR Genealogical Records Index
Indexes unpublished genealogical materials, mainly bible and cemetery transcriptions, collected by DAR members. New York state volumes held at NYPL Milstein Division.
David Rumsey Map Collection
This historical map collection contains over 30,000 online maps and images. The collection's strengths are in 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, though maps of the world and other continents are also represented.
Death Indexes and Records Online
Directory of online death indexes and records listed by state, including death certificate, obituaries, cemetery burials & probate records.
Design and Applied Arts Index
International index to design and craft journals.
Development Business
Development Business provides information for doing business with the United Nations, the World Bank, and foreign governments.
For access, please ask a staff member in the Electronic Information Center.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The Dictionary of Canadian biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (DCB/DBC) is a scholarly research and publishing project carried out jointly by the University of Toronto and the Universit
Dictionary of Irish Biography
The Dictionary of Irish Biography, is a collaborative project with over 9,000 signed biographical articles, between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres. This is available in the Literature Resource Center.
Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
Digitized, searchable, high-resolution images of the Dead Sea Scrolls held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Digital Microfilm
The digital microfilm of the following newspapers: American Banker (2008-April, 2010), Barron's (2008-March, 2010), Boston Globe (2008- April, 2010), Chicago Tribune (2008-May, 2010), Detroit News (2009-April, 2010), New York Times -Late Edition, East Coast (2008-April, 2010), San Francisco Chronicle (2008-April 2010), Saint Louis Post-Dispatch (2008-April, 2010), USA Today (2009-Febrary, 2010), Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition (2008-April, 2010), Washington Post - Final Edition (2008-May, 2010).
Digital Scriptorium
Images of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts.
Digital South Asia Library
On-line information about contemporary and historical South Asia
Digitalia
Digitalia is a Hispanic Database of ebooks and ejournals where you will find thousands of ebooks from the most renowned Spanish and Latinamerican Publishing Houses, as well as relevant journals that cover all topics of interest.
Digitized Brooklyn City Directories
The Brooklyn Public Library is in the process of digitizing 33 printed Brooklyn city directories, covering a period from 1856 to 1908.
Direct Me NYC 1940
An experimental NYPL website features digitized 1940 telephone directories for New York City, which, combined with powerful search tools enable patrons to convert residential street addresses into census enumeration districts (ED), which leads to the 1940 Census records via the National Archives.
Directories in Print
See Gale Directory Library for access to Directories in Print.
Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries
Contains listings for American companies that have a substantial investment in overseas operations-wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch.
Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States
Foreign companies listed have a substantial investment in American operations-wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Offers free, full text, quality controlled, open-access scientific and scholarly journals in a variety of subjects and languages.
Directory of Professional Genealogists
Contains the 1999-2000 Directory of Professional Genealogists. Also find links to other Professional Genealogical organizations under Resources.
Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
See Gale Directory Library for access to Gale Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers.
Directory of State Tax Forms
Download and print federal and state tax forms for all 50 states.
DocFinder
Search by name of doctor or browse by state licensing authorities.
E-print Network
The Department of Energy's E-PRINT Network is a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ebony Magazine
Ebony, a monthly magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has published continuously since the Autumn of 1945. A digest-sized sister magazine, Jet, is also published by Johnson Publishing.
EBSCO Primary Search
Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student. The content of EBSCO Animals is also included.
EBSCOHost
Provides access to over 30 databases with citations, abstracts and selected full-text. Includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete and other subject-specific resources. Specific databases available through EBSCOhost are listed at the EBSCOhost site and in this directory.
EconLit
Indexes and abstracts international literature on economics. Also includes the full-text for more than 480 journals.
The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2008
Complete archive of the Economist weekly newsmagazine, from its first issue in 1843 until 2008.
Economist Intelligence Unit
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) includes Country Reports and Country Profile guides.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Provides full text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides and other materials published in the United Kingdom between 1701-1800.
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. Topics covered include the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, the French Revolution, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and coffee house gossip and discussion.
El Diario La Prensa NY
The largest and oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper in New York City.
Electronic access to music journals
Alphabetical list of music journals with links to full-text electronic access.
Electronic Enlightenment
Electronic Enlightenment is a database which provides unrivalled online access to 18th-century primary sources that can be searched or browsed as a complete collection.
Ellis Island: American Family Immigration History Center
Covers the period 1892-1924 when 22 million passengers and crew members entered the Port of New York through Ellis Island. Search for an immigrant's name and view a digitized page of the passenger manifest.
Ellis Island: Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step
An enhanced search of the Ellis Island Database (1892-1924).
eMarketer
Market research information related to e-business, online marketing and emerging technologies. eMarketer aggregates and analyzes e-business research from over 1,700 sources and brings it together in one place. Research is presented in analyst reports and an "eStat Database" feature which is a comprehensive compilation of up-to-date e-business and online marketing statistics.
Emerging Markets - Internet Securities
Full-text articles, news, company, industry and market information for emerging market countries around the world.
emusicquest
Cross-indexes the Music-In-Print series. Searches listings of sacred choral, classical vocal, orchestral, string, woodwind, guitar, piano, band, handbell, harp, percussion and brass music in print. New entries and categories are added regularly.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte.
Encyclopedia Americana
The online version of encyclopedia with an added news database.
Encyclopedia Judaica
Full-text searchable database of the 22 volumes.
Encyclopedia of American Religions
See Gale Directory of Databases for access to the Encyclopedia of American Religions.
Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
A directory of executive advisory bodies in the United States. See Gale Directory Librayr for access to the Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations.
Energy Administration Information
Energy statistics from the U.S. Government.
England and Wales 1911 Census
The 1911 census is a record of everyone who lived in England and Wales in 1911. Searching the index is free but there is a fee for viewing the digitized record.
England and Wales Historical Directories
A digital library of local and trade directories from England and Wales from 1750-1919.
English Short Title Catalogue
Descriptions of English printing from 1473 to 1800.
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.
ERIC (EBSCO)
U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals.
ERIC Document Reproduction Service
From the U.S. Department of Education, ready access to documents in the education field.
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971
More than 130 searchable newspapers from 25 states in 10 languages from the former Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies. Emphasis on Americans of Czech, French, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, and Slavic descent.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America.
Euromonitor (Now Passport)
Market intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. Includes integrated access to statistics, market analysis, and commentary on emerging trends. Please Note: conditions of access to this service: Euromonitor is provided at NYPL for personal research or private study only, and cannot be sold or re-distributed to third parties. Library users may browse, search the service and display Intelligence on screen, and may print out no more than up twenty pages or equivalent of information per session. Direct downloading by library users is not permitted.
Europa: Gateway to the European Union
Current information on the member countries of the European Union, including statistical data, policies, news, official documents, legal texts, and other publications.
European Library, The
Combined searching of the resources of European national libraries.
Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920
This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library.
Faber Poetry Library
Contains the works of 42 poets comprising 124 volumes of poetry.
Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)
Includes content from more than 20,000 news sources, including newspapers, TV transcripts, newswires, and business magazines.
Fagan Finder
Provides links to quotation, proverb, aphorism, and slogan sites, and the means for searching particular types of quotes.
Family History Books
Digitized full-text family histories.
FamilySearch Genealogy Service
Produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), this site searches genealogical records worldwide including Ancestral Files, International Genealogical Index, and census and other vital statistics sources.
FEDSTATS
National statistics from the U.S. Federal Government in the areas of Agriculture, Education, Income, Natural Resources, Crime, Energy, Labor, Safety, Demographics, Environment, National Accounts, Transportation, Economic, and Health.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
Formerly known as Film/TV Documentation Collections, FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs. It is an essential reference work for any film researcher and contains a wide range of databases:
International Index to Film Periodicals, Treasures from Film Archives, Documentation Collections and FIAF Members' Publications.
Fiction Connection
Use this readers advisory tool to discover titles similar to books you already enjoy.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.
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.
Film Literature Index
Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other scholarly and popular periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.
Film/TV Documentation Collections
A section of the International Film Archive database produced by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), which contains information about the holdings of more than 145 of the world's foremost film archives, libraries, and educational institutions.
First Research
Industry profiles which include industry overview, recent developments, business challenges, trends and opportunities, executive insight, call preparation questions, financial information, industry ratio's, industry forecast and rating, web links and acronyms. Print, or save information.
Fold3 (formerly Footnote)
Searchable digitized images of millions of historical primary documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents, many from the National Archives.
Foreign Relations of the United States (1945-most recent)
The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
Foreign Relations of the United States (pre 1945)
This series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. This online version runs from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added when possible.
Foundation Directory Online Professional
Foundation Directory Online was developed by the Foundation Center, a nonprofit organization founded over 50 years ago to open up U.S. foundations to public view.
Foundation Finder
Basic information about private and community foundations within the U.S.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
German newspaper
Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874
Freedman's Bank Records are a great source for genealogists researching their African American heritage. This database is an index to registers of signatures of depositors and includes images of the original documents.
FreedomFlix
Dynamic e-books from Scholastic brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history.
Freegal Music
Freegal is downloadable music service which provides access to the catalog of artists in Sony Music Entertainment. Library cardholders can download three songs a week with their barcode and pin number. Freegal works with any MP3 device, including iPods. The New York Public Library's subscription to Freegal Music is generously supported by a grant from Community Funds, Inc. -- the Robert R. Asiel Memorial Fund.
Fulton History: Old New York State Historical Newspapers
A searchable repository of old newspapers published in New York State, between 1795 and 2007. Includes Old Fulton NY Postcards, a collection of digitized images recording the history of Fulton, NY.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO[grades 5-8]
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Galante's Venture Capital & Private Equity Directory
Search venture capital firms alphabetically or by investment criteria. Investment criteria include company location, type of firm, activity level, investment size, geographic preference or industry preference.
Gale Directory Library
Search across a range of directories. Includes: Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers; Encyclopedia of American Religions; Encyclopedia of Associations - International Organizations; Encyclopedia of Associations - National Organizations of the U.S.; Encyclopedia of Associations - Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U.S.; Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources; Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations; Gale Directory of Databases; Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media; Government Research Directory; Information Industry Directory;International Research Centers Directory; Law and Legal Information Directory; Market Share Reporter; National Faculty Directory; Publishers Directory; Research Centers Directory; Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies.
Gale Directory of Databases
See Gale Directory Library for access to Gale Directory of Databases
Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
See Gale Directory Library for access to Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is an online library of reference titles for multi-disciplinary research.
GalleryGuide.org
Search for art exhibitions, openings, shows, services, and more.
Gallica
Over 2 million digitized items from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners.
General One File
This general periodical database contains over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, over half of which are full text. The backfile extends nearly 30 years. Subjects include humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, politics and more.
Germans to the U.S.: 1850-1897
Index of German immigrants arriving in the Port of New York.
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.
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.
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.
Google Scholar
Search for scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Gordon's Photo Prices -- Only available in SASB Rooms 300 and 308
International coverage of photographs sold at auction from 1985 to the present.
Government Research Centers Directory
An online directory from publisher Gale.
GPO Access
A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free access to a wide array of databases and other online tools produced by the federal government. Includes the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register (1994- ), and published versions of bills (1993- ).
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
Founded in 1838, this cemetery was the place many famous New Yorkers who died during the second half of the 19th century were buried. Look for the search form under "Burial Inquiry."
GreenFILE
Abstracts and indexes articles on the environment with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling.
Griffith's Valuation
First full-scale valuation of property in Ireland published between 1847 and 1864. It allows researchers to locate 'occupants' to see who lived where.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia.
Grolier Online
Includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Guardian and Observer (1791-2003)
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
H-Net
International consortium of scholars and teachers for advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American Studies.
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.
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.
Hartford Courant (1764-1986)
Searchable full-text and page images from the archive of the Hartford Courant.
HathiTrust Digital Library
A collaborative repository of digital content from major research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
Health Reference Center Academic
Includes over 2800 journals and magazines, many of which are full text. It contains nursing and allied health journals, other medical journals, newsletters and consumer health magazines.
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.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
This collection represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Historical Abstracts
Abstracts of journal articles on world history since 1450, excluding U.S. and Canadian history, which is covered by America: History and Life.
Historical Census Browser
Provides population and economic census data for U.S. states and counties from the years 1790-1960.
Historical Map and Chart Collection
The Office of the Coast Survey's historical digital library allows users to search for and download maps and charts of the lands and waters of the United States dating back to the early 19th century.
Historical Statistics of the United States
This compendium of statistics provides quantitative, historical data about American social, economic and political conditions and development. The data is provided in both PDF and Excel formats. This is the online version of the 2006 print edition.
History Guide
Subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history with a focus on Anglo-American history and the history of Central and Western Europe.
Hoover's
Provides company and industry information on 43,000 private and public companies, and 600 industries.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Between 1715 and 2000, around 9.5 million pages for over 184,000 parliamentary papers were published. Since 2001, the number of papers has grown by approximately 4,000 for each parliamentary session. HCPP delivers searchable full text for each paper, along with a detailed subject index.
Humanities International Complete
This database includes all data from Humanities International Index™ (more than 2,200 journals and 2.8 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for nearly 1,200 journals.
HyperHistory Online
3,000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps.
ICON: International Coaltion on Newspapers
The International Coalition on Newspapers is a coordinated multi-institutional effort to increase the availability of international newspaper collections by improving both bibliographic and physical access to global newspaper collections.
Illustrated Incunable Short-title Catalogue (Illustrated ISTC), 2nd Ed.
Illustrated descriptions for every recorded edition published from movable type from 1450 to 1500.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
A unique visual archive of 19th century Victorian Britain, including illustrations and photographs of events ranging from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Boer war.
iLove Languages
Access to online dictionaries, language lessons, translation services, and other language-related Internet resources.
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Includes16,000 pages of text, 8,300 illustrations, numerous maps, and lesson plans, this exhibition documents 400 years of migration to, within and out of the United States
Independent
British national newspaper covering the U.K and the world.
Index of Christian Art
The Index of Christian art is a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects begun at Princeton University in 1917, the index catalogs primarily Christian art from early apostolic times to approximately 1400 A.D. The database contains a portion of the index's backfiles as well as all works cataloged since 1991.
Index to Jewish Periodicals
Index to Jewish Periodicals is the definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.
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.
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. Music for specific performing forces is easily retrievable, thus offering detailed repertory for performers, conductors, and directors of ensembles.
Index to the Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection
Provides access to over 25,000 titles available in the Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection.
Index to Yiddish Periodicals
An index to roughly 800 Eastern European Yiddish periodicals, many of which are in NYPL's collection. In English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
Information Please Almanac
Includes full-text of the Information Please Almanac as well as an online dictionary and an online encyclopedia.
Infoshare Online
Provides a wide range of data on the neighborhoods of New York City -- population, immigration, land use, public assistance, birth, death, hospitalization and much else.
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration
contains primary source correspondence, memoranda, reports and government documents including meeting records, country files, subject files, and administration files.
International Bibliography of Book Reviews
An interdisciplinary index to book reviews published in scholarly journals, primarily in the social sciences and the humanities, including many European journals.
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 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and more.
International Database
Provides demographic and socioeconomic statistics for 227 countries and areas of the world.
International Index for the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPA)
IIPA covers the subjects of dance, film, television, drama, recorded sound,theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. Contains over 172,013 records providing current and retrospective coverage, with citations dating back to 1864.
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Includes current and retrospective citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the U.S., Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.
International Index to Film Periodicals
Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) as part of the International Film Archive database, this cumulative index contains almost 230,000 citations to articles from academic and popular film journals. Full bibliographic descriptions and comprehensive subject headings are provided.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Indexes over 350 and provides full text for nearly 100 international music periodicals from more than twenty countries, with over 50 of the publications indexed exclusively in IIMP. IIMP is both current and retrospective with over 30,000 records dating from 1996 to the present and other records dating as far back as 1874.
International Index to Television Periodicals
This index contains circa 50,000 citations on television subjects from film and television periodicals. Since 2000, however, indexing related to television has been restricted to articles appearing in film journals and periodicals; periodicals relating solely to television are no longer indexed.
Internet Archives: Text Archives
Text Archive enables you to search and view the full-text of scanned books via the Web.
Internet Broadway Database
A definitive source for the facts on Broadway musicals and plays from Aristophanes to Ziegfeld. Includes number of performances, extensive credit information, theatres, characters, and more.
Internet Movie Database
Huge, fully-searchable database of film information, including credits, plot summaries, character names, movie ratings, year of release, running times, soundtracks, country of production, genres, production companies, distributors, special effects companies, reference literature, filming locations and movie trivia.
Internet Resources in Dance
Selected by librarians in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Internet Resources in Film
Selected by Librarians in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and the Dance and Drama Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Internet Resources in Music
Selected by librarians in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Internet Resources in Recorded Sound
Selected by librarians in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Internet Resources in Theatre
Selected by librarians in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and in the Dance and Drama Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Investext Plus
Search investment analyst's reports on companies & industries from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Search by company, industry, or keyword.
Italians to the U.S.: 1855-1900
Index of Italian immigrants arriving in the Port of New York.
JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)
JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world.
Jane Austen Information Page
Contains the author's novels, unfinished works, juvenilia, and miscellaneous fragments.
The Jazz Discography
The Jazz Discography is the world's largest and most complete source of information about jazz records and jazz recording sessions. This is an online subscription service that allows subscribers to access the most up-to-date version of the Jazz Discography database.
Jet Magazine
JET is an American weekly marketed toward African American readers, founded in 1951 by John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois.
Jewish Life in America c.1654-1954
A history of Jewish communities in America through essays, interactive maps, the American Jewish Year Book, and biographies.
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.
Kids Search
An interface that is designed especially for grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. The content from EBSCO Animals is included. Results can be easily sorted by magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
King James Bible
Provides full-text searching and browsing features.
Kroll Bond Ratings
As of August 2010, following the purchase of LACE Financial, Kroll Bond Ratings is recognized by the SEC as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization in competition with Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch.
Because of the relation to LACE, the KBR service includes ratings of more than 15000 bank holding companies, commercial and savings banks, savings and loans and credit unions, as well as corporate and sovereign bonds.
La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre
Spanish-language encyclopedia written from the Latin American perspective provides coverage of all curriculum-aligned topics so English Language Learners can conduct authentic research in their native language.
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Access to electronic resources in medieval studies worldwide.
Lands & Peoples
articles, almanacs, graphics and charts to help students explore the differences in the world’s lands and peoples.
LANE - Latin America North East Libraries Consortium
Provides information about the availability of Latin American research resources in the region.
LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center
A selective guide to Latin American internet resources organized by subject and country. Provides access to a wide variety of full-text resources.
Latin American Newspapers
This groundbreaking online collection provides 33 fully searchable Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Latin American Newstand
ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format.
Latino American Experience
Focused on the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present, this database features content from over 150 titles, an image file, timelines, primary and landmark documents.
LawHelp.Org
Provides information on free legal aid programs, by state.
Le Monde
Paris, France newspaper
LearningExpressLibrary
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.
Left Index
Topics covered include politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.
Leonard's Combined Price Index of Art Auctions -- Only available in SASB Room 300
Provides broad coverage of American auction houses, dealers and galleries.
Lexis Nexis Digital Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
Provides access to every published and unpublished hearings from 1824 to the present.
LGBT Life with Full Text
LGBT Life provides complete indexing and abstracting of content related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender studies in over 230 journals, magazines, and newspapers. LGBT Life also provides full text from a number of important sources including monographs and publications such as The Advocate, New York Blade, and Out.
Library Literature and Information Science Full Text
Provides indexing and abstracting of nearly 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals, and full-text coverage of over 160 journals.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The catalog of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Libweb: Library Servers via WWW
Links to libraries around the world.
Lipper Marketplace (Formerly known as Nelson's Marketplace)
Includes three directories: Nelson's Directory of Investment Managers which provides profiles of 2,000 institutional money managers and their 8,000 investment products. Company profiles may be saved individually in PDF format, printed, or saved to disk or USB flash drive. Also includes Nelson's Directory of Plan Sponsors and Nelson's Directory of Pension Fund Consultants- This database is not on all networked computers. Please see a staff person at the EIC desk to access this resource.
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.
Literature Criticism Online
Search a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres through a combined or individual search of a set of 10 literary series from Gale.
Literature Online
A searchable library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key secondary sources.
Literature Resource Center
Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video, and art.
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
First hand coverage of the grass-roots struggle against the racially restrictive housing covenants of the 1940s. Considered to be the major newspaper of the Black community in Los Angeles during the 20th century. The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.
Los Angeles Times
Full text coverage of the Los Angeles Times, from December 4th, 1996-present.
Los Angeles Times (1881-1988)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Los Angeles Times archive.
LRS
LRS (NY State Legislative Retrieval System) provides authoritative access to current NY State legislation and calendars, committees, budget bills, etc. For access, please ask a staff member at SIBL's Electronic Information Center.
Lugt's Repertoire Online
Lugt's Repertoire Online is an online database and is one of the most widely consulted art historical reference works. Lugt's Repertoire Online lists more than 100,000 art sales catalogues from libraries in Europe and the USA.
lynda.com
An online learning platform that helps anyone learn software, design, and business skills.
Making of America (Cornell University Site)
Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
Making of America (University of Michigan Site)
Materials accessible here are University of Michigan Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
Mango Languages
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 38 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided. Download the mobile app.
Map Collection, Perry-Castaneda
Displays selected digitized images from the printed map collection housed at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mapping the Epidemic : HIV/AIDS Atlas
The National HIV/AIDS Atlas provides a tool to the public, health care professionals, policy makers and elected officials to access and map local, state and national data in order to see how HIV/AIDS is impacting their community.
Market Research Monitor (Euromonitor International)
This database interface integrates the content of Market Research Monitor and World Lifestyles. Passport interface includes a 7 year archive of more than 850 consumer and retail reports plus 600 major market profiles. Access to up-to-date global consumer market research, trends, market background, market forecasts, analysis and market size data, forecasts, and market shares. International and U.S. coverage.
Market Research.com Academic
Full-text service of market research reports on many topics. Includes more than 40,000 market intelligence publications from 350 publishers worldwide.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web
Basic biographical information on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals worldwide from all fields of endeavor.
Martindale.com
An online directory of lawyers and law firms around the world.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
Mayer International Auction Records -- Only available in SASB Room 300
Lists items that sold at auction from 1987 to 1997.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
MEDLINEplus
Allows users to search about specific conditions using dictionaries, MEDLINE, PUBMED and other resources.
Menu Collection Database
The database contains 26,000 records describing individual menus. Menus are available in the Rare Book Division.
Mergent \ Moody's Digitized Manuals
Dating back to 1909, the Manual collection encompasses year by year company information including financials, a detailed textual business and history description, listings of officers and directors, stock and dividend information, listings of subsidiaries and more.
Mergent Horizon
Mergent Horizon is an online research application that includes the most comprehensive database of US-traded companies organized by the goods and services from which they derive their revenues as well as their key business relationships.
MergentOnline
Information on more than 21,000 US and international companies, including 10,000 NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchange companies. All SEC (EDGAR) filings and domestic and international annual reports are included.
MetOpera Database
"Search through this up-to-date chronicle of every Metropolitan Opera performance since 1883 for complete information on all performers, operas and ballets at the Met...Includes photos, designs, reviews, statistics, and chapters on great events in Met history." Updated five days a week during the opera season.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Watsonline Catalog
Search the online catalog of the Thomas J. Watson Library and the other libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Works of Art
Collection database, curatorial departments, and exhibitions.
Middle Search Plus
Provides full text access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students.
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.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes scholarship in world literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, film, linguistics, and folklore.
Modern Language Association Language map
The Modern Language Association's interactive map of languages spoken throughout the United States.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Access Morningstar financial reports, screening, analyst reports and porfolio screening. Use the Help & Education link to access information about this database and online course modules on investing.
Movie Review Query Engine
Provides links to reviews of 48,000+ films, both historical and contemporary, from websites, newspapers, and magazines across the United States and Canada.
Multilingual Consumer Health Information
Consumer health information in a variety of languages, from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal
Explore over 60,000 images of New York City.
Music Index Online
The Music Index Online edition features over 1.4 million records. The searchable database is updated quarterly with about 100,000 new records added annually.
Music Opera Dance and Drama in Asia, the Pacific and North America
A directory or arts organizations in North America, Asia and the Pacific.
Musical America
The electronic version of Musical America. Includes a directory.
Nation Archive (1865-present)
The archive contains PDF page images and searchable text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865 to the present.
National Archives (UK government's official archive)
The United Kingdom's central advisory body on archives and manuscripts relating to British history.
National Archives and Records Administration (United States)
An independent Federal agency that preserves U.S. historical documents and oversees the management of all Federal records.
National Atlas of the United States
Nationalatlas.gov is the one of the most complete sources of national maps and geographic information for the United States. It contains an online map maker, dynamic maps, printable maps, articles, free GIS data, and additional resources for geographic information about the United States.
National Newspaper Index (1977-present)
Indexing of America's top newspapers in one search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post.
National Newspapers Premier (ProQuest)
Searchable full text from the 1980's to the present of over 25 local, regional and national newspapers including the the New York Daily News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.
National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Search
Search more than 80,000 portrait records from the Catalog of American Portraits.
Naturalization Index to New York Petitions, 1792-1989
Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. This database contains an index to the petitions for naturalization filed in various federal, state and local courts in New York City.
Naturalization index to records at the Kings County Clerk's Office, 1907-1924
Index to the Kings County (Brooklyn) naturalization records located in the Kings County Clerk's Office.
Naturalization Indexes for Greater New York
Indexes to naturalization records of the Eastern District (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau, Suffolk) 1865-1957, the Southern District (Manhattan, Bronx, Westchester) 1824-1959, Bronx County Supreme Court 1914-1952, Queens County Clerk's Office, 1906-1957, Nassau County 1899-1989, Suffolk County 1865-1981, and Military Naturalizations for the New York Tri-State Area.
Naturalization Petition Index at the New York County Supreme Court, 1907-1924
Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection.
Nature (1869-present)
Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. Nature also provides news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
Nelson's Marketplace
Profiles of 2,000 institutional money managers and their 8,000 investment products.
New Book of Knowledge
An online version of the print encyclopedia for children plus NBK News, weekly current events stories plus special features geared especially for young students.
The New Book of Popular Science
Covers the vast worlds of science, technology, and medicine with curriculum-aligned articles and a rich array of photos, maps, and technical illustrations that help clarify scientific processes.
New Book of Popular Science (for students)
A science encyclopedia with over 400 articles geared to student readers.
New England Journal of Medicine
Full text issues in biomedical science and clinical practice from 1812-present.
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
Searchable full-text and page images of the leading Black newspaper of the 20th century.
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.
New York City Birth Index (1880-1909)
A searchable database of the birth indexes for all 5 boroughs of New York City.
New York City Census FactFinder
Department of City Planning reference collection including access to New York City population information from the 2000 U.S. Census.
New York City Death Index (1862-1948)
A searchable database of the death indexes for Manhattan (1868-1894), Brooklyn (1862-1897) and All Boroughs (1898-1948).
New York City Digital Collection of Historical Books
A subset of the Making of America digital library (the University of Michigan site), this collection consists of 335 volumes focusing on New York City, including several editions of the Directory of social and health agencies of New York City. The
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
The NYC agency that is responsible for identifying and designating the city's landmarks and historic districts. Many of their publications are available for download especially the more recnt ones.
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Designation Reports
The Neighborhood Preservation Center and Landmarks Preservation Commission have joined together to provide free online access to Landmark designation reports. Designation reports explain the architectural, historical or cultural significance of an individual landmark or historic district.
New York City Marriages: Brides Index (1866?-1937)
A searchable database of the brides indexes for Manhattan 1866-1937; Kings County (Brooklyn) 1871-1918; 1928-1937; Bronx 1899-1937; Queens 1904-1937; Richmond (Staten Island) 1898-1937.
New York City Marriages: Grooms Index (1864?-1937)
A searchable database of the groom indexes for Brooklyn, 1864-1907, Manhattan, 1866-1907, Staten Island, 1898-1907, and All Boroughs,1908-1937.
New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery
This gallery is your entry point into the vast visual holdings of NYC's municipal government's archives. Provides free access to over 870,000 items including photographs, maps, motion-pictures and audio recordings.
New York City Property Mapping Information
LotInfo Pro provides access to lot information data including building footprints and dimensions, assessed and sale valuation and ownership.
New York City Views
Images of New York City from the New York Public Library's Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. Most collections search best by street and cross street.
New York Daily News (1997 - present)
Full text of the New York Daily News, from October 14th, 1997-present.
New York Death Notices, 1801-1890
Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under the Birth, Marriage & Death category - New York Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890. Digitized version of Gertrude A. Barber's extracts of deaths recorded in the "Brooklyn Eagle" (1841-1890) and the "New York Evening Post" (1801-1890).
New York Emigrant Savings Bank, 1850-1883
Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. The Emigrant Savings Bank was established in 1850 by members of the Irish Emigrant Society. The bank kept records on depositors and borrowers that provide the name of the depositor, account date, and year and place of birth, if given.
New York Herald (1840-1865)
Searchable full-text and page images from the New York Herald, 1840-1865, through the ProQuest Civil War Era database.
New York Heritage.org
New York Heritage.org is a portal to free digital collections about New York State's people, places, and institutions contributed by libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.
New York Magazine
New York Magazine covers, analyzes, comments on and defines the news, culture, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion and personalities that drive New York City. New York Magazine, founded in April 1968, reaches 1.6 million readers each week and is published by New York Media Holdings, LLC.
New York Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1880
Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under the Birth, Marriage & Death category. Digitized version of Gertrude A. Barber's extracts of marriages recorded in the "Brooklyn Eagle" (1841-1880) and the "New York Evening Post" (1801-1837).
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. Index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1820-1957. In addition, the names found in the index are linked to actual images of the passenger manifests.
New York Real Estate Brochure Collection (1920-1970s)
A resource for researching New York City apartment buildings, this collection can be browsed or searched by address, building name, neighborhood, architect, and owner/agent.
New York Review of Books (NYRB)
The online archive of the biweekly book review and journal featuring articles on literature, culture and current affairs.
New York State Census 1905/15/25 - Obtaining AD/ED
The 1905/15/25 New York State census records are arranged by Assembly District (AD) and Election District (ED) and are only available on microfilm. In order to locate a person, you first need to know their address and then you need to convert that address into AD/ED. This website will help you obtain the AD/ED numbers.
New York State County Histories
Full-text searchable 19th century histories of counties in all of New York state.
New York State DOH Department of Professional Medical Conduct
Contains public documents regarding professional misconduct and discipline taken.
New York State Historical Literature
A digital collection of hundreds of pamphlets and monographs chosen from Cornell University Library's extensive collection of New York State Literature.
New York State Literary Website
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.
New York State Newspapers
A collection of major New York State newspapers, available in full-text.
New York State Physician Profile
Profiles of all the doctors of medicine and osteopathy who are registered to practice in New York State.
New York State Tax Forms
You can find all forms and instructions that were previously printed for income tax returns.
New York State Unit History Project
Digital library of New York State military unit histories including Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and Korean War.
New York Times (1851-2008) w/ Index
Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive with the option to search by subject headings (index covers 1851-1993).
New York Times (1980-present)
Full-text articles from The New York Times.
New York Tribune (1841-1922)
The New York Tribune (1841-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
New York Tribune Index, 1875-1906
Indexing provided by 19th Century Masterfile. Look for New York Daily Tribune Index, 1875-1906.
Newsday (1940-1984)
Historical coverage from Newsday, the Long Island and New York City News Source.
Newsletters in Print
A directory of newsletters in the United States, covering many subjects. See Gale Directory Library for access to Newsletters in Print.
NewsLink
Links to Websites of media sources, including newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and publishers
Newspaper Indexes, Archives & Morgues
Contains links to national and international newspaper archives and indexes available over the Internet.
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts.
Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide
A scholarly e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts.
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)
A guide to the latest health information and resources. Acceso Computarizado a la Salud de Nueva York (NOAH, siglas en inglés) le proporciona al consumidor información sobre la salud en inglés y en español.
Nobel Prizes and Laureates
Search the Nobel e-Museum for information about the prize and past winners.
North American Jewish Data Bank
The Data Bank archives and makes available electronically questionnaires, reports and data files from the National Jewish Population Surveys of 1971, 1990 and 2000-01 as well as provides access to other national Jewish population reports, Jewish population statistics and approximately 200 local Jewish community studies from the major Jewish communities in North America.
NUCMC
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea
Una enciclopedia en el idioma español que contiene aproximadamente quince mil artículos con más de seis mil photos.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
This database was previously offered through NOVEL, but is no longer available as a free resource.
NYCdata
NYCData is a compendium of factual data organized by 16 topics ranging from population and culture to historical labor force figures and consumer prices.
NYCity Map Portal
Through a partnership between the Municipal Art Society and the City of New York, users can access an enhanced New York City Map Portal for detailed maps, building and property data, subway information, community statistics and more.
NYPL Catalog
The online catalog for the The New York Public Library.
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.
OASIS
Access an interactive mapping system for New York City, supplemented by aerial photography, building and property data, environmental information, and data analysis tools.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Information on hundreds of different types of jobs and training or education needed.
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
Old Maps Online
An easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world, it allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search.
One Step by Stephen Morse
Easy to use search forms for a wide variety of genealogical resources including Passengers Lists, New York State Census AD/ED finder, and much more.
One Step Census Locators (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940)
Search for Enumeration Districts (EDs) by address for large cities including New York.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints contains nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.
ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
A collection of Medieval Studies resources on the Internet
Ordnance Survey, Ireland, Mapping Agency historic mapping
Between 1829 and 1842 Ordnance Survey Ireland completed the first ever large-scale survey of an entire country. This includes that survey and other mapping data.
Origins.Net
Search over 80 million British and Irish genealogy records spanning over eight centuries including the Griffith's Valuation of Ireland, pre-1858 English wills and probate documents, and some census and vital records.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online offers users the ability to access the vast content of Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms all in one interface.
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Oxford Bibliographies Online is a library of discipline-based subject modules designed to help researchers find reliable sources of information for their research.
Oxford Classical Dictionary
The online version of The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Contains over 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times through the most recent years.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED), 2nd Edition
The online edition of the 20-volume dictionary.
Oxford Music Online
A gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. Contains the Grove Music Online, as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
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.
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.
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition. An extensive and authoritative economics reference resource, which contains articles by the world’s leading economists.
Palmer List of Merchant Vessels
This list consists of descriptions of historical merchant vessels including photographs whenever possible.
Panjiva
Panjiva is an online resource for sourcing executives to gain knowledge about suppliers and manufacturers around the world. *This resources requires that users login.
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
Digital library site devoted to Spanish exploration and settlement in North America from the 15th to the early 19th centuries.
Past Masters - Philosophy
A searchable database that contains scholarly texts by major western philosophers.
Patents Searching
Searchable full text and bibliographic patent databases from the US Patent and Trademark Office, which covers the period from 1 January 1976 to the most recent weekly issue date. The full text database also includes links to full page images. This site is a resource for application and general information about patents.
Patrologia Latina
The electronic version of the complete set Jacques-Paul Migne's collection of the works of the Church Fathers.
People's Daily
The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. With current circulation of 3 million, it offers the Chinese government's policies as well as selective national and international news. Provides full-text coverage of daily issues between 1946 to 2005.
Performing Arts Yearbook for Europe
Directory of Performing Arts organizations in Europe, including the fields of music, dance, theatre and puppetry. Searchable by name or location.
Periodicals Archive Online
An interdisciplinary digital archive of hundreds of full text journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Periodicals Index Online
An interdisciplinary and international index to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Over 6,000 journals are included.
Perseus Digital Library
An online collection of textual and visual materials illustrating the Archaic and Classical Greek world.
PERSI - The PERiodical Source Index
A subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals since 1800.
Philosopher's Index
Indexes and abstracts the literature on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, law, religion and science from periodicals, monographs, and other documents.
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.
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
Plunkett Research Online
Industry trends, market research and trends organized in 32 industry research centers. Find statistics, industry data, company contacts, organizations, market trends and more. Also, see the new research center for job seekers. ** Please remember to click to LOG OUT when done, don't just switch to another database. The library has a limited number of licenses for this database and if you do not log out other library users will not be able to access.
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.
Popular Science
Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.
Population Index
A searchable database of annotated citations from books, journals, working papers, dissertations, and bibliographies in the field of demographics and population
PressDisplay
Provides access to current newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. Includes over 1,000 U.S. and international titles.
Prevention Magazine
Prevention is the #1 healthy lifestyle magazine brand and the 10th largest magazine in the nation, with more than 11 million readers. The top online health magazine destination, Prevention.com has 1.6 million unique visitors each month.
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division's online catalog.
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Allows patron to search for catalog records of prints and photographs held by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York Public Library. Researchers can tailor their searches by various categories including the name of the artist, date, and media. The catalog is updated regularly.
Private School Review
Provides profiles of private elementary day schools & high schools
Proceedings of the Old Bailey
The Old Bailey was the central criminal court in London, England. This database makes available a fully searchable, digitized collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings, which contains 197,745 criminal trials
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.
Promt
Magazine and newspaper index for companies and industries focusing on markets and products around the world.
ProQuest Civil War Era (1840-1865)
Combines complete runs of eight newspaper titles, covering 1840-1865, as well as nearly 2,000 pamphlets covering a vast range of Civil War Era research topics.
ProQuest Congressional Publications (1789 - present)
Full text and indexing of historic and current congressional publications: finding aids, a bill tracking service, full text of public laws and other research materials. Since Congress is interested in all public policy, social, and economic issues, the database is an effective source for general research in many academic disciplines, in addition to research related to specific legislative proposals and laws.
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Abstracts from 1980 - present.
ProQuest Historical African American Newspapers
Simultaneous search of the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).
ProQuest Historical Database
Searchable full-text and page images of all ProQuest Historical databases, which includes major U.S. newspapers from across the country and thousands of magazine articles published from 1740 to 1940.
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.
PsycARTICLES
From the American Psychological Association (APA), a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
Psychoanalytic Literature Jourlit/Bookrev Database
A searchable index to journals, books, and book reviews in the field of psychoanalysis
PsycINFO
Indexes literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Publishers Directory
A directory of United States and Canadian publishers. See Gale Directory Library for access to Publishers Directory.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites.
PubWEST
Search patents using the public version of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Pulitzer Prizes
A Website 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.
Queens Library Catalog
The catalog for the Queens Public Library.
Rambi: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
A bibliography of articles on Jewish studies in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.
Readers' Guide Abstracts
Contains comprehensive indexing and abstracting for more than 300 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.
Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
Indexes the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982.
Reed Design Registry: Directory of US Architecture Firms (formerly ProFile)
Search for architecture firms and businesses in the United States.
Reference USA
Provides addresses, sales information, executives, for over 11 million U.S.
Regents Exam Prep Center
Created by the Oswego City School District, this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant.
Regional Business News (formerly Business News Wire)
Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Business News Wire is now called "Regional Business News"
Regional One Source
Statistical reference source provides access to U.S. data from 29 top-level subjects to 39,000 data items.
Renaissance Dante in Print
An online exhibition of Renaissance editions of Dante's works.
Research Centers Directory
A directory of reseach centers, covering all subjects and disciplines.
Resources for Children with Special Needs
Provides information about programs and services for children birth to 21 with disabilities and other special needs in the NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. It includes national organizations and residential programs such as camps and schools that serve children from New York City
RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature
The online version of the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1969-present) is a continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 202 languages from 3,700 journals.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals: 1800-1950
An index of specialized music journals, daily newspapers, articles in literary periodicals, theatrical journals and magazines, as well as engravings and lithographs in the illustrated press.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
Documents the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.
Romantic Circles: Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, and their Contemporaries
A Website that provides scholarly resources for the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
Russian National Bibliography
Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps.
Russians to the U.S.: 1834-1897
Index of Russian immigrants arriving in the Port of New York.
San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922)
The San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
Access to large-scale maps for towns and cities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Scholarly Societies
Links to Websites of scholarly societies all over the world.
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
This resource provides a core collection of primary and secondary resources in Black Studies, including full-text articles, book chapters, dissertations, reference materials, timelines, images and multimedia.
Science Direct
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Apart from online eBooks, Reference Works, Handbooks and Book Series ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,500 titles. A large backfile of pre-1995 articles extends the reach of the database back to the first issues of many journals.
Science Magazine
International weekly science journal, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Science Online
This database covers fields of Animal Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, General Science, Genetics and Cell Biology, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, Life Science, Marine Science, Physical Science, Physics, Space & Astronomy, and Weather & Climate.
Science.gov
Science.gov is a gateway to government science information and research results. Currently in its fifth generation, Science.gov provides a search of over 36 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to 1,850+ scientific Websites.
The Scientist
The Scientist reports on and analyzes the issues and events that impact the world of life scientists. Articles cover a variety of topics such as vaccines on trial, reducing malaria to its constituent parts, and survival in the microfluidic market.
Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot
From 1831 through 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a "Missing Friends" column with advertisements from people looking for "lost" friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This collection of 31,711 records is available here as a searchable online database.
Searchasaurus [grades 1-3]
Full-text articles from over 80 magazines and pamphlets appropriate for children in grades 1-3. Also includes the content from EBSCO Animals.
Shakespeare, Editions and Adaptations
Contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6.
SimplyMap
Simply Map includes thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables.
SIRIS: Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
Provides access to Smithsonian's library catalogs, archival resources, bibliographies and more.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
A historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way.
Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu
The Center for Research Libraries and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) present a collection of 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu.
Small Business Resource Center
Covers major areas of starting and operating a business. Includes sample business plans, directories, including the Encylopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management, and more.
Smithsonian Art Inventories
Locate works by an artist and institutions owning the artist’s works
Social Security Death Index
An index to basic information about persons with Social Security numbers whose deaths have been reported to the Social Security Administration.
Social Services Abstracts
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare and community development.
SOCIndex
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Song Index
Index to song titles and the books that contain the sheet music for those songs.
SONIC: Sound Online Inventory and Catalog
Inventory and catalog of a large selection of recordings (music and spoken word, including radio) from the Recorded Sound Section of the Library of Congress
Soundex Converter
"The soundex system is a method of indexing names in the 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 US Censuses."
SourceOECD
SourceOECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This library comprises 20 book collections by theme, containing all of the OECD monographs and reports, 24 periodicals, a reference title, and the OECD statistical databases.
South Asian Newspapers
Provides online access to a select group of South Asian newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sports Business Research Network
Locate statistical market research data for 63 sports, 85 product categories, plus full-text articles and reports in more than 10 leading trade publications covering U.S. and international sports marketing and sporting goods business.
SRDS
Comprehensive database of media and marketing information. Offers coverage of traditional media--such as magazines, newspapers, television and radio--as well as today's alternative marketing opportunities such as online, out-of-home and direct marketing. Catalogs more than 60,000 media properties in all.
Standard and Poor's Net Advantage
Includes Standard & Poor's Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund Reports, The Outlook, Standard & Poor's Register, Stock Guide, and Standard & Poor's Stock Reports.
Statistical Insight
Indexes and abstracts statistical sources from government and nongovernment agencies. Some graphs are available.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (SWA) is an international abstracting service designed to meet the information needs of those working, teaching, studying or researching into any of the main areas of women's studies.
The Sunday Times, 1822-2006
Full-text archive of the London Sunday Times from its first issue in 1822 until 2006.
Tax Forms -- IRS Website
Access the IRS website for access to tax forms and instructions.
Telephone Directories (Infobel.com)
Search for a telephone number using online versions of international yellow pages, white pages, business directories, and reverse directories.
Telephone Directories (Numberway.com)
Search for a telephone number using online versions of international yellow pages, white pages, business directories, and reverse directories.
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.
Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University
Provides abstracts of network news broadcasts.
Testaments to the Holocaust
Documents and rare printed materials from the Wiener Library, London, this collection offers fully searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, along with photographs, propaganda materials such as school text books, limited circulation publications and rare serials, detailing the domestic policies of Nazi Germany, and Jewish life in Germany.
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.
Thomas Global
Thomas Global, now titled "Solusource" is a global directory of industrial companies, products and suppliers.
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
Provides full-text access to the Congressional Record, bills, public and private laws, roll call votes, and schedules of both houses.
ThomasNet
Directory of manufacturers and distributors. US & Canada. Includes links to product catalogs and CAD drawings.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
A rich research and teaching tool for students and scholars allowing them to trace the views of influential opinion makers, the response of their contemporaries, the controversies and debates of the day.
Times of London Archive (1785-2006)
Historical archive of The London Times from 1785-2006.
TOL: Transitions Online
Provides access to TOL, a news magazine that covers Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.
Torrossa
Torrossa includes the content of Casalini's Editoria Italiana Online, Edición Española Online, EIO-Fabrizio Serra E-Journal, Franco Angeli Riviste E-journal, and Biblioteca Italiana Zanichelli collections.
Trademark Electronic Search System (Tess)
Searchable trademark database from the US Patent and Trademark Office, which includes the full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks. This site is a resource for application and general information about trademarks.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
This site provides access to four databases (Voyages, Estimates, Images, and African Names) with "information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, enslaved peoples, slave traders and owners, and trading routes.
TrueFlix
TrueFlix is an online resource that helps students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of subject-area content, and cultivate 21st Century skills through the inquiry process.
TumbleBooks
Animated, talking picture books. Story books, puzzles and games, audiobooks, and books in other languages are all offered through the NYPL site.
Twayne's Authors Series
Contains the full text of frequently-used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors. *Twayne's Authors Series is now available via the Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook platform.
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.
U. S. Census Bureau
Provides in-depth U.S. census data.
U.S. History in Context
Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Directory of international magazines, journals, annuals, irregular publications, and newspapers.
Union List of Artists Names
Contains biographical information about artists and architects, including variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.
United Nations Documents and Publications Index
UN materials searchable by subject, session, document number, UN sales number, title and country.
United Nations Official Documents System (ODS)
ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.
United Nations Treaty Series
Collection of over 34,000 treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946
United States Copyright Office
Links to general information and publications about copyright and the copyrighting process.
United States Exports History: Historical Summary
U.S. Bureau of the Census annual summaries of export shipments from 1991-1995.
United States Exports of Merchandise
From the Bureau of the Census, International Harmonized System, Commodity Classification and Harmonized Tariff Schedules by country and by customs district. Monthly and annual summaries.
United States Government Manual
Contains comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the federal government.
United States Government Printing Office
Provides free electronic access to a catalog of products published by the Federal Government.
United States Imports History: Historical Summary
From the U.S. Bureau of the Census: Annual import statistics for the years 1991 - 1995.
United States Imports of Merchandise
From the Bureau of the Census, International Harmonized System, Commodity Classification and Harmonized Tariff Schedules by country and by customs district. Monthly and annual summaries.
United States Postal Service
Provides acccess to publications and products including a ZIP code finder, post office locator, forms, tracking and confirmation, and a rate calculator.
United States State Department: Major Publications
Provides access to publications of the US State Department prior to January 21, 2001.
Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography
Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps.
Universities Worldwide
Search home pages of colleges and universities.
University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO)
University Press Scholarship Online offers full text of over 7,000 academic monographs in 21 subject areas covering the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and law from six leading university presses.
USA Trade Online
Statistical database. Provides official exports and imports data on more than 17,000 commodities. Reveals what merchandise is being shipped, where it is being shipped, and how much it is worth. Includes quantity and value of exports and imports by 2-, 4-, 6-, and 10 digit Harmonized System codes plus the total quantity and value of exports and imports for more than 250 countries and each customs district.
Note: This database is not accessible on from all pcs, but from a stand alone pc at SIBL. A password is necessary to access-please ask an EIC staff member who can log you in.
USGS Map Locator
An easy to use search tool from the U.S. Geological Survey that allows users to locate and download current and historical topographic maps of the United States, dating from the late 19th century to the present.
Value Line Research Center
On-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
Victoria & Albert Museum
British museum of art & design has a website full of links, wonderful exhibitions and educational programs showcasing their own historical collections and contemporary designers work.
Victorian Women Writers Project
A full-text library of works by British women writers of the nineteenth century.
Virtual Gramophone/Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
The Virtual Gramophone/Canadian Historical Sound Recordings is a multimedia Website devoted to the first half-century of recorded sound in Canada.
Vital Records Information
This site explains how to obtain vital records (such as birth certificates, death records, marriage licenses) from each state, territory and county of the United States.
The Vogue Archive
Voltaire Electronique -- Only available in SASB Room 315
Includes all of Voltaire's literary works, searchable by keyword, title, literary form, and date of edition.
Wall Street Journal (1889-1995)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Wall Street Journal archive.
Wall Street Journal, 1984-present
Full text of the Wall Street Journal, 1984-present.
The Wall Street Transcript
Full-text access to the weekly publication including interviews with analysts and WST profiles of selected industry sectors. Archive back to 1997.
War of the Rebellion: Compilation of the Official Records
Contains the full-text of all 128 volumes of The Official records of the Union and Confederate armies, originally published between 1881-1901.
Washington Post (1877-1996)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Washington Post archive.
Washington Post (1988-present)
Full-text articles from the Washington Post.
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.
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
Search the complete dictionary published in 1961 and subsequent updates.
Westchester County Archives
A database of public records of Westchester County, New York from 1680 to the present.
WestlawNext Patron Access
WestlawNext Patron Access is an online legal research service designed especially for patron use in government law and public libraries.
What Do I Read Next?
Suggests new fiction and nonfiction titles to read.
William Blake Archive
Provide access to major works of visual and literary art by William Blake.
Women's Wear Daily (WWD) Online
The electronic version of the fashion industry's daily news source.
World Biographical Information System (WBIS) Online
Contains short biographical information on millions of people worldwide from the 8th century B.C. to the present.
World Book Online Reference Center
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps and more.
World Buddhist Directory
Directory of Buddhist organizations throughout the world.
World Factbook
Covers the following for countries around the world: maps, current issues, history, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
World History in Context
From antiquity to the present day, search a broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents that cover the events, movements, and individuals that have shaped world history.
World Newspaper Archive
World Newspaper Archive includes historical newspapers published in Africa, Europe, Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other regions, this expansive resource can be cross-searched with America's Historical Newspapers for unprecedented coverage of the people, cultures, issues and events that have shaped world history.
World Shakespeare Bibliography
Provides annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.
WorldCat -- OCLC
Search for materials held in libraries around the world.
WorldCat.org
Free access to the OCLC WorldCat catalog, which searches many libraries at once. Look for books, music, videos and more and then locate it in a library nearby.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes journals covering political science and related fields.
Wright American Fiction
Provides electronic, full-text access to almost every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875.
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present.
Your Dictionary
Provides access to language and language-related products and services on the Web.
Zephyr
Provides information about mergers and acquisitions, IPO's, joint ventures and private equity deals.
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