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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. more info
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1 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. more info
1 Step Census Locators (1910, 1920, 1930)
Search for Enumeration Districts by address for large cities including New York. more info
19th Century Masterfile
Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents published in the 19th century. more info
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Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. more info
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Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals
Supplements the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. more info
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AccessUN
Index, articles and full-text database of United Nations documents covering 1998-2003. more info
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AHDS (Arts & Humanities Data Service)/Performing Arts
Searchable collection of online digital resources in the performing arts, mostly from Britain. more info
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.
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Alt HealthWatch EBSCO
Focus on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
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Alternative Press Index
Indexes and abstracts alternative, radical, and leftist publications. more info
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Alternative Press Index Archive
Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change. more info
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America: History and Life
Indexes the scholarly literature of the history and culture of Canada and the United States from prehistoric times to the present. more info
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American Women's History
Provides direct access to thousand of entries—biographies, historical and topical entries, speeches, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and photographs—that are essential to understanding the experiences of American women throughout our nation’s history.
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AncestorsOnBoard.com
Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1890-1960 (work in progress). View index for free but you must pay to view information on passenger lists. more info
Ancestry Library Edition
Access to more than 5 billion names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and UK & Ireland records. Library version of Ancestry.com. more info
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Ancient & Medieval History Online
This database provides a balanced, global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient centers of civilization—Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia, spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE.
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Archives USA
Provides information and detailed indexing to manuscript collections from over 5,000 U.S. repositories. more info
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ArchNet -- Archaeology
Indexes resources in archaeology and anthropology on the Internet. more info
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. more info
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. more info
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Art Index Retrospective
Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984. more info
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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. more info
ARTbibliographies Modern
Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements. more info
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Artfact - Only available in HSSL 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. more info
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes articles and provides cited references found in over 1,130 journals in a wide variety of arts and humanities subjects. more info
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ATLA Religion Databases
Contains citations to articles, books, theses, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology. more info
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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. more info
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Bibliography of the Hebrew Book
Complete bibliography of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino printed books, 1469-1960. more info
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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. more info
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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. more info
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Biography Index
Indexes English-language biographical material appearing in books, magazines, and selected newspapers. more info
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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. more info
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Book Review Digest Retrospective
Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. more info
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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. more info
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Business & Company Resource Center
Includes company profiles, executives, mergers & acquisitions,ticker symbols,news & magazine articles, company histories and chronologies, financials, balance sheets, and more. more info
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Business Source Premier EBSCO
Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more more info
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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. more info
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Castle Garden Immigration Center, 1830-1892
Index of more than 10 million immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1830-1892. Searching via S. Morse's One Step Search Form. more info
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. more info
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Census: State and County Quick Facts
Tables of data from various Census Bureau programs, including profiles at national, state, and county levels. more info
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. more info
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Cimorelli's Ship Information
Arrival dates and names of passenger ships which arrived at U.S. ports. This is not a database of passenger names but of ships. more info
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Contains basic facts about servicemen who served during the Civil War and regimental histories. more info
Columbia Earthscape
Resource that connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions. Selected full text resources on earth-systems science and impacts on public policy. more info
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Compendex® including 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. more info
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Congressional Indexes 1789-1969
Includes U.S. House and Senate documents and reports, committee hearings, unpublished hearings, and commitee prints. more info
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Congressional Universe
Provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. more info
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Dance Heritage Coalition
This site is a tutorial for in-depth dance research, focusing on primary sources available in archives and research libraries. Also provides access to finding aids for archival collections in several repositories, including New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, Ohio State University, and the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum. more info
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. more info
Design and Applied Arts Index
International index to design and craft journals. more info
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Digital South Asia Library
On-line information about contemporary and historical South Asia – including full-text documents, statistical data, electronic images, cartographic representations, and pedagogical resources for language instruction. more info
Dissertation Abstracts
see Proquest Dissertations and Theses
EBSCO Primary Search
Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
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EBSCOhost
Abstracts and full-text of a wide variety of publications. more info
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EconLit
Indexes and abstracts international literature on economics. Also includes the full-text for more than 480 journals. more info
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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. more info
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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. more info
Ellis Island: Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step
An enhanced search of the Ellis Island Database (1892-1924). more info
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. more info
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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. more info
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.
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ERIC (EBSCO)
U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. more info
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ERIC Document Reproduction Service
From the U.S. Department of Education, ready access to documents in the education field. more info
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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.
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Faber Poetry Library
Contains the works of 42 poets comprising 124 volumes of poetry.
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Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)
Includes content from more than 20,000 news sources, including newspapers, TV transcripts, newswires, and business magazines. more info
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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. more info
FamilySearch Record Search (Pilot)
Search indexed records for your ancestors worldwide. Under development. New content added monthly. more info
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. more info
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Film & Television Literature Index
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. more info
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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. more info
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Film Literature Index
Film Literature Index annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries and 200 other scholarly and popular periodicals.
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Food Science and Technology Abstracts
Locate articles in over 1,800 journals as well as patents, standards, conference proceedings, research reports, and legislation. Includes food processing, composition, basic food science, hygiene, economics, processing, packaging, and additives. more info
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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. more info
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George Eastman House Catalog
Photographers, collections, and exhibition catalogs can be searched in this extensive index. more info
Germans to the U.S.: 1850-1897
Index of German immigrants arriving in the Port of New York. more info
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. more info
Gordon's Photo Prices -- Only available in HSSL Rooms 300 and 308
International coverage of photographs sold at auction from 1985 to the present. more info
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Gordon's Print Prices -- Only available in HSSL Rooms 300 and 308
International coverage of prints sold at auction from 1985 to the present. more info
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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- ). more info
GreenFILE
Abstracts and indexes articles on the environment with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling. more info
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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. It is still an operating cemetery with approximately 600,000 graves. Look for the search form under “Burial Inquiry.” more info
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American Studies. more info
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. more info
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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. more info
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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Provides access to medical, health, and wellness information, including full-text magazines, journals, pamphlets, as well as "Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine".
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Health Source: Consumer Edition EBSCO
Full text for journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. more info
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition EBSCO
Includes scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. more info
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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. more info
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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. more info
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. more info
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H-Net
International consortium of scholars and teachers for advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. more info
Humanities Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals, including scholarly journals, in the diverse subject areas of the humanities.
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Index to Art in Canada to 1930
An index to works of art listed in Canadian exhibition, auction and collection catalogues. more info
Index to Jewish Periodicals
This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. more info
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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. more info
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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. more info
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Index Translationum
Contains information on books translated and published in about a hundred of UNESCO's member states since 1979 in all disciplines. more info
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 periodical titles and more than 50 books & monographs. more info
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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. more info
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International Index to Black Periodicals
see Black Studies Center
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. more info
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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. more info
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International Index to Television Periodicals
Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives as part of the International Film Archive database, 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. more info
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Internet Resources in Dance
Selected by librarians in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts more info
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. more info
Internet Resources in Music
Selected by librarians in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts more info
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 more info
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. more info
Italians to the U.S.: 1855-1900
Index of Italian immigrants arriving in the Port of New York. more info
Jane Austen Information Page
Contains the author's novels, unfinished works, juvenilia, and miscellaneous fragments. more info
Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986
The Kaiser Index to Black Resources or the Black Studies Database (BSD) includes more than 170,000 citations drawn from significant and influential journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the Black experience from 1948-1986.
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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. Results can be easily sorted by magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
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LANE - Latin America North East Libraries Consortium
Provides information about the availability of Latin American research resources in the region. more info
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. more info
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. more info
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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. more info
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Leonard's Combined Price Index of Art Auctions -- Only available in SAS Room 300
Provides broad coverage of American auction houses, dealers and galleries. more info
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Lexis Nexis Digital Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
Provides access to every published and unpublished hearings from 1824 to the present. more info
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Library Literature
Indexes periodicals and books, reports, pamphlets, and library school theses on all aspects of library and information science. more info
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Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. more info
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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. more info
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Literature Online
A searchable library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key secondary sources. more info
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MagillOnLiterature Plus
Combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors, this database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
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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. more info
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MathSci Disc
Indexes journals on mathematics, statistics, and computer science. more info
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MEDLINE
Compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and published on the Web by Community of Science, MEDLINE® is the world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information. It contains records from over 4,900 publications from 1950 to present.
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MEDLINEplus
Allows users to search about specific conditions using dictionaries, MEDLINE, PUBMED and other resources. more info
Menu Collection Database
The database contains thousands of records describing the menus in the NYPL's collection. Menus are available in the Rare Book Division.
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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. more info
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MLA International Bibliography
Indexes scholarship in world literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, film, linguistics, and folklore. more info
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Modern World History Online
Covers the important civilizations and cultures of world history from prehistoric times through the modern era. Topical entries, biographies, maps, primary source documents, and timelines provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, and events that have defined world history.
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Monthly Catalog of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
Citations to publications of U.S. Government agencies. more info
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Music Index Online: a subject-author guide to music periodical literature
Indexes over 655 international music periodicals. more info
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Musical America
The electronic version of Musical America. Includes a directory. more info
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NARA's 1930 Census Microfilm Locator
An online database listing every roll of microfilm in the 1930 census, searchable by over 120,000 geographic locations. more info
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. more info
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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. more info
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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. more info
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) 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. more info
Naturalization Petition Index at the New York County Supreme Court, 1907-1924
Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. more info
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New England 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. more info
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New York Ancestors
New York records and resources available from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. more info
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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. more info
New York City Death Index (1891-1948)
A searchable database of the death indexes for Manhattan (1891-1894), Manhattan and Brooklyn (1895-1897) and All Boroughs (1898-1948). more info
New York City Marriages: Brides Index (1866?-1937)
A searchable database of the brides indexes for Manhattan 1866-1937; Kings County (Brooklyn) 1871-1913 and 1931-1937; Bronx 1899-1937; Queens 1904-1937; Richmond (Staten Island) 1898-1937. Not all years are 100% complete. more info
New York City Marriages: Grooms Index (1864?-1936)
A searchable database of the groom indexes for Brooklyn, 1864-1907, Manhattan, 1866-1907, Staten Island, 1898-1907, and All Boroughs,1908-1936. more info
New York Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890
Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under the Birth, Marriage & Death category. 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). more info
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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). more info
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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. more info
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New York State Census 1905/15/25 - Obtaining AD/ED for NYC
Work in progress - 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 this information. more info
New York Tribune Index, 1875-1906
Indexing provided by 19th Century Masterfile. Look for New York Daily Tribune Index, 1875-1906. more info
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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. more info
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Nineteenth Century Masterfile
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Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection (Index)
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Nobel Prizes and Laureates
Search the Nobel e-Museum for information about the prize and past winners. more info
PAIS Archive
Provides historical perspective on many of the 20th-century's public and social policies. more info
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PAIS International
Indexes journals, reports, and other documents that cover public policy, cultural and social issues, and international relations. more info
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Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition. more info
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Periodicals Index Online
An interdisciplinary and international index to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Over 4,700 journals are included. more info
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PERSI - The PERiodical Source Index
A subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals since 1800. more info
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Philosopher's Index
Indexes and abstracts the literature on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics,law, religion and science from periodicals, monographs, and other documents. more info
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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. more info
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Population Index
A searchable database of annotated citations from books, journals, working papers, dissertations, and bibliographies in the field of demographics and population more info
Private School Review
Provides profiles of private elementary day schools & high schools more info
Promt
Magazine and newspaper index for companies and industries focusing on markets and products around the world. more info
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Abstracts from 1980 - present. more info
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Psychoanalytic Literature Jourlit/Bookrev Database
A searchable index to journals, books, and book reviews in the field of psychoanalysis more info
PsycINFO
Indexes literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. more info
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Pulitzer Prizes
A Web site 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. more info
Rambi: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
A bibliography of articles on Jewish studies in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages. more info
Rarebooks.info
Bibliography of rare books available for consultation on the internet. more info
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Readers' Guide Abstracts
Readers' Guide Abstracts combines Readers' Guide indexing with high-quality informative abstracts.
Indexing begins in 1983 and abstracting begins in 1984.
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Readers' Guide Retro (1890-1982)
Indexes the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. more info
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Reference USA
Provides addresses, sales information, executives, for over 11 million U.S. companies. more info
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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 more info
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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. more info
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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. more info
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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. The RISM databases represent a worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times through ca. 1850. more info
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Romantic Circles: Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, and their Contemporaries
A Web site that provides scholarly resources for the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. more info
Russians to the U.S.: 1834-1897
Index of Russian immigrants arriving in the Port of New York. more info
Science Citation Index
Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. Indexes 5,900 journals in 150 scientific disciplines. more info
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Science Online
Covers Animal Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, General Science, Genetics and Cell Biology, Human Anatomy, and more. more info
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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. more info
Short Story Index
An index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. The periodicals are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes articles and provides cited references found in over 1,700 leading social science journals in more than fifty subjects. Also includes articles from over 3,000 science and technology journals. more info
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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. more info
Social Services Abstracts
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare and community development. more info
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Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. more info
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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 more info
Spanish and Portuguese printing in the Northern Netherlands 1584-1825 -- Only available in HSSL Room 111
A descriptive bibliography of 816 printed works compiled by Harm den Boer, University of Amsterdam. more info
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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. more info
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Statistical Universe
Indexes and abstracts statistical sources from government and nongovernment agencies. Some graphs are available. more info
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TableBase
TableBase is a database comprised of tabular information of a strategic nature. The tables provide information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics. Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade association reports, and governmental reports. more info
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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. more info
Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University
Provides abstracts of network news broadcasts. more info
United Nations Documents and Publications Index
UN materials searchable by subject, session, document number, UN sales number, title and country. more info
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Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography
Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps. more info
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Virtual Gramophone/Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
The Virtual Gramophone/Canadian Historical Sound Recordings is a multimedia Web site devoted to the first half-century of recorded sound in Canada. more info
Web of Science
Provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. more info
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Westchester County Archives
A database of public records of Westchester County, New York from 1680 to the present. more info
William Blake Archive
Provide access to major works of visual and literary art by William Blake. more info
World Biographical Information System (WBIS) Online
Contains short biographical information on millions of people worldwide from the 8th century B.C. to the present. more info
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World Shakespeare Bibliography
Provides annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. more info
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes journals covering political science and related fields. more info
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