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Electronic Resources

At four public workstations in the Periodicals Room readers have access to a wide variety of electronic resources through the Library’s Electronic Resources Menu. This includes access to Newspaper Indexes, Full-text Newspaper Databases, General-Interest and specialized Periodical Indexes, Encyclopedias, Reference Works and Library Catalogs.

Also through the Selected Electronic Resources Menu a significant number of scholarly and general interest periodicals are available in full-text format, through such services as JSTOR, ProQuest, Project Muse, Ethnic Newswatch and ABI/Inform Global among many others. Find a list of full text journals available here.

Reference Tools for Newspapers and Periodicals

19th Century African American Newspapers

19th Century Masterfile
Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents published in the 19th century.

Academic Search Premier
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
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.

Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals
Supplements the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Username/Password: NYPL/4AccessD

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 History Online
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Covering more than 500 years of African-American history, features biographies, primary sources, images, timelines, and maps and charts.

Alternative Press Index
Indexes and abstracts alternative, radical, and leftist publications.

Alternative Press Index Archive
Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change.

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.

American Periodical Series Online
APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,100 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940.

America's Historical Newspapers
Full-text digital images of American newspapers published from 1690-1922.

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.

Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
Abstract and Index Database. Locate articles in 390 of the key English language periodicals in applied sciences. Covers engineering, computers, mathematics, physics, energy related topics, chemistry, and data processing.

Applied Science and Technology Retrospective
Provides content from the acclaimed Applied Science & Technology Index. This is the perfect reference for tracking down important studies, exploring historical controversies, finding papers by innovators, researching the development of a particular technology, and more.

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 including, archaeology, art, architecture, Asian studies, classics, dance, film, television, theater, music, literature, history, philosophy and religion.

ATLA Religion Databases
Contains citations to articles, books, theses, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology.

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

Auto/Biography
Auto/Biography is an international and interdisciplinary journal addressing theoretical, epistemological, and empirical issues relating to autobiographical and biographical research. Its aim is to further develop the growing academic interest across a range of disciplines in life-studies, life-writing, life history, narrative analysis, and the representation of lives.

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.

Bibliography of Asian Studies Online
Contains records on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

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.

Biography Index
Indexes English-language biographical material appearing in books, magazines, and selected newspapers.

Book Review Digest Plus
An index, with abstracts, to book reviews from publications in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, including The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New York Review of Books.

Book Review Digest Retrospective
Book Review Digest Retrospective provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Citations with excerpts of reviews of juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language are included. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt, and most have at least two.

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.

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.

Business & Company Resource Center
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
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. Covers 1980- to present. Subjects covered include finance, acquisitions & mergers, international trade, money management, new technologies & products, local & regional business trends, investments and banking.

Business Source Premier EBSCO
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more

Chicago Tribune (1849-1986)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Chicago Tribune archive.

Chinese E-Journal Collection (Qikan)
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Provides access to full text of 150 popular journals in Chinese language.

Christian Science Monitor (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 published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 for the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. Also includes a directory of U.S. newspapers published between 1690-present with library holdings information.

Civil War: a newspaper perspective
Contains selected full-text articles from issues of the New York Herald, the Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer.

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.

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete combines and enhances the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index, two popular databases covering comunications and mass media studies. It offers full text for over 200 journal titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources.

Consulta
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Provides access to a comprehensive collection of Spanish-language materials.

Corriere Della Sera
Italian newspaper

Custom Newspapers
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Searchable full-text of 300 plus newspapers, both national and international.

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 American Newspapers

EBSCO Research Databases
Provides full-text coverage of periodicals, including newspapers, covering nearly all subjects.

EBSCOhost
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Abstracts and full-text of a wide variety of publications.

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.

Environment Index EBSCO (formerly Environmental Issues and Policy Index)
Provides citations and selected full-text to articles from scientific, technical, and popular magazines and journals spanning a wide range of environmental topics.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America.

Evans Digital Edition

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. Provides information about the director, cast and crew, year of release and production. Credits, awards and a synopsis are also included. Person records include biographical information, a list of awards received, plus filmographies. References to film journals are also cited.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
German newspaper

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.

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 Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.

Informe (Revistas en Español)
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Includes current news and events, business reports, articles on health and other subjects from popular Hispanic magazines.

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
International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) full text draws its current content from more than 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies.

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.

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.

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.

Le Monde
Paris, France newspaper

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 (1881-1986)
Provides complete and searchable full-text and full-page images from the Los Angeles Times archive.

Los Angeles Times (1985-present)
Full-text of the daily paper.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Provides full-text access to general interest, business, and health periodicals and much more.

Middle Search Plus
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Provides fulltext access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students.

Nation Archive, 1865-
The archive contains PDF page images and searchable text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865 to the present.

National Newspaper Index (1977-present)
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
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 (ProQuest)
Searchable full text from the 1980's to the present of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor.

New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
This leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s. The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance.

New York State Newspapers
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
A collection of major New York State newspapers, available in full-text.

New York Times (1851-2004)
Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive.

New York Times (1985-present) and New York Post (2000-present)
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Full text of the New York Times (1985-present) and New York Post (2000-present).

New York Times (1999-present)
Full-text articles from The New York Times.

New York Tribune (1900-1910)
Provides the complete full page images from the New York Tribune, 1900-1910.

New York Tribune Index, 1875-1906
Indexing provided by 19th Century Masterfile. Look for New York Daily Tribune Index, 1875-1906.

NewsLink
Links to Web sites 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)
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile

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

PA Research

Periodicals Index Online
An interdisciplinary and international index to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Over 4,700 journals are included.

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.

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.

Professional Development Collection EBSCO
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 450 full-text journals, designed for professional educators.

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 wide range of topics, focusing on the entire era — from Manifest Destiny through the end of the Civil War.

ProQuest Historical Database
Searchable full-text and page images from the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Boston Globe (1872-1924), Chicago Defender (1905-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), New York Times (1851-2004), New York Tribune (1900-1910), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), Wall Street Journal (1889-1990), Washington Post (1877-1991), ProQuest Civil War Era database including New York Herald (1840-1865) and thousands of magazine articles published from 1740 to 1940.

ProQuest Historical New York Newspapers & Magazines
Simultaneous search of the New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), The New York Herald (1840-1865), The New York Times (1851-2004), The New York Tribune (1900-1910), The Wall Street Journal (1889-1990) and 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.

Readers' Guide Abstracts
Readers' Guide Abstracts combines Readers' Guide indexing with high-quality informative abstracts. Indexing begins in 1983 and abstracting begins in 1984.

Readers' Guide Retro (1890-1982)
Indexes the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982.

Regional Business News (formerly Business News Wire)
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
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"

Science Reference Center
Find information in biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, life science, physics, technology and wildlife. Designed for use by students and educators, offers standards-based content with articles correlated to curriculum standards. Content includes science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes articles and provides cited references found in over 1,700 leading social science journals in more than fifty subjects including anthropology, area studies, criminal justice, economics, education, environmental studies, ethnic studies, library science, history, international relations, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies and women’s studies. The SSCI also includes selected, relevant articles from more than 3,000 science and technology journals.

Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University
Provides abstracts of network news broadcasts.

The Independent
United Kingdom and Worldwide News

The Nation Archive, 1865-

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.

Times Literary Supplement
Search the complete facsimile edition and exhaustive index for articles, biographical information on contributors, and new information on previously anonymous contributors.

Times of London (1785-1985)
Searchable full-text and page images of The Times of London archive.

TOL: Transitions Online
Provides access to TOL, a news magazine that covers Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.

TOPICsearch [grades 5-12]
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
TOPICsearch currently contains articles from over 1,100 magazines, 150 newspapers, 400 pamphlets, 1,500 popular biographies, 800 book reviews and 15,000 public opinion polls.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Directory of international magazines, journals, annuals, irregular publications, and newspapers.

Universal Database of Russian Newspapers
Provides access to the full-text of current issues of Russian newspapers.

Urban Studies Abstracts
Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Wall Street Journal (1889-1990)
Provides the complete full-page images from the Wall Street Journal, 1889-1990.

Wall Street Journal (1984-present)
Full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal.

Washington Post (1987-present)
Full-text articles from the Washington Post.

Women's Wear Daily (WWD) Online
The electronic version of the fashion industry's daily news source.

Internet Sources for Newspapers

News Link
http://newslink.org/
Offers information about and links to media sources, including newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and publishers.

Newspaper Indexes, Archives, Morgues
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/news/oltitles.html
Contains links to national and international newspaper archives and indexes available over the Internet.

NewPages
http://www.newpages.com/
The Portal of Independents News, information and guides to independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals and more.

The New York State Newspaper Project
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/
Identifies, describes, preserves, and makes available to researchers the significant newspapers in all communities in New York State since the first publication of The New-York Gazette in 1725.

Internet Sources for Periodicals

Serials in Cyberspace
http://www.uvm.edu:80/~bmaclenn/#other

Publist
http://www.publist.com/
A database listing of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals including publications from around the world.

AcqWeb
http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/
Directory of Publishers & Vendors which provides links to websites of publishers throughout the world.