Articles & Databases

A bibliographic database of over 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and movie 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.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Full-text and image archive offering complete coverage of the Globe from 1872-1981.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Full text coverage of the Boston Globe, from 1980 to the present, via ProQuest National Newspapers Premier. 

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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.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Searchable database of passengers leaving Bremen for the years 1920 to 1939. Also includes some passenger lists and a card index for 1907/08 and 1913/14.

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Medieval studies essay collection, all indexed in the International Medieval Bibliography. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Full text journals in medieval studies, religious studies, classics, history and art history. Individual titles are reflected in the Library catalog and in the Find E-Journals by Title link. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Search seven bibliography eBooks published by Brill: ABIA - Index of South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology, Bibliography of Arabic Books Online, Book History Online, Index Islamicus, Index to the Study of Religions, Linguistic Bibliography, and The International Aristotle Bibliography.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Provides full-text access to scholarly journals and book-length scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Browse and search over 60 reference titles related to history, international relations, law, language and linguistics, religious and Jewish studies, and the study of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the classical world.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Access to Britannica Academic includes Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals; Britannica Escolar: accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students and students learning Spanish; and Britannica School:  A source for all grades (Pre-K-12) and all reading abilities. 

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Searchable full-text digital archive of over 160 historic national, regional, and home country newspapers from the British Isles.  Includes newspapers covering political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule, as well as penny papers targeting working and clerical class readers. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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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.

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Database includes three directories: 1.Directory of Investment Managers (profiles of 2,000 institutional money managers and their 8,000 investment products)  2. Directory of Plan Sponsors,  and 3. Directory of Pension Fund Consultants- Note: Company profiles may be saved individually in PDF format, printed, or saved to disk or USB flash drive. This database is not on all networked computers. Please see a staff person at the EIC desk to access this resource.

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A selection of digitized newspapers from the collections of The Brooklyn Historical Society. including The Long-Island Star. Full-text searching, printing, and downloading are ennabled, with coverage from 1809 to 1863.  

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Developed by the Brooklyn Public Library, this free database provides access to the full-text of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1841 to 1955.

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The catalog for the Brooklyn Public Library.

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Search for general information on a property in New York City, including block and lot number, census track and landmark status.

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Full text of the Bulletin via Gallica, from the years 1907-1911. 

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Nearly 4,000 leading business, trade, and news publications covering accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management & strategy, and business theory & practice.  This content was previously divided into multiple databases: PROMT, European Business ASAP, Business Index ASAP, Business & Company ASAP, General Business File, and Business International & Company Profiles. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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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. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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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. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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C19:  The Nineteenth Century Index is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Cairn.info is an online collection of French language periodicals and ebooksin the social sciences and humanities. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Access to the full text of over 500 books published by Cambridge University Press and covering the humanities, social and natural sciences, medicine, and English language teaching.  Please note: NYPL has access to content published beginning in 2015.  All other titles provide access to tables of contents and indices only.  Formerly known as Cambridge Books Online (CBO). **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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A free service that enables users to search across the valuable and diverse digital collections of Canada’s libraries, museums and archives.

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This database provides over 100 years of U.S. corporate actions data on events such as mergers & acquisitions, spin-offs, exchange offers and reorganizatiions for their tax consequences. Also includes U.S. offerings from foreign corporations.

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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.

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Premier career and job resource. Note: Library users must create an account, to use in the library only, with their name and email address to access to the Career Insider site & download Vault Guides. Find career guides, industry guides, company & employer profiles, articles, resume guides and more. Find Industry overviews, career path, salary ranges, industry outlook and more.(User may download guides free to a USB drive or check library catalog for print versions). **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Includes the first series of Caribbean titles digitized from the American Antiquarian Society's collections. More than 140 newspaper titles, from 22 countries are covered in this database, providing primary source content on colonial history, slave trade, and commerce.  Background information and search tips for this database. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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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.

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From 1855 to 1890, Castle Garden was America's first official immigration center. This index provides information on immigrants who entered through the Port of New York between 1820 and 1913.

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This is the tool for identifying U.S. government publications from all branches of government in all formats.  Mostly starting with 1976, the CGP will eventually encompass documents going back to the 19th century.  This is the authoritative source of cataloging for these publications and includes advanced search options.  It also provides links to online publications.  For publications before 1976 the printed Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications should be consulted.  

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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.

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Contains full and authoritative information on Catholic interests, action, and doctrine.

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This site provides access to over 3,500 registers from 1,086 Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland which have been digitized and made freely available by the National Library of Ireland (NLI). The registers include baptisms and marriages, and date between 1740-1880.  Approximately 373,000 digital images have been scanned from the NLI collection of 550 microfilm reels.

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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.

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