Articles & Databases

Information in the database is drawn from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States, plus other selected specialist auctions. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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A database of global suppliers, manufacturers, and trade professionals.  *This resources requires a user login and password.   Please ask a staff person in the Electronic Information Center at SIBL to log you in.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Digital library site devoted to Spanish exploration and settlement in North America from the 15th to the early 19th centuries.

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A searchable database that contains scholarly texts by major western philosophers.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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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.

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The electronic version of the complete set Jacques-Paul Migne's collection of the works of the Church Fathers.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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PDR.net. Online version of the PDR®  (The Physicians Desk Reference),  the most recognized drug information reference available in the U.S. 

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Biographical information for individuals mentioned in American Founding Era Papers, both well-known and lesser-known, including soldiers, slaves, authors,  and statesmen.  The connections between people in this "biographical glossary of the Founding era" are represented in interactive visualization webs.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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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.

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Directory of Performing Arts organizations in Europe, including the fields of music, dance, theatre and puppetry. Searchable by name or location.

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This resource, accessible through the Find My Past database, indexes thousands of historical and genealogical publications, and contains over 2 million entries from these sources. Coverage is centered on publications from the United States and Canada, though periodicals from Britiain, Ireland, and Australia are also included. Researchers should keep in mind that print copies of many of the regional publications indexed in this database are held by the Library and can be located via the catalog or by speaking with a librarian.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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An interdisciplinary digital archive of hundreds of full text journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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A database of millions of citiations for articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, across more than 300 years. Over 6,000 journals are included. Journals indexed span 37 key subject subject areas and multiple languages. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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An online collection of textual and visual materials illustrating the Archaic and Classical Greek world.

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: the Philadelphia Inquirer provides full images of articles published from its first issue in 1860 through 2001. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Founded by Christopher James Perry, the Tribune is the oldest, continuously published African American newspaper in the United States. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Philanthropy In/Sight is an interactive mapping tool designed for grantmakers, advisors, policymakers, researchers, academics—virtually anyone interested in the impact of philanthropy around the world. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Indexing, abstracting, and full text of the literature on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, law, religion and science from periodicals, monographs, and other documents. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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An experimental interface to a collection of biographical data describing photographers, studios, manufacturers, and others involved in the production of photographic images. Consisting of names, nationalities, dates, locations and more that have been culled from trusted biographical dictionaries, catalogs and databases, and extensive original research by NYPL Photography Collection staff.

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A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.

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

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This historical newspaper, the largest daily newspaper serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan, provides full-text images of the newspapers from their first issues in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the end of the twentieth century. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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

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

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Coverage of sports, food, the arts, recreation, and other areas of American pop culture for the 1900s through the 2000s.  A good modern-era companion to Daily Life Through History.  Material is divided into general overviews (Topics) and explorations of issues (Perspectives), supported with articles, images, speeches, and other documentation. **Patrons should read the Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Includes more than 1,000 full text magazine titles, covering subjects such as general interest, social sciences, health, and more. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.

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A searchable database of annotated citations from books, journals, working papers, dissertations, and bibliographies in the field of demographics and population

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This resource searches across all of the Gale databases to which NYPL subscribes, including Academic One File, General One File, and Infotrac Newsstand. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Search a collection of open access dissertations and theses by title, author, institution, and keyword.  These documents are a subset of ProQuest Disserations and Theses.

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Searchable full-text and page images of the Russian newspaper Pravda, from its founding in 1912 to 2015. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Provides access to current newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.  Includes over 2,000 U.S. and international titles. Formerly called PressDisplay.  Registering as a user with the site is optional and allows for personalized, saved settings.  Patrons should consult PressReader's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before registering.

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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.

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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.

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Provides profiles of private elementary day schools & high schools

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PrivCo is a premier resource for financial data on 900,000 private companies, non-publicly traded corporations, family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed & international unlisted companies. Library users must create an account for use in the library only, with their name and email address to access PrivCo, and monthly account limits will apply. This database may be accessed at SIBL only, on library computers, not through Wi-Fi.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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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

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Provides full-text access to over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly journals and top quality 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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