Career and Job Outlook:
Versatile PhD: A a free community, and a premium content subscription service whose mission is to help humanities and social science graduate students, ABDs and PhDs identify, prepare for and excel in non-academic careers. Access to the Premium Content Area is available for all Graduate Center affiliates.


SocArXiv: Open archive of the social sciences:
SocArXiv (pronounced sosh-archive ) is a preprint server created by sociologists, librarians, and open science advocates. Visit SocArxiv.org to deposit papers, and SocOpen.org for the latest news.


Journal Policies:
SHERPA/RoMEO: 95% of academic publishers offer standing permission for OA repository publication for some version of a work; check a journal's publishing policy here.

Wiley Author Compliance Tool: Search by funder, institution, or journal to see an overview of Wiley's open access policies.


From Practical Guidance when submitting journal articles: Understanding your rights (excerpt reproduced courtesy SPARC): "Relationships are changing due to the rise of digital publishing in academia. In order to maximize the value of the research you produce in this new environment, it is important for you to take an active role in managing the copyrights to your work. U.S. Copyright law gives the author of an original work, such as a scholarly article, the exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display the copyrighted work. Copyright protection is now automatic. The author obtains these exclusive rights at the moment the copyrighted work has been “fixed in a tangible medium,” such as when a written work has been saved on a computer’s hard drive or printed. The author retains these exclusive rights up until the moment the author signs a written agreement to transfer some or all of these exclusive rights.


The author retains these exclusive rights up until the moment the author signs a written agreement to transfer some or all of these exclusive rights. The author retains these exclusive rights up until the moment the author signs a written agreement to transfer some or all of these exclusive rights. The author retains these exclusive rights up until the moment the author signs a written agreement to transfer some or all of these exclusive rights.(By contrast, an author may give others non-exclusive permission to use the copyrighted work in a variety of ways, including through verbal agreement.) A transfer of any exclusive right is truly exclusive—once transferred the author may no longer exercise that right. If the author intends to retain the right to make any further uses of the copyrighted work, or intends to grant others permission to make any use of the copyrighted work, the author must make this clear in a written transfer agreement. As a scholar or scientist, when you publish in a journal you are typically asked by the publisher to sign such a transfer agreement, or contract, that describes the assignment of various rights to the publisher in the intellectual property you have created. Thus, the agreements often deprive you of certain rights that you may not wish to forfeit, such as your right to post your article on the public Internet or to make copies for classroom use.


f certain rights that you may not wish to forfeit, such as your right to post your article on the public Internet or to make copies for classroom use.f certain rights that you may not wish to forfeit, such as your right to post your article on the public Internet or to make copies for classroom use.f certain rights that you may not wish to forfeit, such as your right to post your article on the public Internet or to make copies for classroom use.To take advantage of the greater opportunity now available to communicate your research results, you need these rights to the articles you produce."


e.To take advantage of the greater opportunity now available to communicate your research results, you need these rights to the articles you produce."The SPARC Author Addendum: Developed by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), this author addendum is "a legal instrument that you can use to modify your copyright transfer agreements with non-open access journal publishers" (website).


License Your Work:
The copyright holder has the exclusive right to copy, to prepare derivative works, to distribute, and to license the work. A traditional copyright license reserves all rights for the author; a Creative Commons license describes how the author allows the work to be used by others. For uses other than those explicitly licensed, or even for those uses permitted under law (such as fair use), researchers may contact authors for permission.

More on Creative Commons Licenses: Creative Commons copyright licenses forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. They give everyone a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination forges a digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.


Research Tips:
Finding Items via Worldcat Locating Full Text Articles Constructing Search Statements Creating Accurate Search Statements Search Engine Tutorial Get it from another Library


Locating Dissertations:
To find dissertations, access Digital Dissertations and learn how to request dissertations via the Center for Research Libraries, please visit our Dissertations and Theses guide.


Manhattan Research Libraries Initiative (MaRLI):
This research initiative allows select researchers access and circulation privileges at Columbia University, NYU, and NYPL research libraries. To be eligible you must have a NYPL library card and demonstrate research need. Further information about MaRLI and the application process can be found on the NYPL website


Welcome:
This research guide is developed to highlight some of the key resources in Social Welfare. Choose from the topics in the tabs across the top of this page to focus on the materials you need. Also, the Hunter College Libraries Faculty and Staff maintain a dynamic, comprehensive, integrated library serving the academic and research needs of The Silberman School of Social Work and The CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College . Social Work Research Guide from Hunter College


Off-Campus Access Problems?:
If you are unable to log into GC library databases with CUNY Login credentials, try using your GC Network Account credentials. You can also try CUNY e-resources as a backup. This smaller collection of databases provides access with your CUNY Login credentials. Use the password reset tool or contact IT Services to resolve account issues and regain access to all GC databases.


Suggest a Journal Purchase:
Suggest a journal subscription: The Graduate Center Library welcomes journal subscription suggestions from the Graduate Center community. The library will carefully consider requests that are consistent with our Collection Policy .


Looking for a Specific Journal?:
Use our journal title search tool to see whether the library has access to a particular title, and what date ranges our subscriptions cover.


Core Databases:
The library subscribes to over 400 databases that allow you to search the scholarly literature across journals. Databases are professionally indexed and offer options for complex search queries. Use this list to get to the most relevant social science databases available through the Graduate Center.

Sociological Abstracts: Sociological Abstracts, and its companion file Social Services Abstracts, cover the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracting and indexing of articles and book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.  Coverage spans 1952 to the present.


om thousands of serials publications, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.  Coverage spans 1952 to the present.Social Science Premium Collection: This collection includes databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing, and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.  Click "more" to see the full list of databases included in this collection.


articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.  Click "more" to see the full list of databases included in this collection.Search Social Science Premium as a whole or via individual databases: Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) Criminal Justice Database Education Database ERIC International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) Library Science Database Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Linguistics Database National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database PAIS Index Policy File Index Political Science Database Social Science Database Sociological Abstracts Sociology Database Worldwide Political Science Abstracts


olicy File Index Political Science Database Social Science Database Sociological Abstracts Sociology Database Worldwide Political Science Abstracts SocINDEX with Full Text: Comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and related areas of study. The database features 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. Also contains abstracts for more than 4,650 journals, some dating to 1895 and extensive indexing for books/monographs and conference papers. Contains full text for more than 830 books and monographs, 16,800 conference papers, and 860 journals dating back to 1908. Searchable cited references and thousands of author profiles are also included.


raphs, 16,800 conference papers, and 860 journals dating back to 1908. Searchable cited references and thousands of author profiles are also included.Social Sciences Full Text: Provides access to English-language social science journals, including full text from 215 titles beginning in 1995 and indexing and abstracts of over 625 titles beginning in 1983, 400 of which are peer-reviewed. Subject coverage includes addiction studies, anthropology, community health & medical care, communications, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and more.


national relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and more.Annual Reviews: Full text of 51 Annual Review journals in the social sciences, biomedical/life sciences, physical sciences and economics. The literature reviews synthesize current understanding of a topic, set the work in historical context, and include extensive bibliographies. Search across or browse reviews and journals in more than 45 scientific disciplines, including anthropology, astrophysics, biochemistry, criminology, earth and planetary sciences, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology.

Sociology Database: Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in sociology and social work, social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology, and population studies. Also includes dissertations and other sources. Coverage spans 1985 to the present.


er studies, gerontology, social psychology, and population studies. Also includes dissertations and other sources. Coverage spans 1985 to the present.Social Science Database: Social Science Database indexes over 1,000 social science journals, with full text for 900 titles, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: IBSS includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews, and selected chapters in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology from 1951 to the present. Part of the ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection.

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA): Indexes over 500 journals covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations, and education from 1987 to the present.  This database is part of the ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection.


conomics, politics, race relations, and education from 1987 to the present.  This database is part of the ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection.PAIS Index - International and Archive: Bibliographic citations from international sources including journals, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more, covering public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general from 1915 to the present.

SAGE Sociology Collection: Full text of 37 SAGE sociology journals from 1952 to the present.

Social Theory: More than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons. Search across the resource or browse authors, titles, theories, or subjects.


abermas, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons. Search across the resource or browse authors, titles, theories, or subjects.ICPSR: Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research: ICPSR, the world's largest collection of digital social science data, maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. ICPSR data cover sociology, political science, economics, demography, education, child care, health care, crime, minority populations, aging, terrorism, substance abuse, mental health, public policy, international relations, and more. First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account; thereafter, you will need your email address and password to download data.


nd more. First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account; thereafter, you will need your email address and password to download data.Roper iPoll (formerly Roper Center Archives): The world’s largest collection of poll data from 1935 to present.  Contains hundreds of thousands of questions and tens of thousands of individual-level datasets, with hundreds more added yearly. Includes broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, the environment, science and technology, health, economics, and more.  It also includes global data from over 120 countries, and historical archives that feature questions on topics such as World War II, the civil rights movement, and women’s history, along with a general social survey with cumulative data from 1972-2016 featuring a standard core of demographic and attitudinal variables. Access through the Graduate Center Library enables you to view poll questions, save up to 50 questions, search abstracts and download documentation.


. Access through the Graduate Center Library enables you to view poll questions, save up to 50 questions, search abstracts and download documentation.. Access through the Graduate Center Library enables you to view poll questions, save up to 50 questions, search abstracts and download documentation.. Access through the Graduate Center Library enables you to view poll questions, save up to 50 questions, search abstracts and download documentation.Create a free personal account to download datasets, save up to 500 questions at once, and use the RoperExplorer analytical tool with crosstabs functionality. Users who have accounts on the old "classic" Roper iPoll website will need to register again on the new site. Learn more about how to use Roper iPoll online: Roper Tutorials .


Academic Search Complete: A multi-disciplinary database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.  In addition to full text, the database includes indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications, such as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.  While full text is available as far back as 1887 for a few titles, the text of most titles is available only for the past decade or two.

Directory of Open Access Journals: An independent index containing over 17,000 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.


containing over 17,000 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.JSTOR: A digital library containing journals, books, images, and primary sources. The GC’s subscription includes JSTOR’s Arts and Sciences I-XII collections of scholarly journals across the social sciences and humanities. Coverage begins with the first issue of almost every journal and continues through varying periods within the last five years. Also included are more than 700 freely accessible collections of illustrations, letters, literary documents, newspapers, magazines, photographs, postcards, and yearbooks; open access alternative press publications from the latter half of the 20th century; and thousands of research reports. 3+ million images in Artstor are also now discoverable in JSTOR. Browse content by subject, title, or collection, or search across the full resource. Register for a free personal account to save materials and organize your work.


t by subject, title, or collection, or search across the full resource. Register for a free personal account to save materials and organize your work.Web of Science: Massive multidisciplinary index of scholarly publications, with especially strong coverage of the sciences and social sciences. Includes numerous sub-databases, most notably the Web of Science Core Collection, which provides cover-to-cover indexing of 21,000+ peer-reviewed journals. Includes citation data for publications, allowing searchers to identify highly cited articles, find citations to a given article/author, and track citations over time. Includes detailed author records and several unique search capabilities, such as the ability to search by author affiliation, grant number, or chemical structure. Also includes awarded grant information and associated publications.


GC Google Scholar Search 1:
Look for the "Find Fulltext at GC" link next to each result. Use that link to get the full text via the library's resources. Tip:  You can link your Google account to the GC, so the “Find Fulltext at GC” links will always appear – even if you don’t start your search from this page. Go to our customized settings screen , check all boxes for Mina Rees Library and click Save. If you’re logged into a Google account, it will remember that setting from now on.


Interlibrary Loan:
Interlibrary Loan: Articles requested through interlibrary loan (ILL) are typically delivered electronically as PDF files within 48 hours. Use your Graduate Center network ID user name and password to log in. If you have questions or need help placing your request, email ill@gc.cuny.edu.

Scan and deliver We can also scan print materials that we have in the GC library and send you a digital copy. Request up to one chapter from a print book or one article from a print journal by logging in above and filling out a regular ILL request form.


Ebooks:
ebrary Over 46,000 titles from a variety of academic publishers. Titles also appear in the CUNY+ library catalog. EBSCO eBook Collection Formerly known as NetLibrary. To use the database from home, you must first connect to the site on any CUNY campus and click on Create a free account. Accounts can also be created by connecting to to the database remotely. Titles may be checked out for only twenty-four hours.


BF PSYCHOLOGY 173-175  Psychoanalysis 511-593    Affection, feeling, emotion.  Includes bereavement, stress, anger, grief 636-637    Applied psychology, counseling, behavior modification 712-724    Developmental psychology, including child, adolescent, adult development; life cycle 789    Death and dying E - F HISTORY. UNITED STATES.


n 712-724    Developmental psychology, including child, adolescent, adult development; life cycle 789    Death and dying E - F HISTORY. UNITED STATES.n 712-724    Developmental psychology, including child, adolescent, adult development; life cycle 789    Death and dying E - F HISTORY. UNITED STATES.n 712-724    Developmental psychology, including child, adolescent, adult development; life cycle 789    Death and dying E - F HISTORY. UNITED STATES.Includes history & status of Native Americans, African-Americans, Latinos; race relations H SOCIAL SCIENCES (GENERAL) HA STATISTICS HM SOCIOLOGY (GENERAL) HN SOCIAL HISTORY & CONDITIONS, SOCIAL PROBLEMS, SOCIAL REFORM HQ FAMILY, MARRIAGE 12-64    Sexuality 72-74    Incest 535-734    Families and family dynamics 755-759    Parents and parenting 767-799    Children, child development; adolescents, adulthood 809    Family violence 811-960    Divorce 1060-1064    Aging and the aged HV SOCIAL WORK 11    Social work schools, education, research methods 40-45    General work, group work, case work 91-95    US social welfare history, policy 640-645    Refugee problems 687    Social work in health care 689-699    Social work with families 700-713    Child abuse 741    Child welfare, general 875-883    Adoption, foster care 1442-1448    Women and social work 1449    Gays & lesbians 1450-1493    Social work and the elderly 1551-3024    Disability and social work 3176    Multicultural issues,


and social work 1449    Gays & lesbians 1450-1493    Social work and the elderly 1551-3024    Disability and social work 3176    Multicultural issues,and social work 1449    Gays & lesbians 1450-1493    Social work and the elderly 1551-3024    Disability and social work 3176    Multicultural issues,and social work 1449    Gays & lesbians 1450-1493    Social work and the elderly 1551-3024    Disability and social work 3176    Multicultural issues,and social work 1449    Gays & lesbians 1450-1493    Social work and the elderly 1551-3024    Disability and social work 3176    Multicultural issues,and social work 1449    Gays & lesbians 1450-1493    Social work and the elderly 1551-3024    Disability and social work 3176    Multicultural issues,and social work 1449    Gays & lesbians 1450-1493    Social work and the elderly 1551-3024    Disability and social work 3176    Multicultural issues,cultural competence 4045    Poverty 4505    Homelessness and homeless persons 4998-5825    Drug abuse, alcoholism, substance abuse 6545    Suicide 6558-6626    Rape, violence against women, domestic violence 9000    Criminology, gangs, juvenile delinquency, prisons KF LAW, including legal issues in social work R MEDICINE, including ethics, psychology, terminal care RA PUBLIC HEALTH, including community mental health, home health care services RC PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOANALYSIS 451    Mental health of specific populations, inc.


HEALTH, including community mental health, home health care services RC PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOANALYSIS 451    Mental health of specific populations, inc. HEALTH, including community mental health, home health care services RC PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOANALYSIS 451    Mental health of specific populations, inc. HEALTH, including community mental health, home health care services RC PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOANALYSIS 451    Mental health of specific populations, inc.elderly, racial & ethnic minorities


Finding Books Outside of the GC:
WorldCat What is WorldCat? WorldCat contains all the bibliographic records (with holdings information) cataloged by OCLC member libraries including books, manuscripts, computer data files, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, videotapes, sound recordings, journals and magazines Interlibrary Loan There are two different methods for requesting articles and books not available at the Graduate Center. To have books from other CUNY libraries sent to the Graduate Center Library,use CLICS. To request articles not available at the Graduate Center and books not available at any CUNY library,use Interlibrary Loan (ILL).


Historical News Accounts:
New York Times Archive, 1851-2018: Actual page images from 1851 through 2018.  Following years are added annually. When the results of a search are displayed, you have three retrieval options:  1. bibliographic citation and abstract; 2. article image (retrieved with Adobe Acrobat Reader); 3. page map, displaying the entire page on which the article appears. For current access, see New York Times Academic Pass .


AL JAZEERA The English language Web site for the Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel with the same name. ALLAFRICA.COM AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. AllAfrica.com is a distributor of news from specifically African press, with stories posted daily in English and French language text. While this source requires a paid subscription for use of the archives, current news is freely accessible. MEMRI, Middle East Media Research Institute The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) "explores the Middle East through the region's media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.


si, and Hebrew media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.si, and Hebrew media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.si, and Hebrew media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.Founded in February 1998 to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501 (c)3 organization. MEMRI's headquarters is located in Washington, DC with branch offices in Berlin, London, and Jerusalem, where MEMRI also maintains its Media Center."


Contemporary International News:
Nexis Uni (previously LexisNexis): Nexis Uni is a full-text news, business, and legal database with sources from around the world, including local, regional, national, and international newspapers, scholarly journals, trade journals, and popular magazines, television and radio broadcasts, and newswires and blogs. Legal sources include federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790. Also contains business information on U.S. and international companies (see Dossier section) and patent data (see TotalPatent One section).

Nexis Uni video tutorials

WORLDPRESS.ORG: This gateway leads to links to newspapers from around the world


International News Sources:
Al Jazeera Daily Yomiuri (Japan) Gulf News (United Arab Emirates) Jerusalem Post Independent (UK) International Herald Tribune (IHT) Irish Times Japan Times Korea Times Middle East Times Moscow Times Prague Post (Czech Republic) Russia Journal Santiago Times (Chile) Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) South China Morning Post Times of London Zimbabwe Independent


International News Archives:
International News Archives. SLA News Division Web Site.: These pages provide links to non-US news archives available on the Web


What are Primary Sources?:


What are Primary Sources?:What are Primary Sources?:Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to the truth of what actually happened during an historical event or time period. Primary source is a term used in a number of disciplines to describe source material that is closest to the person, information, period, or idea being studied.  A primary source (also called original source ) is a document, recording, artifact, or other source of information that was created at the time under study, usually by a source with direct personal knowledge of the events being described. It serves as an original source of information about the topic. Similar definitions are used in library science , and other areas of scholarship. In journalism, a primary source can be a person with direct knowledge of a situation, or a document created by such a person. Primary sources are distinguished from secondary sources , which cite, comment on, or build upon primary sources, though the distinction is not a sharp one.


Archives - Getting Started:
Archive Grid: Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid.

WorldCat: Search the collections of thousands of US and international libraries. If a book is not available at the Grad Center or other CUNY library, you can request it by clicking the 'Request through interlibrary loan' link. Includes archival locations.


Historical Databases at the GC:
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) Eighteenth Century Journals Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries Nineteenth Century Masterfile Women and Social Movements in the United States


NYC Archives and Special Collections:
American Memory: Historical Collections from the Library of Congress Brooklyn Historical Society: Archives, Manuscripts and Special Collections Columbia University Archival Collections Portal Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library New York Historical Society: Library Collections NYU Special Collections and Archives Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives


Federal Statistical Research Data Centers:
Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (RDCs) are secure computing labs where qualified researchers can conduct approved statistical analysis on non‐public data (“restricted data”). Baruch College is one of the Centers and fees are waived for all of CUNY. Learn more about Federal Statistical Research Data Centers .


FRED Economic Data - great for a novice, but also good for sophisticated users accessing an array of data sources. Bureau of Labor Statistics data retrieval tools. FRASER - a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System. Bank of International Settlements - BIS statistics, compiled in cooperation with central banks and other national authorities, are designed to inform analysis of financial stability, international monetary spillovers and global liquidity. Federal Reserve Tealbook - Several data sets contain the projections from the Tealbooks (formerly Greenbooks) of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The Tealbook/Greenbook is produced before each meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. Using an assumption about monetary policy, the Research staff at the Board of Governors prepares projections about how the economy will fare in the future.


an assumption about monetary policy, the Research staff at the Board of Governors prepares projections about how the economy will fare in the future. an assumption about monetary policy, the Research staff at the Board of Governors prepares projections about how the economy will fare in the future. an assumption about monetary policy, the Research staff at the Board of Governors prepares projections about how the economy will fare in the future.These projections are made available to the public after a lag of five years. IPUMS - IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge.


Archival Research (during Covid):
See our new Online Archival Research Guide to help assist you in accessing archival collections during the Covid-19 Crisis. Digitized Primary Sources blog-post . Barbara Gray’s tipsheet at this link Archives for Investigative Data . Archives for Investigating Data.


Professional Associations:
Alliance for Children and Families American Hospice Foundation American Psychological Association American Public Human Services Association ANSWER Association of Oncology Social Work Australian Association of Social Workers British Association of Social Workers Canadian Association of Social Workers Child Welfare League of America Children's Defense Fund Clinical Social Work Association Clinical Social Work Federation International Federation of Social Workers Irish Association of Social Workers National Association of Social Workers National Association of Social Workers: NY State Chapter National Association of Social Workers: NYC Chapter National Institute for Social Work (UK and abroad) New York State Society for Clinical Social Work School Social Work Association of America Society for Social Work and Research Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care


Citation Guides:
MLA Style Guide: From Purdue OWL. Full MLA guide not available online but this site answers basic questions.

Chicago Manual of Style Online: Full text of the 17th and 18th editions of the Chicago Manual of Style, including quick guide, questions and answers, and additional tools.

APA Style Guide: From Purdue OWL (online writing lab). Full APA guide not available online but this site answers basic questions.


Citation Managers:
Citation managers allow you to save and organize references and citations you gather during research. You can import citations from databases such as JSTOR, Humanities Full-Text, or  Academic Search Premier or manually enter citations. You can attach pdfs and images to the citations as well. They also generate bibliographies and footnotes. The Graduate Center supports Zotero and Refworks. Links and descriptions are below. If you want to have an introduction to any or all of the citation managers, make an appointment with a librarian .

Zotero: Saves and helps you to organize citations to articles, books, webpages, and more. Works with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari. Install the Zotero Word plug-in to quickly create bibliographies and add citations to papers.

Zotero Help: Short video tutorials and a userguide


ari. Install the Zotero Word plug-in to quickly create bibliographies and add citations to papers.

Zotero Help: Short video tutorials and a userguideRefworks: Online citation management licensed for all CUNY campuses. Generate footnotes and bibliography in any writing style; organize citations and notes in your private library. 25 MB limit on individual file size; 5 GB individual account limit. Group Code: RWGradC There is a new interface available for RefWorks; see the library guide Citation Managers & Style Guides for more information.


Finding Articles:
Looking for a Specific Journal? Use our journal title search tool to see whether the library has access to a particular title, and what date ranges our subscriptions cover.


Use InterLibrary Loan for Articles and Books!:
Interlibrary Loan Articles requested through interlibrary loan (ILL) are typically delivered electronically as PDF files within 48 hours. Use your Graduate Center network ID user name and password to log in. If you have questions or need help placing your request, email ill@gc.cuny.edu. Scan and deliver We can also scan print materials that we have in the GC library and send you a digital copy. Request up to one chapter from a print book or one article from a print journal by logging in above and filling out a regular ILL request form.


The library subscribes to over 400 databases that allow you to search the scholarly literature across journals. Databases are professionally indexed and offer options for complex search queries. Use this list to get to the most relevant social science databases available through the Graduate Center. Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window Sociological Abstracts contains bibliographic citations from 2,600 journals concerned with sociology and related disciplines from 1963 to the present. Relevant dissertations have been added since 1986. Also included is the Social Planning Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) database, which covers applied sociology journal article abstracts since 1980. Formerly Sociofile.


Planning Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) database, which covers applied sociology journal article abstracts since 1980. Formerly Sociofile. Planning Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) database, which covers applied sociology journal article abstracts since 1980. Formerly Sociofile. Planning Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) database, which covers applied sociology journal article abstracts since 1980. Formerly Sociofile.Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window This collections provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences: abstracts, indexing and full coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including deep indexing and full text from over 1000 social science journals. Click "more" to view the full list of databases included in this collection. SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Indexing of 2,540 journals in the social sciences, with full text as far back as 1895 for 848 journals, as well as the text of more than 40,000 conference papers from such organizations as American Sociological Association and American Society of Criminology.


ll as the text of more than 40,000 conference papers from such organizations as American Sociological Association and American Society of Criminology.ll as the text of more than 40,000 conference papers from such organizations as American Sociological Association and American Society of Criminology.ll as the text of more than 40,000 conference papers from such organizations as American Sociological Association and American Society of Criminology.The database encompasses all sub-disciplines of sociology and closely-related areas of study, including abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology. Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window Provides access to English-language social science journals, including full text from 215 titles beginning in 1995 and indexing and abstracts of over 625 titles beginning in 1983, 400 of which are peer-reviewed. Subject coverage includes addiction studies, anthropology, community health & medical care, communications, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and more.


national relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and more.national relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and more.national relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and more.Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window Full text of 51 Annual Review journals in the social sciences, biomedical/life sciences, physical sciences and economics. The literature reviews synthesize current understanding of a topic, set the work in historical context, and include extensive bibliographies. Search across or browse reviews and journals in more than 45 scientific disciplines, including anthropology, astrophysics, biochemistry, criminology, earth and planetary sciences, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology. Sociology Database This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window ProQuest Sociology covers the international literature of sociology and social work, and provides full-text coverage of many core titles indexed in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. The database also includes over 500 recent full-text doctoral dissertations on sociology. Coverage: 1985-current.


racts and Social Services Abstracts. The database also includes over 500 recent full-text doctoral dissertations on sociology. Coverage: 1985-current.racts and Social Services Abstracts. The database also includes over 500 recent full-text doctoral dissertations on sociology. Coverage: 1985-current.racts and Social Services Abstracts. The database also includes over 500 recent full-text doctoral dissertations on sociology. Coverage: 1985-current.Social Science Database This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window ProQuest Social Science Journals indexes over 1000 social science journals, with full text for 900 titles. It covers core disciplines across the social sciences including sociology, social work, anthropology, politics and other areas, featuring journals from over 50 countries. International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window IBSS includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews, and selected chapters in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology from 1951 to the present. Part of the ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection. Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) This link opens in a new window Indexes over 500 journals in economics, education, health, political science, psychology, race relations, and sociology from 1987 to the present.


ndow Indexes over 500 journals in economics, education, health, political science, psychology, race relations, and sociology from 1987 to the present.ndow Indexes over 500 journals in economics, education, health, political science, psychology, race relations, and sociology from 1987 to the present.ndow Indexes over 500 journals in economics, education, health, political science, psychology, race relations, and sociology from 1987 to the present.Part of the ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection. PAIS Index - International and Archive This link opens in a new window Bibliographic citations from international sources including journals, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more, covering public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general from 1915 to the present. SAGE Sociology Collection Full text of 37 SAGE sociology journals from 1952 to the present. Social Theory This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window More than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons. Search across the resource or browse authors, titles, theories, or subjects.


abermas, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons. Search across the resource or browse authors, titles, theories, or subjects.abermas, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons. Search across the resource or browse authors, titles, theories, or subjects.abermas, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons. Search across the resource or browse authors, titles, theories, or subjects.ICPSR: Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window ICPSR is the world's largest collection of digital social science data. ICPSR data cover topics from sociology, political science, economics, demography, education, child care, health care, crime, minority populations, aging, terrorism, substance abuse, mental health, public policy, and international relations. First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account; thereafter, you will need your email address and password to download data. Roper iPoll (formerly Roper Center Archives) This link opens in a new window The world’s largest collection of poll data from 1935 to present. Contains hundreds of thousands of questions and tens of thousands of individual-level datasets, with hundreds more added yearly.


from 1935 to present. Contains hundreds of thousands of questions and tens of thousands of individual-level datasets, with hundreds more added yearly.from 1935 to present. Contains hundreds of thousands of questions and tens of thousands of individual-level datasets, with hundreds more added yearly.from 1935 to present. Contains hundreds of thousands of questions and tens of thousands of individual-level datasets, with hundreds more added yearly.Includes broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, the environment, science and technology, health, economics, and more. It also includes global data from over 120 countries, and historical archives that feature questions on topics such as World War II, the civil rights movement, and women’s history, along with a general social survey with cumulative data from 1972-2016 featuring a standard core of demographic and attitudinal variables. Access through the Graduate Center Library enables you to view poll questions, save up to 50 questions, search abstracts and download documentation. Create a free personal account to download datasets, save up to 500 questions at once, and use the RoperExplorer analytical tool with crosstabs functionality. Users who have accounts on the old "classic" Roper iPoll website will need to register again on the new site. Learn more about how to use Roper iPoll online: Roper Tutorials .


Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window A multi-disciplinary database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, the database includes indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications, such as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. While full text is available as far back as 1887 for a few titles, the text of most titles is available only for the past decade or two. Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window An independent index containing over 17,000 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. JSTOR This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window A digital library containing journals, books, images, and primary sources.


ties. JSTOR This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window A digital library containing journals, books, images, and primary sources.ties. JSTOR This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window A digital library containing journals, books, images, and primary sources.ties. JSTOR This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window A digital library containing journals, books, images, and primary sources.The GC’s subscription includes JSTOR’s Arts and Sciences I-XII collections of scholarly journals across the social sciences and humanities. Coverage begins with the first issue of almost every journal and continues through varying periods within the last five years. Also included are more than 700 freely accessible collections of illustrations, letters, literary documents, newspapers, magazines, photographs, postcards, and yearbooks; open access alternative press publications from the latter half of the 20th century; and thousands of research reports. 3+ million images in Artstor are also now discoverable in JSTOR. Browse content by subject, title, or collection, or search across the full resource. Register for a free personal account to save materials and organize your work. Web of Science This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window Massive multidisciplinary index of scholarly publications, with especially strong coverage of the sciences and social sciences.


opens in a new window Massive multidisciplinary index of scholarly publications, with especially strong coverage of the sciences and social sciences. opens in a new window Massive multidisciplinary index of scholarly publications, with especially strong coverage of the sciences and social sciences. opens in a new window Massive multidisciplinary index of scholarly publications, with especially strong coverage of the sciences and social sciences.Includes numerous sub-databases, most notably the Web of Science Core Collection, which provides cover-to-cover indexing of 21,000+ peer-reviewed journals. Includes citation data for publications, allowing searchers to identify highly cited articles, find citations to a given article/author, and track citations over time. Includes detailed author records and several unique search capabilities, such as the ability to search by author affiliation, grant number, or chemical structure. Also includes awarded grant information and associated publications.


GIS Guide:
This guide will help you:


What is GIS?:
GIS is an integrated collection of software and data that visually organizes information around the concepts of geographic location and space. GIS can be used for geographic analysis, map making, database management, and geospatial statistics. GIS can be applied to many applications in several fields of study. You can use GIS to: Study the distribution of populations Study physcial features of the earth and natrual phenomena Find the optimal location for starting a business or locating an event Identify markets to target Identify geographic patterns like clustering Determine the best routes or paths to follow Tie together separate pieces of data to create new information Create maps Visit the USGS GIS Poster and the Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science (CUNY affiliates only) to learn more.


Basic GIS Principles:
Geographic features are stored in individual GIS files. These files are the raw materials for geographic analysis and map making GIS files are georeferenced, which means features are drawn to scale and tied to actual places on the earth via coordinate systems and map projections Since coordinate systems and map projections are standardized, GIS data from many sources can be shared GIS files come in several different formats; they can represent continuous surfaces (raster) or discrete geometry (vector) GIS software is the tool / window for viewing, analyzing, and manipulating GIS data Data tables that are place-based can be converted into GIS data by either plotting the table data using latitude and longitude or by joining table data to GIS features using a common ID code


Choosing GIS Software:
There are many GIS software packages to choose from. At GC you are welcome to use the proprietary ArcGIS from GC workstations. If you like the flexibility of working at home, QGIS is an open source alternative . Each has strengths and weaknesses that you'll have to evaluate based on your research requirements.


GIS Software at GC:
To access ARCGIS at GC workstations: Login to a workstation using your GC network account. From Windows Start Menu, select All Programs From All Programs, select ARCGIS folder and click ARCMAP. Cancel Opening a Template. File=>Add Data. Connect to Folder on S drive:  S:\LIBRARY_arcgis\MapPluto Then Add Data and select specific borough directory.


ArcGIS:
Visit ESRI for more information about ArcGIS, download the basic ArcGIS Explorer software for free, and sign up to take free online tutorials via the Virtual Campus Program (Baruch affiliates only)

The dominant proprietary software in the GIS market: Widely used in both the public and private sectors

Well established: Long history, lots of tutorials, books, and other information

Powerful with many features: Extensive tools for geoprocessing, analysis, and cartography

Resource intensive and OS specific: Only runs on Microsoft Windows and requires significant processing power and memory

Expensive: Not intended for personal use; annual process for updating subscription, access via a subscription at an institution or business where you're affiliated


QGIS:
Visit QGIS to learn more, download the software for free, and learn about the GIS practicum for training (CUNY affiliates only)

Free and open source software: One of the most user friendly and widely adopted FOSS packages, available for free

Light weight and cross platform: Light on processing resources, runs on Windows, Macs, or Linux

Not as powerful as ArcGIS: Lacks many of the tools and applications found in ArcGIS, but couple QGIS with other software like GRASS and GDAL / OGR to gain additional capabilities

Work in progress: Still developing, working out bugs and adding features, much smaller collection of tutorials and information available


Data Formats:
Vector : discrete coordinates and surfaces represented as points, lines, or polygons (areas). File formats: shapefiles, coverages, KMLs Raster : continuous surface divided into grid cells of equal size. File formats: Geotiff, tiff, JPG, SID Tables : data tables that contain records for places that can be converted by plotting coordinates or joining identifiers to a vector file. File formats: delimited text files, spreadsheets, data tables Geodatabase : collection of vectors, rasters, and tables in a database file. File formats (desktop): Access mdbs, SQLite Compressed files : containers that hold several data files. File formats: ZIP, TAR. E00


Geocoding:
If you have address-based data that you wish to map in GIS, you'll need to assign latitude and longitude coordinates to your data so you can plot them as points.

USC Geocoding Service: The USC's GIS Research Laboratory provides a number of geocoding services for translating addresses. Baruch students, faculty, and staff can contact the Baruch GIS Librarian for assistance with these services.


GIS Data:
In order to use GIS software, you'll have to download and add some GIS data. This page shows you the different GIS file formats and types and provides you with a number of online sources for accessing data.


Free NYC Data:
BYTES of the BIG APPLE: The NYC Department of City Planning's page has administrative and political boundaries, streets, transportation networks, shorelines, and tax parcels

DoITT - Services: GIS: The NYC Department of Information Technologies and Telecommunications has transportation networks, survey points, water bodies, building footprints, and open spaces

NYC Data Mine: This site culls together attribute and GIS data from several NYC departments and agencies

NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene: Community Health Survey data, boundaries for health districts and public health office locations


Free NY State Data:
CUGIR: Cornell University's Geospatial Information Repository, with data for NY State, counties, and local areas

NYS GIS Clearinghouse: State government depository that compiles GIS data produced at the state, county, and local levels for New York State. Includes ortho imagery / air photos. Some data is restricted.


Free US Data:
Census TIGER Shapefiles: TIGER Line files for legal and statistical areas in shapefile format, updated annually

US Census Cartographic Boundary Files: Generalized extracts of the bureau's TIGER Line files for several administrative, legal, and census areas in the US

National Historical Geographic Information System: University of Minnesota project that provides historical census boundaries and data for the US from 1790 to 2000. New users must register, but there is no cost and downloads are free

National Land Cover Database: Land use and land cover data for the entire US

USGS Seamless Data Distribution System: Imagery, digital topographic maps (DRGs), elevation data, and some boundary files

Topographic maps (DRGs) for the entire US, 2003 TIGER Line data, and SVG maps for several administrative areas


Free International Data:
gData: Project at UC Berkeley that provides boundary files and imagery for every country in the world, tied to the DIVA GIS project

UN Environment Programme - GEO Data Portal: Click "Advanced Search," select "Geospatial Data Sets" under the 1st drop down box, and hit the red "Search" button for a list of global or continental GIS files

CIESN: Hosted by Columbia University, links to datasets for the world, various countries, and the US

USGS Global Visualization Viewer: US federal agency that provides LANDSAT data (global satellite imagery) for the world


Baruch Geoportal:
Baruch's GIS data repository .


CUNY Certificate Programs:
Hunter College: Certificate in Geographic Information Science (graduate level program)

Lehman College: Certificate Program in Geographic Information Science (undergrad and grad level programs)


Geographic Information Systems Practicum:
GIS consists of software and data used for geographical analysis and map making. It can be applied to any discipline. Introduction to GIS using Open Source Software is a day-long workshop offered each semseter. Current members of Baruch (students, faculty and staff) and CUNY grad students, faculty and staff can register. Dates for Fall 2011: Oct 14th and Nov 11th. Visit the GIS practicum page for eligibility, registration, and course details (Registration is CLOSED for Fall 2011; both sessions are full).


ESRI Virtual Campus:
Current members of Baruch are eligible under the college's license agreement to register for a number of free
online classes and self-paced tutorials to learn ArcGIS. These courses cover a wide range of topics
and include documentation, tutorials, exercises, quizzes, and online presentations.
Once you finish a particular course you
receive a certificate documenting that you have completed it. Visit the ESRI VC page for details on eligibility, registration, and available courses.


Online Tutorials:
Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software: This is an online version of the tutorial manual used for Baruch's GIS Practicum in spring 2011. Introduces GIS using QGIS.

Introduction to GIS and Census Mapping: Introduces GIS using thematic mapping of census data as an example in ArcGIS. Originally prepared for the GIS Census Workshop sponsored by the NYCRDC as part of their 2nd Annual Census Workshop series April 2008.

University of Waterloo Tutorials: Podcasts, screencasts, and slides introducing GIS, ArcGIS, Google Maps, and web mapping

Yale Map Collection GIS Workshop Series: A large collection of tutorials (PDFs and DOCs) that cover many facets and applications of ArcGIS.

Introducing GIS Worksheets: Tutorials and videos that introduce basic GIS concepts and operations, coupled with QGIS.

CSISS Cookbook: A collection of basic descriptions and illustrations of common GIS tasks, for ArcGIS and ArcView 3.x


d operations, coupled with QGIS.

CSISS Cookbook: A collection of basic descriptions and illustrations of common GIS tasks, for ArcGIS and ArcView 3.xUCLA Statistics Information Portal: Comprehensive list of online resources for GRASS GIS and R statistics software.


Basic online version available here .


Databases for Articles:
Search these databases if you're looking for academic research articles
and reports on GIS. For the full database list click here for Baruch or click here for CUNY .

ScienceDirect: Full text for 2,600+ peer-reviewed journals and indexing and abstracting for many additional titles from their first issues. Most of the journals are in the sciences and social sciences, but there are several in the humanities, mostly in linguistics. Graduate Center access also includes indexing, abstracts, and tables of contents (but not full text) for thousands of e-books.


Geography / GIS Journals:
Browse issues of particular journals. Don't see a title or issue you're looking for in this
list? Use the Full Text Journal tool to find it - the list below is just a summary.
Access the library databases in the box above to search across several journals for articles on a particular
topic. Annals of the Association of American Geographers The Professional Geographer Cartography and Geographic Information Science Transactions in GIS


Static Maps:
These sites provide static reference and thematic maps in a PDF or image format.

Baruch Geoportal Maps: assortment of maps created by the Newman Library; city maps and handouts

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Huge collection of reference and thematic maps for all geographic areas

reference maps for the world, continents, regions, and countries

CIA World Factbook Reference Maps: reference maps for the world, continents, regions, and countries

CIESIN MAP Gallery: A large collection of global and continental thematic maps that cover socio-economic, human development, and environmental issues

US Census Map Products: US, states, counties, metro areas, congressional districts, and census statistical areas

NYC Dept of City Planning Reference: city, boroughs, districts, and neighborhoods


Other Web Resources:
National Climatic Data Center Digital Orthophoto Quads / Oregon Geospatial Data Clearinghouse. Geographical Names Information Server Contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates. GEOnet Names Server The GEOnet Names Server provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's database of foreign geographic feature names. US Department of the Interior. Geodata.gov (Geospatial One-Stop) Geodata.gov is a geographic information system (GIS) portal, also known as the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS), that serves as a public gateway for improving access to geospatial information and data under the Geospatial One-Stop E-Government initiative.


Web Based Mapping:
Google Maps: Good for finding businesses, directions, and general reference. Start an account to create custom maps, build and upload KML files if you have some web space

NY Times Mapping America: Census tract and block level maps for the whole US from the American Community Survey

National Atlas: Government site lets you create reference and thematic maps of the US

Mapping the Measure of America: View state and metropolitan area maps for a variety of socio-economic and demographic variables in the US (maintained by the American Human Development Project)

SEDAC Map Client: Create and view maps for various socio-economic and demographic indicators for the world (maintained by CIESIN Columbia University)


New Titles in Geography:
This page provides a sample of some of the Baruch library's recent acquisitions in geography and GIS.


Bamboo Dirt:
DiRT: Digital Research Tools

Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP)


Upcoming Workshops:
Workshops and others can also be found on the library calendar


Winter 2013 Webinar Videos:
View the webinars here.  Click the link. Flash 10.3 or higher required to view.


Fall 2012 Webinar Videos:
View the webinars here.  Click the link. Flash 10.3 or higher required to view.


Questions about these?:
DH Answers is a very active forum site used by DH students and scholars. If you're learning a new tool or looking for one, chances are someone else has asked a relevant question and gotten some answers. And if not — ask a question yourself!


Mega-lists of tools:
Digital tools for arts & humanities: "This is a catalogue of software tools used at different stages of the research lifecycle in the arts and humanities."


About these tools:
Scan from the Archimedes Palimpsest project , which revealed two important ancient texts invisibly written in an old book The tools listed below may be of use in digital humanities projects. A DH project could be as simple as making a site on WordPress or as complicated as writing your own software (yikes!). Either way, other people have paved the way with useful tools you can use. Don't forget to cite the tool if you publish something using it. The tools below are organized by type: Exploring text and literature Text mining (advanced) Using maps or GIS data Building a website Visualizing data


Exploring text and literature:
Graph of Frankenstein (blue) vs. Dracula (red), from Google's ngram viewer

Google Ngram Viewer: See how often a word is used throughout history, and compare it to other words. This uses all of Google's book data. Fun to play with! (But sometimes susceptible to errors.)

Bookworm for Open Library: Like Google Ngram Viewer, but searches books in Open Library

Voyant Tools: Paste 'n' go online tool. Visualize frequently-used words and word trends in your text.


Text mining (advanced):
Selection of stop words

Natural Language Tool Kit (advanced): The NLTK is a bundle of corpora and text processing libraries to use with the Python language. Useful for tasks such as splitting a text into sentences and determining grammatical structures.

MALLET (advanced): A suite of Java-based tools for natural language processing (NLP). Particularly good for topic modeling and document classification.

TAPoR (advanced): "TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation."


Using maps and GIS data:
Map of the Paris Exposition, 1900, from the Brooklyn Museum's Flickr (GIS = Geographic Information Systems)

Map Warper: Overlay historical maps on current maps.

Neatline: From the website: "Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation."

Google Maps: Create your own maps. Turn on Maps Labs (small link, lower left) to see a few more tools.

Open Street Map: OSM is like the Wikipedia of maps. If you're good with code, you can also configure it for your project — see Documentation .


Building a website:
WordPress websites

WordPress: A very easy way to make a website with good navigation. Optimized for blogs. You can install WordPress on a site you host yourself, or you can have WordPress host your site for free.

Omeka: Have a lot of visual content? Build a website with Omeka, which was designed for scholars, museums, and libraries. Requires you to have access to your own server or have a web host.

Drupal (advanced): An extremely robust content management system (CMS) to install on a site that you host yourself. Drupal is widely used and is very customizable, but there is a steep learning curve.


Visualizing data:
Detail from a visualization of what New Yorkers complain about the most, by Wired . See post at Flowing Data , a great data visualization blog.

Tutorials from Flowing Data (advanced): Making complex and interactive visualizations of data. Often uses the statistical software environment R .


Systematic Reviews:
Cochrane Library: A collection of databases consisting of evidence-based clinical information. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), contains more than 75,000 systemic reviews, protocols, editorials, and supplements. The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) is a directory containing citations, indexing, and abstracts of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials found in scholarly literature. And Clinical Answers contains clinical questions, short answers, and data drawn from Cochrane Reviews allowing users to quickly obtain evidence-based information. Read more in the GC Library blog post about Cochrane .


d data drawn from Cochrane Reviews allowing users to quickly obtain evidence-based information. Read more in the GC Library blog post about Cochrane .SAGE Research Methods: An online collection of more than 1,000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos on how to design and carry out research projects. Browse by discipline or search for a particular research approach (i.e., qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic) and see descriptions and examples from books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, journals, and videos. Read more in our GC Library blog post about Sage Research Methods .


Nursing Resources Guide:
This guide provides you with easy access to Nursing and related medical resources. Use the tabs towards the top of the page to go to the relevant section. To find sources for journal articles select the Articles tab above To search for print and electronic books select the ' Books' tab To search for dissertations from the Grad Center and beyond select the ' Dissertations' tab To search for tests, measures, and statistics select the 'Data & Measures' tab For information on bibliographic citation styles and citation managers such as Zotero select the ' Refworks & Zotero ' tab For information on grants and fellowship opportunities select the ' Prof Orgs & Funding' tab


Request Articles, Books and More through Interlibrary Loan:
The GC Library ILL team can get you information from other libraries, help you access locally available information, and connect you to free online resources. ILL is usually fast (unless it is rare or from far away...but we can still often get those items, too) and always easy and worth a try!


Find Articles: Links to databases that index journals.


E-Journals - directories:
Directory of Open Access Journals: An independent index containing over 17,000 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.


Nursing Best Bets:
CINAHL Complete: A comprehensive nursing and allied health research database containing 4.1 million records dating back to 1937. The database includes indexing of over 5,400 journals, and full text of over 1,400 journals covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative and complementary medicine, consumer health, and related disciplines. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,500 journals are also included.


rnative and complementary medicine, consumer health, and related disciplines. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,500 journals are also included.Cochrane Library: A collection of databases consisting of evidence-based clinical information. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), contains more than 75,000 systemic reviews, protocols, editorials, and supplements. The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) is a directory containing citations, indexing, and abstracts of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials found in scholarly literature. And Clinical Answers contains clinical questions, short answers, and data drawn from Cochrane Reviews allowing users to quickly obtain evidence-based information. Read more in the GC Library blog post about Cochrane .


d data drawn from Cochrane Reviews allowing users to quickly obtain evidence-based information. Read more in the GC Library blog post about Cochrane .Health Policy Reference Center: A full-text database with articles from over 250 publications, including academic journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications. Covers all aspects of health policy and related issues, including access, quality and financing.  Useful for those involved in the creation, implementation, or study of health policy and the health care system.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine: Contains current, scholarly, and comprehensive health information on a wide range of topics from over 2,500 full-text periodicals, reference books, and pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.


ics from over 2,500 full-text periodicals, reference books, and pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Full text from over 550 scholarly medical journals and abstracts and indexing for an additional 850 titles. In addition to strong coverage of nursing and allied health topics, the database includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information , a source for patient information on generic and brand name drugs.

Medline Complete: Full text of 2,500 medical journals, back to 1865 for some titles, as well as indexing for over 5,600 current biomedical journals. See this guide for more information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central.

PubMed: More than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals, and online books. See this guide for information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central. By using this link, users will provided links to full-text resources available through the GC library.


ces between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central. By using this link, users will provided links to full-text resources available through the GC library.PubMed Central: PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).  See this guide for information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central.

SAGE Journals Online: Full text of 744 SAGE journals in the social sciences, sciences, humanities, technology, and medicine.  Offers option of searching SAGE journals to which the Graduate Center does not have full-text access.


Science Databases:
Bioone: Index of bioscience research journals, full-text not available at GC

BioMedCentral: Part of Springer Nature, BMC has an evolving portfolio of 300 open access peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, engineering and medicine. Leading research journals include BMC Biology , BMC Medicine , Genome Biology and Genome Medicine ; academic journals Journal of Hematology & Oncology , Malaria Journal and Microbiome , and the BMC series ; and 65 inclusive journals focused on the needs of individual research communities.  Search across all content or browse by subject or journal.


eries ; and 65 inclusive journals focused on the needs of individual research communities.  Search across all content or browse by subject or journal.General Science Full Text: Indexes nearly 300 scholarly, professional, and popular science periodicals published from 1984 to the present in the United States and the United Kingdom. Includes full text for more than 100 publications from 1995 to the present. Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology, and more.

ScienceDirect: Full text for 2,600+ peer-reviewed journals and indexing and abstracting for many additional titles from their first issues. Most of the journals are in the sciences and social sciences, but there are several in the humanities, mostly in linguistics. Graduate Center access also includes indexing, abstracts, and tables of contents (but not full text) for thousands of e-books.


mostly in linguistics. Graduate Center access also includes indexing, abstracts, and tables of contents (but not full text) for thousands of e-books.SpringerLink: The Graduate Center has full-text access to recent issues of over 3,000 mostly social science and science journals in this database. Only the articles with a Download PDF link are available in full text.  Also includes thousands of titles from the Springer Ebook Collection, which can be accessed separately.


Multi-database search:
Ebsco Multi-Database Search (by categories, fewer titles): This resource allows the simultaneous searching of many of the full-text and bibliographic databases to which all of CUNY subscribes, arranged by category, as well as the CUNY Catalog.

OneSearch: OneSearch combines many initial searches into one interface: it includes print books from all CUNY libraries; Graduate Center ebooks; a massive index of articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers; Graduate Center course reserves; dissertations at CUNY and beyond; and unique digital content.


Interdisciplinary Resources:
While these databases don't focus on nursing, they do index relevant journals and newspapers. Includes scholarly and general publications.

Academic OneFile: Provides full-text articles in all subject areas from over 19,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources as well as thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR (National Public Radio) and CNN, and videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.  Subjects covered include biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.


ubjects covered include biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.Academic Search Complete: A multi-disciplinary database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.  In addition to full text, the database includes indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications, such as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.  While full text is available as far back as 1887 for a few titles, the text of most titles is available only for the past decade or two.


edings, etc.  While full text is available as far back as 1887 for a few titles, the text of most titles is available only for the past decade or two.CQ Researcher: Full-text reports on a wide range of topics including health, education, the environment, technology, the U.S. government and economy, international affairs, crime, civil liberties, social movements, transportation, agriculture, and other political and social issues. Reports are 12,000 words long and include topic overviews, background information, statistics, chronologies, maps, current outlook, pro/con statements, and extensive bibliographies. The CQ Researcher archive goes back to 1923 and includes reports from its predecessor publication, Editorial Research Reports .


ensive bibliographies. The CQ Researcher archive goes back to 1923 and includes reports from its predecessor publication, Editorial Research Reports .JSTOR: A digital library containing journals, books, images, and primary sources. The GC’s subscription includes JSTOR’s Arts and Sciences I-XII collections of scholarly journals across the social sciences and humanities. Coverage begins with the first issue of almost every journal and continues through varying periods within the last five years. Also included are more than 700 freely accessible collections of illustrations, letters, literary documents, newspapers, magazines, photographs, postcards, and yearbooks; open access alternative press publications from the latter half of the 20th century; and thousands of research reports. 3+ million images in Artstor are also now discoverable in JSTOR. Browse content by subject, title, or collection, or search across the full resource. Register for a free personal account to save materials and organize your work.


t by subject, title, or collection, or search across the full resource. Register for a free personal account to save materials and organize your work.PAIS Index - International and Archive: Bibliographic citations from international sources including journals, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more, covering public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general from 1915 to the present.

Project Muse: The CUNY and Graduate Center subscriptions provide access to the full text of nearly 400 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences along with over 70,000 e-books and 4,600 open access books.  Select “Browse All Muse” and filter by Access type “Only content I have access to” to see subscribed and OA content. Or look for the green check mark and OA icons that appear next to accessible titles when searching across the platform. E-books are also available via the separate link to Project Muse E-Books .


Library Catalogs:
OneSearch: OneSearch combines many initial searches into one interface: it includes print books from all CUNY libraries; Graduate Center ebooks; a massive index of articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers; Graduate Center course reserves; dissertations at CUNY and beyond; and unique digital content.

WorldCat Discovery: WorldCat Discovery is a catalog and discovery system containing millions of records for print and electronic holdings in thousands of libraries around the world.


Book Reviews:
Book reviews may also be found in Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Project Muse, and most subject-specific databases.

Book Review Digest Plus: Reviews of fiction and nonfiction in the humanities, social sciences, general sciences, and popular topics published in English since 1983. Includes over 600,000 full-text book reviews and more than 2 million citations to reviews. Textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences are not included. Book reviews may also be found in Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Project Muse, and most subject-specific databases.


d the sciences are not included. Book reviews may also be found in Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Project Muse, and most subject-specific databases.Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982: Provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles in the humanities, social sciences, general sciences, and popular topics published in English from 1903 through 1982. Covers 300,000 books and cites over 1.5 million book reviews found in over 500 popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Entries include bibliographic information and book summaries. Book reviews may also be found in Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Project Muse, and most subject-specific databases.


E-Books:
Books@Ovid: Available at Hunter: Full text of selected titles in nursing and allied health sciences.

Ovid Nursing Ebooks: Two Ovid ebook collections in the subject area of nursing: LWW JBI Collection 2014 and Nursing Book Collection 2013 (306 titles total).

Oxford Reference: Text of nearly 400 Oxford University Press reference works in 25 core subject areas. Titles include Oxford Companions to American Literature, American Theatre, the Bible, British History, Classical Civilization, History of Modern Science, Music, Philosophy, Politics of the World, Shakespeare, United States History, and Western Art. Available titles may be found in OneSearch .

Oxford Dictionaries: Formerly Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. Translations of thousands of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish words and phrases.


: Formerly Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. Translations of thousands of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish words and phrases.Oxford English Dictionary (OED): With 600,000 words and 3.7 million quotations from over 1,000 years, the OED is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words in the English language.  The OED is updated quarterly with revised entries and new words and senses. The updates make up the Third Edition of the OED .

Directory of Open Access Journals: An independent index containing over 17,000 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

Springer Ebook Collection: Text of over 40,000 Springer books published from 2005 to 2015, selected book series dating back to 1997, and an additional 10,000 open access titles. Subjects include biomedical and life sciences, computer science, medicine, mathematics, physics, and related fields. Available titles may also be found in OneSearch .


biomedical and life sciences, computer science, medicine, mathematics, physics, and related fields. Available titles may also be found in OneSearch .EBSCO Ebook Collection: Formerly known as NetLibrary, the EBSCO eBook Collection provides more than 2,800 scholarly and popular titles. Browse by subject category or search across the collection to find full text ebooks. Create a free account to enable full downloads.


Dissertations:
Dissertations & Theses Global: Indexes two-million dissertations from over one-thousand institutions, with citations from 1861-1980 and abstracts from 1980 to present. Includes the full text of most post-1996 CUNY dissertations and many post-1996 dissertations from other institutions, as well as thousands of earlier ones. To limit your search to CUNY dissertations, include 0046 in your search statement, selecting the school name/code search field. Non-U.S.dissertations can be searched in the Center for Research Libraries' catalog.

Dissertations & Theses @ City University of New York Graduate Center: CUNY dissertations dating back to 1965. Full text available except for embargoed works.


Beyond the Grad Center:
Request From CUNY: You can have books from other CUNY libraries sent to the Graduate Center. When you find an item in OneSearch, click the 'Request' tab, and enter your library barcode. Only books can be requested through CUNY. If you need an article or book chapter, submit an interlibrary loan request.

Interlibrary Loan: If the book you need is not available at any CUNY library or if you need an article from a journal not at the Grad Center or photocopies of a book chapter submit a request for this item via interlibrary loan. If you have questions or need help placing your request, email ill@gc.cuny.edu


The Elusive Dissertation:
There is no single source for a comprehensive dissertation search. WorldCat and Digital Dissertations include most American dissertations. Dissertations @ The Center for Research Libraries in Chicago lends non-American dissertations to member borrowers. Library catalogs and depositories contain other titles not represented elsewhere. Request any dissertation through Interlibrary Loan . Finding Ph. D. Dissertations & Master's Theses (PDF)


Dissertation Databases:
For more dissertation resources, please visit the Dissertations & Theses guide .

EThOS British Library Electronic Theses Online (temporarily offline): Searches 250,000+ theses, many available in full text with a free online account. Theses not available for immediate download take 30 days to digitize. Order via CUNY Graduate Center interlibrary loan to cover any digitization fees. Most UK universities participate except Oxford, Cambridge, and Univ of Southampton.


Graduate Center interlibrary loan to cover any digitization fees. Most UK universities participate except Oxford, Cambridge, and Univ of Southampton.Dissertations & Theses Global: Indexes two-million dissertations from over one-thousand institutions, with citations from 1861-1980 and abstracts from 1980 to present. Includes the full text of most post-1996 CUNY dissertations and many post-1996 dissertations from other institutions, as well as thousands of earlier ones. To limit your search to CUNY dissertations, include 0046 in your search statement, selecting the school name/code search field. Non-U.S.dissertations can be searched in the Center for Research Libraries' catalog.

Dissertations & Theses @ City University of New York Graduate Center: CUNY dissertations dating back to 1965. Full text available except for embargoed works.


ations & Theses @ City University of New York Graduate Center: CUNY dissertations dating back to 1965. Full text available except for embargoed works.Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online Catalog: The Center for Research Libraries provides a shared collection of five million books, journals, documents and newspapers to supplement member libraries’ holdings in the humanities, science, and social sciences. With a strategic emphasis on expanding electronic access to international primary source collections, CRL participates in a number of cooperative digitization efforts, yielding millions of pages of digitized content to date. CRL resources include:


ons, CRL participates in a number of cooperative digitization efforts, yielding millions of pages of digitized content to date. CRL resources include:The largest circulating collection of newspapers in North America – more than 16,000 newspaper titles from all world regions and from every U.S. state – mainstream dailies, underground and alternative press titles, rare publications from international conflict zones, U.S. ethnic titles, early African-American newspapers, and radio broadcast reports and transcripts Foreign journals rarely held in U.S. libraries, with a focus on science and technology Access to rich holdings in science, technology, and engineering print serials through a partnership with the Linda Hall Library More than 800,000 non U.S. dissertations Area Studies: major collections of news, government documents, and archives from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Southeast and South Asia Millions of pages of primary source documents, including major sets from the National Archives of the U.S. and the U.K., and many special collections from around the world U.S.


ry source documents, including major sets from the National Archives of the U.S. and the U.K., and many special collections from around the world U.S.ry source documents, including major sets from the National Archives of the U.S. and the U.K., and many special collections from around the world U.S.ry source documents, including major sets from the National Archives of the U.S. and the U.K., and many special collections from around the world U.S.and international legal and government resources


Tests & Measurements:
Testlink (ETS Test Collection Index): Purchase online or find free in the Grad Center ETS Collection, shelved under "Tests in Microfiche," Graduate Center Library Fiche, North. Also see ETS Test Collection Catalog (Graduate Center Ref LB 3051 .E79 1993); Tests in Print, V. 1 - 6 (Graduate Center Ref LB 3051 .T455)

Health and Psychosocial Instruments: Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, this bibliographic database is abstracted from hundreds of journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. HaPI also provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education. Records contained in HaPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques and more.


naires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques and more.PsycTests: A database of full text psychological tests and measures designed for use with social and behavioral science research. Also includes structured information about tests of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields. Uncheck the APA Handbooks box to search only PsycTests.

Mental Measurements Yearbook: Information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks from 1989 to the present.


Statistics & Data:
BYTES of the Big Apple: The Department of City Planning is committed to making its public data freely available to developers and to all members of the public.

CDC Wonder: CDC WONDER presents you with an array of health related data sets. Each data set can be queried using a series of menus.


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CDC Wonder: CDC WONDER presents you with an array of health related data sets. Each data set can be queried using a series of menus.CDC - National Center for Health Statistics: Downloadable public-use data files ...access to data sets, documentation, and questionnaires from NCHS surveys and data collection systems. Downloading instructions are available in “readme” files. Public-use data files are prepared and disseminated to provide access to the full scope of the data. This allows researchers to manipulate the data in a format appropriate for their analyses. NCHS makes every effort to release data collected through its surveys and data systems in a timely manner. Users of NCHS public-use data files must comply with data use restrictions to ensure that the information will be used solely for statistical analysis or reporting purposes.

EpiQuery: A web-based system designed to guide users through basic data analyses on several datasets on varying topics and indicators for different NYC populations.Users can run cross-tabulations and find point estimates with confidence intervals.


ets on varying topics and indicators for different NYC populations.Users can run cross-tabulations and find point estimates with confidence intervals.GenderStats: GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators designed with user-friendly, menu-driven features. It offers statistical and other data in modules on several subjects. The data in each module is presented in ready-to-use format. Users have the option of saving the country views in Excel (or another spreadsheet software) to customize reports. Note: from the World Bank

Google Dataset Search: See also Google Public Data Directory https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

H-CUP (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality): HCUP's Nationwide databases can be used to identify, track, and analyze national trends in healthcare utilization, access, charges, quality, and outcomes.


's Nationwide databases can be used to identify, track, and analyze national trends in healthcare utilization, access, charges, quality, and outcomes.Health Data: On this site, you can find data on a wide range of topics, including environmental health, medical devices, Medicare & Medicaid, social services, community health, mental health, and substance abuse. The data is collected and supplied from agencies from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as well as state partners. This includes the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, among others.

Health Data Interactive: Health Data Interactive presents tables with national health statistics for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Tables can be customized by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location to explore different trends and patterns.


, adults, and older adults. Tables can be customized by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location to explore different trends and patterns.ICPSR: Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research: ICPSR, the world's largest collection of digital social science data, maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. ICPSR data cover sociology, political science, economics, demography, education, child care, health care, crime, minority populations, aging, terrorism, substance abuse, mental health, public policy, international relations, and more. First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account; thereafter, you will need your email address and password to download data.

Infoshare: Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data, and other demographic information about New York City drawn from city, state, and federal sources. Profile or compare areas across the city and state, or use the raw data to create customized tables.


City drawn from city, state, and federal sources. Profile or compare areas across the city and state, or use the raw data to create customized tables.National Center for Disease Control: Nationwide health data.

NYC Community Health Profiles: Information on health issues such as diabetes, obesity, smoking, etc. for 42 neighborhoods. From the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

NYC Open Data: Open Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online: FULL-TEXT, with statistics, of the current Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics; with ongoing updates.

Statistical Insight: Includes indexing, abstracting, and full text of millions of statistical reports, publications, tables, and datasets on thousands of topics produced by U.S. federal agencies, state governments, private and academic organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.


ousands of topics produced by U.S. federal agencies, state governments, private and academic organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.Statistics Sources: Content of the 2010 edition. Guide to current sources of factual quantitative information about more than 20,000 specific subjects, incorporating almost 135,000 citations and more than 1,600 sources. Provides the widest possible range of print and nonprint, published and unpublished, and electronic and other forms of U.S. and international statistical data on industrial, business, social, educational, financial, and other topics.

US Census: Data.census.gov is the new platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data and content, and more time using it.

Vital Statistics of New York State: Vital statistics in table form.

Vital Statistics: NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene: Statistics on birth, death, illness, etc. in summary and searchable form.


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Vital Statistics: NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene: Statistics on birth, death, illness, etc. in summary and searchable form.WHO- Global Health Obsrvatory Resources: The GHO data repository is WHO's gateway to health-related statistics for its 194 Member States. It provides access to over 1000 indicators on priority health topics including mortality and burden of diseases, the Millennium Development Goals (child nutrition, child health, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected diseases, water and sanitation), non communicable diseases and risk factors, epidemic-prone diseases, health systems, environmental health, violence and injuries, equity among others.