ess.  Cross-searchable with the American State Papers, 1789-1838, which contains legislative and executive documents of the 1st through 14th Congress.U.S. Declassified Documents Online: Declassified executive branch documents from presidential libraries and executive agencies consisting of intelligence studies, policy papers, diplomatic correspondence, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, and domestic surveillance and military reports.  This digital collection began as the Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) on microfiche and fills a gap in post-World War II domestic and foreign policy studies.


on began as the Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) on microfiche and fills a gap in post-World War II domestic and foreign policy studies.American State Papers, 1789-1838: A collection of legislative and executive documents from the first 14 U.S. Congresses. Covers major historical events, including Lewis and Clark’s Expedition, Aaron Burr’s Conspiracy and Arrest, the Treaty of the Creek Indians made by Andrew Jackson, and many other events.  Also includes speeches and messages of Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison.  Browse or search for documents related to Native Americans, foreign relations, commerce and navigation, public lands, military affairs, and many other topics.  Approximately two-thirds of the publications cover the first 14 Congresses (1789-1817), while the remaining third chronologically overlap with the Congressional Serial Set (1817-1838). The American State Papers are not a complete record of the activities of this time period because of the fire of 1814 and the lack of record keeping.

Beyond Wikipedia: Background & Reference Sources


Government Document Research Guides:
Following are research guides from a variety of sources that will help you find federal, state, and local government information in print, on microfilm, and online.


Government Data & Statistics:
Governments at every level -- Federal, State, County and City -- collect reams of data.  See the Statistics & Data tab in this research guide for additional sources of government information.


Catalog of U.S. Government Publications:
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications "is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options."


Federal, state, and local government records, including birth certificates, marriage and divorce certificates, death certificates, and census records are invaluable for genealogical and historical research into the lives of individuals and families.  Following are resources to help you get started: Reclaim The Records is a not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates who sue government agencies and archives to obtain access to public records. Reclaim The Records digitizes everything they win and posts it online for free for all to use without restrictions.  They have so far made available indexes to birth, marriage, and death indexes in several states, including New York and New Jersey.  And they have multiple outstanding FOIA requests for nationwide records and state-level records across the U.S.


s, including New York and New Jersey.  And they have multiple outstanding FOIA requests for nationwide records and state-level records across the U.S.s, including New York and New Jersey.  And they have multiple outstanding FOIA requests for nationwide records and state-level records across the U.S.s, including New York and New Jersey.  And they have multiple outstanding FOIA requests for nationwide records and state-level records across the U.S.Everyone Counts: Using the Census in Genealogy Research - A very helpful research guide from the New York Public Library.  Also see the NYPL's guide on Conducting Genealogical Research Using Newspapers for further search strategies.


Guides for Legal Research:
Following are a few research guides from other libraries to help you find information on legal topics. Links to subscription databases at other libraries won't work for GC researchers (except the NYPL links), so look for recommended databases, journals, or books at the GC.  If we don't have an item you would like to consult, request it via Interlibrary Loan . Also see the Government Info tab in this guide for additional resources.

Alternate Legal Research Tools: A guide from Harvard Law Library that provides information on and links to free and low cost alternatives for legal research.

Legal Research - United States: Primary Sources: Cases, Trials, and Case Law: This extremely helpful research guide from the Princeton University Library will help you find cases, trials, case law, statutes, and treatises.

Legislative History Guide from Baruch College: A very helpful guide on finding the legislative history of a law.


, case law, statutes, and treatises.

Legislative History Guide from Baruch College: A very helpful guide on finding the legislative history of a law.Law and Legal Resources at NYPL: An overview of the NYPL's electronic and print, current and historical law and legal holdings with links to resources.

Federal Legislative History Research Guide from CUNY School of Law: Follow the steps in this guide to find the legislative history of enacted federal statutes.

Environmental Law Research Guide from GeorgetownnLaw: A great place to start research on Federal and New York environmental law.

Legal Research for Beginners: A research guide from the New York Law Institute "detailing where to find the law including primary sources such as constitutions, statutes, court opinions and case law, regulations, and administrative decisions as well as important secondary and scholarly sources which may be cited as persuasive authority such as treatises, law reviews, specialized periodicals, annotations, and restatements, as well as legal encyclopedias. Both free and commercial sources are included."


Helpful Books:
The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History: "The study of legal history has a broad application that extends well beyond the interests of legal historians. An attorney arguing a case today may need to cite cases that are decades or even centuries old, and historians studying political or cultural history often encounter legal issues that affect their main subjects. Both groups need to understand the laws and legal practices of past eras. This essential reference is intended for the many nonspecialists who need to enter this arcane and often tricky area of research."


tices of past eras. This essential reference is intended for the many nonspecialists who need to enter this arcane and often tricky area of research."Legal Research: "For those determined to conquer a real or virtual law library, here's the book to check out. Comprehensive and user-friendly, it explains how to: -- understand and use all the basic tools of legal research and practice: legal encyclopedias, case digests, Shepard's Citations and treatises-- decode statutes, regulations and cases-- organize research results into a memorandum of law-- practice with review questions, library exercises and hypothetical research problemsIncludes step-by-step, illustrated procedural guides for finding legal resources on the Web, as well as an update of law library resources and exercises."


CUNY School of Law Library:
CUNY-affiliated individuals are welcome to visit the CUNY School of Law Library Mondays through Thursdays during staffed hours by showing a current CUNY ID. CUNY visitors can get help from reference librarians and use IP-authenticated databases such as Heinonline, Proquest Legislative insight, and Law360.  But they cannot check out materials from the law school library or use password-driven databases such as Westlaw, Lexis or Bloomberg. There are no printing facilities are available for visitors at the library. Directions to the CUNY School of Law Library can be found here .


Legal Research Libraries in NYC:
Public Access Law Librariies: A list of law libraries in New York State that are open to the public.


Organizations - Selections:
American Civil Liberties Union: "For almost 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States."

Brennan Center for Justice: "[A] nonpartisan law and policy institute that works to reform, revitalize – and when necessary, defend – our country's systems of democracy and justice."

Center for Constitutional Rights: "[A] non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change."

EarthJustice: The original and largest nonprofit environmental law organization in the U.S.

Southern Poverty Law Center: "Dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality."


U.S. Legislation:
Congress.gov: The official website for U.S. federal legislative information from the Library of Congress.

U.S. Supreme Court: Find opinions, argument transcripts, case documents, historical information, the Court's calendar, and more on the Court's official site.

Oyez: A free multimedia archive from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute, Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law containing all of the Supreme Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, full-text Supreme Court opinions, and detailed information on every justice throughout the Court’s history.


Online Legal Sources from the GC and Beyond:
CourtListener: A non-profit free legal search engine and alert system from Free Law Project that includes a fully searchable database that can be used to find research opinions, federal court filings, judges, or oral argument recordings.

Criminal Justice Database: Indexes over 620 international criminal justice publications from 1981 to the present, with full text for more than half of the titles. Supports research on crime, corrections administration, criminal law, criminal justice, law enforcement, addiction, family law, industrial security, and rehabilitation. Includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, and crime blogs.


industrial security, and rehabilitation. Includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, and crime blogs.Criminal Trial Transcripts of NY County Collection (1883-1927): "Selected transcripts from the Lloyd Sealy Library's Trial Transcripts of the County of New York (1883-1927) collection. ... Consists of the verbatim typewritten proceedings of 3,326 court cases, held in various courts of New York County, which included Manhattan and the Bronx until 1914. Not all trial transcripts have been digitized."

Foreign Law Guide: Foreign Law Guide (FLG) offers information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and selected references to secondary sources in one virtual destination. Broad in content and global in scope, the FLG systemically covers approximately 190 jurisdictions which are updated by a global team of experts.


tion. Broad in content and global in scope, the FLG systemically covers approximately 190 jurisdictions which are updated by a global team of experts.Free Law Project: "Free Law Project provides free access to court documents, opinions, judges, and more via CourtListener and RECAP. It also advocates for legal reform, builds tools and datasets, and offers data services."

HeinOnline: An online research platform containing millions of pages of periodicals, government documents, international resources, case law, and more. CUNY’s subscription includes the following databases: Civil Rights and Social Justice Gun Regulation and Legislation in America Labor and Employment: The American Worker LGBTQ+ Rights Open Society Justice Initiative Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law


erica Labor and Employment: The American Worker LGBTQ+ Rights Open Society Justice Initiative Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & LawThe International Center for Not-for-Profit Law: "ICNL provides up-to-date, freely accessible information about issues shaping the legal environment for civil society, philanthropy, and public participation. ... [They] maintain a large and diverse collection of resources ... [and] curate collections of the best resources available on issues affecting civic space worldwide. We publish reports and data on topics relevant to civil society."

Law Library Microfilm Consortium: LLMC Digital includes thousands of digitized historical legal and government documents, including federal, state, and territorial governments of the U.S., and government publications from Canada, the U.K., Germany, and other countries. It also includes collections of Indigenous law, international law, and multi-jurisdictional special focus collections, such as Roman law, Islamic law, and Canon law. These materials should be of particular interest to researchers in history, political science, and sociology.


s Roman law, Islamic law, and Canon law. These materials should be of particular interest to researchers in history, political science, and sociology.Law Resources from the Center for Research Libraries: Access includes LLMCdigital, a database of primary legal and government-related documents, as well as print and microform collections, secondary legal sources, and dissertations.

Legal Source: Information on current issues, studies and trends in the legal world, with over 1,200 full-text scholarly law journals and over 2.5 million records, including book reviews and case citations. Topic coverage includes criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor and human resource law, ethics, the environment, and more.  Coverage dates back to 1908.


ational law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor and human resource law, ethics, the environment, and more.  Coverage dates back to 1908.LegalTrac: LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text. The American Association of Law Libraries endorses LegalTrac and its special advisory committee selects, reviews, and enhances the content of this resource. The database offers coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.


of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database: The NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of over 200,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research.


ncluding federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research.NCJRS Virtual Library: The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library hosts a collection of over 235,000 information resources on criminal justice subjects, including corrections, courts, drugs, law enforcement, juvenile justice, victims of crime, and related topics. The Virtual Library provides access to all known OJP works and sponsored research, as well as to thousands of government products, research reports, journal articles, and published and unpublished literature produced through 2014.


h, as well as to thousands of government products, research reports, journal articles, and published and unpublished literature produced through 2014.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


siness information on U.S. and international companies (see Dossier section) and patent data (see TotalPatent One section).

Nexis Uni video tutorialsSlavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law: This collection includes every U.S. federal, state and colony statute passed on slavery, all reported state and federal judicial cases on slavery, Congressional debates from the Continental Congress to 1880, more than a thousand books and pamphlets from the 19th century, including essays and articles in obscure journals. The growing collection also includes modern histories of slavery, modern law review articles on the subject, and an extensive bibliography. Much of the secondary source material in the collection is based on the holdings of the Buffalo Public Library's rare book collection. See the Comprehensive Users Guide for full search details.

Trials - Famous Trials: "The Web's most visited and most comprehensive collection of essays, images, maps, primary documents, links, and other materials pertaining to sixty-six of the most famous trials of all time, from Socrates to Simpson."


Introduction:
This page contains a brief selection of resources to help you get started with legal research.  Sources include research guides, non-profit legal organizations, and databases containing articles, cases, laws, and other documents.  The guides for legal research should be especially useful for learning how to approach particular topics.


Build Your Research Skills:
The Oxford Guide to Library Research is a valuable tool for unlocking the universe of sources available in libraries and online.

"Presenting various schools of thought ... Going to the Sources ... explores the dynamic, nature, and professional history of research papers, and shows readers how to identify, find, and evaluate both primary and secondary sources for their own writing assignments."  (From the intro to the 6th edition.)

The Craft of Research walks you the entire research process, from coming up with a topic to writing up your results, and offers guidance on organizing your thoughts around research.

" From Reliable Sources is ... an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus on the basics of source criticism, rather than on how to find references or on the process of writing, makes it an invaluable guide ..."  (Publisher's summary)


sics of source criticism, rather than on how to find references or on the process of writing, makes it an invaluable guide ..."  (Publisher's summary)Learning to Do Historical Research is a user-friendly online research primer that follows the steps laid out in The Craft of Research.


The Research Question:
The authors of The Craft of Research devised a three-step formula you can use to develop research question worth answering .  Without a good question, you'll just be gathering data.  Fill in the blanks to focus your efforts and build a research question of significance. 1. Topic: I am studying ______________ 2. Question: because I want to find out what/why/how ____________ 3. Significance: in order to better understand ______________ Learn More: The Importance of a Good Research Question ( Sources : The Craft of Research ; Learning Historical Research, Sources: Manuscripts and Archives )


Avoiding Plagiarism:
Avoiding and Detecting Plagiarism:  A Guide for Graduate Students and Faculty prepared by the Graduate Center's Office of the Provost and the Office of the VP for Student Affairs is a comprehensive guide that will help you avoid plagiarism. Also see the Purdue OWL:  Avoiding Plagiarism online tool for practical advice and tips.


Copyright:
Consult CUNY's Fair Use and Copyright guide for help making independent, informed decisions about copyright compliance and educational fair use.


Evaluating Sources:
Good scholarship requires careful reading and critical analysis of information.  Whether you are using primary, secondary, or reference sources in print or online, be sure to evaluate them closely. Following are basic evaluation criteria, adapted from The Information-Literate Historian by Jenny L. Presnell, that can be applied to all types of sources: Author Authority Who created the item?  What is his or her affiliation? Audience and Purpose Who is the intended audience?  Why was the item created? Accuracy and Completeness Is the evidence reliable?  Are the important points covered? Footnotes and Documentation Are the author's sources clearly identified with complete citations to allow you to find the original source yourself? Perspective and Bias How do the author's bias and perspective inform the arguments and evidence presented?


Citing & Quoting:
For information on how to cite sources, how to format citations using various styles such as APA or Chicago, and how to use tools for managing your citations, see our Citation Managers & Style Guides research guide.


Graduate Center Research Guides:
Graduate Center Research Guides: There are more than 80 research guides by Grad Center librarians on topics ranging from Music to Classics to Psychology to Urban Studies and more.  Use our guides to find the best resources on your topic at the Graduate Center Library and beyond. Other guides cover research metrics, digital tools and techniques, citation management, finding, mapping, and managing data, open access, demography, using the library, and other topics.


Library of Congress Research Guides:
Library of Congress  Bibliographies, Research Guides, and Finding Aids: These guides are useful for researchers looking for primary and secondary sources in the LC's collections and beyond on topics ranging from the Marx Brothers to the Harlem Renaissance, and much else in between. Use the DIvision Index to limit results to specific resources such as Newspapers and Periodicals, Manuscripts, Prints and Photographs, Recorded Sound, etc. Also see the Index of Library of Congress Research Guides .


New York Public Library Research Guides:
NYPL Research Guides: Dozens of guides on a wide range of topics. Resources are geared towards NYPL's collections, but are relevant and useful for researchers anywhere.  Browse by Subject, NYPL Division, Library, or Audience. The NYPL has additional research guides in the LibGuides platform. Browse NYPL LibGuides . Also see the Schomburg Syllabus for educational resources relating to Black studies, movements, and experiences.


CUNY Graduate School of Journalism - Research Guides for Reporters:
Research guides to help reporters gather information on a wide range of topics including Cops & Crime Research; Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News; Data Resources for Reporting; and Public Records Research. Also included are guides on finding background information on people and companies; court records research; and video, graphics, and audio resources and archives. Though the guides are geared towards journalists, they provide highly useful information and search strategies for any researcher.


Research guides -- sometimes called LibGuides -- are written by subject specialists familiar with the print and electronic resources in a given area.  Research guides can streamline the search process and quickly point you to the best sources on a topic. Listed below are links to research guides from the Graduate Center Library, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.  Many other libraries have them too, so when your research leads you beyond the GC, be sure to check library websites to find guides to local collections and resources.


ies have them too, so when your research leads you beyond the GC, be sure to check library websites to find guides to local collections and resources.ies have them too, so when your research leads you beyond the GC, be sure to check library websites to find guides to local collections and resources.ies have them too, so when your research leads you beyond the GC, be sure to check library websites to find guides to local collections and resources.You can also try a Google search to find research guides on specific topics to help you identify potential resources.  For example, if you wanted to find reliable sources on the history of South Asia and didn't know where to begin, a Google search formatted like this could help: "South Asia" LibGuides Note:  The term "LibGuides" refers to the platform many academic libraries use to publish research guides.  And putting multi-word subjects in quotes will tell Google to search for the words as a phrase.  The search will turn up research guides at various academic libraries.  Browse the guides to identify potential research avenues and then look for those resources here at the GC Library .  If we don't have what you need, you can usually request it via Interlibrary Loan .


Data Rescue Project:
"The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST , RDAP , and members of the Data Curation Network . Our goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk. You can read more about our efforts on our Resources about the Data Rescue Project page."


U.S. Census Data & Demography:
A great place to begin research into U.S. Census Data is Baruch College Library's comprehensive guide to using U.S. Census Data . Use the guide to learn about Census datasets "that can be used for socio-economic, demographic, and business analysis."  From the guide you can also access current and historical U.S. Census data and see options for mapping data and zeroing in on neighborhood-level Census data. Also see Baruch College's Demography Research Guide for help "finding sources for demographic theories and methods (articles and books) as well as materials (raw and refined data)."


U.S. Statistics - A Selection of Sources:
The Children & Family Data Archive: "The C&F Data Archive hosts datasets about young children, their families and communities, and the programs that serve them. The C&F Data Archive hosts over 300 datasets. Data users have 24/7 access to downloadable data on children and families, with the ability to analyze selected datasets online. Users can also search and compare variables and peruse data-related publications."

Data for Progress: "Data for Progress is the think tank for the future of progressivism.  ... We provide research, polling on left issues and analysis to support activists and advocacy groups, challenging conventional wisdom about the American public that lack empirical support."

Data USA: A comprehensive website and visualization engine of public US government data covering people, places, industries, skill sets, educational institutions and more.


sive website and visualization engine of public US government data covering people, places, industries, skill sets, educational institutions and more.International Migration Research Guide: Consult the GC's comprehensive International Migration research guide for data, statistics, and other information on U.S. and International migration.

Measures for Justice: MFJ was founded in 2011 to develop a data-driven set of performance measures to assess and compare the criminal justice process from arrest to post-conviction on a county-by-county basis. The data set comprises measures that address three broad categories: Fiscal Responsibility, Fair Process, and Public Safety.

National Centers for Environmental Information: "NCEI maintains one of the most significant archives on Earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data. We archive over 229 terabytes of data each month from over 130 observing platforms."

National Center for Health Statistics (Centers for Disease Control): The NCHS collects, analyzes, and disseminates timely, relevant, and accurate health data and statistics.


lth Statistics (Centers for Disease Control): The NCHS collects, analyzes, and disseminates timely, relevant, and accurate health data and statistics.Pew Research Center: Pew is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, and nonadvocacy fact tank that conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. They study U.S. politics and policy; journalism and media; internet, science and technology; religion and public life; Hispanic trends; global attitudes and trends; and U.S. social and demographic trends.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics: Full-text, with statistics, of the current Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics; with ongoing updates.


Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics: Full-text, with statistics, of the current Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics; with ongoing updates.Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2013- (@ NYPL): Published since 1878, the SA is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the US. The Census Department terminated its collection of data for the Statistical Compendia program effective October 1, 2011 after losing Congressional funding.  Beginning in 2012, ProQuest assumed responsibility for updating and maintaining the SA. This database incorporates editions from 1970 to the present. The database is available at all NYPL locations.

Statistical Abstract of the United States, Earlier Editions: Statistical Abstracts from the 1870s to the 2010s along with Historical Statistics of the United States 1789-1957, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, and several Statistical Abstract Supplements.


ited States, Colonial Times to 1957, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, and several Statistical Abstract Supplements.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.

STATS America: States and counties in profile, plus side-by-side comparisons. A service of the Indiana Business Research Center at IU's Kelley School of Business. Includes thousands of data items from hundreds of data sets from dozens of federal and state sources, along with some commercial or private source data.

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book: This data collection provides statistics gathered from a variety of federal agencies and national associations. Demographic, economic, and governmental data from both the federal government and private agencies are presented to enable multiarea comparisons as well as single-area profiles.


governmental data from both the federal government and private agencies are presented to enable multiarea comparisons as well as single-area profiles.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.

United States Elections Project: "[A]n information source for the United States electoral system.  The mission of the project is to provide timely and accurate election statistics, electoral laws, research reports, and other useful information regarding the United States electoral system."


Selected Sources for Data:
Google Dataset Search: A new search tool from Google that "lets you find datasets wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher's site, a digital library, or an author's personal web page."   Read more in Google's blog post .

D-PLACE: The Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment brings together cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1,400 human societies or cultural groups. The database is searchable by geographical area, language family, cultural features, or environmental variables. Users can compare cultural practices between societies and display results in a table, map, or linguistic tree.

About D-PLACE .

Open Knowledge International: "a worldwide non-profit network of people passionate about openness, using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and enable people to work with it to create and share knowledge."


ionate about openness, using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and enable people to work with it to create and share knowledge."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 .


n 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 .Tweet ID Datasets: A catalog of tweet identifier datasets that are publicly available on the web.

2023: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics, New York Times: Data visualizations, videos, maps, and graphics on a wide range of topics, including science, natural disasters, medicine, politics, architecture, entertainment, and more.  Includes links to visual stories from previous years.


Data Research Guides at the GC:
Consult the following GC guides for tips on finding and using data in your research:


New York City and State Data and Statistics:
NYCdata: Demographic, political, financial, and cultural information about New York City from Baruch College’s Weissman Center for International Business.  Includes links to data sources.

New York City Open Data: Explore, export, and crunch open data related to New York City.  Datasets are searchable or browsable by Agency, Category (Business, Education, Environment, etc.), Recently Published, and Popular datasets.

New York State Open Data: "Browse and download over 1,600 New York State data resources on topics ranging from farmers' markets to solar photovoltaic projects to MTA turnstile usage."

NYC Planning Dept.: Data portal that includes the Population Division, which "is responsible for the compilation, analysis, and dissemination of census and related federal, state, and local data for city agencies, local communities, and the media."  The site also links to NYC Economic data, Open Data, and Maps & Geography.


tate, and local data for city agencies, local communities, and the media."  The site also links to NYC Economic data, Open Data, and Maps & Geography.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.

Social Explorer: Over 500,000 data indicators including the latest demographic and socio-economic data; historical demographic data from 1790 to the present; the American Community Survey 1-, 3-, and 5-year estimates; Market Profile Data; Economic Indicators; change over time data from 1970 to present; U.S. data on agriculture, the environment, Black Lives Matter protests, schools, crime, health, population estimates, business patterns, elections, and other topics; Canadian Census; U.K. Census; European Statistics Data; and World Development Indicators.


International Statistics:
ASEANStats: From the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Europa World Year Book: Latest edition available at NYPL's Science, Industry & Business Library (Call Number: *R-SIBL JN1.E85) and Schwarzman Building.

European Union Statistics & Opinion Polls: Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union with a mission to provide high quality statistics and data on Europe.

Gender Equality Data and Statistics: GenderStats (from the World Bank) 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.


s presented in ready-to-use format. Users have the option of saving the country views in Excel (or another spreadsheet software) to customize reports.International Migration Research Guide: Consult the GC's comprehensive International Migration research guide for data, statistics, and other information on U.S. and International migration.

International Monetary Fund: Statistics and data on countries of the world.

The International Tree-Ring Data Bank: "The International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) is the world's largest public archive of tree ring data, managed by NCEI's Paleoclimatology Team and the World Data System for Paleoclimatology.  ... The ITRDB includes raw ring width, wood density, and isotope measurements, plus site growth index chronologies. Over 4,000 sites on six continents are included."  Read more in the New York Times : "Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us ."


dex chronologies. Over 4,000 sites on six continents are included."  Read more in the New York Times : "Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us ."NatureServe: "For nearly 50 years, NatureServe has been the authoritative source for biodiversity data throughout North America. We work with 60+ network organizations and 1,000+ conservation scientists to collect, analyze, and deliver biodiversity knowledge that informs conversation action."

North Korean Economy Watch: News and analysis of the North Korean economy from a researcher at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation: The OECD promotes policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. They collect and analyze a wide range of data and publish regular outlooks, annual overviews, and comparative statistics.


of people around the world. They collect and analyze a wide range of data and publish regular outlooks, annual overviews, and comparative statistics.SIPRI - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: "SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public."

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.

United Nations Data: "A World of Data" from 34 databases and 6 million records.  Also includes links to individual country statistics sites.

The World Bank - Countries & Economies Data: Find data and statistics by Country, Topic, or Indicators.  Browse and search the Data Catalog and Microdata.


Books on Statistics:
A Subject search on the word "statistics" in the CUNY+ library catalog will turn up print and eBooks at the Graduate Center and other CUNY library locations. Use the facets at the left of the screen to narrow your search results.


Reference Guide to Data Sources:
The Reference Guide to Data Sources by Julia Bauder (ALA Editions, 2014) is a valuable reference tool for finding major and minor U.S. and world sources of data on virtually any subject. Topics include Agriculture and Food, Climate, Crime, Earth Sciences, Economics, Education, Energy, Labor, Real Estate, Trade and Tariffs, Health and Health Care, Political Science, Elections, War and Peace, Public Opinion Surveys, Transportation, People, and more.


Geographic Information Systems:
If you need to visualize and organize geographic data, the Baruch College Library's Geospatial Data Librarian has an excellent research guide that will help you get started: Geographic Information Systems Research Guide . Note that links to any subscription resources will require Baruch Library Network Credentials.  GC-affiliated researchers should search for those sources through the GC Library .


Oxford Reference Timelines:
Oxford Reference Timelines: Part of Oxford Reference.  Includes 270 timelines covering Art & Architecture, Classical studies, History, Literature, Medicine & Health, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion, Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, and World History by Century.


American Decades:
American Decades: Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library, American Decades spans the 20th Century. Browse timelines by decade and read overviews on the arts, media, business, law and justice, science and technology, sports, social trends, and more. A chronology and lists of people, publications, and topics in the news are given for each category.


Chronologies on the Web:
There are many subject-specific chronologies on the open web.  To find them, try a Google search using your term along with the words "chronology" or "timeline." Sample searches: "space exploration" chronology "civil rights" chronology "revolutionary war" chronology Just be certain to carefully evaluate the source of the website to be certain you are accessing information from a reputable publisher.


The People's Chronology:
The People's Chronology: Part of the Gale Ebooks collection of reference sources, this title "[p]resents a year-by-year record of human events from prehistory to the present." Categories include politics, arts and humanities, education, transportation, science and medicine, and social trends.


British Museum Timeline:
British Museum Timeline - Temporarily Offline: Explore items from the British Library's collection chronologically. Includes texts that allow glimpses of everyday life (handbills, posters, letters, diaries), remnants of political events (charters, speeches, campaign leaflets), and the writings of historical and literary figures.


Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History:
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: A presentation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history.  Includes timelines, world maps, thematic essays, images of artworks, and artist and subject indexes.


Find Chronologies in the Catalog:
To find works in OneSearch , WorldCat Discovery , or other library catalogs containing timelines or chronologies, try a search on your topic with the added keyword "chronology" or "chronologies." You can also do a Subject search on time period, e.g., "nineteen seventies" or "eighteenth century."  See the Library of Congress Authorities for help with subject headings.


Selected Bibliographies & Reference Sources:


Selected Bibliographies & Reference Sources:Selected Bibliographies & Reference Sources:The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction by Michael Orthofer Arranged by region, country, and language, entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations, cultures, and peoples, while concise biographies sketch the careers of noteworthy authors.   Also available at the New York Public Library in print and as an eBook . The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction Website This website compliments the print book.  Click on "Links" and then "Inter/national sites" to reach list of websites arranged alphabetically by country "specializing in international fiction, as well as national sites supporting domestic literature in translation." Index to Translated Short Fiction by Latin American Women in English Language Anthologies - Compiled by Kathy S. Leonard The first part of the volume contains entries for 165 anthologies published between 1938 and 1996.


Language Anthologies - Compiled by Kathy S. Leonard The first part of the volume contains entries for 165 anthologies published between 1938 and 1996.Language Anthologies - Compiled by Kathy S. Leonard The first part of the volume contains entries for 165 anthologies published between 1938 and 1996.Language Anthologies - Compiled by Kathy S. Leonard The first part of the volume contains entries for 165 anthologies published between 1938 and 1996.The entries are arranged alphabetically by editor or author and each provides full bibliographic information and a list of all short stories and novel excerpts by Latin American women authors contained in the work. ... The additional indexes allow the user to locate short fiction by author, country, and title. The volume concludes with a list of bibliographies of Latin American literature in translation." Latin American Women Writers: A Resource Guide to Titles in English by Kathy S. Leonard "This reference includes all forms of narrative-short story, autobiography, novel, novel excerpt, and others-by Latin American women dating from 1898 to 2007. More than 3,000 individual titles are included by more than 500 authors.


, novel excerpt, and others-by Latin American women dating from 1898 to 2007. More than 3,000 individual titles are included by more than 500 authors., novel excerpt, and others-by Latin American women dating from 1898 to 2007. More than 3,000 individual titles are included by more than 500 authors., novel excerpt, and others-by Latin American women dating from 1898 to 2007. More than 3,000 individual titles are included by more than 500 authors.This includes nearly 200 anthologies, more than 100 autobiographies/biographies or other narrative, and almost 250 novels written by more than 100 authors from 16 different countries." The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation - Peter France (editor) Available in print at the GC Library, the Guide "covers translations out of many languages, from Greek to Korean, Swahili to Russian. For some works (e.g. Virgil's Aeneid ) which have been much translated, the discussion is historical and critical; with less familiar literatures, the Guide examines the extent to which translation has done justice to the range of work available. It contains entries on individual texts (such as the Thousand and One Nights ), writers (Ibsen or Proust), genres (Chinese poetry), or national literature (for example, Hungarian)."  This volume is also available online via the NYPL (library card required).


genres (Chinese poetry), or national literature (for example, Hungarian)."  This volume is also available online via the NYPL (library card required).genres (Chinese poetry), or national literature (for example, Hungarian)."  This volume is also available online via the NYPL (library card required).genres (Chinese poetry), or national literature (for example, Hungarian)."  This volume is also available online via the NYPL (library card required).The Literatures of the World in English Translation, A Bibliography (1967-1970) Useful for finding translations published before 1970.  Volumes I-III are available in print and electronically, as follows: Volume 1: The Greek and Latin Literatures Read on site in the Reference collection at the GC Library or at the NYPL Borrow a digital copy available from the Internet Archive Volume II: The Slavic Literatures Sign in to OneSearch to request a print copy or read on site at the NYPL Borrow a digital copy from the Internet Archive Volume III: The Romance Literatures Part 1 : Catalan, Italian, Portuguese and Brazilian, Provencal, Rumanian, Spanish and Spanish American Literature Part 2:  French Literature Sign in to OneSearch to request a print copy or read on site at the NYPL Borrow a digital copy from the Internet Archive


Finding Translations -- General Resources:
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.

Translation Database - Publishers Weekly: The Translation Database was founded in 2008 at the University of Rochester to track all works of fiction, poetry, children’s books, and nonfiction translated into English and published in the U.S. after January 2008.  Excluded are all retranslations of previously published books.


, and nonfiction translated into English and published in the U.S. after January 2008.  Excluded are all retranslations of previously published books.UNESCO's Index Translationum - Print Volumes - REF Z6514 .T7 I42: Published quarterly until 1986 by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).  Includes a list of translated works appearing in major countries.  To find translations in English, check entries under the United States (which were taken from Publishers Weekly ) and Great Britain (which were taken from The Publisher and Bookseller ).  Searching entails perusing each printed volume.  The GC Library's print holdings include volumes for the years 1932/1933-1938/1940 and 1948-1986.  The full set, including a two volume Cumulative Index covering 1948-1968 is available at the NYPL .

UNESCO's Index Translationum - Online Database: An online edition of the UNESCO index covering translations of books since 1979. While no longer maintained, this database remains useful for discovering translated works in many languages.


Finding Specific Works:
To find a specific work that has been translated into English or another language, search CUNY's OneSearch , WorldCat , or other library catalog. Search on the author and title of the work and use the facets to limit results by language. To find multiple translations of a specific work into English (which may have varying titles) search on the title of the work in the original language.  Then, use the facets to limit to English. To find a particular translation of a work, search on the translator's name and/or the title of the work.  You could also try a search on the translator's name and/or the publisher of the translation.


Finding Anthologies and Bibliographies of Translated Works:
To find anthologies, collections, surveys, and bibliographies of translated works in a library catalog, try a Subject search formatted like these examples using Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): [Any Language] Literature--Translations into [Any Language] Examples: Latin American literature--Translations into English French literature--Translations into Korean Spanish literature--Translations into Chinese Classical literature -- Translations into English


Finding Translations of English Works into Other Languages:
In addition to searching WorldCat, you can find out whether a work in English has been translated into another language by searching the catalog of the national library where the language is spoken. You can find a list of libraries organized by country on Wikipedia . Search the library catalog by Author, then limit to the language you are seeking.


Finding Translations of Works into English and Other Languages:
The tips and sources on this page can help you find translations of individual works or bibliographies of translated works.  See additional recommendations in the O xford Guide to Library Research .


Very Short Introductions:
Very Short Introductions from Oxford University Press (NYPL database) This database is available at all New York Public Library locations and remotely with an NYPL library card.  It consists of the full text of the entire catalog of Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions series, some 530+ titles, which are browsable by title or subject.  The books offer concise overviews of a wide range of academic subjects in the arts & humanities, law, medicine & health, science & mathematics, and social sciences.  Many titles in the series are also available at the GC Library in print or online.  Check OneSearch for availability. Recently published VSIs include: Dinosaurs , Mammals , Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems , and Thinking and Reasoning . Read an appreciation of these pithy and informative works in the Oct. 16, 2017 issue of The New Yorker :  " How to Be a Know-It-All:  What You Learn from the Very Short Introduction Series " by Kathryn Schulz.


NYC Data:
NYCityMap: Search NYC by address to find detailed building and property information, zoning, community district, restaurant inspections, sanitation schedule, parking regulations, census fact finding and more.

311 - Service Request Map: View all open and recently closed 311 service request in any NYC neighborhood.  Search by address, intersection, borough, or service request category.


Background Research on Current Events:
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 .

Journalist's Resource: Research on Today's News Topics: The "project examines news topics through a research lens ... surfac[ing] scholarly materials that may be relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers."


h a research lens ... surfac[ing] scholarly materials that may be relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers."Pew Research Center: Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, and nonadvocacy fact tank that conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. They study U.S. politics and policy; journalism and media; internet, science and technology; religion and public life; Hispanic trends; global attitudes and trends; and U.S. social and demographic trends.


Investigating Media:
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases

FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting: A national progressive media watchdog group that challenges corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.

Center for Media and Democracy: "[A] national media group that conducts in-depth investigations into corruption and the undue influence of corporations on media and democracy."


Fact Checking, Verification, & Fake News:
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's Research Center has created a highly useful guide to help journalists and non-journalists develop a sense of skepticism when reading the news.  The guide contains tools and tips for fact checking details and identifying fake news. See the full research guide here: Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News Another notable source is FactCheck.org , "a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics."


Tip Sheets from the Journalist's Resource:


Tip Sheets from the Journalist's Resource:Tip Sheets from the Journalist's Resource:The Journalist's Resource is based at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy .  It is an excellent place to begin research on topics currently in the news.  Government Information, Economics, the Environment, Politics, Society, and International topics are covered. Especially useful for researchers -- and not just journalists -- are the tip sheets and explainers in the Know Your Research section that help users "understand academic research methods, find and recognize high-quality research, and avoid missteps when reporting on new studies and public opinion polls."  Covered topics have included Lead in drinking water: Key facts and reporting tips ; Information disorder: The essential glossary ; and How the federal budget process works .


luded Lead in drinking water: Key facts and reporting tips ; Information disorder: The essential glossary ; and How the federal budget process works .luded Lead in drinking water: Key facts and reporting tips ; Information disorder: The essential glossary ; and How the federal budget process works .luded Lead in drinking water: Key facts and reporting tips ; Information disorder: The essential glossary ; and How the federal budget process works .You can also find research chats with noted journalists and scholars, and tutorials on finding vital records, understanding ranked choice voting, learning the difference between white papers, working papers and research articles, and much more.


Newspapers Research Guide:
See our Newspapers Research Guide for current and historical, U.S. and international, mainstream and alternative news sources.


Reliable Sources of Info on Current Events:
ACLU: "For almost 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States."

Airwars: "Airwars is a London, UK-based not-for-profit company that tracks and archives the international air war against Islamic State and other groups in Iraq, Syria and Libya, and assesses and follows up on credible allegations of civilian casualties from coalition and Russian airstrikes. Wikipedia"

Amnesty International: "Through ... detailed research and determined campaigning, [Amnesty International]  ... help[s] fight abuses of human rights worldwide."

Arms Control Association: A national nonpartisan membership organization founded in 1971 "dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies."


nonpartisan membership organization founded in 1971 "dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies."Brennan Center for Justice: "[A] nonpartisan law and policy institute that works to reform, revitalize – and when necessary, defend – our country's systems of democracy and justice."

Center for American Progress: "[A]n independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans, through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action."

Center for Biological Diversity: A nonprofit membership organization founded in 1989 to protect endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media and grassroots activism.

Center for Constitutional Rights: "[A] non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change."

Center for Economic & Policy Research: "CEPR examines how government policies affect growth, employment, prices, poverty and health in the world and U.S."


er for Economic & Policy Research: "CEPR examines how government policies affect growth, employment, prices, poverty and health in the world and U.S."Center for Popular Economics: "[A] non-profit collective of over 80 economists from a wide range of economic perspectives and with an even wider range of expertise, all dedicated to building a just, sustainable and viable economy. "

Center for Responsive Politics - OpenSecrets.org: "Our mission is to produce and disseminate peerless data and analysis on money in politics to inform and engage Americans, champion transparency, and expose disproportionate or undue influence on public policy."

Climate Analytics: "Climate Analytics was formed in 2008 to bring cutting edge science and policy analysis to bear on one of the most pressing global problems of our time: human-induced climate change."

Climate Desk: "[A]a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate."


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Climate Desk: "[A]a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate."Common Cause: "[A] a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy. We work to create open, honest, and accountable government that serves the public interest; promote equal rights, opportunity, and representation for all; and empower all people to make their voices heard in the political process."

Corporate Presidency: A project of Public Citizen that aims to expose and mitigate the effects of the conflicts of interest and self-dealings of the Trump administration using research, litigation, and organizing.

Costs of War: The project "aim[s] to foster democratic discussion of [the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria]  by providing the fullest possible account of their human, economic, and political costs, and to foster better informed public policies."


n and Syria]  by providing the fullest possible account of their human, economic, and political costs, and to foster better informed public policies."Data for Progress: "Data for Progress is the think tank for the future of progressivism.  ... We provide research, polling on left issues and analysis to support activists and advocacy groups, challenging conventional wisdom about the American public that lack empirical support."

Democracy Now!: A daily independent international news program.

EarthJustice: The original and largest nonprofit environmental law organization in the U.S.

Economic Policy Institute: "A nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions."

Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. "


n economic policy discussions."

Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. "Everytown for Gun Safety: "Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund seeks to improve our understanding of the causes of gun violence and the means to reduce it – by conducting groundbreaking original research, developing evidence-based policies, and communicating this knowledge to the American public."

Food & Water Watch: A champion of "healthy food and clean water for all [that] stand[s] up to corporations that put profits before people, and advocate[s] for a democracy that improves people’s lives and protects our environment."

Gerrymandering - Princeton Gerrymandering Project: The Princeton Gerrymandering Project does nonpartisan analysis to understand and eliminate partisan gerrymandering at a state-by-state level.

Global Trade Watch: A "division of Public Citizen, the national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971. ... Global Trade Watch was created in 1995 to promote government and corporate accountability in the globalization and trade arena."


founded in 1971. ... Global Trade Watch was created in 1995 to promote government and corporate accountability in the globalization and trade arena."Global Witness: "Global Witness campaigns to end environmental and human rights abuses driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system."

Greenpeace: "A global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future."

Guide to Mass Shootings in America: From Mother Jones.  "In July 2012, in the aftermath of the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, Mother Jones created a first-of-its-kind open-source database documenting mass shootings in the United States."


theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, Mother Jones created a first-of-its-kind open-source database documenting mass shootings in the United States."Gun Violence Archive: "[A]n online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 7,500  law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence. GVA is an independent data collection and research group with no affiliation with any advocacy organization."

Guns & Gun Violence in the US: Reporting from The Trace: "[A]n independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom dedicated to shining a light on America’s gun violence crisis."

Hate Index: A searchable database from the CUNY School of Journalism that "chronicle[s] hate crimes and other acts of intolerance" since Donald Trump's election.

Human Rights Watch: A nonprofit NGO committed to defending the rights of people around the world.

Humanities Action Lab: "A coalition of universities, issue organizations, and public spaces that collaborate to produce community-curated public humanities projects on urgent social issues."


niversities, issue organizations, and public spaces that collaborate to produce community-curated public humanities projects on urgent social issues."Indivisible: The mission of the Indivisible Project "is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies."

Innocence Project: "The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice"

InsideClimate News: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning, non-profit, non-partisan news organization dedicated to covering climate change, energy and the environment."

Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Their mission is to "provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. "


on is to "provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. "Institute for Policy Studies: "IPS is a progressive think tank dedicated to building a more equitable, ecologically sustainable, and peaceful society. In partnership with dynamic social movements, we turn transformative policy ideas into action."

Kaiser Family Foundation: "A non-profit organization focusing on national health issues ... [and]  the U.S. role in global health policy."

Library Freedom Project: "A syndicate of librarians, technologists, attorneys, and privacy advocates dedicated to eliminating mass surveillance from our libraries and communities."

Mapping Police Violence: "Mapping Police Violence is a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact "of police violence in communities."


ce is a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact "of police violence in communities."Measures for Justice: Their mission is "to bring transparency to the criminal justice system at the county level" and their goal is "to measure every stage of the criminal justice process across the 3,000+ counties in the United States."

Media Matters for America: A "web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."

Migration Policy Institute: "An independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide."

Open Markets Institute: "Open Markets uses research and journalism to expose the dangers of monopolization, identifies changes in policy and law to address them, and educates policymakers, academics, movement groups, and other influential stakeholders to establish open, competitive markets that support a strong, just, and inclusive democracy. "


cs, movement groups, and other influential stakeholders to establish open, competitive markets that support a strong, just, and inclusive democracy. "People's Policy Project: A "think tank founded in 2017 ... with a primary mission ... to publish ideas and analysis that assist in the development of an economic system that serves the many, not the few."

People for the American Way: A "progressive advocacy organization[] founded to fight right-wing extremism and defend constitutional values under attack, including free expression, religious liberty, equal justice under the law, and the right to meaningfully participate in our democracy."

Pew Charitable Trusts: An independent non-profit that "uses evidence-based, non-partisan analysis to solve today's challenges."

Prison Policy Initiative: A "non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative [that] produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society. "

ProPublica: "An independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force."


campaigns to create a more just society. "

ProPublica: "An independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force."Prosecution Project: The Prosecution Project (tPP) is a long-term, Open-Source Intelligence research platform tracking and providing an analysis of felony criminal cases involving illegal political violence occurring in the United States since 1990.

Public Citizen: Founded in 1971, this "nonprofit consumer advocacy organization ... champions the public interest ... in the halls of power."

Shorenstein Ctr on Media, Politics, & Public Policy: A research center at Harvard University "dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice."

Southern Poverty Law Center: "Dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality."


tion, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality."SIPRI - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: "SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public."

Torn Apart / Separados: "A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 “Zero Tolerance Policy” for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed."

The Violence Project: "[A] nonpartisan think tank dedicated to reducing violence in society and improving related policy and practice through research and analysis. Home of the NIJ funded public Mass Shooter Database."

Vote Smart: "Vote Smart's mission is to provide free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to ALL Americans."


Database."

Vote Smart: "Vote Smart's mission is to provide free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to ALL Americans."WikiLeaks: "A multi-national media organization and associated library ... specializing in the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption."


Audio / Visual Sources:
Non-text sources can add dimension and nuance to your research.  Follow the links on this page to find films, videos, newsreels, radio broadcasts, speeches, interviews, music, and other a/v materials in subscription databases and on the open web. Resources are arranged in the following categories, with some overlap when resources contain materials in multiple formats: A/V Research Guides & Catalogs , Moving Images , Music , Notable A/V Collections , Radio , Spoken Word , and Theatre . See the separate page for Oral Histories . Also see how to Find A/V Materials in WorldCat and ArchiveGrid .


Notable A/V Collections:
DPLA: Digital Public Library of America: Contains over 49 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the U.S.  Browse by topic or contributing institution, explore primary source sets and online exhibitions or search the collection.

Internet Archive: The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form with a mission to provide universal access to all knowledge. The archive contains tens of millions of books and texts, audio recordings, videos, images, and software programs, and 625 billion web pages.

Recorded Sound Research Center - Library of Congress: Listen to music, interviews, field recordings, and more from the Library's historic sound recording collections.  Also see the LC's Guides & Reference Aids for their Recorded Sound Collections.


gs, and more from the Library's historic sound recording collections.  Also see the LC's Guides & Reference Aids for their Recorded Sound Collections.Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound - NYPL: "Holdings cover virtually every aspect of recorded sound—from Mozart to Maria Callas to Motown, from symphonic works to presidential speeches, from radio dramas to television specials."

UNESCO Sound Recordings: "The historical sound recordings collection includes radio reports, specially-produced programmes, interviews and other recordings from the late 1940s to 1980s."

Research Libraries: Many large research libraries hold collections of audio visual materials.  Check the websites of libraries that collect in your subject area to investigate holdings.


Catalogs & Research Guides:
Consult the following research guides for additional ideas and information:

Film Studies Research Guide: The GC Library's guide for Film Studies research.

GC Research Guides: There are more than 70 research guides on the GC Library's website. Explore the guide in your subject area to learn about additional resources.

Media History Digital Library: A free online resource featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

Music Research Guide: The GC Library's research guide for Music.

PodcastRE: A searchable, researchable archive of podcasting culture. PodcastRE contains links and metadata records to over 150,000 individual audio files from over 1,000 different podcast feeds. Search by show title, episode title, or keyword and display the results by grid or list. Stream audio files and explore over 5000 interactive audio transcripts.


show title, episode title, or keyword and display the results by grid or list. Stream audio files and explore over 5000 interactive audio transcripts.Recorded Sound Collections: Guides & Reference Aids - Library of Congress: Finding aids and reference tools for the Recorded Sound collections at the Library of Congress.

SONIC - Sound Online Inventory and Catalog (Library of Congress): Inventory and catalog of a large selection of recordings (music and spoken word, including radio) from the Recorded Sound Section of the Library of Congress.

Sound Collections Database: The first release of a database supported by the Radio Preservation Task Force, National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress (RPTF) and Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).  Browse or search nearly 3000 records describing recorded sound collections in repositories around the country.  Genres include radio programs, all varieties of music, radio news, oral histories, interviews, drama, educational programs, and more.


Find A/V Materials in WorldCat & ArchiveGrid:
In addition to going directly to likely sources of A/V content like those listed in this guide, you can also search WorldCat Discovery and ArchiveGrid for specific audio visual titles and collections of audio visual materials in various formats, including oral history, film, video, and recorded sound. WorldCat Discovery is a union library catalog and ArchiveGrid is a database of collection descriptions.  See details below.

Archive Grid: Searchable database containing over 7 million records describing archival collections in 1,400 libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies around the world.  Also useful for identifying archival repositories by location. Read more in our GC Library blog post about ArchiveGrid .

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.


Radio:
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.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Approx. 40,000 hours of digitized historic public broadcasting radio and television content, some of which is available online.  Search all content online and onsite at WGBH in Boston and the Library of Congress.  Also search records documenting 2.5 million holdings at public broadcasting organizations, most of which have not been digitized.

American Radio Archives: A large radio broadcasting collection consisting of thousands of scripts, recordings, photographs and more.


been digitized.

American Radio Archives: A large radio broadcasting collection consisting of thousands of scripts, recordings, photographs and more.Audio Archive - Internet Archive: Contains more than 15 million recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music, many of which are available for free download.  Also see the blogs that illuminate the vast a/v collections in the Internet Archive such as 78rpm records, Audio, Music, Movies, Television, Video and more.

BBC Radio Shows: Over 3,100 audio recordings from the BBC.  Includes radio dramas, documentaries, adapted novels and stage plays, comedy,historical news broadcasts, quiz shows, and more.

Hip-Hop Radio Archive: "The Hip-Hop Radio Archive aims to digitize, preserve, share, and contextualize recordings of hip-hop radio from the 1980s and 1990s from commercial, college, community, and pirate stations of all sizes, telling the stories of the shows and the people that made them."


980s and 1990s from commercial, college, community, and pirate stations of all sizes, telling the stories of the shows and the people that made them."Historic Radio Community Broadcasts: Stream six hundred broadcasts from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) Program Archive "showca[sing] a diverse range of cultural and public affairs programming" from 1965 to 1986. Read more about the audio files and  see the finding aid for the archival records of the NFCB .

Lowell Thomas News Broadcasts: Thomas, who is credited with establishing modern journalism, was the most popular newsman of his time. He reached an audience of 2.4 million homes every weeknight from 1930 to 1976.  All 250,000 pages of the radio news show scripts, which were previously only available on microfiche at Marist College, have been digitized and made are freely available online with the rest of Thomas's papers.


previously only available on microfiche at Marist College, have been digitized and made are freely available online with the rest of Thomas's papers.National Federation of Community Broadcasters - Audio Archive: "Six hundred historic community radio broadcasts ... [s]panning the years 1965-1986 ... from stations mainly in the United States and Canada, the broadcasts showcase a diverse range of cultural and public affairs programming." Read more .

New York Public Radio Archives: Digitized broadcast recordings from the archives of radio station WNYC in New York featuring arts programming, panel discussions, notable interviews, WWII coverage, and more.

Pacifica Radio Archives: "Chronicling the political, cultural and artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century, Pacifica radio programs include documentaries, performances, discussions, debates, drama, poetry readings, commentaries and radio arts."  Recordinga are also available in the Internet Archive .


es, performances, discussions, debates, drama, poetry readings, commentaries and radio arts."  Recordinga are also available in the Internet Archive .Radio Show & Programs Archive - Internet Archive: The Internet Archive Radio Collection consists of more than 4 million programs and "is a wildly diverse and massive collection of radio station recordings, broadcast captures, radio shows and programs, and more."

The Radio Spectrum Archive: "A project to preserve and share time-shifted radio spectrum recordings."

Radio Survivor: An audio and written news blog about radio.  Covers community radio stations, college stations, significant collections with a focus on "radio’s present, past, and uncertain future."

The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive: SRAA "is a collection of shortwave radio recordings that you can download or listen to as a podcast.  The collection grows every day and includes both historic recordings and current recordings from the shortwave radio spectrum."


Music:
Association for Cultural Equity: ACE holds the Alan Lomax Archive, a collection of recorded music, dance, and the spoken word. Thousands of recordings, photos and videos are available through their website.

Audio Archive - Internet Archive: Contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music, many of which are available for free download.  Also see the blogs that illuminate the vast a/v collections in the Internet Archive such as 78rpm records, Audio, Music, Movies, Television, Video and more.

Digital Score & Sheet Music Collections: Research guide from Arizona State University listing open access online sources for digital score and digital sheet music collections.

Great 78 Project: A community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records.


gital score and digital sheet music collections.

Great 78 Project: A community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records.Moving Image & Recorded Sound Division - Schomburg Center, NYPL: Collections include spoken arts recordings, motion picture film (released prints and outtakes), video recordings, and music documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent.

National Jukebox: Historical recordings from the Library of Congress


Find Films - Film Studies Research Guide:
The GC's Film Studies research guide is a great place to find films online in both subscription databases and on open access sites.  See the Find Films page for details.


Moving Images:  Film, Video, and TV:
adViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials: A digital collection from Duke University Libraries consisting of thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s-1980s.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Approx. 40,000 hours of digitized historic public broadcasting radio and television content, some of which is available online.  Search all content online and onsite at WGBH in Boston and the Library of Congress.  Also search records documenting 2.5 million holdings at public broadcasting organizations, most of which have not been digitized.


ibrary of Congress.  Also search records documenting 2.5 million holdings at public broadcasting organizations, most of which have not been digitized.American History in Video: Over 70,000 titles of streaming video content, more than half of which is contemporary video from the 1890s to the 1980s. Includes documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, demonstrations, news programs and newsreels that span a wide range of subjects, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.


news programs and newsreels that span a wide range of subjects, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.Ethnographic Video Online: This online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior contains more than 2,000 hours of classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, covering hundreds of cultural groups and practices around the world. Includes video from leading producers in the discipline, previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field, and select feature films. Wherever possible, videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other full-text materials.

Filmakers Library Online: Over 1,500 documentaries about race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.


ational relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.International Federation of Film Archives - Member List: The FIAF is "dedicated to the preservation of and access to the world's film heritage since 1938."  Use the member list to identify film archives around the world that belong to FIAF and link to their websites to learn about collections.

Internet Archive: The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form with a mission to provide universal access to all knowledge. The archive contains tens of millions of books and texts, audio recordings, videos, images, and software programs, and 625 billion web pages.

Moving Image & Recorded Sound Division - Schomburg Center, NYPL: Collections include spoken arts recordings, motion picture film (released prints and outtakes), video recordings, and music documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent.


recordings, motion picture film (released prints and outtakes), video recordings, and music documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent.Moving Image Archive - Internet Archive: Contains digital movies ranging from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.  It also includes stock footage, television archives, the Prelinger Archives, silent films, short format films, U.S. government films, and more. Much of the content is available for free download.

Moving Image Archive Collections & Exhibits - Indiana University: The archive "contains one of the largest Educational 16mm collections still in existence today.  ... [and includes] "approximately 48,000 16mm educational and documentary films dating from 1911 to the 1980s."

Moving Image Research Center - Library of Congress: The division holds vast collections of moving images and related materials.  Use the Research Center's website to explore holdings, consult collection guides and finding aids, and link to digital collections and online resources.  Also see a list of collections that contain films and videos .


lection guides and finding aids, and link to digital collections and online resources.  Also see a list of collections that contain films and videos .New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present: New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990–Present includes over 160 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, and Global Lens, as well as award-winning shorts.

Silent Film Online: A collection of more than 1,200 silent feature films, documentaries, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. Curated with ASP’s Video Advisory Board, the films represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A searchable collection of the individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, NBC, CBS from 1968-present, CNN from 1995-present, and Fox from 2004-present.  Content in the collection is available through a fee-based loan service .

World History in Video: More than 1,750 documentaries exploring human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century.


Spoken Word:
American Rhetoric: "Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two."

Association for Cultural Equity: ACE holds the Alan Lomax Archive, a collection of recorded music, dance, and the spoken word. Thousands of recordings, photos and videos are available through their website.

Audio Archive - Internet Archive: Contains a wide variety of recordings, including alternative news programming, Grateful Dead and other concert recordings, Old Time Radio shows, book and poetry readings, original music, many of which are available for free download.  Also see the blogs that describe the vast a/v collections in the Internet Archive such as 78rpm records, Audio, Music, Movies, Television, Video and more.


see the blogs that describe the vast a/v collections in the Internet Archive such as 78rpm records, Audio, Music, Movies, Television, Video and more.Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present: Over 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, speeches, letters, political leaflets, periodicals, trial transcripts, and interviews by major American Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders, covering over 250 years of history. Writers include James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ralph Bunche, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Huey Newton, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Bobby Seale, Booker T. Washington, Cornel West, Richard Wright, and many others. Search across the collection or browse by person, subject, title, historical event, content type, place, or publisher.


ichard Wright, and many others. Search across the collection or browse by person, subject, title, historical event, content type, place, or publisher.LibriVox: LibriVox is a crowd sourced project in which volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain (mostly from Project Gutenberg ), and then release the audio files through their website without restrictions. All LibriVox audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for whatever purpose you wish. Search the catalog or browse by Author, Title, Genre/Subject, or Language.

Moving Image & Recorded Sound Division - Schomburg Center, NYPL: Collections include spoken arts recordings, motion picture film (released prints and outtakes), video recordings, and music documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent.

PennSound: An ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives of poetry, literature, talks, and much more.  Freely available to all.


mitted to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives of poetry, literature, talks, and much more.  Freely available to all.The Speech Accent Archive: Contains a large set of speech samples allowing users to compare and analyze the accents of native and non-native English speakers.  Browse or search by speaker, region, or phonetic inventory.

Vital Speeches International: Text of speeches by the most influential leaders from around the world.


Theatre:
Digital Theatre Plus via NYPL: Please visit New York Public Library. The New York Public Library offers on-site access to Digital Theatre Plus, which streams current British theatre productions from Shakespeare to contemporary plays, and opera, musical theatre, dance and ballet, symphonic and chamber music, theatre from Russia and South Asia, and film shorts. Includes study guides and other supplementary materials.

MIT Global Shakespeares: "The MIT Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field."


ne access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field."Routledge Performance Archive: The Routledge Performance Archive provides access to a unique and continually expanding range of audio-visual material from past and present performance practitioners.  The archive contains interviews, documentaries, masterclasses, contextual essays, and excerpted and full-length productions and experiments.

Theatre in Video: More than 400 videos of theatrical performances and documentaries. Includes plays by Aeschylus, Albee, Beckett, Chekhov, Fugard, Gogol, Hansberry, Ibsen, Miller, Moliere, O'Neill, Pinter, Pirandello, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Strindberg, Wasserstein, and others. Documentaries feature analyses of plays, performances, and techniques, as well as interviews with playwrights, directors, and actors.


Oral Histories:
See the Oral Histories page in our Archival Research guide for general information on oral histories, links to OH collections, and tips on searching.


News Broadcast Transcripts:
Transcripts of news programs can be found in several places, including: NexisUni – Log in with your GC network credentials and search by keyword in All Fields.  Then, scroll down and select news transcripts from the "publication type" filter option.  From there, you can either select particular sources or search All News Transcripts to find appearances of your search term among the results. Factiva – Visit The New York Public Library's Thomas Yoseloff Business Center at the former Mid-Manhattan Library at 40th Street & Fifth Avenue, to use this database, which is another excellent source for finding transcripts of tv news broadcasts from a wide range of sources. National Public Radio – Search NPR broadcasts directly, no login required, on their website: https://www.npr.org/search/


Images:
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.  Follow the links on this page to find images in library collections, printed sources, subscription databases, and on open access sites.


Library Databases:
Grove Art Online: Search the Grove Dictionary of Art via the Oxford Art Online platform. Grove contains entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as bibliographies for further research and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford’s partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations. Browse through Timelines of World Art , Subject Guides or Resources for Educators created by organizations like MoMA and the Met. Create an optional subscriber account to save searches.


rt , Subject Guides or Resources for Educators created by organizations like MoMA and the Met. Create an optional subscriber account to save searches.Artstor: Artstor images and collections will be available on the JSTOR platform starting August 1, 2024. Please note: To download and save images, you must register for your own personal account (click "Register" for first time users on the upper right of the screen) . The GC does not have an institutional login. Artstor is a rich database of over 2.5 million images of art and architecture from 300 museums, libraries, artists, scholars, and photo archives around the world. In addition to its core collections, Artstor offers public collections consisting of roughly 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files cataloged, managed, and shared by various institutions. Images in Artstor may be freely used in noncommercial educational and scholarly activities. Artstor’s images are now also discoverable in JSTOR. See the “ Artstor on JSTOR ” guide.


Photograph Collections:
Search ArchiveGrid to find collections of photographs, drawings, posters, or other graphic materials in archival repositories.


Illustrations in Books:
When searching OneSearch , WorldCat Discovery , or other library catalogs, add the word "illustrated" to your search to find works with images.