the struggle to open access to the dissertation in the context of the crisis in doctoral education and the transition from print to digital literacy.Truschke, A. (2015) To Embargo Your Dissertation, or Not? Strategically Disseminating the Dissertation: This is the final article of a three-part series at Dissertation Reviews on dissertation dissemination and publishing for humanities and social science scholars.

Harvard University Press (2013, July 26). Can't Find It, Can't Sign It: On Dissertation Embargoes: "From our perspective, a missing element in the AHA’s statement—and within the field, to the extent that the statement is reflective of its members’ concerns—is the possibility of a dissertation’s availability actually working in favor of a young scholar seeking a contract."

Cohen, N. (2013, July 28). Historians Seek a Delay in Posting Dissertations. The New York Times: This article discusses the American Historical Association's 2013 statement in support of six-year embargoes.

Blogs


ons. The New York Times: This article discusses the American Historical Association's 2013 statement in support of six-year embargoes.

BlogsWhat is a (Finished) Dissertation For?: July 2013: Let the Loon say that again, louder: no matter how much presses protest that their mission is knowledge improvement and dissemination, they turn up their noses at perfectly good knowledge solely because it is unsaleable.

The AHA Asks "What About the Children?": Barbara Fister's July 2013 debunk of AHA's impulse to encourage dissertation embargo.

I'll See Your Open Access and Raise You Two Book Contracts: Or Why the AHA Should Re-think its Policy: Historian Jennifer Guiliano traces her reasons for both opening and embargoing her dissertation.


OA Policies & Endorsements:
Universities, divisions, departments, senates, organizations, and individuals endorse open access:

ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies): A "searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require or request their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository."

CUNY University Faculty Senate Resolution on OA: In 2011, the Faculty Senate passed a resolution in support of creating a CUNY-wide institutional repository.  That repository is Academic Works , a service of the CUNY Libraries dedicated to collecting and providing access to the research, scholarship and creative work of the City University of New York.  In service to CUNY’s mission as a public university, content in Academic Works is freely available to all.


e work of the City University of New York.  In service to CUNY’s mission as a public university, content in Academic Works is freely available to all.CUNY Graduate Center Library Open Access Statement: Scroll down to open the Statement on Open Access.

University of California: Groundbreaking policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees.

Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access: UNESCO's OA policy guidelines.

The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers take a stand, declaring publicly that they will not not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically change how they operate.


OA Funders:
Search Funders' OA Policies

SHERPA/JULIET: Search research funders' open access requirements for publication, archiving of publications, and data archiving.

A selected list of funders and their open access policies:

Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: In 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memo directing all federal agencies with more than $100 million in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the research they fund publicly accessible.

Public Access Plans of U.S. Agencies: Information about and links to all U.S. agency public access plans, from the NIH to the DOD.

FASTR - S.779 / H.R.1477: The Fair Access to Science & Technology Research Act  is awaiting a vote on the Senate floor.  Keep up with the latest information about S.779 / H.R.1477 at Congress.gov or SPARC .


echnology Research Act  is awaiting a vote on the Senate floor.  Keep up with the latest information about S.779 / H.R.1477 at Congress.gov or SPARC .MacArthur Foundation: "Seeks prompt and broad dissemination or availability of the Grant Work Product at minimal cost to the public or, when justified, at a reasonable price."

Wellcome Trust: Supports unrestricted access to the published work they fund.  Read more in The Guardian .

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository: Committed to open access, the "World Bank supports the free online communication and exchange of knowledge as the most effective way of ensuring that the fruits of research, economic and sector work, and development practice are made widely available, read, and built upon." See the World Bank's full OA policy .


Further Reading on OA:
The sources listed in this selected bibliography correspond to the pages in this OA guide.  Open access is a dynamic and evolving topic and continues to be the subject of a great deal of thought and scholarship.  We will update this bibliography and the OA guide itself, as needed, to reflect research trends.


Further Reading: Open Access Overview:


Further Reading: Open Access Overview:Further Reading: Open Access Overview:Academic Publishing Profits Enough To Fund Open Access To Every Research Article In Every Field Tech Dirt on OA vs traditional publishing. Academic Publishing is Full of Problems; Let's Get Them Right Nancy Sims' critique of Laura McKenna's January 2012 Atlantic article positioning JSTOR as an Open Access thwarter (instead of Elsevier, Springer, or Wiley). Digital Access to Knowledge: Research Chat with Harvard’s Peter Suber From a Journalist's briefing database. Dramatic Growth of Open Access Heather Morrison's March 2012 focus on OA indicators Economics of Scholarly Communication in Transition Heather Morrison's June 2013 analysis: academic library budgets sustain scholarly journal publishing. Evaluating Information: The Light Side of Open Access (ACRL.log) NYCT's Maura Smale's April 2013 entry. Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities From U of M's DigitalCultureBooks, about shifting academic publishing to open access.


w Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities From U of M's DigitalCultureBooks, about shifting academic publishing to open access.w Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities From U of M's DigitalCultureBooks, about shifting academic publishing to open access.w Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities From U of M's DigitalCultureBooks, about shifting academic publishing to open access.The Inevitability of Open Access David W. Lewis' Sept 2012 C & RL article arguing that half of scholarly journal articles could be Gold author-supported OA between 2012-2021. [JEP] The Journal of Electronic Publishing - Vol. 18, No. 3: On Access A special issue of JEP published in Summer 2015 covering open access from various angles including economics, discoverability and use of OA scholarship, metadata, OA publishers, and more. Open Access and the Future of Academic Scholarship Barbara Fister's summary article, May 2012 Open Access Inaction Jack Stilgoe's June 2013 call for scholarly publishing to "just get on with developing a model that works rather than profiteering from their own stubbornness." Open Access Overview Peter Suber, Earlham College Planned Obsolescence Kathleen Fitzpatrick @ The Digital University: A Digital Future? 2010 CUNY Conference. Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No.


d Obsolescence Kathleen Fitzpatrick @ The Digital University: A Digital Future? 2010 CUNY Conference. Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No.d Obsolescence Kathleen Fitzpatrick @ The Digital University: A Digital Future? 2010 CUNY Conference. Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No.d Obsolescence Kathleen Fitzpatrick @ The Digital University: A Digital Future? 2010 CUNY Conference. Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No.Hugh Gusterson's Sept 2012 CHE article arguing that uncompensated academic work serves commercial publishers.


Further Reading:  Rationale - Why Open Access:


Further Reading:  Rationale - Why Open Access:Further Reading:  Rationale - Why Open Access:CUNY Digital University 2010 Conference Videos, from the Fora.tv site. Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity Universities commit to underwriting publication charges for articles in fee-based OA journals. Dominique Babini on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done? July 2013 interview with Open Access Advocacy leader at the Latin American Council on Social Sciences (CLACSO): "... I do not believe scholarly communication should be subject to commercial interests. Like research itself, it should be funded by governments and it should be done on a non-profit basis. So in my view all roads that contribute to non-commercial OA are good for the developing regions..." OASIS Making the Case for Open Access Concise presentation for OA advocates. The Obscene Profits of Commercial Scholarly Publishers Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and Informa reap substantial profit from (mostly) university library sales for (mostly) uncompensated academic work.


ishers Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and Informa reap substantial profit from (mostly) university library sales for (mostly) uncompensated academic work.ishers Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and Informa reap substantial profit from (mostly) university library sales for (mostly) uncompensated academic work.ishers Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and Informa reap substantial profit from (mostly) university library sales for (mostly) uncompensated academic work.The Real Digital Change Agent Consider OA as necessary to support MOOC, or the CUNY-style POOC. Scholarly Communication Strategies in Latin America's Research-Intensive Universities Alperin, Fishman, and Willinsky, 2010: " OA has allowed increasingly numbers of Latin American scholars to change their mode and style of participation in accessing as well as producing scholarship that aspires to be both ―local & global." The Tragedies of Scholarly Publishing in 2013 Cathy Davidson on the occasion of a young man's death. Values and Scholarship by 11 University Provosts Consistent with these deeply held academic norms, we provosts have advocated for taxpayer access to federally-funded research, writing, for example, a 2006 open letter in support of the Federal Research Public Access Act, and supporting this Congressional session’s proposed extension of the legislation (HR 4004/S 2009).


Further Reading:  OA & The Dissertation:
The Dissertation Can No Longer Be Defended February 11, 2013 Chronicle of Higher Education. Embrace and Ambivalence Virginia Kuhn's 2005 UW digital dissertation was one of the first. Do we know yet how to review, archive, and manage digital grad work? Free US ETDs:  The Archived Postings from the FUSE Blog, 2014-2012 Texas A&M's Gail Clement's work promoting open access graduate research. How Blogging Helped Me Write My Dissertation January 29, 2013 Chronicle of Higher Education. SAGE Handbook of Digital Dissertations and Theses Guide to the processes of digital research. Writing and Defending Your Digital Dissertation:  Join the Conversation! HASTAC and CUNY's Cathy Davidson with NYU's Diana Taylor and Duke's Dwayne Dixon on his Scalar-based dissertation.


GC Alumni Photo ID & Registration for Remote Access:
See the Graduate Center’s Alumni Benefits and Services page for more alumni Information. A GC Alumni ID card is needed for entry into the library. To obtain this ID, you will need to present proof of alumni status to the Office of Security and Public Safety. The Office of the Registrar in Room 7201 can provide documentation of your alumni status. Bring this documentation to the Office of Security and Public Safety , Room 9124, 212-817-7777 to receive your ID card. Next, complete the Graduate Center Alumni Registration Form . Within a few business days, the Alumni Affairs Office gcalumni@gc.cuny.edu will then issue a username and password for you to use to access the databases for Alumni listed below on this page ( ) . Open Access resources ( ) on the Graduate Center's A-Z Database List are freely available. Welcome back, GC alums!


In-Person Library Services for GC Alumni:
Show your GC Alumni photo ID to enter the library. Visit the library's Circulation desk on the first floor to obtain an Alumni barcode to borrow books from the GC's collection. See Library Privileges below for loan and renewal information. Printing is available for a fee. Purchase a copy card for $1 and add funds to the card to print for $0.15 per page. Scanners, microfilm readers, and digital reformatting equipment are described in the Technology in the Library guide. Bring your own device to use GC guest wifi to access library resources, or obtain a guest login on each visit to use library computers. Graduate Center Alumni are eligible for a Guest Login, providing 30 days of use for computers onsite in the Library. A new Guest Login may be requested after the pass expires.


Library Privileges for Graduate Center Alumni (including SLU):
On-Site Access | Yes

Borrowing Privileges | GC Only

CLICS (Request Books from Other CUNY Libraries) | No

Loan Period | 16 weeks

Renewal Limit for GC Books | 2

Renewal Limit for Other CUNY Books | n/a

Database Access | On-site access to most GC databases ; off-site access to select databases for alumni

Interlibrary Loan | No

Printing | $0.15/page

Special NYPL Borrowing Privileges | No


Databases for Alumni (Accessible from Anywhere!):
JSTOR Journals for Alumni: Arts and Sciences I-XII; coverage begins with the first issue of almost every journal and continues through varying periods within the last five years. (Please note access to JSTOR ebooks is on-campus only.)

Project Muse for Alumni: Over 350 journals; the Graduate Center does not subscribe to Project Muse ebooks but titles are accessible via the New York Public Library.

SAGE Journals for Alumni: Access to  more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals covering a variety of disciplines.

SAGE Knowledge for Alumni: To see the 31 handbook titles available at the Graduate Center, find and click "Handbooks" under "Browse by Content Type. Then select "Available to me" under "Refine by" on the right hand side.

SAGE Research Methods for Alumni: Over 740 books, including the entire “Little Green Book” and "Little Blue Book” series; a selection of journal articles; specially commissioned videos.


ver 740 books, including the entire “Little Green Book” and "Little Blue Book” series; a selection of journal articles; specially commissioned videos.Versatile PhD for Alumni: Service to help humanities and social science PhDs and graduate students identify and prepare for possible non-academic jobs.


Alumni Dissertations & Theses:
See the Dissertations & Theses guide for information on CUNY Academic Works and to find your own capstone, thesis, or dissertation.


About Alumni Resources: Alumni Databases, general information


Visit the GC Library:
Graduate Center alumni have on-campus access to nearly all GC Library's databases , journals and ebooks. Licensing restrictions imposed by vendors, exclude alumni from offsite access to most GC Library resources. A GC alumni ID from the Office of Security and Public Safety room 9123 (212-817-7777) is required for entry. A barcode on your alumni ID is required to borrow GC books. See alumni library privileges chart for loan and renewal information Borrowing outside the GC are not available to alumni. Obtain a guest login to the GC network at Circulation or Reference to use library computers and to reach the all library's resources . See Technology in the Library .


Not a GC alum?:
Library Access for non-GC alumni: See the Library's Access & Borrowing guide; options are available to become a Friend of the Library.


Support the Library:
Purchase through the Mina Rees Library's “Virtual Bookstore” on Amazon.com Purchase anything through this link to contribute 5% to the library. It costs you nothing and adds thousands to the library budget.


Welcome Back, Graduate Center Alumni!:
After graduation, off-site access to a limited set of online resources continues ... Complete the Alumni Registration Form The Alumni Affairs Office will reply with a username and password (this may take a few days) To log in, click on the database title Questions? gcalumni@gc.cuny.edu


Troubleshooting Alumni Databases: Check here first if you encounter trouble accessing a GC Library database.


Database Access Issues: Why isn't my GC Alumni password working?:
As a GC alum, you have off-campus access to a selection of our research databases . Look for the GC Alum icon (below) next to the database name - if you see this icon, it means you have remote access to that database using your GC Alumni password! To log in, just click the title of the database and enter your alumni credentials. Alumni Resources: off-campus access available to GC Alumni You may also access Open Access resources that are listed on the Graduate Center's A-Z Database List Open Access Resources: available to all If you aren't sure about your status, or if you forgot your alumni credentials, contact gcalumni@gc.cuny.edu

On-Campus Use Only

(CUNY) | (GC) | (NYPL)

If you are not in the GC Library and you see any of the following icons next to the database you are trying to access, please return to the Databases for Alumni list to see the list of resources available to alumni from off-campus.


he database you are trying to access, please return to the Databases for Alumni list to see the list of resources available to alumni from off-campus.Some CUNY-wide electronic resources ask you for a "CUNY library barcode" in order to login. The GC alumni library barcode will not work for these resources. Select databases (like JSTOR) give you the option to “login” after you have used your GC Alumni credentials. These databases allow you to create a personal account which gives you the ability to save searches, create alerts, and use other special features. Creating a personal account is completely optional--you can still access full text and download content without a personal account.


Alumni Dissertations and Theses:
All GC dissertations, theses and capstones from 2014 on are in CUNY's publicly accessible institutional repository Academic Works. Some are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author.


Why don’t I see my dissertation in Academic Works?:


Why don’t I see my dissertation in Academic Works?:Why don’t I see my dissertation in Academic Works?:If you graduated before 2014, your dissertation or capstone project is only available to readers with a current CUNY affiliation (i.e. current students, faculty or staff). You can broaden access to your dissertation by authorizing its transfer to CUNY's Academic Works , a publicly accessible repository. The Academic Works dashboard helps you track your new readership by providing data about the times and places a work is downloaded. Depositing your dissertation in this institutional repository positions your intellectual contribution in global conversation, in keeping with CUNY's mission to serve the larger public. All GC dissertations and capstones have been digitized and are ready to be added to Academic Works at the author's request . Pre-2014 master's theses have not yet been digitized and are available only in print. If you want to make your dissertation or capstone freely accessible to the public, email the GC Dissertation Office at deposit@gc.cuny.edu .


About Academic Works:
CUNY Academic Works is an open access institutional repository dedicated to collecting and providing worldwide access to the research, scholarship and creative work of the City University of New York. In service to CUNY’s mission as a public university, content in Academic Works is freely available to all ( more ). The Graduate Center section of Academic Works provides a way for the Graduate Center community to store, preserve, and provide global access to its scholarly and creative works. It holds GC faculty and student articles, book chapters, conference papers, datasets, educational materials, and images. It also holds Graduate Center dissertations, master's theses, and capstone projects .


Overview:
The Urban Health and Society research guide aids in the understanding of a systematic approach to developing a research question, searching for scholarly literature, selecting sources, summarizing findings in a literature review, and managing citation data using software.


Why Study Systematic Searching?:
Narrative reviews are vulnerable to the selection bias of the author; it is all to easy to review only articles that support a particular outcome or perspective. Systematic reviews attempt to control this threat of bias by using a documented and reproducible method for selecting articles that are relevant to a specific question or problem. Systematic reviews aim for thoroughness and are time-consuming and labor-intensive enterprises that are usual carried out by research teams. This assignment will not produce what you could call a systematic review, but it will introduce you to some systematic searching methods and citation management technologies that are essential for carrying out more rigorous literature research. The requirements of this assignment are informed by the guidelines for systematic reviews found in the Cochrane Handbook, the PRISMA statement, and other standard references for systematic review methodology.


Assignment Documents:
These are the documents you will need to participate in class sessions and to complete the library research assignment.  Please make use of the detailed grading rubric.


Assignment Outcomes:
This assignment exercises knowledge and skills required to produce the following outcomes: Develop and analyze a research question that extends or refines existing published knowledge Investigate the scope of databases of scholarly reports that are relevant to the topic of a research question Construct and implement sensitive search strategies using Boolean logic and controlled vocabulary terms Document and apply criteria for evaluating search results Extract, record and manage search results using citation management software Summarize and synthesize evidence from gathered sources Accurately cite sources using AMA style.


Class Sessions:
The following class sessions are available for students who would like in-person instruction. Sessions are capped at twenty and sessions with fewer than four registrants will be canceled- please do not plan on showing up without a reservation. 09/01/2015 05:45 PM - 08:00 PM - Room: Silberman C08 09/02/2015 03:45 PM - 06:00 PM - Room: Silberman C08 09/03/2015 03:45 PM - 06:00 PM - Room: Silberman C08 09/08/2015 05:45 PM - 08:00 PM - Room: Silberman C08 09/09/2015 03:45 PM - 06:00 PM - Room: Silberman C08 09/10/2015 03:45 PM - 05:55 PM - Room: Silberman C09 09/12/2015 09:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Room: Silberman C08 09/19/2015 09:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Room: Silberman C08


Assignment Tutorials: This page has links to resources that will help you build the skills needed for the assignment.


Why are systematic reviews important?:
What is a systematic review? A brief definiton from the Campbell Collaboration:: The Campbell Collaboration provides a brief description of what a systematic review is and why it is important. The Campbell Collaboration seeks to extend the Cochrane approach to systematic reviews to topics in crime and justice, education, international development, and social welfare.

Introduction to Systematic Reviews by Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: This 18 minute video helps to provide further orientation to the development of systematic literature review.

This “big picture” question does not directly tie-in to the assignment outcomes, but it may help you to understand why the assignment looks the way it does and why it is an important excercise for students of public health.


What makes a good research question for a systematic review?:
PICO: formulate an answerable research question: The tutorial from the University of Oxford explains how to frame your research questions in the PICO format, which can help to make the important concepts in your research question more transparent and the question more researchable.

Library Research Toolkit: The Stases as Research Method: How do you ask questions that are relevant to the current state of knowledge in the field of public health? It can be quite a challenge to find questions that have not been conclusively answered but that are not so big or so specific that it is not realistic to expect an answer from the current literature. This tutorial and worksheet from the Hunter Library Research Toolkit can help you to develop the scope of your research question to make it a good fit for the current state of published research.


ibrary Research Toolkit can help you to develop the scope of your research question to make it a good fit for the current state of published research.These resources are intended to help with part one of the assignment. Your question should have a PICO(T) format and it should have a scope that is relevant to current research priorities in the field of public health.


How can you use database controlled vocabularies to identify relevant terms to use in your query?:
MeSH Tutorial: This tutorial from the National Library of Medicine explains what MeSH terms are and how they can be applied in literature searches.

Part two of the assignment: Once you have identified your PICO(T) concepts, you should search database lists of controled vocabulary terms for relevant terms to include in your query. In PubMed, the controlled vocabulary is called "MeSH." The tutorial linked below provides an overview.


What databases should you use for your public health related research?:
More on part two of the assignment: PubMed is the staple database for all health-related research; if your research involves health outcomes, start with PubMed. You should include other databases in your research according to the concepts that are involved in your research question. For the assignment, check the list of databases at the link below and identify the two that are the most relevant to your research question. Do not make a judgement based on the description alone: try searching with your research question's keywords or query to find which databases give you the most hits.


How can you use search operators to code your query?:


How can you use search operators to code your query?:How can you use search operators to code your query?:Part three of the assignment requires that you develop a Boolean query in the following format: ("population term 1" OR "population term 2") AND ("intervention term 1" OR "intervention term 2") The above example is just a rough guideline of the structure. Copied directly, it will be inadequate for most research questions. For the purposes of this assignment, you may include a group of outcome terms and you may use more than two variations of population and intervention terms. The advantage of a hand-coded Boolean query is that it can be copied and pasted into most databases while retaining basically the same function. More rigorous systematic reviews use queries that are very "sensitive;" that is, the query retrieves a high number of records- sometimes thousands. The point of a systematic review is to evaluate ALL of the records that are returned by your search, a process that takes roughly 1-2 minutes/record for an efficient evaluator.


review is to evaluate ALL of the records that are returned by your search, a process that takes roughly 1-2 minutes/record for an efficient evaluator.review is to evaluate ALL of the records that are returned by your search, a process that takes roughly 1-2 minutes/record for an efficient evaluator.review is to evaluate ALL of the records that are returned by your search, a process that takes roughly 1-2 minutes/record for an efficient evaluator.Given the time constraints of this assignment, you are asked to develop a query that is more "precise;" that is, it returns a smaller number of results, but a higher percentage of the results is relevant to the research question. Tune your query to retrieve between 75 and 200 results (but please do not make arbitrary choices about how you limit your results- your query should be a logical development of your research question) Prepare to spend about 2 hours methodically reviewing those results. (See: "How can you document your search criteria?" below.) The tutorial linked below will provide an introduction to the use of the basic search operators and Boolean logic that are needed to complete this assignment.


How can you document your search criteria?:
INCLUSION/EXCLUSION CRITERIA FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF NON-PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS: Taken from: O’Neil ME, Freeman M, Christensen V, Telerant R, Addleman A, Kansagara D. A Systematic Evidence Review of Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia. Washington (DC): Department of Veterans Affairs; 2011. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54971/. Accessed August 13, 2015.


al Symptoms of Dementia. Washington (DC): Department of Veterans Affairs; 2011. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54971/. Accessed August 13, 2015.The methods of a systematic review should be specific and reproducible. Your query documents how you automated retrieval from databases. Your inclusion and exclusion criteria document how you decide whether or not the results of that automated retrieval are relevant or not. The PDF linked below, taken from an actual systematic review, illustrates the type of considerations that may be used to determine whether to include or exclude published studies. This is a particularly detailed and well-organized example of how search criteria may be presented. Keep this example in mind when approaching Part 4 of the assignment.


How can you use citation management software to collect relevant records from a database?:
Skills with citation management software can make a valuable contribution team-based research. You may also find value in developing a personal onlne library of publications that relate to your research interests. The tutorial linked below illustrates how you can use Zotero to collect citation information online.


How can you use citation management software to publish a bibliography in AMA style?:
Creating Bibliographies with Zotero:: Creating Bibliographies: https://www.zotero.org/support/creating_bibliographies

Part six of the assignment requires you to publish, in AMA format, a bibliography of all of the articles that met your criteria. This could easily be 20-30 articles and would be quite a time-consuming task for a person not using citation managment software; however, if you have collected your sources in a citation manager, publishing a bibliography takes only a few minutes. The link below explains how to publish bibliographies using Zotero.


How can you use citation management software to accurately cite your sources in AMA style?:
Part seven of the assignment requires that you cite your sources using AMA style. Citing sources in AMA style can be a complicated thing to do manually. Citation management software can help you to insert and correctly format in-text citations and lists of works cited. Follow the link below, titled "Zotero word processor integration," for an explanation of how to use Zotero with MS Word to format your in-text citations and publish lists of works cited.


Databases:
Pubmed: PubMed is a key database of health and medical literature. Its scope is not restricted medicine; it also covers important journals in public health, nursing, and social work. To do due diligence in your research, you should search PubMed for any health-related research question. The controlled vocabulary is called MeSH.

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


d data drawn from Cochrane Reviews allowing users to quickly obtain evidence-based information. Read more in the GC Library blog post about Cochrane .Web of Science: Massive multidisciplinary index of scholarly publications, with especially strong coverage of the sciences and social sciences. Includes numerous sub-databases, most notably the Web of Science Core Collection, which provides cover-to-cover indexing of 21,000+ peer-reviewed journals. Includes citation data for publications, allowing searchers to identify highly cited articles, find citations to a given article/author, and track citations over time. Includes detailed author records and several unique search capabilities, such as the ability to search by author affiliation, grant number, or chemical structure. Also includes awarded grant information and associated publications.


the ability to search by author affiliation, grant number, or chemical structure. Also includes awarded grant information and associated publications.Social Science Premium Collection: This collection includes databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing, and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.  Click "more" to see the full list of databases included in this collection.


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


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

GreenFILE: A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering all aspects of the human impact on the environment, including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1 million records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15 thousand records.


ore. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1 million records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15 thousand records.PsycInfo: Indexes scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health fields, covering the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.  It indexes book chapters, books, dissertations, technical reports, and articles from over 2,200 journals. Coverage is international in scope and dates back to the 17th and 18th centuries, with extensive coverage from the 1800s to the present.

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


rnative and complementary medicine, consumer health, and related disciplines. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,500 journals are also included.National Academy of the Sciences: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, nonprofit organization of leading researchers in the United States. Its flagship journal publication Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the most-cited multi-disciplinary journals, is indexed in PubMed- so there is no need to search the journal on this site if your systematic review includes PubMed. The National Academy of the Sciences Press publishes monograph reports and policy studies, some of which reproduce research originally published in journals.

Government Printing Office: Use the GPO's online system FDsys to search the massive array of information published by the U.S. Government; including statutes, codes, congressional records, education reports, and much more.


What's This?:
On this page you can find a series of youtube videos that John and Mason put together to help explain portions of your PH755 library assignment. These videos highlight particular questions students have had about specific portions of this assignment. John and Mason are constantly working on making new videos, so if you have a question, check back often to see if there is a video to address it.


Question 1 - What is a research question?:
Here's a brief video explaining what we expect for the question 1 when we ask you for a research question.


Question 2 - How to describe your search strategy.:
Here is a video in which we explain what we are looking for in question 2 when we ask you to describe your search strategy.


Screencast Tutorials:
Click to view screencast on screencast.com: This is a quick, 3 minute screencast that describes and demonstrates a technique for exporting citations from PubMed and importing them into RefWorks.

Question 6 - Click to view screencast on screencast.com: A short video on creating a customized output style using the output style editor in RefWorks.


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


Fashion Studies Research Guide:
This guide provides you with easy access to Fashion Studies and related resources. Use the tabs near the top of the page to go to the relevant section. Please visit the reference desk, use the Ask-a-Librarian service, or contact Beth Posner if you need further assistance. To search for journal articles , select the Articles tab To search for print and electronic books , select the Books tab To search for dissertations , select the Dissertations tab For information on bibliographic citation styles and citation managers such as Zotero and RefWorks, select the Citing Sources tab For information on grants and fellowship opportunities , select the Funding tab


Other guides in our Subject Guides, Subject Guides throughout the academic world and fashion resources from around the web will be helpful to you during your research. CUNY Academic Works There are over 1800 results returned when one search "fashion" in Academic Works. Explore theses, dissertations, images galleries, journal articles and more.


re over 1800 results returned when one search "fashion" in Academic Works. Explore theses, dissertations, images galleries, journal articles and more.re over 1800 results returned when one search "fashion" in Academic Works. Explore theses, dissertations, images galleries, journal articles and more.re over 1800 results returned when one search "fashion" in Academic Works. Explore theses, dissertations, images galleries, journal articles and more.Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library Fashion and Clothing History Fashion Designers Fashion Design New York Public Library Berg Fashion Library Digital Collections Costume Design (pdf) Costume and Fashion History: A Guide to Resources Industry Guide: Apparel, Fashion and Textiles The New School Libraries and Archives Fashion Studies Pima Community College Library Fashion Librarian's Resource Guide This resource is curated by the ARLIS/NA SIG for Fashion, Textile & Costume Librarians Online Resources Bloomsbury Fashion Central Fashion and Race The Fashion and Race Syllabus #FASHIONINGTHESELF SYLLABUS Publications The Fashion Studies Journal


Articles: Links to databases that index art journals.


Looking for a Specific Journal?:
Electronic and Print Journals at the Graduate Center: Search the GC library's holdings of print and electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Electronic Journals at New York Public Library: Find electronic journals available both at NYPL and from home.

Print Journals at New York Public Library: Search NYPL's research catalog for journals, magazines, and newspapers not available electronically.

Library Doesn't Have the Journal You Need? Use Interlibrary Loan!: Whenever you need an article from a journal that the GC library doesn't have, you can request the article via interlibrary loan.


Other Databases for Fashion Research:
Social Sciences Full Text: Provides access to English-language social science journals, including full text from 215 titles beginning in 1995 and indexing and abstracts of over 625 titles beginning in 1983, 400 of which are peer-reviewed. Subject coverage includes addiction studies, anthropology, community health & medical care, communications, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and more.


Google Scholar:
Google Scholar provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature, including journal articles and books. The Graduate Center Library has created a customized version that knows the library’s electronic journal holdings and links you directly to the articles in the library’s databases. Go to GC-customized Google Scholar Note: If you’re off campus, you’ll be prompted to log in with your GC credentials before you can access library subscriptions.


Article & Journal Impact:
Article Impact: One measure of the impact of an article is the number of times it has been cited by other articles. These databases offer robust cited reference searching:

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


the ability to search by author affiliation, grant number, or chemical structure. Also includes awarded grant information and associated publications.Google Scholar: Google Scholar provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, and other scholarly organizations. Follow the steps to customize Google Scholar to make it easy to find full text at the GC.

Journal Impact: A journal's impact is calculated by analyzing (in different ways by different tools) how frequently its articles are cited. Journal-level metrics are provided by:


impact is calculated by analyzing (in different ways by different tools) how frequently its articles are cited. Journal-level metrics are provided by:Journal Citation Reports: Presents an array of citation-based metrics for journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. Provides Journal Impact Factor (i.e., average number of citations in a given year to articles published by that journal in the previous two years, averaged over the number of articles published in those two years) for many but not all covered journals. Search or browse the database by journal (title or ISSN), subject category, or publisher. Compare metrics for up to four journals simultaneously.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank: SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a journal-ranking site that includes the journals contained in the database Scopus.

Google Scholar Metrics: Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for to gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly journals.

For more information, see the Research Metrics guide.


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


Ebooks:
The library provides access to many thousands of ebooks, accessible through a variety of databases. Most can be found using OneSearch . Consult our Ebook Collections guide for more information.


The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies:
The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies will be published on September 20, 21. Co-edited by three CUNY professors, Eugenia Paulicelli , Elizabeth Wissinger and Veronica Manlow, the book features chapters of several other CUNY professors and one of our MALS/Fashion Studies graduate student s.


Preparing to Graduate?:
Library deposit is the final degree requirement for Graduate Center doctoral and master's students. If you are preparing to graduate, review the the Dissertations and Theses guide and consult with your program office for requirements and deadlines. Questions? Contact the Dissertation Office at deposit@gc.cuny.edu.


Graduate Center Dissertations:
Graduate Center Dissertations and Theses in Academic Works, 2014-present: As of 2014, all Graduate Center dissertations, theses, and capstone projects are posted to CUNY Academic Works. Some are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author.

Graduate Center Retrospective Dissertations, 1965-2013: Current CUNY students, faculty and staff can log in with their CUNYfirst credentials to access GC dissertations and capstones from 1965-2013. (Pre-2014 master's theses are available only in print). If you want to move your dissertation or capstone into the publicly accessible CUNY repository, Academic Works, email the GC Dissertation Office at deposit@gc.cuny.edu . Making your dissertation free to the public helps broaden the reach of your scholarship and supports CUNY's mission of public service.


t@gc.cuny.edu . Making your dissertation free to the public helps broaden the reach of your scholarship and supports CUNY's mission of public service.CUNYfirst credentials: used to log into Blackboard, CUNY-wide electronic resources, and other services. More information about the various CUNY accounts: https://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/cuny_accounts .

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

ProQuest Dissertation Express: For anyone without a current GC network userid/pwd, search for CUNY or non-CUNY dissertations here. Order copies in print or PDF formats.


Finding Dissertations:
There is no single source for a comprehensive dissertation search. WorldCat and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global include most American dissertations. Dissertations @ The Center for Research Libraries lends non-American dissertations to member borrowers. Library catalogs and specialized repositories contain other titles. Request any dissertation through Interlibrary Loan . Though not every title is available through ILL, it is worth a try.


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


ur search statement, selecting the school name/code search field. Non-U.S.dissertations can be searched in the Center for Research Libraries' catalog.Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online Catalog: The Center for Research Libraries provides a shared collection of five million books, journals, documents and newspapers to supplement member libraries’ holdings in the humanities, science, and social sciences. With a strategic emphasis on expanding electronic access to international primary source collections, CRL participates in a number of cooperative digitization efforts, yielding millions of pages of digitized content to date. CRL resources include:


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


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


he National Archives of the U.S. and the U.K., and many special collections from around the world U.S.and international legal and government resourcesNetworked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Global ETD Search: NDLTD's Global ETD Search is a free service that allows researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations based on keyword, date, institution, language and subject.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations: Metadata from over 1100 institutions, indexes over 2.5 million theses and dissertations.

Additional Dissertation Databases: The library's Dissertations and Theses guide lists many additional databases of dissertations and theses.


For More Information...:
For additional information about managing references and creating bibliographies, consult the library's more extensive Cite Your Sources guide. Need help? Check the library calendar for upcoming citation management workshops and drop-in help sessions, or request an appointment with a librarian .


Guides to Common Citation Styles:
APA Style Online: The style and grammar guidelines pages present information about APA Style as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition. The full APA style guide is available in print . This supplementary site from APA includes quick reference materials and updates.

MLA Style Overview: Overview of MLA style, including the details of citations and bibliographies, from Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab).

MLA FAQ: Answers to frequently asked questions about MLA style.

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

Turabian Quick Guide: This site gives a quick overview of Turabian style, which is a simplified version of Chicago style.


wers, and additional tools.

Turabian Quick Guide: This site gives a quick overview of Turabian style, which is a simplified version of Chicago style.Scientific Style and Format Online: Now in its eighth edition, the indispensable reference for authors, editors, publishers, students, and translators in all areas of science and related fields has been fully revised by the Council of Science Editors to reflect today’s best practices in scientific publishing.

Style Guides from Purdue OWL: Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides overviews of numerous styles, including APA, Chicago, MLA, AMA, and IEEE.


Citation Managers:
The GC library supports two citation managers: Zotero and RefWorks . Citation managers allow you to save and organize references you gather during research. They allow you to easily import citations from library databases and other websites, and to manually enter information about sources that aren't represented online. Citation managers also generate bibliographies in a wide variety of styles.


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


For More Information...:
For more information about funding sources, visit the library's Grants & Funding guide.


GC Office of Research and Sponsored Programs:
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs: The office of Research and Sponsored Programs (RSP) is the CUNY Graduate School and University Center’s central administrative unit for overseeing GC-CUNY applications for, and awards of, governmental and foundation funding.


Resources from Candid:
Candid NY - Resource Center, Library, Free Workshops: Webinar trainings are available from Candid (formerly Foundation Center).


Databases for Grants, Awards, Fellowships:
Pivot-RP: Grants, internships, and graduate and post-graduate fellowships in all subject areas. Search for open funding opportunities and information about previously awarded grants. Users may create an optional personal account to use enhanced features such as saving searches and tracking funding opportunities. Once you create an account, you can also claim and configure your user profile to receive personalized automated funding recommendations targeted to your research interests. To create an account, select the Use Email Address/Create Password option and fill out the form using your @gradcenter.cuny.edu or @gc.cuny.edu address. For Affiliated Member Institution, select "Graduate Center, The City University of New York." Look for the verification email in your inbox to finish the process. After the initial setup, you will be recognized as a GC researcher whenever you log into your personal account.


l in your inbox to finish the process. After the initial setup, you will be recognized as a GC researcher whenever you log into your personal account.GrantForward: CUNY provides access to this database through the Research Foundation . GrantForward is a funding search and grant recommendation service. Create an account using your @gradcenter.cuny.edu or @gc.cuny.edu email address, and set up a profile to begin receiving automatic grant recommendations based on your research interests. GrantForward uses data-crawling technology to update a database of sponsors and funding opportunities gathered from over 9,000 US Sponsors. For support using GrantForward visit https://www.grantforward.com/support .

FOLIO (Foundation LIterature Online): An online digital repository of foundation-sponsored research reports and publications covering the full scope of philanthropic activity.


ure Online): An online digital repository of foundation-sponsored research reports and publications covering the full scope of philanthropic activity.Assistance Listings (formerly Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA): Database of all federal programs available to state and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and non-profit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.   ~22,000 described.

Research Centers Directory via NYPL: Please log in using your New York Public Library credentials! Comprehensive guide to North America’s premier nonprofit research organizations. Information on each organization includes programs, staffing, and publications, as well as services of centers, laboratories, institutes, experiment stations, farms, research support facilities, technology transfer centers, think tanks, incubators, research parks, and more.


Share Your Work:
You wrote it...now what? How will you put your work out into the world? CUNY offers a variety of platforms for posting, publishing, or otherwise sharing your work online. Different platforms have different features and purposes—for example, what's best for sharing an article you previously published in a subscription-based journal may not be best for making an educational text you wrote discoverable by other instructors. This page summarizes the different publishing platforms available to you as a member of the CUNY community.


Questions?:
Overwhelmed by the options? All Graduate Center students, faculty, and staff are welcome to contact us for additional information or guidance about platforms, copyright, permissions, etc.: Jill Cirasella , Scholarly Communication Librarian and University Liaison, is the library's primary point person for questions about scholarly publishing, including questions about CUNY Academic Works, copyright, fair use, publisher contracts, and Creative Commons licenses. Elvis Bakaitis , Head of Reference, is the library's primary point person for questions creating and sharing open educational resources (OER), including questions about Pressbooks, Manifold, and OpenEd CUNY.


CUNY Academic Works:
CUNY Academic Works collects, preserves, and provides public access to scholarly, creative, and pedagogical works created by members of the CUNY community. A service of the CUNY libraries, Academic Works serves several important purposes: as a primary publication venue for some works (e.g., dissertations, theses, and capstone projects , as well as white papers and conference presentations); as a site to share and showcase works published elsewhere (e.g., scholarly articles, book chapters); as a place to satisfy grant funders' open access and open data requirements. The Graduate Center section of Academic Works a great place for Graduate Center students, faculty, and staff to publicly share their work with the world. Learn more about how to add your work to CUNY Academic Works, or create an account to start uploading your work.


Pressbooks:
Pressbooks is online book production software, with editing functionality based on Wordpress. You can use Pressbooks to publish textbooks, scholarly monographs, syllabi, white papers, and more, in multiple formats including: Designed PDF (for print-on-demand and digital distribution) MOBI (for Kindle ebook readers) EPUB (for all other ebook readers) Pressbooks allows you to "edit as you go," making updates that are immediately live on the site. The platform is commonly used to create and share Open Educational Resources — typically more substantive texts, such as full length books or resource guides. Get started by signing up for a CUNY Pressbooks account .


Manifold:
Manifold @CUNY is a digital publishing platform where you can share your own scholarship or educational materials, upload texts that are openly licensed or in the public domain, upload texts for collective annotation with Hypothes.is , and more. Another option is to use the Manifold Reading Groups to build your own course reader from materials already available on the CUNY instance of Manifold. Check out CUNY Student Editions for examples of public domain texts that are "accessibly designed for students" in Manifold. Additional project collections include Libros En Espanol and Teaching and Pedagogy Resources . Manifold is best used as a display platform for pre-existing or finalized texts. As a creation platform, it lacks the editing functionality of Pressbooks (there is no way to modify a text once uploaded), which can be a barrier for those seeking to make continuous adjustments to their work. Get started by signing up for a Manifold @CUNY account .


OpenEd CUNY:
OpenEd CUNY is a hub for sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) created at CUNY. Built as a part of the University's involvement in the New York State OER Scale Up Initiative, the site is used by CUNY's twenty-five campuses to facilitate OER-enabled pedagogy and make the work that faculty, staff, and students are creating more visible and shareable. If you're interested in getting a sense of OER at CUNY, OpenEd CUNY allows you to search by material type (syllabus, module, full course, game), educational level, media format (audio, video, eBook), as well as subject area. Get started by signing up for an OpenEd CUNY account.


Database Icons:
CUNY Resources: available to all of CUNY

Graduate Center Resources: available to the GC community

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Funding provided by the Graduate Center Student Technology Fee

New York Public Library (NYPL) Resources: available to the GC community via NYPL

A majority of the content from this resource is included in OneSearch , including item-level records. (To be certain of full content, search in the native interface of the database on the A-Z list )

Open Access Resources: available to all

On our A-Z list of databases , the following icons correspond to the source of access or funding for each item:


Quick Library Resources:
Library Homepage: Start here to get books, articles, databases, interlibrary loan, reference help and more.

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

Interlibrary Loan: Need an article from a journal not at the Grad Center? Need a book that isn't available at any CUNY library? Submit an interlibrary loan request .

24/7 chat and email reference: Need an answer right away? Reference help available 24 hours a day through Ask-A-Librarian chat and email service.


Visiting Other Libraries:
Other CUNY Libraries: All CUNY students and faculty have access to all CUNY libraries and may check out books at all but CUNY Law.  Reference books, special collections, audiovisual materials, and electronic resources may be used locally.

Metro One Day Pass: Ask at the reference desk on the second floor of the Graduate Center library for a one-time pass to visit New York City area libraries. These passes are issued by a librarian for materials that are not found in any CUNY library. For longer term access to nearby libraries, see MaRLI below.

MaRLI (Manhattan Research Library Initiative): This research initiative allows selected researchers access and circulation privileges at Columbia University, New York University, and New York Public Library's research libraries.


Library Workshops:
Check the library calendar for upcoming workshops about library research and scholarly publishing.


Suggest a Book:
Suggest a book purchase: The Graduate Center Library welcomes book purchase suggestions from the Graduate Center community. The library will carefully consider requests that are consistent with our Collection Policy .


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

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


Featured Titles:
Border and Rule: In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.


and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.Impossible Subjects: This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s--its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol.


America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol.Migration Studies and Colonialism: This book starts from the premise that colonial histories should be central to migration studies and explores what it would mean to really take that seriously. To engage with this task, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner argue that scholars need not forge new theories but must learn from and be inspired by the wealth of literature that already exists across the world. Providing a range of inspiring and challenging perspectives on migration, the authors' aim is to demonstrate what paying attention to colonialism, through using the tools offered by postcolonial, decolonial and related scholarship, can offer those studying international migration today.

The Unsettling of Europe: An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe. Gatrell places migration at the center of post-war European history, and the aspirations of migrants themselves at the center of the story of migration.


trell places migration at the center of post-war European history, and the aspirations of migrants themselves at the center of the story of migration.Militarized Global Apartheid: In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid, Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure older forms of white supremacy and deploy them in new contexts to maintain this racialized global order. Whether using the language of security, military intervention, surveillance technologies, or detention centers and other forms of incarceration, these projects reinforce and consolidate the global north's political and economic interests at the expense of the poor, migrants, refugees, Indigenous populations, and people of color.


idate the global north's political and economic interests at the expense of the poor, migrants, refugees, Indigenous populations, and people of color.idate the global north's political and economic interests at the expense of the poor, migrants, refugees, Indigenous populations, and people of color.idate the global north's political and economic interests at the expense of the poor, migrants, refugees, Indigenous populations, and people of color.By drawing out how this new form of apartheid functions and pointing to areas of resistance, Besteman opens up new space to theorize potential sources of liberatory politics.


new form of apartheid functions and pointing to areas of resistance, Besteman opens up new space to theorize potential sources of liberatory politics.Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: This book examines the lasting impact of trauma for racial minority immigrants and subsequent generations. Each chapter explores both the stress and resilience of immigrant groups in the United States, as well as clinical or community-based efforts to address the multiple traumas that affect immigrants and their children. While considering the socioecological contexts of immigrants, the chapters reflect a diversity of theoretical perspectives needed to expand existing treatments for trauma, such as multicultural, feminist, womanist, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic theories.


ded to expand existing treatments for trauma, such as multicultural, feminist, womanist, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic theories.Reform Without Justice: Gonzales argues that the contemporary Latino rights movement faces a dynamic form of political power that he terms "anti-migrant hegemony". This anti-migrant hegemony, found in sites of power from Congress, to think tanks, talk shows and the prison system, is a force through which a rhetorically race neutral and common sense public policy discourse, consistent with the rules of post-civil rights racism, is deployed to criminalize migrants.

America for Americans: The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Forcing us to confront this history, Lee explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America.


lonial era to the Trump era. Forcing us to confront this history, Lee explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America.Inventing Latinos: Laura E. Gomez, a leading expert on race in America, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and others are seeing themselves (and being seen by others) under the banner of a cohesive racial identity.


Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Origins and Global Impact: Discover the origins and consequences of human movement over time, from the 16th-century Age of Discovery to 21st-century immigration politics.    This book examines the complex forces behind international migration and the enormous impact it is having on our globalized world. Chapters cover both the challenges and opportunities associated with migration in a broad selection of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. Readers will find in-depth analysis of such recent events as the Ukrainian refugee crisis, violence against immigrants in South Africa, support for right-wing political parties in Germany, Australia's use of offshore detention centers, and the Trump administration's efforts to curb immigration.


or right-wing political parties in Germany, Australia's use of offshore detention centers, and the Trump administration's efforts to curb immigration.or right-wing political parties in Germany, Australia's use of offshore detention centers, and the Trump administration's efforts to curb immigration.or right-wing political parties in Germany, Australia's use of offshore detention centers, and the Trump administration's efforts to curb immigration.Readers will also uncover the historical antecedents to the modern landscape of human migration, including the push for colonization and the exploitation and horrors of the slave trade.    The book also investigates the profound impact that climate change will have on patterns of human migration in the coming years. Taken together, the chapters offer candid and compelling coverage of a dynamic subject that affects millions of people worldwide. For readers wishing to delve even deeper into this multifaceted and often contentious subject, a comprehensive list of recommended readings serves as a gateway to further exploration.


deeper into this multifaceted and often contentious subject, a comprehensive list of recommended readings serves as a gateway to further exploration.Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond: Political discourse on immigration in the United States has largely focused on what is most visible, including border walls and detention centers, while the invisible information systems that undergird immigration enforcement have garnered less attention. Tracking the evolution of various surveillance-related systems since the 1980s, Borderland Circuitry investigates how the deployment of this information infrastructure has shaped immigration enforcement practices. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement.


es. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement.es. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement.es. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement.Using ethnography, interviews, and analysis of documents never before seen, Muñiz uncovers how information-sharing partnerships between local police, state and federal law enforcement, and foreign partners collide to create multiple digital borderlands. Diving deep into a select group of information systems, Borderland Circuitry reveals how those with legal and political power deploy the specter of violent cross-border criminals to justify intensive surveillance, detention, brutality, deportation, and the destruction of land for border militarization.


nt cross-border criminals to justify intensive surveillance, detention, brutality, deportation, and the destruction of land for border militarization.Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific: From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West. Born U.S. citizens but treated as unwelcome aliens, this contingent of Japanese Americans--one in four U.S.-born Nisei--came in search of better lives but instead encountered a world shaped by increasingly volatile relations between the U.S. and Japan.  Based on transnational and bilingual research in the United States and Japan, Michael R. Jin recuperates the stories of this unique group of American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese empire.


ted States and Japan, Michael R. Jin recuperates the stories of this unique group of American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese empire.ted States and Japan, Michael R. Jin recuperates the stories of this unique group of American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese empire.ted States and Japan, Michael R. Jin recuperates the stories of this unique group of American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese empire.From the Jim Crow American West to the Japanese colonial frontiers in Asia, and from internment camps in America to Hiroshima on the eve of the atomic bombing, these individuals redefined ideas about home, identity, citizenship, and belonging as they encountered multiple social realities on both sides of the Pacific. Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless examines the deeply intertwined histories of Asian exclusion in the United States, Japanese colonialism in Asia, and volatile geopolitical changes in the Pacific world that converged in the lives of Japanese American migrants.


tates, Japanese colonialism in Asia, and volatile geopolitical changes in the Pacific world that converged in the lives of Japanese American migrants.The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies: The notion of 'immigrant integration' is used everywhere - by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers - as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding 'unity from diversity' after large-scale immigration. Promising a progressive middle way between backward-looking ideas of assimilation and the alleged fragmentation of multiculturalism, 'integration' has become the default concept for states scrambling to deal with global refugee management and the persistence of racial disadvantage.  Yet 'integration' is the continuance of a long-standing colonial development paradigm. It is how majority-white liberal democracies absorb and benefit from mass migration while maintaining a hierarchy of race and nationality - and the global inequalities it sustains.


al democracies absorb and benefit from mass migration while maintaining a hierarchy of race and nationality - and the global inequalities it sustains.al democracies absorb and benefit from mass migration while maintaining a hierarchy of race and nationality - and the global inequalities it sustains.al democracies absorb and benefit from mass migration while maintaining a hierarchy of race and nationality - and the global inequalities it sustains.Immigrant integration sits at the heart of the neo-liberal racial capitalism of recent decades, in which tight control of nation-building and bordering selectively enables some citizens to enjoy the mobilities of a globally integrating world, as other populations are left behind and locked out.  Subjecting research and policy on immigrant integration to theoretical scrutiny, The Integration Nation offers a fundamental rethink of a core concept in migration, ethnic and racial studies in the light of the challenge posed by decolonial theory and movements.


fundamental rethink of a core concept in migration, ethnic and racial studies in the light of the challenge posed by decolonial theory and movements.The National Versus the Foreigner in South America: 200 Years of Migration and Citizenship Law: Since the turn of the century, South American governments and regional organisations have adopted the world's most open discourse on migration and citizenship. At a time when restrictive choices were becoming increasingly predominant around the world, South American policymakers presented their discourse as being both an innovative and exceptional 'new paradigm' and part of a morally superior, avant-garde path in policymaking. This book provides a critical examination of the South American legal framework through a historical and comparative analysis. Diego Acosta uses this analysis to assess whether the laws are truly innovative and exceptional, as well as evaluating their feasibility, strengths and weaknesses.


uses this analysis to assess whether the laws are truly innovative and exceptional, as well as evaluating their feasibility, strengths and weaknesses.uses this analysis to assess whether the laws are truly innovative and exceptional, as well as evaluating their feasibility, strengths and weaknesses.uses this analysis to assess whether the laws are truly innovative and exceptional, as well as evaluating their feasibility, strengths and weaknesses.By analysing the legal construction of the national and the foreigner in ten South American countries during the last two centuries, he demonstrates how different citizenship and migration laws have functioned, as well as showing why states have opted for certain regulation choices, and the consequence of these choices for state- and nation-building in the continent. An invaluable insight for anyone interested in global migration and citizenship discussions.


choices for state- and nation-building in the continent. An invaluable insight for anyone interested in global migration and citizenship discussions.Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration: Border walls, shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, separated families at the border, island detention camps: migration is at the centre of contemporary political and academic debates. This ground-breaking Handbook offers an exciting and original analysis of critical research on themes such as these, drawing on cutting-edge theories from an interdisciplinary and international group of leading scholars. With a focus on spatial analysis and geographical context, this volume highlights a range of theoretical, methodological and regional approaches to migration research, while remaining attuned to the underlying politics that bring critical scholars together. Divided into six thematic sections, including new areas in critical migration research, the book covers the key questions galvanizing migration scholars today, such as issues surrounding refugees and border militarization.


ation research, the book covers the key questions galvanizing migration scholars today, such as issues surrounding refugees and border militarization.ation research, the book covers the key questions galvanizing migration scholars today, such as issues surrounding refugees and border militarization.ation research, the book covers the key questions galvanizing migration scholars today, such as issues surrounding refugees and border militarization.Each chapter explores new themes, expanding on core theories to convey fresh insight to contemporary research. A key resource for migration, refugee and border studies this Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the topic, covering a vast array of research ideas with a specific focus on the geographical aspects of migration. Scholars working on migration, refugees, asylum, transnationalism, humanitarianism and borders will find this an invaluable read.


Library of Congress Classifications:
Books in the CUNY Libraries are organized using the Library of Congress Classification system, which uses an alpha-numeric code to represent subjects. To browse migration-related books in the stacks, head towards the aisles labeled with these codes to find the most relevant titles.

Political Science: JV: includes emigration and immigration. International migration. Sociology: HV4005-4013: Immigrants. HT201-221: City population, including immigrants Law: KF 4801-4848: Immigration Law Education: LC3701-3740: Immigrants or ethnic and linguistic minorities. Bilingual Schools and bilingual education. LC3745-3747: Children of immigrants (First generation


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Key Journals:
International Migration Review: A peer-reviewed publication of the Center for Migration Studies (ISSN: 0197-9183).

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Peer-reviewed (ISSN: 1369-183X). Library access has a rolling 18-month embargo for current issues.

Migration Studies: Peer-reviewed publication (ISSN: 2049-5838).

Journal on Migration and Human Security (JMHS): A peer-reviewed, open access publication of the Center for Migration Studies (ISSN: 2331-5024).

International Migration: A peer-reviewed publication of the UN International Organization for Migration (ISSN: 0020-7985).


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

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


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


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


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


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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


s, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology.

SAGE Sociology Collection: Full text of 37 SAGE sociology journals from 1952 to the present.Social Theory: More than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons. Search across the resource or browse authors, titles, theories, or subjects.

Citation Indexes: The Graduate Center subscribes to the Web of Science, providing cited references from thousands of scholarly journals and conference proceedings in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences through Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science & Humanities and Book Citation Index. Academic Search Complete, PsycInfo, and some other EBSCO databases also provide cited references.


Social Science & Humanities and Book Citation Index. Academic Search Complete, PsycInfo, and some other EBSCO databases also provide cited references.ICPSR: Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research: ICPSR, the world's largest collection of digital social science data, maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. ICPSR data cover sociology, political science, economics, demography, education, child care, health care, crime, minority populations, aging, terrorism, substance abuse, mental health, public policy, international relations, and more. First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account; thereafter, you will need your email address and password to download data.


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

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


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


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

New York Times Academic Pass: All of CUNY has access to the NYTimes Academic Pass. Anyone with a valid CUNY email address can sign up for free access to the NYTimes.com website and smartphone apps. Please see the full instructions for signing up.


valid CUNY email address can sign up for free access to the NYTimes.com website and smartphone apps. Please see the full instructions for signing up.National Newspapers Premier (via NYPL): Searchable full text from the 1980's to the present of over 25 local, regional and national newspapers including the the New York Daily News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. Available on-site only at NYPL research branches.

Ethnic NewsWatch (and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History): This resource contains full-text of over 500 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. Includes Ethnic NewsWatch , which covers 1990 to the present, and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History , which includes materials dating back to 1959 and provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Publications are in a wide variety of languages including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Creole, Inuktitut, Russian, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, and others.


Infotrac Newsstand:
Gale OneFile: News: Provides access to more than 3,000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts and transcripts.


International Newspapers - 1980-present:
People's Daily Online: The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Provides full-text coverage of daily issues between 1946 to 2005.

NYPL newspaper databases: The NYPL subscribes to many international news databases. Many can only be accessed online at a research library location.


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

Nexis Uni video tutorials


Getting Started with Nexis Uni:
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) is a database with powerful search options, but may be difficult to navigate at first. Take a few minutes to watch the tutorials below to get an idea of its abilities. View more Nexis Uni video tutorials on the Lexis Nexis YouTube channel .


Nexis Uni: Search Tips:
Using LexisNexis Academic to Search International News [pdf]: Follow along with screenshots to locate menu options for searching news by geographic region.

Use the ! symbol as a wildcard operator in your search strings. For example, type migra! to retrieve results with the keywords migration, migrant, migrants . Use w/ n to define proximity of words in search results, where "n" equals the number of words. For example, muslim w/2 refugee will retrieve sources where the words muslim and refugee are within two words of each other.


New database: TRACFED:
TRACFed: TRACFed is a source of authoritative information on federal government criminal, civil, and administrative enforcement, as well as information on staffing, spending, and related matters. It includes access to TRAC's full suite of data tools and reports (with the exception of the Judge Information Center) and offers a wide range of federal data, mostly collected under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Read more in our GC Library blog post about TRACFed .