05), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003), Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), and Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present: Over 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, speeches, letters, political leaflets, periodicals, trial transcripts, and interviews by major American Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders, covering over 250 years of history. Writers include James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ralph Bunche, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Huey Newton, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Bobby Seale, Booker T. Washington, Cornel West, Richard Wright, and many others. Search across the collection or browse by person, subject, title, historical event, content type, place, or publisher.


ichard Wright, and many others. Search across the collection or browse by person, subject, title, historical event, content type, place, or publisher.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.

HathiTrust Digital Library: Millions of books digitized by a variety of major research institutions. See this post for more information about public domain items available to all via HathiTrust .


digitized by a variety of major research institutions. See this post for more information about public domain items available to all via HathiTrust .I.F. Stone's Weekly: All issues of I.F. Stone's Weekly published between January 17, 1953 and December 1, 1971 are available online in pdf from the Official Website of I.F. Stone.  Annual subject indexes in pdf accompany each volume and are available from the Search Page of the website.

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

Labor History Review: "To a generation of trade union scholars and activists, Labor Research Review was a central forum for analysis, criticism, and strategic thinking on the American labor movement in the late 20th century.  Coverage spans 1982 to 1996."


central forum for analysis, criticism, and strategic thinking on the American labor movement in the late 20th century.  Coverage spans 1982 to 1996."Liberation News Service: The LNS was founded in 1967 and served an alternative to the mainstream media by producing weekly news packets for counter-culture and New Left periodicals. The LNS is currently digitizing all of their news packets, which went out to hundreds of periodicals serving millions of readers, and making them available via pdf via this website.


all of their news packets, which went out to hundreds of periodicals serving millions of readers, and making them available via pdf via this website.Marxists Internet Archive Periodicals: This freely available web resource contains a list and glossary of Marxist periodicals. Access varies by title but may include a list of issues published, table of contents, subject index, issues in pdf, or full text. Some covers are reproduced. Titles include American Socialist (1956-1959), Anvil (1952-1960), The Call (London, 1916-1920), Clarion (London, 1991-1894), Student Partisan (New York 1934-1953), The Militant (1928-1934), Southern Worker (1930-1937), Western Worker (1932-1933), International Socialist Review (1901-1918), and others. Click on the "See Archive" links after glossary entries to access content. See the Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals section of the U.S.A. History Archive page on marxists.org for a list of digital holdings.


access content. See the Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals section of the U.S.A. History Archive page on marxists.org for a list of digital holdings.Modernist Journals Project: A web-based resource for the study of modernism.  Includes a rich and growing collection of cover-to-cover digital editions of modern books and periodicals (ca. 1890-1922) and a biographical database of authors and artists.  Publications include Masses (1911-1917), The Freewoman (1911-1912), and The Crisis (1910-1922).

Trotskyist Publications from the Marxists Internet Archive: A collection of more than 50 Trotskyist publications ranging from The Militant (1928-) to Socialist Appeal (1935-1937) to Workers Vanguard (1971-).  Includes links to pdfs of complete issues or transcriptions of issues, as well as links to indexes where available.


Selected Current Sources:
Alternet.org: "AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more. "

Common Dreams: "Breaking news and views for the progressive community." International in scope, coverage includes climate, the environment, war and peace, the economy, and rights.

Democracy Now!: A daily independent international news program.


, coverage includes climate, the environment, war and peace, the economy, and rights.

Democracy Now!: A daily independent international news program.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.

The Indypendent: A New York City-based free newspaper and online news site.  Published in print 13 times a year on Mondays, and updated daily online.

Mother Jones: A nonprofit news outlet reporting on the urgent issues of the day, "from politics and climate change to education and the food we eat."


Mother Jones: A nonprofit news outlet reporting on the urgent issues of the day, "from politics and climate change to education and the food we eat."The Nation: 150 year old independent weekly magazine covering politics, world news, books and arts, the economy, the environment, activism, and society. Available electronically at the GC. Find it with a Journal Title Search: http://library.gc.cuny.edu/

ProPublica: "An independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest."


Alt Press Center:
Alternative Press Center: Founded in 1969, the APC is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press.  Use the Online Directory to identify current print and online publications by subject.


GC Library Databases:
Alternative Press Index: The API indexes over 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines from 1991 to the present. International and interdisciplinary in scope, the API spans the social sciences and humanities with a focus on the practice and theory of socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, LGBTQ issues, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism.

Left Index: Guide to the literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Topics covered include art and aesthetics, ecology and environment, education, history, the labor movement, law and globalization, philosophy, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, and sociology. Includes more than 507,000 citations and abstracts (with some full text) and spans from 1982 and earlier to present.


Popular Library Resources:
Interlibrary Loan: Need an article the Graduate Center doesn't have? Need a book that isn't available at CUNY? Request it through Interlibrary Loan.

24/7 Chat Reference: Need help now? Chat with a librarian 24/7!

WorldCat (FirstSearch): Holdings of thousands of American and international libraries. Make Interlibrary Loan (ILL) requests with the Find it! button. Searchable in English, French, and Spanish.

CRL Research Guide: The College and Research Libraries has a guide to religion and philosophical materials in their collection.


Suggest New Materials:
The library welcomes suggestions for new books and other materials. Need It Soon? Purchasing and processing new materials takes weeks. If you need an item quickly, request it via Interlibrary Loan . Faculty: To request materials for a GC course you're teaching, use the Reserve Request Form .


Classics Resources Guide:
This guide provides you with easy access to classics and related resources. Use the tabs towards the top of the page to go to the relevant section. Please contact me if you need further assistance, I'm here to help! To find sources for journal and newspaper articles in print and online, select the Articles/Databases tab.  If you have a citation and need to know if the library subscribes to the journal, search the title on the journals page (http://library.gc.cuny.edu/home.php?q=jour#journals). To search for print and electronic books select the ' Books' tab To search archival collections and primary source databases select the ' Primary Sources' tab For information on bibliographic citation styles and citation managers such as Zotero select the ' Citing Sources ' tab For information on grants and fellowship opportunities select the ' Grants & Funding' tab


E-Research Basics:
Our E-Research Basics guide acquaints you with the basics of doing online research through the Mina Rees Library. You'll find information about logging in for remote access, deciding on and searching within a database, locating specific articles and doing broad exploratory searches, determining whether the GC has access to a particular journal, and more.


Reference Online (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.):
Brill's Dictionary of Ancient Greek: The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. It brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally beyond. Translated and edited under the auspices of The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is based on the completely revised 3rd Italian edition published in 2013 by Loescher Editore, Torino.


ngton, DC, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is based on the completely revised 3rd Italian edition published in 2013 by Loescher Editore, Torino.Oxford Art Online: Oxford Art Online is a platform for searching across the following art reference works listed below.  Create an optional subscriber account to save searches. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd ed.) The Oxford Companion to Western Art And the Grove Dictionary of Art , which can also be searched separately at Grove Art Online (CUNY does not subscribe to the Benezit Dictionary of Artists )

Oxford Bibliographies: Bibliographies in American literature, Anthropology, Atlantic history, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Education, International Relations, Islamic studies, Latin American studies, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, the Renaissance and Reformation, and Victorian Literature. Bibliographies are drawn from books, journals, and internet resources.


Science, Psychology, the Renaissance and Reformation, and Victorian Literature. Bibliographies are drawn from books, journals, and internet resources.Oxford English Dictionary (OED): With 600,000 words and 3.7 million quotations from over 1,000 years, the OED is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words in the English language.  The OED is updated quarterly with revised entries and new words and senses. The updates make up the Third Edition of the OED .

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

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The SEP is open source and maintained by Stanford University. A global collection of experts and scholars in the area of philosophy work together to expand and maintain the encyclopedia.


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


Library Blog:
Consult the library blog to see what's new. Subscribe to receive new posts by email.


Articles: Links to databases that index art journals.


Journals:
Electronic Journals by Subject (History, Regional): List includes journals on regions, countries, and the historical sciences.

Electronic and Print Journals at the Graduate Center: Search the Graduate Center's holdings in electronic and print journals, magazines, and newspapers and browse the electronic titles by subject.

Museum helveticum: Classical philology


Classics Best Bets:
Library List of All Databases: Alphabetical, A-Z

Arts & Humanities Citation Index: Part of Web of Science, this database finds bibliographic citations, abstracts, cited references, and the number of times cited for articles from 1,160 international journals in the arts and humanities since 1975 as well as relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Annee philologique: Bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.  Includes all volumes of the annual index beginning with Volume 1 published in 1928.  Covers Greek and Latin literature and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy. Abstracts of journal articles are in English, German, Spanish, French or Italian. Books entries often include tables of contents and book review information.


ts of journal articles are in English, German, Spanish, French or Italian. Books entries often include tables of contents and book review information.Essay and General Literature Index: Contains citations to essays in collections of mostly scholarly works and miscellaneous works published since 1985 in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Approximately 340 volumes are indexed annually. While abstracts of essays are not included, users can follow links to the volumes containing the essays to see complete contents and additional information. An extremely useful resource for all disciplines because it indexes sources not covered elsewhere. Search simultaneously with Essay and General Literature Retrospective by selecting both resources from the “choose databases” link.


covered elsewhere. Search simultaneously with Essay and General Literature Retrospective by selecting both resources from the “choose databases” link.Essay and General Literature Retrospective: Indexes over 270,000 essays from anthologies and collections covering a wide range of humanities and social sciences disciplines published in English in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain between 1900 and 1984. Search simultaneously with Essay and General Literature Index by selecting both resources from the “choose databases” link.

Humanities Source: Over 1,500 full-text journals dating back to 1907.  Includes millions of records covering archaeology, art, communications, dance, film, folklore, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism, classical studies, area studies and gender studies. Should be included in any humanities search.


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


t by subject, title, or collection, or search across the full resource. Register for a free personal account to save materials and organize your work.Gale Literature Resource Center: A full-text database containing analysis, biographical information, overviews, literary criticism, and reviews on more than 175,000 writers in all disciplines and from all time periods and regions of the world. Includes in-depth biographies of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. It also features more than 80,000 full-text critical essays and reviews from the Gale literature series; more than 2,600,000 full-text articles, critical essays, and reviews from over 480 scholarly journals and literary magazines; and more than 140,000 audio files. For an even larger search tool which includes Gale Literature Resource Center and more, try Gale Literature .


ines; and more than 140,000 audio files. For an even larger search tool which includes Gale Literature Resource Center and more, try Gale Literature .Philosopher's Index: Bibliographic citations from philosophy journals and books in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish from 1940 to the present. Over 680 journals from fifty countries are indexed, covering all major fields of philosophy. Approximately eighty percent of citations are from journal articles, the rest from books. More than 10,000 new records are added annually.

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


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


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

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

Dissertations @ the Center for Research Libraries: 800,000 foreign dissertations for interlibrary loan.


Electronic Books:
ACLS Humanities E-book: A fully searchable online collection of over 5,700 scholarly ebooks in the humanities from 125 publishers.  Offered through a collaboration between the American Council of Learned Societies, Michigan Publishing (Univ. of Michigan), and the open source Fulcrum publishing platform.

Cambridge Histories Online: First published in 1902, Cambridge Histories span subject areas across the humanities and social sciences. The GC’s subscription includes over 400 titles in American History; Ancient & Classical Studies; Asian History, British & European History; Global History, Literature, Middle East & African Studies, Music & Theatre; Philosophy & Political Thought; and Religion. **GC-subscribed Cambridge content is discoverable in CUNY OneSearch .


African Studies, Music & Theatre; Philosophy & Political Thought; and Religion. **GC-subscribed Cambridge content is discoverable in CUNY OneSearch .Ebook Central: Ebook Central combines what were formerly ebrary and Ebook Library (EBL) into one new platform. Contains electronic books in all disciplines from a number of academic publishers. Available titles may also be found in OneSearch .

The Read Online and download options for full text on Ebook Central is available to anyone on campus. Due to restrictions put in place by the vendors, there may be limitations on the number of pages that are downloadable in some ebooks.

EBSCO Ebook Collection: Formerly known as NetLibrary, the EBSCO eBook Collection provides more than 2,800 scholarly and popular titles. Browse by subject category or search across the collection to find full text ebooks. Create a free account to enable full downloads.

HathiTrust Digital Library: Millions of books digitized by a variety of major research institutions. See this post for more information about public domain items available to all via HathiTrust .


digitized by a variety of major research institutions. See this post for more information about public domain items available to all via HathiTrust .JSTOR Ebooks: A selection of electronic books from scholarly publishers. All permanently held ebooks are cataloged in OneSearch, and additional titles can be found in the JSTOR interface directly. Over 8,000 open access ebooks are available through JSTOR, and the GC also has access to Path to Open titles . Full chapters can be downloaded as PDFs, without limit to the number of chapters.

Loeb Classical Library: Harvard University Press presents an interconnected, fully searchable, growing, virtual library of Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts.

Palgrave Connect: Over 4,000 scholarly books published during 2010-2014. Please note that after October 2015, these titles will migrate to the Springer platform.


nnect: Over 4,000 scholarly books published during 2010-2014. Please note that after October 2015, these titles will migrate to the Springer platform.Oxford Bibliographies: Bibliographies in American literature, Anthropology, Atlantic history, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Education, International Relations, Islamic studies, Latin American studies, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, the Renaissance and Reformation, and Victorian Literature. Bibliographies are drawn from books, journals, and internet resources.


Beyond the Graduate Center:
CUNY CLICS: CLICS allows library users to request books from other CUNY campuses. First time users: enter your library barcode in the username and password fields.

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


f a book chapter submit a request for this item via interlibrary loan. If you have questions or need help placing your request, email ill@gc.cuny.edu.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


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


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


t by subject, title, or collection, or search across the full resource. Register for a free personal account to save materials and organize your work.Working with Images in JSTOR: This guide brings together the key information you need to begin working with Artstor content in your JSTOR Workspace, a place within JSTOR where you can keep and organize content.

Loeb Classical Library: Harvard University Press presents an interconnected, fully searchable, growing, virtual library of Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts.


reat medical writers and mathematicians; up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts.Oxford Art Online: Oxford Art Online is a platform for searching across the following art reference works listed below.  Create an optional subscriber account to save searches. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd ed.) The Oxford Companion to Western Art And the Grove Dictionary of Art , which can also be searched separately at Grove Art Online (CUNY does not subscribe to the Benezit Dictionary of Artists )

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: Digital collection of mostly literary texts in Greek from Homer (8 BC) to the fall of Byzantium (AD 1453) plus a large number of additional Greek texts dating up to the 20th century. Includes more than 10,000 works by over 4,000 authors. For access to the full corpus, create a personal account.

The following links are to free, online resources in classics.

Classics Page: A site containing Latin texts in Latin. Links to worldwide libraries. Addresses issues relevant to Greek and Roman studies everywhere.


Classics Page: A site containing Latin texts in Latin. Links to worldwide libraries. Addresses issues relevant to Greek and Roman studies everywhere.Internet Classics Archive: 441 works of classical literature by 59 authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

Perseus Digital Library: The flagship collection covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. Many full-text materials are available online in ancient Greek and Roman.


Research Collections around New York:
Fordham University Archives and Special Collections: Fordham has some fragments of classical and medieval texts. All finding aids are in the Fordham library catalog.

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: The ISAW Library is particularly strong in: Greek and Roman material culture and history; Papyrology; Egyptology; Mesopotamian Archaeology and Assyriology; Central Asia and Iran; and Early China.

Papyri & Ostraca (Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library): The Columbia collection includes ca. 2150 papyri and over 3600 ostraca in a variety of languages including Greek and  Latin. Among the papyri, there are also a few texts on parchment and paper. The papyri range in date from the 3rd century BCE to the 7th century CE and come from different parts of Egypt.


so a few texts on parchment and paper. The papyri range in date from the 3rd century BCE to the 7th century CE and come from different parts of Egypt.Princeton University's Rare Books & Special Collections: The "Rare Books and Special Collections is one of the premier repositories of its kind. Its holdings span five millennia and five continents, and include around 300,000 rare or significant printed works; 30,000 linear feet of textual materials, ranging from cuneiform tablets to contemporary manuscripts; a wealth of prints, drawings, photographs, maps, coins, and other visual materials."


Miscellanea:
Archival Research: The GC Library guide on how to do archival research.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The CVA is an illustrated catalog of more than 100,000 ancient vases.

European Library Catalog: Combined searching of the resources of European national libraries.


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

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

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


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

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

Zotero Help: Short video tutorials and a userguide


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

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


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


Career Resources:
Versatile PhD: Versatile PhD's mission is to help humanities and social science and STEM graduate students identify and prepare for possible non-academic careers. Additional career planning help can be found at the Office of Career Planning & Professional Development .


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.


University-based Funding Directories:
GRAPES - UCLA Graduate & Postdoctoral Extramural Support: Contains over 500 private and publicly funded awards, fellowships, and internships.

Michigan State University Grants for Individuals Compilation: Includes a frequently updated comprehensive list of grants to individuals organized by academic discipline or subject, population group, and academic level.


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.


3D Models of Ancient Cities:
Ancient Athens 3D: This site was created in order to present the monuments and buildings of Athens from the Mycenaean period (1600 BCE) to the Early Modern period (~AD 1800), through 3D representations.

The building representations are based on detailed architectural plans and excavations, according to the most up to date studies. Buildings that have left few or no traces at all (like the Mycenaean palace on the Acropolis) and some others  (mostly houses), were placed in order to give a most complete impression of the city.  Although a great attention to the detail was givenit is very likely that there are certain mistakes or omissions. Therefore, every information or pointing out is welcome.


ention to the detail was givenit is very likely that there are certain mistakes or omissions. Therefore, every information or pointing out is welcome.Rome Reborn: Rome Reborn is an international initiative whose goal is the creation of 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1000 B.C.) to the depopulation of the city in the early Middle Ages (ca. A.D. 550). PLEASE NOTE: this site is the free version of Rome Reborn and has not been updated since 2013.


on of the city in the early Middle Ages (ca. A.D. 550). PLEASE NOTE: this site is the free version of Rome Reborn and has not been updated since 2013.With the advice of an international Scientific Advisory Committee, the leaders of Rome Reborn decided that A.D. 320 was the best moment in time to begin the work of modeling. At that time, Rome had reached the peak of its population, and major Christian churches were just beginning to be built. After this date, few new civic buildings were built. Much of what survives of the ancient city dates to this period, making reconstruction less speculative than it must, perforce, be for earlier phases. But having started with A.D. 320, the Rome Reborn team intends to move both backwards and forwards in time until the entire span of time foreseen by our mission has been covered.

Virtual Rome: Dr Matthew Nicholls of the Department of Classics (University of Reading) has developed an ambitious digital model of the entire ancient city of Rome.


Associations:
American Classical League: The American Classical League was founded in 1919 for the purpose of fostering the study of classical languages in the United States and Canada. Membership is open to any person who is committed to the preservation and advancement of our classical inheritance from Greece and Rome.

Archaeological Institute of America: This organization is the oldest in America dedicated to archaeology, and has 10,000 members in 102 local societies.

Association of Ancient Historians: The AAH was founded with two essential objectives.  The first of these is to foster a regular forum for scholarly interaction among historians of the Ancient Mediterranean--especially among those who study the Greeks and Romans--and secondly, to do so in a manner that emphasizes collegiality


of the Ancient Mediterranean--especially among those who study the Greeks and Romans--and secondly, to do so in a manner that emphasizes collegialityClassical Association of Canada: Founded in 1947 as a national non-profit organization, the CAC's official languages are English and French. It aims to advance the study of the civilizations of the Greek and Roman world, their later influence, and their creative presence in modern culture.

Classical Association of New England: Founded in 1905, CANE is the professional organization for classicists in the six New England states. CANE’s mission is to foster the study of the classical world through the association’s many activities and resources, including the annual meeting in March, scholarships, discretionary grants, CANE’s own press, and New England Classical Journal (NECJ).

Classical Association of the Atlantic States: Founded in 1907, the CAAS mission is to strengthen teaching and research and foster public support for the languages, civilizations, and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome in the mid-Atlantic region. CAAS publishes a quarterly journal, Classical World.


the languages, civilizations, and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome in the mid-Atlantic region. CAAS publishes a quarterly journal, Classical World.Classical Association of the Empire State: Not-for-profit professional organization of teachers and professors of ancient Latin and Greek, which seeks to advance interest in, and the study of the classical languages and civilizations in the schools and colleges of New York State.

Classical Association of the Middle West and South: The CAMWS is a professional organization for classicists and non-classicists at all levels of instruction which promotes the Classics through the broad scope of its annual meeting, through the publication of both original research and pedagogical contributions in The Classical Journal, and through its awards, scholarships, and outreach initiatives.


tion of both original research and pedagogical contributions in The Classical Journal, and through its awards, scholarships, and outreach initiatives.Lambda Classical Caucus: The purpose of the LCC is scholarly and political:to promote research that reflects the personal and intellectual interests of queer scholars; and provide a bridge between classics and the interdisciplinary fields of LGBT/Queer Studies, the history of sexuality, cultural studies, and gender theory.

New York Classical Club: The NY Classical Club is a registered non-profit charity founded over 100 years ago to promote the study of classical antiquity in the NY area by sponsoring lectures, scholarships, and numerous contests on both the high school and college level.

Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Association): This organization is the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures and civilizations.


This organization is the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures and civilizations.Women's Classical Caucus: Founded in 1972 to foster feminist and gender-informed perspectives in the study and teaching of all aspects of ancient Mediterranean cultures and classical antiquity. The WCC also strives to advance the goals of equality and diversity within the classical profession.

World History Association: Founded in 1982, the WHA promotes world history through the encouragement of teaching, research, and publication.


Humanities Funding Sources:
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS): Fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

American Philosophical Society (APS): APS maintains six grant or fellowship programs in a wide range of fields ranging from $1,000-$40,000

H-Net Funding Annoucements: An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Institute for Humane Studies (IHS): Awards scholarships and research fellowships to graduate students, as well as funding to graduate students and untenured faculty for career-enhacing activities.


olarships and research fellowships to graduate students, as well as funding to graduate students and untenured faculty for career-enhacing activities.Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) offers fellowships funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the humanities or related social sciences in original sources.

National Endowment for the Humantities   (NEH): Listing of NEH's grant programs, as well as information about application guidelines and deadlines.


Electronic Journals Related to Grants Research and Writing:
Children and Youth Funding Report: Provides coverage of federal, foundation, and private grant opportunities for programs in the areas of public assistance, child welfare, youth crime, juvenile justice, education, mental health, substance abuse, disability services, and health care.

Chronicle of Philanthropy: The Chronicle provides news and information for tax-exempt organizations in health, education, religion, the arts, social services, and other fields, as well as fund raisers, professional employees of foundations, institutional investors, corporate grant makers, and charity donors. Along with news, it offers such service features as lists of grants, fundraising ideas and techniques, statistics, reports on tax and court rulings, summaries of books, and a calendar of events.


ures as lists of grants, fundraising ideas and techniques, statistics, reports on tax and court rulings, summaries of books, and a calendar of events.Philanthropy News Digest (from Candid): Foundation News & Commentary embodies and promotes the goals of the Council on Foundations, serving as a vehicle for information, ideas, analysis and commentary relevant to effective grantmaking.

Nonprofit Management and Leadership: Nonprofit Management and Leadership (NML) is the first journal to bring together the best thinking and most advanced knowledge about the special needs,challenges, and opportunities of nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit World Funding Alert: Since 1995, the leading on-line funding newsletter providing monthly updates on current grant and funding opportunities for nonprofit organizations.  Readers will find the latest information on national and regional funding opportunities from across the country, categorized by type (i.e., civic, educational, health, etc.), as well as in-depth profiles on various foundations


portunities from across the country, categorized by type (i.e., civic, educational, health, etc.), as well as in-depth profiles on various foundationsVOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations: Voluntas is essential reading for all those engaged in research on the Third Sector (voluntary and nonprofit organizations) including economists, lawyers, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and social and public policy analysts. It presents leading-edge academic argument around civil society issues in a style that is accessible to practitioners and policymakers


Suggest New Materials for the GC Library:
We welcome suggestions for books and other materials for the Graduate Center Library. Please note that adding any item(s) to our collections can take many weeks to process. Thus, if you need an item we do not own very soon, please make a request via Interlibrary Loan . If you need materials for a specific class being taught at the Graduate Center, please use the Reserve Request Form .

Suggest a book: Use this form to place a request for a new book for the Graduate Center Library.

Suggest a new journal subscription: Place a request for a particular journal not yet represented in the Graduate Center Library's holdings

Suggest any other item for the GC Library: Use this form to suggest materials other than books or journals to be added to our collections.


Need something quicker than we can acquire it?:
Try Interlibrary Loan!: Interlibrary Loan is often the fastest way to get materials from outside the Graduate Center Library's collections.

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.

Outside CUNY: NYPL, MaRLI, METRO, & SHARES: This guide highlights other ways to access nearby libraries beyond the Graduate Center.


Donate Books and Materials:
The Library accepts donations of books and other materials selectively, considering research value, available space, and condition of the material, as outlined in our collection policies . When a donation is made with the Donation Form , the library provides the donor with a letter indicating the numbers of hardcover, paperback, and media items donated. All gifts are reviewed by librarians, who determine what is added, sold, and discarded. To Donate: List materials for title review if the donation is large. Contact the appropriate subject librarian . Deliver materials to the library by mail or during regular business hours. Complete, sign, and include a Donation Form .


Donate Funds:
Become a Friend of the Library The Friends of the Library program provides for library acquisitions and services. Membership strengthens collections, preserves unique items, and ensures excellent service. Friends who join at the $250 annual level receive on-site access to the Graduate Center Library. Contribute When You Shop at Amazon.com Purchase anything via the library’s customized Amazon link , and the library will receive 5% of the purchase price. It costs you nothing and adds thousands to the library budget.


Ebook Search During COVID-19:
Looking for electronic access to a specific book while the library is online only? Complete our e-book search request form . We will search for an electronic copy of the requested book and let you know as soon as we have completed a thorough search. We try to respond within a few business days. Please note, however, that not every print book has an electronic equivalent.


New York Public Library Services:
Branch Libraries: New York Public Library branch locations offer general library use and seating, unlimited browsing, computer access, and more. Research Libraries: Try the Rose Main Reading Room at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building , for quiet study, thought, and computer use. Please note that some research divisions require an appointment to view their collections and you may also need to email or book a virtual consultation with a Library staff member before your research visit. Find out more in the NYPL's Guide to Onsite Service at the Research Libraries . Sign up for Research at NYPL email updates to receive announcements regarding NYPL's research services. Additional Information: Research Borrowing Programs How to Request Research Library Materials Remote Access to Research Collections and Services Apply for a Digital NYPL Library Card


NYPL Services During COVID-19:


NYPL Services During COVID-19:NYPL Services During COVID-19:Branch Libraries: Beginning July 6, all available New York Public Library branch locations will reopen with close to full service, including general library use and seating, unlimited browsing, computer access, and more. See NYPL's reopening page for the latest information. Research Libraries: Beginning July 6, while appointments will still be required for most research collections use, service will be expanded at select locations to permit walk-in visitors who want to sit in public reading rooms, including the Rose Main Reading Room at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, for quiet study, thought, and computer use. Sign up for Research at NYPL email updates to receive announcements regarding NYPL's research services. Researchers may schedule an appointment to visit any of the New York Public Library’s four Research Libraries – the Stephen A.


PL's research services. Researchers may schedule an appointment to visit any of the New York Public Library’s four Research Libraries – the Stephen A.PL's research services. Researchers may schedule an appointment to visit any of the New York Public Library’s four Research Libraries – the Stephen A.PL's research services. Researchers may schedule an appointment to visit any of the New York Public Library’s four Research Libraries – the Stephen A.Schwarzman Building, Performing Arts, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, or the Business Center at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (formerly the Science and Business Library, or SIBL).  Before doing so, you’ll need to meet virtually with an NYPL librarian, so be sure to plan ahead, and schedule enough time in advance for your research needs. Additional Services include: Grab-and-Go Service for Circulating Books Grab-and-Go Service for Research Borrowers Research Books by Mail / MaRLI by Mail Research at NYPL: Remote Access to Collections and Services More Remote Library Services at NYPL Apply for a Digital NYPL Library Card FAQs on Reopening Physical Locations at NYPL


Ebooks at the New York Public Library:
Many of NYPL's Articles & Databases include electronic texts--see each collection's description for full details. Search the NYPL catalog if you have a particular title in mind to search across collections.

New York Public Library Electronic Books: Thousands of electronic books, including many scholarly titles, are available from the New York Public Library. A subset of these offerings featuring scholarly ebooks are also listed on the GC A-Z list .


Audiobooks:
LibriVox: LibriVox is a crowd sourced project in which volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain (mostly from Project Gutenberg ), and then release the audio files through their website without restrictions. All LibriVox audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for whatever purpose you wish. Search the catalog or browse by Author, Title, Genre/Subject, or Language.

Overdrive via NYPL: Please log in using your New York Public Library credentials! Access movies, video, audiobooks, and e-books via this third-party app for use with a wide variety of e-readers including Kindle, portable devices, PCs, and Macs.


s, video, audiobooks, and e-books via this third-party app for use with a wide variety of e-readers including Kindle, portable devices, PCs, and Macs.AudioBookCloud via NYPL: Please log in using your New York Public Library credentials! Streaming online collection of 1,000 audio books that are always available to play without downloading. The collection contains fiction, non-fiction, classics, biographies, and Spanish language titles. Authors include Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Alexander Dumas, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Victor Hugo, Henry James, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Herman Melville, George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and many others.


Resources for Accessing and Adapting Ebooks:
To apply for accounts to use any of the following services to access ebooks, please contact Student Disability Services at the Graduate Center:

AccessText Network: College students with disabilities which impair their ability to read printed text visit their school's Disability Support Services office to request accommodations. Once a student is determined to be eligible to receive textbooks in an alternate format, the school's Disability Service Provider (DSP) uses the AccessText Network to request electronic files from our member-publishers.

Bookshare.org: Bookshare ebooks provide more reading options than other ebooks or audio books and make it easier to read (via high quality audio, enlarged font size or color, braille, or other changes).


Quick Tips about GC Ebooks:
Find most CUNY and Graduate Center eBooks in OneSearch , with links to the full text. See also our tips for locating e-books blog post. Some ebooks are licensed for CUNY-wide use; others are licensed only to invididual CUNY campuses Graduate Center affiliates do not have remote access to ebooks held by other CUNY campuses. If you have a dual affiliation, you can access each campus's electronic collections using the OneSearch interface and credentials for that school. Printing and downloading options will vary according to platform or publisher, and is often prohibited or extremely limited. If there’s an e-book you can’t find, try Interlibrary Loan (ILL): Requests for chapters of books are often sent as electronic files through Interlibrary Loan , whereas whole ebooks are often not available via ILL due to licensing and digital restrictions of library ebooks. Try a request for a chapter or section!


Open Access Ebook Projects:
The following are just a small sampling of open access ebook projects available on the web:


Open Access Ebook Projects:
The following are just a small sampling of open access ebook projects available on the web:Big Ten Open Books: Big Ten Open Books is a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The first collection is on the subject of Gender and Sexuality studies. Participating presses are Indiana University Press, Michigan State University Press, Northwestern University Press, Purdue University Press, University of Michigan Press, and University of Wisconsin Press. This collection has established a model for unified, open-access publishing of scholarly monographs. It creates open content, on open infrastructure, using open distribution models - to envision a robust programmatic future for open monograph publishing. This work is aligned with the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s development of the BIG Collection's ambition of uniting the collections of the libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Public Knowledge program.


ing the collections of the libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Public Knowledge program.HathiTrust Digital Library: Millions of books digitized by a variety of major research institutions. See this post for more information about public domain items available to all via HathiTrust .

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

Making of America Books: Digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection of approximately 10,000 titles is particularly strong in American history, education, psychology, religion. science and technology, and sociology.

MIT Press Direct: A subset of the larger MIT Press Direct Collection is available Open Access.


logy, religion. science and technology, and sociology.

MIT Press Direct: A subset of the larger MIT Press Direct Collection is available Open Access.Online Books Page: Links to sources of free electronic books.

Open Library: An initiative of the Internet Archive, Open Library is a universal catalog with the goal to create a web page for every book ever published. The catalog provides links to the Internet Archive’s collections with over 1.7 million public domain books available for download, and hundreds of thousands of ebooks that can be borrowed via controlled digital lending. Some digitized books are available only to the print disabled. See information about creating an account and borrowing from the Open Library and FAQs for further details.

Perseus Digital Library: Comprehensive, open-source E-book database covering a wide variety of disciplines.

Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 eBooks, mostly items in the public domain. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. An open access crowdsourced project.


, mostly items in the public domain. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. An open access crowdsourced project.Punctum Books: Independent queer- and scholar-led, community-formed, and peer-reviewed Sparkly Diamond open-access (OA) publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design.

Universal Library: Over 106,000 books can be browsed by author and title.

University of Michigan Digital Library Text Collections: More than 136,000 titles, including some protected by copyright.

University of Oxford Text Archive: Research texts in more than twenty-five languages.

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875: Nearly 3,000 volumes by 1,500 writers.


Overview:
Most publishers of ebooks place restrictions on how much of a book may be downloaded.  These restrictions vary widely and frequently change. See the box to the right for more information.


DRM:
Digital Rights/Restrictions Management (DRM) restricts which devices and programs can view an ebook, if the ebook can be printed, downloaded, and transferred between devices as a file, or if it must be viewed in a specific browser or reading program.


Adode Digital Editions:
Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software is used by multiple ebook platforms to electronically "check out" titles. It is best, if you do open a book in ADE, to do so on your own personal machine rather than a public library computer so that you can still access the ebook, as a checked out ebook is tied to the machine itself and not just your account.


File Formats of Ebooks:
Common formats that can be used on many devices: ePub: ePub is an open E-book standard providing reflowable text and inline images. ePub files will generally work with any ereaders except Amazon's Kindle. PDF: Ebooks whose text appears as PDFs usually work well with most mobile devices and e-readers. PDFs do have issues with adaptive technology. Plain text, HTML, and more . Examples of platform-restricted formats that are very uncommon in libraries: iBook: Restricted for use with Apple operating systems Kindle formats (.azw3; .azw; .kf8): Restricted for use by Amazon with the Kindle See more formats of ebooks here . If your device cannot read an Ebook's file, try converting the format using Calibre . DRM may prevent this tool from working.


Brief notes here outline ebook packages available through GC affiliation. In addition, see Open Access ebooks . ACLS Humanities E-book each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF; see " Printing and Downloading " Advances in Computers (ebook series) each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Printing a reasonable portion allowed; see " Permitted Uses ." Brill Online Reference Works Cambridge Companions Online each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF or HTML. See Terms of Use . Cambridge Histories Online each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF or HTML. See Terms of Use . De Gruyter ebooks (titles can be found in OneSearch) each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF. See Terms and Conditions Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans, 1639-1800 download by page or multiple pages. See these directions . Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 download by page or multiple pages. See these directions .


pages. See these directions . Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 download by page or multiple pages. See these directions .pages. See these directions . Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 download by page or multiple pages. See these directions .pages. See these directions . Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 download by page or multiple pages. See these directions .Early English Books Online can download full text PDFs Ebook Central to download a full ebook you must use Adobe Digital Editions. Portions of the text (each title varies in number of pages) can be downloaded as a PDF. Tips here . EBSCO Ebook Collection options vary by title. See Ebsco's download instructions and our tips . eHRAF World Cultures Eighteenth Century Collection Online each page can be downloaded as a PDF Gale Ebooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) sections can be downloaded as a PDF Gale Literary Sources sections can be downloaded as a PDF Handbooks in Economics each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF Internet Archive "Some books can be freely read and downloaded. Others can be borrowed and read in our online book reader." some features available only after you create an account and log in.


read and downloaded. Others can be borrowed and read in our online book reader." some features available only after you create an account and log in. read and downloaded. Others can be borrowed and read in our online book reader." some features available only after you create an account and log in. read and downloaded. Others can be borrowed and read in our online book reader." some features available only after you create an account and log in.Many file format options for those books that are available for download JSTOR Ebooks each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF, no limit on downloading full book Loeb Classical Library no downloading, must access via browser MIT Press Direct to Open Ebooks can download by chapter or full PDF of book Oxford Handbooks Online sections can be downloaded as a PDF. See Legal Notice Oxford Scholarly Editions Online each page can be downloaded as a PDF. See FAQ Oxford Scholarship Online each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF. See Legal Notice Palgrave Connect each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF, no limit on downloading full book.


each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF. See Legal Notice Palgrave Connect each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF, no limit on downloading full book.each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF. See Legal Notice Palgrave Connect each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF, no limit on downloading full book.each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF. See Legal Notice Palgrave Connect each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF, no limit on downloading full book.See Terms of Use PsycBooks (now also includes APA Handbooks) each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) whole books can be downloaded as a PDF or EPUB Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle "In some cases you will see links to PDF versions of the original text," as per this FAQ Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 chapters and books can be downloaded as a PDF. See " Permitted Uses " SAGE Knowledge Handbooks (Temporarily Expanded Access during COVID-19) each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF. See " Acceptable Use " SAGE Research Methods each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF. See " Acceptable Use " Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive books can be downloaded as a PDF Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law each chapter for books can be downloaded as a PDF Social Theory download options are not clear, but can print and view as HTML easily.


, Culture & Law each chapter for books can be downloaded as a PDF Social Theory download options are not clear, but can print and view as HTML easily., Culture & Law each chapter for books can be downloaded as a PDF Social Theory download options are not clear, but can print and view as HTML easily., Culture & Law each chapter for books can be downloaded as a PDF Social Theory download options are not clear, but can print and view as HTML easily.See " Permitted Uses " Springer Ebook Collection each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF, no limit on downloading full book. See Terms of Use Taylor and Francis Ebooks (titles may be found in OneSearch) each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF. See " Acceptable Use " Wiley Ebooks each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF, no limit on downloading full book. See " Terms and Conditions " Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present books can be downloaded as a PDF Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 books can be downloaded as a PDF Last updated January 2021


Ebook Options:
At the Graduate Center, we prioritize ebooks that offer the least technical restrictions so that our patrons may make the best use of our collections. However, there are still many restricted ebooks in our collections. See the DRM tab on this guide for more information. This page is meant to help show some of the ways to make use of the ebooks in our collections according to platform. Jump to: Ebsco ebooks Ebook Central

Tips for Accessing GC Ebooks by Platform


Restricted Users:
Some ebooks in our collections have restrictions on how how many users can access or view the ebook at one time. These titles will be noted in OneSearch: It can be confusing to find one of these titles because you may see a warning that doesn't give a lot of information, such as: This screenshot is from Ebsco and indicates that someone is actively using the book online or they have electronically checked it out. Other platforms may have messages that are less clear about an ebook being inaccessible. If you have questions or come across a strange situation with a particular ebook, please reach out to a librarian .


Ebsco Ebooks:
The Ebsco ebooks platform often asks you to sign in in order to view the text. You can create an Ebscohost account which is separate from your CUNY or GC accounts to view options for Ebsco ebooks. You can also view some ebooks without an Ebsco login. If you see "EPUB Full Text" for a particular ebook (on the left side of the screen), you can click through without Ebsco credentials: Once you have opened the ebook, you can read it online through Ebsco's interface. You should see some options at the top of the screen. If you click "Save Pages" you will see how many pages you can extract and save as a PDF (the amount of pages varies by the book, the publisher, the length of the book, and other variables): See also: Ebsco's guide on downloading ebooks .


Ebook Central:
In Ebook Central , if you click "Download Book," you will be prompted to use Adobe Digital Editions software (which Ebook Central recommends only using on your own personal machine and not a public computer in the library) and to electronically check out a text for a limited amount of time. Alternatively, as you can see in this example, each chapter can be downloaded as a PDF from the listed table of contents (in some cases up to a maximum number of pages). You can also click "Read Online" on the left. In the "Read Online" view, there are more options at the top of the page to see what might be downloaded, saved, emailed, etc.; in some cases this will more easily show you what download options there for the ebook. Clicking "Print to PDF" also may give you more options for downloading than just clicking "PDF": See also: this useful library guide that walks through the components of an Ebook Central record.


General Reference Ebooks:
Cambridge Companions Online: Cambridge Core hosts the online version of Cambridge Companions, which are authoritative introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and time periods.  The database includes more than 600 titles and 4,000 essays across the humanities and social sciences. It is fully searchable by author, title, topic, or theme. **GC-subscribed Cambridge content is discoverable in CUNY OneSearch . You can also use Cambridge Core to search all of the GC-subscribed material at once; check the box next to "Only search content I have access to."


h . You can also use Cambridge Core to search all of the GC-subscribed material at once; check the box next to "Only search content I have access to."Cambridge Histories Online: First published in 1902, Cambridge Histories span subject areas across the humanities and social sciences. The GC’s subscription includes over 400 titles in American History; Ancient & Classical Studies; Asian History, British & European History; Global History, Literature, Middle East & African Studies, Music & Theatre; Philosophy & Political Thought; and Religion. **GC-subscribed Cambridge content is discoverable in CUNY OneSearch .


African Studies, Music & Theatre; Philosophy & Political Thought; and Religion. **GC-subscribed Cambridge content is discoverable in CUNY OneSearch .Gale Ebooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library): Full text of over 1,800 reference works published by Gale, Brill Academic, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Sage, Salem Press, Wiley, and others. Titles include American Civil War Reference Library, Ancient Europe, 8000 BC to AD 1000, Encyclopedia of Aging, Encyclopedia of American Religions, Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, Magill's Survey of World Literature, Vietnam War Reference Library; World Education Encyclopedia.


America, Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, Magill's Survey of World Literature, Vietnam War Reference Library; World Education Encyclopedia.Oxford Index (All Oxford Databases): Search all Oxford University Press databases to which the Graduate Center subscribes: Oxford Art Online, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford History of Western Music, Oxford Journals Online, Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford Reference Online, and Oxford Scholarship Online. After performing a search, you must check the "Show only full text provided by CUNY Graduate Center" box.


Quick Tips about GC Ebooks:
Find most CUNY and Graduate Center eBooks in OneSearch , with links to the full text. Some ebooks are licensed for CUNY-wide use; others are licensed only to invididual CUNY campuses Graduate Center students and faculty do not have access to ebooks owned by other campuses. Use CLICs or ILL to request a print copy of any unavailable ebook. Ebooks may not be borrowed between colleges. Printing and downloading is often prohibited or limited by ebook vendors, and may vary by platform or publisher.


Works opened due to COVID-19:
In response to COVID-19, many content providers and publishers are temporarily making their content available. We have set up access to many of these resources for the GC community below, including those that require a university affiliation.


Notable Series in E-Book Format:
BFI Film Classics (E-Book Central): 11 titles from the British Film Institute Film Classics series in E-Book Central. Includes: 2001: A Space Odyssey; Back to the Future; Blade Runner; Cache (Hidden); Citizen Kane; Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari; Eight and a Half (Otto e Mezzo); Far From Heaven; Jia Zhangke's 'Home Town Trilogy' - Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures; Olympia; Vertigo.

Cambridge Film Handbooks (ACLS E-Books): 11 titles in the Cambridge Film Handbooks series, available in ebook format.

Oxford's Very Short Introductions (E-Book Central): E-book versions of the Oxford University Press   Very Short Introductions series.


Overview of Downloading to Devices:
Most of the electronic books available to Graduate Center students and faculty are downloadable to a mobile device.  However, figuring out which device will work with which E-books and how much of an E-book is downloadable is not always easy. Various E-book collections come in different formats, which work with different devices. Also each collection has its own restrictions in terms of how much of the book can be downloaded.  The guidelines throughout this site may be helpful.  Remember that the technology for E-books and mobile devices is constantly changing.  Please alert the library when you discover any outdated information.


Adode Digital Editions:
Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software is used by multiple ebook platforms to electronically "check out" titles. It is best, if you do open a book in ADE, to do so on your own personal machine rather than a public library computer so that you can still access the ebook, as a checked out ebook is tied to the machine itself and not just your account.


Downloading to Smartphones, Tablets, and eReaders:
These are instructions specifically designed for downloading electronic books available to the CUNY community.


Downloading EBSCO ebook collection:
More than 2,800 recent scholarly books are available from the EBSCO ebook Collection .  Instructions are available for downloading to iPod, iPhone, and iPad and to Android devices .


Downloading ebrary:
Downloading ebrary eBooks requires downloading an ebrary app to your device .


Downloading Project Gutenberg:
Project Gutenberg has 42,000 free titles that can be downloaded to Kindle, Android, and other devices.


iPad and Other Apple Devices:
E-books can be transfered to iPod, iPad, and iPhone using Bluefire Reader .


eReaders:
Most eReaders work with both PDF and ePub formats, but Kindle will not work with ePub.  Kobo and Sony eReader work with both formats.  However, eReaders are generally not the best devices for viewing PDFs because of navigation issues.


Tablets:
Because PDF and ePub formats work with all academic E-book collections, tablets such as iPad, BlackBerry Playbook, Samsung Galaxy, and Sony Tablet should work well with most E-books.


Smartphones:
Android and iPhone smartphones will work with most E-book collections but are not ideal because of screen-size limitations.


Technical Details of Ebook Collections:
Collection | Can you print from the ebook? | Can you download? | Software requirements beyond a web browser | Other Notes

ebrary | Depends on the specific book--generally limited to 60 pages or less | Depends on the specific book--generally limited to 60 pages or less | Adobe Digital Editions (or Bluefire Reader for Android or Apple mobile devices)


Additional Library Resources:
Library Homepage: Main page of the Mina Rees Library website

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.


Umbra Search African American History:
umbrasearch.org brings together more than 500,000 pieces of African American history and culture, from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country.


Digital Maps:
16th Century Maps of Africa - "This collection features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid-16th Century to the early 20th Century." AfricaMap, World Map Project - Developed by the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA).


E-journals directories:
African Studies: Browse the full text e-journals related to African Studies.

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

E-Journals at the GC: Search the Grad Center e-journal collections by journal title or browse by subject.


Best Bet Databases:
The African-American Migration Experience: Organized around thirteen migrations that have formed and transformed African Americans and the United States, this site presents 400 years of African American history through both primary and secondary texts as well as photographs and maps. Created and maintained by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, N.Y.


mary and secondary texts as well as photographs and maps. Created and maintained by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, N.Y.Gale Primary Sources (formerly Artemis Primary Sources): Gale Primary Sources searches across 11 collections at once. It includes Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; British Library Newspapers; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; Nineteenth Century Collections Online; Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection; Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive; The Economist Historical Archive; The Making of the Modern World; The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive; U.S. Declassified Documents Online; and Women's Studies Archive.


ve; The Making of the Modern World; The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive; U.S. Declassified Documents Online; and Women's Studies Archive.Black Drama: The expanded third edition of Black Drama contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. Part of the Drama Texts collection.


ngston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. Part of the Drama Texts collection.Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present: Over 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, speeches, letters, political leaflets, periodicals, trial transcripts, and interviews by major American Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders, covering over 250 years of history. Writers include James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ralph Bunche, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Huey Newton, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Bobby Seale, Booker T. Washington, Cornel West, Richard Wright, and many others. Search across the collection or browse by person, subject, title, historical event, content type, place, or publisher.


ichard Wright, and many others. Search across the collection or browse by person, subject, title, historical event, content type, place, or publisher.Gallica Voyage en Afrique (in French): Nine hundred books, 30 journals, 80 maps, 6,500 photographs, 20 hours of audio documents on 18th and 19th Africa seen by French explorers, missionaries, writers, artists, etc.

Making of America (Cornell): Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Making of America (Michigan): Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.


um period through Reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Consists of more than five million pages of books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from the collections of more than 60 libraries in the U.S. and U.K.  The database is arranged in four parts:  Debates over Slavery and Abolition; Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; The Institution of Slavery; and the Age of Emancipation.  Search across the full resource or explore the 71 separate collections of personal papers, organizational records, court cases, deposit ledgers, U.S. and international government documents, and more.  Research tools include a global chronology and 18 subject bibliographies.

The Slave Trade Archives Project: A UNESCO project concerned with the access to and preservation of original archive materials relating to the slave trade.


lave Trade Archives Project: A UNESCO project concerned with the access to and preservation of original archive materials relating to the slave trade.Umbra Search African American History: Searches over 500,000 items from more than 1000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums, focused on African American History.

AfricaBib: AfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles, presented in one easily accessible location on the internet. It is the culmination of over forty years of Africana research. The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Africana Periodical Literature) and African Women's literature (African Women).

African Journal Archive: A retrospective digitization project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, providing access to a multi-disciplinary, multi-country digital archive of Africa’s research and cultural heritage contained in its journal literature.

African Journals Online - Open Access: A collection of 151 African-published open-access scholarly journals.


age contained in its journal literature.

African Journals Online - Open Access: A collection of 151 African-published open-access scholarly journals.Gale Literature: Gale Literature searches multiple databases at once, combining Gale Literature Resource Center (biographies, overviews, criticism, audio interviews, and reviews), Gale LitFinder (full text poems, plays, short stories, and speeches from all eras), and Gale eBooks (reference sources). It also includes the Gale Literary Index covering 165,000 authors and 215,000 works, and workflow tools to analyze information.

Associations Unlimited: Detailed listings for over 150,000 associations and professional societies worldwide, including 22,500 in the United States.


Associations Unlimited: Detailed listings for over 150,000 associations and professional societies worldwide, including 22,500 in the United States.Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a groundbreaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world.


graphic borders and disciplines to create a groundbreaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world.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.


ns are in a wide variety of languages including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Creole, Inuktitut, Russian, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, and others.Ethnographic Video Online: This online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior contains more than 2,000 hours of classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, covering hundreds of cultural groups and practices around the world. Includes video from leading producers in the discipline, previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field, and select feature films. Wherever possible, videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other full-text materials.


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

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


ubjects covered include biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.Alternative Press Index: The API indexes over 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines from 1991 to the present. International and interdisciplinary in scope, the API spans the social sciences and humanities with a focus on the practice and theory of socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, LGBTQ issues, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism.

Associations Unlimited: Detailed listings for over 150,000 associations and professional societies worldwide, including 22,500 in the United States.


Associations Unlimited: Detailed listings for over 150,000 associations and professional societies worldwide, including 22,500 in the United States.JSTOR: A digital library containing journals, books, images, and primary sources. The GC’s subscription includes JSTOR’s Arts and Sciences I-XII collections of scholarly journals across the social sciences and humanities. Coverage begins with the first issue of almost every journal and continues through varying periods within the last five years. Also included are more than 700 freely accessible collections of illustrations, letters, literary documents, newspapers, magazines, photographs, postcards, and yearbooks; open access alternative press publications from the latter half of the 20th century; and thousands of research reports. 3+ million images in Artstor are also now discoverable in JSTOR. Browse content by subject, title, or collection, or search across the full resource. Register for a free personal account to save materials and organize your work.


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

American History in Video: Over 70,000 titles of streaming video content, more than half of which is contemporary video from the 1890s to the 1980s. Includes documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, demonstrations, news programs and newsreels that span a wide range of subjects, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.


news programs and newsreels that span a wide range of subjects, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.American Civil War: Letters and Diaries: Contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs from the Civil War. Includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland planter William Claytor. The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.  Search or browse by Title, Historical Event, Subject, Name, Place, Content Type, or Publisher.


l licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.  Search or browse by Title, Historical Event, Subject, Name, Place, Content Type, or Publisher.Oxford Academic via NYPL: Please log in using your New York Public Library credentials! Oxford Academic provides access to scholarly and academic books and journals from Oxford University Press and its partners. The publications cover a wide range of subjects, including the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law. Access to the AMA Manual of Style is also included. Content from Oxford Handbooks, University Press Scholarship Online, Oxford Scholarship Online, and Very Short Introductions can now be found through Oxford Academic.


Multi-database search:
Multi-Database Search (alphabetical): This resource allows the simultaneous searching of all the EBSCO databases to which the Graduate Center subscribes, as well as many non-EBSCO databases to which all of CUNY subscribes, all arranged alphabetically, and the CUNY Catalog.


Various Digital Archival Resources:


Various Digital Archival Resources:Various Digital Archival Resources:Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) - Digital Primary Source Sets - Includes many specific collections on 19th and 20th century topics, such as The Black Power Movement, Women and the Blues, and Busing & Beyond: School Desegregation in Boston. The National Archive has a comprehensive listing of various topics relating to African American History, searchable by collection or topic, and similarly outlined here.


ve has a comprehensive listing of various topics relating to African American History, searchable by collection or topic, and similarly outlined here.ve has a comprehensive listing of various topics relating to African American History, searchable by collection or topic, and similarly outlined here.ve has a comprehensive listing of various topics relating to African American History, searchable by collection or topic, and similarly outlined here.The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection "is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960." Digital Exhibit about African Muslims in Early America , by the Smithsonian Black History in Canada - Resource list from the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Freedom Archives - Black Liberation Movement - This collection contains materials from artists, organizers, organizations, publications and events in the Black Liberation Movement. These materials include audio, video and paper materials and draw from important moments such as Black Power, the Civil Rights Movement, New Afrikan politics, urban rebellions and the Black Arts Movement.


ls and draw from important moments such as Black Power, the Civil Rights Movement, New Afrikan politics, urban rebellions and the Black Arts Movement.ls and draw from important moments such as Black Power, the Civil Rights Movement, New Afrikan politics, urban rebellions and the Black Arts Movement.ls and draw from important moments such as Black Power, the Civil Rights Movement, New Afrikan politics, urban rebellions and the Black Arts Movement.Civil Rights Movement Archive - Online resources hosted by Duke University Civil Rights Digital Archive University of Arkansas - 1970's-era student newspaper, Black Americans for Democracy (BAD) Times. A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University "is a collection of primary resources. It includes several thousand scanned pages, and collections are contributed from member libraries of the Historically Black College and University Library Alliance."