The Art & Architecture ePortal database is an eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. Publishers include the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard Art Museums, the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the MIT Press, Paul Mellon Centre, Princeton, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Yale University Press. The database also allows users to search for images within all titles by keyword.
The China Research Gateway (CRG) database is a centralized means for discovery and access to an array of Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, monographs, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, and dissertations.
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Featuring more than 500 videos and 850 audio clips alongside ebooks and images, Human Kinetics Dance Technique is a dynamic collection that presents instruction-focused material and fills in the gaps of dance in digital learning.
Magnes Press publishes some 60 nonfiction titles yearly, including translations of classic literature and periodicals. So far it has published over 3,000 titles, mostly in Hebrew and English, in various fields of study such as archaeology, the Ancient East, Classical studies, Jewish studies, Christianity, Islam, literature, linguistics, philosophy, history, geography, Middle East, art, musicology, education, psychology, sociology, medicine, and natural sciences.
The ProQuest Congressional Record text-as-data collection consists of machine-readable files capturing the full text and a small number of metadata fields for a full run of the Congressional Record between 1789 and 2005. Metadata fields include the date of publication, subjects (for issues for which such information exists in the ProQuest system), and URLs linking the full text to the canonical online record for that issue on the ProQuest Congressional platform. The resource consists of a total of 31,952 issues.
RetroNews, the press site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, gives free and free access to press titles published between 1631 and 1950. In addition to the resources available on Gallica, RetroNews is both a digital consultation space for 'archives, a research tool and a magazine for all to discover history through press archives.
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Save search.
Extract data.
Annotations.
Bookmarks.
Saving archive pages.
The Rolling Stone Archive offers a nearly complete set of the magazine's historical back-file, beginning with its debut in 1967 and into the current decade. Fully searchable by keyword, with browsable full-page PDF images of each issue also available.
Sovereign Limits is a comprehensive database intended for use in the research, visualization, and mapping of international borders that divide up sovereignty on land and sea. Accessed through an intuitive, interactive map on web browsers, or as standalone GIS data, Sovereign Limits has several key features for analyzing land and maritime boundary datasets.
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) Web Collecting Program is a collaborative collection development effort to build curated, thematic collections of freely available, but at-risk, web content. The following collections are available: #MeToo and the Women's Rights Movement in China; Belarusian Politics and Society; Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018); Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism, and Sustainability; Contemporary Composers; Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union; Extreme Right Movements in Europe; Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks; Global Webcomics; India's Citizenship Amendment Act Protest Movements;Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art; Literary Authors from Europe and Eurasia; National Statistical Offices and Central Banks; Popline and K4Health; South Asian Gender and Sexuality; State Elections; Student and Youth Environmental Activism; U.S. Women's and Girls' Magazines; Vaccination in Modern America: Misinformation vs. Public Health Advocacy; Web Archive of Independent News Sites on Turkish Affairs.
The Thesaurus linguae Latinae database provides access to Latin texts from the classical period up to about 600 A.D. 31. Academies, and scholarly societies from 23 countries support the work of the Bayerische Akademie (Thesaurusbüro München). The database contains all content that is also available in print.
The ProQuest Trends & Policy: U.S. Immigration News database simplifies the discovery process by providing a single location to cross-search relevant documents from 1790-today. These include U.S. immigration laws and other content from the legislative branch, reports and statistics from the executive and judicial branches and news content to provide additional information and context.
The Database of Chinese Classic Ancient Books is a large database of pre-twentieth-century texts covering all fields of knowledge. It is a standard reference for anyone working on subjects relating to pre-twentieth-century China.
** This database is currently in a trial period until September 1, 2021. Please send feedback about this database to bk60@nyu.edu **
CINAHL indexes over 3,800 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing for selected journals back to 1937. Topics covered are related to nursing, physical therapy, health education, social service/healthcare, occupational therapy, and related disciplines. CINAHL also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials in nursing. Dates of coverage: 1937 to present.
Ebook Central is NYU's preferred ebook provider. Users can search, read, highlight, and annotate full-text books in many subject areas, including the social sciences and humanities.
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) encompasses articles in databases across many disciplines. Users can locate peer reviewed articles, videos, audio files, images, and more from a range of subjects.
Harvard Business School case studies provide immersive real-world scenarios and commentary to help students examine issues related to the dynamics of business.
JSTOR provides access to scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to journal articles, users can access book chapters, ebooks, and primary source documents.
The MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
PubMed comprises over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
The MLA International Bibliography provides bibliographic records for books, book chapters, journal articles, and dissertations published in the fields of modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Full text is available for some articles. The MLAIB covers items published from around 1920 to the present.
Nineteenth-Century American Drama: Popular Culture and Entertainment, 1820-1900 includes a wide variety of works such as historical plays, melodramas, political satires, minstrel shows, comic operas, musical extravaganzas, parlor entertainments, adaptations of novels, and many others.
ProQuest Central is a large, multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
RefWorks is a web-based program for organizing research. Users can save citations, import references retrieved from online bibliographic databases, and create bibliographies in a variety of formats. RefWorks bibliographies are stored on the RefWorks server and are available from any computer with Internet access. For more information see the NYU Libraries Guide
Skillsoft Books (formerly Books24x7) is an online collection of computer technology-related ebooks. It contains hundreds of books and videos from respected IT publishers such as MIT Press, Microsoft Press, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex and Wiley. Use it to search for a wide variety of books and videos, ranging from beginners level to advanced (Microsoft Word for beginners or an advanced programming language).
Web of Science Core Collection is a multidisciplinary citation index that includes scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and books in the biomedical, psychosocial, and arts and humanities. The collections contain Science Citation, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index , Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index and Current Chemical Reactions index.
