African Diaspora, 1860-Present provides an understanding of Black history and culture, and allows scholars to study the migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent. With a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France, the collection includes digitized primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.
Rotunda's Founding Era Collection is an integrated research environment that covers the correspondence of a number of key figures from America's founding era.
American Indian Newspapers includes historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, covering nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. With newspapers representing a variety in publisher, audience and era, users can research how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.
Area Studies: China and Southeast Asia contains records of traders, travelers, missionaries and diplomats, from the mid-seventeenth century to the late twentieth century, offering Western perspectives on all aspects of Chinese culture and society. The database includes British government records covering economic development in China and its neighbours, 1950-1980; correspondence from the Macartney Embassy, the first British diplomatic mission to China, 1892-94; and the diaries, notebooks and published writings of Rewi Alley (1897-1987), New Zealand educator and industrial organiser in communist China.
**This database is currently in a trial period until Oct. 30, 2018. Please send feedback about this database to Beth Katzoff bk60@nyu.edu**
The Church Missionary Society Archive is a repository of source materials about the work of this global organisation, founded in 1799 as an Anglican evangelical movement and still active today. It includes records of both the CMS and many other missionary societies which have become associated or amalgamated with it. The database also includes central records of the CMS and papers of key individuals associated with it; records of the the Loochoo Naval Mission (1843-1864), the first recorded Anglican and Protestant mission in Japan; the archives of the Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India and the East; and records of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society.
**This database is currently in a trial period until Oct. 30, 2018. Please send feedback about this database to Gerald Heverly wgh1@nyu.edu**
Area Studies: India is a resource for the study of the British Indian Empire and the history, culture and literature of the Indian subcontinent from 1712 to 1942. The database includes official and personal papers of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, 1898-1905, from the India Office Records at the British Library; rare printed works of colonial literature from India and volumes of travel writing from Indians travelling to the West, 1712-1933; and printed weekly abstracts compiled by the India Office, summarizing both English- and Indian-language newspapers from British India.
**This database is currently in a trial period until Oct. 30, 2018. Please send feedback about this database to Aruna Magier aruna.magier@nyu.edu**
Area Studies: Japan offers a wide range of sources, by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, missionaries and others, documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan from 1400 to the 20th century. the database includes Medieval manuscripts relating to Japan, including an account by Marco Polo; the logbook of William Adams (1564-1620), alias Miura Anjin, the first Englishman known to have visited Japan; and the journals, printed articles and other papers of William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928), American author, teacher and educational reformer in Japan.
**This database is currently in a trial period until Oct. 30, 2018. Please send feedback about this database to Beth Katzoff bk60@nyu.edu**
Environmental Issues Online brings together multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more.
In an increasingly flat world, an understanding of the histories, politics, cultures, and economies of different countries and regions of the globe is becoming essential to more professions than ever before. This large collection contains critically acclaimed documentaries and feature programming on some of the world’s fastest-growing countries, such as China, India, Russia, and Brazil, as well as major regions including Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and more.
Geriatrics Care Online includes:
Geriatric Nursing Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Advanced Practice
(GNRS)
Geriatric Nursing (5th Edition)
Geriatrics At Your Fingertips 2018
Geriatrics Evaluation & Management Tools
Doorway Thoughts: Cross-Cultural Health Care for Older Adults
Geriatric Care by Design
The Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance Collection is an archive of books published 1820-1914 from Egypt, Syria, and other regions of the Islamic World. The collection is comprised of over 2,500 titles in the humanities and the sciences, including writings from Mahmoud Abdo, Gamal El Din El Afgahany and Rashid Reda. Consisting mostly of historic texts, the books in this collection are full-image, with searchable metadata only.
Starting with an initial collection of nearly 270 screenplays and eBooks and updated annually, Screen Studies includes content by leading screenwriters and award-winning directors; cult and classic films and critical and contextual writing on film history, theory and practice, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. It also includes practical instruction on screenwriting, TV, animation and filmmaking technique.
SPORTDiscus covers many related sports medicine subjects, including nutrition, physical therapy, occupational health and therapy, exercise physiology, kinesiology and more. In addition to journals and monographs, the database includes references to tens of thousands of dissertations and theses. International references are included from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters,
conference proceedings and more. Please send feedback to susan.jacobs@nyu.edu
The Collection of Chinese Literature and History (Wenshi Ziliao) includes 650,000 catalogs, nearly 20,000 series, and more than 500,000 articles. All are literature and history materials published by the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and its subordinate regional committee.
** This database is currently in a trial period until Nov. 10, 2018. Please send feedback about this database to Beth Katzoff bk60@nyu.edu **
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).
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.
Important Announcement: Ebrary is now Ebook Central. If you have annotations in books or books on your bookshelf and want to keep those in Ebook Central, you must complete a one time migration of this content. To migrate your personal content, login to Ebook Central with your ebrary username and password and click the bookshelf link. You will then see a "Move ebrary Bookshelf" button. Please note: Clicking the x permanently declines to move your bookshelf. Click here for more information.
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.
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 27 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
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 & Humanities Citation Index , Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index and Current Chemical Reactions index.
