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Ebook Finder's Guide

Helpful Hints for Finding ebooks at NYU

The Books & More tab holds many, but not all, of the ebooks to which NYU has access. Look to the Suggested ebook Databases list below for suggestions on where to find other ebooks we have access to.
The ISBN number for an ebook does not coincide with the ISBN for the hard copy. Therefore it is often better to search by title and publisher using the Full Text Online limiter to find the ebook within the results.
Commercially published editions of ebooks are much less likely to be found in our database subscriptions than those published by academic presses. Examples of commercial publishers are Penguin, Harper Collins, Macmillan and McGraw-Hill. Examples of academic presses are Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, etc…
ebooks published by a university press are more likely to be found on databases run by those presses. See the Publisher Specific Databases section below.

Suggested ebook Databases links have been provided, but all of them can be found in Databases A-Z.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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.
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Bibliographic and full text search are available for all volumes in HathiTrust. Public domain volumes are freely accessible to the public and can be downloaded in their entirety with authentication by persons affiliated with partner institutions. NYU Libraries is a HathiTrust partner institution.
Brill Online: Books and Journals This link opens in a new window
Brill Online: Books and Journals is a collection of ebooks and academic journal content published by Brill. Users can search collections, series, and titles across many academic disciplines.
Past Masters This link opens in a new window
Provides primary source full-text electronic editions of selected texts from the humanities, including works by philosophers and political economists.
Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Core provides access to all of the Cambridge University Press content, including books and journals, that NYU accesses.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) provides an interlinked collection of authoritative Oxford editions of major works from the humanities. Users can browse Oxford editions of classics, discover titles by author, or search by genre or language (and limit searches to Latin).
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
Taylor & Francis eBooks is a portal for full-text ebooks in a variety of subjects across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Users can download .PDF versions of some books on this platform, and view other books via the FileOpen online viewer.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities, Wiley Online Library offers integrated access to a wide range of articles, journals, books, and reference works, as well as Blackwell Reference content, and laboratory protocols and databases.
Springer Nature Experiments This link opens in a new window
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Springer Nature Experiments enables users to find and evaluate relevant protocols and methods, with articles available from Nature Protocols, Nature Methods, Protocol Exchange and SpringerProtocols.

Virtual Reference Collections

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Online collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical sources, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions covering topics from the arts to the sciences.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to dictionaries, language reference, Islamic studies and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Encyclopedia Britannica This link opens in a new window
Search authoritative entries on a number of topics.

Digital Images

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of thousands of high-quality images of fine art, photography, architecture, costume, etc.
***Announcement: On August 1, 2024, Artstor will merge with JSTOR. Moving forward, JSTOR will serve as a search platform for the images that were once hosted on Artstor along with the usual JSTOR content. Contact Giana Ricci, Librarian for the Fine Arts, giana.ricci@nyu.edu with questions.***

In order to download images, users must create an ARTstor account.
AP Newsroom This link opens in a new window
Millions of historical and contemporary photos from the Associated Press

More image databases

Digital Video

Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
Kanopy Streaming provides access to contemporary and classic feature films and documentaries, from the major Hollywood studios and well as independent and international filmmakers.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Swank Digital Campus is a streaming video portal to select Hollywood features, independent, and international films.

American Memory
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America.

Dance Online: Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
Dance in Video features filmed productions and documentaries of the choreographic arts, in genres including ballet, modern, tap, jazz, traditional, experimental, and improvisational dance.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Theatre in Video offers filmed productions of plays as well as documentaries on theatre topics.
Music Online: Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
Opera in Video is a collection of filmed performances of over 200 operas, covering the history of the genre from the 1600s to the present day.
Digitalia Film Library This link opens in a new window
Digitalia Film Library is a multinational, multilingual collection of feature films and documentaries from South America, Asia, and Europe.
SCOLA This link opens in a new window
SCOLA provides access to television and radio broadcasts in their original languages from more than fifty different countries with accompanying English-language transcripts. Content includes current international news, variety programs, a Chinese teaching channel (educational and cultural programming from the People's Republic of China), and programs from emerging nations.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is a searchable collection of the individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CBS from 1968-present, CNN from 1995-present, and Fox from 2004-present. Broadcasts from CNN and NBC can be streamed; broadcasts from all sources, including ABC, CBS, and Fox, can be loaned and downloaded in MP4 format after creating an account and paying a nominal duplication fee ($12 per clip + a $10 processing fee).
Follow this link for more information on the loan process for this content and any associated fees: MP4 loans — compilation and duplication fees
World History in Video This link opens in a new window
World History in Video is a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries allowing researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The video content covers Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.

More video databases

Digital Audio & Music Scores

Mango Language Learning This link opens in a new window
An online language-learning system that can help you learn Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more. **Users need to create an individual profile in Mango. **Users need to create an individual profile in Mango.
Users must create an individual account within Mango in order to access the content.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
Contains scores of classical, opera, folk and sacred music.

Classical, Jazz, World Music and more

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Customize your "Scholar Preferences" for automatic linking to NYU's full text. Enter "New York University Libraries - Get at NYU" in the Library Links box; save your preferences.

Google Books

Search across the full-text of books. Most of the books available in their entirety are in the public domain and no longer under copyright.

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