Research Guides: NYU Business Library: About & Services

About & Locations

The Business Library supports the academic and career success of NYU researchers at Stern, SPS, and CAS Economics. We assist all NYU scholars performing research in business, economics, entrepreneurship, and real estate via access to our resources, subscriptions, spaces, and services.

NYU Business Library
Bobst Library, 5th Floor
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Jack Brause Library for Real Estate
NYU Midtown Center
11 W 42 St, 5th Floor, Room 510
New York, NY 10036

Business Library Services

Research Guidance
Our team guides you in developing a research strategy and coaches you on research skills so that you can locate the information and data that you need to be successful at NYU. Contact us via email or chat to begin the conversation. Our team are educators, not research assistants, and thus cannot perform your research or pull documents for you.
Scholarly Communications Consulting
We advise on how to build your scholarly identity and profile, perform citation analyses, locate reputable venues for publishing, retain copyright to your scholarship, and provide advice on knowledge creation and dissemination.
Research Assistant or Admin Assistant Training
For faculty or administrators who have an assistant doing research on their behalf.
Guest Lectures
Instructors, staff, and student groups with research assignments - or an interest in research - are warmly encouraged to reach out to our team to explore the possibility of a custom guest lecture for your class or community. These collaborations are co-designed to meet your research needs and learning goals.

Consult our collaboration checklist (linked as a Google Doc) to understand how we approach designing guest lectures. Due to the high volume of requests for guest lectures that we receive, we cannot provide generic introductions to the library, or speak in classes where there is no research component. In such cases, we are happy to connect you with introductory materials to share with your class.

Please reach out with sufficient time (at least two weeks, but ideally before the semester begins) to discuss, plan, and schedule a guest lecture. As a policy, we do not cover classes where the instructor will be traveling or out.
Research Assignment Design Advising
Instructors creating or revising research assignments can meet with our librarians for guidance on how to incorporate library resources or research strategy skills into their assignment, rubric, etc.
Vendor Database Trainings
A select group of our vendors can provide custom database trainings for classes. Depending on the vendor’s ability to commit, we connect instructors with training professionals on their team.
Suggest a Business or Economics Purchase
Recommend resources that you would like the Business Library to purchase. Please note that the library has uniquely stringent restrictions on what we can and cannot purchase. Thus, not all requests may be fulfilled.
Study Room Reservations in our Spaces
Including Bobst Library at Washington Square and the Brause Library at Midtown Center on Bryant Park.
Government and International Documents Collections
Gain access to physical items from our US, UN, and International NGOs collections.
Archival Collections
Request access to items from the Business Library's archival collections, such as the Stern Masters Thesis Collection and CV Starr Working Papers Collection.

Permitted Uses of Business Library Subscriptions

Our Resources are Licensed for Educational, Not-For-Profit Uses
The library's subscriptions are intended for educational, not-for profit uses only. For-profit or commercial uses are strictly forbidden. If you have questions about how this may impact your research, please contact the Business Library via our help form. (See also: Usage of Libraries Electronic Resources.)

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History of the Business Library

The Business Library - originally known as the Commerce Library - was founded in 1938 and located in Shimkin Hall. In 1946, the libraries became a depository for the United Nations, and for the US government in 1967. Bobst Library was completed in 1973, and business and economics collections across NYU's locations were consolidated in the building at that time. In 1983 the Graduate Business Administration Library was launched at 19 Rector Street in lower Manhattan. In 1988, with Stern's naming gift and consolidation at Washington Square, plans were created to integrate the two libraries, which was successfully completed in 1992. In 1999, an anonymous gift allowed the Business Library to launch its first website. The Brause Library for Real Estate, located in Midtown, came under the administrative charge of the Business Library in 2000. In 2010 the Business Library moved to its current location as part of the Research Commons on Bobst Library's 5th floor. These library facilities are located on Lenapehoking, the traditional and continually colonized lands of the Lenape-Delaware Nation.