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Contains full text scholarly journal articles as well as trade journals and industry newsletters, regional business news, magazines, and newspaper articles published worldwide (“Wall Street Journal” 1984-today).
Covers the history of the United States and Canada. Lists scholarly articles from history journals.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals from 1684 through 1904. These specialized collections cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.
Periodical articles about computer science, engineering, food industry, physics, textile industry, applied mathematics, and more.
offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting and full-text coverage of academic journals, magazines, and trade publications, as well as books. The database also provides an Image Collection of over 63,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others.
Provides access to over half a century of art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art.
Search thousands of digital images of artworks and other objects. JSTOR's image catalog includes almost everything previously held in Artstor, which will be retired in August of 2024.
Provides life histories for all bird species and families, scholarly content, millions of bird observations from eBird, and multimedia. Funded by the Friends of the Sojourner Truth Library.
Detailed company and industry news and information from company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, periodicals, and more. Provided by NOVELNY.
Business Source Complete provides full text from more than 1,600 scholarly business journals, and includes full text articles from newspapers, magazines, and trade publications. Additional full-text non-journal content includes SWOT analyses, country-specific industry reports, case studies, market research reports,country reports, and more.
Journal articles, books, dissertations, Web sites, and institutions in speech-language pathology and audiology.
Thousands of e-books on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Available through SUNYConnect.
Multiple databases of journals and newspapers can be searched individually or concurrently. Topical coverage includes social sciences, education, humanities, business, natural sciences, health and medicine. Contains full text.
Contains full-text education journals, and encompasses an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks and more. Covers all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Provides access to academic journals, reports, and many premier reference sources in the field of education. The database includes content in key subject areas including administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing. The majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. Provided by NOVELNY.
Journals and magazines covering the scientific and social aspects of environmental studies.
ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center accessible here through the EBSCO interface provides access to the ERIC database which includes citations from Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education CIJE). Also provides full text access to educational digests and links to more than 224,000 full text ERIC documents (ED numbers).
This free research database offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Provided by NOVELNY.
Resource for academic research includes scholarly journals and selected general interest titles in a wide variety of subjects. Provided by NOVELNY.
A comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs and business students. Provided by NOVELNY.
Gale Health and Wellness offers access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. It includes authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices. Provided by NOVELNY
Magazine and newspaper articles, reference sources, images, and other materials for students in grades K through five. Provided by NOVELNY.
Resource for students in grades 6 to 8. It offers magazines, newspapers, primary sources, over 12,000 videos, and more on various topics. Supports national and state curriculum standards in language arts, social studies, and science. Provided by NOVELNY.
Find biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers, from all time periods and from around the world.
Provides access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries. Provided by NOVELNY.
Full text of nursing and allied health journals plus a variety of personal health information sources. Provided by NOVELNY.
Designed for middle- and high school students and provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies. Provided by NOVELNY.
Spanish interface provides access to Spanish and Portuguese language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America. Provided by NOVELNY.
This full-text newspaper database has several New York Newspapers including the New York Times from 1995 on, and over 1,000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers. Provided by NOVELNY.
Full-text entries from encyclopedias and reference works for multidisciplinary and subject-specific research in areas such as social sciences, education, business, psychology, art, history, etc.
The primary resource for geoscience literature. Over 2 million scholarly references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers and abstracts, reports and theses. Produced by the American Geological Institute.
Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Each article is summarized. Covers the history of civilization (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Provides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more,
Search thousands of digital images of artworks and other objects. JSTOR's image catalog includes almost everything previously held in Artstor, which was retired in August of 2024.
Klimt02 highlights the work of contemporary jewelry and artists worldwide and provides a forum for creative exchange and discourse. This database features current and archival works from museums, galleries, and private collections and is searchable by exhibition, artist, and geographic location.
Strives to provide wide coverage in English of news by Latin American media within 19 countries of that region, in Spanish or Portuguese. English summaries have links to original articles. Subjects include arts and culture, economy, environment, society, inter-American and international relations, politics, travel, and war, drugs, violence, and a section on classroom use.
Provides abstracts and indexes of over 500 journals, books, and reference works, and full-text access to over 300. Includes a thesaurus of LGBT terminology.
Journals, research reports and more, covering librarianship, information retrieval, and information management.
Provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Provides full text for general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues, and much more.
Provides access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Mathematical Reviews provides timely reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research. Current Mathematical Publications provides subject indexing of recent and forthcoming publications.
The authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Information about and reviews of standardized tests covering education, psychology, personality, and more. Access limited to 4 simultaneous users
Designed to offer current, full-text news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
Modern Language Association's database of journal articles, books, and more, pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Naxos Music Library Jazz offers close to 60,000 tracks of jazz from over 5,200 albums, with over 7,000 jazz artists represented. Access limited to four simultaneous users. Be sure to logout when finished with database.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains a range of perspective on many important issues, with more than 20,000 pro/con viewpoints and more than 19,000 reference articles and topic overviews. You'll find more than 12,000 charts and graphs along with statistical information. Includes full-text coverage from newspapers and magazines such as National Review, The New York Times, Commentary, and CNN Wire. Provided by NOVELNY.
Search full-text articles from the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art to find information about individual artists, art movements, and techniques. Access limited to eight simultaneous users.
The authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium with definitions, history, and pronunciation of words.
Contains the full text of several music reference works, most importantly Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. It also provides contextual to links to images, sound, and other related web sites. Access limited to 8 simultaneous users.
Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take practice tests, create resumes, and explore careers. Users need to create a Gale account to monitor their test progress and customize other resources. Provided by NOVELNY.
A bibliography of scholarly research in all major areas of philosophy, containing more than 485,000 journal articles and book citations drawn from over 1400 journals.
Provides overviews of topics, including arguments on multiple sides of an issue. In addition to original essays, includes articles from leading political magazines, newspapers, radio/TV transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
Political Science Complete (PSC) contains full text for over 450 journals, and indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,100 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals). The database also features full-text reference books and monographs, and full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
This resource provides access to 12 complete, full-text ProQuest databases in major subject areas such as Science, Technology, Business, Health, Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, as well as US national and regional newspapers
a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
The American Psychological Association's PsycINFO database, with over 2,000,000 records, is the most comprehensive international database of psychology. It covers the academic research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 25 languages.
Covers all aspects of national and global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international commerce and conflict. This database draws from a diverse array of scholarly journals, conference papers, trade publications and government documents to provide up-to-date information on a broad range of topics of concern to the world today.
Covers a wide range of topics from popular, general interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890-1982. Including full coverage of the original print volumes of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.
Includes full-text articles from 75 business journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Use for keeping up with regional business news, getting a sense for a community, and local business information.
SciFinder-n is the user interface to a few databases that identify articles, patents, conferences, books, and dissertations in chemistry and medicine. Searches Chemical Abstracts, Medline, and ChemZent databases simultaneously. Includes PatentPak, MethodsNow, and Retrosynthesis Plan. Important: New Paltz users must register (and use your SUNY New Paltz e-mail address) before accessing the database. In order to use the database, you need to register and create a username and password.
Provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals
Journals in sociology and social work, plus coverage of anthropology, criminal justice, gender studies, and more. Also indexes books and conference papers.
Provides full-text access to over 1,500 scholarly journals from Springer Publishing. The collection is strong in mathematics and the physical and life sciences. It also includes important titles in psychology, sociology, business and economics.
Online philosophy encyclopedia that is kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of an Editorial Board.
provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Tests in Print is a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print.Access limited to 4 simultaneous users
offers access to the largest collection of leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites and blogs in full text from US publishers in both Spanish and English including El Diario/La Prensa (New York City), La Opinión (Los Angeles), La Prensa (San Antonio) and Extra (Chicago).
Search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format
Investment research on companies, industries, markets, and economies. Information and analysis on 1,700+ stocks and 98 industries. Commentary, up-to-date statistics and the wide variety of stock "screens" are designed to help investors identify attractive stocks for their portfolios. If you are denied access, please try back at another time. Access limited to six simultaneous users. Be sure to logout when finished with the database.