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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

As of September 17, the Graduate Center subscribes to Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals . This database includes 589,000 citations from 2,800 international journals from 1741 to the present. Topics covered include architecture, archaeology, historic preservation, interior design, urban design, and urban planning.

Bibliography of the History of Art

As of September 17, the Graduate Center subscribes to Bibliography of the History of Art. This database includes over 650,000 bibiographic records from over 4,800 journals and other publications from 1973 to the present. Subjects indexed include the art of Europe and the Americas from the fourth century to the present, painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, popular and folk art, architecture and industrial design, and film.

Blackwell Reference Online

The Graduate Center has a trail of Blackwell Reference Online through November 18. The database includes 300 reference books in cultural studies, economics, history, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology.

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is a new database available to Graduate Center researchers, offering over 1,500 titles from 250 publishers selected by the American Council of Learned Societies for their lasting value in the humanities. A title list is available. Titles are included in CUNY+.

African American Music Reference

The Graduate Center has a trial of African American Music Reference through November 10. The database includes over 11,000 pages of reference materials, biographies, chronologies, discographies, sheet music, lyrics, liner notes, and images.

Classical Music Reference Library

CUNY has a trial to Classical Music Reference Library through November 2. The database includes 26,705 essays and images from 20 reference works. Sources may be browsed.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

CUNY has a trial to The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music through November 2. The database offers more than 9,000 pages of essays and images.

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

The Graduate Center has a trial of Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period through November 10. This database includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by 50 writers published during 1768- 1842.

North American Indian Thought and Culture

The Graduate Center has a trial of North American Indian Thought and Culture through November 10. The database has over 100,000 pages of biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference materials, manuscripts, and photographs.

Scopus

The Graduate Center has a trial of Scopus through October 31. This abstract and citation database indexes 15,000 international peer-reviewed journals in the social sciences, sciences, and medicine from 1996 to the present. A more detailed description is available.

Academic Search Complete

CUNY has a trial of Academic Search Complete, an expanded version of Academic Search Premier, through October 31. It includes the text of over 5,300 mostly scholarly periodicals.

The Nation Archive

CUNY has a trial of The Nation Archive through October 31, providing the full text of this periodical from 1865 to the present..

Oxford African American Studies Center

CUNY has a trial ending October 31 of Oxford African American Studies Center. This new database offers 7,500 articles dealing with all aspects of African American history and culture.

Biography Resource Center

CUNY has a trial through October 31 to Biography Resource Center, providing 435,000 biographies.

Nursing Resource Center

CUNY has a trial ending October 31 to Nursing Resource Center, providing reference materials related to nursing.

The Making of the Modern World

CUNY has a trial to The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature through October 15. Covering economics, banking, finance, transportation, manufacturing, history, political science, and sociology, the database includes the text of 61,000 books published during 1460-1850 as well as 466 pre1906 serials.

Human Resources Abstracts

The Graduate Center has a trial through February 29, 2008, to Human Resources Abstracts, providing bibliographic records covering all aspects of human resources.

Urban Studies Abstracts

The Graduate Center has a trial through January 31, 2008, to Urban Studies Abstracts, consisting of biographic records in urban affairs, community development, urban history, and related areas.

Science Reference Center

As of September 1, CUNY has access to Science Reference Center, providing 639 full-text reference works, biographies, and periodicals, covering all science disciplines.

Eureka

Eureka is a collection of six French-language publications providing news about French Canada as well as over 1,000 biographies, bibliographies, and critical articles about Quebec writers.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online

As of July 9, CUNY subscribes to CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online, providing the text of recent issues of 46 international affairs journals.

Columbia Earthscape

As of July 9, CUNY subscribes to Columbia Earthscape, offering teachers illustrated lectures, animations, video and image banks, exercises and labs, syllabi, and basic textbook readings about environmental issues and also gives researchers a carefully selected collection of environmental legislation, regional studies, international environmental documents, and white papers.

CQ Researcher Plus Archive and CQ Global Researcher

CUNY has trials, ending soon, to CQ Researcher Plus Archive, offering 3,000 reports on international political and social issues published between 1923 and 1990, and CQ Global Researcher, providing international perspectives on global issues.

Aluka

CUNY has a trial through December 31 to Aluka, providing access to primary documents related to Africa. While the database may eventually include materials related to struggles for freedom in Southern Africa and African cultural heritage sites and landscapes, this trial version offers only sources dealing with African plants, including 280,000 items involving plant specimens, photographs, art, reference works, and archival records of historical expeditions to Africa.