electronic resources Archive

New Database: American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals

Posted on December 1, 2017 | No Comments
The Graduate Center Library now offers access to the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection. This collection is made up of five databases that contain over 6,500 digitized publications from 1691-1877. Documenting the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction via print culture from […]
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Ebook Central Replaces ebrary and Ebook Library: How to Migrate Your Bookshelves

Posted on June 9, 2017 | No Comments
The collections that were once known as ebrary and Ebook Library (EBL) have merged to a new ProQuest platform and are now known as Ebook Central. This platform offers a new look and updated features, but still contains the full corpus of the collections that […]
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May 2017 E-Resources Summary

Posted on May 12, 2017 | No Comments
This post is the latest in a series designed to keep the Graduate Center community updated about our collections; focused primarily on electronic resources available through the Graduate Center Library. New Databases: (These and all other databases can be found on our full A-Z databases […]
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Database Highlight: Book Review Digest Plus

Posted on May 1, 2017 | No Comments
In this post we feature Book Review Digest Plus, a valuable source for finding book reviews on virtually every subject. The database contains more than 900,000 full text book reviews and more than two million citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of indexed newspapers, […]
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Goodbye Scopus

Posted on December 21, 2016 | No Comments
Because of the Graduate Center’s budget constraints, the library can no longer sustain a subscription to Elsevier’s Scopus database. Librarians apply cost and use statistics (and other factors) to deliberations about electronic resource renewals and cancellations. We also – to the best of our ability – avoid duplication of […]
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Almost Summer 2015 E-Resources Summary

Posted on June 1, 2015 | 3 Comments
This post is the latest in a series designed to keep the Graduate Center community updated about our collections; focused primarily on electronic resources available through the Graduate Center Library. New Databases (These and all other Graduate Center Library databases can be found on our full A-Z […]
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From A to Z: Our New List of Databases

Posted on April 9, 2015 | 1 Comment
Over the last month, the web team has been working behind the scenes to migrate some content on our website onto a new platform (that we also use for our Research Guides). Along with a new look, our A to Z list of online databases also got a few additional […]
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Will the change in my GC email address affect my access to library databases?

Posted on February 19, 2015 | 4 Comments
The short answer is, no. Although both currently enrolled Graduate Center students and active graduates will be trading their old @gc.cuny.edu addresses for the new @gradcenter.cuny.edu, this change will not affect your ability to log into Graduate Center subscribed databases. (For faculty and staff at […]
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Reflections on Mapping the (Queer) Personal Past

Posted on February 10, 2015 | 11 Comments
The Graduate Center Library and the Futures Initiative regret that this event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule very soon and will post details on futuresinitiative.org once they are confirmed. On May 23rd 2008, a call for participants arrived in my inbox. It read: REQUEST […]
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OneSearch: New Cross-Database Search Tool

Posted on September 18, 2014 | 13 Comments
The future is here! The library is delighted to debut a powerful new search tool called OneSearch. When you use OneSearch, you search simultaneously across most of the library’s databases, including the CUNY catalog, JSTOR, Academic OneFile, PubMed/MEDLINE, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and many others. You’ll even get results […]
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