Computing Reviews

As of May 30, the Graduate Center subscribes to Computing Reviews.  This Association for Computing Machinery database provides reviews of books and journal articles covering all aspects of computing.

Digital Dissertations and EEBO

As of May 29, the Graduate Center’s full-text access in Dissertation Abstracts has expanded. In addition to the text of most Graduate Center dissertations since 1996, Graduate Center patrons now have access to dissertations from other institutions for the same period. Many pre-1997 dissertations from other institutions are also available.

In addition, the Graduate Center subscribes to Early English Books Online. EEBO includes the text of over 118,500 books published between 1473 and 1700. Users should consult the information about resizing text, printing multiple pages, and citing EEBO titles.

PsycCritiques

The Graduate Center subscribes to PsycCritiques, an American Psychological Association database, offering the full text of reviews of recent scholarly and professional books in psychology from 1956 to the present, as well as reviews of popular films and books from a psychological perspective.

Doctoral Student Loan Period Extended to 6 Weeks, July 1

The CUNY Council of Chief Librarians has approved Doctoral/PhD students 6-week loans for CUNY circulating material beginning July 1, 2008. Renewal limits will continue to be set at the discretion of individual CUNY libraries. Graduate Center librarians have been consistent proponents for extending graduate student and faculty loan lengths. Thanks to all who continue to press for CUNY-wide library support for graduate-level research.

Find it! and PubMed

The PubMed database is now integrated with  , our citation-linking service. If you link into PubMed from our library website, the Find it! button will show up on every citation within your search results. The database is available from our A-Z Database list and on our science-and-health-focused subject guides.

Images of the American Civil War

The Graduate Center has a trial through June 13 to Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera, providing 1,400 images searchable by place, date, battle/campaign/event, setting, and photographer.

Theatre in Video

As of May 15, the Graduate Center subscribes to Theatre in Video, providing 279 videos of plays or drama documentaries. See Alan Arkin, Peggy Ashcroft, Marie-Christine Barrault, Claire Bloom, Zoe Caldwell, Richard Dreyfuss, John Gielgud, Lou Gossett, Jr., Philip Baker Hall, Julie Harris, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, James Earl Jones, Walter Matthau, Helen Mirren, Laurence Olivier, Michel Piccoli, Meryl Streep, John Thaw, Cicely Tyson, Jon Voight, Eli Wallach, and others in plays by Aeschylus, Beckett, Chekhov, Fugard, Gogol, Hansberry, Ibsen, Moliere, O’Neill, Pinter, Pirandello, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Strindberg, and others.

New Project Muse Journals

The following journals have recently been added to Project Muse: American Literary Realism, Feminist Teacher, Goethe Yearbook, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Twentieth-Century China, Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture.