LitFinder

April 23, 2009

CUNY has a trial through August 31, 2010, to LitFinder.  This Gale databases provides the text of 150,000 poems, 7,100 short stories, 3,700 essays, 2,400 speeches, and 1,300 plays, as well as 2,300 biographies of writers and 1,800 illustrations.  LitFinder also indexes some literary works for which it does not have the rights to the text.  In these cases the database displays the titles of collections where the materials may be found.  Text from LitFinder also appears in search results in Literature Resources from Gale under the Primary Sources & Literary Works tab.


ProQuest Platinum Periodicals

April 2, 2009

As of April 1, most libraries in New York State have access to ProQuest Platinum Periodicals, providing the full text of 1,509 periodicals, many of them scholarly journals.  A title list is available.


Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences

April 1, 2009

As of April 1, the Graduate Center subscribes to the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, which includes the complete text of the first and second editions, as well as all supplementary volumes.  Revisions and new articles are added quarterly.  Use the Search This Title box to search only this resource. Use the Search Wiley InterScience to search it along with the Wiley journals to which the library has access.