Images of the American Civil War

May 16, 2008

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.


Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development

April 9, 2008

The Graduate Center has a trial of this reference work, accessible through ScienceDirect. In ScienceDirect, click the Books tab, change the Source box to Subscribed books, and perform a search. Results from Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Child Development will also appear in general ScienceDirect searching.


International Index to Music Periodicals and International Index to Performing Arts

March 24, 2008

The Graduate Center has trials through April 18 to International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text and to International Index to Performing Arts Full Text. These databases are password protected, and the links will take you to a page where the passwords can be found.  International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text provides indexing and abstracting for over 430 international music periodicals, with full text from123.  International Index to Performing Arts Full Text indexes more than 240 international periodicals in drama, theater, musical theater, opera, dance, performance art, film, and television. Full text is available for 95 of these journals.


New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

March 6, 2008

CUNY has a trial through April 4 to New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. The 2008 second edition offers 80% new content among the 1,850 articles by over 1,500 economists.


LGBT Trial

February 11, 2008

The Graduate Center has a trial through April 8 to LGBT Life with Full Text.  This EBSCO database includes the full text of 55 historically important lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender journals magazines, and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 monographs.


New Database Trials

September 11, 2007

The Graduate Center is enjoying trial access to several databases.  Please see our database trials page.  Please notify Michael Adams of your reactions to these trials.


The Nation Archive Trial

September 4, 2007

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


Scopus Database Trial

August 23, 2007

The Graduate Center has a trial through October 31 to Scopus. 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.


Complete Web of Science Trial

March 14, 2007

While the Graduate Center already subscribes to Social Science Citation Index, CUNY currently has a trial of the complete Web of Science through May 31, providing access to Art and Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index. The database traces citations in the scholarly literature from 1975 to the present. Those new to this resource should begin with its tutorial.


CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences Trial

February 20, 2007

The Graduate Center has a trial through March 18 to CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences. This new Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database indexes tables, figures, graphs, charts, and other illustrations from scholarly literature in agriculture, biology, conservation, earth sciences, environmental studies, fish and fisheries, food and food industries, forests and forestry, geography, medical sciences, meteorology, veterinary science, and water resources since 1997.