Background Resources

Encyclopedia of New York State F 119 .E53 2005

History of the State of New York F119 .N65 v. 1-10 REF
The Encyclopedia of New York City F128.3 .E75 1995 REF

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HOW TO FIND BOOKS AND OTHER SOURCES

Catalog - Use this to find books, journals, videos or other type of media the Library owns.  You can search by keyword, author (last name first), title, boolean or subject heading.  Remember to use subject headings (located under “Detailed Record”) to find more relevant resources on a topic.

New York (State)	New York (City).
New York (N.Y.)	New York Metropolitan Area
Hispanic Americans	African Americans
Emigration & immigration	Minorities

 

 

FIND E-JOURNALS   

 This is what you use to find out if the library owns a journal title (NOT AN ARTICLE!) in electronic format.

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HOW TO FIND PERIODICAL ARTICLES

EVALUATING TYPES OF PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Databases - These are electronic indexes that you can search to locate journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference or proceeding papers.  Some databases provide full text access; others only provide you with the citation.  The Library owns over 300 databases.  Some are very subject specific (e.g. Sociological Abstracts, America: History and Life); others are interdisciplinary (e.g. Expanded Academic, Wilson Select).  To access any of the databases from off campus, you will be prompted for a user name and password.  Your user name is your ten digit ID # (make sure that you use all ten digits) and your password is your last name in lower-case letters.  For additional assistance with this, please go to the instructions for remote access to databases.

Book reviews and general databases:

Book Review Digest - Indexes and abstracts reviews of English language adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles. Covers periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.

Proquest Research Library - Reference database containing abstracts, indexing, and full text articles from popular magazines, business periodicals, and academic publications, plus current coverage of articles from The New York times and The Wall Street journal.

JSTOR - Full-text archive of scholarly publications in mathematics, science, and the social sciences.

Databases to subject specific and scholarly publications:

Black Studies Center - Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion. and much more.

Chicano Database - Bibliographic materials on Mexican-American topics 1960 to the present. Scope expanded 1992 to include the broader Latino experience, including , Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.

Ethnic NewsWatch - Full-text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America.

Gale Literary databases - Combined search of Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and Dictionary of Literary Biography.

 

Literature Online - Library of English and American literature.

Social Science Fulltext - Index with abstracts in sociology, social work, aging, gerontology, child and family studies, marriage and family therapy and other social sciences.

Sociological Abstracts - Bibliographic coverage of sociology, social work, aging, gerontology, child and family studies, marriage and family therapy and other social sciences.

 

Newspaper databases:

New York State Newspapers - Full text access to 9 newspapers from New York State, including the Buffalo News, New York Times, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Syracuse Post Standard and the Utica Observer-Dispatch.

Lexis-Nexis - Full text files focusing on legal (federal, state, national) news (newspapers, newswires, transcripts), business and industry information. Also good for book reviews.

National Newspapers - Coverage of 27 major newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, plus other important US, international and minority interest papers.

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HOW TO FIND STATISTICAL SOURCES

Library Sources

Statistical Information from the Library's Web site
Library's Databases on Statistics
Library's Numeric Data Resources

New York State & New York City

New York State Statistical Yearbook
New York State Facts
New York State Data Center

General Statistical Sources - New York City & State - Columbia University - has a lot of bad links,

but may give you ideas of where to look for statistical data on New York City