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American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection

The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection provides digital access to American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. The fifty thematic subsets include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals not available from any other source and provide content detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century. These specialized collections cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more. See below for collections:

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Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Publications

ARL publishes reports, issue briefs, talking points, position statements, monographs, compilations of statistics, and many other types of documents on a wide range of current issues of interst to academic and research library professionals. ARL publications also includes SPEC kits. SPEC surveys gather information from ARL member institutions on current research library practices and policies. SPEC Kits combine the survey results and documentation from survey respondents to guide libraries as they address the ever-changing challenges facing libraries.

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Cambridge Core

Access to the full text of over 500 books published by Cambridge University Press and covering the humanities, social and natural sciences, medicine, and English language teaching.  Please note: NYPL has access to content published beginning in 2015.  All other titles provide access to tables of contents and indices only.  Formerly known as Cambridge Books Online (CBO). **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. Published every weekday. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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City Access New York

City Access New York promotes lifelong access to educational, vocational and cultural programs for New Yorkers of all abilities.

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Credo Reference

Provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections, including art, history, law, medicine, psychology, technology, bilingual dictionaries and encyclopedias.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

The DPLA is a platform that brings together many collections of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. 

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EBSCOHost

Provides access to over 30 databases with citations, abstracts and selected full-text. Includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete and other subject-specific resources. Specific databases available through EBSCOhost are listed at the EBSCOhost site and in this directory. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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ERIC (EBSCO)

U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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ERIC (ProQuest)

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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ERIC Document Reproduction Service

From the U.S. Department of Education, ready access to documents in the education field.  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Europa World of Learning

Details and contact information for libraries, museums, higher education centers, and other research institutions worldwide. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Explora for Educators

A teacher's companion to the various Explora databases, searching across content such as ERIC and Academic Search Premier.  It highlights lessons plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Explora High School

Searches across content geared toward high school students, such as Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Foundation Directory Online Professional

Foundation Directory Online was developed by the Foundation Center, a nonprofit organization founded over 50 years ago to open up U.S. foundations to public view. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Foundation Grants to Individuals Online

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is an online database of nearly 10,000 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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General One File

This general periodical database contains over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, over half of which are full text. The backfile extends nearly 30 years. Subjects include humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, politics and more. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Himan Brown 60+ Online Program

92nd Street Y’s community engagement and enrichment program for adults 60+. Offers high caliber lectures, classes and discussion groups led by university professors, published authors, professional artists and area experts.

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Himan Brown 60+ Online Program

92nd Street Y’s community engagement and enrichment program for adults 60+. Offers high caliber lectures, classes and discussion groups led by university professors, published authors, professional artists and area experts.

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Include NYC

INCLUDEnyc is the leading provider of training and information for young people with any disability (age 0-26) in New York City, their families, and the professionals who support them. Creates access to educational, employment, and independent living opportunities, and advocates with families for meaningful inclusion in the broader community.

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International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Comprehensive overview of the social and behavioural sciences. Full-text (encyclopedia).  **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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LearningExpress Library

Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams, including the PSAT, SAT, GED replacement, TASC, test, and other exams. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Library Literature and Information Science Full Text

Provides indexing and abstracting of nearly 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals, and full-text coverage of over 160 journals. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Mango Languages

Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided. Download the mobile app.

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NY Foundation for Eldercare

Develops and supports programs focused on enhancing community awareness and education related to issues affecting older New Yorkers.

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints offers material to support differing views and help students develop critical thinking skills on thousands of current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.**Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Oxford Bibliographies Online

A collection of research guides for a wide variety of subjects. Includes topic overviews and annotated bibliographies. **Patrons should read the Oxford Bibliographies Online Privacy Policy before searching.**

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Oxford Research Encyclopedias

The Oxford Research Encyclopedias offer full text academic encyclopedia articles from subject-based encyclopedias covering climate science, communications, criminology,  economics and finance, education, environmental science, global public health, history, international studies, linguistics, literature, planetary science, politics, psychology, social work, and more.

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Periodicals Index Online

A database of millions of citiations for articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, across more than 300 years. Over 6,000 journals are included. Journals indexed span 37 key subject subject areas and multiple languages. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Philanthropy In/Sight

Philanthropy In/Sight is an interactive mapping tool designed for grantmakers, advisors, policymakers, researchers, academics—virtually anyone interested in the impact of philanthropy around the world. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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PowerSearch (Gale)

This resource searches across all of the Gale databases to which NYPL subscribes, including Academic One File, General One File, and Infotrac Newsstand. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Private School Review

Provides profiles of private elementary day schools & high schools

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Proquest Dissertations and Theses

Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Abstracts from 1980 - present. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities, from a diverse array of academic subjects including literature, languages, art history, music history, philosophy, history, mathematics, psychology, and science.  A subset of these documents is publicly available using the website PQDT Open. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**

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Regents Exam Prep Center

Created by the Oswego City School District, this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant.

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Sage Knowledge

The full text and full catalog of Sage Publishing's social science ebook platform. 

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Social Services Abstracts

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare and community development.

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SocINDEX with Full Text

SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.

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Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (SWA) is an international abstracting service designed to meet the information needs of those working, teaching, studying or researching into any of the main areas of women's studies. 

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Universities Worldwide

Search home pages of colleges and universities.

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University of Chicago Press Journals

Journals published by the University of Chicago Press.  This resource was created in 2016 with content moved from JSTOR.  Older issues may be duplicated or only available in JSTOR.

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