Non-Legal Databases

Last Updated: 4-30-2008

This page contains a selective list of non-legal databases that are available to all CUNY campuses. The databases included on this page were selected for their potential relevance to researchers at CUNY School of Law. For a complete list of all the licensed databases available to current CUNY students, faculty and staff, go to the CUNY Office of Library Services E-Journals & Reference Databases page.

If you are looking for a particular journal and wish to know which database(s) include it, see CUNY's Full Text Electronic Journal List page. If you can't find a particular journal, please check with one of our librarians for other access options.

Accessing the Databases

Unless otherwise indicated, the databases linked on this page are available only to current CUNY students and faculty. For home access you must obtain a library barcode number and enter it when prompted. If you are having trouble accessing any of the databases, see our database access help page for more information.

Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

According to EBSCO, this scholarly database contains full text for "over 3,430 scholarly publications," with journal coverage "for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies."

EBSCO Host - All EBSCO Databases Combined

This page allows you to select and combine several or all of the EBSCO databases we subscribe to and search them simultaneously.

Humanities Full Text (Wilson)

Includes select full-text back to 1994, abstracts and indexing back to 1984. More information.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences

Contains a selective group of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. The advanced search page includes a list of disciplines that can be used to focus your search. There are several different JSTOR databases. CUNY subscribes to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV and the Arts & Sciences Complement database. More information.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)

This database includes more than 1,900 periodical titles in full-text. It differs from the EBSCO Academic Search Premier database in that the focus of MasterFILE is on the needs of public library users, so there is less emphasis on academic journals. The information link, above, includes a list of periodical titles contained in this database.

Sage Publications

SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. You can search the content in all of the available databases, search individual databases focusing on particular subject area, or browse individual journals within the database collections.

* More Multi-Disciplinary Databases offered by the CUNY Office of Library Services

Education Databases

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Education Full Text (Wilson)

Includes select full-text back to 1996, abstracts back to 1994 and indexing back to 1983. More information.

ERIC (EBSCO)

From EBSCO's ERIC help page: "ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC."

* More Education Databases Offered by the CUNY Office of Library Services

Health Databases

Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

InfoTrac Health Reference Center Academic

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Medline (EBSCO)

This site uses the EBSCO interface to search Medline. Here is another link to the public version of the Medline database, which contains the same information but the search features are not as powerful.

New England Journal of Medicine

* More Health Databases Offered by the CUNY Office of Library Services

Newspapers

Historical New York Times 1851-2004 (ProQuest)

Complete coverage available for download in pdf. More information.

New York State Newspapers (InfoTrac)

Coverage includes: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY), Herald American (Syracuse, NY), Herald-Journal (Syracuse, NY), New York Observer (New York, NY), New York Post (New York, NY), New York Times, Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY). Specific dates of coverage not provided, but the search form goes from 1985 - present.

Photo Databases

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive

Reference Databases

Biography Reference Bank (Wilson)

Includes over 550,000 people and provides links to full-text articles. More information.

Book Review Digest Plus (Wilson)

Coverage back to 1983. More information.

Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (Wilson)

Includes select full-text back to 1994, abstracts and indexing back to 1984.

Oxford Reference Online

An outstanding collection of reference resources that can be used individually or searched in combination. Includes general and subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, maps and more.

Readers Guide Full Text (Wilson)

Includes selective full-text back to 1994, abstracts back to 1984 and indexing back to 1983. More information. See also Reader's Guide Retro for indexing from 1890 - 1982.

Virtual Reference Library (Gale)

Another excellent collection of general and subject-specific reference sources that can be searched individually or in combination.

WorldCat

An online catalog that allows you to search millions of bibliographic records from OCLC member libraries. More information.

* More Reference Databases Offered by the CUNY Office of Library Services

Science Databases (for Medical Science, see Health Databases)

Applied Science & Tech Index (Wilson)

Index includes many peer-reviewed journals. Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. More information.

Columbia Earthscape

Publisher's description: "Columbia Earthscape is an integrated, interdisciplinary resource that connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions. Although it primarily serves undergraduates, it also functions as an online reference for graduate students, investigators, and professionals, as well as a core text and enrichment for high schools and continuing education. Columbia Earthscape presents material from top researchers, research institutes, publishers, and educators from around the world—including universities, societies, database compilers, scholarly presses, textbook publishers, government agencies, and news organizations—to provide the highest quality and widest range of information. It brings to the Web important works not otherwise available online, including original and collaborative new-media projects and publications."

GreenFILE

A free environmental index database hosted by EBSCO. This is not a legal database, but it is included on this page because it includes much law-related content. GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science

Science Magazine

* More Science Databases Offered by the CUNY Office of Library Services

Social Science Databases

Black Thought & Culture (Alexander Street)

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online

According to the publisher, CIAO is "the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs."

Columbia Earthscape

Communication Studies: A Sage Full-Text Collection

Econlit (EBSCO)

Ethnic Newswatch (PROQuest)

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

A huge database of statistics, survey results and other information for social science research.

Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

PsychINFO (EBSCO)

Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)

Includes select full-text back to 1994, abstracts back to 1984 and indexing back to 1983. More information.

SocIndex with Full Text (EBSCO)

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Women & Social Movements in the U.S., 1600 - 2000, Scholar's Ed. (Alexander Street)

* More Social Sciences Databases Offered by the CUNY Office of Library Services

Trial Databases

Current List of Databases on Trial at CUNY

This page provides links to databases that CUNY libraries are currently considering subscribing to. If you use these databases and wish to provide feedback, email the library webmaster or contact Jonathan Saxon in the library.