Non-Legal Databases

Last Updated: 10-8-2009

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.

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.

Finding Journals by Title

Use the Electronic Journal Finder if you are looking for a particular journal in full-text and want to know it it's available in an electronic database that CUNY School of Law has access to. If you do not find a particular journal, or you have trouble accessing a journal link that appears in the results list, please contact one of our librarians.

Federated Search Engine

Federated Search Engine - Available to CUNY Libraries on a Trial Basis Through 2009

This tool allows you to search across multiple non-legal databases available to all CUNY campuses. It is provided by EBSCO, but it is not limited to EBSCO databases. The first page allows you to choose pre-selected groups of databases by subject. If you click on the "Databases A-Z" link you can specify exactly which databases you wish to combine. Note that although LexisNexis Academic is listed as one of the choices, the law school does not have access to that database. Using this tool is similar to using meta search engines, where the results you get may not be as complete as searching each database or search engine individually. This resource is on trial for all CUNY libraries through the end of 2009. Send any comments to Jonathan Saxon, Electronic Resource Coordinator.

Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

According to EBSCO, this scholarly database contains full text for "more than 7,000 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."

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Provides links to over 3.900 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals covering a variety of subjects (mostly in the sciences). Access to these journals is free and many of them provide full-text search options. However, you can't search multiple journals at the same time through DOAJ.

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 Source Complete database in that the focus of MasterFILE is on the needs of public library users, so there is less emphasis on academic journals.

Proquest Platinum Periodicals

Collection of periodicals covering the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences, and current affairs

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

Business Databases

Business & Company ASAP (EBSCO)

Business & Company Resource Center (EBSCO)

Business Source Complete (EBSCO)

Provides access to full-text journals in business disciplines such as marketing, management, MIS, accountin, banking, finance, etc. Additional non-journal content also available including books, financial data, conference proceedings, industry reports, company profiles and more.

EconLit (EBSCO)

American Economic Association's database indexing economic literature. Includes more than 1 million records going back to 1969.

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

* More Business Databases offered by the CUNY Office of Library Services

Education Databases

Education Full Text (Wilson)

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

Education Research Complete (EBSCO)

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

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."

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)

Designed for professional educators. Includes over 500 full-text journals and over 200 educational reports.

Proquest Teacher Journals Database

Selected professional educators' titles covering current issues in education.

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

Health Databases

CINAHL (EBSCO)

Full-text access to over 500 scholarly journals related to nursing and allied health fields. Also includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.

Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale)

Publisher's description: "Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to many pertinent websites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness." Also includes video content from Healthology and recent health news from Harvard Health Publications.

Health Reference Center Academic (InfoTrac)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)

This is an index database for journals related to nursing and allied health fields. Over 2,900 journals indexed.

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Medline with Full Text (EBSCO)

This site uses the EBSCO interface to search Medline and now includes access to many of the articles in full text.

New England Journal of Medicine

PubMed

A useful collection of resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Featured is PubMed, an index containing over 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals, some including links to full-text. Many other health resources are available from this site.

* 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.

Proquest Newspapers

Full text access to the following newspapers: Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Detroit News, Seattle Times, USA Today and a collection of English-language international newspapers. Coverage varies, but most run from somewhere in the 1980s to present. See the site for more details.

Psychology Databases

PsychArticles (EBSCO)

Provides full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. According to EBSCO, the database contains "more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 50 published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group."

PsychINFO (EBSCO)

Devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Provides abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. According to EBSCO, the database contains "over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages."

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.

Grolier Online

Includes Encyclopedia Americana, American Heritage Dictionary, English-Spanish & Spanish-English dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus and other resources.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)

Indexes over 700 journals, with more than 270 available in full text. Also indexes some books, research reports and proceedings.

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.

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Proquest Reference Database

A full-text collection of reference books including The Ethnic Cultures of America, Occupational Outlook Handbook, and the World Factbook.

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

Research Tools

RefWorks

You must create an individual account to use this product that helps you organize and format research papers..

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."

General Science Full Text (Wilson)

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

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

Wiley Interscience - Partial Access

CUNY only has access to part of this collection of full-text science articles. Unfortunately there is no way of filtering out the journals that we don't have access to, so your search results may contain articles that are not accessible through this databases. Please consult a reference librarian if there is an article you can't retrieve that you would like to look at.

* 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

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.

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)

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

* More Social Science 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.