Databases
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JSTOR
A backfile of core journals in the arts and sciences, JSTOR contains millions of pages in PDF format searchable through JSTOR itself or through the appropriate subject indexes.
WorldCat
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records.
Science Direct
Electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
Naxos Music Library
Provides access over 80,000 tracks (5,500 CDs) from the entire Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues, plus other licensed independent labels.
Oxford English Dictionary
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cook books.
Project MUSE
With well over 100 journals in full-text, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others, searchable through Project Muse itself, or through the appropriate subject indexes.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.
EconLit
The American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. Source material in this database includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. The database contains more than 825,00 records covering 1969 to the present. The subjects covered within EconLit include accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, planning, and much more. Contains links to full text.
NoodleTools (NoodleBib)
Organize your research, take and store searchable notes on your readings, create outlines with links to your notes, all in NoodleTools. This utility also generates notes and bibliographies in MLA, APA and Chicago Style formats.
Oxford Classical Dictionary
Covers all aspects of the classical world from literature and history to religion, science, and archaeology. As well as providing factual information, the Dictionary contains many thematic entries on subjects relevant to the 21st century such as nationalism, race, gender, ecology, creolization and kinship, as well as dance reception and translation.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
CRL holds approximately five million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. CRL provides researchers with liberal access to these rich source materials through ConnectNY, interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. For more information, please see our CRL Research Guide. Special thanks to the Jamie Bernard Foundation for providing this resource.
In response to COVID-19, with concern for staff and public safety, CRL's facility is closed until further notice. During this time, there will be a suspension of some interlibrary services. These services include physical item lending, on-demand digitization, and use of our Reading Room. Despite these interruptions, there are still several ways patrons may take advantage of CRL collections and services:
- CRL's digital resources continue to be accessible. Remote users may access resources using Shibboleth.
Personalized reference consultations continue to be provided on request. Through this service, CRL staff will identify materials of interest to patrons and assistance in navigating through our catalog.
- The CRL website offers helpful information about all available services. Patrons will be able to access and explore our online catalog to locate resources. Topic guides are available for reference to assist in the familiarization of CRL's collections. The catalog records of CRL collections are discoverable, whether via WorldCat or other discovery systems.
Upon our return to full operation, CRL staff will update our website and disseminate informational messaging to key personnel at member Institutions. In the meantime, thank you for understanding that CRL's utmost priority is the safety of our staff and patron community while we operate in a modified capacity. We are committed to continuing to provide useful research services to our patrons.
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Brazilian Government Documents
Executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available to the end of the first Republic in 1930.
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Chinese Pamphlets: Political Communication & Mass Education
Pamphlets, picture books, and other propaganda issued during the early years of the People's Republic between 1947 and 1954. This is the "street literature" of the revolution: comic books, leaflets, and other ephemera distributed to the general population of provincial cities and villages.
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Digital South Asian Library
The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia, including books and journals, full-text dictionaries, bibliographies, images, maps, and statistical information from the colonial period through the present
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Dziennik Zwiazkowy
The first ten years (1908-17) of Dziennik Zwiazkowy, founded in Chicago in 1908 by the Polish National Alliance. Representing local, national, and international issues of concern to the Polish community, the paper continues today as the Polish Daily News.
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LLMC Digital
LLMC Digital provides 'one-stop shop' for preservation and access to global legal heritage
Access in a modern, searchable and enduring format via the LLMC Digital online service provides invaluable benefit to researchers, professors and students from 513+ universities and other organizations
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The Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (MIDAS)
MIDAS, the Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (los Archivos del Autoritarismo Mexicano), is a crowd-sourced, public access digital archive of historical documents from Mexican intelligence agencies. The collection is drawn from Mexico's two principal security services, the Direccion Federal de Seguridad (DFS) and the Direccion General de Investigaciones Politicas y Sociales (DGIPS) and covers the period c.1940 to c.1985.
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Official Gazettes & Civil Society Information
A collection of official gazettes and other key historical government documentation from countries where the integrity of the public record is known to be at risk. CRL is digitizing official gazettes from its extensive collection of print and microfilm, augmented by born-digital gazettes and related data harvested from the web.
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Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu
Arabic nineteenth-century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies. From the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali.
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TRAIL - Technical Report Archive & Image Library
Federally funded technical reports issued before 1975. Space exploration, alternative energy sources, nuclear reactors, mining, and water purification are among the topics in more than 20,000 documents summarizing engineering and regulatory investigations. Page images with searchable metadata.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide from 1963 to the present. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
Cambridge Companions Online
The searchable full-text collection of the Cambridge Companions to literature, philosophy, religion, classics and culture. Contains over 2,000 essays.
EAI Video and Media Art Collection
A leading international resource for video and media art. A pioneering advocate for media art and artists, Electronic Arts Intermix's core program is the distribution and preservation of a major collection of over 3,500 new and historical video works by artists.
Cambridge Histories Online
Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of unrivalled scholarship in 15 different academic disciplines including: American, British, economic, regional and warfare histories, theater and performing arts, religious studies, political and social theory, philosophy, music, literary studies, language and linguistics, history of science, history of the book and general history.
L'Année Philologique
Published by the Société International de Bibliographie Classique, L'Année Philologique is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Our subscription allows access to five simultaneous users.
Important: This database may be used by only two people at a time. If you receive an access-denied message, try again in a few minutes.
ARTstor
A searchable repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data. The collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Before you use ARTstor from home, please make sure to turn off any pop-up blockers and enable cookies on your computer.
Instructions for sign-up: https://libguides.bard.edu/arthistory/findingimages
AnthroSource
From the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including: current issues for 15 of the AAA's publications (including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly).
PsycARTICLES
Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 35,000 searchable full text articles from 41 journals published by the APA and eight journals from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage now spans from 1987 to the present.