• CUNY+, the City University of New York Libraries Online Information System, is the online catalog for all CUNY libraries. Use it to find books, periodicals, government documents, microforms, music recordings, scores and audio-visual materials. The system also provides access to general and specialized indexes, updated regularly, for locating citations and short summaries of articles in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Terminals are located in all the City College Libraries. CUNY+ can also be accessed remotely through the World Wide Web from the City College Library's Web site or by using a computer, modem and telecommunications software. Ask a reference librarian for details.

• DPAC -- The online catalog of books, serial publications such as magazines and scholarly journals, government documents, music recordings, and audio-visual materials.

• NEWC - Newspaper articles: 1996 to date
• NEWB - Newspaper articles: 1989 - 1995
• A newspaper database that indexes articles in over 30 United States newspapers. City College subscribes to the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. (These and other news paers are available (full text) in the sources noted belos.
• Full Text Newspaper articles are available in Lexis-Nexis or Dialog@CARL
• (Lexis-Nexis & Dialog@CARL are available from CUNY workstations only or through proxy accounts. Proxy info under policies at the City College Library Web site.)
• DPER -- A multi disciplinary database of articles indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Humanities Index, Social Science Index and General Science Index.

• ARTI, Art Index -- The subjects covered range from architecture to video. The index also includes a record of art reproductions that appear in the indexed publications.
• BIOG, Biography Index -- Citations to biographical material (autobiographies, memoirs, journals, diaries, letters, interviews, obituaries) in periodicals and books. People of all nationalities, from all periods of history and walks of life are covered.
• BKRV, Book Review Digest -- Contains citations, excerpts of reviews, and abstracts of fiction and nonfiction books.
• BUSI, Wilson Business Abstracts -- An index to periodicals covering business subjects: accounting, advertising, communications, computers and related topics.
• EDUC, Education Index -- Broad coverage of topics related to education from pre-school to higher education in periodicals, books and yearbooks.
• EGLI, Essay and General Literature Index -- This index gives citations of essays and articles in books and covers many fields, e.g. archaeology, architecture and art, classical studies, economics, folklore, linguistics, political science, psychology, religion and women's studies.
• ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center. Covers topics related to educational research and practice in journal articles, research papers, reports, conference proceedings, etc. from 1966 to the present.
• LIBR, Library Literature -- An index to articles, obituaries, interviews, editorials, letters to the editor, and conference proceedings in the fields of information science, library science and related subjects.

APPLIED SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Engineering Information Village
Provides access to over 15,000 reliable and relevant WWW sites, access to databases and libraries, full text engineering journals and document delivery, and online assistance. Site navigation is available through 11 icons: "LIBRARY" provides access to "Ei Compendex Web," from 1980 to the present; "RESEARCH..." offers sources of patents, etc; "CAREER & EDUCATION CAMPUS" offers access to colleges and universities and career information. Available only from City College Internet workstations.
Address: http://www.ei.org/village

MathSciNet
Searchable access to the following publications of the American Mathematical Society: "Mathematical Reviews" and "Current Mathematical Publications," from 1940 to the present. (All reviews from 1940 to 1979 will be added by 1999.) Available only from City College and other CUNY workstations.
Address: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/

ARCHITECTURE

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexes over 1,000 periodicals published worldwide in architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Covers 1977 to the present and is updated daily.
Available only on City College Library workstations.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Britannica Online
Consists of a searchable and browsable collection of the Encyclopedia's printed and uniquely online articles, "Merriam-Websters's Collegiate Dictionary" (10th ed.), the "Britainnica Book of the Year," and links to other WWW sites. Available only on City College Library workstations.
Address: http://www.eb.com:180/

The Catholic Encyclopedia
"An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, edited by Charles G. Herbermmann et. al.", published in 15 volumes between 1907 and 1912." As of September 1997, volunteers had entered 3,159 (27 %) of the articles into this online version. Available from any Internet workstation.
Address http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/

Encarta Online (Concise Encyclopedia)
Free access to Microsoft's concise encyclopedia which contains 16,000 articles and more than 2,200 photos, illustrations, maps, charts, and tables. No edition date is given but includes 1996 data such as the result of the '96 U.S. Presidential election. Available from any Internet workstation.
Address: http://encarta.msn.com/EncartaHome.asp

Encyclopaedia of the "Orient" (i.e.,The Middle East &  North Africa)
This resource deals with North Africa and the Middle East, not with the "Orient," as most Americans use the term. The encyclopedia is particularly useful for its definitions of religious terms. Geographic features, with pictures and other technology, are also well covered. Covers 22 countries of the region. Available from any Internet workstation.
Address: http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm

HEALTH AND MEDICINE
 (See also "AIDS/HIV" & "CANCER" at "Selected Internet Sites" on the library's home page.)

InfoTrac / Health Reference Center
A database that searches selected health-related periodicals and delivers abstracts and full-text articles on topics such as fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, public health, occupational health & safety. alcohol & drug abuse, HMOs, and prescription drugs. Covers 1994 to the present. Available at any CUNY or New York Public Library workstation.
Address: http://libraries.cuny.edu/ab-ithrc.htm

MEDLINE: PubMed and Internet Grateful Med
This database from the National Library of Medicine contains over 9 million references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals and is available, for free, to anyone at this site. Two Web-based products, "Internet Grateful Med" and "PubMed," provide access. Both databases cover 1966 to the present but the default search in "Internet Grateful Med" is 1994 to the present.  Available from any Internet workstation.
Address: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemedl.html

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Provides full-text information, in English or Spanish, on health topics and resources. Topics include diseases and broader issues such as environmental health, mental health and pregnancy. Among the resources covered are New York City, State and regional hospitals, HMOs and hospices. Useful for related statistics. Available through workstations in CUNY libraries and the N.Y. Public Library system.
Address: http://www.noah.cuny.edu/

Virtual Reference Desk: Health and Medicine
Provides access to information about a wide variety of diseases and conditions, treatments, drugs, and nutrition. Access to the "Merck Manual," a medical text describing symptoms and disorders, clinical procedures, and laboratory tests. Free access to Medline and AIDS databases. Available from any Internet workstation.
Address: http:/library.lib.binghampton.edu/medicine.html

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Online
Online searchable access to this authoritative database of annual annotated bibliographies covering many subjects in the humanities and social sciences. The database can be accessed in English or Spanish and covers 1935 to date.
Address : http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/

Internet Resources for Latin America
Courtesy of New Mexico State University. Links to databases and other reference sources, online news, and organizations. Also lists of related lists and newsgroups.
Address : http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Access to academic databases and Information services on and from Latin America. Courtesy of the University of Texas.
Address : http://lanic.utexas.edu/

Political Database of the Americas
A searchable and browsable full-text resource offering documentary and political information on Latin America. Data Includes constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data. Also includes links to sources for current events in Latin America. Available from any Internet workstation.
Address: http://www.georgetown.edu/LatAmerPolitical/home.html

MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESOURCES

CUNY Library Web Links/Page One: Library Links
Access to a variety of full-text resources such as the complete works of William Shakespeare, Project Gutenberg (electronic books), and the Victorian Women Writers Project. Includes links to other full-text resources such as electronic journals. Available from any Internet workstation.
Address: http://libraries.cuny.edu/lib-link.htm

CD-ROMs -- Open Access at the Reference Area

• Periodical Abstracts Research II and General Periodicals Research II (UMI Proquest) - Contain citations and abstracts of articles in more than 1600 periodicals and full text coverage for about 400 of them. Includes indexing to the most recent six months of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
• Social Sciences Index/Full text (UMI Proquest) - Indexes the most well-known journals in the social sciences and provides full text for selected articles.

• America: History and Life on Disc. Abstracts and citations of articles and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture from 1964 to the present.
• Census of Population and Housing (1990). Public Law 94-171 Data for New York and California. Population and housing tabulations down to the census block level.
• Countries of the World on CD ROM. Prepared by Foreign Area Studies of American University, a compilation of facts about the social, economic, political and military institutions and practices of various countries.
• Cross-Cultural CD. A database of records in the fields of anthropology, sociology and psychology selected from the archives Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). These materials from the 19th and 20th centuries deal with sexuality, marriage, family, crime, aging, death, socialization and religion in many societies around the world.
• ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center. Covers topics related to educational research and practice in journal articles, research papers, reports, conference proceedings, etc. from 1966 to the present.
• Encyclopedia Americana. This disk contains the contents of the 30-volume printed version of the Encyclopedia Americana as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, tenth edition and Chronology of World History.
• Encyclopedia of Associations. Descriptions of 144,000 local, national and international nonprofit membership associations.
• Facts on File World News Digest. A digest of U.S. and international stories from 1980 to the present. Full text of news articles can be displayed.
• The Foreign Born Population in the United States. Summary of statistics from the Census of Population and Housing, 1990.
• MLA International Bibliography. Citations of articles, books, working papers, proceedings and bibliographies in the fields of literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Covers the period 1963 to the present.
• P.A.I.S. (Public Affairs Information Service). An index to policy-oriented literature in the social sciences. Includes journal articles, books, government documents as well as reports from national and international public, intergovernmental and private organizations.
• PsycLIT. Citations and abstracts of journal articles, chapters in books and books in psychology as well as behavioral information from sociology, linguistics, medicine, law, psychiatry and anthropology.
• SIRS Government Reporter. Five databases cover information by and about the federal government. Includes government documents, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, selected historic documents and speeches in full text and directories of federal departments, agencies and members of Congress.

CD-ROMs -- Restricted Access (Request these at the Information Desk)

• Census of Population and housing (1990). Public Law 94-171 Data (No NY or CA). Population and housing tabulations down to the census block level.
• Census of  St. Louis City, East Central Missouri and Eastern Washington (1988 Dress Rehearsal). Count of persons, cross tabulations by race and a count of housing units down to the census block level.
• County Business Patterns (1987 and l988). Data on the total number of establishments, payroll and number of establishments by employment-size classes for all businesses of one or more paid employees.
• DiscLIT. Databases of selections from: Twayne's United States Authors Series and the OCLC union catalog. The book file contains the full text of 143 books from the colonial era to the present. The catalog file pulls together thousands of records pertaining to the authors and their works covered in the book unit.
• Economic Censuses, v. 1 and 2. Information on retail and wholesale trade; service industries, transportation, manufacturers and zip code statistics.
• Encarta '95. A comprehensive and current information-nation multimedia resource with text, photos and illustrations, sound and videos. A special feature is a timeline of world history.
• New Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia. A comprehensive general encyclopedia covering humanities, the arts, science and technology, social science, geography, sports and contemporary life.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook. A source to find information about jobs, e.g. working conditions, qualifications needed, earnings and other factors which will affect the world of work in the future.
• REIS: Regional Economic Information System. Data for 3,107 counties and 337 metropolitan areas from 1969 to 1989. Includes personal income by major source, per capita income, employment and earnings, and regional economic profiles.
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (1994). A summary of the most important social, political and economic statistics and a guide to other statistical publications and sources.

Biological Abstracts, 1993 to the present Enables researchers and students to retrieve references to research reported in life sciences journals. Nearly 6,000 international journals are monitored for inclusion. Most references include abstracts.

INSPEC, 1989 to the present Contains citations, with abstracts to the worldwide literature in physics,electronics and electrical engineering,computers and control, and information technology. Sources include journals, conference proceedings, books, and reports.

Medline, 1966 to the present Citations and abstracts to worldwide biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services. References articles from about 3,400 journals published in 70 countries. Also covers chapters and articles from selected monographs.

Science Citation Index, 1992 to the present The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) publishes the Science Citation Index, which provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references. In addition to traditional search methods, this database permits searches by cited references. The Science Citation Index covers approximately 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals in a broad range of disciplines.

Revised 4/25/200