CUNY Libraries license this core set of E-Resources and A-Z journals for all current students, faculty, and staff.
These databases are your best bets for finding peer-reviewed, scholarly content relevant to your topics.
CUNY OneSearch: Search for books, e-books, peer-reviewed articles, streaming videos, and other digital content across all CUNY libraries and databases from a single interface.
Academic Search Complete: Access to articles from magazines and peer-reviewed journals, as well as books, conference papers and proceedings, and educational reports from almost all academic areas of study.
APA PsycINFO: This is the American Psychological Association's premier database. It is essential for any psychology research, providing citations and abstracts to scholarly articles, books, dissertations, and more. Use this to find seminal works and the latest research in your field.
Criminal Justice Database: A ProQuest database specifically for criminal justice and criminology. It is an excellent source for articles on law enforcement response, criminal court proceedings, and sentencing.
ProQuest databases: This is a vast, multidisciplinary database that includes all of ProQuest's other specialized databases (including the Criminal Justice and Psychology databases). It's a great place to start a broad search, as you'll find a wide variety of articles, dissertations, and news content.
ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection: Another ProQuest offering, this database focuses on the social sciences. It will be helpful for research on topics like the social impacts of domestic abuse, family dynamics, and gender studies.
Sage Journals: Provides full-text access to many journals published by SAGE, a leading academic publisher in the social sciences. This is a valuable resource for those seeking journals in sociology, criminology, and psychology.
Social Services Abstracts: Accesses journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, and current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage from 1980 to the present.
HeinOnline & Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic): For topics involving family courts, laws, or legal precedents, these legal databases are invaluable. They provide access to court cases, statutes, law reviews, and legal jo