All Library Databases



Alphabetical list of databases
Regional Business News

Covers regional business news in metro and rural areas within the United States.

Access level: CUNY
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Research Forensic Library

a curated collection of publicly-accessible material relating to forensic sciences.  Based at Florida International University.

Access level: Freely available to the public
Roper Ipoll

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, currently located at Cornell University, is an archive of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys.

Access level: John Jay
Sage Journals
Sage Knowledge Collection

Hundreds  of ebooks and subject encyclopedias, including major titles in criminal justice, research methods, psychology, and social issues from Sage and CQ Press.

Access level: John Jay
OneSearch
Sage Reference & Academic Books

Provides access to thousands of titles from world-class authors. Carefully selected works include academic and supplementary titles that contribute to students' and researchers' knowledge bases, foundational books in core areas of research and debate, accessible reference works, and practical professional titles.

Access level: John Jay
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Sage Research Methods

Supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. From a quick dictionary definition, a case study example from a researcher in the field, a downloadable teaching dataset, a full-text title from the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series, or a video tutorial showing research in action, this is the ultimate methods library for anyone planning or conducting a research project.

Access level: John Jay
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SAGE Research Methods Videos

Includes over 400  tutorials, interviews, video case studies, and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process. You can search videos by method; by discipline (criminology, economics, sociology, etc.); or by video type (i.e. interview, tutorial, case studies, etc.).

Access level: John Jay
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Scholastic (formerly Grolier Online)

Contains the Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge. (from NOVELny)

Access level: CUNY
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Science (AAAS publication)

Weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. With other journals from AAAS.

Access level: CUNY
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Science Direct

Access to journals in the sciences and social sciences.

Access level: CUNY
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Science in Context

Full text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

Access level: John Jay
Access level: CUNY
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SCOPUS

Abstract and citation database to peer-reviewed journal titles from international publishers in science, technology, social science and medicine. Results can be refined by author affiliation, funding source, and more. Coverage from the 1960's to the present. 

When searching OneSearch  using your CUNYfirst login credentials to include this database in your search.

Access level: John Jay
OneSearch Tech fee
Serials Directory

Provides access to bibliographic information and pricing for popular serials.Contains nearly 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from more than 108,000 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications.

Access level: CUNY
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Shepard's Citations

Search for cited cases and check the validity of a citation.


Available only through NexisUni. Go to case to find Shepherd's Citations.

Access level: CUNY
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery

Includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.

Access level: CUNY
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Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law

Brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Much of the non-legal material in this collection is based on the holdings of the Buffalo Public Library. Its rare book collection contains hundreds of nineteenth century pamphlets and books on slavery.  A quick reference guide on how to ue this collection can be found at  https://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/SlaveryQRG.pdf

Access level: Freely available to the public
SocArXiv

SocArXiv is a free and publicly accessible platform for social scientists to upload working papers, pre-prints, published papers, data, and code.

Access level: Freely available to the public
Social Explorer

Displays interactive maps of U.S. Census data going back to 1790, U.S. election data, U.S. crime data (FBI/UCR), World Development Indicators, and more.

Access level: CUNY
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Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)

Compilation of  ProQuest collections in the social sciences with deep coverage of sociology, politics (including PAIS International), criminal justice, education (including ERIC), and linguistics. Provides abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more.

Access level: John Jay
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