All Library Databases



Alphabetical list of databases
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
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials
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
OneSearch
Social Sciences Full Text

Provides accesses to journals in anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies from 1983 to the present and indexes material from 1929 to 1983.

Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials OneSearch
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.

Access level: John Jay
OneSearch
SocINDEX with Full Text

Contains core coverage journals dating back to 1895, and some priority coverage journals. Also includes full text for many books, monographs, and conference papers.

Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials OneSearch
Sociological Abstracts

Scholarly articles, books, and dissertations in sociology and subdisciplines. Coverage from 1952 to the present.

Access level: John Jay
Something About the Author (Gale)

Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators.

Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials OneSearch
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online

Statistics from the current Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics with ongoing updates and the archive back to 1994. The print version is available at the Reference Desk.

Springerlink Online

Hundreds of scholarly journals and Ebooks published by Springer (or formerly by Palgrave), as well as online Reference books--not all indexed Ebooks are available fulltext. Coverage from 1997 to the present.

Access level: CUNY
Alternate access via CUNY login credentials OneSearch
SSRN

Very large, well established repository of social science (and other) academic papers.  It was founded in 1994 as an open repository, but bought in 2017 by a for-profit publisher, Elsevier.  The vast majority of the papers hosted on the site are free to download. 

Access level: Freely available to the public
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Entries are maintained and kept up to date by experts in the field. Access is unlimited and free to everyone.

Access level: Freely available to the public
State Legislation Aggregator Search Sites

These freely available websites aggregate state legislative information, providing a more uniform and user-friendly search experience and the ability to compare legislative activities across the states.

  1. Openstates.org
  2. Legiscan.com  
  3. BillTrack50.com (must register, but it is free)
Access level: Freely available to the public
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.  Current print edition of ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is available at the reference desk -- HA 202.A5.   

 

 
Access level: John Jay
STATSnetBASE

This collection of 400 reference books in statistics, is included in search results on the Taylor and Francis platform.

Note:  It is no longer possible to limit your search to just this collection.

Access level: John Jay
OneSearch
Supreme Court Database (NSF)

Provides legal scholars with extensive data, like background issues, reasons for acceptance, chronology, outcome impacts, and judge's opinions, for Supreme Court Cases since 1953. Funded by the National Science Foundation.

Access level: Freely available to the public
SUR, 1931-1992

Archival collection of one of the most important and influential Spanish language literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century. Includes images of the complete magazine, including covers, photographs and advertisements, a comprehensive electronic index, a set of images of manuscripts from the first issue and an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.

Access level: John Jay
Swank Motion Pictures

Feature films requested by faculty for curriculum support. Viewable by everyone with a John Jay email address but please note our licenses permit individual or course use only.  Most of the films are from the big Hollywood studios, or overseas equivalent.  

Access level: John Jay
Tech fee
Tax Break Tracker

Tax Break Tracker contains disclosures from the 50 states plus DC, the five most populous cities, counties, and school districts within each state, and select other jurisdictions. Data include the jurisdiction affected, the jurisdiction-awarding abatement, its legal authority to do so, name of the abatement program, type of abatement program, and amount of taxes abated for that fiscal year. 

Corporate tax breaks cause cities, counties, and school districts to lose tax revenue that could have been better spent improving public services.

Access level: Freely available to the public
Taylor & Francis ebooks

Use this platform to search all  Taylor and Francis ebook content including the CRCnetBase database collections at one time; FORENSICnetBASE; InfoSECURITYnetBASE; AND STATSnetBASE

Access level: John Jay
OneSearch Tech fee