Databases/Indexes

For a comprehensive list and off-campus access, go to the Hunter College Libraries Home Page and link to Databases (http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases).

Scholarly Sources

Popular & Secondary Sources

Electronic Texts

Scholarly Sources: articles in journals or books or primary sources

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)                                                               Full Text
    The most multi-disciplinary and general full-text periodicals database. Contains the full text of
    approx. 3,500 journals, with indexing going back to the mid 1970's on some titles. Updated
    daily.

Humanities Abstracts (1984 - present)
    Index to English-language periodicals in the humanities, including art, communications, dance,
    film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy
    and religion.

Project Muse                                                                                                    Full Text
    An online collection of full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other
    university presses.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - LLBA  
    Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts indexes and abstracts journals and other
    publications in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language including phonetics,
    phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)                                                                    Full Text
    Full text, fully searchable version of the OED, with 1000 new entries, updated quarterly.

Papers First
    Index of papers presented at meetings worldwide.

Proceedings First
    Index of worldwide conference proceedings.

Essay and General Literature Index  
    An index to essays and articles in collections and miscellaneous works from 1985 to present.
    Previous years are available in print at Reference, 4th floor, Main Library

WorldCat
    Bibliographic catalog of books, periodicals, cd-roms, videos, archival materials and photographs
    published worldwide.

Popular & Secondary Sources: magazines or newspapers or reference sources

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)                                                               Full Text
    The most multi-disciplinary and general full-text periodicals database. Contains the full text of
    approx. 3,500 journals, with indexing going back to the mid 1970's on some titles. Updated
    daily.

InfoTrac Literature Resource Center/MLA                                                 Full Text
    Full text database of literary criticism, and bibliographies and biographies of major writers, with
    links to other web resources.

Readers Guide Abstracts (1983 - present)
    Comprehensive general index to popular general-interest periodicals published in the United
    States and Canada.

Readers Guide Retrospective
    Comprehensive general index to popular general-interest periodicals published in the United 
    States and Canada.

Facts on File World News Digest/World Almanac                                     Full Text
    Full-text of more than 60 years of Facts on File's World News Digest, updated weekly, plus an
    electronic version of the World Almanac.

Alt-Press Watch                                                                                           Full Text
    Full-text of alternative and independent newspapers, magazines and newsletters, beginning 1995.
    Updated monthly.

Ethnic Newswatch                                                                                        Full Text
    Full-text of American newspapers and magazines from the ethnic, minority and Native press.
    Available in both English and Spanish.

GenderWatch                                                                                               Full Text
    Full-text periodical articles that focus on how gender impacts on a broad spectrum of subject
    areas.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center                                                     Full Text
    Full text articles from magazines and newspapers representing pros and con opinions on
    controversial topics and current events.

CQ Electronic Library                                                                                Full Text
    Six full-text databases from Congressional Quarterly: CQ Weekly Web, CQ Public Affairs
    Collection, CQ Supreme Court Collection, CQ Insider, CQ Electronic Encyclopedia of
    American Government, and the CQ Researcher.

Britannica Online                                                                                        Full Text
    The electronic version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, with web links.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia                                             Full Text
    Very brief encyclopedia entries on over 25,000 topics.

Biography Resource Center                                                                      Full Text
    Full text biographies on approx. 220,000 people from published biographical reference works
    and magazines, with web links.

Biography Index (1983 - present)
    An index to biographical material in periodicals and books beginning with 1984.  Previous years
    are available in print at Reference, 4th floor, Main Libary.

Book Review Digest (1983 - present)
    Index to book reviews in periodicals from 1983 to present. Includes some full-text, some
    abstracts and some excerpts.  Previous years are available in print at Reference, 4th floor, Main
    Library

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry                                                          Full Text
    The source for locating a poem in anthologies; contains full-text public domain poems,
    commentary and biographies.

Electronic Texts: e-journals and e-books and CD-ROM databases

Electronic Journals
    Link to the Hunter College Libraries Home Page list of available e-journals

JSTOR
    Full text of scholarly journals in arts and science, business and economics, language and literature,
    humanities, and social sciences. Current journals are not entered into the database for 2 to 5
    years. Searchable by topic or by journal name.

NetLibrary
    A selected collection of full-text electronic books. Netlibrary requires each user to register (on
    campus) before checking out titles.

Black Studies on Disc
    The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture CD-ROM database available at
    Reference, 4th floor, Main Library.

Gale's Quotations
    Index (with some full text) to quotations on CD-ROM available at Reference, 4th floor, Main
    Library.

WordCruncher
    Texts of literature with textual analysis program on CD-ROM available at Reference, 4th floor,
    Main Library.