This A-Z list provides access to the core electronic resources licensed by the Office of Library Services for all CUNY institutions. For journal-specific searches, users may access BrowZine.
Additional resources are available through local CUNY library websites for those with campus affiliations.
Users will need to authenticate with CUNY Login credentials when accessing these resources remotely.
Please note: Remote access to The Chronicle of Philanthropy will be temporarily unavailable from October 21, 2025, through January 1, 2026. On-campus access remains available. See the database page for alternative access instructions.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education provides comprehensive coverage of news, trends, and issues affecting colleges and universities. Founded in 1966, this trusted resource offers independent journalism, data-driven insights, and analysis on topics including academic careers, teaching strategies, institutional leadership, and policy developments, serving as an essential information source for educators, administrators, and higher education professionals.
ProQuest Ebook Central provides an extensive collection of over 700,000 scholarly ebooks from leading academic publishers across all disciplines. The regularly updated content includes university press titles, specialized academic texts, and curriculum-aligned materials that support diverse research needs from undergraduate to graduate level studies.
JSTOR is a comprehensive digital library providing access to scholarly journals, books, images, and primary sources across multiple disciplines. CUNY's subscription includes the Arts and Sciences collections, featuring full-text content in the humanities and social sciences from the first issue of most journals through to within approximately five years of the present.
The New York Times provides digital access to global news, information, and analysis across politics, business, culture, and more. This comprehensive resource includes content from the print edition plus exclusive digital features such as multimedia content, personalized newsletters, mobile apps, podcasts, and video coverage, supporting research and curriculum integration across academic disciplines. Please read the instructions for signing up for NYTimes Academic Pass.
The Wall Street Journal provides digital access to global business, financial, and general news content from one of the world's leading news organizations. This comprehensive resource includes full access to WSJ.com, mobile apps, newsletters, podcasts, and video content, supporting student research, career preparation, and curriculum integration across disciplines. Please read the instructions for signing up for WSJ Academic Pass.
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Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective is an archive of citations covering the history of business and industry between 1913 and 1983. It contains millions of records offering a rich account of technological advances, business strategies, company profiles, iconic executives and scientists and more.
Contains reference books from top educational publishers and presses. This encompasses a rich selection of biographic titles, covering popular and important figures in business, film, history, music, politics, sports and more.
Collecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this archive database provides over a million book review citations from 1903 to 1982. It covers adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction and provides at least one review excerpt per book. It includes at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words) per book. Book reviewers are searchable by name, with excerpts by such famous writers as Edmund Wilson and John Updike.
Education Index Retrospective: 1929 -1983 is an archive index chronicling over a half a century of important education literature. It covers societal trends affecting education, including segregation, multiculturalism, feminism, economic developments and more. It contains both historical and updated subject headings, ensuring that researchers using either old or new search terms will obtain all the information on that subject. Original subject headings offer insight into how the topics were once framed.
This resource provides comprehensive full-text searchable access to America's newspaper of record beginning in 1985, extending far beyond traditional newspaper content to include the digital edition, the prestigious New York Times Book Review, educational materials through The New York Times for Kids and New York Times Upfront, the acclaimed New York Times Magazine, targeted newsletters, multimedia video content, and an extensive array of subject-specific blogs covering sports, culture, chess, crosswords, and academic topics. Educational resources are particularly valuable through The Learning Network, which provides teaching materials that leverage Times content for classroom use, while the full-text search capability makes this an invaluable tool for scholarly research, literature reviews, and coursework requiring extensive newspaper analysis and content tracking across nearly four decades of authoritative American and international reporting.
This collection contains reference books from top educational publishers and presses. It encompasses a rich selection of titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects, including biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events and social-emotional health.
This resource contains reference books from top educational publishers and university presses. This encompasses a rich selection of titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects, including biography, history, architecture, literature, cooking, health and wellness, science, self-help, religion, current events, sports, travel and more.
Sage Reference and Academic Books has scholarly eBooks, professional development materials, and reference works such as encyclopedias and handbooks. The collection is particularly strong in the social sciences.
A collection of over 1,200 ebooks, plus multi-media resources that all address how to preform research in a wide variety of disciplines in the social sciences. Materials cover both quantitative and qualitative research. Books address using statistics in all fields. Particularly strong coverage in business, education, sociology, and surveying methodologies.
The Serials Directory is an indispensable resource for anyone needing serials information such as e-mail and Internet address, language, publication frequency, ISSN, Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal Classification and more.
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