New York Society Library

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES:


The Library is pleased to offer in-house and remote access to several online membership databases. If you are a current member of the library and wish to access these databases from home, you will need to know your user name and barcode. Please contact Ingrid Richter at systems@nysoclib.org for more information.

 

 
AMERICAN BOOK PRICES CURRENT
 
NYSL:  American Book Prices Current

 
American Book Prices Current is an annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction.

AMERICAN FOUNDING ERA COLLECTION
 
NYSL:  American Founding Era Collection

 
Rotunda's American Founding Era Collection is your gateway into one of the great conversations in history. These newly prepared digital editions of the papers of many of the major figures of the early republic are presented in a fully searchable and interoperable online environment.

AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
 
NYSL:  American National Biography

 
American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. More than a decade in preparation, the American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than sixty years.

HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES
NYSL:  Historical Statistics of the United States

 
This thoroughly revised five-volume reference work, available both in print and electronic editions, reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.

JSTOR: JOURNAL STORAGE
 
NYSL:  JSTOR - Journal Storage

 
Originally conceived as a project at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate shelf space for the long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
 
NYSL:  New York Review of Books

 
The New York Times has called The New York Review of Books "the country's most successful intellectual journal." According to the Times, "The secret of its success is this: its editors' ability to get remarkable writers and thinkers, many of them specialists in their fields, to write lucidly for lay readers on an enormous range of complex, scholarly and newly emerging subjects, issues and ideas."

OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
 
NYSL: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

 
The Oxford DNB is a collection of 55,000 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond. It is the first point of reference for anyone interested in the people who left their mark on the history of the British Isles.

OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
 
NYSL: Oxford English Dictionary

 
Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE
 
NYSL: Oxford Reference Online

 
Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. books.

PATRON BOOKS IN PRINT
 
NYSL:  Patron Books in Print

 
Books In Print has access to over 6.1 million U.S. book, audio book and video titles -- making it the industry's largest bibliographic database. Patron Books In Print features the Books In Print database in a user-friendly format, complete with patron-specific features and enhancements.

PROJECT MUSE
 
NYSL:  Project MUSE

 
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 380 high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.

PROQUEST NEW YORK TIMES ARCHIVES
 

NYSL:  Proquest

 
Comprehensive digital coverage of the New York Times back to 1980 is available through the ProQuest New York Times Archives. Through ProQuest Historical Newspapers, you can get complete page images of The New York Times from 2003 dating back to the first issue in 1851.

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
 
NYSL: Times Literary Supplement

 
The back numbers of The Times Literary Supplement are among the prime sources of twentieth-century British cultural history. With the TLS, subscribers can access by a book's title or author, or under listed subject-headings.

WILSONWEB READERS' GUIDE FULL TEXT
 
NYSL: Reader's Guide Full Text

 
Readers' Guide Full Text is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.

 

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