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Full-Text Academic Search Premier [EBSCOhost]
Provides full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. 
Full-Text Academic Universe [see Lexis-Nexis]
AP Images
Electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. 
ACLS Humanitites E-Book 
Digital collection of over 1,700 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.
Full-Text African American Studies Center (AASC) Online! [Oxford]    
AASC features the new Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, African American National Biography project, scheduled for publication in 2008; and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture, due for publication 2007. AASC also features the three-volume Black Women in America, Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience.
AgeLine(free)
Abstracts of social gerontology and aging-related articles, books, and reports.
AGRICOLA (from the National Agricultural Library)
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
Indexes articles, books, and government publications in the area of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, rural sociology, and earth and environmental sciences.
AIDSearch
Subject index to HIV and AIDS research. Free Registration required to search database.
America:History & Life [EBSCO]    
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. 
Full-Text American Chemical Society
Web editions of American Chemical Society journals. Over 30 full-text journals and ACS Archives back to 1879. 
American FactFinder [free]
Search, browse, retrieve, view, map, print, and download Census data. 
Anthropological Index online
Searches journal articles from the British Library's catalog. Click on "Quick Search" or "Full Search"
APA Style Guide to Electronic References
This guide is a revised and updated version of section 4.16 of the fifth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, pp. 268–281).
AnthroSource
Produced by the American Anthropological Association.
Applied & Technology Science Index [H.W. Wilson]
A bibliographic database, covers trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings.
ARTFL Project
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.
Art Full Text [H.W. Wilson]
A bibliographic database that indexes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well published throughout the world.
Full-Text Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, IV, and the Arts & Sciences Complement from JSTOR [see JSTOR]
JSTOR'  Arts & Science is a multi-disciplinary collection containing 359 journal titles in disciplines such as History, Economics, Asian Studies, Classics, Archeology, Ecology, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population, Sociology, and Statistics as well as core titles in African, Latin American, Slavic, and Middle Eastern studies.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901)
Collects phrases and proverbs from sources as far back as the ancient world, but nothing from the twentieth century here.
Black Thought and Culture [Alexander Press]
Contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.
Biography Reference Bank [H. W. Wilson]
A bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
Book Review Digest Plus [H.W. Wilson]
A bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Periodical coverage includes leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain.
Books In Print Online [Bowker]
Includes Books In Print database of US titles, Books Out-of-Print, publisher database, and video and cassette directories. It has over 3.5 million title records, 165,000 records on publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents, and over 500,000 full-text reviews 
Britannica Online
Bronx Business for Everybody 
Web site containing digitized photographs, articles, and minutes from the Bronx Chamber of Commerce Collection in the Special Collection Division of Lehman College Library (A Digital METRO New York project, 2006). 
Full-Text Business and Company Resource Center [Gale]
Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to fine detailed company and industry news and information. 
Full-Text Business Source Premier [EBSCOhost]
Provides full text 2,260 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. 
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Cares Database [Free]
A compilation of detailed information on over 2,469 agencies, 15,050 programs and 7,042 location sites.  Search for agencies using categories such as Program Type, Target Group, Borough, Zip Code, and Language.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Coverage: July 1976 - present.
Contains records for and links to print and electronic government documents. 

CCH Internet Tax Research Network [Ask at Reference Desk for password and ID]
Tax research resources including CCH Standard Federal Income Tax Reporter, access to tax cases, and tax news. 
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Child Abuse and Neglect Index
Subject index. Free Registration required to search database.
Child Welfare Information Gateway 
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which provides access to print and electronic publications, websites, and online databases covering a wide range of topics.
Children's Literature Database 
Beyond providing comprehensive reviews of children's literature, this site also provides useful feature stories, links to events, related literature sites, awards and prizes.

CIAO 
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature  [EBSCOhost]
CINAHL contains citations and abstracts to nursing and allied health journals, books, and book chapters from 1983 to the present. Beginning in 1994, it also indexes audiovisual, full-text pamphlets and nursing dissertations. Subjects covered include nursing, health education, social service in health care, occupational therapy, and related fields. 
Full-Text CINAHL Plus Full Text  [EBSCOhost]
Source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 620 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 305 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Nursing & Allied Health Collection. 
Classical Music Library 
World's largest multi-label database of recordings for listening and learning in libraries.
Classical Scores Library 
Contains 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 scores.
Full-Text Clinical Reference Systems [EBSCOhost]
Clinical Reference Systems (included in CINAHL) provides a comprehensive list of medical information for researchers, covering nine major health related subjects including: adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, eye, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine. In addition, to the Spanish records that have been added to the Clinical Reference Systems database, cross-linking between related English and Spanish records is now available.
Cochrane Library
Contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, brings the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.
Columbia Encyclopedia
The Columbia Encyclopedia contains nearly 51,000 entries and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references 
Full-Text Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides  research in areas related to communication and mass media. 
Full-Text Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection 
Mass communication, media studies, written communication 
Community of Science (COS) 
Global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines. 
Full-Text Contemporary Women's Issues
A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. 
Country Studies
Information about countries world-wide from the Library of Congress, updated from their printed publications.
County and City Data Books (GEOSTAT)
Contains the online version of the 1988 and 1994 Data Books.
Full-Text CQ Researcher
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. The CQ Researcher web site offers online access to issues dating back to October 25, 1991. PDF files are available for full issues dating back to January 1996; for issues published since January 2001, PDF files are in color.  
CQ Weekly
Coverage: 1983-Present CQ Weekly is a weekly report on congressional activities and news, including the status of bills; committee and floor activity; debates; and roll-call votes.
Full-Text Custom Newspapers [Gale Group Databases]
Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international. 
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Full-Text Digital Preservation of Publishing in Irish-America (DPPIA)
This digital archive, created by the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies, contains over 70 digitized, full text books published in the US between 1820 and 1922. This archive of Irish-American publications also includes a separate digital image bank (maps, landscapes, portraits, documents, architecture and line art) that links to the full text books.
Full-Text Directory of Open Access Journals
Contains free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals that aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are over 1000 journals in the directory.
Dissertation Abstracts [FirstSearch]
Dissertations from U.S., Canada, Great Britain and Europe, and Masters theses from U.S. Includes dissertations from 1881 to present with abstracts since 1980. Masters theses and abstracts are from 1988 to present. 
Full-Text Duke University Journals
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Full-Text EBSCO Animals [EBSCOhost]
The Encyclopedia of Animals, a full-text database with 2,200 entries with pictures about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and dinosaurs. 
Full-Text EBRARY
Make sure to download the ebrary Reader if it’s not already installed on your machine. Ebrary Reader is a browser plug-in that works with your browser. It lets you view the actual pages of a book or other document, search the full text, print selected pages, and link to a variety of reference sites to get more information. Ebrary Reader is available for a variety of browsers on both Windows and Macintosh computers.
Note:Access to your Personal ebrary Bookshelf (Bookmarks, Highlights, and Notes) is available only on-campus.
To find out more about ebrary Reader click here.
EBSCOHost EJS (Electronic Journals Services)
Econlit [EBSCOhost]
Indexes and abstracts more than 450 international economic journals. Its source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. The subjects covered include accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, planning, and much more. Coverage: 1969-present. 
Full-Text Education: A Sage Full-Text Collection
Full-Text Education Full-Text [H. W. Wilson]
Provides comprehensive indexing of an international range of English-language, education-related periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks as far back as 1983.  The full text is available online for many articles dating from 1996 to the present.
Education Resources Information Center
This database contains over 100,000 unpublished documents from 1993 forward and they are online for free.  Materials not freely provided, but which ERIC indexes, will be linked to commercial sources.  Digests will no longer be produced.  The full text of many educational journal articles may be found on ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center (EBSCO),  or Education Full-Text [H. W. Wilson]
Education Statistics at a Glance
From the Digest of Education Statistics with full text of several sources.
NEW Earthscape
Columbia earthscape is a comprehensive aggregation of resources in the Earth and Environmental Sciences with full text of several sources.
Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend
Lehman College is hosting an American Library Assn. traveling exhibit of this name, (from Aug. 23 – Oct. 6, 2006) which is based on the original exhibit appearing at the Newberry Library in Chicago. The exhibit is represented with photographic reproductions on a series of panels. This web site is an excellent introduction to:  the life and reign of Elizabeth I, with suggested music, films and readings.  Linked websites cover: the Tudors; Elizabethan art, literature, and music; the Renaissance; exploration; food and gardens; and includes a children’s exhibit guide, and curriculum materials.
Full-Text ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center (EBSCO)
Contains citations, abstracts, and many full-text articles from over 980 educational and education-related journals. 
Elsevier ScienceDirect, see ScienceDirect 
Essay and General Literature [H. W. Wilson]
Indexes essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
Full-Text Ethnic NewsWatch [ProQuest]
SoftLine's Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Coverage: 1990-present. 
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Film Literature Index
Indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular.
Full-Text Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia [EBSCOhost]
Meets the research needs of elementary, middle and high schools students. 
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Gale Literary Index [Gale]
Master index to the major literature resources published by Gale.
Gale Virtual Reference Library [Gale]
A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Gartner Group Publications [H. W. Wilson]
Access to database only through CUNY portal.
General Science Full Text [H. W. Wilson]
A bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Index also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Subjects covered: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology.
Full-Text General Science Collection [EBSCO]
Offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications. Providing information on all aspects of the scientific world, the General Science Collection offers full text information dating back as far as 1992.
Green FILE [EBSCO]
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
Full-Text Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide
Six volumes on major interdisciplinary subjects of a global scale relating to children. Each volume covers a region of the world: Asia and Oceania, Central and South America, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, North America and the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa. 
Full-Text Grove Art
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001).
Full-Text Grove Music Online
Includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition.
Google Scholar
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) [OVID]
HAPI provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Full-Text Health Reference Center Academic [Gale]
InfoTrac's Health Reference Center-Academic: covers Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Alcohol and Drug abuse. Coverage: 1980-present. 
Full-Text Health Science: A Sage Full-Text Collection
Full-Text Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition [EBSCOhost]
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 550 journals. 
Full-Text HighWire
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many of the citations are linked to full text.
Historical Abstracts [EBSCO]  
1954 - present. Guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America:History and Life). 
 

Historical Statistics of the United States (electronic resource): colonial times to 1970
part I
part II

 
Full-Text Humanities E-Book Project [ACLS]
Digital collection of over 1,700 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.
Humanities Full Text [H. W. Wilson]
Indexes and abstracts articles from 400 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art, dance, drama, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism and communications, music and performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
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In the First Person [Alexander Street]
Provides index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives.
IndexMaster [Legal Research]
Provides index and table of contents information for thousands of treatises and other secondary sources of legal information.
Full-Text Informe [Gale Group Databases]
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
This database provides access to the full-text of articles in Spanish covering a wide range of topics, including business, health, politics, and popular culture. Though a small percentage of the articles are in English, a search on an English term will NOT retrieve Spanish-language articles.
Full-Text InfoShare
InfoShare brings together dozens of local, state and federal databases describing population, socio-economic and health conditions. It gives this information for a variety of geographic areas, allowing for profiling and comparisons of areas of your choosing. 
Full-Text Ingenta (Note - Not all Ingenta indexed journals are available in full text)
Free searching and browsing of more than 25,000 publications. 
Full-Text International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale. It is the largest reference work ever published for the social and behavioral sciences and the first to appear in both print and electronic formats.
Internet Movie Database
Contains information about actors, actresses, directors, producers, designers, etc., for thousands of films from the earliest through the most recent.
Full-Text Institute of Physics Journals (IOP)
Full-Text ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
Campus contact representative: Prof. Bill Bosworth, tel.718-960-8465, email: bosworth@lehman.cuny.edu  
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Full-Text JSTOR
The Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, IV, and the Arts & Sciences Complement comprising titles from the following disciplines: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population/Demography, Sociology, and Statistics.(see Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, IV, and the Arts & Sciences Complement from JSTOR)

 Language & Literature Collection incorporates 47 journals. (see Language and Literature Collection from JSTOR)
Full-Text Junior Edition - K-12
Designed for students in middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, etc. Tool Box section gives guides to writing papers and including graphs and images in papers. 
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Full-Text Kluwer (new name SpringerLink)
Kluwer Online Journals provide electronic access to the tables of content, abstracts and full-text articles from more than 200 journals in subjects including science, technology, humanities and law of the most respected scholarship in the world.  
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Law Library Microfilm Collection Digital (LLMC)
Collection of legal literature and government documents. 
Full-Text Language & Literature Collection from JSTOR [see JSTOR]
Containing a total of 47 journals, the Language & Literature Collection adds nearly 1.4 million new pages to the JSTOR archive. This collection is unique in both scope and content. The journals span the literary cultures of many different countries, and contain articles in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and Russian. Through this collection, users can also gain insight into the interests of literary scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
Full-Text Learn-A-Test (Learning Express)
LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
Legal Resources from FindLaw
Available to all users. Laws and cases, law schools, law reviews, exams, business law, etc.
Lesson Plans - The Gateway (Website)
The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
Lesson Plans - The Educator's Reference Desk (Website)
This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world. These lesson plans are also included in the Gateway to Educational Materials which links to over 25,000 online education resources.
Full-Text Lexis-Nexis -
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
Try Lexis/Nexis Academic "Overview" or other Interactive Tutorials to improve your searching skills.
NOTE: When accessing Lexis-Nexis from off-campus, you will need to enter your 14-digit Library ID number from your Lehman ID Card. 
Full-Text Library Literature and Information Science  [H. W. Wilson]
English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, library school theses and book reviews. Database Description: Library Literature indexes. Subjects covered: Automation, Care and Restoration of Books, Cataloging, Censorship, Children's Literature, Circulation Procedures, Classification, Copyright Legislation, Electronic Searching, Indexing, Internet Software, Library Associations & Conferences, Preservation of Materials, Public Relations, Publishing, Web Sites.
Full-Text Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
Formerly Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA). 149 ISTA titles are upgraded to Core coverage, and 121 new periodicals are included. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts [CSA]
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Coverage:1973-present
Full-Text Literature Resource Center [Gale]
The Literature Resource Center provides researchers access to biographical, bibliographical and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literacy Criticism Select, and the MLA International Bibliography databases. Also available are more than 285,000 full-text journal articles, 38,000 critical essays, 122,000 author biographies, and the Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. 
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Full-Text The Making of the Modern World [Gale]
"The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
Full-Text Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Full-Text MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for nearly 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. Provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 237 full text reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Full-Text MasterFILE Premier [EBSCOhost]
Information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health and multi-cultural. Includes searchable full text for nearly 1,860 journals, including Consumer Reports and Business Week with full text dating as far back as January 1990. 
Full-Text MasterFILE Select [EBSCOhost]
Provides full text for more than 700 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984 for the subject area of general interest. Includes 36 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 276,622 photos, maps and flags. 
MathSciNet [American Mathematical Society]
Web editions of American Mathematical Society journals: 
Bulletin of the AMS, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, Electronic research Announcements, Journal of the AMS, Mathematics of Computation, Proceedings of the AMS, Representation Theory, Transactions of the AMS, Notices of the AMS
MedLine- see PubMed (free)
National Library of Medicine's (NLM) search service to access millions of citations in MEDLINE with links to participating on-line journals, and other related databases. 
MedlinePlus®
MedlinePlus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information for consumers from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other health-related organizations.
Full-Text MEDLINE with FullText with MeSH [EBSCOhost]
MEDLINE® w/MeSH provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses (MeSH) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. 
Full-Text Mental Measurements Yearbook [Ovid]
Includes consumer-oriented test reviews, provides evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.
Full-Text Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition (Free)
The Merck Manual, The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Second Home Edition, The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, The Merck Manual of Health & Aging, and The Merck Veterinary Manual are available on Merck's internet site at www.merck.com.
Full-Text Military and Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database covers full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals and indexes and abstracts for more than 400 titles. 
Full-Text MLA International Bibliography [Gale Group Databases]
    see Literature Resource Center[Gale]
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National Newspaper Index [Gale Group Databases]
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
Full-Text NetLib
Collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases.
Full-Text netLibrary
Provides access to a collection of e-books. NetLibrary user account must created on campus first before accessing off-campus.
Full-Text Nature
International weekly journal of science.
New York Public Library Resources
Additional databases like "Facts.com," "Books in Print," "World Book." You will need a NYPL library card to access databases remotely.
Full-Text New York State Newspapers [Gale Group Databases]
Full text access to Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, Buffalo News, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Times, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Syracuse Herald-American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Westchester Journal News.
Full-Text The New York Times (from Lexis-Nexis)
Search full-text back to June 1st, 1980, search abstracts from January 1st, 1969 to May 31st, 1980.
NOTE: When accessing Lexis-Nexis from off-campus, you will need to enter your 14-digit Library ID number from your Lehman ID Card. 
Full-Text New York Times Historical (ProQuest)
The New York Times (1851-1999) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Noah (New York Online Access to Health)
Consumer and practitioner health information in English and Spanish 
Full-Text Nursing Collection II: Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals (from OVID)
Nursing Collection II: Twenty online nursing journals. Every word is searchable, including references. Also gives access to “Similar” and “Cited Articles” in the Journals@OVID database.
Full-Text Nursing & Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
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Full-Text Occupational Outlook Handbook (Free)
Nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years. Use the A-Z index to browse occupations or use the search box to locate an occupation or topic.
Full-Text Online Books (Free)
This website contains FULL TEXT books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such on-line books.
Full-Text Opposing ViewPoints Resource Center
Provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles
Full-Text Oxford English Dictionary [Oxford University Press]
Guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of half a million words. 
Full-Text Oxford Reference Online [Oxford University Press]
This resource provides full-text access to 100+ separate reference works published by Oxford University Press. Subject areas covered: architecture, art, biology, business, classics, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, economics, English dictionaries and thesauruses, English language reference, food and nutrition, general resources, history, law, literature, mathematics, medicine, military history, modern languages, mythology and folklore, physical sciences, political science, performing arts, philosophy, religion, social sciences and theater. Complete title listing
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Full-Text PLoS Biology (Public Library of Science)
PLoS Biology is the premier open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science which features works in all areas of biological science,from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface with other disciplines.
Philosopher's Index[Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]
Bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews.
Full-Text Political Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Population Index (Free)
From Princeton provides citations only for publications.
Full-Text Pre-CINAHL [EBSCOhost]
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. 
Full-Text Primary Search [EBSCOhost]
Provides full text for over 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
Full-Text Professional Development Collection [EBSCOhost]
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
Full-Text Project MUSE
Offers nearly 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Full-Text PsycARTICLES[EBSCOhost]
This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 35,000 full-text articles from 49 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
PsycINFO [EBSCOhost]
Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals from over 50 countries. This database, provided by the American Psychological Association, also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present. 
Full-Text Psychology: A Sage Full-Text Collection
PubList
Database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals.
Full-Text PubMed (Free)
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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Readers' Guide Full Text Mega Edition [H. W. Wilson]
Covers popular, general interest magazines published in the United States and Canada. Coverage: 1983-present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective[H.W.Wilson]
Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years1890 through 1982. 
Full-Text Regional Business News [EBSCOhost]
Collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. This database contains the most recent (30 days) information from each of these wire sources.
RefWorks
Online Personal Database and Bibliography Creator. You will be asked to create a User Name and Password. With RefWorks you can create your own personal database by importing references from online databases. You can use these references in writing your papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. As a web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various platforms including Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. There is no fee for the use of this software as long as you are a student at the City University of New York. Click the logo for more information. Just make sure you sign in as a new user. 
Resources for College Libraries
This new web resource consists of a core list of more that 62,000 books and electronic resources in 58 subject areas. Users are able to create, edit and save lists that can be emailed or downloaded and printed.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature [EBSCOhost]
Provides abstracts of Music Literature, published by Rèpertoire International de Littèrature Musicale, New York, contains records in over 200 languages.
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Full-Text Science Direct  [Elsevier Science]
Access to 765 full-text journals covering scientific, technical and medical research. Click on "Browse" for lists of journals. Click on "Search" to search across journals. 
Full-Text Science Magazine  
The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
Full-Text SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar is the electronic version of "Chemical Abstracts". It is not a web based product, and can be accessed at Lehman College only through specific computers located in the Library (Reference area) and in the Bio Dept.. For more information about SciFinder Scholar and for instructions on downloading, contact Prof. Galina Letnikova at extension 7764 (e-mail at: galina.letnikova@lehman.cuny.edu)
For more information and user guide: http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/CENTRAL/resources.html
Before using SciFinder Scholar read License Agreement. After you are finished searching SciFinder Scholar, please log off to free the port for other users.
Full-Text Science Reference Center [EBSCOhost]
Contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Full-Text SCOPUS
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of  peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Full-Text Searchasaurus [EBSCOhost]
EBSCO's user search experience for elementary- to middle school-age users. Hot topics, a tutorial and context sensitive help are also available from this screen. 
Serials Directory [EBSCOhost]
Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.
Social Sciences Full Text [H. W. Wilson]
Selected scholarly periodicals in the social sciences (anthropology, political science, sociology, geography and economics, etc.) Coverage: 1983-present
Social Work Abstracts [Ovid]
The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 45,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
Full-Text SocINDEX with Full Text [EBSCO]
Features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 720 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
Full-Text Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Spelling Commission Report on the Future of Higher Education
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Teacher Reference center [EBSCOhost]
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.  
Full-Text Testing and Education Research Database [Thompson/Gale]
An interactive database that provides scholarship search, graduate program information, test information, complete e-book prep publications and on-line practice tests for the GRE, LSAT, MCAT, MAT, GMAT, NCLEX, Foreign Service Officer Program and other graduate admission and licensing examinations.
From HETS Virtual Plaza website click on "Testing & Education" link, select Lehman College, enter password "lehman1227".
Full-Text TOPICsearch [EBSCOhost]
Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. This current events database includes: 40,000 full text documents carefully selected by our staff of librarians and teachers 
Full-Text The Twayne Authors Series [Gale]
Online version of Twayne's U.S. Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors. It provides literary critical interpretation and discussion of nearly 600 authors and their works, as well as literary movements and genres.
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Ulrich's Periodicals Directory [Ulrich]
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory provides comprehensive and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription. It links to tables of contents, provides the ability to create annotated lists of periodicals, and has e-mail and download features. 
UnCover - see ingenta. 
U.S. Congressional Directory
Coverage 104th Congress from 1995-1996 - 107th for 2001-2002. Contains short biographies of members Congress and states other state, federal, and international officials.
U.S. Government Budget
Contains documents and spreadsheets from the latest.
U.S. Government Manual
Is the FULL TEXT online handbook for the Federal Government, and includes information on agencies, officials, programs, and organizations.
U.S. House of Representatives
Contains biographical information by name, by state, or by class, as well as committees, legislation histories, and more.
U.S. Senate
Contains biographical information by name, by state, or by class, as well as committees, legislation histories, and more.
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Full-Text Wiley Interscience Journals (see note)
Full-text online versions of approximately 100 journals subscribed to by CUNY libraries. 
WorldCat [FirstSearch]
Records of most U.S. libraries includes book, journals, media, etc. 
Full-Text Women and Social Movements  [Alexander Street]
74 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 2,200 documents, approximately 800 images, and almost 800 links to other websites.
Full-Text Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 [Free from Alexander Street]
The "Second Wave" and Beyond scholarly community is an innovative form of electronic communication and research that will bring together feminist thinkers, both scholars and activists.
Full-Text Women Working, 1800-1930 [Free from Harvard University Library]
Contains approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images of selected rare and historical books, institutional papers, personal papers, diaries, and photographs from Harvard's network of libraries, archives, and museums.
World Data Analyst [Encyclopedia Britannica]
Worldwide Political Science [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy
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Updated August 19, 2008