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Looking for resources outside SFC? The New York Public Library is an amazing public service for all SFC students to take advantage of.

You can find the full list of New York Public Library digital resources and databases on their website. Check out our recommended NYPL databases below

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NYPL Databases

Academic Search Premier Academic Search Premier

A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals


Psyc Info APA PsycARTICLES

From the American Psychological Association (APA), a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains searchable full-text articles from 80 journals published by the APA and 4 from allied organizations.
**NOTE: This database is only available at select NYPL locations (see the list of locations here).**


Psyc Info APA PsycINFO

PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. The sources include over 1,400 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally.
**NOTE: This database is only available at select NYPL locations (see the list of locations here).**


Academic Search Premier ARTstor

ARTstor is a nonprofit resource that provides access to more than one million images in the arts, architecture, and other fields in the humanities and sciences.


Academic Search Premier Business Source Premier (EBSCO)

Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.


Credo Reference Credo Reference

Credo Reference contains dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology and more!


Ebsco EBSCO Research Databases

Provides full-text coverage of periodicals, including newspapers, covering nearly all subjects.
**NOTE: This database is only available at select NYPL locations (see the list of locations here).**


Film and TV Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.


Hoovers Hoover's

Directory for company & industry information for 43,000 private & public companies, & 600 industries.
**NOTE: This database is only available in-person at the Thomas Yoseloff Business Center.**


JSTOR JSTOR

A searchable, digitized archive of major scholarly journals in many academic fields.
**NOTE: Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home.**


Library Literature and Information Science Library Literature and Information Science

Provides indexing and abstracting of nearly 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals, and full-text coverage of over 160 journals.


OED Oxford English Dictionary

Authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words in English from current speech to past usage.


Oxford Reference Online Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. Titles cover a wide range of humanities, social science, performing arts, and general reference subjects.


Rolling Stone Archive Rolling Stone Archive

The backfile of Rolling Stone, from its launch in 1967 to the present. One of the most influential magazines of the 20th Century, focused on rock and popular music journalism, as well as covering wider entertainment topics such as film and popular culture.


Psyc Info Science Magazine

International weekly science journal, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
**NOTE: This database is only available at select NYPL locations (see the list of locations here).**