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Finding Works in Translation What do Agatha Christie, William Shakespeare, Stephen King, Oscar Wilde, and Danielle Steele have in common?  According to UNESCO’s On […]

Digitization has revolutionized the way we do research. We can consult obscure sources from far flung repositories without traveling the globe to see the originals. And there are countless primary source […]

The Mina Rees Library offers access to scores of databases that contain primary sources.  Formats include manuscripts and archives, historical newspapers and magazines, comics, zines, government documents, maps, […]

A common misconception about library collections is that everything is online. Actually, however, although there are millions of digitized primary sources online and more content is added every day, the vast […]

Now that research has moved online for the foreseeable future, we’re all looking for electronic texts.  In normal times, the GC library provides access to thousands of e-books though assorted databases.

But no […]

“Alternative press” is a broad term for independent, non-corporate, non-mainstream newspapers and magazines, and publications from radical, anti-establishment, or counter-culture groups.  Alternative pres […]

Founded in 1949 as a cooperative of Midwest libraries, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has grown into an international consortium of more than 200 university, college, and independent research […]

If you’ve ever found yourself slogging through screen after screen of keyword search results wondering whether there might be a more efficient way to launch a research project, consider giving subject b […]

The highlight of the busman’s holiday portion of my recent trip to Ireland was a stop at the greenest, most sustainability-conscious library I’ve ever encountered, the Boole Library at University College Cor […]

In this post we highlight SAGE Research Methods (SRM), a powerful tool that can help you:

Plan and conduct qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research,
Analyze your findings, and
Write up […]

In this post we feature The Chicago Manual of Style Online (CMOS), the handy e-version of the 16th and 17th editions of the esteemed style manual that was first published in 1906.

The online edition of the […]

We are thrilled to announce that on Friday, August 4, casts of the Frieze of the Parthenon, often referred to as the Elgin Marbles, will be installed in the Graduate Center lobby and Mina Rees Library.

The […]

In this post we feature Book Review Digest Plus, a valuable source for finding book reviews on virtually every subject.  The database contains more than 900,000 full text book reviews and more than two […]

In this post we highlight the Cochrane Library, a collection of databases containing high quality health care information for researchers, health care professionals, patients, and funders.

Cochrane is known […]

Check out our newly updated Open Access research guide to learn the ins and outs of OA publishing and how it relates to your dissertation and other scholarship.  As you may already be aware, open access […]

We’re all deluged with email.  Official correspondence, personal correspondence, and junk mail compete for attention and space in our mail boxes.  The more email you have, the more cumbersome it is to man […]

As announced by IT, student email addresses are moving from @gc.cuny.edu to @gradcenter.cuny.edu. Once the migration is complete on June 1, 2015, your old account will be deleted and all the email messages and […]