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NOTE: To access these databases from off campus, select the database you wish to use from the alphabetical listing below. A log-in screen, with instructions, will appear. Enter the requested information to continue.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile includes peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Academic Search Complete 
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in PDF format.
AccessScience
AccessScience provides science reference materials—online
and fully searchable. The database offers access to all the
articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research
Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations,
and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and
more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers
and students looking for relevant, readable, and trusted sources
of information.
Alt Health Watch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.
ArtStor
Search the ArtStor database to locate art images. The ARTstor
Library's include approximately 1,000,000
images covering art, architecture and archeology.
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Book Review Digest Plus
Book Review Digest includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes. Those indexes are: Applied Science & Technology Index, Art Index, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science.
Business & Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center includes company profiles,
brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories,
chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find
detailed company and industry news and information.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database, providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content. This database includes indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886.
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Canadian Reference Centre
Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; 84,774 full text biographies and an image collection of 440,207 photos, maps, and flags.
Catalist, SUNY Ulster's Online Catalog
CINAHL® Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 391 journals
from the fields of nursing and allied health, indexing for
3,123 with coverage dating as far back as 1937, plus legal
cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records,
research instruments and clinical trials.
(Click here for a short video showing how to use CINAHL.)
Computer Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 730 periodicals.
Country
Watch
CountryWatch provides up-to-date information and news on 191
countries including political, economic, and business information,
daily news and data.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is database including the full-text of 100 digitized reference books. The collection includes entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Credo's collection integrates millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.
Criminal
Justice Periodical Index (CJPI)
CJPI can provide information on criminal justice topics, including
corrections administration, law enforcement, social work,
industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and
family law. The database offers full text coverage for about
50 titles and also includes complete indexing and abstracts
for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.
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NEW! Ebrary
Database including 5200+ multidisciplinary electronic books. The majority of titles have publication dates of 2004 and later.
Subject areas include: Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Engineering & Technology, History & Political Science, Humanities Interdisciplinary & Area Studies, Language, Literature, & Linguistics, Law, International Relations & Public Policy, Life Sciences, Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health, Physical Sciences, Psychology & Social Work, Religion, Philosopy, & Classics, Sociology & Anthropology.
Education Resource Complete
Education Research Complete is an online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.
Environment Complete
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles). The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.
ERIC
- Educational Resources
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides
full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references
for additional information and citations and abstracts from
over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
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Films On Demand
Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7! Thousands of videos are available for in-class use and remote viewing from the library or at home.
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Gale Newsstand
Newsstand provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias,
almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary
research.
General OneFile
General OneFile includes news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
GeoRef
This database, from the American Geological Institute, includes
over 2.2 million references to all publications of the U.S.
Geological Survey, geoscience journal articles, books, maps,
conference papers, reports Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations
from U.S. and Canadian universities. The GeoRef database covers
the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and
the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
Grolier Online
Grolier Online includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana , New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
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HarpWeek
HarpWeek is the full-text, full-image electronic version of
Harpers Weekly. Ulster's access covers the Civil War segment
including the years 1857-1865.
Health Reference Center Academic
Health Reference Center Academic provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Health Source – Consumer Edition
This database is a collection of consumer health information, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
The Historical New York Times
This database includes The New York Times from 1851-2004. The newspaper is reproduced, cover-to-cover, in full-page digital images—from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements.
Humanities E-Book
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,000 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus.
Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
HRVH Historical Newspapers
The HRVH Historical Newspapers project provides access to digitized copies of historical newspapers from the Hudson River Valley region of New York State. The first paper to be digitized is The Kingston Daily Freeman, 1903 to 1912. The entire contents of the newspaper issues can be searched and browsed.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journals in both digital and print formats, generally from the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent three to five years.
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Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information; including many
international publications, transcripts of television and
radio news broadcasts and a high percentage of full-text resources.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. This database also contains full text for more than 240 journals. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literature
Resource Center (LRC)
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical
analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.The
Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists,
poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth
coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
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Magill’s Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
MasterFILE™
Premier
This multidisciplinary database,designed for public libraries, provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags.
NEW! MEDLINE with Full Text
MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,450 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, 622 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection.
Military
& Government Collection™
The Military & Government Collection provides full text
for nearly 400 publications pertaining to all branches of
the military and government.. The database also includes full
text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for
500 titles.
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NEW! National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, created and maintains MedlinePlus to assist the public in locating authoritative health information.
National
Newspaper Index
National Newspaper Index provides
access to the indexing of: The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times
and The Washington Post.
NEW! Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library offers access to over 500,000 tracks and more than 35,000 CDs. The library offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues as well as Jazz and World music and educational products. Naxos has valid licenses with all international public-performance societies allowing Naxos to stream in-copyright musical works. Educational content includes the lives and works of the greatest composers, classical explained, opera explained, instruments of the Orchestra, history of classical music, history of opera, glossary, pronunciation guide, opera synopses and opera libretti. Teaching staff can plan their courses around a wide range of music. The library includes not only practically all standard repertoire, but also a wide range of rare repertoire not available from other sources.
Naxos Jazz Library is a streaming jazz library containing over 4000 CDs from over 50 music labels. The NML Jazz Library offers an impressive selection of traditional and contemporary jazz from performers like Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Albert King, and Thelonious Monk.
netLibrary
Over 800 eBooks you can read and search on your own computer.
New York State Newspapers
Search this database of ten major newspapers published in
the state of New York, including the New York Times and the
New York Post, with full-text.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes 1,570 full-text newspapers, providing more than 27 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts.
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy
The Nursing Made Incredibly Easy eBook database is a collection of 53 titles which include books such as: Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy, Nutrition Made Incredibly Easy, Straight A's in Nursing Pharmacology, and Wound Care Made Incredibly Easy. (Note: You can also do a subject search of all the books in this eBook series by clicking here.)
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Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center
Use this database to access viewpoint articles, topic overviews,
statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text
magazine and newspaper articles.
Oxford Reference Online offers fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions series.
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Points of View Reference Center
This full-text database provides a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database contains 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument) and Critical Thinking Guide . Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 1,143 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
Professional
Development Collection™
Professional Development Collection provides full text for
more than 500 high quality education journals and more than
200 educational reports for professional educators, professional
librarians and education researchers.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
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Regional
Business News™
With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive
full text for more than 50 regional business publications.
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ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides unlimited access to over 700 full-text
Elsevier Science journals at SUNY campuses. Topics covered
include; science, technology and medicine. The "Search"
button is located at the top of the ScienceDirect homepage.
SUNYConnect Union Catalog
SUNY Connect is a joint initiative of the SUNY Provost's Office of Library & Information Services and the libraries of the 64 SUNY campuses to share collections and services across the State University of New York.
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Twayne
Authors Series
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full
text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books
on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of
600 individual full-text titles.
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WorldCat
Use this database from OCLC to find books and other materials
in libraries around the world published from 1000 BC to the
present.
