The Cooper Union Library: Humanities & Social Sciences: Searching for Articles, eBooks, and More

Searching for Articles and eBooks

The Cooper Union Library provides access to an array of databases and other tools that provide access to scientific and scholarly databases on a variety of topics. Here are a few that can help get your started with your research:

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary research database with access to content from over 14,000 active journals, magazines, and trade publications, with 90% of these peer-reviewed and more than 3000 including full text articles. Many of these are covered back to the 1960s and some as far back as 1911!
ACLS Humanities EBook (HEB) This link opens in a new window
Over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences, presented in collaboration with more than 120 publishers and Michigan Publishing. Books in the ACLS HEB collection have been recommended and reviewed by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies. [publisher's description]
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
The most complete selection of ebooks for research, teaching and learning with content from leading publishers, and many titles available without restrictions.
EBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
A small collection of titles selected by Cooper students and faculty, some with unlimited simultaneous user access and some with single user simultaneous access.
Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Search millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.Provided by NOVELny—the New York Online Virtual Electronic Library.
HeinOnline Academic This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Fastcase provides access to a wide array of case law at the federal and state levels and enables users to access the full text of cases through their HeinOnline subscription without the hassle of using multiple research databases.
Free access through the spring semester.
Humanities Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of more than 1,400 journals and citations to over 3.5 million articles. Covers the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR contains millions of academic journal articles and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Cooper access includes all resources listed here.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to peer-reviewed scholarly journals and top quality ebooks in the humanities and social sciences.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Includes publications from the theoretical to the applied on Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life and Health Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Ebooks, ejournals, and reference works from the publisher Springer.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
An extensive collection of multidisciplinary ebooks and ejournals covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Browse journals here.

Searching for Primary Sources

Searching for images, datasets, archival manuscripts, original texts, historic newspapers or other primary sources can sometimes be a challenge. Here are a few of the type of search tools you can use, but librarians know a lot more. Contact us if you need help.

Artstor This link opens in a new window
A repository of images of art, architecture, and design. PLEASE NOTE: The Artstor website will be retired on August 1, 2024. Content, key resources, and functionality are moving to JSTOR. Follow this link for more information.
Census Data This link opens in a new window
The US Census Bureau provides a variety of tools you can use to explore, analyze and visualize Census data.
Evans TCP: Early American Imprint Collection Text Creation Partnership This link opens in a new window
Evans-TCP, a partnership among the TCP, the Readex division of NewsBank, and the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), created 5,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the online Evans Early American Imprints collection (series I).
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies This link opens in a new window
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has its roots in New Haven, Connecticut but its collection now spans the Americas, Europe, and Israel. For more than three decades its mission has stayed the same: to record and project the stories of those who were there.
Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window
Ancient Greek and Roman texts, with English translations
New York Times (Group Pass registration) This link opens in a new window
Use this site to register for a free institutional New York Times account. Then go to nytimes.com whenever you want to read the New York Times. Valid for current students, staff, and faculty. Must be renewed every four years.
Voices from the Great Hall This link opens in a new window
The Voices from the Great Hall digital platform encompasses all known sound and video recordings made in the Hall and held by The Cooper Union dating back to John Dewey’s 1941 address "In Philosophy." This historical collection, which documents over 3,000 Great Hall programs, also includes photographs, fliers, press releases, and other ephemera dating back to 1859.

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