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Academic Articles & eBooks

Academic Search Premier
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 E-Book (HEB)
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: Academic Complete
Over 180,000 high quality, multidisciplinary ebooks with powerful research tools and DRM-free chapter downloads. Create an individual login account to download an entire book.
Gale Academic OneFile
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.
Humanities Source
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
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, JSTOR is providing expanded access to content through June 2023, from participating publishers. Read more about the expanded access here.
Project MUSE
Provides full-text access to peer-reviewed scholarly journals and top quality ebooks in the humanities and social sciences.
ScienceDirect
Includes publications from the theoretical to the applied on Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life and Health Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
SpringerLink
Mostly ebooks, some ejournals from the publisher Springer, primarily in science and engineering, business and economics. No DRM. Download entire books in PDF format.
Wiley Online Library
An extensive collection of multidisciplinary ebooks and ejournals covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Word Meanings & Origins

Resources provided by the Cooper Union library:

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The definitive record of the English language.

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Oxford Reference Online: Bilingual Dictionaries

Concise versions of French, German, Irish, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh bilingual dictionaries online.

Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

Mandarin Chinese to English and English to Mandarin Chinese online dictionary.

SEALang Library

Language reference materials for Southeast Asia.

Endangered Languages Project

An online resource for samples and research on endangered languages.

Citation Tools

Zotero

A free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials.

zbib

ZoteroBib or zbib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software.

Mendeley

Generate references, citations and bibliographies in a whole range of journal styles with just a few clicks.

Primary Sources

Resources provided by the Cooper Union library:

Artstor
A repository of images of art, architecture, and design.
Census Data
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
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
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
Ancient Greek and Roman texts, with English translations
New York Times (registration)
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
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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Research & Visualization Tools

Clio

A geomapping tool that guides the user to historical and cultural sites throughout the United States.
Tableau Public

Create maps, interactive graphs, and live dashboards.
Voyant

A simple tool for mining a text, which can offer insights into word choice, metaphors, and imagery.
Palladio

Visualize complex historical data with ease

Datawrapper

Create well-designed charts, maps, and tables.

Humanities & Social Sciences

Academic Articles & eBooks

Word Meanings & Origins

Citation Tools

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Research & Visualization Tools

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