Major cross-disciplinary databases covering multiple subject areas — the best place to start broad research.
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Freely accessible web search engine for scholarly literature across many disciplines and formats. Links to NYU full-text when available.
The largest general academic database. Full-text access to 9,000+ journals across every discipline. If you don't know where to start your research, start here. Covers everything from astrophysics to zoology.
Cross-disciplinary citation database covering 21,000+ journals. Find the most-cited and influential papers on any topic. Track how research ideas spread through citation networks. Essential for serious academic research.
The gold standard of encyclopedias, fully online. Peer-reviewed articles, primary sources, multimedia, and world atlas. More authoritative than Wikipedia for academic citations. Updated continuously by expert contributors.
The world's largest abstract and citation database. 84 million records from 27,000+ journals, books, and conference proceedings. Powerful author and institution analytics. Track any researcher's impact and output.
Full-text access to millions of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from universities worldwide. See what grad students actually research and write. Great for understanding how to structure long-form academic work.
NYU's preferred ebook provider. Search, read, highlight, and annotate full-text books across many subject areas in the social sciences and humanities.
Online collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical sources, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions across all topics.
Multi-disciplinary full-text database with coverage of information in many areas of academic study. Access articles, book chapters, images, videos, and reviews.