Top 40 Must-Know Resources

Docuseek

Video & Streaming

Award-winning independent documentaries on social justice, environmental issues, gender studies, and global affairs. Films from Bullfrog, Icarus, KimStim, and other indie distributors you won't find on mainstream platforms.

OverDrive (Libby)

Learning Platforms

Borrow free ebooks and audiobooks on your phone. Thousands of popular titles, bestsellers, and classics available through the NYU library system. Use the Libby app for seamless mobile reading.

IBISWorld

Company & Industry Data

Industry research reports that break down any industry in 30 minutes. Market size, competitive landscape, major players, trends, and forecasts. Covers 1,300+ US industries. Essential for case interviews and business plans.

Passport (Euromonitor)

Company & Industry Data

Global market research: consumer trends, brand shares, demographic forecasts for 210 countries. See what people buy, how much they spend, and where markets are heading. Perfect for marketing classes and case competitions.

Vault

Career Tools

Insider company rankings, salary data, career guides, and industry profiles. Read what employees really think about top firms. Essential for deciding where to apply and prepping for interviews.

Mintel

Company & Industry Data

Consumer market research reports on food, drink, beauty, fashion, tech, and lifestyle industries. Understand what drives consumer behavior with survey data, trend analysis, and product innovation tracking.

Hoover's (D&B)

Company & Industry Data

Detailed company profiles with org charts, revenue data, employee counts, and key decision-makers' contact info. Covers 500M+ business records worldwide. Great for networking, interview prep, and lead generation.

Mergent Online

Company & Industry Data

Deep-dive company financials: annual reports, SEC filings, bond data, and industry reports. Covers 25,000+ US and international companies. The go-to for financial analysis and equity research projects.

Financial Times

News & Media

The world's leading global business newspaper. Full digital access worth $500/year — free for NYU students. Covers markets, politics, tech, and international affairs with depth you won't find elsewhere.

The Economist

News & Media

Weekly briefings on global politics, business, finance, science, and technology. Known for sharp analysis and witty writing. Digital access worth $200/year — free through NYU. Read the magazine that world leaders read.

Factiva (Dow Jones)

News & Media

Search every major newspaper, magazine, newswire, and trade publication in one place. 33,000+ sources, 200+ countries, 28 languages. The most powerful news search engine in the world. Run by Dow Jones (WSJ's parent).

Nexis Uni

News & Media

Full-text news, business, and legal research in one platform. Search 17,000+ news sources, company reports, SEC filings, and case law. Replaced LexisNexis Academic — same power, better interface.

ProQuest Global Newsstream

News & Media

Full-text access to 2,800+ newspapers from around the world, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and hundreds of international papers. Search articles, editorials, and opinion pieces from today back to the 1980s.

Statista

Data & Statistics

Statistics, infographics, and market data on literally everything — from iPhone sales to avocado consumption to streaming subscriber counts. Beautiful, presentation-ready charts. Over 1 million statistics across 80,000+ topics.

SimplyAnalytics

Data & Statistics

Map demographics, consumer spending, and business data by ZIP code, city, or custom area. Create side-by-side comparisons, heat maps, and ranking reports. Amazing for real estate, marketing, and urban planning projects.

Social Explorer

Data & Statistics

Interactive census and demographic maps going back to 1790. Beautifully visualize income, education, race, housing, and health data at any geographic level. Create shareable map reports with professional-quality cartography.

PolicyMap

Data & Statistics

Neighborhood-level data on housing, health, education, employment, lending, and quality of life. Overlay multiple data layers on a single map. Used by urban planners, nonprofits, and policy researchers.

Data Planet

Data & Statistics

25+ billion data points from government, IGOs, and research organizations. Create custom charts, compare datasets, and export clean data. The most comprehensive statistical repository you'll ever use.

O'Reilly Learning (Safari)

Learning Platforms

50,000+ tech books, video courses, interactive tutorials, and live online training. Covers programming, data science, cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and business. Like having every tech bookstore in one app. Worth $499/yr.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Arts & Humanities

The definitive record of the English language. Not just definitions — complete word histories, etymology, earliest recorded usages, and pronunciation guides. 600,000+ words with 3.5 million quotations spanning 1,000+ years.

Artstor / JSTOR Images

Arts & Humanities

2.5 million high-resolution images of art, architecture, photography, and design from museums and collections worldwide. Create personal image groups, annotate, and present. Essential for art history, design, and visual research.

Oxford Art Online (Grove Art)

Arts & Humanities

The world's most comprehensive art encyclopedia. 45,000+ articles covering artists, movements, techniques, and art from every culture. Includes Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Multidisciplinary

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.

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary

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.

Scopus

Multidisciplinary

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.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Multidisciplinary

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.

WorldCat

Library Services

Search every library on Earth. 500+ million records from 72,000+ libraries in 170 countries. Find any book, journal, DVD, or digital resource ever cataloged. Locate the nearest library that has what you need.

Academic Search Complete

Multidisciplinary

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.

Ancestry Library Edition

Social Sciences

Trace your family history through billions of genealogical records: census data, immigration records, military records, birth/death records, and historical newspapers. Free on campus — the full Ancestry.com experience without the subscription.

AllMusic

Arts & Humanities

The most comprehensive music database: reviews, ratings, bios, discographies, and credits for every artist and album across all genres. Discover new music through expert-curated 'similar artists' and mood/theme browsing.

CQ Researcher

Social Sciences

In-depth, balanced reports on today's most controversial issues. Each 12,000-word report covers pro/con arguments, background, chronology, and expert analysis. Covers politics, health, education, environment, technology, and social policy.

Gale Literary Sources

Arts & Humanities

Literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, and full-text literary journals. Covers every major author and literary work. Includes Contemporary Authors, Literature Criticism Online, and Something About the Author.

HeinOnline

Law & Policy

The largest database of legal journals, Supreme Court opinions, treaties, and government documents. 200 million+ pages of legal history. Essential for pre-law students, political science majors, and anyone interested in constitutional law.

UpToDate

Health & Medicine

Evidence-based clinical decision support used by doctors worldwide. Look up any medical condition, treatment, or drug with the most current research. Written by 7,400+ physician-authors. The resource med students trust most.

AccessMedicine

Health & Medicine

Medical textbooks, videos, self-assessments, case studies, and drug information — all online. Includes Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology, and 90+ other core medical texts.