Easy Access to E-content when off-campus

The use of NYU Libraries' subscription databases, e-journals and e-books is restricted to NYU students and faculty. When you are on-campus and connected to NYU's network, you will automatically be recognized as an NYU student and be able to get to all of the Libraries' e-resources.

When you are off-campus (including NYU's Study Abroad sites) and try to connect to a database or electronic journal, you will see an automatically generated log-in screen requesting your NYU NetID and password. Once entered, you will not have to authenticate again, until you close your browsers. Your NetID is on the back of your NYUCard. Use the same password you use for NYUHome.

This EZProxy method works for NYU Libraries' databases and any e-journals or e-texts that you connect to via the following links on NYU Libraries' website:
Find articles via databases
Find e-journals & e-texts

*Please note: EZProxy is still not available through NYU's online catalog, BobCat. BobCat is your finding tool for 4 million books, videos and journal titles when you're on the Washington Square campus. If you link to an e-journal or e-book from a BobCat record, you will still need to set up a proxy configuration on your web browser. Instructions for configuring your browser are located at http://www.nyu.edu/its/faq/connecting/proxy.html

Check out QuickRef for links to:

• Biographies
• Book Reviews
• Dictionaries & Thesauri (especially Oxford Reference Online for language dictionaries)
• Encyclopedias & Almanacs
• Directories
• Statistics
• News
• Writing Guides & Citing Sources

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Find Journal Articles via Databases

NYU Libraries subscribes to approximately 400 subscription databases that index scholarly journals, book chapters, dissertations, images (AP Photo Archives and fine art), reports, statistics, and more. Most of these can be accessed from the Libraries' website. http://library.nyu.edu/collections/find_articles.html

Some databases provide the full-text of articles. In others, your results list will often display or "Remote Link" next to a citation. Click on the link to view a list of options for getting the item at NYU. If the electronic full-text is available, you can link to it. For more information about SFX, see
http://library.nyu.edu/collections/sfx.html.

When the database provides neither full-text nor a remote link, or when you only have a citation for an article, check to see if the Library has an electronic version of the journal title using the A–Z list of e-journals. You can search for a particular volume, issue and page numbers or browse all available issues.
http://library.nyu.edu/collections/find_ejournals.html

If you've never used the databases before and are confused already, check out the Libraries' step-by-step tutorial on how to find articles.

If you're not sure which database to use, select a subject area from the drop-down menu; the first 5-10 titles that appear will be the major article indexes in your field. You can also use Ask A Librarian, our email reference service, for help in choosing an appropriate database for your topic.

Getting Help

Ask A Librarian

Ask a Librarian is the Libraries' virtual reference desk where you can ask a question using an e-mail reference service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Fill out a simple web form and a librarian will respond within four hours (keep in mind differences in time zone!) Find Ask a Librarian at http://library.nyu.edu/ask

Subject Librarians

NYU Libraries has 28 subject specialists who develop the Libraries' collection and provide advanced research assistance – in person and via e-mail. The list of subject librarians and their email addresses is available at http://library.nyu.edu/research/lib_arc.html

Subject Web Pages

Subject web pages introduce you to the key research resources in art, anthropology, chemistry, etc. Created by NYU librarians, they provide links to information in a particular discipline including class websites, Internet resources, electronic journals, indexes/databases , and other recommended resources.
http://library.nyu.edu/research/subject.html

Critically Evaluate Your Sources

All information is not created equal. Quality academic research requires quality sources. It's very important to critically evaluate the information you find and select reliable sources. Tips on points to consider can be found here: http://library.nyu.edu/research/tutorials/evaluate/

Avoid Plagiarism

Information that you find on the Web is not free to take or use. It is someone else's intellectual property. Make your own ideas the focus of your paper. Any words, ideas, or original research that are not your own must be cited, even if you summarize it in your own words. When in doubt, cite the source! For help with formatting footnotes and bibliographies,
http://library.nyu.edu/research/rg57.html

More Library Resources

Dissertations

The full text of all dissertations published since 1997 is available for “FREE DOWNLOAD” for NYU students. Use Dissertation Abstracts online to find citations [link to ‘Articles via databases' on the Library's homepage http://library.nyu.edu/collections/find_articles.html. For more information on finding dissertations, see http://library.nyu.edu/research/rg9.html.

Primary Sources Online

Primary sources are materials that provide direct evidence of first-hand testimony concerning the period or subject under investigation. They enable a researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during an event.

Examples of online primary source collections available from NYU Libraries include: In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and other Personal Narratives; Historical New York Times (1851-); Digital National Security Archive; Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945. Find all of these on the A-Z database page.

Peer-reviewed or scholarly journals

University presses and other academic publishers have panels of experts or faculty review boards that examine and critique articles before they are published. Scholarly journals report the results of research and contain cited references and bibliographies as documentation. Peer-reviewed sources are considered more accurate and reliable than non-reviewed sources. See Find Journal Articles via Databases to learn how to find peer-reviewed articles.

Research Tab in NYUHome

You can search for newspaper and journal articles in some of the Library's most popular databases once you've logged in to NYUHome by choosing the Research tab. These databases are just a small sample of the Library's subscription databases; there are 400 more on the Library's website.