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About the CUNY+ Online Catalog
CUNY libraries are linked electronically by the CUNY+ ("cuny-plus") integrated library system. The CUNY+ online catalog (OPAC) provides online access to information about the holdings at all campuses, including serials collections and titles that are on order. It may be searched by author, title, subject and keyword.CUNY+ can be searched from workstations within the libraries and other locations (including many department offices) throughout most campuses. It is accessible via the web and by dial (modem) access.
The University licenses a growing number of information resources available over the World Wide Web. These electronic collections, along with products and services licensed by individual campuses to support local needs, constitute the City University of New York Digital Collections. Indexing and abstracting services, table of contents services, reference works such as Britannica or Lexis Nexis, full texts of journal articles and electronic journals as well as document delivery extend services beyond print collections available within library buildings.Access University-wide E-Journals & Reference Databases.
University-wide Electronic Resources are generally available from any CUNY IP address. The following is a summary of alternative connection options:1. RPA (Remote Patron Authentication provided by the Office of Library Services)
Click on the green house icon next to an electronic resource (see list at http://libraries.cuny.edu/resource.htm).2. Remote access option provided by your school
In the new window, enter your library barcode to authenticate and connect.For more information on RPA support, see http://libraries.cuny.edu/rpafaq.htm
Some CUNY schools run their own proxy servers:3. CUNY PortalBaruch: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/info_resources/remote/info.htm
Brooklyn: http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/electronic_resources/remote.htm
City: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/proxytext.html
Hunter: http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/proxy.htm
John Jay: http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/connecting.html
Lehman: http://www.lehman.edu/provost/library/AccessFromHome.htm
Queens: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Library/online/offcampus.html
Staten Island: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/eresource/offcampus.php
BMCC: http://lib1.bmcc.cuny.edu/lib/help/remoteaccessguide.html
Bronx CC: http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/library/access.html
LaGuardia: http://rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/login
Graduate Center: http://inside.gc.cuny.edu/citrix/ and http://inside.gc.cuny.edu/informationresources/vpn/To find out what options are available to you, inquire at your school's library or get in touch with the contacts provided on these web pages. The above web pages also provide contact information in case you run into problems using remote access.
In addition, electronic resources are accessible via the CUNY Portal at the following URL:
http://portal.cuny.edu/portal/site/cuny/index.jsp?epi-content=RPA(If you're not a registered user, you will be prompted to create a portal account)
For portal support, click on "Portal Help" on the CUNY home page (www.cuny.edu).
Most CUNY libraries serve an archival function for their respective colleges. They retain copies of the Chancellor's Reports and the Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the City University, either in hard copy or in microform. They may maintain collections of college catalogs, meeting minutes of campus governing bodies, local college publications, press releases, copies of individual college governance charters, and, in some cases, retrospective files of various campus administrative offices (i.e., Office of the President, Office of the Dean of Faculty, Office of the Secretary of the General Faculty, etc.).In addition, CUNY libraries often house and maintain special collections consisting of historical documents, manuscripts, personal papers, and official records of alumni or community organizations that have historical, educational, and cultural ties to that college. For more information on the archival material held by a particular college, consult the college's archivist, chief librarian, or head of reference.
The official archives of the City University of New York as an institution are presently in the care of the Central Office, and are accessible by appointment. Contact Jay Williams at (212) 397-5669 for more information.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)CUNY maintains a membership in the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR data files are available without charge to CUNY faculty and advanced students engaged in social science research. ICPSR's expanding collection of quantitative data files includes scientific research investigations, opinion polls, government surveys, and numerical time series. Stored in machine-readable format at the University of Michigan, the data files may be sent by a variety of data transmission media, including electronic file transfer.
To investigate available resources, use the access point provided by the ICPSR website. The ICPSR Website explains how ICPSR is organized and operates, and provides a direct link to its catalog of database holdings. After using the catalog to locate the study number of the data set you wish, contact the authorized coordinator for CUNY:
Florian Lengyel, Ph.D.Mr. Lengyel will obtain the dataset for you. If the data file is too large to ship on a floppy, he will arrange to move it to a system where you can access the data. In most cases the background documentation for the data is in machine readable form and accompanies the data. In the event that it is contained in a separate publication, it will be mailed to you later.
Assistant Director for Research Computing
Department of Information Resources
Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 8311.04
New York, NY 10016-4309Phone: (212) 817-7374
FAX: (212) 817-1615
Email: flengyel@gc.cuny.edu
Please note: some colleges offer ILL to CUNY faculty and graduate students only.Due to the exponential increase in the cost of research materials, CUNY libraries must often provide access to sources of knowledge, rather than to acquire and own those sources. If the University does not own a title, you may still obtain it through either Interlibrary Loan or a commercial document delivery service.
Interlibrary Loan arrangements have been made with many libraries in the New York metropolitan region and throughout the world. If you cannot find the books you need within the CUNY system, consult your interlibrary loan librarian.
Increasingly, CUNY libraries rely on commercial document delivery services to augment their journal collections. Some of these services will fax articles within 24 hours, often at no extra cost. Most of these services are free to the faculty. Again, consult your ILL librarian.
Most campus libraries provide formal course-related workshops on information access (including electronic access) for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Librarians with expertise in information retrieval and various software applications are designing seminars to introduce CUNY faculty to new resources in their disciplines and to new skills, such as the creation of personal bibliographic files via downloading from online catalogs.
Represented in the CUNY Libraries and Instructional Media Departments is a large collection of graphics and media resources that can be used to enhance classroom presentations or to support students in lab work as supplements to classroom instruction.This collection is developed locally by each of the Colleges and various library and media departments across the University. Many of the librarians involved in Media are members of the Library Association of the City University of New York Roundtable (LACUNY). The purpose of the Media Collection is to support City University of New York instruction and research. The initial concentration was on classic, documentary, and performing arts films. Today, the collections housed on each of the CUNY campuses run the gambit in turns of topic and subject matter. All titles in the collections are cataloged in CUNY+, the CUNY Libraries' online computer catalog. The formats are primarily video recordings, digital versatile discs (DVD) and laserdiscs. All librarians responsible for their collections welcome inquiries and suggestions about media resources.
In addition, many media centers support active graphic, video, and multimedia production facilities, several offer satellite downlink capabilities, and some offer consultation in electronic media support for classroom instruction.
All CUNY libraries belong to METRO, a New York regional cooperative with over 250 member libraries, including most major research libraries in the area. Thanks to METRO, CUNY libraries can provide you with interlibrary loan (ILL) and, under certain circumstances, occasional on-site access to these collections when your research requires. In addition to the four public library systems in the region, some private libraries with specialized collections may be open to the public. Other libraries are open only under restricted circumstances with a referral from your campus library. There is an agreement among libraries to grant limited access to private collections for researches who need materials not found in public institutions.A METRO card referral may be issued by the reference librarian at your home library for the use, at a private university such as NYU or Columbia, of a specific book or journal that is not attainable at CUNY, through ILL, or in the public library. Under another METRO agreement, under very special circumstances, a subject collection may be consulted for a short period. A METRO referral does not allow the borrowing of the material. The length of time that a researcher may utilize the material is determined by the host library. For policies of individual libraries, consult the Metro Handbook and Directory available at any CUNY library. Some CUNY libraries may issue referral cards to faculty and/or graduate students only -- consult your home library for specific policies.
The Office of Library Services proxy server was shut down permanently as of April 4, 2005.
-- It was running on old hardware that is no longer supported.
-- Usage of the proxy was low.
-- A number of alternative authentication servers for remote access to electronic resources have become available that do not require complex browser configurations.For alternative connection options, see Electronic Resources (above).
Requesting a Copy of a CUNY Doctoral Thesis: The best way to obtain a copy of a doctoral thesis published by CUNY is to go through your local library. Your campus or public librarian may request a thesis copy from the CUNY Graduate Center using InterLibrary Loan. Please note that all copies are provided on microfilm only. The current ILL contact at the Grad Center is Professor Beth Posner (email) at (212) 817-7051.
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