Tips:
Spelling counts! A foreign title or name, particularly from a culture that does not use the Roman alphabet, may have a couple of different alternate spellings. Make use of truncation and wildcards. If you know (or want to guess at) a couple of spellings, connect them with an 'or' Boolean operator.
When you’ve found a subject heading in our catalog, or in ConnectNY that seems well-suited to your research, note it. You can use it in other databases like WorldCat, ProjectMUSEor The History E-Book Project.
Don’t forget to talk to your professor and to ask a librarian if you need help finding sources (or even if you just want to make sure you’ve covered all your bases).
Resources for BGIA Students
| If you are not on campus, all our databases and indexes, except for our catalog, must be logged into through our Off-Campus Access page. Use the barcode on the back of your Bard ID as your Username. The password is library . If you are not a Bard student, please see Risa to get your login for off-campus access to our databases and online books and journals. All the starred databases listed below link to our off-campus login page. |
Books:
New York Public Library
Fordham University Library
Books Online: (all starred databases must be accessed through our Off-Campus Access page, these links will direct you there)
History E-Book Project*
CIAO*
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa*
History behind the Headlines, v.1-6*
Major Acts of Congress*
CIA World Factbook
Finding Books:
As BGIA students, you have access to the wealth of resources found at the New York Public Library (NYPL)."The New York Public Library comprises simultaneously a set of scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries, and its intellectual and cultural range is both global and local...The research collections (for reference only, and organized as The Research Libraries, with four major centers) resemble the holdings of the great national and university libraries, and the community circulating libraries (organized as The Branch Libraries) resemble classic American municipal libraries." (from http://www.nypl.org/pr/) Of particular interst to BGIA students are the collections of US Government documents from 1884 to the present as well as European Union documents from the 1950s to the present housed at the Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) at Madison and 34th Street.
To use the Research Libraries, pre-register here. You must go in person to complete the registration process and pick up your ACCESS card. Bring a photo ID and proof of your Bard address.
To get a borrower's card for The Branch Libraries, click here.
BGIA students also have reading privileges (not borrowing privileges) at Fordham University Library at Lincoln Center. Please see Risa for a visitor's card.
Our online book collections, CIAO and The History E-Book Project are browsable by title, author and subject, and searchable by keywords in the full-text. [CIAO also contains a vast selection of working papers, policy briefs as well as a reference database.
Journals and Working Papers:(all starred databases must be accessed through our off campus access page, these links will direct you there)
Full-Text sources:
CIAO*
JSTOR*
ProjectMUSE*
LexisNexis Academic*
NYTimes*
CQ Library*
Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN)*
EBSCO Academic Search Premier*
Citations and Abstracts:
PAIS Interntional*
Social Sciences Abstracts*
Finding Articles:
From Full-Text Sources:
As a general rule, it's better to use the advanced search screens in our full-text databases. When it's possible to search by subject or descriptor, use general terms, e.g., geographic locations, personal names, general ideas or schools of thought. These can be coupled with keywords that might be found in abstracts or in the actual full text to limit the number of results.
When you can't search by subject heading, as is the case in JSTOR, it's still better to use advanced search. In JSTOR, for instance, your only option is to search the full-text. Try searching by phrases surrounded by quotation marks and make sure that you limit your search to the relevant collection. JSTOR presents search results in order of relevance, so you can usually tell in the first couple of articles if you're on the right track. If not, try using other search terms. Contact the library by e-mail or, by phone (Reference Desk phone 845-758-7281).
For Newspaper Articles:
For information before three years ago, use the New York Times. We have the complete run of the Times from 1851 to three years ago online. This is a particularly nice database because the information is laid out in page image, and includes any photos or reproductions. If the photo is blocked because of copyright restrictions, click on the page image and enlarge. Since this is such a huge archive, it's best to click on the "More Search Options" tab and specify the document type. To further limit your search, try keying in a date range. For other newspapers, use LexisNexis Academic. This database includes the New York Times and is current to yesterday.
Searching our Citations Databases:
Use the Advanced Search, and search on broadest expression of an idea or a country name as a subject or a descriptor. If you get too many hits, try adding a keyword or two to narrow your subject down. To find the articles themselves, log into our Off Campus Access page and click on AtoZ Journal List. Type in the title of the journal. If we subscribe to the journal electronically, click on the link to the collection through which we subscribe. Find the volume and issue number to get to the table of contents or search that journal for the article and/or author.
If we subscribe only in print to a particular title or not at all, check the NYPL and the Fordham University Library catalogs and journal lists to see if they subscribe.
For more information and tips on searching articles, please click here
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