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Restricted access to the Dibner Library at Polytechnic Institute during their final exam period

ALB card users take note: the Dibner Library at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU restricts access to NYU-Poly students during the final exam period, December 10-23. This is due to high demand for library study space. City Tech faculty or students needing to use the resources of another library should review information on other libraries from our website, or consult with a reference librarian.

New research partnership allows access to Columbia & NYU libraries and NYPL research libraries

The New York Public Library and the libraries of Columbia University and NYU have announced a new partnership, Manhattan Research Library Initiative, or MaRLI. Participation in MaRLI allows for 60 day, non-renewable loans on select library materials available at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Science Industry and Business Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. A list of participating libraries at NYU and Columbia can be found here.

NYPL cardholders can apply for MaRLI here. For more information on MaRLI, visit marli.libguides.com.

Access to NYU Poly Library suspended May 2-May 18

During the exam period at our neighbor NYU Poly, our students and faculty will not be permitted to access that library with an ALB card:

In the interest of best serving the NYU Poly community, we cannot open the library during the finals examination period to non-NYU Poly users.  Bern Dibner library access will be unavailable to ALB users from Monday, May 2 until Wednesday, May 18. We sincerely regret any inconvenience this may cause.

Major Changes for Sage Journals Online Collections

Unfortunately, we no longer have current access to most of our ejournals from Sage which were in collections by broad area such as education, management, psychology and so on.  We do, however, have access to our backfile collections as follows:

• Education Full-Text Collection: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Psychology Full-Text Collection: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Health Science Full-Text Collection: 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Management & Organization Studies Full-Text Collection: 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Political Science Full-Text Collection: 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Sociology Full-Text Collection: 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009

We now subscribe to our most heavily used individual Sage ejournals. Access usually is back to 1999. The ejournals can be found in our ejournals portal and are:

Clinical Nursing Research

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Cornell hotel and restaurant administration quarterly

Evaluation & the Health Professions

Home Health Care Management & Practice

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Journal of Family Issues

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

Journal of Transcultural Nursing Journal of travel research

Medical Care Research and Review

Qualitative Health Research

Research on Aging Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

Western Journal of Nursing Research

Thousands of Open Access Journals Added

We updated our ejournals holdings to include tens of thousands of new open access scholarly journal collections as well as open access historical newspapers and other freely available resources. These titles will eventually be cataloged in CUNY+ but for now, they can be found by title on our ejournals portal.

Here is a full list of the new open access journal collections:

Archive of African Journals (added May 21)

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) Journals

Britannica and Earthwatch no more

As of today, we no longer have access to Encyclopedia Britannica and Earthwatch.

New Features in Google Books

Lots of interface changes to Google Books.

New in the Library! American History in Video

American History in Video

Thousands of videos of events and figures from American history. Includes documentaries from PBS, the History Channel and others as well as newsreels and other archival footage. Instructors: you can save and edit pieces of the videos to create custom clips and *save* them for classroom use.

Access off-campus coming soon.

Library Closed Fridays Through August 7th

Starting this week through August 7th, the library will be closed on Fridays. We’re open Monday through Thursday, 9am – 8pm. Stop by to grab a book, use a computer, study or read!

Click here for more details on the library’s hours.