Online video makes its debut at Hostos

Check out American History in Video, a digital collection of over 1500 videos accompanied by searchable transcripts covering American history from the 19th century to the 1980's. This is an excellent learning tool for students of history, English language learners, or anyone studying American cultural or political events of the last century.

In this video clip four black students stage a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC in 1960.

Literature in your inbox

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New Historical Online Collections

Hostos now has access through CUNY to three new electronic resources that provide primary source materials in history.

The Economist Archive (1848-2003) offers a complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper that focuses on politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. It is an excellent primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. It includes documents in various languages including Spanish, French, and Italian.

Making of the Modern World "The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. It includes documents in various languages including Spanish, French, and Italian.

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change

The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change will be useful students across displines who are researching the scientific, political, and social implications of global warming. It is searchable by keyword but it also contains a browseable reader's guide that lists ideas for topics related to global warming.

“This is a useful set because of the individual country entries as well as the general-audience language . . .”— Booklist (Starred Review)

New online reference resources

Check out the two newest online resources at Hostos Library:

Milestone Documents in American History provides the full text and analysis of key primary texts in American History. These documents offer historical context (1807 Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves ) as well as context for more recent events (U.S. Supreme Court's 2000 decsion Bush v. Gore).

Magill's Medical Guide online, a medical reference resource that Library Journal describes"authoritative and up-to-date yet highly accessible and admirably succinct. All the articles are signed, and to the left of the article text are links to the proper citation for the articles."

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

CUNY has subscribed to the Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. It is an authoritative source for students of economics with contributions by experts in the field worldwide.

April is for Poetry

Hostos Library has hundreds of books of poetry -- from entire volumes by a single author to anthologies by selected authors or about specific subjects. You can also find classics and contemporary poems published in literary magazines in our licensed databases. In both Literary Reference Center and Literature Resource Center, use "advanced search,"limit to "poems" and type in a key word.

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." -- Emily Dickinson.

Credo Reference Trial

Check out Credo Reference, a platform that enables users to search 240 reference titles across disciplines. Resources like Credo reference, Gale Virtual Reference and Oxford reference provide current, basic reference titles online so we can devote more library space for students. Credo offers images, audio files, and the new interface that will be released this summer will enable users to search other databases directly (without going back out to the library web page) and choosing another title. The trial ends April 15th.

Wiley Interscience Journals online

Hostos Library has just licensed a new package of over 200 electronic journals from Wiley InterScience. Titles cover natural sciences, social sciences, and allied health and include:

Infant and Child Development
Journal of Basic Microbiology
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
New Directions for Community Colleges
Psychology in the Schools
Research in Nursing and Health
Science Education
Stress and Health