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Academic OneFile | NOVELny - available to all New Yorkers via geoIP authentication
Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals.
America's Newspapers: New York | New York State Library (NYSL) P card required*
Full text coverage of a wide range of New York State newspapers from Albany, Batavia, Binghamton, Buffalo, Lewisboro, Long Island, New York City, Plattsburgh, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Suffolk county, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, Watertown, and Westchester county. Titles include the Buffalo News, Daily Gazette (Schenectady), Long Island Advance, Times Union (Albany), New York Post, Observer-Dispatch (Utica), Post Standard (Syracuse), Post-Star (Glens Falls), Press-Republican (Plattsburgh), Saratogian, Watertown Daily Times, and more. Dates of coverage vary with the newspaper.
Attorney General Reports & Opinions
Opinions are issued in response to requests by state agency officials and local government attorneys.
- 1995-present | free access from government website
- 1890-present | subscription access from HeinOnline | available in Senate and Assembly Offices, the Legislative Library, and via Senate and Assembly VPN.
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Britannica Academic | NOVELny - available to all New Yorkers via geoIP authentication
Fact-checked online encyclopedia.
Business Insights | NOVELny - available to all New Yorkers via geoIP authentication
Explore the world's companies through expert analysis such as SWOT analyses, financial statements, case studies, and articles from academic journals, trade magazines, news outlets, and more. Offers full-text access to business periodicals like Crain's New York Business.
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Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR) | free government website
The opinions represent the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time they were rendered.
- 1988-2012 | free government website
- 1945-2012 | subscription access from HeinOnline | available in Senate and Assembly Offices, the Legislative Library, and via Senate and Assembly VPN.
Congress.gov | free government website
Official website for U.S. federal legislative information.
Congressional Research Service | free government website
Provides the public with access to research products produced by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the United States Congress.
Council of State Governments Eastern Regional Conference (CSG|EAST)
Facilitates the exchange of ideas among state policymakers, business leaders, and the academic community.
CourtListener | Free Law Project
Free legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal and state courts.
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Education Department Commissioner's Decisions | free government website
The decisions reported on this website are unedited and unindexed and are only available from July 1991 to date.
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center | free government website
Education research found in journal articles, books, and grey literature.
ERIC was recently defunded. See ERICA.
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Gale OneFile: News | NOVELny - available to all New Yorkers via geoIP authentication
Full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, and many other fields.
Google Scholar | some full text only accessible with New York State Library (NYSL) P card*
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites. Linked to NYSL full-text.
GovInfo | U.S. Government Publishing Office | free government website
GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
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HathiTrust Digital Library | public domain full-text titles are accessible without a login
A partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries worldwide.
HeinOnline | subscription database available in Senate and Assembly Offices, the Legislative Library, and via Senate and Assembly VPN.
Online research platform that provides more than 197 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international resources, case law, and much more.
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Access more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
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Law Reporting Bureau | free government website
Comprehensive collection of officially published New York State court decisions from January 1, 1956 to the present.
Legal Reports | Law Library of Congress | free government website
The Law Library of Congress produces reports on foreign, comparative, and international law in response to requests from Members of Congress, Congressional staff and committees, the federal courts, executive branch agencies, and others.
Legislative Retrieval System (LRS)
Authoritative public access to current NY State legislation, calendars, agendas, budget bills, etc.
- Public access: http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/navigate.cgi
Authoritative subscription access to current NY State legislation, calendars, committees, budget bills, etc. with additional tools.
- Senate/Assembly on-network access: http://leginfo.state.ny.us/asmsen/navigate.cgi
- Off-network subscription access: https://nyslrs.state.ny.us/
Lexis Digital Library - the Legislative Library's entire Lexis print collection in digital format. Available in Senate and Assembly Offices, the Legislative Library, and via email registration with your @nyassembly.gov or @nysenate.gov email address.
Lexis+ - subscription database for Legislative Library staff use
Lexis+ Public Access Terminal - in Legislative Library use only
Case law, statutes, and regulations. Shepard’s Citations Service, plus 40K+ news sources, 83B+ Public Records, 700M+ company profiles and documents.
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MedlinePlus | free government website
MedlinePlus, an online health information resource, is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) | membership for all legislative staff provided by the NYS Legislature | create an account with your @nysenate.gov or @nyassembly.gov email address
Legislative news, studies, and analysis.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR) | free access from Westlaw
Free access to an unannotated version of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR). The on-line version of the NYCRR is intended to provide the public with free access to the rules and regulations of New York State agencies. The official NYCRR is available in the library.
New York Legal Research Library | subscription database available in Legislative Offices, the Legislative Library, and via VPN.
Legal research materials dedicated to the history, study, practice, and development of law in the state of New York. Part of HeinOnline.
New York State Courts Electronic Filing (NYSCEF) | free government website
Search for legal documents filed electronically with various courts, including the Surrogate's Court, Supreme Court, and the Court of Claims.
New York State Historic Newspapers | free website
The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history.
New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment | free government website
Data, hearings, meetings, maps, district profiles, and more.
New York State Library e-Journals
Access to some e-journals requires the NYSL P card.
New York State Statistical Yearbook | free website
The Rockefeller Institute of Government, in cooperation with the Office of the Governor and the New York State Division of the Budget, publishes the New York State Statistical Yearbook—a database for researchers in governmental functions such as education, transportation, finances, and public health. Search the Data Visualizations, Analyses, and Data Notes & Sources pages to view and interact with the data, understand it in context, and download it for your own exploration.
New York Times: 1985 - present | NOVELny - available to all New Yorkers via geoIP authentication
First-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.
New York Times Historical: 1851-2021 | NYSL P card required*
Provides researchers with online, easily searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.
NOVELny Portal | NOVELny - available to all New Yorkers via geoIP authentication
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny connects New Yorkers to 21st century information.
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Project Muse | New York State Library (NYSL) P card required*
A high quality, peer reviewed, full-text interdisciplinary database of scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences.
PubMed (including MEDLINE) | free government database
Biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
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Rockefeller Institute of Government | free website
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is a public policy think tank founded in 1981 that conducts cutting-edge research and analysis to inform lasting solutions to the problems facing New York State and the nation.
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State Net - 50-State & Territories Bill Information Service (BIS) | Creation of an NCSL account required | membership for all legislative staff provided by the NYS Legislature | create an account with your @nysenate.gov or @nyassembly.gov email address
NCSL has partnered with State Net/LexisNexis to provide legislators and legislative staff access to State Net’s legislative tracking and research software, allowing them to search and filter legislation from the 50 states, Washington D.C., Congress, and the territories. Members have access to the full text of every bill, summaries, and other state resources such as fiscal notes, staff summaries, and sponsor memos. In addition to bills, NCSL members can also search executive orders and ballot measures.
The Bill Information Service (BIS), also contains additional legislative resources, such as weekly session schedules, links to live hearings, session statistics, and other state-specific resources.
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Wall Street Journal | NYSL P card required*
- Wall Street Journal (Online) - 2010-present
- Wall Street Journal Eastern Edition (Newstand) - 1984-present
- Wall Street Journal Magazine - 2015-present
Westlaw - in Legislative Library use only
Primary law, secondary sources, litigation materials, KeyCite, Key Number System, and headnotes.
WorldCat | free database
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