Electronic Resources

Cornell University Library is pleased to provide Cornell alumni with several library services for their personal use. If you have questions about Alumni access to these resources, please contact Librarian Tony Cosgrave via the Alumni Ask-a-Librarian feature.

As a Cornell alumnus, you may access these resources using your Cornell NetID. If you do not have a NetID, the Alumni Affairs Web site has instructions for requesting one.

In response to COVID-19, additional resources have been made available to Cornell alumni.

Academic Search™ Alumni Edition

Academic Search™ Alumni Edition is designed for the continuing education needs of post-college professionals. The database provides full text for more than 3,350 journals, as well as indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 journals. The…

Adam Matthew Digital

Adam Matthew publishes unique primary source collections from archives around the world. Collections span the social sciences and humanities and cover a multitude of topics ranging from Medieval manuscripts and Victorian moving images to…

AGRICOLA

Produced by the National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) contains bibliographic records of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions in agricultural and related sciences. Records…

Berg Fashion Library

The Berg Fashion Library provides integrated text and image content about world dress and fashion throughout history. The database offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections, including the Encyclopedia…

Business Source® Alumni Edition

Business Source® Alumni Edition includes full-text sources ranging from general periodicals to trade publications. Additional full-text sources include country economic reports, industry reports, market research reports, and company profiles.…

Cambridge Histories Online

Provides full text online access to the complete 300-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects.

Career Beam

CareerBeam helps you manage your job search by offering value and skills assessment tests and then helping you create a resume and cover letter. CareerBeam then offers databases of companies and job ads. Under Research Tools, view Industry…

Cornell Alumni Magazine (2001-present)

This collection contains the oldest published issues of the Cornell Alumni Magazine, from Vol. 104 (2001/02) through Vol. 109 (2006/07).

Current issues of the Cornell Alumni Magazine are available at …

Cornell University History: A Research Guide

The object of this research guide is to bring together resources available in or through the University Library, primarily Olin Library and the University Archives in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, for researching questions…

Directory of Open Access Journals

Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Duke University Press

About 50 e-journals in the e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collections, primarily in arts, humanities, and the social sciences.

ERIC : Education Resources Information Center

Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. The ERIC collection is a Web-based digital library of free education-related sources of interest to educators, researchers, and the general public, and consists primarily of electronic…

HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. The Cornell University Library is a member. The Digital Library includes many…

HeinOnline: Law Journal Library & American Bar Association Law Library Periodicals

Law Journal Library contains more than 1,700 law and law-related journals with a broad range of coverage. ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals contains digital access to over 100 ABA-related periodicals including 44 periodicals previously only…

Hospitality & Tourism Index™ (HTI)

Hospitality & Tourism Index™ (HTI) is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. Publications include Hotel & Motel Management, Journal of Leisure Research, and…

Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages. The Cornell University Library has contributed many volumes to this collection.

JSTOR for Alumni

JSTOR is a resource for research, teaching and learning that includes full-text content of more than 1,300 academic journals, and thousands of primary sources. JSTOR includes the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social…

MedlinePlus

Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. Presents up-to-date health care information, selected by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, for use by health care consumers and health professionals. Hundreds of health topics are listed…

Mergent Archives

Mergent Archives is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. Mergent Archives contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries.

Morgan & Claypool Colloquium of Life Sciences

Contains over 400 lectures on artificial intelligence, communication networks, electrical engineering, human-centered informatics, synthetic biology, and life sciences. Books are 50- to 200 pages in length, each of which synthesizes an important…

Morgan & Claypool Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science

Project Muse

Project Muse provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history…

PubMed

Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. Provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and…

PubMed Central

The U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to the full text of articles in PMC is free, except where a journal requires a subscription for access to recent articles.

Sage Journals

Full text access to Sage journals licensed by Cornell University Library. Also provides a searchable database for abstracts and table of contents of all Sage published journals.

Sage Knowledge (ebooks and reference)

A database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American studies, aging & gerontology, anthropology, business and management, communication and media studies,…

Sports Market Analytics

Sports Market Analytics provides searchable news and market research from the National Sporting Goods Association and other industry sources on all aspects of sporting goods, sports equipment, participation, demographics, fan profiles, sports…

Visual History Archive (VHA)

Created by USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Contains some 53,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide recorded in 58 countries and in 34 languages since…

Other Resources

Unfortunately, contracts we sign with vendors prohibit us from providing alumni access to other licensed library resources. Visit your local public library to speak to a reference librarian who can explain access options in your region/state.

Zotero and Mendeley for Citation Management

Zotero and Mendeley are two free, web-based tools for managing citations, organizing pdfs, and creating bibliographies.
Self-guided instruction in the form of tutorials, FAQs, and help are available through Zotero and Mendeley.
Need help transitioning from RefWorks to Zotero or Mendeley? Contact us.

News and Events

CANCELLED Exhibit: Electrifying Music: The Life and Legacy of Robert Moog at Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library

This exhibit draws from Cornell’s rich archive of materials tracing Moog’s lifelong fascination with electricity and its musical possibilities. It features instrument...

CANCELED The Other Side of The Tracks: Discrimination and Social Mobility in the Railroad Industry at Kheel Center, Catherwood Library

"The Other Side of the Tracks” traces the historic struggles and successes of African American and women railroad workers in the twentieth century. This exhibit will be...

Aviation company’s archive donated to Cornell library

06/29/20

The archive of Shannon Engineering Inc., an aviation company that specialized in “hush kits” to muffle the roar of Boeing 707s during takeoff, has landed in Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections .

Containing more than 400 reports and technical drawings detailing various airplanes, helicopters and engine types, the archive is a valuable primary source for scholars researching commercial air travel, aerospace technology, aviation regulation and related topics, said Jill Powell, engineering librarian at Cornell.

“There are going to be people looking at this who are interested in the way engineers worked back in this time period, between 1970 and 2008, when the company was operating,” Powell said.

The archive also gives would-be entrepreneurs a lesson in finding opportunity in times of adversity and change: Getting laid off from Boeing sparked Jack Shannon to start his company, which focused on aircraft performance analysis, testing and certification. When international noise regulations became more stringent, he jumped on the idea of retrofitting Boeing 707 engines to make them compliant.

Shannon credited his company’s success to his team of “experts who cared” about aviation; he donated the company’s archive to Cornell University Library to preserve and make their work accessible for generations of flight scholars and enthusiasts.

“This is a profound compliment to the engineers and employees of Shannon Engineering,” he said.

More information about the Shannon Engineering archive is available at Cornell University Library’s LibGuide online resource .

This story also appeared in the Cornell Chronicle.