NYU Libraries’ Online Systems Back Online

Update: All NYU Libraries’ online systems are back online now.

Many of the NYU Libraries’ online systems will be unavailable for a brief period on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 starting at 8 pm. We anticipate a brief interruption of access to BobCat, journals, databases, interlibrary loan, and E-ZBorrow. Please plan your research accordingly.

We apologize for any inconvenience this outage may cause.

Keep Up with Current Events

Want to keep up with current events, but not ready to subscribe to ALL of the newspapers and magazines you love? Good news! You can access many of your favorite news sources through the NYU Libraries. Check out our newest Research Guide on Accessing Current News Sources, hot off the presses from our colleagues in New York.

You can browse through some of our more popular news sources, browse newspapers by keyword using one of the recommended databases, and learn how to find the most recent issues of a specific newspaper. Questions, comments, or suggestions? Come visit us in the library, or send us an e-mail.

Visiting Librarian from Abu Dhabi

Please join us in welcoming Meggan Houlihan, the First-Year Experience and Instruction Librarian, to NYU Shanghai. She is visiting us from our campus in Abu Dhabi for the month of April.  During that time she’ll be providing research assistance in person and online, and will be teaching several library instruction sessions throughout the month.  Meggan will be located in Room 410 in the library administrative offices.  Please stop by, or email her,if you would like to speak with her, setup a research consultation, oRP_IMG_0290 (4)r just say hello.

Library Catalog Outage & Alternative Solutions

BobCat  (Library Catalog) will be unavailable on Nov 4th from 7:30 pm to 10:30pm for a planned software upgrade.

Here are your alternative options for Locating Library Materials and Services:

1. Searching whether NYU owns a specific book? You can use BobCat Standard.

Go to http://bobcatstandard.library.nyu.edu and do your search.

2. Finding journal articles and searching databases?

Go to http://arch.library.nyu.edu

3. Finding e-journals?

Go to http://library.nyu.edu/collections/ejournals.html

4. Getting assistance. contact Ask-A-Librarian by email, IM or text.

Go to http://library.nyu.edu/ask

Thank you for your patience during this outage.