How to access full text articles, streaming films, and ebooks

You may feel frustrated searching Google after finding paywalls or questionable statements. The library has purchased many subscriptions to research, books, and film which may reveal this locked content. Unfortunately, you have to start from inside the library pages, logged in with you NYU NetID, for the subscriptions to recognize you are connected to our subscriptions. Let’s see how to do that.

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Step 1: Open NYU Shanghai Library Website: https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/library Step 2: Click the “Articles & Databases” tab

Articles and Databases tab on library’s homepage

Step 3: Locate “Content-Specific” databases

Highlight the location of Content-specific links

Step 4: Access “Ebook Collections”, “Video Collections” and more

Location for Ebook, Newspapers, and Video collections

Step 5: Explore our content-specific collections based on your own research needs

Ebooks

Ebook collection webpage

Video

Video Collections webpage

News & Newspapers

Newspaper collections webpage