Generation Y

Statistics

• FedStats
• Statistical Universe [NYU-Only]
  Search by keyword; includes statistics from government agencies, as well as associations.
• Virtual Business Library [NYU-Only]
  Provides links to marketing databases which may provide lifestyle statistics.
• The Millennials :Americans born 1977 to 1994 [BOOK: 1st Floor Reference HQ796.M4797 2006]
  

Determining who may have already written about your topic

• LexisNexis [NYU-Only]

Finding experts and scholarly material

• Find an association
  • Encyclopedia of Associations [NYU-Only]
• Search a scholarly database to find an expert
  • Find Databases By Subject
    Examples:
    • PsycINFO[NYU-Only]
    • SocIndex with Full Text[NYU-Only]
    • Proquest[NYU-Only]

• Try searching Google to see if there has been a conference on your topic. Conference speakers can be a useful source.
  
• Search to see if there are any experts at NYU

Other Resources

• USC Marshall Demographics Resources for Youth (includes Gen Y)
  Links to freely available reports on Gen Y.
• Ypulse.com
  Marketing publication for Gen Y

Food Writing

Definitions and history of food and drink terms and culinary techniques

• Larousse Gastronomique [1st Floor Reference TX349 .M613]
• Oxford Companion to Food [1st Floor Reference TX349 .D38 1999]
• An A to Z of Food and Drink [NYU Only]
• Encyclopedia of Food and Culture [NYU Only]
• Cambridge World History of Food [NYU Only]

Finding Newspaper Articles

LexisNexis

• Search the food section of newspapers; section search option is available under SHOW
• Search the blogs category to pick up food and New York-centric blog entries (Gothamist, etc.)
• Search New York Newspapers for local restaurant reviews and food articles.

Finding Magazine Articles

Tips:

1. Only a few databases cover the popular magazines, such as Gourmet and Bon Appetit. If you need to find an article from a popular magazine (not a scholarly article), try the places recommended below.
2. Some magazines, such Saveur, are not indexed by any database. You may have to rely on that magazine’s website to identify articles.
3. NYU Libraries may not have extensive holdings for some of these magazines, and the full-text may not be available online. To get an article, it may be necessary to interlibrary loan or check to see if NYPL owns the magazine.

These are the databases that cover popular and/or food magazines:

• Readers Guide to Periodical Literature [NYU Only]
• Ebsco Masterfile Select [NYU Only]
• Proquest [NYU Only]
• Hospitality and Tourism Index [NYU Only]

Writing Guidelines

• Association of Food Journalists
  Site includes a list of resources, including Critic Guidelines

Blogs

• The Tasting Menu
• Chowhound

Finding Books

• For books, search BobCat
• Do a subject search (Phrase Search > enter official subject heading (below) > choose Subject (LCSH))
• Try searching for the following subject headings: cookery; food writing; cooks (for biographies)

Food and Cookery Collections

• Books For Cooks
• Cookery Collection at NYPL

Journalistic Inquiry

Getting Started: Reference Sources

• Quick Reference Sources
  Lists useful reference sources by category (ex. biographies, directories, etc.). Many are [NYU-Only].
• CQ Public Affairs [NYU-ONLY]
  Provides in-depth reporting on issues. Great for covering controversial topics.
• Fedstats
  Topical gateway to statistics collected by the government.

Finding Biographical Info

• Ancestry Library[NYU-Only]
  Provides basic info (addresses, birth/death dates), etc. for individuals in the US. Draws from census and other mailing directories.
• Marquis Who’s Who [PRINT]
  These guides provide basic biographical information. These can be useful for less well-known field. Numerous Who’s Whos in different fields are published. To find Who’s Who, search for Who’s Who as a title in Bobcat.
• Biography Resource Center [NYU-Only]
  Provides access to articles and full-text entries for individuals. (Better for well-known people.)

Finding News

• LexisNexis [NYU-Only]
  For more LexisNexis search tips see the LexisNexis post.
• Factiva [NYU-Only]
  Like LexisNexis, Factiva covers tons of news sources. There is overlap, but Factiva tends to be better on the trades.
  • TIPS–Use the hlp command to tell it to find your keywords in the Headline Lead Paragraph Ex. hlp=nolita
  • Click on Custom to see all of the searchable field abbreviations.
  • Use the Region menu to limit your search to sources/articles identified with that region.
• EthnicNewsWatch[NYU-Only]
  Includes ethnic newspapers. Note some newspapers may be non-English.

Ethnic Groups and Neighborhoods in New York

Getting Started: Reference Books

• Bobst Library has a number of books on New York City, New York City neighborhoods, and ethnic groups in New York City. Most books are in the 1st floor Reference area at the call number F 128.

Finding New York News

• LexisNexis –New York News Sources [NYU-Only]
  This pre-defined category searches the New York Post, Village Voice, New York Magazine, New York Times, Crain’s New York Business, and more. For more LexisNexis search tips see the LexisNexis post.
• Factiva [NYU-ONLY]
  Like LexisNexis, Factiva covers tons of news sources. There is overlap, but Factiva tends to be better on the trades. (Factiva also includes Time Out which is not included in LexisNexis.)
  • TIPS–Use the hlp command to tell it to find your keywords in the Headline Lead Paragraph Ex. hlp=nolita
  • Click on Custom to see all of the searchable field abbreviations.
  • Use the Region menu to limit your search to sources/articles identified with that region.
• EthnicNewsWatch[NYU-Only]
  Includes ethnic newspapers from NYC communities. Note some newspapers may be non-English. Sources include: El Diario, El Prensa, New York Jewish Weekly, India in New York, New Voice of New York, etc.
• Gotham Gazette
  Includes “New York City News and Policy” articles as well as links to tons of NYC resources.
  • Check out the Links Section (lower left side bar) for links to Org(anizations) and News Sites (local weeklies, non-English press, etc.)
  • Click on Manhattan in the Boros section to find out more about neighborhood resources. NYC Blogs are also listed.

Neighborhood Information

See also Community/Neighborhood Information

• Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit: Community Boards (available via the NYC.gov site)
  Use this to identify your community board. Lists contacts, as well as websites (when a board has a website).

• Department of City Planning (available via the NYC.gov site)
  Use the Reference area to identify your community district and get a statistical community district profile. Use Projects and Proposals to see what projects are in the pipe.
• InfoShare
  Provides more in-depth statistics for neighborhoods including immigration stats. Search by neighborhood, zipcode or community district number.
• My Neighborhood Statistics
  Allows you to visualize land-use, as well as data for a neighborhood. See where post-offices, schools, etc. are located in your neighborhood.
• EveryBlockNYC
  Combines news stories, civic information (building permits, restaurant closings, complaints, etc), and web content (photos from flickr) by location. Search for your neighborhood to see what’s going on.
• Search BobCat for books
  • Search by the neighborhood’s name ex. Fort Greene
  • Select “Subject Heading (LCSH)” from the pull-down menu
  • Click on a subject heading to see the titles NYU owns
• Check out your neighborhood branch of the public library
  Click on the Map on the left sidebar to find branches in your neighborhood. Branch libraries often have information about the neighborhood they serve.

Immigration/Ethnic Groups in a Community

• Newest New Yorkers 2000: Immigrant New York in the New Millennium from the NYC Department of City Planning, Population Division. Access via the Index to Current Urban Documents (NYU-ONLY). Once in the database, search for “Newest New Yorkers”.
• Search BobCat for books
  • Try a subject heading search for Immigrants–New York (State)–New York OR the specific ethnic group, ex. East Indians–New York (State) –New York
• Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
  Includes a directory of services for immigrants in NYC (including associations, etc.)
• IPA-NY -IndyPress
  Includes Voices that Must Be Heard series (which includes translated articles) and a link to a map of Ethnic Press in NYC.

Literary Journalism: Cataclysm and Commitment

Getting Started: Useful Reference Sources
Most of these titles are located in the Reference section on the 1st floor of Bobst.

• Literary journalism : a biographical dictionary of writers and editors / Edd Applegate. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996. [Ref 1 PN4820.A66 1996]
  Includes biographies, chronologies, and major publications of writers and editors who fall into the literary journalism category.
• Historical dictionary of war journalism / Mitchel P. Roth ; James S. Olson, advisory editor. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997. [Ref 1 PN4784.W37 R68 1997] (also available electronically)
• The American Historical Association’s guide to historical literature / general editor, Mary Beth Norton ; associate editor, Pamela Gerardi. 3rd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, c1995. [Ref 1 Z6201 .A55]
  Useful for identifying core historical works. Organized by region/country/time period. Use the subject index (Vol 2) to locate concepts, etc.

Topical Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of war crimes and genocide / Leslie Alan Horvitz and Christopher Catherwood. New York : Facts on File, c2006. [Ref HV6322.7 .H67 2006]Topical entries include further references; great for definitions.
• Encyclopedia of genocide / Israel W. Charny, editor in chief ; forewords by Desmond M. Tutu and Simon Wiesenthal Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1999. [Ref 1 HV6322.7 .E53 1999]
  Organized thematically; includes some primary source documents.
• Identify an encyclopedia:
  • Search BobCat using the keyword search
  • Search for your topic (in title) AND encyclopedia (in title)

Finding Books

Use BobCat to find books.

TIPS for searching BobCat
For topics, go in through the “back door”

• Go to Keyword Search
• Search for your keywords (in title)
• Once you find a relevant title, see what subject headings have been assigned to it.
• Click on those subject headings to further your researchLooking for info about a journalist/author/person?
• Go to Phrase Search
• Enter the author’s name in reverse order
• Select Subject(LCSH) from the pull-down menu.

Finding Scholarly Articles

• America: History and Life (1964 to present) AND Historical Abstracts (1973 to present)
  Great for getting the historian’s perspective. Search the two databases together.
• PAIS (Public Affairs International Service) (1972 to present)
  Scholarly articles with an international affairs/political science p.o.v.
• Communication and Mass Media Complete (1915 to present)
  Includes scholarly and popular articles examining media from a cultural, critical perspective. Good resource if you’re looking for analysis of coverage of an event.
• Modern Language Association Bibliography (1884 to present)
  This database tends to be used more for lit topics, but can be useful for finding critical analysis on authors/journalists.
  

Finding Translated News/News in English

• World News Connection (1995-present)
  Offers translated and English language news and information that is provided to the National Technical Information Service by the Open Source Network (formerly Foreign Broadcast Information Service). Compiled from non-United States media sources, covers political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events. Contains information derived from full-text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.

• Foreign Broadcast Information Service Index (1975-1996)
  The predecessor to WorldNewsConnect, it is an index to the FBIS extracts of news from the world press (in English). Information from foreign radio, television, news agency transmissions, newspapers, books and periodicals. Foreign language items are translated, English language items are transcribed. Actual FBIS documents are in microform on LL2.
• Factiva
  • Includes both English and non-English newspapers and newswires. Covers more languages than LexisNexis.
  • Supports non-roman character searching
  • Search by Region (Country) to see all of the stories about that country/region; includes stories from all sources (English and non-English).
  • Search by Sources to identify and search sources from a specific region/country.
  • Be sure to change languages to ALL Languages if you want to pick up non-English. (The default is English.)

  Access World News
  

  • Includes over 600+ U.S.news sources and 700+ international news sources—newspapers and wires.
  • English-only.
  • Provides a convenient map for browsing news sources from a country or region.

Finding Historical Coverage of Events in Newspapers

New York City Neighborhoods

Use travel guides and books to familiarize yourself with your neighborhood

• Bobst Library has a number of books on New York City and New York City neighborhoods, including travel guides which can be useful for learning more about your neighborhood. Most materials are in the 1st floor Reference area at the call number F 128.

Read news coverage of your neighborhood

• LexisNexis –New York News Sources [NYU-Only]
  This pre-defined category searches the New York Post, Village Voice, New York Magazine, New York Times, Crain’s New York Business, and more. For more LexisNexis search tips see the LexisNexis post.
• Factiva [NYU-ONLY]
  Like LexisNexis, Factiva covers tons of news sources. There is a lot of overlap, but Factiva tends to be better on the trades. (Factiva also includes Time Out which is not included in LexisNexis.TIPS–Use the hlp command to tell it to find your keywords in the Headline Lead Paragraphex. hlp=nolita

  –Click on “Custom to see all of the searchable field abbreviations.

  –Use the Region menu to limit your search to sources/articles identified with that region.

• Gotham Gazette
  Includes “New York City News and Policy” articles as well as links to tons of NYC resources. Check out the Links Section (lower left side bar) for links to Org(anizations) and News Sites (local weeklies, etc.) Click on Manhattan in the Boros section to find out more about neighborhood resources. NYC Blogs are also listed.
• EveryBlockNYC
  Combines news stories, civic information (building permits, restaurant closings, complaints, etc), and web content (photos from flickr) by location. Search for your neighborhood to see what’s going on.

Identify your community board

• Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit: Community Boards (available via the NYC.gov site)
  Lists contacts, as well as websites (when a board has a website).
• Find Your Community Board
  A list with contact and web address information for local community boards in all 5 boroughs. Community Board websites typically contain demographic and statistical data, in addition to constituent services. (Not all community boards have websites.)

Identify your neighborhood’s characteristics
Note: lots of data is organized around the community district # (same as the board number)

• Department of City Planning (available via the NYC.gov site)
  Use the Reference area to identify your community district and get a statistical community district profile. Use Projects and Proposals to see what projects are in the pipe.

• My Neighborhood Statistics
  Allows you to visualize land-use, as well as data for a neighborhood. See where post-offices, schools, etc. are located in your neighborhood.

Neighborhood Planning

• PlanNYC Portal
  See what projects are planned for your neighborhood
• Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
  Check out their State of New York Neighborhoods report.

Immigrant Populations in Neighborhoods

• See the Newest New Yorkers 2000: Immigrant New York in the New Millennium from the NYC Department of City Planning, Population Division. Access via the Index to Current Urban Documents (NYU-ONLY). Once in the database, search for “Newest New Yorkers”.

Stars in your neighborhood

• Star Map
  From New York Magazine’s August 7, 2006 article “Notes on New York’s Celebrity Infestation by Adam Sternbergh.