Articles & Databases

Spanish language animated, talking picture books. Story books, puzzles and games, audiobooks, and books in other languages are all offered through the NYPL site. 

Cairn.info is an online collection of French language periodicals and ebooks in the social sciences and humanities. 

Provides access to full text of 150 popular journals in Chinese language. 

Searchable full text and full image articles from twelve English-language Chinese newspapers, including the North China Herald, China Press, Peking Daily News, and Shanghai Times.  Includes coverage of the Taiping Rebellion, Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion, and founding of the Republic of China. 

Digitalia is a Hispanic Database of ebooks and ejournals where you will find thousands of ebooks from the most renowned Spanish and Latinamerican Publishing Houses, as well as relevant journals that cover all topics of interest. 

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos is a dedicated Spanish-language database contains videos, selected articles, and a visual dictionary to allow ESL students and Spanish-learners the chance to learn.

Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America.  

Global Press Archive is a diverse database of newspapers from all over the globe, offering access to these four modules: Imperial Russian Newspapers, Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers, Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers and Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers.

This online guide aims to provide a handy, country-by-country list of open access historical news sources produced by the native and diaspora communities of Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe.

This collection represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.  

Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of Readex/Newsbank.

ProQuest Latin American Newsstream provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format. 

This resource was previously named Latin American Newsstand.

Searchable full-text and page images of Literaturnaia gazeta (1929-) a landmark publication in Russia’s cultural heritage which focuses on literary and intellectual life. It is updated once a year. For recent issues see PressReader.

Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided. Download the mobile app.

*First time users must create a profile in order to access the resource.

Searchable full-text and page images of the Russian emigre newspapers Russkoe Slovo (1910-1920) and Novoe Russkoe Slovo (1920-2010) published in New York City. Please note that some years have not yet been digitized.

Searchable full-text and page images of the Russian newspaper Pravda, from its founding in 1912 to 2021. 

Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps.  

A collection of more than one hundred major Russian periodicals, including all 31 journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences ranging in topic from archeology to linguistics, as well as popular literary editions and independent scholarly publications.