E-Books, Anime, Comics, and Fanfiction
- E-Books at BMCC*
Search CUNY’s hundreds of thousands ebooks - Archive of Our Own (AO3)
A nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. Archive of Our Own hosts over 6 million works in over 40,000 fandoms. - Brooklyn Public Library (BPL)
Access to thousands of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, movies, and more! Get a library card! - Crunchyroll
Massive streaming library of anime. The site is free but a premium subscription lets you watch without the ads. - HathiTrust
Partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. To access their archives, log in as a Guest. - New York Public Library (NYPL)
Download the Simply-E or Libby app to access millions of audiobooks and e-books in all genres. Get a library card! - Open Library from Internet Archive
An open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. - Project Gutenberg
Over 60,000 out of copyright books. - Queens Public Library (QPL)
Access to thousands of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, movies, and more! Get a library card! - Shonen Jump
Many popular manga titles, with a strong back catalog and new chapters the same day as Japan. - Viki.com
Asian TV shows and movies online for free. Premium access provides access to additional content and removes ads. - Webtoons
Contains thousands of creator-owned content in many genres from around the world.
Art
CUNY Arts Pass provides free access to many museums and other cultural institutions in New York City.
- El Museo del Barrio (Free admission to CUNY students, faculty, and staff!)
Explore nearly 100 works from the museum’s permanent collection through the Bloomberg Connects App or view online exhibition catalogues from the last 50 years in the museum’s archives. - Frick Museum (Free admission to CUNY students, faculty, and staff!)
Short talks by curators on great masterpieces in their collection. - J. Paul Getty Museum Online Exhibits and 360 views of collections
Explore paintings, sculpture and architecture online and in virtual reality. - Museum of the City of New York (Free admission to CUNY students, faculty, and staff!)
Explore New York’s past through over 250,000 objects from the museum’s collection. Or use Bloomberg Connects to explore the museum from anywhere! - Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (Free admission for CUNY students, faculty, and staff!)
Immerse yourself in ideas and see your world in new ways through art in MoMA’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera. Also check out MoMA on YouTube. - Whitney Museum of Art (Free admission to CUNY students, faculty, and staff!)
Limited number of online exhibitions are available.. . . and many more!
Movies
- MUBI
A streaming service for film lovers. Students and faculty can sign up for a free account through the Film Schools Program (use your BMCC email address). MUBI offers a rotating selection of streaming films, and a newly expanded library of on-demand films. Browse their catalog here. - Swank*
Over 150 popular films such as Black Panther, The Godfather, Wonder Woman, and more. - For more film databases through BMCC see our video databases page.
- A list of free film databases can be found in the “Find Films” section of this guide from the Graduate Center.
Music
- Naxos Music Library*
Streaming music library of mainly classical and world music. Includes some pop and rock, choral, instrumental, gospel, poetry, spoken word, and relaxation music.
Newspapers
- Free access to two of the most respected newspapers in the country!
- New York Times*
- Wall Street Journal*
For more newspapers see our newspapers page.
Performing Arts
- BroadwayHD
Offering free seven day trials. Provides online access to Broadway plays, musicals, and more. - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Offers free streaming videos of ballet, opera, and classical music. - Theatre Development Fund Membership (CUNY students, faculty, and staff can join for $10)
All tickets cost only $11-$57 – even for top Broadway, Off-Broadway, Dance, Music and other live performances! Save up to 70% on hundreds of theatre, dance and music shows daily. - TDF Broadway Passport series is free for CUNY students, faculty and staff to join and offers $20 and $40 tickets to participating Broadway shows.
More!
- Bronx Zoo Live Cams (Admission to the Bronx Zoo is free to NYC undergraduate college students.)
The Bronx Zoo is streaming footage from their Sea Lion Pool, Aquatic Bird House and their Madagascar exhibits from 10am to 4pm daily. In addition, you can also see footage from the New York Aquarium. Tune in for regular animal feedings! - Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Open Sea Cam
The Open Sea Cam is live every day on the website, and showcases the aquarium’s million-gallon Open Sea exhibition, highlighting open-ocean species from the California current, Hawaii and Mexico! - National Geographic Virtual Library*
The complete archive of the National Geographic Magazine from 1888 to the mid-1990s.
*BMCC databases. Login with your CUNY login – what you use for Blackboard and CUNYFirst. If you are not able to access any of the BMCC databases, please contact us via the chat box on the right hand side of the page or email us.
