Online Research for Alumni
The library is pleased to provide the following online resources for Northeastern alumni. This list is determined by our vendor licenses and is subject to change.
Legal agreements for our electronic resources restrict their use to educational purposes only.
Online Resources
ACLS Humanities Ebooks (American Council of Learned Societies)
American Chemical Society Publications
American Indian Histories and Cultures (Adam Matthew)
Digitized primary source material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection, dating from the earliest contact with European settlers up to the mid-twentieth century.
- What this includes: manuscripts, art work, newspapers, treaties, speeches,diaries, historic maps,photographs.
Annual Reviews
BCC Research
BioCyc
Britannica Academic (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Cabell’s Directories
More Info: Northeastern University has access to the following directories from Cabell’s:
- Accounting
- Economics & Finance
- Computer Science
- Management
- Marketing
- This service is available courtesy of Northeastern’s D’Amore McKim School of Business
Cambridge Histories Online
Chicago Manual of Style
Colonial America (Adam Matthew Digital)
This online collection from the UK National Archives, currently being digitized, covers the period 1606-1822. Among the correspondence are diaries, maps, broadsides, laws, public notices, newspaper clippings, and more. Images of the original documents and searchable full text, also searchable by date, name, theme, region and more.
More Info: The entire collection will eventually consist of all 1,450 files from the CO 5 volumes of original correspondence between the governers of British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and their responsible departments in Britain.
CQ Press Library (Congressional Quarterly Press)
Almanacs, data, and news publications relating to Congress and the US government.
CQ Researcher
CQ Voting and Elections
Dissertations and Theses @ Northeastern (NU dissertations only)
Duke University Press e-journals
Empire Online
More Info: View nature and scope information.
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (IGI)
Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics 2014 (Sage)
Ethnologue : Languages of the World
Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital)
This collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980.
More Info: These formerly restricted British government documents, consisting of diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, maps, reports of court cases, biographies of leading personalities, summaries of events and diverse other materials, provide unprecedented levels of detail into one of the most turbulent centuries of Chinese history.
Foreign Policy
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration, and Cultural Exchange (Adam Matthew Digital)
IET Digital Library
IET.tv
Institute of Physics
Johns Hopins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
An encyclopedia of scholarly, footnoted essays on topics and important thinkers in literary criticism.
Terms of Use: See “Show License” on this page
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
LearnTechLib
More Info: Formerly known as EditLib.
Mergent Intellect
A fully searchable database with detailed information on businesses including both active/inactive companies as well as daily updates on executives.
More Info: Allows searching of public companies by SIC, NAICS or HIC code, and to generate a list of companies meeting certain criteria for researchers to do industry and investment analysis.
Microbiology Society Journals
MideastWire
Natural Medicines
High quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
More Info: Natural Medicine is a merger of two resources, Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive databases.
Naxos Music Library
Online Tourism and Digital Economies (IGI Global)
A specialized collection of 13 online encyclopedias in the field of hospitality, travel and tourism management, consumer management, e-commerce, the digital divide and developing countries, and more.
More Info: Supports research in the impact of technology on the management of cultural content and tourism.
PhilPapers
Project EUCLID
Project MUSE
Project Muse Ebooks
Proquest Dissertations and Theses @ Northeastern
SAGE Journals
Sage Knowledge
Sloan Management Review
Ulrichs Web
Lists all journals, print and electronic, with publisher information, subscription prices, subject descriptions, web locations, and much more.
- Tutorial: This video shows you how to use Ulrich’s to find out if a journal is peer-reviewed. There is also a PDF/slide version
Westlaw Campus Research
Search federal and state court cases, statutes and codes as well as European Union laws and regulations. Secondary sources include the American Law Reports and the American Jurisprudence encyclopedia, law reviews, journals, and newspapers.
- Tutorials: Find cases and articles in Westlaw, video or PDF