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
Full-text, fully searchable, scholarly books in the humanities from 19 learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers. All titles appear in Scholar OneSearch.
More Info: Printing: 3 pages at a time
Select scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and professional news from the American Chemical Society.
Digitized primary source material from the Newberry Librarys 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.
Scholarly overviews in 37 academic subjects, mostly biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. Excellent for finding authoritative overviews of new topics.
Market research reports and forecasts
Over 20,000 pathway/genome databases (PGDBs). BioCyc encyclopedias integrate a diverse range of data and provide a high level of curation for important microbes.
Scholarly encyclopedia on a range of topics. Signed articles, references.
This service is available courtesy of Northeastern’s D’Amore McKim School of Business
Cabell’s Directories includes contact information for journals, useful for finding venues for your publicationsNortheastern University has access to the following directories: Accounting, Economics & Finance, Computer Science, Management, Marketing.
Provides information on manuscript preparation, punctuation, spelling, quotations, captions, tables, abbreviations, references, bibliographies, notes, and indexes.
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.
Includes data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.
In-depth, authoritative reports on political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923. Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature.
Northeastern University Masters and PhD degree candidates’ dissertations, submitted to ProQuest’s national thesis clearinghouse, most but not all full text.
Select full text journals and learned association news and information from Duke University Press
Original primary source documents relating to Empire Studies, including decolonization, from libraries and archives around the world. Diaries, images, letters, records.
Signed articles exploring how the rise of social media is altering politics, with a focus on the United States.
A reference work cataloging and mapping all of the worlds known living languages. Since 1951, the Ethnologue has been an active research project involving hundreds of linguists and other researchers.
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.
Global news magazine, providing insights and analysis as well as original reporting.
Includes manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed for hundreds of years; they helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices.
E-books from the Institution of Engineering and Technology and SciTech imprints
Engineering and technology video resources with 11207 talks, presentations, lectures, training videos and news
An encyclopedia of scholarly, footnoted essays on topics and important thinkers in literary criticism. Terms of Use: See
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Journals, but formatted with video, combining high-quality video demonstrations of experiments with detailed text protocols. All content is peer-reviewed and indexed in biomedical databases. Northeastern University has access to all JoVE Video Journals and Science Education subjects.
Peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers related to educational technology and e-learning.
More Info: Formerly known as EditLib.
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.
Full access to prominent journals from the Microbiology Society.
A daily country-by-country summary and translation of news from around the Miiddle East region. Covers news sources from all 22 Arab countries, plus Iran and the Arab diaspora.including key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces
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.
Over 85,000 tracks, emphasizing classical, but also including world music, jazz, folk, and more, available for streaming. Access is limited to 15 users at a time.
Coverage of Asia’s economic, political, business and technology news in English. Established with a goal to change the way the Asia is covered internationally and to enhance the world’s understanding of pan-Asian affairs.
Also includes data on financial markets and top companies in the region.
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.
Northeastern Library’s OverDrive recreational reading collection offers a dynamic array of new and popular e-books and audiobooks. Download the free Libby app to browse the OverDrive library on your mobile device and take your reading or listening on the go. This resource is available to users at all Northeastern campuses.
Combines peer-reviewed scholarly works with news, trending articles, alerts, and author-contributed papers in philosophy. Includes citing works (forward citation).
Selected scholarly journals in mathematics (Euclid Prime and Euclid Select titles available), hosted by Duke and Cornell University. Over 70% of the content is openly available, so it can be shared outside Northeastern.
Full articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, including religion, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, women’s studies, film and the arts.
A leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. All e-books licensed by Northeastern are listed in Scholar OneSearch.
Journals in full text published by Sage, emphasis on the social sciences.
An expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference and video content: reference works, academic books, professional development titles and more.
Business news and professional literature from the MIT Sloan School of Management
Lists all journals, print and electronic, with publisher information, subscription prices, subject descriptions, web locations, and much more.
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.
Early modern women’s writings from 1400 to 1850. Includes searchable full-text of books, poetry, and speeches as well as browse by date, author, and title. Exhibits and teaching tools also available.
Annotated citations for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. International in scope, 120 languages. 1960 to present.