Database Trials
The Northeastern University Library Is Now Offering Trials for the spring 2026 semester:
The Library is now offering trial access to Adam Matthew’s Colonial Caribbean: Colonial Office Files from The National Archives, UK
Digitized collection of materials covering the history of the various territories under British colonial governance from 1624 to 1870, sourced from 27 Colonial Office file classes from The National Archives, UK. The contents includes administrative documentation, trade and shipping records, council meeting minutes, and details of plantation life, slavery, pirates, colonial settlement, imperial rivalries across the region, and the growing concern of absentee landlords.
The current trial includes all three modules: I. Settlement, Slavery and Empire, 1624-1832; II. Colonial Government and Abolition, 1833-1849; III. Economic Change and Indentured Labour, 1850-1870.
The trial for Colonial Caribbean will end on April 24th, 2026. Please take the time to let us know your thoughts on this resource by taking this short survey
The Library is now offering trial access to Adam Matthew’s Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900
Primary sources in maritime archives and collections document the lives of seafarers in the Anglo-American maritime world from 1600-1900, from personal memoirs, ships’ logs, and court records.
The trial for Life at Sea will end on April 24th, 2026. Please take the time to let us know your thoughts on this resource by taking this short survey
The Library is now currently offering trial access to the University Press Library on degruyterbrill.com. This includes monographs from university presses such as Princeton University, Duke University, New York University, University of California, University of Chicago, Cornell, Yale University and many more. The trial offers access to monographs, going back quite far. It will not give you access to books with a 2024 or 2025 copyright year, unless they happen to be open access titles on the platform.
If you have questions on the trial, please contact Amy Lewontin, Collection Development Librarian
The trial for the University Press Library on degruyter-brill.com will end on April 30th, 2026.
Please take the time to let us know your thoughts on this resource by taking this short survey
The Library is now currently offering trial access to the British Online Archives Collection entitled The Political Culture of British Communism,1920–1999.
National Congress was the supreme decision-making body of the Communist Party of
Great Britain (CPGB). Congress delegates from across the Party’s districts and branches
met bi-annually in order to elect members to key political bodies, to vote on resolutions
and on other policy issues, and to fraternize with fellow members and representatives of
international communist parties. Congress was a hive of activity and often the scene
of high political drama as tensions frayed and factions fought over the direction of the Party.
From the Communist Unity Convention in 1920, at which the CPGB was formed, to the
Forty-Third National Congress in 1991, which saw the dissolution of the Party, this
collection offers a detailed insight into the political culture and unique democratic
processes of the CPGB. The collection is accompanied by three contextual articles written by Professor Kevin Morgan.
The trial for The Political Culture of British Communism, 1920-1999 will begin on March 25th and end on April 15th, 2026.