Database Trials
The Northeastern University Library Is Currently Offering Trial Access to These Resources:
The Library is current offering trial access to The World Religion Database (WRD), hosted at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA), which contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides information from country censuses as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of religion and non-religion in the past, present, and future.
To access the data on the site, at the menu on the right top of the page, click on ACCESS DATA, and you will have full access to the resource.
The WRD offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world’s religions (18 categories, including atheists and agnostics) for the period 1900 to 2050. The WRD will be updated with new information as it becomes available, such as estimates of religious affiliation at the province level within countries and religious freedom information for all countries.
The trial for The World Religion Database will end on October 27th 2026.
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The Library is currently offering trial access to Dimensions. Dimensions is a large database that indexes peer reviewed journal literature, conference proceedings, books, book chapters, preprints, awarded grants, policy documents, datasets, patents, clinical trials, and more. With the breadth of content indexed in the database, and the robust reporting and analysis tools included, Dimensions can be a very useful tool for understanding and reporting on the research and scholarship produced at Northeastern, as well as a benchmarking tool for comparison with other institutions.
Dimensions Trial: https://trial.dimensions.ai/ (Use this link to access the trial) and click on "Register for free" using your Northeastern email address.
If you have an existing free account through app.dimensions.ai, this is a separate Dimensions platform, and you will not be able to access the trial there. Use the provided trial.dimensions.ai link. You should see, once you have created your trial account, that you now have 15 filters on the left hand side, and at the left side, top, it should say, Dimensions trial version.
There is a lot of useful material at the Dimensions Learning Center
- General Overview Video
- Search Options Overview
- Network Maps
- Discover Funding Trends
- View Collaborators
The trial for Dimensions will end on November 2, 2026.
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The Library is currently offering trial access to the dynamic, reaction and structure searchable Database version of Science of Synthesis from Thieme. Science of Synthesis provides critical reviews on synthetic methodology in organic and organometallic chemistry.
Science of Synthesis is the largest collection of evaluated organic synthetic methods available worldwide, including over 20,000 reliable methods and experimental procedures. A reaction search engine combined with a user-friendly browsing mode allow specific examples to be viewed in chemical context.
Also available for trial use from Thieme, is Science of Synthesis E-Book format
This is text but not structure-searchable
Access is open to the full series for your exploration, including the 150 volumes in the Science of Synthesis Original Series, Reference Library, and Knowledge Updates. Furthermore, the predecessor series Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry (1909 – 2000; comprising 150 volumes) is also available for use during the trial.
The trials for the two versions of Science of Synthesis will end on October 31, 2026.
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