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The Northeastern University Library Is Now Offering Trials for the spring 2026 semester:

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.
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The Library is currently offering trial access to the SimplyAnalytics API.  It gives you a powerful new way to access their curated datasets directly, so you can integrate  demographic, spending, health, and behavioral data into your own:

  • Applications
  • Dashboards
  • Data pipelines
  • Modeling workflows

The trial includes API access to a wide range of datasets & Years:

  • Community Demographics: 2010–2025, plus 2028–2030 (2030 coming soon)
  • Consumer Expenditure Estimates: 2015–2019, 2021–2023 (2023 coming soon)
  • 2020 Election Data
  • Decennial Census: 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020
  • American Community Survey: 2010–2025, plus projections 2028–2030
  • County Business Patterns: 2010–2023
  • Uniform Crime Reporting: 2007–2016, 2019–2020
  • Climate Divisional Database: 2019–2023
  • SimplyAnalytics Health – CDC PLACES: 2018-2024

Seamless Integration: Works with Python out of the box. Tableau, Power BI, and custom apps are fully compatible. (R support planned for 2026.) 

Generate Your API Key: To use the API, a user will first need to login to their SimplyAnalytics account (or create one if needed – guest users cannot generate an API key). Next, select the username towards the top-right of the interface > Generate Key, and lastly, select the “Generate” button – image below for reference

If you have questions on this, please contact Bahare Sanaie-Movahed

The trial for the SimplyAnalytics API will end on Feb. 13, 2026.
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The Library is currently offering trial access to Dave Leip’s Atlas of Elections via the SimplyAnalytics platform.  SimplyAnalytics, with the addition of this electoral atlas into the SimplyAnalytic data now offers multi-dimensional analyses that blend political, social, economic, and behavioral data.

 

Dave Leip’s Election Atlas incorporates the following data:  

  • U.S. Presidential Vote

Years: 2000-2024 (back to 1992 available by late December)
County Level

  • U.S. Senate Vote

Years: 2000-2024 (back to 1990 available by late December)
County Level

  • U.S. House Vote

Years: 2000-2024 (back to 1990 available by late December)
County & CD Level

  • Gubernatorial Vote

Years: 2000-2024 (back to 1990 available by late December)
County Level

  • Voter Registration & Turnout

Years: 2000-2022 even years (back to 1992 available by late December)
County Level

Future Years of the above offices as new datasets are released.

The trial for the Atlas of Elections will end on Feb. 13, 2026.
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