Databases A-Z

Children's Literature and Childhood provides a wide range of primary sources related to the experience of childhood in the long nineteenth century. Included in the archive are books and periodicals for children, primers and other material related to education, pamphlets produced by child welfare groups, documents and photos related to children and crime, newspapers produced by youths, and much more. Curated by experts in the field of children's literature, this unique assemblage of material is sourced from such renowned institutions as the University of Florida's Baldwin Library Collection of Historical Children's Literature, the National Archives (UK), and the British Library, among others.

Newspaper, magazine, and academic peer-reviewed articles from leading publications and reference sources.  Interdisciplinary in scope, the database includes abstracting and indexing for nearly 15,000 publications, over 6,000 of them peer reviewed and 10,500+ full text, covering all academic subjects.

Access World News includes current and archived news content from more than 12,700 sources spanning 200+ countries and territories, combining all formats – full-text articles, web-only content, PDF image editions – in a single interface providing researchers with seamless access to deep, comprehensive local coverage. View the full list of sources.

AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill provides access to more than 50 medical titles, updated content, thousands of photos and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device.

An online resource for pharmaceutical education, with textbooks, handbooks, quick answers and tips. (McGraw Hill)

This database brings together scholarly journals with resources for locating results covering news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing current accounting and tax issues.

The ACM Digital Library contains full-text access to most ACM periodicals and conference proceedings from 1985 to the present, including proceedings and publications of affiliated societies. It replaces the library's suite of print ACM subscriptions.

Created from the Library Company’s Afro-Americana Collection—an accumulation that began with Benjamin Franklin—this online resource provides researchers with more than 12,000 printed works about the African American experience, Africa and the Caribbean, and including works by African American authors. These books, pamphlets and broadsides, inform history, politics, religious, and literary studies. 

The US National Agriculture Library's catalog of books and articles relating to agriculture.

Contains information needed by medical and scientific researchers, writers, and editors to produce well-organized, clear, readable, and authoritative manuscripts.

High quality academic journals from the American Chemical Society.

Available titles limited to a select collection.  

High-quality academic journals from the American Institute of Physics.

This history database has songs by and about Native Americans, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Included are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

An exceptional compilation of document types from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies as well as records from federal agencies. Issues of the challenging times chronicled span women's rights, environmental issues, urban renewal, rural development, tax reform, civil rights, space exploration, international trade, War on Poverty, and the Watergate trials. Kennedy files include documents from the 1960 presidential campaign and cover the major issues of the Kennedy presidency including women's rights, urban renewal, rural development, tax reform, civil rights, space exploration, and international trade.

APA Books E-collection contains the full text of 80 books having to do with the behavioral sciences from the American Psychological Association. 

The ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. Includes more than 73,000 full-text papers from ASCE journals and proceedings and more than 500 e-books and standards with more added each year.

High-quality academic journals from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

AnatomyTV provides human anatomical illustrations accompanied by three-dimensional animations that demonstrate function, biomechanics and surgical procedures.

To supplement the core three-dimensional anatomy data are clinical videos and text written by some of the world’s leading medical specialists.

Users may have to enable pop-up windows for this resource to work correctly. Complete user guide available here.

An online service of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource offers access to backfiles of up to 100 years, as well as current content from AAA's 32 anthropological publications which includes journals, books, monographs, bulletins and newsletters.

This edition of the ARL Statistics describes the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities for the 126 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in fiscal year 2010-2011.

A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts. This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, photography, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. See system requirements for optimal use.

Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues.

Fully digitized coverage of the African American newspaper  Atlanta Daily World from 1931-2003.

The entire BBC Shakespeare, produced in the 1970s and 1980s, now viewable from any computer or other device connected to the internet.  These productions include some of Britain’s most distinguished performers, and productions range from quite traditional to more adventurous.  View the plays in their entirety, or link to specific Acts for teaching and presentation; turn Closed Captioning on or off with a single click.

The BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) provides a reference on the genomes, metabolic pathways, and (in some cases) regulatory networks of thousands of sequenced organisms.

An independent online publishing house; provides immediate free access to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research. Northeastern's membership reduces article-processing charges for Northeastern-affiliated authors who publish with BMC journals.

A comprehensive view of life sciences research, including the most important discoveries, significant influences and relevant connections. BIOSIS Citation Index combines the BIOSIS Previews content with cited references from the Web of Science databases.

Inclues tags to vital data such as Enzyme Commission numbers, and cross-references to gene, disease, and organism names. 

Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1. The Organizational Records and Personal Papers bring a new perspective to the Black Freedom Struggle via the records of major civil rights organizations and personal papers of leaders and observers of the 20th century Black freedom struggle. The three major civil rights organizations are the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Papers of civil rights leaders included in this module are those of the civil rights and labor leader A. Philip Randolph; the long-time civil rights activist and organizer of the March on Washington, Bayard Rustin, and the papers of the pioneering educator Mary McLeod Bethune.

5100 digitized photographs from the Northeastern Library's Archives and Special Collections. The photographs date from about 1915-2000, with the bulk of the material dating from 1940-1995, mostly in black and white.

They photographs individuals who have directed, organized, advised, and staffed the BGCB, including Executive Directors Arthur T. Burger (1935-1960) and William Lynch (1960-1967). They also provide information about awards given by the clubhouses for achievement in sports, games, and academics, and detail clubhouse sponsored contests in which members participated. They document the facilities of the BGCB, specifically Charlestown, Roxbury, and South Boston, as well as buildings within the Boston communities. Photographs concerning promotional campaigns, such as images from window exhibits, billboards, and MBTA stations are represented.  Also documented are BGCB fund raisers, many of which involved celebrities, including Roger Clemens, Senator Ted Kennedy, Jackie Robinson, and Ted Williams.

The images provide a glimpse into the clubhouses and the activities in which the children were involved. The largest group of photographs falls under the category of program and events, including many types of educational programs including tutoring programs, classes, and workshops. Highlights include images from the Bunker Hillbillies and the Tom Pappas Chefs Club. Photographs of events held by the clubs, such as their 100th Anniversary in 1993 and the annual road race in Charlestown are also included here.

Link to most recent issue.

Historical and current access to the Boston Globe. Includes variations on the title: Daily Boston Globe and Boston Daily Globe. Historic content (1872-1990) includes a PDF view of the newspaper including illustrations, charts, and advertisements. After 1990, only text is available.

For more than 40 years (1972-2013), the Phoenix was Boston's alternative newspaper of record, the first word on social justice, politics, as well as the arts and music scene. 

The Phoenix and its sister publications are digitized and are available from 1973-2013 through a partnership with the Internet Archive.

An author index covering 1973-1990 allows searching by the journalist's name for issues and articles that can be individually requested for digitization.

The documents, images, and posters in this digital collection were selected from the Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción records and the La Alianza Hispana records held in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department.  These records available in this online collection document public policy formation, community relations, affordable housing, urban planning and housing rehabilitation, cultural and educational programming, violence prevention, and minority rights in Boston during the last decades of the 20th century.

Formerly called 19th Century British Newspapers, the British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

Get help on primary source basics and how to use this collection.

BuildingGreen provides comprehensive content on sustainable design practices and green building materials, shares expertise and lessons learned from design experts working in the field, and builds context for sustainable design strategies and what makes a building product or material green.

This online version of the 7th Edition of the major reference work, offering access to broad coverage of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery for new, as well as experienced, medicinal chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, and molecular biologists.

Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans.

Completely searchable full text of more than 300 volumes in the Cambridge Histories series. Explore American and British history, ancient history, Islamic history, economic history, the histories of philosophy, science, music, literature, religion, social histories, and much more. "My Histories" allows you to create and share a personalized library with your own bookmarks and notes.

Stable links to PDFs of books and book chapters can be inserted into Blackboard.

Printing: one chapter at a time

Over 2,000 documents and images selected from the Carmen Pola papers held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections.  The records document Pola’s work with the Massachusetts Advocacy Center’s Project to Monitor the Code of Discipline, the Boston Public School’s Bilingual Education program, and her community activism efforts for the annual Puerto Rican Festival, Festival Puertorriqueño, in Boston.

Catalog of Government Publications lists all documents published by the Government Printing Office from July 1976 to present.

ccAdvisor offers reviews and analysis of hundreds of information resources including databases, ebook collections, open access resources, and image and video collections. ccAdvisor provides scorecards, reviews by subject experts, and comparison tables to save researchers time and effort locating the best sources for study.

Search across more than 800,000 doctoral dissertations and Habilitationsschriften from universities outside of the U.S. and Canada. 

A demand purchase program allows Northeastern's library to order foreign dissertations at no charge as part of our CRL membership. Searching is open to all, but ordering dissertations requires current NU faculty, staff, or student status.

Use the thesis request form in ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan system, to request dissertations from outside the US and Canada. We will take care of the rest.  Please note dissertations ordered from CRL will take longer to provide than other interlibrary materials.

US federal, state and local tax law information including cases, codes, and regulations as well as news updates. Formerly called RIA Checkpoint Tax.

If you are experiencing difficulties on-campus, try this alternative link.

Provides information on manuscript preparation, punctuation, spelling, quotations, captions, tables, abbreviations, references, bibliographies, notes, and indexes, with sections on journals and electronic media.

Gain insight into Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers. Included are critical perspectives on the ending of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China, the Taiping Rebellion, the Opium Wars with Great Britain, the Boxer Rebellion and the events leading up to the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, and the subsequent founding of the Republic of China. In addition to the article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads that illuminate history.

Current Northeastern faculty, staff and students have free access to the Chronicle one of three ways:

On-campus networks: Connect directly to the Chronicle web site at https://www.chronicle.com

Anywhere, with your myNortheastern username and password:

• Use this link off-campus https://link.ezproxy.neu.edu/login?url=https://www.chronicle.com
• Optionally, you can use  a browser plugin that customizes any journal URL the library subscribes to, allowing access with your myNortheastern username and password. See the library bookmarklet here.

Anywhere, by setting up a personal Chronicle account: Set up a free personal account here using your Northeastern email address. (Northeastern faculty, staff and students)

• With a web browser, sign in with your personal account and password. No special URL or plugin necessary. 
• Alternatively, download the Chronicle app for your device, and use your personal account for setup.

Using a mobile device app: Set up a free personal account here using your Northeastern email address. (Northeastern faculty, staff and students)

1. click on Create a Free Account.
2. Submit the appropriate information being requested-you must use your Northeastern email address.  You will also be required to create a password.  This is not your myNortheastern password, so it can be whatever you want it to be.
3. Once you have created your free account, download The Chronicle of Higher Education app from your app store.
4. You will be required to login using your free account credentials (Northeastern email and Chronicle password).
5. The Chronicle will appear on your device. You can read current issues, or download and read archived editions later. 

Indexing and abstracts for 5,400 journals in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines, going as far back as 1937.  In addition to complete coverage of English-language nursing journals, CINAHL Complete includes nursing dissertations, National League for Nursing and American Nurses' Association publications, selected conference proceedings, Evidence-based Care Sheets, and 250+ research instrument descriptions.  Features CINAHL Headings - controlled vocabulary search terms for more precise, comprehensive search results. 

Streaming tracks from more than 76,000 albums, medieval period through current. This database is an excellent complement to Naxos and Database of Recorded American Music , and can be searched with the rest of the Alexander Street Music Online library..

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Full text.

This online collection from the UK National Archives, currently being digitized, covers the CO5 documents from the period 1606-1822.  This is original correspondence between the governers of British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and their responsible departments in Britain. Among the correspondence are diaries, maps, broadsides, laws, public notices, newspaper clippings, and more. 

Images of the original documents plus searchable full text are included.  They may be searched by date, name, theme, region and more.

Colonial America is a 5-module resource being released over a 5-year period. Northeastern currently has access to modules 1 and 2. 

For those not familiar with Colonial Office records, see this introduction to the CO 5 documents. 

Scholarship in areas related to communication and mass media, including new media, rhetoric, film, broadcasting, and more. Significant full text is available.

Abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals (730 in full text), professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection relating to computer science.

Provides abstracts and citation tracking for published literature from conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in the social sciences worldwide.

Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides video for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.  Users can create, edit and share playlists or clips. The library has Volume 1.

CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index™ is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for 250 titles, with more than 100 available in full-text. 

250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as handbooks for novice to professional chefs, oeneologists, hospitality industry professionals, and nutritionists.

Over 5,000 documents and photographs from the Northeastern Department of Athletics’ Varsity Club Hall of Fame records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections.  Established in 1974, the Varsity Club Hall of Fame holds an annual induction ceremony to honor exceptional Northeastern athletes, coaches, and benefactors.  The records consist of files on inductees which include biographical data, induction programs, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, press releases, and travel sheets.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in searchable full text. 5th edition.

An independent organization founded by journalists and scholars, the National Security Archive promotes open government by acting as a clearinghouse for declassified information.

The Digital National Security Archive consists of declassified government documents, chronologies, images, bibliographies, and explanatory essays on topics related to national security. There are 42 collections consisting of over 100,00 objects. Each of these collections covers critical world events, countries, and U.S. foreign policy from post-World War II to the present. Primary source information is of value to researchers in international relations.

Information in the DNSA subscription database is updated by materials on the National Security Archive website at www.nsarchive.org, which includes the latest FOIA released documents, and documents released pursuant to lawsuits.  Also, some subjects like Able Archer 83, the Torture Archive, the Genocide Documentation Project and Cyber Vault are stand-alone projects that are only available on the website. 

Overall, the DNSA subscription resource is more comprehensive with 1.000 to 3,000 documents on a subject and each set has a chronology, bibliography, and glossary, as well as an Essay and Sources section. Updated sets are produced periodically, either with newly-released material on an existing topic or with new collections on new topics.  In all cases, we suggest searching both the subscription database and the website for a complete record.

A secure repository system, designed to store and share scholarly, administrative, and archival materials from the Northeastern University community.

Includes historic photographs, theses and dissertations written at Northeastern, faculty publications and presentations, and records documenting the history of Boston’s African American, Chinese, LGBTQ, Latino and other communities, as well as Boston’s public infrastructure, neighborhoods, and natural environments.

Anyone is welcome to use the DRS to discover publicly available content. Members of the Northeastern community may sign in to access additional content that may not be publicly available.

For more information visit the Digital Scholarship Group's DRS resource page.

Digital Theatre Plus offers video of full-length performances from the English stage, including Shakespeare, modern dramas, musicals, and adaptations, as well as supplementary material such as interviews, behind-the-scenes documentaries, and study guides. Google Chrome is the preferred browser for Digital Theatre+.

Provides a comprehensive index to all open access, scientific and scholarly peer-reviewed journals. Supported by a network of public and private publishers and foundations. (All titles also included in the NU Libraries E-journal Finder.)

Docuseek2 is an academic streaming source for social issue films and documentaries, with hundreds of titles in all major disciplines. The platform provides exclusive educational streaming access to content from Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, the National Film Board of Canada, Scorpion TV Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films.

Early American newspapers, often printed by small-town printers, documented the daily life of hundreds of diverse American communities, supported different political parties and recorded both majority and minority views.

Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 340,000 fully searchable issues from over 730 American newspapers from from 23 states and the District of Columbia.

Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies.

Note: Northeastern has Series 1 only.

Get help with this database, especially about OCR character recognition (supplied by Readex).

469 issues of The East Boston Community News from 1970 to 1989 which include coverage on neighborhood issues and events such as the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, politics, land use, and airport issues.

Mostly nonfiction ebooks from a variety of publishers. Look here for both popular and academic ebooks on education, psychology, sports and fitness, technology, and business. Formerly NetLibrary.

Stable links to books may be inserted into Blackboard for reading online. Note that most books are limited to a single user and others may be limited to a few users.

To download as an e-book: First create a free personal myEBSCOHOST account and download the free Adobe Digital Editions software. More information on using Digital Editions with EBSCOhost.

Compatible devices: Apple ios devices, Nook, Sony and other devices compatable with Adobe Digital Editions.

Borrowing: 7 days, one user at a time

Printing: from computers (and print to standard PDF) one chapter or up to 60 pages

Help:

Checking out and downloading EBSCO eBooks

Special instructions for Apple iOS users

Edited in London since 1843, The Economist is a weekly international news and business publication, offering clear reporting, commentary and analysis on world current affairs, business, finance, science and technology, culture, society, media and the arts. The online edition features content from 1997 to the present.

Education in Video is an online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection contains 4,306 titles totaling 1,301 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available.

ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to approximately 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.

A weekly newspaper devoted to education. Articles, profiles, commentary, legislation, state and national news and book reviews for teachers and administrators in elementary and secondary schools.

The largest and most comprehensive online historical archive of its kind and an essential resource for advanced study of the eighteenth century, this collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. The works that were filmed for this collection come from a number of major institutions, including the British Library, the Bodleian (Oxford), Cambridge University, Harvard University, Library of Congress, the Huntington Library, University of Manchester and many more.

Recently published ebooks published by Edward Elgar in their Law collection.

EMCS is an online collection of peer-reviewed teaching cases focusing on business decision making and management development through key emerging markets. Cases are written by case writers working in or closely with developing economies, offering local perspective with global appeal.

News as well as company and financial data from more than 80 emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Formerly known as ISI Emerging Markets.

EMIS includes industry and market research reports from IHS Markit, Mira Inform, Mordor, BIS Research, OECD, the IMF, Oxford Economics, Euromonitor, and many more.

Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the American Studies Association (ASA), the Encyclopedia of American Studies covers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present, from various perspectives and the global American Studies movement. With over 800 online, searchable articles and accompanying bibliographies, related websites, illustrations, and supplemental material, theEncyclopedia of American Studies is the leading reference work for American Studies. Access to content on this site is open to the public and is subject to copyright protection.

Provides a comprehensive overview of universal modes of communication, the media used to communicate, theories of communication and their implications, careers in communications and information, and biographies of notable figures in the field. 

The Encyclopedia of Food and Health provides users with a solid bridge of current and accurate information spanning food production and processing, from distribution and consumption to health effects. It identifies the essential nutrients and how to avoid their deficiencies, explores the use of diet to reduce disease risk and optimize health, and compiles methods for detection and quantitation of food constituents, food additives and nutrients, and contaminants.

Complete and authoritative coverage of genetics compiled into a single, comprehensive source, containing a clear presentation of cutting-edge knowledge. A reference work for everyone from the academic researcher to the educated layperson.

Covers all aspects of global health, including physical/mental health and public policy topics, biographies of major doctors and researchers, profiles of medical institutions, organizations, and corporations, and descriptions of drugs and operations.

Designed to illuminate the concepts and interrelationships between nutrient needs, dietary intake and health outcomes. An effective tool for the nutrition scientist seeking to fill the void of information in areas beyond his/her field of expertise. Published in 2006.

Translated from German into English, approximately 800 keywords and 40 articles present the current state of international research and depict a complex portrait of Jewish life illustrated by many maps and images.

The Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society presents some 490 articles showing the math behind our daily lives, explaining how and why math works, and allowing readers to better understand how disciplines such as algebra, geometry, calculus, and others affect what we do every day.

The Encyclopedia of Mental Health presents a comprehensive overview of the many genetic, neurological, social, and psychological factors that affect mental health, also describing the impact of mental health on the individual and society, and illustrating the factors that aid positive mental health. 

The Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences covers all areas of neurological sciences through over 1000 entries focused on a wide variety of topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and other related areas of neuroscience.

Over 400 encyclopedia articles, each approximately 3000-4000 words in length, with further reading lists and extensive cross referencing on the science of the oceans, including ancillary topics such as ocean technology, law of the oceans, global programs, marine policy, the use of the oceans for food and energy, and the impact of pollution and climate changes.Designed for a wide audience of students, academics, researchers, and professionals. The articles are written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with the latest technical information.

Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies provides an authoritative assessment of the sustainable technologies that are currently available or in development. Sustainable technology includes the scientific understanding, development and application of a wide range of technologies and processes and their environmental implications. Systems and lifecycle analyses of energy systems, environmental management, agriculture, manufacturing and digital technologies provide a comprehensive method for understanding the full sustainability of processes.

Information about antagonism and reconciliation in all contexts of public and personal life. 225 multi-disciplinary, cross-referenced and authoritatively authored articles. Published in 2008.

An archival research resource containing essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000.

Core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles.

A nearly comprehesive online library of education research and information, including scholarly article citations, citations to professional literature, education dissertations, and book listings.  Grey literature such as curriculum guides, conference proceedings, government publications, and white papers.

Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

Covers 1966 to the present.

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Interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

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Facts & Comparisons® contains authoritative and comprehensive drug information with unbiased, reliable information.  In addition to descriptions, generic and commercial names, dosage, warnings, it includes a drug/disease indications database, dosage, body measurement, and general pharmacology calculators, patient handouts, and much more for the health professional, and pharmacy and pharmacology researcher. 

Full-text access to essential federal publications, including the current U.S. Budget, Congressional Record, and Federal Register.

Film Platform was designed to serve as a bridge between the film world and academia. The collection is meticulously curated by film experts and leading academics to showcase meaningful documentaries of social, political and cultural importance by some of the world’s top international film makers.

Foreign Policy is the leading international source for global news, providing an evolving network of world-leading insights and analysis coupled with rapidly expanding original reporting.

This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music contains more than 9,000 pages of material with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, making this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Reprints full articles from women's studies magazines and newsletters (including some that are hard to find in print), as well as some scholarly journals. Some articles go back to the 1970's. You can browse a list of subjects or search by key words.

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.

Get help with this database. (Source: Christine Oka, Research and Instruction Department)

Contact information for local, county, state, and U.S. federal officials.    Vacant government positions are also listed and can be searched by keyword.

This book consists of 4 volumes containing about 70 chapters covering all the major aspects of the growing area of nanomedicine. Leading scientists from 15 countries cover all major areas of nanobiomedical research — materials for nanomedicine, application of nanomedicine in therapy of various diseases, use of nanomedicines for diagnostic purposes, technology of nanomedicines, and new trends in nanobiomedical research.

Written for upper level management, the Harvard Business Review presents analysis of management problems and helpful commentary on advanced thinking and practice in all fields of management and administration.

Access to medical, statistical, health, and related information. Includes periodical articles, pamphlets, news and multimedia content, and the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.

From the legal publisher William S. Hein. Provides full text legal documents including regulations and other government publications, reports, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) and UN Treaty series, and over 1,600 law reviews and journals. 

HeinOnline is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.  See a complete description of available documents. 

Rich collection important to a full understanding of Unites States history. Includes the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Defender (1910-1975),Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

A classic 2-volume reference work containing statistics about the United States has been updated and is now available online from Cambridge. Tables of statistics include information about population, slavery, the economy, and much more. Download in Excel or .csv. Sorting, graphs and plots available.

The HistoryMakers, established in 1999, is a non-profit institution whose purpose is to record, preserve and disseminate the content of video oral history interviews highlighting the accomplishments of individual African Americans and African-American-led groups and movements. Its aim is to provide a unique scholarly and educational resource for exploring African American history and culture. It is unique among collections of African American heritage because of its large and varied scope, with interviewees from across the United States, from a variety of fields, and with memories stretching from the 1890s to the present.

The IET Digital Library offers access to more than 500 ebooks from the Institution of Engineering and Technology and SciTech imprints, covering topics such as telecommunications, healthcare technologies, sensors, radar, electromagnetic waves, renewable energy and computing. All eBooks and chapters can be downloaded and are DRM-free.

Provides access to standards, specifications and related technical documents from military, commercial, national and international standards organizations (except ASTM* and IEEE).

IHS requires separate registration; sign in as a returning user or register a new account.

From the 'Select a Service' menu, click IHS Engineering Workbench.

Use Codes & Standards search bar to find needed standards.

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These documents from the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization consist primarily of:

• investigative reports by federal agents  in the case files on individual aliens;
• correspondence among agents and government officials involved in immigration issues;
• documents by groups advocating or opposing alien exclusion laws and practices.

Topics include Asian Immigration and Exclusion 1898-1941, Mexican immigration 1906-1930, INS records from Ellis Island, and investigations into Prostitution and White Slavery 1902-1933.

185 oral history interviews conducted by the National Park Services in 1984-5 with people who immigrated through, or worked at, Ellis Island, during the period of mass migration to the United States are also included.

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Index Chemicus®, accessed via Web of Science®, provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the chemical compound information they need to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share their findings.

Covers: 1993 to the present

A retrospective database that indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content is also drawn from 38 printed compendia, which provides access to approximately 540,000 records. Coverage also includes: annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.

Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education. This resource includes: breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, areas for comment on every article, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees.

Inspec Analytics allows you to find answers to questions such as: What are the growing topics in my field? Which subjects should I include in my literature search? Where can I find collaborators in my field? Which are the most relevant journals and conferences to publish my work? How could my research contribute to the output of my institution? 

With Inspec Analytics, you can monitor the research output of your institution and see how you rank globally; benchmark your institution against collaborators and competitors to set actionable goals and demonstrate strengths; identify emerging trends to explore new fields and plan where to focus your resources; and you can find and monitor collaboration opportunities with academia, industry and government to demonstrate impact.

The International African Bibliography (IAB) is a highly curated list of books, articles, and dissertations on topics in African studies. International in scope, updated quarterly.

Provides histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location.

International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second Edition is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. Covering all dimensions of the field, from the details of specific diseases, to the organization of social insurance agencies, the articles included cover the fundamental research areas of health promotion, economics, and epidemiology, as well as specific diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and reproductive health.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. Available in both print and online editions, it comprises over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.

A comprehensive index to worldwide pharmaceutical literature, with abstracts from over 750 health journals, major pharmacy meetings, and all U.S. state pharmacy journals. Covers biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, and legal, political, and ethical issues.

A multidisciplinary view into the study of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present. Content within the collection is meant to cover all facets of Judaism and multiple areas of study. Over 350 full-text titles including academic journals, abstracts of monographs, newspapers and periodicals, including complete Jewish Telegraphic Agency wire service articles from 1922 to the present.

Also search with Index to Jewish Periodicals

Evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. JCR is a widely used source of citation data on journals. 

The most well-known indicator in the JCR is the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). This measure provides a ratio of citations to a journal in a given year to the citable items in the prior two years.

Includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show you the:

• Most frequently cited journals in a field
• Highest impact journals in a field
• Largest journals in a field

Covers 1997-present.