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17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale Cengage)

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    The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. These treasures can now be searched, browsed and discovered again within Gale Digital Collections.

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19th Century British Newspapers (Gale Cengage)

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    The 19th Century British 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.

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19th Century Collections Online: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange

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    This archive will enable students and scholars to examine a selection of records that constitute a political and social history of Western interaction with a number of Asian countries during the nineteenth century. Most of the manuscript collections in this archive consist of the British Foreign Office and United States consular and diplomatic records. These records were generally maintained in the local consular or diplomatic posts and reflect the day-to-day accounting of the activities of the indigenous populations and their national governments, the expansion of trade, and the exercise of extraterritorial rights and treaty provisions. In addition, a selection of missionary correspondence and journals has been included, as missionaries usually provided some of the earliest contact in various Asian locales with Western ideals.

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    Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology

19th Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood

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    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.

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    Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, History, Sociology, Children's Literature

19th Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks

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    Issues of gender and class ignited nineteenth-century debate in the context of suffrage movements, culture, immigration, health and many other concerns. Using a wide array of primary source documents—serials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals—Women: Transnational Networks focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late-eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early-twentieth century, all through a transnational perspective. The collection contains deep information on European and North American movements, but also expands its scope to include collections from other regions.

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    Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, History, Sociology, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

19th Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale Cengage)

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    As compelling as it is comprehensive, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.

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ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)

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    The ABI/INFORM Collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

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    Business, Commerce and Economic Development, Economics

Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage)

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.
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    Newspaper, magazine, and academic peer-reviewed articles from the many leading publications and reference sources, the majority in full text. Includes the New York Times from 1995 to present. Interdisciplinary in scope. 

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)

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    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.

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press)

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    Academic Video Online: Premium is designed to bring the highest-quality video content to the broadest range of subject areas. It delivers more than 48,000 video titles spanning essential subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, history, music, film, and more. More than half of the titles can be found only at Alexander Street.

AccessMedicine (McGraw-Hill Medical)

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    AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill is an innovative online resource that provides access to more than 50 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, 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.

AccessNeurology (McGraw-Hill Medical)

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    AccessNeurology from McGraw-Hill Medical offers a new approach to neurology reference, research, and curricular instruction. This regularly-updated, comprehensive resource covers the entire spectrum of neurology from the basics to specialty-specific content. Authoritative, trusted, and comprehensive, the Neurology Collection is guided by an esteemed Advisory Board that includes distinguished physician-educators Allan H. Ropper, MD, Martin A. Samuels, MD Joshua P. Klein, MD, PhD., and Dr. Tracey Milligan, MD.
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    Behavioral Neuroscience, Health Sciences, Medicine

AccessPharmacy (McGraw-Hill Medical)

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    A comprehensive online resource for pharmaceutical education, Access Pharmacy from McGraw-Hill provides powerful tools to meet the changing demands of today’s pharmacist.

AccessPhysiotherapy including F.A. Davis Physical Therapy Collection (McGraw-Hill Medical)

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    A comprehensive online resource for physical therapy education, AccessPhysiotherapy from McGraw-Hill is a groundbreaking platform featuring learning tools such as video demonstrations, image slides, online dissection, and quizzes to test your knowledge.  The complete contents of physical therapy textbooks and resources such Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention; Pharmacology for the Physical Therapist; Therapeutic Modalities for Rehabilitation; Imaging in Rehabilitation; and much more, are also included.

Accounting, Tax & Banking (ProQuest)

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    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.

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    Business

ACLS Humanities Ebooks (American Council of Learned Societies)

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    Full-text, fully searchable, high-quality books in the Humanities from 19 learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office.

    Stable links to books may be inserted into Blackboard.

    Printing: up to 3 pages at a time

ACM Digital Library

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    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.

African Newspapers 1800-1922 (Readex NewsBank)

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    This collection of historical African newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive provides coverage of the people, cultures, issues and events that shaped the continent.

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    African American Studies, Anthropology, Business, History, International Affairs, Political Science, Sociology

Ageline (EBSCOhost)

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    AgeLine focuses on those aged 50+ and issues of aging. Useful for searching for the literature of social gerontology and includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos.

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    Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging

Agricola

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

Alt-HealthWatch (EBSCOhost)

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    Offers full text articles for nearly 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Health Sciences

AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, 11th Edition

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

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    Allied Health, Athletic Training, Biology, Health Sciences, Medicine

American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB)

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    The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70 years. To date, over 50,000 hours of television and radio programming contributed by more than 100 public media organizations and archives across the United States have been digitized for long-term preservation and access. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and more than 30,000 programs are available online at americanarchive.org.

American Chemical Society Journals

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    High quality academic journals from the American Chemical Society.

    Available titles limited to a select collection.  

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    Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

American Institute of Physics Journals

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

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    Mathematics, Physics

American Mathematical Society Journals

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    High-quality academic journals from the American Mathematical Society.

    Avalailable titles limited to a select collection.

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    Mathematics, Physics

American National Biography Online

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    American National Biography Online includes biographies for more than 18,700 American men and women whose lives have shaped the nation.

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    History

American Periodicals Series Online (ProQuest)

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    Digitized images of the pages of 1000 American magazines and journals published between 1741 and 1940. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, and Ladies' Home Journal. The search interface allows you to search the complete text, including tables of contents. Articles are downloadable in PDF format. Updated daily.

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    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Journalism, Literature, Sociology

American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate (ProQuest)

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    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.

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    History, Political Science

American Presidential Campaigns and Elections (EBSCOhost)

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    This book analyzes the process by which aspirants to the American presidency have campaigned, and how voters have made their selections from 1789 through the election of 2012. 

    Content includes primary documents, images, chronologies, and state-by-state analysis of election results.

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    Government, History

American Psychological Association E-books (APA PsycNET)

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

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    Psychology

American Rhetoric

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    This broad ranging web site exploring all aspects of rhetoric includes an Online Speech Bank of over 5.000  audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events.

    See also Top 100 Speeches, Movie Speeches and more.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Communications Studies

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Research Library

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    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. Approximately 4,000 new papers will be added each year.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Conference Proceedings

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    High-quality conference proceedings from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Engineering

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Online Journals

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

    Detailed subjects: 
    Engineering

American State Papers

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    Legislative and executive documents from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817.

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    History, Law, Political Science

Anatomy.TV

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    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.

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    Allied Health, Biology, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant

Annual Reviews

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    Definitive reviews in 37 scientific disciplines, mostly biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. Excellent for finding overviews of new topics.

AnthroSource

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    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.

ARL Statistics Online (Association of Research Libraries)

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    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.

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    Education

Art, Design and Architecture Collection (ProQuest)

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    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.

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    Architecture, Art & Design

Artemis Primary Sources (Gale Cengage)

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    Gale Artemis unites Gale's primary source newspaper and digital archives, specifically

    • 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
    • 18th Century Collections Online
    • 19th Century Collections Online
    • British Library Newspapers
    • The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
    • Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
    • The Times Digital Archive

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Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)

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    Citations and abstracts from over 1,160 of the world's leading journals in archeology, architecture, dance, music, film and theater, history, humanities, literature, and religion. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Covers 1975-present

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    Architecture, Art & Design, Media and Screen Studies, Film Studies, Literature, Religion

ARTstor

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    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.

ASTM Compass (Standards and Engineering Digital Library)

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    Covers a broad range of engineering disciplines including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.

    Provides online access to complete full text for:

    • all ASTM standards going back to 1998, with versioning changes redlined
    • all issues of ASTM journals
    • special technical publications
    • symposia publications from ASTM's technical committees,
    • manuals for illustrated hands-on information on conducting tests
    • monographs (books) for in-depth topics

Atla Religion Database (EBSCOhost)

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

Atlanta Constitution: 1868-1984 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

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    Proquest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Constitution (1868-1984).  The historical Atlanta Constitution collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text. 

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    History, Journalism

Atlanta Daily World 1931-2003 (ProQuest)

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

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ProQuest)

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    This database is a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture since 1934, covering the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation and interior design and decoration.

AVON: Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press)

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Baltimore Afro-American 1893-1988 (ProQuest)

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    Fully digitized coverage of the African American newspaper Baltimore Afro-American  from 1893 to 1988

Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination

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    Carefully scripted and reviewed by clinical experts and educators, Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination presents a step-by-step approach to patient treatment, current examination techniques, and normal and abnormal findings, including more than 8 hours of head-to-toe and systems-based video footage with standardized patients that represent various age groups, backgrounds, and conditions. Also included are OSCE Clinicial Skills Videos, intended to help users prepare for the Objective Structured Clinical Examinations.

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    Health Sciences, Nursing, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant

BBC Shakespeare Plays Online

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    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.

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    Art & Design, English & American Literature, Film Studies, Theatre

Biography in Context (Gale Cengage)

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.
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    Biographies, current and historic, with related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers. Pictures, links to vetted websites. Search for people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Some obituaries. Formerly Biography Resource Center.

BioMed Central

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    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.

BioOne

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    Not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

BIOSIS Citation Index (Web of Science, 1993-present)

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    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. 

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    Biology, Biochemistry, Bioengineering

BIOSIS Previews (Web of Science, 1969 - present)

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    Biological Abstracts, the premier database of research in Biology and related disciplines. International coverage of scholarly articles, books and book chapters, meetings and conferences, patents and software. 1969-present, updated weekly.

Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century (ProQuest History Vault)

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    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.

Book Citation Index (Web of Science, 2005-present)

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    The Book Citation Index in Web of Science connects a library’s book collection to powerful new discovery tools, giving researchers the ability to quickly and easily identify and access the most relevant books. As a part of Web of Science, Book Citation Index allows users to search seamlessly across books, journals and conference proceedings to find the information most relevant to their work within one platform.

Boston Boys and Girls Club Photographs

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    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.

Boston Business Journal

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    The Boston Business Journal is the leading source for local business news, research, and events in the Boston area.

    The Boston Business Journal is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.

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    Business

Boston Globe, Current and Historical (1872-present) (ProQuest)

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Boston Phoenix

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    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 being digitized, and selected issues are available electronically beginning in 2012.

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

Boston Public Schools Desegregation Project

This project was partially funded by the Boston Library Consortium.
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    Over 3,000 documents and images selected from the Citywide Educational Coalition records, Frieda Garcia papers, Frank J. Miranda papers, Carmen A. Pola papers, Phyllis M. Ryan papers, and Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc. records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The records consist of reports, correspondence, memorandum, newsletters, flyers, posters, legal proceedings, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools and its effect on the students, parents, and communities in Boston.

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    Education, Special Collections, Law, History, Government, African American Studies

Boston's Latino Community History

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    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.

Britannica Academic (Encyclopedia Britannica)

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    One of the oldest and most well-known reference sources, with both short and book-length overview articles in almost all disciplines. Also includes historical timelines, multimedia, selected magazine articles, notable quotations, and a dictionary and thesaurus.

British Library Newspapers (Gale Cengage)

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    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.

     

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BrowZine Web Edition

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    BrowZine Web Editions allows for desktop browsing of the popular web app, BrowZine, that allows you to browse, read, and monitor many of the library’s scholarly journals in a format optimized for your iOS or Android device.

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BuildingGreen

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    An array of media and information resources about green design. Includes Environmental Building News from 1992 to present, a Green Products directory, and more than 200 high performance buildings case studies.

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    Architecture, Art & Design, Ecology, Engineering, Environmental Research Across Disciplines, Health Sciences

Bureau of Justice Statistics

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    US Department of Justice information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Criminology and Criminal Justice

Burger's Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery and Development

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    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.

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    Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Business Monitor International (now called FitchConnect)

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    Provides data, analysis, ratings, rankings, and forecasts for 175 countries and 22 industry sectors. Integrates country risk, analysis of financial markets, and industry research.

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    Business, Economics

Business Plans Handbook (Gale Cengage)

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    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.

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    Business

Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost)

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    Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. Detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors. Searchable by company and industry also. Includes marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

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Cabell's Directories

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    Cabell's Directories includes addresses, phones, e-mails and web sites for journals. Northeastern University has access to the following directories from Cabell's: Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, Marketing.

    Cabell's Business Directories are available courtesy of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Economics

Cambridge Core

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    Formerly Cambridge University Press Journals Online, this site feature high-quality academic journals and and a selection of reference works published by Cambridge University Press in all disciplines.

Cambridge Histories Online

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    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

Caribbean History & Culture, 1535-1920 (Readex NewsBank)

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    Created from the renowned holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920, is the largest and most significant collection of its kind. More than 1,200 fully cataloged and searchable books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera cover the history of this broad region from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

Carmen Pola Papers

This project was funded by the EMC Heritage Trust grant.
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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    English as a Second Language, Government, History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Special Collections

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

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

Cauldron (Northeastern University Yearbook)

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    An ever-growing collection of digitzed backfiles of the Northeastern University yearbook, The Cauldron.  Currently contains selected volumes from the 1950s, 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s.

ccAdvisor

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Information Science, Communications Studies, Librarianship

Center for Research Libraries

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    The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) collects and makes available important and rare collections of primary source materials, as well as thousands of foreign dissertations, historical journals, and newspapers from around the world.

    The collections are so varied as to include an unpublished manuscript music collection from Oxford, the vast engineering library of Linda Hall, and rare monograph and pamphlet area collections from various regions of the world. For example, the Sutro Library Mexican collection includes over 3,000 titles from the 1500-1900 time period, covering cultural, economic, political, religious, and social themes in Mexican history.

    These collections are made available in print, in microfilm, and, in many cases, online. Faculty, students, and staff are eligible to borrow resources through an extended delivery system or, when available, through electronic delivery or online.  See our Subject Guide to the Center for Research Libraries for more information. 

Center for Research Libraries: Dissertation Search

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    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.

Charles Bruce Photographs

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    Over 250 photographs taken or collected by amateur photographer, Charles H. Bruce, depicting life in the early 1900s of the African American middle class of Boston.  Photographs document the Charlestown Navy Yard, Bruce’s family and colleagues, and the Prince Hall Masons.

    Detailed subjects: 
    African American Studies, History, Special Collections

Checkpoint (Thomson Reuters)

Access courtesy of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business
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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

Chicago Defender 1910 - 1975 (ProQuest)

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    Fully digitized African American newspaper Chicago Defender from 1910 to 1975.

Chicago Manual of Style

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

Chicago Tribune: 1849-1988 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

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    Proquest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1988).  The historical Chicago Tribune collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Journalism

Chinese Newspaper Collection (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Journalism

Chinese Progressive Association Records

This project was partially funded with federal assistance from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
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    Over 7,700 documents and images selected from the Chinese Progressive Association records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. Founded in 1977 in Boston's Chinatown, the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) records document urban development, workers’ rights, immigrants’ rights, minority rights, community relations, racial violence, bilingual education, and retraining adult workers during the last decades of the 20th century and into the 21st century.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government, History, Human Services, Special Collections, English as a Second Language

Chronicle of Higher Education Online

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    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:

     

    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. 

CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online

Courtesy of the NU School of Law
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    A wide range of scholarship in international affairs, including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. 1991 to the present.

CINAHL Complete, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCOhost)

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    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. 

Civil Engineering Database (CEDB)

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    Provides easy access to all the publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). It covers ASCE documents published since 1975 including all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters. There is full text access to the ASCE journals for which Snell library has a print subscription.

Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street)

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    Classical Scores Library contains hundreds of thousands of pages of classical music scores. Northeastern has access to: Classical Scores Library, Volume I.  Pages can be printed and annotated.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Music

Cleveland Call and Post: 1934-1991 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Journalism, African American Studies

ClinicalKey

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    ClinicalKey delivers all of Elsevier's medical and surgical content in one dynamic resource, giving users access to over 900 top books, over 500 top journals, thousands of videos and millions of images.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Health Sciences

Cochrane Library

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    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.

Collected Works of John Dewey

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    The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953: The Electronic Edition is primarily a critical reading text that offers unprecedented access to Dewey's work.

Colonial America (Adam Matthew Digital)

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    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. 

     

ComDisDome (CSA)

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    is an indexing and abstracting tool covering the communications disorders literature, with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology. In one convenient location, the database will quickly identify and connect you to reliable information from multiple sources in your field, including journal articles and books, along with access to profiles of researchers working in this area.

Communications and Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost)

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

    Detailed subjects: 
    Computer and Information Science

Compendex with Inspec (Engineering Village)

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    A comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database, including peer reviewed journals, professional literature, conference proceedings, book series, dissertations, and trade publications. A broad view of engineering is included with research information from the fields of nanotechnology, bioengineering, food science, medical devices, and more. 

    Author profiles and citation counts are also available. 

    Combining your search with INSPEC adds a comprehensive database of physics, computer science and electrical engineering research and professional literature to your results. Use the toggle checkboxes to include or exclude Compendex or Inspec from your search. 

    Coverage: 1969 to present, including some older backfiles, and new articles in press from over 1,000 journals.

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete (EBSCOhost)

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    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.

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (Clarivate)

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    Conference Proceedings Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, helps researchers access the published literature from significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. This resource lets you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature. Two editions cover the sciences and social sciences.

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (Clarivate))

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

    Detailed subjects: 
    African American Studies, Anthropology, Commerce and Economic Development, Communications Studies, Corporate and Organizational Communication, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, Economics, Education, Government, History, Human Resources Management, International Affairs, Jewish Studies, Journalism, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Law, Leadership, Librarianship, Middle East Studies, Political Science, Project Management, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Sociology, Sports Leadership, Strategic Intelligence and Analysis, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Congressional publications (Proquest)

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    Includes Congressional hearings. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government

Coronavirus Research Database (ProQuest)

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    Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government, Health Sciences, Health Informatics, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Counseling and Therapy in Video (Alexander Street)

video
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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Psychology

CQ Electronic Library

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    Congressional Quarterly's portal for research in US government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Includes CQ's Politics in America, as well as other almanacs, data, and news publications.

CQ Researcher

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    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.

CQ Voting and Elections Collection

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    CQ Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government, Political Science

Criminal Justice (ProQuest)

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    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. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Criminology and Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCOhost)

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    Indexing and links to full text for scholarly and professional journals in the criminal justice and related fields.

Current Chemical Reactions (1986 - current)

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    Current Chemical Reactions® delivers the latest synthetic methods reported in over 100 of the world's leading organic chemistry journals. Each reaction provides complete reaction diagrams,critical conditions, bibliographic data, and author abstracts.

Current Contents Connect

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    Use this service to browse tables of contents from 1998 to the latest issues for scholarly journals.  Search or set up email alerts by creating a personal Web of Knowledge account (free to NU users). 

     

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D&B's Key Business Ratios on the Web (KBR)

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Current NU Only
Maximum number of users at a time: 
5
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    Calculate business ratios that identify key relationships between financial data. 14 key business ratios cover all critical areas of business performance, broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles. Arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes.

Data Citation Index (Web of Science, 1900-present)

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    The Data Citation Index on the Web of Knowledge platform provides a single point of access to quality research data from sources around the world in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

    Through linked content and summary information, this data is displayed within the broader context of the books and articles that use it.  The database also includes data sets on their own.  For additional sources of data, see our Social Science Data guide, or ask a librarian for assistance.

Department of Athletics Records

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Open Access
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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Special Collections, Sports Leadership

Derwent Innovations Index (Web of Science, 1993-present)

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    Derwent Innovations Index® facilitates rapid, precise patent searching, letting you conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM 5

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

    Detailed subjects: 
    Psychology

Dictionary of Energy

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    Expanded edition of the Elsevier Dictionary with over 650 topic entries and biographies.

Digital National Security Archive

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

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Open Access
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    The DPLA is a united collection of primary source information digitized from America’s libraries, archives, and museums, from the written word to works of art and culture, to records of the heritage of the United States, to the efforts and data of science.  Strengths include photographs and documents of American culture and history. 

    Ways to search and scan through the collection of millions of items include by timeline, map, virtual bookshelf, format, and topic.  Freely available.

Digital Repository Service

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    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 Repository Service: NU Theses and Dissertations

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    Northeastern University master's theses and doctoral dissertations from 2008 to the present.  

Digital Theatre+

video
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    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+.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Art & Design, Literature, Theatre

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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    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.)

Dissertations and Theses @ Northeastern (Proquest)

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    Doctoral Dissertations and Theses from Northeastern University Masters and PhD degree candidates, submitted to ProQuest's national thesis clearinghouse, most but not all full text.

Docuseek2

video
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    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.

DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music

music
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    Diverse American recorded music, from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, available for streaming.

Duke University Press

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    Humanities and social sciences journals from Duke University Press and associated learned societies, available in full text.

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Early American Newspapers, 1690-1876 (Readex NewsBank)

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    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.

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

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Journalism, Political Science, Sociology, Communications Studies

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

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    Virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700, with digital facsimile page images.

East Boston Community News

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Open Access
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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Journalism, Government, History, Special Collections

eBook collection (EBSCOhost)

Registration for an ebscohost account and Adobe Digital Editions are required if you wish to download complete eBooks to your computer or reading device.
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    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

Ebrary Academic Complete

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    Over 150,000 e-books for you to read using any web browser.  Largely scholarly titles from leading academic and university presses. (View a list of participating publishers). 

    Stable links to books and book chapters may be inserted into Blackboard.

    E-books can be downloaded to desktops or laptops with free Adobe Digital Editions software or to tablets and phones using the Bluefire app. See ProQuest Central support for more instructions and information about Digital Rights Management (DRM).  Individual chapters may be downloaded DRM-free as PDFs.  Depending on the title, about 40% of the book may usually be downloaded chapter by chapter; this number refreshes daily.

    Compatible download devices: Windows, Apple OS X and iOS, Nook, Sony and other devices compatible with Adobe Digital Editions.

    Borrowing: 14 days, up to 10 books at a time

    Printing:  Print (including print to PDF) up to 40% depending on the title. Refreshes daily.

EconLit (EBSCOhost)

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    The American Economic Association's electronic database and the foremost source of references to economic literature. The online heir to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), EconLit is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. Links to full text and ordering options

Economist

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Economics, Government, International Affairs

EDGAR

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Open Access
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    Annual reports (10K), proxy statements (DEF-14) and other sec filings.

Education in Video

video
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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education

Education Index Retrospective (EBSCOhost)

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    The Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 has information on societal trends affecting education, including segregation, multiculturalism, feminism, and economic developments. It includes over 800 periodicals and cites around 850,000 articles and book reviews.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education, History, Sociology

Education Journals (ProQuest)

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

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education

Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost)

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    Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals, and includes full text for more than 133 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

Education Week

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education

Educator's Reference Complete (Gale Cengage)

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.
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    A selection of academic journal articles, hundreds of full-text reports, and reference sources in the field of education, including educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices, from 1980 to the present. Updated daily. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

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    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.

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EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit, Country Info)

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    Contains Country Reports, Country Finance, and Country Commerce.

Elgar Online Law

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

Embase (Elsevier)

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    Embase is a versatile and up-to-date biomedical research database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day with more than 32+ million records from 8,200 journals and ‘grey literature’ from over 2.4 million conference abstracts. Embase includes unique non-English content and coverage of the most important types of evidence, such as randomized controlled trials, controlled clinical trials, Cochrane reviews and meta-analyses.

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    Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Regulatory Affairs in Drugs, Biologics, and Medical Devices, Science (General)

Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies

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    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.

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Emerald Journals

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    Scholarly research journals in social sciences including business, information science, management, marketing, economics, information technology, and more.

Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS)

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    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. Also known as ISI Emerging Markets.

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Empire Online

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    Empire Online is a collection of original primary source documents relating to Empire Studies, from libraries and archives around the world.

Encyclopaedia Judaica

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    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.

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    History, Jewish Studies

Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill)

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    Encyclopaedia of Islam Online (EI Online), published by Brill, consists of all three editions of the encyclopedia. 

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Encyclopedia of American Studies

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    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.

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    History

Encyclopedia of Cancer, 2nd edition (Elsevier)

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    Covers all aspects of cancer, from basic science to clinical application. Published in 2003.

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Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (Gale Cengage)

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    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. 

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Encyclopedia of Earth

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    All about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. Free, fully searchable articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. Written in non-technical language useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.

Encyclopedia of Food and Health (Elsevier)

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    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.

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    Agriculture, Health Sciences, Nutrition, Sustainability

Encyclopedia of Food Safety (Elsevier)

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    The Encyclopedia of Food Safety provides unbiased and concise overviews on a broad range of food safety topics including: History and basic sciences that support food safety; Foodborne diseases, including surveillance and investigation; Foodborne hazards, including microbiological and chemical agents; Substances added to food, both directly and indirectly; Food technologies, including the latest developments; Food commodities, including their potential hazards and controls; Food safety management systems, including their elements and the roles of stakeholders. The Encyclopedia provides a platform for experts from the field of food safety and related fields, such as nutrition, food science and technology and environment to share and learn from state-of-the art expertise with the rest of the food safety community.

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    Public Health, Nutrition

Encyclopedia of Genetics

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    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.

Encyclopedia of Gerontology, 2nd edition (Elsevier)

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    Contains articles with summaries about what is known about the many processes of aging. Published in 2007.

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Encyclopedia of Global Health (Gale Cengage and Sage)

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    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.

Encyclopedia of Health Economics (Elsevier)

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    The Encyclopedia of Health Economics offers students, researchers and policymakers objective and detailed empirical analysis and clear reviews of current theories and polices. It helps practitioners such as health care managers and planners by providing accessible overviews into the broad field of health economics, including the economics of designing health service finance and delivery and the economics of public and population health. 

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    Economics, Health Sciences, Medicine, Public Health

Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, 2nd edition (Elsevier)

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    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.

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    Health Sciences, Nutrition

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (IGI)

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    A compendium of nearly 700 authoritative, research-based entries on the complete range of topics that, together, define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology and its organizational, managerial, behavioral, and social implications. Enhanced with definitions of thousands of technical and managerial terms, as well as a reference section that directs researchers, scholars, students, and practitioners to additional sources for further reading and research.

Encyclopedia of Materials (Knovel)

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    Around 1,800 articles written by experts in their fields, resulting in a comprehensive coverage focusing on the following areas: * Functional Phenomena * Structural Phenomena * Fundamental Core Theory * Structural Materials * Polymers and Materials Chemistry * Functional Materials

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society

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    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.

Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology (Springer)

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    The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is a reference work which describes the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.

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    Anthropology, Medicine, Sociology, Health Sciences

Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2nd edition (Elsevier)

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    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. 

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    Biochemistry, Health Sciences, Medicine, Psychology, Public Health

Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 3rd edition (Elsevier)

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    Designed for researchers, technicians, teachers and students of microbiology, biotechnology, and environmental sciences. Published in 2009.

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Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences, 2nd edition (Elsevier)

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Biochemistry, Health Sciences, Psychology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Elsevier)

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    The Encyclopedia of Neuroscience explores a wide variety of topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and other related areas of the discipline. 

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    Biochemistry, Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Psychology

Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 2nd edition (Elsevier)

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    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 Social Media and Politics

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    The Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics explores how the rise of social media is altering politics both in the United States and in key moments, movements, and places around the world. Its scope encompasses the disruptive technologies and activities that are changing basic patterns in American politics and the amazing transformations that social media use is rendering in other political systems heretofore resistant to democratization and change.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Communications Studies, Political Science

Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies (Elsevier)

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    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.

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    Earth Sciences, Environmental Research Across Disciplines, Engineering, Sustainability

Encyclopedia of Toxicology, 3rd edition (Elsevier)

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    The third edition of the Encyclopedia of Toxicology presents entries devoted to key concepts and specific chemicals, and is updated to reflect current advances in the field. It contains new information on nanotoxicology, epigenetics, persistent organic pollutants, computational toxicology and bioinformatics, controversial chemicals, and much more. Along with the traditional scientific entries, new articles focus on worldwide initiatives, the potential health and environmental effects of new technologies, and the societal implications of global legal and regulatory issues. 

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    Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Environmental Research Across Disciplines, Health Sciences, Public Health

Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict, 2nd edition (Elsevier)

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology

Engineering Village: Compendex and Inspec

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    Search Compendex and Inspec at the same time, including citations from the scientific and technical engineering literature plus physics, electrical engineering, computer science, nanotechnology, information theory and more. Journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, books, reports. Patents prior to 1976 only.

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 1880-2000 (ProQuest)

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    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.

Entrepreneurship (ProQuest)

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    This database has content that ranges from journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings to guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from entrepreneurs in a variety of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as text and PDFs.

    Detailed subjects: 
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ERIC (EBSCOhost)

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    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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    Education

ERIC (ProQuest)

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    Contains citations to documents related to education.

     

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    Education, Literature

Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)

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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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Ethnologue : Languages of the World

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    Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages. Since 1951, the Ethnologue has been an active research project involving hundreds of linguists and other researchers around the world. It is widely regarded to be the most comprehensive source of information of its kind.

    Detailed subjects: 
    World Languages

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F.A. Davis PT Collection

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    A comprehensive resource for physical therapy education, F.A. Davis PT Collection includes 29 of the most important physical therapy texts, including Dutton’s Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention and O’Sullivan, Physical Rehabilitation, fully searchable and continuously updated.  Access 400+ procedure and exercise videos on exercise and rehabilitation techniques and interventions, self-assessment tools consisting of 1100 interactive self-assessment questions to prepare for the NPTE exam, a unique cadaver dissection tool, cases designed to help physical therapy students learn in the context of real patients, and concise outlines of common conditions and disorders. The F.A. Davis PT Collection is available on the same digital platform as McGraw-Hill Education’s AccessPhysiotherapy.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Physical Therapy, Medicine

Factiva (Dow Jones/ProQuest)

Jointly funded by the University Libraries and the D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
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    Includes access to the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and hundreds of other international newspapers.

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Facts & Comparisons Clinical eAnswers

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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. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Allied Health, Medicine

Faculty Wives Records

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    Over 160 documents and photographs selected from the Faculty Wives records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The Northeastern University Faculty Wives was a social organization formed in 1941 by and for the wives of the University's faculty.  The records consist of a cookbook, membership lists, program of activities, meeting minutes, financial reports, and annual reports.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Special Collections

FDsys

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

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    Government

Film Literature Index

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    150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. Covers 1976-2001, for more recent articles, use FIAF.

Film Platform

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    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.

Films On Demand (Infobase)

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    195+ videos are currently available for streaming. To set up course playlists, or recommend new titles, faculty should contact their subject specialist.

    Requires Windows Media Player 9 or above, or QuickTime 6.0 or above (MAC). Full-screen view not available for Macs.  Closed captioning is available.

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FitchConnect (formerly Business Monitor International BMI)

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    FitchConnect integrates country risk, analysis of financial markets, and industry research, providing users with a variety of company and industry information including credit research, credit ratings, macroeconomic and financial fundamental data, Financial Implied Ratings, and a curated news service.
    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Economics, Government

Flipster (EBSCO)

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    Flipster allows for browsing of popular and trade magazines with full-page images.

Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital)

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    This collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980.  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.

ForeignPolicy.com

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    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.

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    International Affairs, Journalism, Political Science, History

Foundation Grants to Individuals

Foundation Grants to Individuals is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
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    Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is the premier funding research tool for finding foundations that provide financial support for individual grantseekers. It describes giving for a variety of purposes, including scholarships, student loans, fellowships, program development, internships, professorships, arts and cultural projects, research, awards/grants by nomination only and general welfare. It is intended to be both a grantseeker's guide and a reference tool for those interested in foundation giving to individuals. Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is updated on a weekly basis, providing the most up-to-date information available on foundations that fund individual grantseekers.

Freedom House Photographs

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    Over 2400 images and photographs selected from the Freedom House records held in the NU Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The images date from 1950-1975 and document early activities to create an integrated Roxbury; citizen participation in the urban renewal of Roxbury; and early oversight of Boston Public Schools desegregation.

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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (Gale Cengage)

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    Drawing on the acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. Includes Lexile reading levels and national and state curriculum standards, with content correlated to the standards.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale Cengage)

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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Alexander Street)

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Music

Gartner IT Library

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    The Gartner IT Library provides access to more than 110,000 documents on more than 1,200 topics, including technology products, services, and trends, global IT industry perspectives, IT management and organizations, IT strategies and governance, business-IT issues, and real-world case studies.

GenderWatch (ProQuest)

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,

Global Commodities (Adam Matthew Digital)

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    Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange brings together 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. These original sources will help scholars to explore the history of fifteen major commodities and to examine the ways that they have changed the world.

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    Anthropology, Economics, History

Global Issues in Context (Gale Cengage)

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

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Google Scholar @NU

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    A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, academic publishers, professional societies, preprints, universities and other scholarly organizations.
    NU affiliates: enhance Google Scholar by selecting "Scholar Preferences" and "Full Text @ NU Libraries".

GovSearch (Carroll)

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

     
    Detailed subjects: 
    Government

Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (1918 edition)

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    The free Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy features 1,247 engravings from the classic 1918 publication, and is searchable and indexed by subject.

    For up-to-date anatomy information, please use AnatomyTV from Primal Pictures (NU Login required). 

GreenFILE (EBSCOhost)

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    Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE is an informative resource for anyone concerned about our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles, and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

    Not affiliated with NU?  Choose the free web version of GreenFILE.

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    Earth Sciences, Ecology, Environmental Research Across Disciplines, Law

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Hague Academy of International Law, Collected Courses

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    Courses at the Hague Academy are published in the Collected Courses, the Academy’s flagship collection. These contributions by prestigious authors deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law.

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (CRC)

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    The 96th Edition, 2015-2016, of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is a vast almanac of facts, tables, and statistics about mathematics and the physical world.  It is one of the most used handbooks in the sciences.  The online version allows for expanded functionality over the print; in particular, interactive tables that allow you to customize data by filtering just what you need and sorting colunmns. You may search all text, tables, or CAS registry numbers, and export or email the information to yourself.

Handbook of Nanobiomedical Research

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    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.

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    Biology, Medicine, Nanotechnology

HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)

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    Information about behavioral measurement instruments, abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.

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Harvard Business Review (via EBSCOhost)

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    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.

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HathiTrust Digital Library

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    A partnership between libraries to digitize and share their print collections, the Hathi Trust Digital Library offers chiefly text materials, such as books, documents, and journals.

    Northeastern University is a HathiTrust partner institution, and offers the ability to log in to Hathi Trust Digital Library to download full-PDFs of all public domain works, as well as works made available under Creative Commons licenses.   

    Always log in, whether you are on- or off-campus, for the best results.

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    • Text mining of the entire database via API is also available.
    • Users with print disabilities who are registered with Northeastern's Disability Resource Center are able to access the full text of Northeastern print holdings that are also in Hathi Trust.  

    Please library_ask [at] neu.edu (subject: Hathi%20Trust%20Question) (contact us) for information about text mining and access for users with disabilities.

Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale Cengage)

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

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Health Reference Center Academic (Gale Cengage)

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    Nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers, including nursing and allied health students.

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HeinOnline

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    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. 

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    Government, Law

Historical Black Newspapers (ProQuest)

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    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).

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)

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    A selection of historical newspaper documents from ProQuest, including the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Boston Globe (1872-1981), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1988), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), New York Times (1851-2008), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), and Washington Post (1877-1999).

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Historical Statistics of the United States

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    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.

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    Economics, Government, History, Political Science

History Journals and Historical Newspapers (ProQuest )

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    All historical primary source documents from ProQuest, including American Periodicals Series (1740 - 1940), Ethnic Newswatch (1959 - present), Boston Globe (1872-1981), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1988), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), The New York Times (1851-2008), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).  For more primary sources, see our full list of primary source databases.

History Vault (ProQuest)

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    Primary source archival materials like letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries. The Northeastern Library has access to selective collections: Immigration Records from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Papers, Women's Rights Collections with documents from organizations like the Women's Party and League of Women Voters.

    From the ProQuest University Publications of America (UPA) Collection.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

HistoryMakers Digital Archive

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    African American Studies, History, Sociology

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)

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    The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents.
    HSDL provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities, organizations, local agencies and state agencies.

Humanities International Complete (EBSCOhost)

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    Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources, including all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content.

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ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

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    ICPSR is a non-profit membership-based data archive based at University of Michigan. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.

IEEE/IEL Electronic Library/Xplore

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    Citations and full text published since 1988 and select content published since 1950 from:
    IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines
    IEEE conference proceedings
    IEE journals
    IEE conference proceedings
    IEEE standards
    IEEE Spectrum Magazine
    Proceedings of the IEEE

    Detailed subjects: 
    Engineering

IET Digital Library

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Engineering

IET.tv

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    IET.tv provides over 6500 technical and professional video presentations from a range of events, lectures, interviews, product demos, seminars and conferences across 9 technology channels, and covers core engineering and technology subjects.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Engineering

IHS Engineering Resource Center

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    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.

    View details or preview to confirm that is the standard needed.

    Click on shopping cart. Electronic version must be requested when available.

    All purchase requests are reviewed and approved by the library.

    When processing is complete, you will receive an email with a link to the standard.

    View standard within 5 business days after approval.

    Standard is locked to the computer on which it is opened.

    Standards may be printed once only!

    Standards available only in hard copy will be sent by mail.

    For questions contact a.link [at] northeastern.edu (Alissa Link) (617-373-2458) or s.maubourquette [at] northeastern.edu (Stacy Maubourquette) (617-373-4974)

    Detailed subjects: 
    Engineering

Illustrated London News 1842-2003 (Gale Cengage)

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    A historical archive of the Illustrated London News, the world's first pictorial weekly newspaper, from 1842-2003.  Includes over 260,000 pages in full facsimile, fully searchable. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Journalism

Immigration Records of the INS 1880-1930 (History Vault) (ProQuest)

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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.

    PDF page images can be downloaded. 

     

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

InCites - Essential Science Indicators

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    This unique compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data is based on journal article publication counts and citation data from Thomson Scientific databases.

     

    Useful for exploring graduate schools and academic jobs, or for anyone trying to determine what the top schools are in different science disciplines.

    Here's a nice video that shows how to look at highly cited institutions.

     

    Detailed subjects: 
    Science (General)

Index Chemicus

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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

Index to Jewish Periodicals (EBSCOhost)

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    English-language articles and book reviews on Jewish history, activity and thought in more than 220 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. For students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern studies. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.
     

    Search together with Jewish Studies Source. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Jewish Studies

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (EBSCOhost)

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
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    An excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals and others involved with the law, providing complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more. Full text is available for over 400 periodicals, many of them peer-reviewed, as far back as 1994.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Law

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 (EBSCOhost)

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Law

InfoTrac Newsstand

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.
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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Journalism

IngentaConnect

Selected titles only. MIT Press titles available to alumni
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    Search articles from Ingenta. 

Inside Higher Ed

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education

Inspec (Engineering Village)

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    The Inspec database provides deep coverage of scientific and technical literature in the field of physics, with additional links to citations in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science, and manufacturing information. It describes articles in more than 3,400 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings as well as books, dissertations and reports.  Links to full text or interlibrary loan options are included for each citaton . Produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

    Detailed subjects: 
    Computer and Information Science, Engineering, Physics

Institute of Physics Electronic Journals

Selected titles only
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    Articles from selected journals published by the Institute of Physics, including the IOP Journal Archive covering 1874-2003, in addition to current articles. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Physics

International African Bibliography

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Anthropology, History, Political Science, Religion, International Affairs

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)

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    The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Sociology, Anthropology

International Directory of Company Histories (Gale Cengage)

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

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

International Encyclopedia of Political Science

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    From Sage Reference, this eight-volume encyclopedia covers every field of politics, from political theory and methodology to political sociology, comparative politics, public policies, and international relations. It provides an essential, authoritative guide to the state of political science at the start of the 21st century and for decades to come.

    Detailed subjects: 
    International Affairs, Political Science

International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2nd edition (Elsevier)

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Public Health, Medicine, Health Sciences

International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest

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    The online version of the 8-volume set, this encyclopedia covers the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 years - throughout the modern era of mass movements. Updated annually.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Anthropology, History, Political Science, Sociology

International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition (Elsevier)

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Anthropology, Human Services, Psychology, Sociology

International Historical Statistics

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    International Historical Statistics is an impressive and peerless collection of statistical data from around the world, covering a wide range of socio-economic topics. The collection includes data on the Americas and Europe, but also hard-to-find data on Africa, Asia and Oceania. It is a truly interdisciplinary product that will prove a valuable resource to those researching and studying Business, Economics, Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Politics, Sociology and Statistical Studies.

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Internet Archive: Northeastern University Collections and more

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    Digitized versions of unique and rare books from libraries, museums, and historical institutions, including Northeastern University Libraries collections, such as historical Course Catalogs.  Includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as the Wayback Machine for archived web pages. Especially useful for persons with disabilities, as it provides adaptive reading services and other services for people with disabilities.  Northeastern collections developed in partnership with the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Open Content Alliance.

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James W. Fraser (Collector) Photograph Collection

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    Selected photographs digitized from the James W. Fraser (collector) photograph collection held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The photographs document the people involved in and affected by Judge Garrity's 1974 decision to desegregate Boston public schools by means of forced busing. Most of the photographs depict anti–busing protests and marches and demonstrations by parents around Boston from the mid-1970s.

    Detailed subjects: 
    African American Studies, Education, History, Special Collections

Jazz Music Library

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    Streaming jazz recordings from Alexander Street press.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Music

Jewish Studies Source (EBSCOhost)

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    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

    Detailed subjects: 
    Jewish Studies, Religion

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

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    Review articles on literary theories, movements, and critics. Extensively revised in 2004 and updated annually.

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature, Literature

Journal Citation Reports: JCR (Clarivate)

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    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.

JoVE Bioengineering

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    JoVE Bioengineering merges both physical and life sciences to understand and predict biological processes. Applying physical science tools to life science questions allow for the discovery of better technologies to measure, diagnose, and clinically treat disease.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Biology, Medicine

JoVE Biology

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    JoVE Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific video journal that presents more than 1000 videos demonstrating laboratory methods in the fields of cellular biology, developmental biology, microbiology, immunology, plant biology, medicine, and neuroscience.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Biology, Medicine

JoVE Immunology and Infection

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    JoVE Immunology and Infection includes content from a variety of fields working toward a shared initiative of improving global health. Techniques evaluating the biological response to pathogens from the molecular to organismal level are presented as well as therapeutic agents and their efficacy in treating disease.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Biology, Medicine

JoVE Medicine

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    JoVE Medicine includes methods and experimental approaches for biomedical research and clinical medicine, including case studies, clinical procedures, surgeries, clinical trials, and animal models of disease.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Medicine, Health Sciences, Nursing, Nutrition, Physician Assistant

JoVE Neuroscience

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    JoVE Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary section devoted to investigations of the structure, function, physiology, and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous system. Included methodologies range from molecular and cellular level studies to full central and peripheral neural systems. Potential treatment platforms and surgical techniques for neurological diseases and disorders are also presented in this section.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Medicine, Biology

JoVE Science Education Database

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    JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) Science Education is a video database dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy to understand video demonstrations. Currently access is available to the General Lab Techniques, Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Essentials of Neuroscience sections. Each video is paired with additional video resources for you to view practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Biology

JSTOR

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    A trusted digital archive of academic journals and other scholarly content. Most journals include extended historic backfiles and not current issues. Arts and Sciences collections 1 thru XV are available, plus the Life Sciences collection, and Business III.

    The Northeastern Library also purchases individual e-book titles from JSTOR.  The books are available chapter-by-chapter as PDFs.

    Arts and Sciences IV content is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.

Julius Prince Papers

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    Over 480 photographs and documents from the Julius A. Prince papers held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. Prince was a photographer for Freedom House, Inc., a community service organization in Roxbury, in the 1960s. The photographs document houses and participants from Freedom House's Roxbury Work Study Program, a project to revitalize the Washington Park area of Roxbury. In addition to the photographs, there are a few brochures on the program and staff lists.

    Detailed subjects: 
    African American Studies, History, Special Collections

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Kanopy Streaming

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    Kanopy offers a wide array of videos available for streaming.

Knovel Library

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    Knovel Quick Start Guide PDF

    Primarily e-books, especially handbooks and scientific and engineering reference manuals and data. For certain properties there are specific chemical equations and digital graphs. Analyze data, sort, filter and export from 'live tables', resolve equations and plot graphs, capture values from existing graphs and perform 'What If' experiments.

    Download: Some book chapters and sections are in PDF and may be downloaded.

    Printing: Some book chapters and sections are in PDF and may be printed. 

    Mobile: An app is available for reading offline on a mobile device or tablet. Learn more and download.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Engineering

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Latin American Newspapers 1805-1922 (World Newspaper Archive)

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    Latin American Newspapers, Series 1—part of CRL's World Newspaper Archive—features 13 historical Latin American newspapers. Titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues, and events that shaped this vital region between 1805 and 1922.

Law360

Law360 is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
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    Up-to-date legal news focusing on business law, useful for research on high-stakes litigation and high-profile legislation, as well as lawsuits against major corporations.  Also includes legal job listings.  From Lexis-Nexis.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Law, Regulatory Affairs in Drugs, Biologics, and Medical Devices

LearnTechLib (formerly EdITLib)

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    The LearnTechLib Digital Library is an online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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    The famous Springer series of texts and proceedings in computer science and related fields.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Computer and Information Science

Lexicomp

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    Lexicomp provides clear, concise, point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, as well as clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database, and other tools.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Regulatory Affairs in Drugs, Biologics, and Medical Devices

LexisNexis Academic (now Nexis Uni)

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    LexisNexis has introduced Nexis Uni, which will replace LexisNexis Academic in 2018 and is now available for use.

    Up-to-date business and legal information is the strength of the LexisNexis Academic service. It allows you to search for newspapers, periodicals, public records, and legal documents, often within 24 hours of publication, and in some cases going back 20 years. Most documents are available in full text.

    If you experience problems printing from Lexis Nexis, try one of these solutions:

    • Download the article to PDF.   Open and print the PDF.
    • Use the browser print button instead of the Lexis-Nexis built in button.
    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Government, Law, Political Science

LexisNexis Academic: Law Reviews (now on Nexis Uni)

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    United States law review articles from LexisNexis on Nexis Uni.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Criminology and Criminal Justice, Government, Law, Political Science

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA (ProQuest)

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    Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Includes phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Covers various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature, Linguistics

LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)

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    Formerly Lynda.com, LinkedIn Learning offers more than 5,000 on-demand courses on business, creative, and technology skills. Log in with your myNEU username and password.

    Note: Accounts with LinkedIn Learning create a public profile in LinkedIn.  If you do not want to have a public profile in LinkedIn, after logging in, go to your profile and under public profile settings, turn your public profile's visibility OFF.

      Public Profile Off(screen capture)

    Detailed subjects: 
    Computer and Information Science, Business, Art & Design, Graphic Design

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journals @ Ovid

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    Full text access to over 270 medical, nursing, and pharmacology journals from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, along with backfiles from additional publishers. Updated daily.
    View a complete list of the journal titles.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Allied Health, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

LISTA: Library and Information Science Abstracts (EBSCOhost)

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    Over 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship, including information management and more extending back as far as the mid-1960s.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Librarianship

Literature Resource Center (Gale Cengage)

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.
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    Provides biographical and critical overviews of most authors, together with critical reactions to their works and bibliographies for further research. Includes cross-search of Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Excellent starting place, but not exhaustive.

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature, World Languages, Literature

LLMC Digital Law Library

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    Important at-risk documents in law and government from U.S. and various other national jurisdictions, useful for research on topics such as international relations, global trade, environmental policy, labor politics, civil rights, and immigration. Particularly strong in 18th to early 20th century law in the British Empire and Commonwealth, including Canadian federal and provincial courts back to their inception, extensive runs from the Indian subcontinent, and more from Australia, Haiti, Ireland, Cuba, and South Africa. Provided through our Center for Research Libraries membership.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Criminology and Criminal Justice, Government, History, International Affairs, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Law

LLMC Digital Law Library (Open Access Collection)

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    The LLMC Open Access Collection has been made available through partnerships and grants designed to give the world unrestricted access to specific content.  Only select titles are available via the Open Access Collection. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Law, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, International Affairs, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Government, History

London Times (Gale Cengage)

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    London Times access *not including the Sunday edition* from 1785 to 1985. Also known as The Times Digital Archive, and published under the name Times of London.  An invaluable source for primary historical research.

    Question mark iconGet help on primary source basics and how to use this collection.

Los Angeles Sentinel 1934-2005 (ProQuest)

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    Fully digitized African American newspaper Los Angeles Sentinel from 1934 to 2005.

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Magill's Literary Annuals (Salem Press)

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    The articles in Magill's Literary Annual evaluate 200 major examples of serious literature published during the previous calendar year. Covers works of interest to general readers. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature

Marjorie Bouvé Scrapbooks

This project was funded by the generous donations of Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences alumni.
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    Over 1900 documents, photographs, and album/scrapbook pages from two photograph albums and one scrapbook from the Marjorie Bouvé papers held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections.  A leader in physical education, Marjorie Bouvé (1879-1970) was one of the founders of Northeastern’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences.  The scrapbook items contains mementos from social events, travel, and schools at which Bouvé taught or attended. The photograph albums document the leisure activities of Bouvé and her friends.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education, History, Special Collections, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

MarketLine Advantage

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    Provides company, industry, country and financial data for every major marketplace in the world.  Includes company SWOTs, company overviews, industry profiles, case studies, financial  deals, country analysis, news and a statistics database covering over half a million data points for 215 countries and 46 political and geographic groupings.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

MathSciNet

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    Reviews of research in mathematics, 1940-present. Equivalent of Current Mathematical Publications. Includes a citation database and current awareness using RSS. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Mathematics

Media Education Foundation Film Collection (Kanopy)

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    Update as of May 11, 2018 - Due to budgetary constraints, the number of available streaming video titles in the Kanopy database is being reduced at this time.  If you have questions about specific titles, please contact your subject librarian.

    Kanopy offers a wide array of videos available for streaming. To set up course playlists, or recommend new titles, faculty should contact their subject specialist.

Medline (EBSCOhost)

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    Medline is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier database of articles in medicine, with indexing and abstracts for the most important peer-reviewed biomedical and health sciences research journals.

    Medline includes literature published from 1966 to the present, with selected coverage prior to that period.  Journals are selected by a committee of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

    Coverage scope is biomedicine and health broadly defined, including public health, health care systems and delivery, health policy, pre-clinical sciences, bioengineering, life sciences, nursing, dentistry and veterinary medicine. Medline features CAS Registry numbers and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) controlled vocabulary search terms for more precise, comprehensive search results.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Allied Health, Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, Health Sciences, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Speech Pathology & Audiology

Medline (Web of Science)

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    Medline is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier database of articles in medicine, with indexing and abstracts for the most important peer-reviewed biomedical and health sciences research journals.

    Medline from Web of Science includes literature published from 1950 to the present.  Journals are selected by a committee of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

    Coverage scope is biomedicine and health broadly defined, including public health, health care systems and delivery, health policy, pre-clinical sciences, bioengineering, life sciences, nursing, dentistry and veterinary medicine. Medline features CAS Registry numbers and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) controlled vocabulary search terms for more precise, comprehensive search results.

     This version includes links to NU's full text journals, and can be searched with Web of Science. Includes EndNoteWeb.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Allied Health, Athletic Training, Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Speech Pathology & Audiology

MedlinePlus

Access: 
Free Web Resource
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    MedlinePlus is the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Web site for authoritative and current consumer health information. Locate information on 800+ diseases and health conditions, prescriptions and OTC drugs, herbs and supplements. Link out to related anatomy and surgery videos, journal articles, clinical trials and patient education handouts. Includes a medical dictionary and an encyclopedia. Directories are available to use in locating hospitals, doctors, organizations, and more. Interactive tutorials, calculators, quizzes and games provide fun ways to learn about health issues and wellness. Produced by the National Library of Medicine. Spanish language version available.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Allied Health, Athletic Training, Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Speech Pathology & Audiology

Meet the Press (Alexander Street Press)

video
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Current NU Only
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    Meet the Press from Alexander Street opens up a wealth of information to libraries by making over 1,500 hours of footage—the full surviving broadcast run to date—available online in one cross-searchable interface.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Communications Studies, Economics, Government, International Affairs, Journalism, Media and Screen Studies, Military/Naval Science, Political Science

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)

Access: 
Current NU Only
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    Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Allows for evaluation of test products in psychology, education, business, and leadership. This online service covers from Volume 9 to the present.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Psychology

Mergent Archives (formerly: Mergent Web Reports)

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Current NU Only
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    Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy to navigate and reliable system.

    Includes Digital Corporate Manuals and the Digital Municipal & Government Manuals.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

Mergent Intellect

Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
  • More info

    A fully searchable database with detailed information on over 245,000,000 businesses including both active/inactive companies as well as daily updates on executives from over 100,000,000 businesses.

Mergent Online

Access: 
Current NU Only
Maximum number of users at a time: 
5
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    Access to detailed global company information, including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form.
    If you are off-campus, click here. (Best used with Internet Explorer)

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

MERIP

Access: 
Current NU Only
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    Information and analysis of the Middle East including the Middle East Report, which provides news and analysis not generally found in mainstream sources.  Independent with no links to other educational, religious, or political organizations.  

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC)

Access: 
Open Access
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    The Museum's OASC initiative provides license- and cost-free access to images of artwork in the collection that the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions for scholarly use in any media. The Museum has identified these as Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) Icon on the site. Look for this icon below images in the Collection section of the website to identify images that are part of the OASC initiative.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Art & Design

Micromedex

Please note: This resource is NOT to be used in Clinical settings.
Access: 
Current NU Only, no guest walk-in use
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    Evidence based information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine to to support informed research on clinical and treatment decisions.

    Includes

    Red Book Online

    Martindale

    Neofax  

     

MideastWire

Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
  • More info

    A daily newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Economics, Government, International Affairs, Political Science

Military and Government Collection (EBSCOhost)

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Current NU Only
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    Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content including full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government, Military/Naval Science, Political Science

MLA Directory of Periodicals (EBSCOhost)

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Current NU Only
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    The MLA Directory of Periodicals provides detailed information on over 6,000 journals and book series that cover literature, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, language, linguistics, pedagogy, rhetoric and composition, and the history of printing and publishing. Articles published in works listed in the directory are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Children's Literature, Media and Screen Studies, English & American Literature, Film Studies, World Languages, Literature, Theatre

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)

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Current NU Only
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    The MLA International Bibliography is a searchable online database of more than 2.7 million records used by academics and teachers around the world to find and share their work. The bibliography is compiled by a staff of subject experts at the MLA office of bibliographic information services and by more than one hundred field bibliographers. Updated frequently throughout the year, the MLA bibliography indexes more than 70,000 new items annually, enabling researchers to find citations for the latest scholarship as well as publications dating back to the 1880s.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Children's Literature, Media and Screen Studies, English & American Literature, Film Studies, World Languages, Literature, Theatre

Music Online (Alexander Street)

music
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Current NU Only
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    Search Jazz Music Library and Smithsonian Global Sound together for an international collection of streaming music. Includes the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Music

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Papers

NAACP Papers is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
Access: 
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    Parts 1-10, 13-17 and 20-23 of the NAACP Papers, divided into topical modules. The database is full-text searchable and features downloadable PDF's.

    Detailed subjects: 
    African American Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (EBSCOhost)

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    NCJRS from the US Department of Justice offers extensive reference and referral services to help you find answers to your questions about crime and justice-related research, policy, and practice. This Ebsco version allows you to combine your search with other Ebsco databases.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Criminology and Criminal Justice

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (DoJ)

Access: 
Open Access
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    NCJRS from the US Department of Justice offers extensive reference and referral services to help you find answers to your questions about crime and justice-related research, policy, and practice.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Criminology and Criminal Justice

National Film Registry (Library of Congress)

video
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Free Web Resource
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    The National Film Registry is a list of movies deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" that are earmarked for preservation by the Library of Congress. They are selected as works of enduring importance to American culture. They are historical documents which reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these movies, which may contain content offensive to users.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Art & Design, Communications Studies, Film Studies, History, Media and Screen Studies, Sociology

Natural Medicines (formerly Natural Standard)

Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    High quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.  Natural Medicine is a merger of two resources, Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive databases. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Allied Health, Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Speech Pathology & Audiology

Nature Journals Online

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    The flagship journal "Nature" is the most highly cited interdisciplinary science journal according to ISI's journal citation reports; NU's subscription includes a number of sister titles.

Naxos Music Library

music
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
Maximum number of users at a time: 
15
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    Over 85,000 tracks, emphasizing classical, but also including world music, jazz, folk, and more, available for streaming.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Music

NBER Working Papers

Provided courtesy of the Economics Department.
Access: 
Current NU Only
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    The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is the nation's leading private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Its Working Papers have not undergone the review accorded official NBER publications; in particular, they have not been submitted for approval by the Board of Directors. They are intended to make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before final publication. 1973-present.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Economics

NetAdvantage (Standard and Poor's)

Access: 
Current NU Only
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    Ready access to S&P Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, and The Outlook.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

Access: 
Open Access
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    NDLTD is a freely searchable catalog of theses and dissertations contributed by member institutions from around the world.  When viewing search results, click "view source record" to link to detailed information and the full text of the thesis or dissertation, if available.

New Oxford Shakespeare Online

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    The New Oxford Shakespeare Online comprises the Modern Critical Edition (with modern spelling), the Critical Reference Edition (with original spelling), and the Authorship Companion, integrating all of this material on Oxford University Press's high-powered scholarly editions platform. This unique online edition provides the perfect resource for the future of Shakespeare studies. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature

New York Amsterdam News: 1922-1993 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

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Current NU Only
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    This resource allows researchers to search for full articles in the New York Amsterdam News. Searches provide a PDF of each article as well as an abstract.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

New York Times (Gale Cengage)

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.
Access: 
Current NU Only
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    Search the full text of The New York Times starting in 1995. (Does NOT include the Book Review.)

New York Times (Nexis Uni)

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    Online full text of the NY Times from 1980 to the present.

New York Times, Historical (1851 - 2014) (ProQuest)

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Current NU Only
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    The Historical New York Times collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text back to the first issue.  Magazine and classifieds included. Go to "Advanced Search"--> "Look up citation" to find a specific article by author, title, page, date and more. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Journalism

Nexis Uni

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    Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. 

    Legal: 

    • Bill tracking at the federal and state levels.
    • U.S. federal court decisions and tracking, including Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790
    • Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court cases and Superior Court Trial Orders
    • Canadian cases
    • International Court of Justice filings
    • Law reviews

    Business and Financial:

    • Dun and Bradstreet Reports
    • Guidestar reports for charitable nonprofits
    • Hoover's Company Reports

    News:

    • Associated Press, PR Newswire, and other wire services
    • Thousands of newspapers
    • International professional and trade press (text only, no images)

     Most documents are available in full text.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Government, Political Science

Norfolk Journal and Guide: 1916-2003 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Access: 
Current NU Only
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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Journalism, African American Studies

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)

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Current NU Only
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    Rich primary source database with over 150,000 pages of diaries and letters from 1,325 women. Keyword-searchable and with some pre-selected sub-collections of primary sources arranged around important historical events. Also includes author biographies and bibliographies for further research.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, English & American Literature

North Carolina Court System

Access: 
Open Access
  • More info

    The official web site for North Carolina state courts.  

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government, Law

North Carolina General Assembly

Access: 
Open Access
  • More info

    Use this web site as a tool to track bills, find and communicate with your State House and Senate representatives, and to follow meetings and issues before the General Assembly.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Law, Political Science

Northeastern University Course Catalogs

Access: 
Open Access
  • More info

    An ever-growing collection of Northeastern University course catalogs, digitized by the NU Libraries.  Currently contains selected course catalogs from the 1910s to 2000s.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Special Collections

Northeastern University Histories

Access: 
Open Access
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    Five histories of Northeastern University from 1898 to 1996 to view or download from the Internet Archive:

    • Origin and development of Northeastern University, 1898-1960 / by Everett C. Marston
    • Northeastern University, an emerging giant, 1959-1975 / Antoinette Frederick
    • Northeastern University, coming of age: the Ryder years, 1975-1989 / Antoinette Frederick
    • Northeastern University, 1989-1996 : the Curry years, smaller but better / Feldscher, Karen
    • Tradition and innovation : reflections on Northeastern University's first century / Baker, Brook K
    Detailed subjects: 
    Education, History, Special Collections

Northeastern University Yearbooks

Access: 
Open Access
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    The Northeastern University yearbooks from 1917 to 2007 available to view or download from the Internet Archive.  The yearbook, the Cauldron, contains student recollections, years in review, and photographs of seniors, student activities, campus scenes, and sports.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Special Collections

Northeastern's Historical Photographs Collection

NU Libraries Digital Collections
Access: 
Open Access
  • More info

    A growing collection of images relating to the University from 1902 to the present. In the collection, you will find representations of academic programs, student life, faculty, the campus, athletics, and University events including commencement.

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O'Reilly for Higher Education (previously Safari Books Online)

video
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Current NU Only
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    Safari includes more than 35,000 book titles from industry-leading publishers such as Sam's, O'Reilly, Peachpit, and Que plus 30,000 hours of video, proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and videos from O’Reilly's global conferences. 

    Access to this resource requires registration with a Northeastern University email address.

     

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Computer and Information Science, Engineering, Graphic Design

Oberg Slide Collection

Access: 
Open Access
  • More info

    Over 600 slides documenting Northeastern University between 1945 and 1973 from the Oberg Slide collection held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. Most of the slides were taken by Doris Oberg, but a few were taken by her husband Rudolf Oberg, former Director of Alumni Affairs. The slides document campus events, alumni events, campus buildings, faculty, and student activities.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Architecture, Education, History, Special Collections

Online Tourism and Digital Economies (IGI Global)

Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
  • More info

    A specialized collection of 13 online encyclopedias in the field of global and economic technologies, including hospitality, travel and tourism management, consumer management, e-commerce, the digital divide and developing countries, and more. Supports research in the impact of technology on the management of cultural content and tourism.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Economics

Osiris

Access courtesy of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Access: 
Current NU Only
  • More info

    Financial information on 53,000 companies worldwide (42,000 are non-US companies).
    The information includes: standardized and "as reported" financials (including restated reports), SEC filings, detailed earnings estimates,recommendations, ownership, stock data, news and ratings.

    Windows and Internet Explorer recommended for this database.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

Our Marathon

Access: 
Open Access
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    Our Marathon is a crowd-sourced, digital archive of pictures, videos, stories, and social media related to the Boston Marathon bombing. 

    You may search, read, listen, and contribute to the site. 

    The mission of the site says: We believe that sharing stories from survivors, families, witnesses, visitors to the city, and everyone around the world touched by the event will speed the healing process. This is the place to share those images, emotions, and experiences to help us understand the bombing and its aftermath.

Ovid Ebooks

Access: 
Current NU Only
  • More info

    Hundreds of medical texts and handbooks from Lippincott for students and researchers in the health care professions.

    Books and book chapter links (called "jumpstarts") may be inserted into Blackboard. 

    Printing: Individual chapters and sections may be printed. 

Ovid Journals

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Current NU Only
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    Full text access to over 400 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers including Lippincott Williams and Williams. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily. View a complete list of the journal titles.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Allied Health, Health Sciences, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Speech Pathology & Audiology

Oxford Art Online (with Grove Art)

Access: 
Current NU Only
Maximum number of users at a time: 
8
  • More info

    Formerly "Grove Art Online" this resource includes images, definitions, and analysis from Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford Bibliographies

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Current NU Only
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    Developed with scholars worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offer authoritative research guides, featuring enyclopedic entries and annotated bibliographies on scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. Northeastern users have access to: Anthropology, Atlantic History, Cinema and Media Studies, Communication, Criminology, International Relations, Latino Studies, Public Health, Sociology and Victorian Literature. 
     

     

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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Current NU Only
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    The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains over 58,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles, and who died in or before 2008.  Authoritative in-depth articles include likenesses and detailed lists of additional sources.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

Access: 
Current NU Only
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    Surveys the vibrant terrain of American literature in 350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. (Published in 2004)

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature, Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

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Current NU Only
  • More info

    Covers the history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions. (Published in 2006)

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature, Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather

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Current NU Only
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    Over 300 entries about the earth's weather and climate processes, including science and history, events, ideas and biographies.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Earth Sciences

Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution

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Current NU Only
  • More info

    A comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology, these entries by leading experts survey essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings, and discuss both the history of the field and current controversies. Published in 2002.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Biology

Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

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Current NU Only
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    From Apple Pie to Zombie, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink. A collaboration of nearly 200 contributors this is a scholarly work with a generous bibliography. (Published in 2004.)

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

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Current NU Only
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    Covers words from across the English-speaking world, tracing their origin and history, including earliest recorded usage, through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.

Oxford Music Online (with Grove Dictionary of Music)

music
Access: 
Current NU Only
Maximum number of users at a time: 
8
  • More info

    Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002) plus additional resources.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Music

Oxford Reference Online

Access: 
Current NU Only
  • More info

    Access to the 'Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection', 'The Literature Collection' and 'The Western Civilization Collection'.

Oxford University Press Journals Online

Selected titles only
Access: 
Current NU Only
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    Journals from Oxford University Press.

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PAIS (ProQuest)

Access: 
Current NU Only
  • More info

    Broad coverage of the social sciences, from 1915 to present. International in scope. Abstracts of books, journal articles, conference proceedings, and many government publications.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Economics, Government, International Affairs, Political Science

Passport GMID (Euromonitor)

Access: 
Current NU Only, no guest walk-in use
  • More info

    Passport GMID provides international marketing data, analysis, and information sources for countries, consumers, and industries.

    Recommended: Windows and Internet Explorer

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Economics

Philadelphia Tribune: 1912-2001 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Access: 
Current NU Only
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    Proquest Historical Newspapers: Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001).  The historical Philadelphia Tribune collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Journalism

Philosopher's Index (ProQuest)

Access: 
Current NU Only
  • More info

    This bibliographic database offers informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology and book reviews.

PhilPapers

Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
  • More info

    PhilPapers is a comprehensive index of philosophy books and articles. PhilPapers offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Philosophy

Pittsburgh Courier: 1911-2002 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Access: 
Current NU Only
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    This resource allows researchers to search for full articles in the Pittsburgh Courier. Searches provide a PDF of each article as well as an abstract

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

Pivot (COS)

Access: 
Current NU Only
  • More info

    Combines a comprehensive, editorially maintained database of grants and other funding opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion, along with a database of 3 million pre-populated scholar profiles. Users may search for funding opportunities and view matching faculty from inside or outside Northeastern University. Conversely, a search for scholars will link to matching funding opportunities based on their research profiles. You may register to receive alerts whenever new matching opportunities are posted that match certain criteria. Pivot replaces three previous COS (Community of Scholars) databases: Expertise, Funding Opportunities, and Scholar Universe.

PolicyFile

Access: 
Current NU Only
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    Offering access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, PolicyFile is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Law, Political Science

PolicyMap

This resource is available through 30 May 2020 to assist researchers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Access: 
Current NU Only
  • More info

    PolicyMap is a mapping tool for accessing data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs, and more about communities across the U.S. to make better-informed decisions.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Data Visualization, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping, Public Health, Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Political Reference Suite (CQ)

Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
  • More info

    Congressional Quarterly information in US government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Includes CQ's Politics in America, as well as other almanacs, data, and news publications.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government, Political Science

Political Science (ProQuest)

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Current NU Only
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    ProQuest Political Science gives users access to over 150 leading political science and international relations journals. This collection provides full-text of many core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

    Detailed subjects: 
    International Affairs, Political Science

PressReader

Access: 
Current NU Only
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    PressReader provides online access to today's newspapers from over 100 countries around the world in over 60 languages in a full-color, full-page format. The ever-expanding collection currently includes over 5,000. Just like reading the familiar print edition, users can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. Users have the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire archive.

    PressReader  provides advanced digital features such as interactive tables of content, foreign language translation in 17 different languages, cross title searching, sharing of articles through email or blog postings, bookmarks and text-to-voice conversion.  

    This is a 90 day archive. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Communications Studies, Journalism, History

PrivCo

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Current NU Only
  • More info

    PrivCo is a premier source for business and financial research on US-based, non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned and venture-backed companies. 

    This resource requires separate registration and log-in with your @husky.neu.edu or @northeastern.edu email address.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

Project EUCLID

Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
  • More info

    Selected scholarly journals in mathematics (Euclid Prime and Euclid Select titles available).

    Detailed subjects: 
    Mathematics

Project MUSE

Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
  • More info

    Project Muse allows searching of articles from journals in the humanities, including religion, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, women's studies, film and the arts. Coverage is generally from about 1994 to the present, depending on the journal.

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature, Film Studies, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Project Muse Ebooks

Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
  • More info

    Northeastern University has access to over 150 Project Muse Ebooks.  Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education

PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)

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Current NU Only
  • More info

    The Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) is the American Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2007. Each January, another year is added to the archive.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Physics

ProQuest (All Resources)

video
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    Search all of Northeastern University's ProQuest resources including full-text databases, indexing services, eBook Central, Academic Video Online, and more. (Excludes History Vault, Congressional database, and Statistical Abstract of the U.S.)

ProQuest Congressional

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Current NU Only
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    Access to congressional documents including hearings from 1824, committee reports, bills and legislation including "hot bills" and voting records.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government, Law, Political Science

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (PQDT Global)

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Current NU Only
  • More info

    With over 2.7 million entries, Proquest Dissertations is the authoritative resource for searching doctoral dissertations and master's theses from around the world, from 1861 to the present. Full text PDFs are usually available to download for theses published since 1997.

    Beginning in 2008, Northeastern University Masters and PhD students submit their completed dissertations to this "database of record" for graduate research. 

ProQuest Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary)

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Current NU Only
  • More info

    Over 150,000 e-books for you to read using any web browser.  Largely scholarly titles from leading academic and university presses. (View a list of participating publishers). 

    Stable links to books and book chapters may be inserted into Blackboard.

    E-books can be downloaded to desktops or laptops with free Adobe Digital Editions software or to tablets and phones using the Bluefire app. See ProQuest Central support for more instructions.

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ProQuest Entrepreneurship

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    This database has content that ranges from journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings to guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from entrepreneurs in a variety of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as text and PDFs.

ProQuest One Academic

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    ProQuest One Academic combines four multidisciplinary products in one platform: ProQuest Central, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Ebook Central, and Academic Video Online.

ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection

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    This collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education. Featured databases include IBSS, PAIS and Sociological Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including deep indexing and full text from over 500 important social science journals.

PsycARTICLES (ProQuest)

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    PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals.
    The database can be searched in several ways including by specifying keywords that may occur in the article title, abstract, or the full-text, or by author names and journal titles. Each retrieved record has a link to the corresponding full-text article, which is almost always available in PDF format (so Adobe Acrobat reader is needed for viewing) and in HTML format. Each record also has a link to the Table of Contents (TOC) for the issue in which the article is published.
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PsychiatryOnline Premium Collection

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    PsychiatryOnline Premium Collection includes diagnosis and differential diagnosis tools, case vignettes, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines, journals and books. It includes full text for the following titles:
     
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    ·       Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 7th Edition
     
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)

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    A select collection of full-text articles in psychology from chiefly peer-reviewed journals.

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Psychotherapy.net

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    Psychotherapy.net is a library resource that offers 100+ videos for teaching, training, self-study and continuing education. Since 1995, Psychotherapy.net has been producing and distributing the highest quality training videos in psychotherapy, counseling and addiction treatment.  These videos are now available to the Northeastern community. 

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PsycINFO (EBSCO)

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    This database is published by the American Psychological Associations and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Documents indexed include journals, articles, books, dissertations and more. 90% of the 3,000+ titles indexed in PsycINFO are peer-reviewed.

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PTSDpubs (formerly PILOTS) (ProQuest)

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    PTSDpubs helps you find information about post-traumatic stress and related effects of trauma and mental health sequelae.  It is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Citations go back to 1871 and include articles from journals, books, pamphlets, dissertations, and technical reports.

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Public Library of Science (PLoS)

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    PLoS is an independent foundation that publishes, and makes freely available, peer-reviewed journals in the biomedical sciences.

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    Athletic Training, Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Speech Pathology & Audiology

PubMed @NU

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    PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's open-access database, encompassing Medline,a health information clearinghouse of articles from the National Library of Medicine, plus articles deposited by authors and publishers as part of National Institutes of Health funding requirements.  Some articles are available in full text, others may require a Northeastern login to access or request.

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    Athletic Training, Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy

PubMed Central

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    PubMed Central (PMC) is an electronic archive of full-text journal articles in the biomedical and life sciences, offering free access to its contents. Sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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R2 Library

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    Collection of full text reference books and textbooks in pharmacy, nursing, and pharmaceutical sciences from key health science publishers. Fully searchable and includes A-Z drug and topic indexes. NU subscription currently includes eight selected titles.
     

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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (EBSCOhost)

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    Readers’ Guide Retrospective covers popular magazines from the United States.  It offers access to 100 years of the original paper volumes—providing information about history, culture, science and seminal developments.  There are links to full text where available, or to ordering options from interlibrary loan.

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Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)

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    Coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost)

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    Journal articles in world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.

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Religion Database (ProQuest)

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    ProQuest's Religion Database provides a wide range of primarily full-text periodicals and other sources for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many worldwide religions. As well as scholarly journals there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.

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RIA Checkpoint Tax

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCOhost)

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    RILM Abstracts of Music Literature offers citations and abstracts of articles on international subjects including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments, voice, dance, music therapy.
    RILM covers all document types including articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more. Covers 1967 - present.

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RIPM Jazz Periodicals

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    An essential, unique collection of American Jazz periodicals, of great importance to any lover of jazz and its history, and a primary source reference and research tool. This collection contains 105 full text American jazz journals published between 1914 and 2006. Significant journals include, among others, Cadence, Mississippi Rag, and Record Changer.
    Detailed subjects: 
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Ronald W. Bailey Oral History Collection

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    Three oral histories conducted in 1989 and 1990 with prominent members of Boston’s African American community: Milton Derr, a painter, illustrator and retired teacher;  Mel King, a community activist and retired professor; and Byron Rushing, a civil rights activist and Representative for the 9th Suffolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. They were interviewed about their lives and work in preparation for a book by Ronald W. Bailey, Diane Turner, and Robert Hayden, entitled Lower Roxbury: A Community of Treasures in the City of Boston.

    Detailed subjects: 
    African American Studies, History, Special Collections

Roper Center iPoll Databank

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    Search opinion polls from all over the world, using this database from Cornell University. 

    Roper iPoll includes poll results from news organizations, governments, private foundations, academic institutions, and more.  The scope of topics spans politics, culture, workplaces, and much more.

    Date range is from the 1930s to the present.

    Question markFor tips, guides, and videos on effective searching and on teaching with iPoll, see the Roper Center Online Support Center.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Government, History, International Affairs, Political Science

Royal Society of Chemistry E-Books

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    Royal Society of Chemistry e-books provide in-depth, up-to-date and authoritative coverage across the chemical sciences and related areas, making them valuable references for students, researchers and scientists in academia and industry.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Royal Society of Chemistry Gold

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    RSC Gold is the fantastic resource from The Royal Society of Chemistry that offers all online journal, database and magazine content in one package, as well as a cutting-edge eBook series.

    Detailed subjects: 
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SAGE Journals (formerly: Sage Premier Journals Online)

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    Find articles in journals published by SAGE.

SAGE Knowledge (formerly: Sage Reference Online)

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    SAGE Knowledge is home to an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content alongside SAGE Video, containing over 4,600 titles. Content includes reference works, academic books, professional development titles and more. This cross-media platform allows users to search and browse over 10,000 items, video, book and reference titles within the Social Sciences.

SAGE Research Methods

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    SAGE Research Methods is an online collection of information (handbooks, articles, videos) that support beginning and advanced researchers looking for the best methods to use in their research.

    Learn about a range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the sciences. You can also find information on other parts of doing research such as writing a research question, gathering and analyzing data, preparing a literature review, working with teams, and publishing findings.

    Handbooks such as the Qualitative Research Methods Series offer "how to" advice and support. Find sample data sets for practicing statistical tests, along with cases, videos, pamphlets and articles illustrating good research management practices. 

    Tutorials are available to learn more about how to make the most of this unique resource.

     

    Detailed subjects: 
    Communications Studies, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, Digital Humanities, Economics, Education, Human Services, History, International Affairs, Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Sociology, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

SCC Online

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    The SCC OnLine Web Edition has an extensive database of Indian law, statute law and other material. Cases from the Supreme Court of India are included.
     
    You will need to enter your email address as a login ID under "IP Access". If this is the first time you are accessing SCC Online Web Edition using this email id, then you will be prompted to register for this login id, otherwise you will be logged into your account. No password is required.
    Detailed subjects: 
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SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science)

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    Get a more complete global picture by discovering new insights from research in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa.

Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate)

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    Science and technology citation and abstract information including original research articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies from over 7,000 journals. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Part of Web of Science.


    Covers 1975 - present

Science Magazine

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    A journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

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SciFinder (CAS)

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    Provides searching of Chemical Abstracts, Medline is also available. Links to full text. Covers 1907 - present.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Chemistry and Chemical Biology

SciFinderⁿ (CAS)

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    SciFinder-n provides access to the world’s most comprehensive and reliable collection of scientific research information, including millions of records and up-to-date patent and chemical information curated and aggregated by a global network of expert scientists.

    Detailed subjects: 
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Scitation

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    Scitation is the online home of more than 100 journals from AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, SPIE, and a host of other prestigious science and engineering societies. Scitation now includes SpinWeb.

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    Engineering

SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Journals Online

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    Journals from SIAM.

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    Mathematics

SimplyAnalytics

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    A mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, health, crime, and marketing data variables including Mediamark and Simmons Consumer Data. Data from the year 2000.

     

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    Business

Sixties : Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 (Alexander Street)

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    The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 150,000 pages of material at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, Law (Hein)

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     Direct access available to current NU Community.  All others, register for free access.  This HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

Sloan Management Review (MIT)

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    A business journal that bridges the gap between management research and practice, evaluating and reporting on new research to help readers identify and understand significant trends in management. Online version includes blogs. Journal articles: 2003 to the present.

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Small Business Resource Center (Gale Cengage)

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    When starting a new business, entrepreneurs need all the help they can get. Created by subject experts and a librarian advisory board, Small Business Resource Center brings together hundreds of sample business plans, journals, multimedia content, and more.
     
    Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business: financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, taxes and more. 
    Detailed subjects: 
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    An international network of music audio archives grounded in the mission of the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Offers access to the "smaller voices" of people all over the world via digital downloads. Aims to heighten communication among and about people and cultures, accomplished principally through the culturally potent, meaning-laden medium of music, accompanied by informative notes, images, videos, educational features, and lesson plans.

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Social Explorer

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    Access to Social Explorer is limited to 5 users at a time. If you are presented with a log-in screen, please try again after a few minutes.

    SocialExplorer.com brings together a vast and growing amount of quantitative data with an intuitive visual interface to make demographic research, the analysis of social trends, and comparison of neighborhoods, communities, counties, and other areas accessible and interactive. Updated on a regular basis as new data and features become available, SocialExplorer.com is a reliable and complete reference of quantitative modern and historical information.

Social Sciences Citation Index: SSCI (Clarivate)

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    Citations and abstracts in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, business and communication, criminology, penology, law, nursing, rehabilitation, and library sciences. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline.

    Part of Web of Science.

    Covers 1975-present

Social Sciences Premium Collection (ProQuest)

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    This collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education. Featured databases include IBSS, PAIS and Sociological Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including deep indexing and full text from over 500 important social science journals.

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    African American Studies, Anthropology, Business, Communications Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Human Services, International Affairs, Political Science, Sociology

Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest)

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    Social work research is indexed and abstracted in this service, including the family, human services, social welfare, gerontology, support groups, poverty and homelessness and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services. Articles are from 1980 to the present.

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    Human Services, Psychology, Sociology

Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)

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    The main source for abstracts in the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexes journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers. Cited references are included for many journal articles.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Anthropology, Human Services, Sociology

Sociology (ProQuest)

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    Full text articles about sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. Covers many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Human Services, Sociology

South Asia Newspapers 1864-1922 (World Newspaper Archive)

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    Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia. Featuring titles from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

South China Morning Post: 1903-2000 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

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    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. In addition to article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads that illuminate the period.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Journalism

SPIE Digital Library: International Society of Optical Engineers

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    The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Engineering

Sport Discus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)

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    SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Athletic Training, Physical Therapy, Sports Leadership

SpringerLink Books

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    Online access to full text of 50,000 books and book series from Springer Publishing. While the strength of Springer publishing is in the sciences, including biomedical and health sciences, many disciplines are represented: business, economics, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental science, engineering, law, mathematics, physics and astronomy, and the social sciences. English and German content is included.

    Stable links to books and book chapters may be inserted into Blackboard.

    Download to a device: Springer e-books are available as standard PDFs by chapter. Email or download to any device with a PDF reader.

    Printing: Standard PDFs may be printed.  Northeastern affiliates may use Springer's MyCopy service to order personal print-on-demand copies of the books for $24.95, a significant discount over the market price.

     

SpringerLink Journals

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    Search for articles in Springer journals. 

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STAT Plus (Stat+)

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    STAT Plus provides in-depth biotech, pharma, policy, and life science coverage and analysis. Coverage includes Wall Street news, policy developments in Washington, early science breakthroughs, clinical trial results, and health care disruption.

    Access to this resource requires registration with a Northeastern University email address.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Public Health, Regulatory Affairs in Drugs, Biologics, and Medical Devices

STAT!Ref (TDS Health)

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    A library of health care information, including DSM-IV-TR, Merck 19th ed, and hundreds of other eBooks, handbooks and journals.  (Statref)

    Detailed subjects: 
    Allied Health, Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Speech Pathology & Audiology

State House News Service

State House News Service is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
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    Since 1911, the State House News Service in Boston has provided journalists, lobbyists, government officials and other civic and business leaders with high-quality, comprehensive, objective information about the activities of state government year-round.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government, Political Science, Law

Statista

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    Statista is the first statistics portal in the world to integrate data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets

Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (ProQuest)

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    Published annually by the federal government the Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best known statistical reference publication in the country. 

    This website covers 2013 to the present.  For theyears 1878 - 2012, see the Bureau of the Census online library (open access).

    Detailed subjects: 
    Government

Swank Digital Campus

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    Digital Campus, provided by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® provides students streaming access to course-related films. These films are licensed for one year and do not come with public performance rights.

    Swank Digital Campus may require the latest version of Chrome (v62+) or Firefox (v47+) to work properly. Safari and Internet Explorer on older versions of Windows are not supported.

    Please note: On mobile devices you will be directed to download the Swank Digital Media Player when attempting to access a video. After you download the app, the link to play the video will open in the Swank Digital Media Player app.

Synthesis

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    Synthesis is an innovative information service for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science. Synthesis includes 50 to 100 page dynamic 'Lectures' in an important research topic in engineering or computer science. Each lecture is a self-contained electronic book that gives more analysis and depth than typical journal articles.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Computer and Information Science, Engineering

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Taylor & Francis Online

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    Access to selected full text journals

The Onyx Informer

This project was funded by the generous donations of Northeastern University alumni.
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    138 issues of The Onyx Informer from 1972 to 2010, a Northeastern student run newspaper that documented the voices of African American students and their perspective on campus and community issues.

    Detailed subjects: 
    African American Studies, History, Journalism, Special Collections

Thomas Register (ThomasNet.com)

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    ThomasNet includes the Thomas Register, a resource designed to bring together industrial buyers and sellers nationally, regionally, and locally.  Includes directory information, product news, CAD drawings and white papers.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Engineering

Times of London Digital Archive (Gale Cengage)

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    London Times access *not including the Sunday edition* from 1785 to 1985. An invaluable source for primary historical research.

TRAIL: Technical Report Archive and Image Library

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    A large collection of U.S. Federal Technical Reports issued prior to 1975, including historical government documents from the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and more. Technical reports communicate research progress in technology and science, and often contain plans, surveys, or data that was the most up-to-date at the time. Provided through our Center for Research Libraries membership.

Transportation Research Board Publications

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    The books, reports, and miscellaneous publications of the Transportation Research Board cover nine general subject categories: planning, administration, and environment; design; materials, construction, and maintenance; operations and safety; aviation; public transit; rail; freight transportation (multimodal); and marine transportation.

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    Business, Economics, Engineering

Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science

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    Written by a team of international expert scientists, the Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science examines topics in depth, and aims to provide a comprehensive scientific resource for all professionals and students in the area of estuarine and coastal science.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Marine and Environmental Science

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U.S. Congressional Serial Set 1817-1980

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    Important documents of the United States Congress including reports, journals (1817-1952), Senate executive documents, treaties (after 1978), committee reports, executive reports to congress, and more.

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    Government, History, Political Science

U.S. History in Context (formerly History Resource Center US) (Gale Cengage)

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.
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    Access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

    Question mark iconGet help on primary source basics and how to use this collection.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

Ulrichs Web

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    Lists all journals, print and electronic, with publisher information, subscription prices, subject descriptions, web locations, and much more.

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United South End Settlements Records

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    Over 90 photographs and documents selected from the United South End Settlements records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections.  The United South End Settlements is a non-profit social service agency located in the South End of Boston, Massachusetts, whose mission is to foster well-being, nurture personal growth and development, build a sense of community, and maintain an environment where all can thrive. The records consist of Children Art Centre annual reports, correspondence, brochures, fliers, reports, and photographs of programs, activities, and artwork produced by students.

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    History, Special Collections

University of Toronto Press Journals

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    Journals from the University of Toronto Press.

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    African American Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, English & American Literature, History, Law, Theatre, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

University Photography Media Collection

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    35 videos selected from the Northeastern University Photography Media collection from 1982 to 1987 held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The videos document events such as the First Governor's Conference on Violence against Women, 1984; Jesse Jackson’s Presidential Campaign, 1984; the Beanpot Hockey Tournament, 1983; and the Department of Athletics’ Varsity Club Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1985. 

    Detailed subjects: 
    Political Science, Government, Sports Leadership, History, Special Collections

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Value Line

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    This company and industry research service includes the flagship ValueLine Investment Survey (Standard and Expanded), plus Mutual Fund Survey, Daily Options Survey, Special Situations Service, and Convertible Survey.

     

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

Van Nostrand’s Encyclopedia of Chemistry, 5th ed.

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    An accessible introduction to chemistry. Van Nostrand’s Encyclopedia of Chemistry is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible reference. Its intelligential scope ranges from the introductory to the highly technical.

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Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones)

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    The Wall Street Journal is a global news organization that provides leading news, information, commentary and analysis. Individual registration is required for access to current content on the Wall Street Journal home page. After registering, users will have to confirm via email and sign in again before gaining access.

    For historic WSJ content dating back to 1985, please use Factiva via this link. Click 'Options' then use the 'Source' dropdown menu to limit search results to WSJ articles.

Washington Post Archive 1877-2002 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

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    The Washington Post provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History

Web of Science 1975 - present (Clarivate)

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    One of the most comprehensive databases of academic research, with robust citation tracking from scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes conference proceedings, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.

    Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Advanced searching offers the ability to search by institutional affiliation or funding agency, to see who is working in, and funding, similar areas of research to your own.

    Covers 1975-present.

    The Core Collection includes:

        Arts and Humanities Citation Index
        Book Citation Index
        Conference Proceedings Index
        Chemical Reactions Index
        Index Chemicus
        Science Citation Index
        Social Sciences Citation Index


    Use dropdown to link to BIOSIS Previews, BIOSIS Citation Index, Current Contents, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, KCI-Korean Journal Database, Russian Citation Index, SciELO, Zoological Record, and Medline.

WebMD

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    WebMD is a leading ad-supported publisher of credible and timely health information for consumers. Experts in medicine, journalism and health communications provide news and information on health conditions with links to related articles, news, videos, blogs, slideshows, quizzes, discussions and supportive communities. Other features include drug and supplement information, first aid treatments, health, wellness and nutrition guides and many engaging interactive calculators and tools. One-time registration required to access some features.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Allied Health, Athletic Training, Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, Health Sciences, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Speech Pathology & Audiology

Wiley Online Library

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    Selected journals available in full text, along with the Cochrane Library and reviews of literature in the sciences.

Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000 (Alexander Street)

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    Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the site seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding of U.S. history while making the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students. The site includes about 4,700 publications with 85,000 pages of Primary Source Collections pertaining to Women and Social Movements in the United States as well as 5,200 documents, 1,400 images, and 1,130 links to other websites.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Women Writers Online

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    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.

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Women's Rights Collections 1880-1990 (ProQuest History Vault)

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    Drawn from the extensive holdings of the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, the Womens Studies Manuscript Collections tells the story of the women and voting rights and reproductive rights at national, regional and local levels.

    This collection includes:

    • the National Womans Party Papers that document the militant aspect of the suffrage campaign in the United States from 1913-1920,
    • the Party's activities from 19211971;
    • the central organizational records of the League of Women Voters from its formal inception in 1920 through 1974
    • the National Office Subject Files for the period from 1920-1932
    • the papers of the Womens Action Alliance
    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

World Development Indicators

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    Access to more than 700 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2006. WDI offers chart and data export formats. Indicators include statistics on national and per capita income, trade, health, environment, and other measures of development.

     

    The World Bank: The World Bank authorizes the use of this material subject to its terms and conditions.

     

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business, Economics, Government, International Affairs

World History in Context (Gale Cengage)

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.
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    An online collection that provides multicultural, global and research-based content that supports research in history from ancient times to the present. World History in Context offers students and researchers  access to a broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents, including Journal of World History, History Review and The Historian.

    Detailed subjects: 
    , History, Jewish Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

World Shakespeare Bibliography

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    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 and published or produced between 1960 and 2011. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 120 languages. Updated quarterly.

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature, Literature

World War I: British Foreign Office Political Correspondence (History Vault) (ProQuest)

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    Confidential British Foreign Office Political Correspondence: World War I contains the working papers of the British Foreign Office used in the development of British foreign policy. The information contained in these documents was often classified and was not made available for study outside of the British government until many years after the documents were created. This collection consists of records relating to the diplomatic business of the Foreign Office, which includes not only the formal relations between two countries but also the information needed by the British government in order to conduct diplomatic relations. This includes the domestic political, economic, social, and cultural relations of another country plus that country's relations with other nations, as well as British internal political concerns.

    Detailed subjects: 
    History, Political Science

WorldCat Discovery (OCLC)

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    WorldCat Discovery is a worldwide catalog and discovery system.  

    Use this system to search for a book, journal, newspaper, video, or document.  It will tell you which libraries in North America (and worldwide) have the item available.

     

    Northeastern affiliates may use WorldCat Discovery to launch a request for items via interlibrary loan, by clicking the "Request item" button:

WorldTradeLaw.Net

WorldTradeLaw.Net is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
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    Commentary and analysis as well as primary source documents on international trade law, including GATT/WTO decisions, NAFTA/CUSFTA and FTAA documents, and trade agreements. 

     
    Detailed subjects: 
    Government, Political Science, Law

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (ProQuest)

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    Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The database is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. Since 2000, development of the serials list has focused on expanding international coverage. Approximately 1,500+ titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Political Science

Worldwide Science

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    A free web site that acts as a gateway for one-stop searching of dozens of open access repositories of science information from around the world. Maintained by the Office of Science and Technology Information at the U. S. Department of Energy.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Agriculture, Anthropology, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Earth Sciences, Ecology, Engineering, Environmental Research Across Disciplines, , Information Science, Marine and Environmental Science, Nanotechnology, , Physics, Sustainability

WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services

Provided courtesy of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business
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    Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a web-based data management system from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania that allows faculty and students to retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources.

    WRDS is best known for its holdings of historical financial data from CRSP and COMPUSTAT. This data covers over 30,000 companies and includes security prices and trading volume, income and balance sheet items. We provide access to IBES' analyst projections for earnings and sales. WRDS also contains stock market indices, bond prices and interest rates, mutual fund and stock ownership information, options data, and a wide array of macroeconomic time series. International data, marketing and industry reports, and web usage data are also available on WRDS.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Business

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Yahoo!Finance

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    Free ad-supported resource from Yahoo! that provides stock quotes, news, portfolio management resources, market data, message boards, and mortgage rates.

YMCA of Greater Boston Project

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    Over 6,500 photographs, oral histories, and documents selected from the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Greater Boston records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections.  The photographs document YMCA activities, programs, events, camps, branches, and interior images of the YMCA’s Huntington Avenue building. The documents consist of meeting minutes, newsletters, annual reports, newspaper clippings, advertisements, and brochures.

     
    Detailed subjects: 
    Education, Athletic Training, History, Special Collections, Sports Leadership

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Zoological Records (1993 - current)

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    Zoological Record is the world's oldest continuing database of citations in animal biology. It is also considered the world's leading taxonomic reference, and has long acted as an unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.