Databases A-Z

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: 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.

  Detailed subjects: 

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

Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage)

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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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging

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

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 Indian Histories and Cultures (Adam Matthew Digital)

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  Spanning four centuries and covering North and Central America, this digital resource provides access to material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world. Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century or browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.

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  Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, Political Science, Special Collections, Anthropology, History

American Mathematical Society Journals

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  High-quality academic journals from the American Mathematical Society.

  Avalailable titles limited to a select collection.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Mathematics, Physics

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 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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Government, History

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 Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Conference Proceedings

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  High-quality conference proceedings 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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  History, Law, Political Science

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.

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  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

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

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

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. 

  Detailed subjects: 

  History, Journalism

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.

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

Biography in Context (Gale Cengage)

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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.

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 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.

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 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 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'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.

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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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.

  Detailed subjects: 

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

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Business

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.

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

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.

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: 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.

Checkpoint (Thomson Reuters)

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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 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.

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

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:

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

   

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

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Congressional publications (Proquest)

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  Includes Congressional hearings. 

  Detailed subjects: 

  Government

Counseling and Therapy in Video (Alexander Street)

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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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Dictionary of Energy

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

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

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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: NU Theses and Dissertations

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

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.)

Docuseek2

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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.

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.

Ebony Magazine Archive (EBSCOhost)

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  Originally published by John H. Johnson in November 1945, Ebony has served as an influential African-American magazine promoting stories important to the Black community and focusing on the achievements of African-American leaders. The Ebony Magazine Archive covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus, including more than 800 issues providing a broad view of African-American culture from its first issue in 1945 through 2014.

  Detailed subjects: 

  African American Studies

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.

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

Education in 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 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 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

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  English & American Literature, Literature, History

Elgar Online Law

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

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Business

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Business, Economics

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  History, Jewish Studies

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  History

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. 

  Detailed subjects: 

  Communications Studies

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Agriculture, Health Sciences, Nutrition, Sustainability

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 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 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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Health Sciences, Nutrition

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 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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Anthropology, Medicine, Sociology, Health Sciences

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Biology

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. 

  Detailed subjects: 

  Biochemistry, Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Psychology

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 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. 

  Detailed subjects: 

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

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.

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: 

  Business

ERIC (ProQuest)

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  Contains citations to documents related to education.

   

  Detailed subjects: 

  Education, Literature

Factiva (Dow Jones/ProQuest)

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  Includes access to the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and hundreds of other international newspapers.

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  To limit your search to Wall Street Journal articles only, append sc=j to the end of your search.  For example:

  

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

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.

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Education

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.

Foundation Grants to Individuals

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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.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale Cengage)

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  A collection of encyclopedias covering topics in the Arts, Biography, Business, Environment, History, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Science and Social Sciences. Includes the Business Plans Handbook and the International Directory of Company Histories.

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.

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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Anthropology, Economics, History

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".

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). 

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.

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.

   For more information on the HaPI database, please see https://www.bmdshapi.com/

  Detailed subjects: 

  Psychology

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.

  

   

  • 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 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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Allied Health, Nursing

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 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.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Economics, Government, History, Political Science

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

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.

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.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

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

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 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 Retrospective: 1908-1981 (EBSCOhost)

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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

IngentaConnect

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  Search articles from Ingenta. 

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

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 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 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 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 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

Jazz Music Library

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  Streaming jazz recordings from Alexander Street press.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Music

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

JoVE Science Education

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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. Each video is paired with additional video resources for you to view practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills.

  Science Education subject areas include Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Social Psychology, Psychology, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, and Clinical Skills.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Science (General)

JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments

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  The Journal of Visualized Experiments is a set of scientific video journals dedicated to advancing science by increasing reproducibility and efficient knowledge transfer. Articles combine high-quality video demonstrations of experiments with detailed text protocols. All content is peer-reviewed and indexed in Medline, PubMed, Web of Science, and other relevant databases.

  Northeastern University has access to all JoVE Video Journals and Science Education subjects.

  Detailed subjects: 

  Science (General)

Law360

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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

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

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

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

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

Literature Resource Center (Gale Cengage)

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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 (Open Access Collection)