Databases A-Z

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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

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

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

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

The Manual home page allows you to navigate quickly and intuitively. You can use the quick search feature, which searches the full text of the Manual, or you can navigate using the left-side menu to jump to any section of the Manual.

High quality academic journals from the American Chemical Society.

Available titles limited to a select collection.  

High-quality academic journals from the American Mathematical Society.

Avalailable titles limited to a select collection.

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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The core content of this work reviews and analyzes the process by which aspirants to the American presidency have campaigned for the support of the national electorate and how voters have made their selections from 1789 to the present day.  Content includes primary documents, images, chronologies, and state-by-state analysis of election results.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gale Artemis is a path-breaking research experience that unites Gale's globally acclaimed digital archives. Artemis Primary Sources allows researchers to uncover primary source documents in archives where they may not have thought to look, greatly enhancing their research experience. By building a seamless research environment for multiple collections, Gale is creating the largest digital humanities and social sciences collection in the world.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A comprehensive view of life sciences research, including the most important discoveries, significant influences and relevant connections. BIOSIS Citation Index combines the unique BIOSIS content that is critical to life sciences research with powerful citation indexing.

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

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

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

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

Historical and current access to the Boston Globe.

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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.

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.

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.

Link for mobile devices

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

Includes Congressional hearings. 

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.

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. 

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.

The Data Citation Index on the Web of Knowledge platform provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.
Through linked content and summary information, this data is displayed within the broader context of the scholarly research, enabling users to gain perspective that is lost when data sets or repositories are viewed in isolation. These connections allow researchers to efficiently access an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output, to maximize research efforts and accurately assess importance.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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

Explores the full spectrum of communication, from careers to information technologies, in an interdisciplinary fashion. Emphasis is on both historical and current issues, topics, and people.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Contains citations to documents related to education.

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.

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

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

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

A brief introduction to the legal systems of 190 foreign countries and jurisdications, a list of codifications, gazettes and other sources of law. Also, it identifies any available English translations. Searchable by country, subject, or keyword.

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.

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.

The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 90,000 references a year. The database contains over 2.9 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

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".

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). 

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.

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

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

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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

To view and print a complete standard:

Select the Standards Expert on the IHS website

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Electronic version must be requested when available

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Standards may be printed once only!

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

For questions contact j.omoruyi [at] neu.edu (Joan Omoruyi) (617-373-2806) or s.maubourquette [at] northeastern.edu (Stacy Maubourquette) (617-373-4974)

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. 

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale. Not since the publication in 1968 of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by David L. Sills, has there been such an ambitious project to describe the state of the art in all the fields encompassed within the social and behavioral sciences. Available in both print (26 volumes) and online editions, it comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.

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

Streaming jazz recordings from Alexander Street press.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

United States law review articles from LexisNexis.

Full text access to over 270 medical, nursing, and pharmacology journals from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, along with backfiles from additional publishers. Updated daily.
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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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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

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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.