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.

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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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Anywhere, with your myNortheastern username and password:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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® 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.  

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

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

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. More information on using Digital Editions with EBSCOhost.

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

Borrowing: 7 days, one user at a time

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

Help:

Checking out and downloading EBSCO eBooks

Special instructions for Apple iOS users

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

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

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. 

Contains Country Reports, Country Finance, and Country Commerce.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Covers 1966 to the present.

-->Combine: Search ERIC with Education Research Complete and PsycInfo

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

View a guide to this database from Proquest

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

Hint

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

Search articles from Ingenta. 

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.