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NU Historical Photos Now Online

NU's history is documented in the many photographs carefully preserved in our Archives and Special Collections Department. More than 4,000 of these photographs are now available online.
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First pages

Incoming first year students are reading David Sheff's Beautiful Boy this summer.More about the book here....

The NU Libraries congratulate our faculty who have published major works this year!

View an online exhibit of 2009 publications.

NU Libraries on YouTube

youtube Did you miss a "Meet the Author" book talk? Watch it on YouTube!

Help us test new resources!

See all trials...


Streaming Videos Now Available!

The University Libraries are pleased to announce a three-year subscription to 195 educational videos available for playing online. The advantage of streaming videos over DVDs is that they can be accessed and played from any location, such as a classroom, a Blackboard site, or a dorm room. Read more...


The NU Libraries Celebrate Diversity

As part of NU Diversity Week, Northeastern Universities Libraries has mounted a display exhibiting the various diversity resources the Library has to offer. Read more ...


Holocaust Awareness Week at NU

The NU Libraries join the campus community in commemorating the Nazi Holocaust. Read more ...



Records of the Bisexual Resource Center available for research in the NU Archives and Special Collections

Freedom House Collection
Roxbury Places, People and Events 1950-1975
Photographs now online!


Learn about Scholarly Communication

With information about open access, author rights and copyright, downloading, textbook and journal costs, and free culture! More Info...



Connect to Web of Science!
(with Journal Citation Reports)

Online training from ISI


NU Libraries participate in a major digitization project

Digitized versions of unique and rare books owned by NU Libraries and other New England libraries will be available to researchers, thanks to a major new digital project partnership between the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Open Content Alliance.

Read the complete press release


Sustainability at Northeastern
The University Libraries have many resources focused on all aspects of sustainability. Click here for more information.


IRis: Northeastern's Institutional Repository under the direction of the Northeastern University LibrariesLearn about IRis, NU's institutional repository.