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Academic OneFile (Gale) (Current NU Only)
Peer-reviewed articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, the majority in full text. Includes the New York Times backfile from 1995 to present. Interdisciplinary.
Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost) (Current NU Only)
Full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles covering all academic subjects.
Access World News (Current NU Only)
Provides full-text English language coverage of U.S. and international media reports.
ACM Digital Library (Current NU Only)
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. [More Info]
Agricola (Open Access)
The US National Agriculture Library's catalog of books and articles relating to agriculture.
Alt-HealthWatch (Current NU Only)
Offers full text articles for nearly 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports on omplementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
America's Historical Newspapers (1690 - 1922) (Boston Public Library Card required for access.)
Includes "Early American Newspapers, Series I, II & III" and features cover-to-cover fully text-searchable facsimile images of over 1,000 historical newspapers from all 50 states from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Access courtesy of Boston Public Library.
America: History and Life (Ebsco) (Current NU Only)
Search for books and articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals. (1964-present)
American Chemical Society Journals (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected titles are available only
American Institute of Physics Journals (Current NU Only)
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American Mathematical Society Journals (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected titles are available only
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journals (Current NU Only)
32 core journals in civil engineering, available online from 1983 to the present
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Online Proceedings (Current NU Only)
Proceedings from 1996 to present (excluding 1997!)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Online Journals (Current NU Only)
Selected journals available in full text.
Annual Reviews
Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 37 scientific disciplines. Excellent for finding literature reviews.
View a list of all reviews available at NU.
AnthroSource (Current NU Only)
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.
Applied Mechanics Reviews (Current NU Only)
AMR is an international review journal covering mechanics topics across the engineering sciences spectrum, such as fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamics and vibration. AMR also publishes retrospectives by respected authors looking back on their work and Book Reviews of newly published books.
Art Abstracts (Current NU Only)
Provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing of 370 international art publications. [More Info]
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Current NU Only)
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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. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1993-present
ATLA Religion with ATLA Serials (Ebsco) (Current NU Only)
Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals [More Info]
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Ebsco) (Current NU Only)
Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.
Biography Resource Center (Current NU Only)
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. [More Info]
BioOne (Current NU plus alumni)
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 [More Info]
BIOSIS Previews (1969- present) (Current NU Only)
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Biological abstracts, a comprehensive database of articles in Biology and related disciplines.
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BIOSIS Previews (2005 - present) (Current NU Only)
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Biological abstracts, a comprehensive database of articles in Biology and related disciplines.
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Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street) (Current NU Only)
A primary source database for essays, articles, speeches, books, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. Includes unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials.
Blackwell (Current NU Only)
Selected titles available, now part of Wiley Interscience.
Boston Globe 1980-present (Proquest Mass Newsstand) (Current NU Only)
Boston Globe 1988 - present (Lexis-Nexis) (Current NU/not available to Law affiliates)
Boston Globe, 1872-1924 (Boston Public Library Card required for access.)
The Historical Boston Globe collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text back to the first issue. Access courtesy of Boston Public Library.
Boston Herald 1991 - present (Proquest Mass Newsstand) (Current NU Only)
Full text from 1991 - present
Boston Herald, 1991 - present (Lexis-Nexis) (Current NU/not available to Law affiliates)
Business Source Premier (Current NU Only)
Journal articles, with full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Some text goes back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. All disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. [More Info]
Cabell's Directories (Current NU Only)
Information to help you publish your business journal article, including acceptance rate and refereed status of thousands of journals.
Cambridge Univ. Press Journals On Line (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Terms and Conditions
Chronicle of Higher Education Online (Current NU only)
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CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online (Current NU Only)
Note: Courtesy of the NU School of Law
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. [More Info]
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) Full-Text (Current NU Only)
The world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 600 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index from 1981 to the most current issues. [More Info]
Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) (Current NU Only)
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. [More Info]
Cochrane Library (Current NU Only)
The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Full text.
ComDisDome (CSA) (Current NU Only )
is an indexing and abstracting tool covering the communications disorders literature, with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology. In one convenient location, the database will quickly identify and connect you to reliable information from multiple sources in your field, including journal articles and books, along with access to profiles of researchers working in this area.
Communications and Mass Media Complete (Current NU Only)
For research in areas related to communication and mass media. Significant full text is available. [More Info]
Compendex with Inspec (EI Village) (Current NU Only)
A comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database, Compendex contains over 9 million records, and references over 5,000 international engineering sources including journals, conferences, and trade publications. 1969 to present, updated weekly. [More Info]
Computers and Applied Sciences Complete (Current NU Only)
Abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals (730 in full text), professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection relating to computer science.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC) (Current NU Only)
Excerpted criticism on works of selected novelists, poets, critics, dramatists, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after 1959. Each entry contains a short biography, critical introduction, and excerpts from essays and book reviews taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals, and, if available, interviews with the author. Excellent starting place, but not exhaustive.
COS Funding Opportunities (CSA Illumina) (Current NU Only)
A database of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding. Includes information from the public and private sector, including governments, foundations, and corporations. Includes calls for papers, scholar profiles, and Email alerting also available.
CQ Electronic Library (Current NU plus Alumni)
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.
Criminal Justice Abstracts (Current NU Only)
Note: Off-campus? Access the Criminal Justice Abstracts here, (QuickBib Citation formatting is not available off-campus.)
Indexing and links to full text for scholarly and professional journals in the criminal justice and related fields.
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e-Duke Scholarly Collection (Current NU plus alumni)
Humanities and social sciences journals from Duke University Press and associated learned societies, available in full text
EconLit (Current NU Only)
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 ILL options
Education Research Complete (Current NU Only)
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.
Educator's Reference Desk (Gale)
More than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Ei Village: Compendex and Inspec (Current NU Only)
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.
EIU.com (Economist Intelligence Unit, Country Info) (Current NU Only)
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Contains Country Reports, International Business Newsletters, Country Monitor, Country Finance, Country Commerce, European Policy Analyst.
Emerald Fulltext (Current NU Only)
Research journals in management science, with an emphasis on applications in a variety of industries and nonprofits.
ERIC (Cambridge Scientific) (Current NU Only)
Note: Off-campus? Access ERIC (Cambridge Scientific) here, (QuickBib Citation formatting not available off-campus)
Contains citations to documents related to education. [More Info]
ERIC (EbscoHost) (Current NU Only)
Contains citations to journal articles and documents related to education. [More Info]
Ethnic Newswatch (Current NU Only)
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. [More Info]
Expanded Academic ASAP Plus (Gale Cengage) (Current NU Only)
Note: Available courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Comissioners.
Journal articles in a variety of disciplines, including popular, professional, and scholarly.
Factiva (Dow Jones/Proquest) (Current NU Only)
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Includes access to the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and hundreds of other international newspapers.
Faulkner Advisor on Info Tech Studies (Current NU Only)
More than 1,200 reports that help IT decision makers, vendor company executives, government IT administrators, IT specialists, IT project directors, business managers, and researchers learn about and keep up with the issues, trends, market conditions, products, services, and vendors in the IT and communications industries.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals (Current NU Only)
This index to scholarly journal content adds intellectual depth research and course syllabi. Created by experts at the International Federation of Film Archives, it indexes over 300,000 articles dating back to 1972 from 300 of the world’s foremost academic and popular film journals.
Film Literature Index (Open Access)
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.
Genderwatch (Current NU Only)
reprints full articles from women's studies magazines and newsletters (including some that are hard to find in print), as well as some scholarly journals. Some articles go back to the 1970's. You can browse a list of subjects or search by key words. [More Info]
General BusinessFile (Current NU Only)
General BusinessFile ASAP provides a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for business and trade publications. Includes directory listings for companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
General Reference Center Gold (Current NU Only)
Note: Available courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
GeoRef (Current NU Only)
Searchable abstracts from the American Geological Institute containing references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
Google Scholar
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".
GreenFILE (NU Only)
Note: Not affiliated with NU? Choose the open access version of Greenfile
Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE is an informative resource for anyone concerned about our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles, and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
Grove Dictionary of Music (Oxford Music Online) (Current NU plus alumni)
The full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), plus numerous other Grove Music Dictionaries (Opera, Jazz), now all part of Oxford Music Online. [More Info]
HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) (Current NU Only)
Information about behavioral measurement instruments, abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. [More Info]
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale) (Current NU Only)
Access to medical, statistical, health, and related information. Includes periodical articles, pamphlets, news and multimedia content, and the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale) (Current NU Only)
Note: Available courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Comissioners.
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.
HeinOnline (Current NU Only)
HeinOnline Journals provides access to online, full-text pre-1980 law reviews and journals.
Highwire (Current NU Only)
Selected journals from Sage, as well as other scholarly publishers and societies.
Historical Abstracts (Ebsco) (Current NU Only)
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Indexing/abstracting of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955 with links to full text where available.
History Cooperative (Current NU plus alumni)
A partnership between the AHA (American Historical Association) and the OAH (Organization of American Historians), this site supplies academic research articles in history. [More Info]
History Resource Center (Boston Public Library Card required for access.)
Historical (primary) documents, reference articles, full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present, plus citations for additional history journals from the ISI's Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Access courtesy of Boston Public Library.
Humanities International Complete (Current NU Only)
Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources, including all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content.
IEEE/IEL Electronic Library/Xplore (Current NU Only)
NU subscribes to the AbstractPlus records 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 [More Info]
Index to Legal Periodicals
Note: Courtesy of the NU School of Law Library
Search for citations to articles and some full-text articles in legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Covers 1908 to the present.
Infomaworld (Current NU Only)
Note: Terms of Use
The InformaWorld portal is a gateway to Taylor and Francis group journals, including the Routledge imprint, Psychology Press, and Informa Healthcare.
IngentaConnect (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected titles only. MIT Press titles available to alumni
Inspec (EI Village) (Current NU Only)
Inspec® provides deep coverage of scientific and technical literature in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics and computer science. Contains over 8 million records describing articles in more than 3,400 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings as well as books, dissertations and reports.
Institute of Physics Electronic Journals (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Selected titles only
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (Current NU Only)
Note: Provided courtesy of the NU Department of Pharmacy Practice
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.
Intute: Arts and Humanities (Open Access)
A free web site and database of curated links to a massive amount of scholarly and research information in the arts and humanities.
IRis (choose one):

IRis: NU's Digital Institutional Repository for NU research and historical documents.
or
IRIS: Illinois Researcher Information Service for information about academic funding grants.
Journal Citation Reports: JCR (ISI) (Current NU Only)
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Evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show you the:
- Most frequently cited journals in a field
- Highest impact journals in a field
- Largest journals in a field
Covers 2001-2007
Journals @ Ovid (Browse A-Z list) (Current NU Only)
Full text access to 120 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily.
Journals @ Ovid (Search for articles) (Current NU Only)
JSTOR (Current NU Only)
Note: Arts and Sciences IV courtesy of NU School of Law
Collections: Arts and Sciences I and IV, Health and General Science [More Info]
Kluwer Online
Note: Now part of SpringerLink
LegalTrac (Gale Cengage) (NU Only)
Note: Access courtesy of the NU School of Law
Provides full-text coverage of major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals offers law students, faculty and legal researchers the publications they need for their research and practicum.
LexisNexis Academic (Current NU Only)
Note: LexisNexis online products will be unavailable to users from October 31, 9pm to November 01, 5am EST, for a maintenance upgrade.
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. [More Info]
Library PressDisplay (Current NU Only)
Today's headlines and news stories from international newspapers; RSS feeds also available. Archived for up to 60 days.
LiOn (Literature Online) (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Limited to 4 concurrent users
A searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 192 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
LISTA: Library and Information Science Abstracts (Open Access)
Over 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship, including information management and more extending back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literature Resource Center (Current NU Only)
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.
Massachusetts History Online (Current NU Only)
Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to MA history.
Massachusetts Newsstand (ProQuest) (Current NU Only)
Includes full text of the Boston Globe (1980-current), Boston Herald (7/26/1991-current), Patriot Ledger, Gazette (Haverhill), Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Lowell Sun, North Adams Transcript, Plymouth County Bulletin, Sentinel and Enterprise (Firchburg), Standard Times and more.
MathSciNet (Current NU Only)
Reviews of research in mathematics, 1940-present. Equivalent of Current Mathematical Publications. Includes a citation database and current awareness using RSS. Terms and Conditions
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Medline (Ebscohost) (Current NU Only)
Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, and the equivalent of PubMed. This Ebscohost version includes links to NU's full text journals, and can be searched with CINAHL and PsycInfo. [More Info]
Medline (ISI Web of Knowledge) (Current NU Only)
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Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, it is the equivalent of PubMed. This version includes links to NU's full text journals, and can be searched with Web of Science. Includes EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1950-present.
Metapress (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected articles from Frank Cass, Taylor & Francis and Routledge publishers
Military and Government Collection (Current NU Only)
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.
MLA Bibliography (Current NU Only)
A core index for the study of literature, folklore, language, and linguistics, with good coverage of many additional cultural forms like film, music, and theater. Contains over 2 million citations to journal articles, books, proceedings, book chapters, and dissertations, dating from 1926 to present. [More Info]
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (Open Access)
Note: U.S. Department of Justice Web site
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (Cambridge Scientific) (Current NU Only)
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Natural Standard (Current NU Only)
High quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
Nature Journals Online (Current NU plus alumni)
The flagship journal "Nature" is is the most highly cited interdisciplinary science journal according to ISI's journal citation reports; NU's subscription includes a number of sister titles. View a list here.
New York Times (1980-present) (NU Only)
Online full text of the NY Times from 1980 to the present is available from Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Print Locations Snell 2nd floor:
locate and copy complete articles from 1851 to six weeks ago in the Snell Library Microforms Department, and a six-week paper backfile is in Current Periodicals.
New York Times (Gale) (Current NU Only)
Search the full text of The New York Times starting in 1995. (Does NOT include the Book Review.)
New York Times, Historical (1851 - 2004) (Current NU Only)
The Historical New York Times collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text back to the first issue.
NU Journals @ Ovid (Browse the A-Z list) (Current NU Only)
Full text access to 120 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily.
NU Journals @ Ovid (Search for articles) (Current NU Only)
Full text access to 120 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily.
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (Current NU plus alumni)
Surveys the vibrant terrain of American literature in 350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. (Published in 2004)
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (Current NU plus alumni)
Covers the history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions. (Published in 2006)
Oxford University Press Journals Online (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected titles only
PAIS (Current NU Only)
Broad coverage of the social sciences, 1972 to present. International in scope. No full-text; abstracts of books, journal articles, conference proceedings, and government publications. [More Info]
PAIS Archive
Indexes public affairs books, articles and documents published between 1915 and 1976. [More Info]
Philosopher's Index (Current NU Only)
A bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940.
PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (Current NU Only)
PILOTS is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. Includes journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages. [More Info]
Press Display (Current NU Only)
Today's headlines and news stories from international newspapers; RSS feeds also available. Archived for up to 60 days.
Project EUCLID (Current NU plus alumni)
Selected scholarly journals in mathematics (Euclid Prime and Euclid Select titles available).
Project MUSE (Current NU plus alumni)
Project Muse allows searching of articles from journals in the humanities, including religion, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, women's studies, film and the arts. Coverage is generally from about 1994 to the present, depending on the journal.
PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) (Current NU Only)
PsycArticles (Current NU Only, no walk-in use)
Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Includes over 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Current NU Only)
A select collection of full-text articles in psychology from chiefly peer-reviewed journals.
PsycINFO (Current NU Only, no walk-in use)
The American Psychological Association's flagship database of 2.4 million articles, books and other international documents in psychology going back over a century. 98% peer-reviewed! [More Info]
PubMed (Open Access)
Open-access version of Medline, the health information clearinghouse from the National Library of Medicine. Includes links to full text for authorized NU affiliates.
Regional Business News (Current NU Only)
Coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (Current NU Only)

Journal articles in world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.
Sage Journals Online (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected Titles only.
Science (Current NU Only)
A journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) (Current NU Only)
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Science and technology citation and abstract information including original research articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies from over 7,000 journals. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1993 - present
ScienceDirect (Current NU Only)
Selected journal titles from the scholarly publisher Elsevier and its affiliates.
SciFinder Scholar (Available in Snell Library)
Note: See Use Restrictions
NOW AVAILABLE ONE OF TWO WAYS: ON THE WEB OR WITH CLIENT SOFTWARE. Provides searching of Chemical Abstracts, Medline is also available. Links to full text. Covers 1907 - present [More Info]
Scirus.com (Current NU Only)
A web search engine focusing on scientific information. [More Info]
Scitation (Current NU Only)
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Scitation is the online home of more than 100 journals from AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, SPIE, and a host of other prestigious science and engineering societies. Scitation now includes SpinWeb. [More Info]
SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Journals Online (Current NU Only)
Social Sciences Citation Index: SSCI (ISI) (Current NU Only)
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Citations and abstracts in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, business and communication, criminology, penology, law, nursing, rehabilitation, and library sciences. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1993-present
Social Services Abstracts (Current NU Only)
Social work research is indexed and abstracted in this service, including the family, human services, social welfare, gerontology, support groups, poverty and homelessness and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services. Articles are from 1980 to the present. [More Info]
Sociological Abstracts (Current NU Only)
Note: Off-campus? Access the Sociological Abstracts here, (QuikBib citation formatting is not available off-campus)
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SPIE Digital Library: International Society of Optical Engineers (NU Only)
Note: Terms of Use
The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.
SpinWeb
Searchable Physics Information Notices (now part of Scitation)
Sport Discus with Full Text (Current NU Only)
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985.
Springer LINK online journals (Current NU Only)
Note: Selected titles only
SRDS (Standard Rate and Data Service) (Current NU plus alumni)
A searchable database of media rates and information; the largest and most comprehensive in the world, with more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties, circulations, advertising rates.
Stat-USA (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: (includes Globus & NTDB)
Economic and international trade data, full-text.
Statistical Universe (Current NU Only)
Base and research edition, with tables from basic compilations of statistics like the Statistical Abstract of the US, and the UN Statistical Yearbook, along with additional tables from special studies like the AID Country Health Reports, the Economic Census, and World Bank Country Studies.
Times Digital Archive (Current NU Only)
London Times access *not including the Sunday edition* from 1785 to 1985. An invaluable source for primary historical research.
Transportation Research Board Publications (Open Access)
The books, reports, and miscellaneous publications of the Transportation Research Board cover nine general subject categories: planning, administration, and environment; design; materials, construction, and maintenance; operations and safety; aviation; public transit; rail; freight transportation (multimodal); and marine transportation.
Web of Knowledge (ISI) (Current NU Only)
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Citations and abstracts from scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes conference proceedings, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions also included. 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. Also access Journal Citation Reports and Medline here. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
Web of Science (ISI) (Current NU Only)
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Citation information and analysis, as well as author abstracts, are available in this multidisciplinary database covering 8,500 high impact research journals. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
Covers 1993-present.
Wiley Interscience (Current NU Only)
Note: Not available during the weekend of June 28-29 due to publisher upgrades.
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WorldCat (Current NU Only)
If you're looking for a book or periodical, and Northeastern University doesn't have it, WorldCat shows you which libraries do. Most North American academic and public libraries are included.