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• Atlas of North American English (Current NU Only)
  Based on interviews and reflecting sound changes active in the 1990s, this online version includes audio files and interactive maps, as well as descriptive information and references.
• Biography Resource Center (Current NU Only)
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• Books in Print (Current NU plus alumni)
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• Boston Globe 1980-1996 (Proquest Mass Newsstand) (Current NU Only)
  
• Boston Globe 1988 - present (Lexis-Nexis) (Current NU/not available to Law affiliates)
  
• 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)
  
• COS Funding Opportunities (NU Only)
  COS Funding Opportunities is a compiled 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.
  
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• Current Research @ NU (Current NU plus Alumni)
  Includes Doctoral Dissertations and Theses written at NU and submitted to a national thesis clearinghouse. Most are full text.
• Dissertations and Theses: Full Text (ProQuest) (Current NU Only)
  Over 2 million entries, Proquest Dissertations is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. More than 600,000 dissertations are available in native or image PDF formats for immediate free download. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
• Early English Books Online (Current NU Only)
  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.
• Encyclopedia Britannica (Current NU Only)
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• Encyclopedia of Earth
  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.
  
• Encyclopedia of Genetics (Current NU Only)
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• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Current NU Only)
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• Encyclopedia of Materials: Science & Technology (Current NU Only)
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• Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (Current NU Only)
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• FMG On Demand (Current NU Only)
  Note: Windows Media Player 9 or above required.
  3 videos are currently available for streaming.
• Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (Current NU Only)
  Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer (Current NU Only)
  Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders (Current NU Only)
  Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (Current NU Only)
  3rd edition, part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (Current NU Only)
  A collection of encyclopedias covering topics in the Arts, Biography, Business, Environment, History, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Science and Social Sciences.
• Grove Dictionary of Art (Current NU plus alumni)
  Provides full-text access to articles on all aspects of art and architecture; supplemented by extensive image files. [More Info]
• Grove Music Online (Current NU plus Alumni)
  Part of Grove Music Online, which comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). [More Info]
• Historical Statistics of the United States (Current NU Only)
  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.
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• ICPSR
  (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) ICPSR is a non-profit membership-based data archive based at University of Michigan. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
• International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Current NU Only)
  
• iPoll Databank (Current NU Only)
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• Knovel Library (Current NU Only)
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  Knovel offers interactive books and databases for scientific and engineering information. For certain properties there are specific chemical equations and digital graphs. Analyze data, sort, filter and export from 'live tables', resolve equations and plot graphs, capture values from existing graphs and perform 'what if' experiments.
• LexisNexis Academic (Current NU Only)
  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]
• LexisNexis Statistical (Current NU Only)
  
• Mental Measurements Yearbook (Current NU Only)
  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.
• Naxos Music Library (Current NU plus alumni)
  Over 85,000 tracks, emphasizing classical, but also including world music, jazz, folk, and more, available for streaming. [More Info]
• netLibrary (Current NU plus alumni)
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• New York Times Article Archive (Open Access)
  Note: Searches backfiles of The New York Times from 1851 to the present. Free registration using an email address ending in .edu allows you to view up to 100 full text articles per month.
  Print Locations
  You may locate and copy complete articles published from 1851 to six weeks ago in the Snell Library Microforms Department (2nd floor). A six-week paper backfile is in Current Periodicals on the second floor.
  
  Full text of the NY Times from 1980 to the present is also available from Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
• Oxford English Dictionary (Current NU plus alumni)
  Covers words from across the English-speaking world, tracing their origin and history, including earliest recorded usage, through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources. [More Info]
• Proquest Digital Dissertations (Current NU Only)
  Over 2 million entries, Proquest Dissertations is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. More than 600,000 dissertations are available in native or image PDF formats for immediate free download. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
• Roper Center iPoll Databank (Current NU Only)
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• Safari Tech Books Online (Current NU Only)
  A fully-searchable e-reference library that houses a vast collection of technical books from industry-leading publishers.
• SPIE Digital Library: International Society of Optical Engineers (NU Only)
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  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.
• Stat-USA (Current NU plus alumni)
  Note: (includes Globus & NTDB)
  Economic and international trade data, full-text.
• Statistical Universe (Current NU Only)
  
• Synthesis (Current NU Only)
  Synthesis is an innovative information service for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science. Synthesis includes 50- to 100- page dynamic 'Lectures' in an important research topic in engineering or computer science. Each lecture is a self-contained electronic book that gives more analysis and depth than typical journal articles.
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• Thomas Register (Open Access)
  Note: Registration required. You may register under your own name (it's free) or use the library's user ID and password, which are: User ID: referenc Password: referenc
  
• Ulrichs Web (Current NU plus alumni)
  Lists all journals, print and electronic, with publisher information, subscription prices, subject descriptions, web locations, and much more.
• Value Line Investment Survey (Available in Snell Library only)
  Note: This database is available on CD-ROM at the Snell Library Reference Desk.
  
• 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.