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The 19th Century British Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

Newspaper, magazine, and academic peer-reviewed articles from leading publications and reference sources.  Interdisciplinary in scope,  the database includes abstracting and indexing for nearly 13,000 publications, over 7,800 of them peer reviewed and 8,750+ full text, covering all academic subjects.

AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill is an innovative online resource that provides access to more than 50 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of photos and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device.

A comprehensive online resource for physical therapy education, AccessPhysiotherapy from McGraw-Hill is a groundbreaking platform featuring learning tools such as video demonstrations, image slides, online dissection, and quizzes to test your knowledge.  The complete contents of physical therapy textbooks and resources such Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention; Pharmacology for the Physical Therapist; Therapeutic Modalities for Rehabilitation; Imaging in Rehabilitation; and much more, are also included.

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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.

AgeLine focuses on those aged 50+ and issues of aging. Useful for searching for the literature of social gerontology and includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos.

Offers full text articles for nearly 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

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.

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

The ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. Includes more than 73,000 full-text papers from ASCE Journals and Proceedings. Approximately 4,000 new papers will be added each year.

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

3D anatomy database.

The anatomy visuals are accompanied by three-dimensional animations that demonstrate function, biomechanics and surgical procedures.

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

User guide available here.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Book Citation Index in Web of Science connects a library’s book collection to powerful new discovery tools, giving researchers the ability to quickly and easily identify and access the most relevant books. As a part of Web of Science, Book Citation Index allows users to search seamlessly across books, journals and conference proceedings to find the information most relevant to their work within one platform.

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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The documents, images, and posters in this digital collection were selected from the Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción records and the La Alianza Hispana records held in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department.  These records available in this online collection document public policy formation, community relations, affordable housing, urban planning and housing rehabilitation, cultural and educational programming, violence prevention, and minority rights in Boston during the last decades of the 20th century.

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.

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

Authoritative company and industry information including statistical information, news and scholarly journals.  Explore real world applications and develop analytical skills by comparing companies and industries on key metrics.  Create, filter and export data.

Completely searchable full text of the 247 volumes in the Cambridge Histories series. Explore American and British history, ancient history, Islamic history, economic history, the histories of philosophy, science, music, literature, religion, social histories, and much more. "My Histories" allows you to create and share a personalized library with your own bookmarks and notes.

Stable links to PDFs of books and book chapters can be inserted into Blackboard.

Printing: one chapter at a time

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.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) collects and makes available important and rare collections of primary source materials, as well as thousands of foreign dissertations, historical journals, and newspapers from around the world.

The collections are so varied as to include an unpublished manuscript music collection from Oxford, the vast engineering library of Linda Hall, and rare monograph and pamphlet area collections from various regions of the world. For example, the Sutro Library Mexican collection includes over 3,000 titles from the 1500-1900 time period, covering cultural, economic, political, religious, and social themes in Mexican history.

These collections are made available in print, in microfilm, and, in many cases, online. Faculty, students, and staff are eligible to borrow resources through an extended delivery system or, when available, through electronic delivery or online.  See our Subject Guide to the Center for Research Libraries for more information. 

Over 250 photographs taken or collected by amateur photographer, Charles H. Bruce, depicting life in the early 1900s of the African American middle class of Boston.  Photographs document the Charlestown Navy Yard, Bruce’s family and colleagues, and the Prince Hall Masons.

Fully digitized African American newspaper Chicago Defender from 1910 to 1975.

Proquest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849- 1988).  The historical Chicago Tribune collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text. 

Current Northeastern faculty, staff and students may access the Chronicle one of three ways:

On-campus: Connect directly to the Chronicle web site

Anywhere including off-campus: Connect at https://links.ezproxy.neu.edu/login?url=http://chronicle.com 

• If off-campus, you'll be prompted for myNEU username and password.
• Optionally, you can use the library bookmarklet, a browser plugin that customizes any journal URL the library subscribes to, allowing access with your myNEU username and password.

Anywhere including off-campus: Set up a personal account here using your Northeastern email address. 

• Use your personal account to access the Chronicle site from anywhere in the world. No special URL or plugin necessary. 
• Also works with the Chronicle iPad app.

The world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 700 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index from 1937 to the most current issues.

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.

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.

This online collection from the UK National Archives, currently being digitized, covers the period 1606-1822.  The entire collection will eventually consist of all 1,450 files from the CO 5 volumes of original correspondence between the governers of British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and their responsible departments in Britain.

For those not familiar with colonial office records, an introduction to the CO 5 documents is here. 

Among the correspondence are diaries, maps, broadsides, laws, public notices, newspaper clippings, and more. 

Images of the original documents plus searchable full text are included.  They may be searched by date, name, theme, region and more.

Scholarship in areas related to communication and mass media, including new media, rhetoric, film, broadcasting, and more. Significant full text is available.

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.

The new Data Citation Index^SM from Thomson Reuters is designed to be the first single source of data discovery for the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities. Data Citation Index fully indexes a significant number of the world's leading data repositories of critical interest to the scientific community, including over two million data studies and datasets. The records for the datasets, which include authors, institutions, keywords, citations and other metadata, are ten connected to related peer-reviewed literature indexed in the Web of Knowledge^SM.

Alexander Street Counseling provides video for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.  Users can create, edit and share playlists or clips. The library has Volume 1.

CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

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

Current Chemical Reactions® delivers the latest synthetic methods reported in over 100 of the world's leading organic chemistry journals. Each reaction provides complete reaction diagrams,critical conditions, bibliographic data, and author abstracts.

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

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

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

The DPLA is a united collection of primary source information digitized from America’s libraries, archives, and museums, from the written word to works of art and culture, to records of the heritage of the United States, to the efforts and data of science.  Strengths include photographs and documents of American culture and history. 

Ways to search and scan through the collection of millions of items include by timeline, map, virtual bookshelf, format, and topic.  Freely available.

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

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.

The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) is a highly interactive digital scholars lab for the collaborative research and study of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean literature.

Includes such primary source materaisl such as slave narratives, foodways, and Obeah practices.

Created in partnership with the Digital Library of the Caribbean(DLOC) and housed in Northeastern University’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks (NULabTMN).

469 issues of The East Boston Community News from 1970 to 1989 which include coverage on neighborhood issues and events such as the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, politics, land use, and airport issues.

Over 50,000 e-books for you to read using any web browser.  Largely scholarly titles from leading academic and university presses. (View a list of participating publishers). 

Stable links to books and book chapters may be inserted into Blackboard.

To download as an e-book to a device: You must create a free personal Ebrary account and download the free Adobe Digital Editions software. 

To download PDF selections or chapters: See ebrary support instructions

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

Borrowing: 14 days, up to 10 books at a time

Printing:  Print (including print to PDF) up to a chapter from your web browser.

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

Education in Video is an online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection contains 4,306 titles totaling 1,301 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available.

ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to approximately 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.

A weekly newspaper devoted to education. Articles, profiles, commentary, legislation, state and national news and book reviews for teachers and administrators in elementary and secondary schools.

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.

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

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

Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures. Corresponds to the 2nd edition 22-volume printed version.

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

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

An electronic version of Macmillan's 8-volume second edition (2003) with entries describing the institutions, people, processes, roles and philosophies found in educational practice in the United States and throughout the world. Features include 121 biographies of influential educators; profiles of historic colleges and universities; profiles of organizations active in the field; and an appendix of full text primary source documents including education related legislation, international treaties and testing methods.

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

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.

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.

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

This database has content that ranges from journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings to guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from entrepreneurs in a variety of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as text and PDFs.

Contains citations to documents related to education.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages. Since 1951, the Ethnologue has been an active research project involving hundreds of linguists and other researchers around the world. It is widely regarded to be the most comprehensive source of information of its kind.

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

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

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.

Information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in language accessible to laypersons.  Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

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.

Full and excerpted documents and key readings in the sociology of gender and sexuality. Some information about transgender issues.  International scope.  Includes speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, court cases, and works of art. 

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

General BusinessFile 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.

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.

Contact information for local, county, state, and U.S. federal officials.    Vacant government positions are also listed and can be searched by keyword.

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). 

This book consists of 4 volumes containing about 70 chapters covering all the major aspects of the growing area of nanomedicine. Leading scientists from 15 countries cover all major areas of nanobiomedical research — materials for nanomedicine, application of nanomedicine in therapy of various diseases, use of nanomedicines for diagnostic purposes, technology of nanomedicines, and new trends in nanobiomedical research.

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.
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• 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.

Selected journals from Sage, as well as other scholarly publishers and societies.

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. NU Libraries' subscription is selective.  Collections include: 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.

With content from industry journals, travel guides (some Fodor's guides are included) and magazines this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry: cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more

Citations and full text published since 1988 and select content published since 1950 from:
IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines
IEEE conference proceedings
IEE journals
IEE conference proceedings
IEEE standards
IEEE Spectrum Magazine
Proceedings of the IEEE

Provides access to standards, specifications and related technical documents from military, commercial, national and international standards organizations (except ASTM* and IEEE)
To view and print a complete standard:

• Select the Standards Expert
• Type in a search or an acronym e.g. ISO and standard number e.g. 658
• Click on details and check to confirm if that is the standard needed
• Click on shopping cart icon next to the standard number to get the order form
• Complete the order form using your neu.edu e-mail address for delivery
• Electronic version must be requested when available
• All requests reviewed and approved by the library 
• When processing is complete, IHS will send an email with a link to the standard
• Standard must be viewed within 5 business days after approval and is locked to the computer on which it is opened.
• Standard may be printed once only!
• For questions contact j.omoruyi [at] neu.edu (Joan Omoruyi)(617-373-2806) or l.bracken [at] neu.edu (Lee Bracken)(617-373-2748)

These documents from the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization consist primarily of:

• investigative reports by federal agents  in the case files on individual aliens;
• correspondence among agents and government officials involved in immigration issues;
• documents by groups advocating or opposing alien exclusion laws and practices.

Topics include Asian Immigration and Exclusion 1898-1941, Mexican immigration 1906-1930, INS records from Ellis Island, and investigations into Prostitution and White Slavery 1902-1933.

185 oral history interviews conducted by the National Park Services in 1984-5 with people who immigrated through, or worked at, Ellis Island, during the period of mass migration to the United States are also included.

PDF page images can be downloaded. 

Index Chemicus®, accessed via Web of Science®, provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the chemical compound information they need to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share their findings.

Covers: 1993 to the present

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 an essential resource for all those working in the field of African studies, providing a current awareness service of the latest books, articles and papers published internationally on Africa. IAB lists details of more than 4,000 publications each year, with articles from some 1,150 periodicals.

From Sage Reference, this eight-volume encyclopedia covers every field of politics, from political theory and methodology to political sociology, comparative politics, public policies, and international relations. It provides an essential, authoritative guide to the state of political science at the start of the 21st century and for decades to come.

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.

International Historical Statistics is an impressive and peerless collection of statistical data from around the world, covering a wide range of socio-economic topics. The collection includes data on the Americas and Europe, but also hard-to-find data on Africa, Asia and Oceania. It is a truly interdisciplinary product that will prove a valuable resource to those researching and studying Business, Economics, Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Politics, Sociology and Statistical Studies.

Digitized versions of unique and rare books from libraries, museums, and historical institutions, including Northeastern University Libraries collections, such as historical Course Catalogs.  Includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as the Wayback Machine for archived web pages. Especially useful for persons with disabilities, as it provides adaptive reading services and other services for people with disabilities.  Northeastern collections developed in partnership with the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Open Content Alliance.

Streaming jazz recordings from Alexander Street press.

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

Full text access to over 400 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers including Lippencott Williams and Williams. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily.
View a complete list of the journal titles.

JoVE Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific video journal that presents more than 1000 videos demonstrating laboratory methods in the fields of cellular biology, developmental biology, microbiology, immunology, plant biology, medicine, and neuroscience.

JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) Science Education is a video database dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy to understand video demonstrations. Currently access is available to the General Lab Techniques, Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Essentials of Neuroscience sections. Each video is paired with additional video resources for you to view practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills.

Latin American Newspapers, Series 1—part of CRL's World Newspaper Archive—features 50+ historical Latin American newspapers. Titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues, and events that shaped this vital region between 1805 and 1922.

The LearnTechLib Digital Library is an online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

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.

If you experience problems printing from Lexis Nexis, try one of these solutions:

• Download the article to PDF.   Open and print the PDF.
• Use the browser print button instead of the Lexis-Nexis built in button.

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.

Over 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship, including information management and more extending back as far as the mid-1960s.

Important at-risk documents in law and government from U.S. and various other national jurisdictions, useful for research on topics such as international relations, global trade, environmental policy, labor politics, civil rights, and immigration. Particularly strong in 18th to early 20th century law in the British Empire and Commonwealth, including Canadian federal and provincial courts back to their inception, extensive runs from the Indian subcontinent, and more from Australia, Haiti, Ireland, Cuba, and South Africa. Provided through our Center for Research Libraries membership.

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

Over 1900 documents, photographs, and album/scrapbook pages from two photograph albums and one scrapbook from the Marjorie Bouvé papers held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections.  A leader in physical education, Marjorie Bouvé (1879-1970) was one of the founders of Northeastern’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences.  The scrapbook items contains mementos from social events, travel, and schools at which Bouvé taught or attended. The photograph albums document the leisure activities of Bouvé and her friends.

Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to MA history.

A wide array of videos available for streaming. To set up course playlists, or recommend new titles, faculty should contact their subject specialist.

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 to the present

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.

Access to detailed global company information, including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form.
If you are off-campus, click here. (Best used with Internet Explorer)

Selected articles from a variety of academic publishers and scholarly societies.

Evidence based information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine to to support informed research on clinical and treatment decisions.

Includes

Red Book Online

Martindale

Neofax  Note: Neofax only works correctly using the Internet Explorer browser.

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.

Parts 1-10, 13-17 and 20-23 of the NAACP Papers, divided into topical modules. The database is full-text searchable and features downloadable PDF's.

NCJRS from the US Department of Justice offers extensive reference and referral services to help you find answers to your questions about crime and justice-related research, policy, and practice.

The flagship journal "Nature" is the most highly cited interdisciplinary science journal according to ISI's journal citation reports; NU's subscription includes a number of sister titles.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is the nation's leading private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Its Working Papers have not undergone the review accorded official NBER publications; in particular, they have not been submitted for approval by the Board of Directors. They are intended to make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before final publication. 1973-present.

NDLTD is a freely searchable catalog of theses and dissertations contributed by member institutions from around the world.  When viewing search results, click "view source record" to link to detailed information and the full text of the thesis or dissertation, if available.

Search the full text of The New York Times starting in 1995. (Does NOT include the Book Review.)