The NU Libraries Ejournal Finder allows you to:

• search for ejournals licensed by the NU Libraries and the NU School of Law Library.
• search Tables of Contents (TOC's) by author, keyword and other search parameters.
• set up email alerts using myTDNet

From the "Home" page, you can search the list of e-journal titles available at Northeastern. You may choose to search by:

• Journal title:
  
  (the default partial word search locates your search term anywhere, even if it is embedded in another word. For example, "logic" will find "psychological". Change the "partial words" dropdown to "exact..." for more precise searching.)
  
• Publisher (for example, Cambridge, Kluwer)
• Aggregator/Vendor (for example, Lexis-Nexis, Ebsco)
• ISSN (e-version)

Each record in your search results will contain:

• Journal title
• Vendor Access (where applicable)
• Online coverage, listing the dates of the journal available electronically
• Publisher (linked to the publisher's web site)
• icon if there are any special permissions, restrictions, or date embargoes.

Next to each journal listed, you will find links to electronic table of contents (TOC) records. The TOC file is updated weekly and all bibliographic information is searchable.

Some journals also display a link to the journal web site.

Click on to search tables of contents (as well as journal titles, publishers and any other fields in the TDNet database). Here you may choose to search by keywords in the article title, authors, journal titles, volume and issue numerations, publishers, aggregators, dates, and ISSN's, print or electronic.

You may choose to limit your search to a pool of journals in a certain subject.

The results of your TOC search include the following information:

• Article title
• Author(s) of the article
• Article source (Journal title, linked to the journal site)
• ISSN (print and electronic versions)
• Date, Volume & issue numbers
• Pages
• Publisher (linked to the publisher's site)
• Language (of original article)
• British Library Shelf mark (for British Library orders--not used at Northeastern)
• "View Holdings" (brings you to the listing for the journal, including the with special information about the title and link to the publisher's web site and link to journal TOC information)

Truncation
type "geometr" and select "partial word search" to retrieve geometry, geometrical, etc...Plurals are retrieved automatically

Phrases
type "British working class" and select "exact phrase" to retrieve these three words only when they appear together.

Advanced searching
Advanced searching is designed to allow you to constrain your subject searches very narrowly, by entering publisher, author, title, vendor, and other information, and by easily combining terms.

My TDNet is a personal profiling area. It is free and open to all authorized Northeastern users. With myTDNet, you may:

• Register to receive Tables of Contents by e-mail from your favorite journals
• Perform detailed searches limited to your favorite titles and save them for future use
• Set up keyword searches and create weekly email alerts when new articles are posted that match your search terms.

MY TDNet may also be used by administrators to build group profiles, such as course, departmental or faculty profiles and alerts. Ask a librarian for assistance with this feature.

To have Tables of Contents emailed to you, select "MyTdNet" and log in, or set up a new user profile. Then click "proceed".

As you go through the alphabetical list of titles and choose the ones you want, be sure to SAVE EVERY PAGE before moving on to the next page. You do this by clicking "click here" before opening up the next page.

Email alerts are sent weekly, on Sundays, if there is something new matching your personal requirements.

Limiting by library:

If you want your search/alert to report results from all campus libraries' e-journals, go from the "All Libraries" page to My TDNet.

To restrict your search/alert to Burlington and Snell Library e-journals, use the drop down box to go to the "Northeastern University Libraries" page, then go to MyTDNet.

To restrict your search to Law Library e-journals, use the drop down box to go to the "Northeastern University School of Law Library" page, then go to MyTDNet.

If you have questions or comments about NU's Ejournal finder, please contact us.