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E-book collections

ACLS Humanities Ebook (American Council of Learned Societies) (Current NU plus alumni)
Full-text, fully searchable, high-quality books in the Humanities from 19 learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.
Books@Ovid (Current NU Only)
Hundreds of medical texts and handbooks from Lippincott for students and researchers in the health care professions.
Cambridge Histories Online (Current NU plus alumni)
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. [More Info]
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) (Boston Public Library Card required for access.)
Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans, this collection provides full-text primary source material covering every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America. Upon completion, the collection will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Access courtesy of Boston Public Library.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker: 1801-1819 (Boston Public Library Card required for access.)
Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and supplemented by thousands of new items,this collection covers every aspect of American life during the early nineteenth century with full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides. Search full text or browse within sixteen indexed subject categories. Coverage: 1801-1819.
. Access courtesy of Boston Public Library.
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 plus alumni)
One of the oldest and most well-known reference sources, with both short and book-length overview articles in almost all disciplines. Also includes historical timelines, multimedia, selected magazine articles, notable quotations, and a dictionary and thesaurus. [More Info]
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.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
The famous Springer series of texts and proceedings in computer science and related fields.
netLibrary (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Registration required
Political Reference Suite (CQ) (Current NU plus Alumni)
Congressional Quarterly information 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.
R2 Library
Collection of full text reference books and textbooks in pharmacy, nursing, and pharmaceutical sciences from key health science publishers. Fully searchable and includes A-Z drug and topic indexes. NU subscription currently includes eight selected titles.
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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.
WorldCat Local
Customized for Northeastern, this version of WorldCat allows NU affiliates to search and order items from the member libraries of the Boston Library Consortium and beyond.