Online Research Access for Alumni
NU Alumni have off-campus access to the library research services below for personal research or academic use only, not for commercial purposes.
(Learn how to get registered for login access.)
Available Resources for Alumni
- BioOne (Current NU plus alumni)
[More Info] - Cambridge Univ. Press Journals On Line (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Terms and Conditions
- 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. - Duke Univ. Press Journals (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Selected titles only.
- Global Books in Print (Current NU plus alumni)
One of the largest collections of bibliographic data about published books, even those that have not been collected by a library yet. Can be used to verify titles, authors, publishers, and publication dates. [More Info] - 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 Dictionary of Music, New (Current NU plus alumni)
Grove Music Online 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] - History Cooperative (Current NU plus alumni)
[More Info] - IHS Engineering Resource Center (Current NU plus alumni (on-campus use only))
Provides access to standards, specifications and related technical documents from military, commercial, national and international standards organizations. To view a complete standard:- Register in IHS using an neu.edu e-mail address for free document delivery of specs & standards (except ASTM* and IEEE)
- Electronic version must be requested when available
- All requests reviewed and approved by the library
- Allow 2 business days for processing
- Standard must be viewed and printed within 48 hours after approval
- For questions contact Joan Omoruyi(617-373-2806) or Lee Bracken(617-373-2748)
- Institute of Physics Electronic Journals (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Selected titles only
- 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. - Marcive WebDocs (Current NU plus alumni)
Indexes federal documents 1976 to present; lists Boston Library Consortium libraries, including NU, that own the documents indexed; provides links to web documents where available. - Massachusetts Newspapers (ProQuest) (Current NU Only)
Boston Globe (1980-current), Boston Herald (7/26/1991-current), BusinessWest, Gazette (Haverhill), Lowell Sun, North Adams Transcript, Patriot Ledger, Plymouth County Bulletin, Sentinel and Enterprise (Firchburg), Standard Times, Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Mergent Online (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Off-campus? Access Mergent Online here. (Best used with Internet Explorer)
[More Info] - Nature Journals Online (Current NU plus alumni)
- 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)
Note: Registration required
- 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] - 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. - Stat-USA (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: (includes Globus & NTDB)
Economic and international trade data, full-text. - Ulrichs Web (Current NU plus alumni)
Lists all journals, print and electronic, with publisher information, subscription prices, subject descriptions, web locations, and much more. - Women Writers Online (Current NU plus alumni)
Early modern women's writings from 1400 to 1850. Includes searchable full-text of books, poetry, and speeches as well as browse by date, author, and title. [More Info]
