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.
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Available Resources for Alumni
- 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. - Annual Reviews
Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 37 scientific disciplines. Excellent for finding literature reviews.
View a list of all reviews available at NU. - BioOne (Current NU plus alumni)
not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences [More Info] - 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] - CQ Electronic Library (Current NU plus Alumni)
Congressional Quarterly's portal for research 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. - Digital Dissertations @ NU (Current NU plus Alumni)
Includes Doctoral Dissertations and Theses from Northeastern University degree candidates and submitted to Proquest's national thesis clearinghouse. Most are full text. - e-Duke Scholarly Collection (Current NU plus alumni)
Humanities and social sciences journals from Duke University Press and associated learned societies, available in full text - Empire Online (Current NU plus Alumni)
Empire Online is a collection of original primary source documents relating to Empire Studies, from libraries and archives around the world. [More Info] - 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] - Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (Current NU plus Alumni)
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. - 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 Music (Oxford Music Online) (Current NU plus alumni)
The full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), plus numerous other Grove Music Dictionaries (Opera, Jazz), now all part of Oxford Music Online. [More Info] - History Cooperative (Current NU plus alumni)
A partnership between the AHA (American Historical Association) and the OAH (Organization of American Historians), this site supplies academic research articles in history. [More Info] - Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) (Current NU Only)
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents.
HSDL provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities, organizations, local agencies and state agencies. - Institute of Physics Electronic Journals (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Selected titles only
- 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)
The flagship journal "Nature" is is the most highly cited interdisciplinary science journal according to ISI's journal citation reports; NU's subscription includes a number of sister titles. View a list here. - 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. (10 simultaneous users) [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 EUCLID (Current NU plus alumni)
Selected scholarly journals in mathematics (Euclid Prime and Euclid Select titles available). - 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. - Sloan Management Review (MIT) (Current NU plus Alumni)
A business journal that bridges the gap between management research and practice, evaluating and reporting on new research to help readers identify and understand significant trends in management. Online version includes blogs. Journal articles: 2003 to the present. - SRDS (Standard Rate and Data Service) (Current NU plus alumni)
A searchable database of media rates and information; the largest and most comprehensive in the world, with more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties, circulations, advertising rates. - 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]