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 Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL/LiON) (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Maximum of 4 users at a time
Indexes scholarly publications on English, American and Commonwealthliterature, English literature bibliography, and English language andculture. Indexes books, articles, book reviews, essays, published andunpublished dissertations, with some full-text.
Covers 1920 to the present. [More Info] - Annual Reviews (Current NU plus alumni)
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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. - 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] - Books in Print (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Maximum of 1 user at a time.
One of the largest collections of bibliographic information about published books, even those not yet in library collections. Can be used to verify titles, publishers, and publication dates, or to find new titles. [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] - Cambridge Univ. Press Journals On Line (Current NU plus alumni)
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- 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. - D&B's Key Business Ratios (Dun and Bradstreet) (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Maximum of 5 users at a time
Calculate business ratios that identify key relationships between financial data. 14 key business ratios cover all critical areas of business performance, broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles. Arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes. - Dictionary of Energy (Current NU plus alumni)
Expanded edition of the Elsevier Dictionary with over 650 topic entries and biographies. - 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)
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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 Global Health (Gale/Sage) (Current NU Only)
Covers all aspects of global health, including physical/mental health and public policy topics, biographies of major doctors and researchers, profiles of medical institutions, organizations, and corporations, and descriptions of drugs and operations. - 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)
Note: Maximum of 1 user at a time.
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 Art Online (part of: Oxford Art Online) (Current NU plus Alumni)
Note: Maximum of 8 users at a time
Now a part of Oxford Art Online, Grove Art Online is a scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, and images of the most frequently studied works. - Grove Dictionary of Music (Oxford Music Online) (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Maximum of 8 users at a time
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
- IRis: Northeastern's Digital Archive (Open Access)
IRis is a digital archive that collects, manages, preserves, and shares the intellectual output and historical record of Northeastern University. - Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Current NU plus Alumni)
Review articles on literary theories, movements, and critics. Extensively revised in 2004 and updated annually. - LiOn (Literature Online) (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Maximum of 4 users at a time
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. - Mergent Online (Current NU plus alumni)
Note: Maximum of 5 users at a time.
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, link here/ (Best used with Internet Explorer) [More Info] - MideastWire (Current NU plus alumni)
A daily newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. - Nanopolis (Current NU plus alumni)
Nanopolis uses multimedia to explain topics in nano-biotechnology, physics, chemistry and biology. Multimedia animated pages created by scientific and graphic design teams allow researchers of all backgrounds to easily understand the concepts and methods of the splendid world at atomic scale. - 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)
Note: Maximum of 15 users at a time
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Over 85,000 tracks, emphasizing classical, but also including world music, jazz, folk, and more, available for streaming. [More Info] - Online Tourism and Digital Economies (IGI Global) (Current NU plus alumni)
A specialized collection of 13 online encyclopedias in the field of global and economic technologies, including hospitality, travel and tourism management, consumer management, e-commerce, the digital divide and developing countries, and more. Supports research in the impact of technology on the management of cultural content and tourism. - Oxford Art Online (Current NU plus Alumni)
Note: Maximum of 8 users at a time
Formerly "Grove Art Online" this resource includes images, definitions, and analysis from Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. - Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (Current NU plus alumni)
Surveys the vibrant terrain of American literature in 350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. (Published in 2004) - Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (Current NU plus alumni)
Covers the history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions. (Published in 2006) - Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution (Current NU plus alumni)
A comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology, these entries by leading experts survey essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings, and discuss both the history of the field and current controversies. Published in 2002. - Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (Current NU plus alumni)
From “Apple Pie” to “Zombie”— The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink. A collaboration of nearly 200 contributors this is a scholarly work with a generous bibliography. (Published in 2004.) - Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (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] - Oxford Music Online (Current NU plus Alumni)
Note: Maximum of 8 users at a time
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) plus additional resources. [More Info] - 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. - Polling the Nations (Current NU plus Alumni)
Note: Maximum of 4 users at a time
Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time. - 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. - Responsa Project (Current NU plus alumni)
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Online Torah literature from Bar Ilan University. Contains the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Talmud Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi with commentaries, Midrash, Zohar, Halachic Law (Rambam, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries), a large Responsa collection of questions and answers ('Shut' in Hebrew), and the Talmudic Encyclopedia. In Hebrew. - 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. - TeachingBooks (Current NU plus alumni)
A website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. The site includes links and multimedia materials that include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 classroom. Some Spanish language material is included, additional functions and content are available to those who create a personal profile. - Ulrichs Web (Current NU plus alumni)
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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. Exhibits and teaching tools also available. [More Info] - World Shakespeare Bibliography (Current NU plus alumni)
Annotated citations for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1960 and 2011. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 120 languages. Updated quarterly.