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ABC News Poll Vault From 2005 to the present.
Academic OneFile A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more than 5000 journals, plus indexing of an additional 4000+ journals, newspapers and wire services. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Extensive coverage of the social sciences and other disciplines. Use this database for a broad search to retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources. For a less broad search of first tier sources only, use Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC).
Academic Search Premier "Multidisciplinary coverage of journal literature, including.... communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics... " Includes over 4515 full-text titles as well as citations and abstracts for over 8000 scholarly journals, about 45% of which are peer-reviewed.
Access to Electronic Records
Access World News Access World News from NewsBank provides articles from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with the individual newspaper; some have several years of archives.
Africa (AllAfrica) News and current events reported from all countries of Africa. Search by country, region, or topics.
African American Newspapers and Periodicals A description of 4,000-6,000 titles and their locations. This web site lists microfilmed African American newspapers and periodicals available for Interlibrary borrowing.
Afrobarometer – Africa Public Opinion Research A series of comparative national opinion surveys on a wide range of topics, beginning in 1993. Results, briefings and working papers available for download.
Alternative Press Index Citations to articles of 5 or more paragraphs from approximately 300 alternative, radical, and left publications.
America: History and Life Of value for investigating all aspects of the history of communications media and industries. Includes citations and abstracts from more than 2,100 journals from around the world, on historical treatments of topics related to Canada and the United States, in about 40 languages, from 1964 to the present. For histories related to communications media in other countries, see Historical Abstracts.
American Communication Association (Online) "... a not-for-profit virtual professional association with actual presence in the world of communication scholars and practitioners. ACA is committed to enabling the effective use of new and evolving technologies to facilitate communication instruction, research and criticism, and to offering a technologically supportive venue for all who study the ways in which humans communicate. While the Association is based in the United States, it is a virtual organization that welcomes participation from academics and professionals throughout the world."
American Heritage Dictionary
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
American National Biography Articles and portraits of about 19,000 historically noteworthy Americans.
American National Election Studies (ANES) "... produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists..." Provides current and historical longitudinal and time series data for analyses of public opinion and electoral behavior.
American Rhetoric – Online Speech Bank "Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events..." (Note the arrangement is alphabetical by first name.) Speeches by numerous American public figures.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Database (ABSEARCH Online Databases) Citations and abstracts of articles published in AHSA professional journals. Once connected to ABSEARCH, choose "American Speech-Language-Hearing" from the drop-down Database menu before searching.
Annenberg Center USC Online Journalism Review Ethics
AP Images About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics, charts, and timelines.
ArchiveGrid Searches thousands of libraries (NU included), museums, and archives for historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held around the world.
ArchivesUSA Bibliographic records describing primary source materials in archives and manuscript repositories from throughout the U.S. Is comprised of three major resources: Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS); National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC); and names and detailed subject indexing from the major microform set National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
ARTFL Project, University of Chicago The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) includes technical writing in such subjects as history and economics. The 18th through 20th centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of 17th century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises in English and French.
ArticleFirst "Bibliographic citations describing items listed on the tables of contents pages of more than 12,500 journals.... [some] abstracts and some provide links to the full text.... Broad subject areas covered include business, the humanities, social sciences, popular culture, science.... is searchable by keyword, author, title, and a variety of other fields.... browse the tables of contents.... limit searches to items with full-text links and to journals held by the NU libraries. Articles in periodicals not held by NU libraries may be requested online through the Interlibrary Loan Department."
Associated Press Polls Ipsos News Center AP polls, from 2003 to the present.
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Association for Women in Communications " .. champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines..." Includes the fields of print and broadcast journalism, television and radio production, film, advertising, public relations, marketing, graphic design, multi-media design, photography, and others.
Atlanta Constitution Coverage from 1868 to 1929.
Authors' Tools: Science Commons "... online tools to help authors exercise choice in retaining critical rights in their scholarly articles, including the rights to reuse their scholarly articles and to post them in online repositories."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. 10th Edition, 1919
BBC
Bilingual Dictionaries--Oxford English to French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and vis versa.
Biographical Dictionary Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women from ancient times to the present day. Can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.
Biography Resource Center Biographical information on nearly 275,000 people from throughout history; includes some full-text feature-length biographical articles and links to selected web sites.
Black Firsts
Bloomsbury Biographical Dictionary of Quotations
Bloomsbury Thesaurus
Books on Demand This service from ProQuest/UMI offers more than 150,000 out-of-print books in a wide range of disciplines that are available for black-and-white reproduction.
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
British Newspaper Index Contains indexes of The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, the Financial Times, and the Independent.
Brockhaus, die EnzyklopÃ¤die in vierundzwanzig BÃ¤nden
The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
BUND: British Universities Newsreel Database
Cambridge Dictionary of American English
Cambridge Klett Compact, French-English
Cambridge Klett Compact, Spanish-English
CBS News Polls Current year surveys.
Central States Communication Association (CSCA) "... to unite and educate people with both an affinity to the central region of the United States and a scholarly interest in all areas of communication..."
Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Chambers Dictionary of World History
Chambers 21st Century Dictionary
Chicago Defender Available as part of the Black Studies Center. Currently available: full text of issues from 1935-1975.
Chicago Tribune (Historical) Searchable full-image articles and complete content from 1849 through the 1980's.
Chicago Tribune (Today and Recent Years)
China Core Newspapers Chinese language periodicals. From the year 2000+, access to over 125,000 new full-text articles per year primarily on "Politics/Military/Law" with other topics as well. These are predominately in Chinese, some English, some both.
Chronicling America Library of Congress and NEH program to enhance access to historic newspapers. "... search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Contains information on how to locate newpapers, of all states, published from 1690 to the present. See "Holdings" after searching "Find."
CogNet A collection of full-text resources related to cognitive science.
Collins English Dictionary
Collins French Dictionary
Collins German Dictionary
Collins Irish Dictionary
Collins Italian Dictionary
Collins Latin Dictionary
Collins Portuguese Dictionary
Collins Spanish Dictionary
The Columbia Encyclopedia
ComAbstracts: "...contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field as well as bibliographic records and audio materials."
Communication Abstracts Includes "...articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources. Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers.... also covers the international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions."
Communication & Mass Media Complete Provides full-text for more than 240 journals, cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected indexing and abstracts for over 230. "Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915)." Incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship " ... not-for-profit organization supporting the use of computer technologies in the service of communication scholarship and education... is supported primarily through individual and institutional memberships, through publication of The Electronic Journal of Communication, and through sales of software products to assist communication scholarship" (e.g., ComAbstracts).
Concise Atlas of World History, Andromeda
Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies (UC Berkeley) Lively and unedited video interviews and printable transcripts, with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Includes over 300 diplomats, statesmen, stateswomen, soldiers, economists, political scientists, activists and artists. Click on "Interviews by Guest Name" for the alphabetical list.
The Crystal Reference Encyclopedia
CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition Issued since 1972, each annual volume of which contains approximately 100 documents covering the most significant events of the year. The documents include presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
Database of African Theses & Dissertations: DATAD "For many reasons, African research results are rarely indexed in major international databases, a problem that is further exacerbated by the inaccessibility of theses and dissertations completed in the region, many of which contain local empirical data that is not available in international literature." Currently contains citations and abstracts from ten leading universities, with more planned, in all subject areas.
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
Debrett's People of Today
Dictionary of American History, 3rd edition, 10 volumes, 2003.
A Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the present
Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations, H.W. Wilson
Dictionary of Languages
Dictionary of Media Studies
Dictionary of Political Biography
Dissertations -- Foreign (CRL) Thousands of foreign doctoral dissertations available through the Center for Research Libraries. If author is not found, read the introductory note to take further action.
Documentary & Other Films at NU Long lists of documentary films categorized by subjects such as art, gender, the Middle East, and sexual orientation are available for check-out through the Library's Mitchell Multimedia Center. Television news specials (e.g., political conventions, Presidential debates and speeches, etc.) are collected on a comprehensive basis. Click on the link to see specific topic lists. See, too, information on the other collections—performing arts films, feature films, and spoken word recordings.
Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) Cover-to-cover “reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as full text-searchable facsimile images.”
Early English Books Online (ProQuest) Full images of books published in English from 1475 to 1700. Searchable by keywords in the citation only. To search within the texts, use the EEBO-TCP version. Over 100,000 works from Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalog, Wing's Short-Title Catalog, and Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War. Documents may be viewed online using the Dj Vu Plugin or downloaded using Adobe Acrobat. Users may search by author keyword, title keyword, subject keyword, or bibliographic number. In addition, users may choose to search only within the illustrations, and may limit searches by originating collection, source library, language or date.
Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) Growing collection of searchable texts published in English between 1475 and 1700. To search all EEBO titles (over 100,000) by keyword in citations (as opposed to searching within text) and view full-page images, use the ProQuest version.
Eastern Communication Association (ECA) "... the oldest professional communication association in the United States... service oriented organization with a history of achievement in research, criticism, communication theory, and excellence in teaching..."
Publishes Communication Quarterly, Communication Research Reports, and Qualitative Research Reports in Communication.
ebrary This is a full text database of thousands of e-books. Search by subject headings such as nonverbal communication or communication and culture. To access from your office or residence hall: Click on "Get ebrary Reader." You need do this only once (i.e., you do not have to do it again next time you use ebrary).
Education Abstracts: Citations and abstracts to literature in all areas of education.
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) Full-text searchable facsimile page displays of approximately 150,000 books published in Britain and its colonies during the 18th century.
Encyclopaedia Britannica. See Britannica Online
Encyclopedia of Communication and Information
Encyclopedia of Communication and Information 3v, 2002
Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology Click on "Encyclopedias & Handbooks" followed by "login."
Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government and Mobile Commerce
Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction Click on "Encyclopedias & Handbooks" followed by "login."
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology Click on "Encyclopedias & Handbooks" followed by "login."
Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics, 3 volumes, 2007.
Encyclopedia of Public Relations
Encyclopedia of Social Theory 2v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Sociology 2nd ed., 5v, 2000
Encyclopedia of U.S. History- Journalists
Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies Click on "Encyclopedias & Handbooks" followed by "login."
English- Resources at NU
ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center, 1966-Present
Citations and abstracts of articles in education and related disciplines.
Contains journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) as well as annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE). There are three different interfaces available for accessing this data:
ESTC: English Short Title Catalog This is an e-catalogue of books and ephemera (from 1475 to 1700) and serials (1620-1800), many of which are available in microform (check NUCat). It provides materials, in any language, printed in Great Britain and its colonies as well as materials, in English, printed anywhere in the world. . . ."serves as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of surviving copies."
Ethics Guide for Public Radio
Ethics on the World Wide Web
Ethnic NewsWatch Full-text articles and bibliographic information from over 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals, with interfaces both in English and in Spanish.
European Library: "...portal which offers access to the combined resources... both digital and non-digital... of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects – some free, some priced." Allows cross-collection searching. A few of the national libraries include: Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, Russia-St. Peterburg, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and United Kingdom.
European Public Opinion Analysis Sponsored by the European Commission since 1973. Provides current and past summaries and full reports from the general and topical survey series as well as links to other European polls.
Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) This is an important database for social sciences (political economy, gender studies, development, etc) with more than 20 years of coverage of about 3,500 first tier, indexed, and full-text titles, of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed. For a broader search which will retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources, see Academic OneFile.
Factiva-domestic & international news Provides access to over 6,000 US and foreign full-text news and business publications, e.g., Bangkok Post, Concord Times (Sierra Leone), Dunya (Turkey), O Estado de Sao Paulo, Jakarta Post, The Straits Times (Singapore), Die Welt (Germany), etc. Includes reports, stock quotes, and documents such as treaties of the EU. For search help, go to the Factiva Help Page.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
First Amendment Center
Foreign Languages for Travelers Includes basic phrases with pronunciations in Real Audio in over sixty languages and links to language services and translating dictionaries.
Foreign Press Sources, their Home Pages, & Auto-Translations A list from WatchingAmerica.com which includes auto-translations or English versions of foreign presses (e.g., Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Al Messa, Diaro Decuyo).
Fox News Polls From about 2005 to the present.
Freedom Forum
Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information Act
French- Resources at NU
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America 2nd ed., 3v, 2000
Gallup Brain A searchable database containing the results from over 125,000 Gallup opinion questions dating back to 1935.
German Reference Database: Xipolis
German- Resources at NU
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Global NewsBank Citations and selected full-text articles from U.S. and international news sources.
Google News
Google Print Currently contains the full text of over 10,000 books no longer under copyright. The goal of the project is to create a searchable database of the collections of the university libraries at Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, and from the New York Public Library, all of which contracted with Google to scan and make available the contents of much or all of their holdings.
The Great American History Fact-Finder
NU Links
Historical Abstracts Citations and abstracts covering world history (excluding Canada and the United States; for these, see America: History and Life) on topics including communications media.
History E-Book Project A continuously growing database designed by 8 learned societies and 10 university presses. Recent and older books on topics such as race relations, the Paris Peace Conference, political participation in Greece, modern Islamic political thought, equality before the law. "Browse" to search subject fields.
History and Politics Out Loud Searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics. Website support includes Department of Political Science, Northwestern University Library, School of Communication, Office of the Provost, and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. (Project Director: NU Professor Jerry Goldman)
Human Languages Page Extensive guide to web resources related to language. (Now named iLoveLanguages).
The Hutchinson Chronology of World History
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia, Helicon
ICPSR, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Use with statistical software such as SPSS or SAS. "ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction." For help, consult with Social Science Data Services.
Illinois Newspaper Project Database Database of newspaper titles and holdings information at Illinois Libraries.
Institute for Global Ethics Newline
Instructions for FOI Request
International Association for Mass Communication Research The largest international professional umbrella organization in the field of media communication research.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
International Communication Association (ICA) " ... an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. Encourages "the systematic study of theories, processes and skills of human communication..." More than 3,500 members in 65 countries, and officially associated with the United Nations as a non-governmental organization (NGO).
International Speech Communication Association Began as ESCA (European Speech Communication Association). Promotes "Speech Communication Science and Technology, both in the industrial and Academic areas, covering all the aspects of Speech Communication (Acoustics, Phonetics, Phonology, Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, etc.)." Publishes Speech Communication.
International Telecommunications Society " ... an association of professionals in the information, communications, and technology sectors... focuses on the evolving applications, services, technology, and infrastructure of the communications, computing, Internet, information content, and related industries... particular emphasis on the interrelationships among socioeconomic, technological, legal, regulatory, competitive, organizational, policy, and ethical dimensions of the issues it addresses."
Iowa Guide Although it is no longer updated, this source can still be used to find first tier "Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication & Related Fields."
IPOLL Roper Center for Public Opinion accesses over 500,000 survey questions since 1935 broken down by percentages for each value.
ISI Emerging Markets Economic conditions in developing countries of Latin America, Asia and Europe. Includes industry and analyst reports, macroeconomic statistics and forecasts, legal and regulatory information, and opinion polls from the following emerging markets: Baltic States (including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (including Slovakia), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia (including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Turkey, Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, China, India, South Korea and Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand).
Italian- Resources at NU
Journal Citation Reports JCR is comprised of two editions including the JCR Social Science Edition which "contains data from about 1,500 social sciences journals. Data collected or calculated includes: citation and article counts; impact factor; immediacy index; cited half-life; citing half-life; source data listing; citing journal listing; cited journal listing; subject categories; publisher information; and journal title changes. Online help includes extensive and detailed instructions for locating such information as the most-cited journals in a particular subject area, or how often articles in a journal refer to articles previously published in that journal." Note that not all areas of study are represented. Click on "Information for New Users" to get started.
JSTOR Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues Archive of audio, video, and text, from 1966 to the present, of three to five appearances on the Landon Lecture platform per academic year of speakers "drawn from the public arena of world-renowned politicians, journalists, cabinet members and other prominent figures involved in current public issues. Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and George H. W. Bush have delivered Landon lectures." Most U.S., but also includes leaders from other countries.
Latin American Newsletters (Latinnews; The Latin Intelligence Service) LAN is a premier, comprehensive intelligence service on 33 countries in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean covering political, security, economic and strategic issues as well as general news.
Latin American Public Opinion Project – LAPOP Surveys on views of politics, corruption, etc., conducted within Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela as well as Albania, Israel, Madagascar, and the U.S. Availability to full datasets might involve administrative fee.
LexisNexis Academic "...contains several thousand full-text publications. These include regional, national and international newspapers, news wires, magazines, trade journals.... newsletters, profiles of the U.S. states and countries of the world, selected reference sources for facts and statistics.... Sources are grouped by broad topic areas, each with a search form that has been customized for its specific content. Many topic areas include the 'More Options' search screen, which allows users to build searches using pull-down menus, with the option of searching for keywords or phrases across the full text of an article or within the headline and lead paragraphs. Dates of coverage vary by publication. Coverage of news sources generally begins in the late 1980s...."
Le Monde online
LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts "Citations and abstracts of articles from hundreds of serials published around the world on linguistics" and communication, dialectology, language acquisition, speech, and related topics. Over 245,000 abstracts from 1973 to the present.
Los Angeles Times (Today, Official Site)
Los Angeles Times (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1881) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see Los Angeles Times (Today and Recent Years).
Los Angeles Times (Today and Recent Years)
Scroll down to see LA Times. Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years. For articles older than what appear in this database, go to Los Angeles Times (Historical).
Los Angeles Times Polls Current plus an archive back to 1996 and downloadable statistics. Also includes links to other polls.
The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
The Macmillan Encyclopedia
The Macquarie Dictionary
Mansfield Asian Opinion Poll Database Provides polls on policy-related issues from major media organizations and others in Japan and South Korea, from 2004-2006. Previously not available in English.
Media Coalition
Media Guide to Survey Research An introduction to public opinion research from the World Association for Public Opinion Research. Aimed mostly at journalists, but useful to anyone who wants to learn how to tell if a poll is scientific, biased, or valid.
Media Watch
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary
MLA Bibliography Modern Language Association database of citations and abstracts to about 4,000 scholarly journals, monographs, working papers, proceedings, and other works related to language, linguistics, literature, and folklore.
National Coalition Against Censorship
National Opinion Research Center (NORC) Specialized domestic and international surveys, with the oldest dating back to 1941. Includes the General Social Survey, which has been conducted since 1972. Datasets, questionnaires, frequency distributions, or analyses of some studies can be downloaded.
Nations of the World A-Z list of all countries in the world and their official languages. Click on the country name to link to "One World - Nations Online" which provides news links, maps, statistics, current topics, and more on languages of every country of the world.
NetLibrary Thousands of full text e-books. Search by author, title, keyword, subject, or in the full text.
New Books by Northwestern Faculty A record of "the monographic output of Northwestern's faculty. This website serves as a record of all the titles that have been published since this project began in 2005."
News and Newspapers Online Excellent source maintained by the University of North Carolina. Lists sites that cover regions, followed by titles listed by country, then alphabetically within regions.
Newspaper Source Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from more than 150 newspapers, including complete full-text coverage of 15 international newspapers.
New York Times (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1851) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see New York Times (Today and Recent Years).
New York Times (Today and Recent Years) Scroll down to see NYT. Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years. For articles older than what appear in this database, go to New York Times (Historical).
New York Times Polls Complete results plus related articles of surveys from 2002 to the present.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers Digital Archive See state by state coverage under the "Title List."
Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues An excellent language resource for all disciplines in which human communication is studied.
NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Polls A few surveys dating from 1999 to the most recent.
Online Dictionary Net Links to many online dictionaries covering many languages and topics.
Online Newspapers from Around the World Excellent listings by the University of Michigan's Internet Public Library. Papers listed by region, by country within region, by states or provinces within country.
Opinion-Pages Search engine providing access to opinion and editorials in newspapers from all over the world.
OriginalSources In Their Own Words Significant publications of the U.S. government and its history including the Papers of the Presidents, the Federalist Papers, National Party Platforms, 1840-1996, 100 Key Documents of American History, quotes and speeches.
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Oxford English Dictionary: OED Online This contains two separate texts, the complete Second Edition and the New Edition in progress. The first set is a complete A to Z sequence of entries, while the second is incomplete, but growing every quarter.
OYEZ Project OYEZ Project Multimedia database of information about the United States Supreme Court providing abstracts of all recent cases and selective abstracts for older cases, digital audio of the Oral Arguments in all recent cases either streamed or as MP3 downloads, several recordings of the announcement of the Court's opinion, and links to the written opinions of the court in all cases since 1791, through Justia. Contains access to more than 3000 hours of Supreme Court audio. Objective is to make accessible all audio from 1955 to the present. Before 1980, the audio collection is selective. The project will ultimately be a complete audio archive of the Court spanning from October 1995 to the present. (Principal Investigator: NU Professor Jerry Goldman)
PAIS International Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
Palmer's Index to The Times 1790-1905 Citations to articles in the The Times (London), 1790-1905.

Past Masters Includes the complete works, variant editions, selections, and/or correspondence of the following and many more:

Aristotle
St. Thomas Aquinas
Bentham, Jeremy
Burke, Edmund
Gladstone, William
Hamilton, Alexander
Hegel, F riedrich
Hobbes, Thomas
Hume, David
Jay, John

Locke, John
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Madison, James
Mill, John Stuart
Paine, Thomas
Plato
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Smith, Adam
Weber, Max
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women
The Penguin English Dictionary
Periodical Abstracts "Contains more than 800,000 citations and abstracts from over 1,500 general and academic journals covering topics such as business, history, religion, culture, literature, sociology, economics, psychology and women's studies. Periodical Abstracts also includes transcripts of significant segments from more than 80 television and radio news programs." 1986 to present.
Pew Global Attitudes Project A series of worldwide public opinion surveys, of almost 75,000 people among 50 populations (49 countries plus the Palestinian Authority). Includes large array of subjects, e.g., people's assessments of their own lives, views on globalization, changes in attitudes toward democracy, views on the place of Islamic faith in public policy within countries with significant Muslim populations, and opinions toward the United States.
Pew Hispanic Center Dataset Download These datasets date back to 2002 and are available for secondary analysis.
Pew Internet & American Life Project These datasets date back to 2000 and are available for secondary analysis.
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Data Archive These datasets date back to 1997 and are available for secondary analysis.
Philip's Encyclopedia
Political Aspects of Communications See the NU Library research guide to political science; for example, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and others cover propaganda, political advertising, and public opinion.
Polling 101 From Roper, a description of basic principles of polling, sampling, how to read tables, and related lessons.
Polling 201 Fundamentals of analysis of polls.
Polling the Nations Searchable and browseable database of over 350,000 questions from more than 14,000 public opinion surveys conducted by more than 700 different organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
PollingReport.com An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion. For additional data, see Polling Report Subscriber Pages.
Polling Report Subscriber Pages Check the Electronic Resources list for username and password. See, too, PollingReport.com.
Post-United States Elections Survey: A Survey of Public Opinion in France, Germany, and the United States, 2004 Poll of the attitudes of the public in the U.S., France, and Germany after the re-election of President George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
Poynter Ethics
PressWise Trust International Codes of Conduct
Program on International Policy Attitudes Project of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the Center for International Security Studies (CISSM). Conducts polls, domestic and across nations, to study American options toward international issues.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Full Text Through this resource, you may access all available dissertations (full-text PDF files) from institutions in the US and some other countries. Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Full-text online dissertations from some universities date as far back as the early 20th century; others are more recent. It is not possible to predict which dissertations are available and which are not. Some universities have digitized their dissertations and made these available for free to all. Some are subscription based. And finally, some departments, schools, and individuals do not allow free access to their dissertations and these are only available through payment or Interlibrary Loan. (In these cases, it is still usually possible to see in this database an abstract and, sometimes, a limited page preview.)
PsycARTICLES "Full-text electronic journals published by the American Psychological Association, accessible through the database Journals@Ovid Full Text. Once connected, check the box 'Limit to: PsycARTICLES."
PsycINFO Citations and abstracts to articles in psychology and related disciplines.
Public Agenda Research Studies Full service opinion research organization started by Daniel Yankelovich and Cyrus Vance in 1975. See "Research Studies by Topic" which includes downloadable reports, data, etc. on subjects such as education, foreign policy, and media.
Public Opinion Foundation: FOM (Russia) Begun in 1992. Provides weekly highlights of selected Russian polls as well as a database to locate and view responses to questions.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Currently "covers the published speeches and documents of Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton." Search "across all volumes at the initial screen or search within a volume. Basic searches are amplified by boolean and proximity searches. Results can be sorted by author, title, date, and frequency."
Public Records Directory
Quest for Peace: Interviews, 1983-1989 Collection of half-hour interviews with a wide range of historical and political actors, including Julian Bond, Shirley Chisholm, John Kenneth Galbraith, Condoleeza Rice, and Edward Teller, on the pursuit of peace in the nuclear age. Digitized interviews continue to be added. Includes biographical information, written transcripts, and audio-video.
Questionbank: Social Surveys & Research Questionnaires Online (U.K.) "This website has been designed to help users locate examples of specific research questions and see them in the context within which they have been used for data collection. It is intended to assist with the design of new survey questionnaires, the search for data for secondary analysis, and the teaching of survey research methods."
Radical Press in the 60s Exhibit
The Reader's Companion to American History
The Reader's Companion to Military History
The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency
The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
Readers' Guide Abstracts Abstracts, citations, and some links to full text "for over 300 popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. Topics include current events and news, fine arts, fashion, education, business, sports, health and nutrition, consumer affairs, and other areas of general interest. Corresponds to the printed Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature." 1983 to present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective "Historical index (1890 to 1982) to over 250 general interest periodicals.... The index is a work in progress; eventually it will include the entire contents of the printed Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature which dates back to 1890. This database is continued by Readers' Guide Abstracts (1983 to present)."
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Includes the Public Opinion Archives, back to 1947, as well as an online catalog of holdings. For help, contact the Librarians in Social Science Data Services in the Main Library.
Social Science Data Services—NU Library "Acquires and maintains an extensive collection of numeric computer data files used for secondary analysis in the social sciences."
Social Science Information Gateway Browse by Subjects including Politics, Research Tolls and Methods, Statistics, and Women's Studies.
Social Sciences Abstracts Comprehensive sets of citations and abstracts to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. Includes many links to full text. Also includes databases for subjects in humanities and law.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) Provides bibliographic information and some abstracts from articles from more than 1,700 in the social sciences. Search by topic, author, source title, or by cited reference: authors and titles from the bibliography of an article. Searches may also lead to related records: articles with citations in common. Results may be printed, saved to a text file, exported in a delimited format for import into personal bibliographic programs like EndNote or ProCite, or may be sent via email. (For more information, see citations to faculty publications.)
Society for Professional Journalists Ethics Guide
Sociological Abstracts Includes "the international literature in sociology and related disciplines.... provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers." Records extend from 1952 to the present.
Spanish & Portuguese- Resources at NU
Speaker Videos: Kellogg School of Management From 2001 to the present, online videos with political leaders such as Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley as well as business figures such as Sam Zell and Carly Fiorina.
Speeches and Speechmakers Excellent gateway, from the University of Iowa, to collections on the web. Includes, for example, links to an archive of speeches by the African National Congress, speeches on human rights from the U.K., and the Social Activism Sound Recording Project (UC Berkeley).
Speeches & Video A large archive of speeches primarily by politicians, and sound clips of primarily political events, available via The History Channel.
SPSS Statistical software is available on the Library's Information Commons workstations and within the Library's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services department. The latter also hosts SAS, GIS, and other software packages.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
State Open Records
Survey Random Sample Calculator Use to calculate how many people out of a specified population size would need to be interviewed; specify acceptable margin of error; calculates various confidence levels.
Tapping Official Secrets
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) Includes more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. See "Important Note" on front page of website (NU affiliates have free access).
Times of London Digital Archive Searchable full-image articles and complete content of the Times of London from 1785 to 1985.
U.K. Data Archive – Major Studies A very large list, with instructions on access, to major U.K. and European surveys conducted by governmental and social organizations.
UN Oral History Project Yale University’s United Nations Studies Program has undertaken an oral history study to preserve the recollections of those involved in international political developments in which the UN has played a role. This resource contains over 150 transcribed interviews with key players, from numerous countries, involved in major international events. The transcripts are divided into two groups: 1989-1991 and 1996-2002.
U.S. News Archives on the Web
Vital Speeches of the Day Look for the "Business Source Premier" option among the multiple subscriptions offered by NU, because this is the most comprehensive with speeches dating back to 1934 (including speeches by Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini) to the present day (including Blair and Benedict XVI). Also contains speeches by academics and others on important topics.
Wall Street Journal (Today, Official Site)
Wall Street Journal (Today and Recent Years)
Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years. For articles older than what appear in this database, go to Wall Street Journal (Historical).
Wall Street Journal (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1889) through about the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see