How Many People Can the Earth Support (Spencer)

Library Catalog

Use NUcat (the online catalog) to identify books that the library has, as well as journal and periodical titles, microfilm, videos, and other catalogued material. NUcat will also tell you whether material is in the main library or in another Northwestern University library.

Searching for articles

Use indexes, also referred to as databases, to track down articles in journals. Some databases, particularly the general ones, include the full text of the article. You can find the databases by going to the library's home page and selecting "Databases" under the Find category.

You can also locate the full article by directly searching on the journal title, not the article title, in eJournals by title or in NUcat. You can then check to see whether the library owns the journal or periodical and if so, what issues/dates are owned and in what format (hard copy, electronic, microtext).

Indexes/Databases (General)

Academic Search Premier provides citations to journal articles covering almost all academic disciplines. Included are full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection.

This database provides access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers across all academic disciplines.

CQ Researcher covers controversial topics in depth, providing historical, current and future analysis, as well as the pros and cons for each topic.

This is a legal, news and business information service which contains several thousand full-text publications including national and international newspapers, news wires, magazines, and trade journals.

Indexes/Databases (Specialized)

This index provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.

This database contains citations, abstracts and selected full-text articles covering topics in international affairs, collected largely from university- and foundation-funded research institutes, non-governmental organizations and academic conferences.

Lexis Nexis Statistical provides statistical information from a variety of sources, including the U.S. government, research firms, trade associations, university studies, and international agencies.

This databases is a 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 provides 350,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. Popline INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development.

This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles from more than 550 international, English-language periodicals in the social sciences, including sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.

UNCDB provides access to 300 data series, covering a wide range of subjects, from 30 specialized international sources for all available countries.

This database provides bibliographic information and some abstracts from articles from more than 5,700 journals in the sciences, more than 1,700 in the social sciences, and more than 1,100 in the arts and humanities. Users may search by topic, author, source title, or by cited reference: authors and titles from an article's bibliography. Searches may also lead to related records: articles with citations in common.

This database provides citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines.

Reference Books

Geoff Morse
Reference Department
Email:gmorse@northwestern.edu
Office phone: 847.467.1866
Reference desk phone: 847.491.7656