Online Catalog
Use NUcat (the online catalog) to identify books that the library
has, as well as journal 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.
Other Library Catalogs WorldCat
Catalogs from Other Libraries
To obtain materials from other libraries contact the Interlibrary
Loan Department.
Selected Indexes to Articles
Use indexes to track down articles in journals.
Some indexes, particularly the general ones, include the full text
of the article.
Locating the
full text of the article
If the article citations you find in indexes to do not include
full text, click on Find it @ NU which searches across many other
indexing databases and sources of full text articles to find electronic
full text of the article, if it exists, in the NU Library electronic
environment. Find it @ NU will also lead to NUcat, the online catalog,
if only a paper copy exists for the journal or periodical. If an
item is not found in electronic or paper copy, a link to Interlibrary
Loan will be given.
You can also locate the full article by directly searching on
the journal title, not the article title, 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).
To identify journal and / or magazine articles, try these
indexes
Academic OneFile
A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more than 8000 journals with extensive coverage of social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, the physical sciences, technology, medicine, and other subjects; intended primarily for academic researchers.
Academic Search Premier
Multidisciplinary coverage of journal literature, including biological sciences,
economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and
linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women\'s studies.
Provides citations and abstracts for nearly 8035 scholarly journals (3630
peer-reviewed), as well as over 4515 full-text titles.
ERIC: Educational
Resources Information Center
Citations, abstracts and some full text of articles and other documents in education and related fields.
Sociological Abstracts
Citations and abstracts of articles and other documents in sociology and related fields.
ABI Inform Global
Citations, abstracts and selected full-text of articles from over 2,000 business and management journals.
Lexis Nexis Academic
A legal, news and business information service which contains several thousand full-text publications. These include regional, national and international newspapers, news wires, magazines, trade journals, law reviews, statutory, administrative and case law and business publications.
Note: Lexis Nexis includes the full text of the New York Times back to 1980. Also includes access to The Chronicle of Higher Education and a large collection of college and university newspapers back to 1997.
To access the Chronicle, choose Guided News Search, then University News, then the Chronicle. To access college newspapers, follow the same instructions, then, instead of the Chronicle, choose University Wire.
Chronicle of Higher Education (alternate version)
Find other indexes and databases by subject or title
Searching the "free" web
Google Scholar
Select Scholar Preferences and then set "Library Links" to Northwestern University
Citation Style
If you cannot find what you are looking
for in these resources, do not hesitate to ask a Reference
librarian for help.
Real-time
online help is available weekdays. Try "Answers
Online."
Jeannette Moss
Reference Department
 847-491-2169
j-moss@northwestern.edu
Natalie Pelster
Reference Department
847-491-8735
n-pelster@northwestern.edu
Jami Xu
Reference Department
847-491-8961
jamixu@northwestern.edu
Reference Desk
847-491-7656
refdept@northwestern.edu
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