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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.

Note: You can also search for Environmental Impact Statements in NUcat
What are EIS and how do I search for them?

To obtain materials from other libraries, use the request forms from the Interlibrary Loan Department.


Selected Databases / Indexes to Articles

Use 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 "Electronic Resources." Type in the name of the index that you need from the "Quick Search" menu.

You can also click on Find... Databases in the library homepage and will be taken to Einstein, which works similarly to Electronic Resources


Finding the full text of an 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 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).

General Databases

Academic OneFile
A collection of full-text articles in HTML and PDF format from more than 8000 journals and magazines with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subject; 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.

CQ Researcher
Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more.

Subject-specific Databases

Philosopher's Index
Citations and abstracts to articles from books and over 480 journals dealing with philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields.

Sociological Abstracts
Citations and abstracts of articles in sociology journals and related fields.

Psycinfo
Citations and abstracts to articles in psychology and related disciplines.

PAIS
A bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.

Biosis
An index to all materials indexed in Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM, along with some additional resources. Over 10,000 indexed life and medical sciences publications are included in this file.

GeoRef
Citations and selected abstracts on topics in geology from more than 3500 journals

Pollution Abstracts
Environment-related international literature on pollution

News Databases

LexisNexis Academic
Full text articles from several thousand news, legal and business publications.
Note: The New York Times full text is available from 1980 to current.
The Washington Post is available from 1977 to current.

LexisNexis Academic also includes legal research literature. Log in and click on the Legal segment.

Chicago Tribune
Full text articles from 1985 to current.

Los Angeles Times
Full text articles from 2006 to current.

Find other indexes to articles by subject


Additional Resources

The SAGE handbook of sociology / edited by Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek and Bryan Turner. MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 301 S129

The Oxford handbook of aesthetics / edited by Jerrold Levinson.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 111.85 O98

Political philosophy : theories, thinkers, concepts / Seymour Martin Lipset, editor.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 320.01 P76875

Historical dictionary of North American environmentalism / Edward R. Wells and Alan M. Schwartz. MAIN Reference (Non-circulating) 363.7003 H673

Reference Help

Northwestern University Library's Main Reference Department /reference/assistance/index.html


Accessing electronic articles and books from off campus

Start with the instructions at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/help/proxy/index.html

Jeannette Moss
Reference Department
Email:j-moss@northwestern.edu
Office phone: 847.491.2169
Reference desk phone: 847.491.7656