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.
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
CQ Researcher covers controversial topics in depth, providing historical, current and future analysis, as well as the pros and cons for each
topic.
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.
Factiva
Full text articles from several thousand news sources, many
focused on business and finance topics. To search for publications
such as transcripts and editorials, click on Search tab
at the top, then select Source, then in the Select Source
Category drop-down menu, select Publications By Type. You
can then select Transcripts.
CQ
Weekly
Legislative news, political analysis and current events. Includes congressional
floor votes.
Vanderbilt
Television News Archive
Selected full video clips and descriptive summaries of the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs and other news-related programming collected in its archive since August 5, 1968.
Subject-specific Databases
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Citations and abstracts to the international literature of political
science
International Political Science Abstracts
Citations and abstracts to the international literature of political
science.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Citations and abstracts to the literature of communication and
media studies.
Communication Abstracts
Citations and abstracts of literature in all aspects of communication
and related fields, including film studies and public opinion.
PAIS
International
Citations in public policy, social policy
and the social sciences.
Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Psycinfo
Citations and abstracts to articles in psychology and related disciplines.
Econlit
Citations and selected abstracts to articles from more than 400
economics journals.
Find other indexes to
articles by subject
Additional
Resources/Links
Historical
dictionary of political communication in the United States / edited
by Guido H. Stempel III and Jacqueline Nash Gifford. c 1999.
MAIN Reference 324.70973 H673
The encyclopedia of American political history / edited by Paul Finkelman, Peter Wallenstein. c 2001.
MAIN Reference 973.03 E561
Encyclopedia of international media and communications /
editor-in-chief, Donald H. Johnston. c 2003.
MAIN Reference (Encyclopedia case) 302.2303 E56
Editorials on file.
MAIN Reference L
940.5 E28
American presidential campaigns and elections / William G. Shade, Ballard C. Campbell, editors ; Craig R. Coenen,
documents editor.
MAIN Reference 324.973 A5126
Citing your work/ Citation style
Chicago Manual of Style (The complete guide)1
Quick Guide to Chicago Style
APA Style (from Purdue University)
MLA Style (from Purdue University)
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 |
