Online CatalogUse 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 and Multi-subject 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.
Readers Guide Abstracts
Index to over 200 popular and general interest magazines.
Readers Guide Retrospective
Historical index (1890 to 1982) to over 250 general interest periodicals.
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.
Chicago
Tribune
Full text articles from 1985 to current.
Los Angeles Times
Full text articles from 2006 to current.
New York Times Historical
Searchable full-image articles from the first issue in 1851 through the end of 2003.
Chicago Tribune Historical
Searchable content from 1849 to 1986.
Subject-specific Databases
Film and Television Literature Index
Film Index International
FIAF International Filmarchive Database
Sociological Abstracts
Citations and abstracts of articles in sociology journals and related fields.
Psycinfo
Citations and abstracts to articles in psychology and related disciplines.
America History and Life / Historical Abstracts
Citations and abstracts from more than 2,100 journals of American and Canadian history. Historical abstracts covers world history outside of theUS and Canada.
Find other indexes to
articles by subject
Reference Help
Northwestern
University Library's Main Reference Department /reference/assistance/index.html
Jeannette
Moss
Reference Department
Email:j-moss@northwestern.edu
Office phone: 847.491.2169
Reference desk phone: 847.491.7656
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