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Encyclopedia of American Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press) This link opens in a new windowCovers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present.
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International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition (2015) This link opens in a new windowA source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broad, deep and scholarly. Comprehensive name and subject tagging, signed articles and references. Diverse subject categories include family, gender, human development, war and conflict studies, technology and more.
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International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest 2009 (Wiley) This link opens in a new windowScholarly signed and referenced articles on people and events in the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 years.
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Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions
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Religious faith takes many forms. Throughout the centuries and around the globe, the human response to the divine has given rise to a large number of important religions. This encyclopedia provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the religions of the world and to the concepts, people and events that shaped them.
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Encyclopedia of Global Health
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Key Features Offers a truly global approach by giving the current health status in each country of five continents Compares the mortality rates of infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases in developing and developed countries Presents a historical context for important changes and issues in global health and serves as a foundat
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Encyclopedia of Global Studies
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"With all entries followed by cross-references and further reading lists, this current resource is ideal for high school and college students looking for connecting ideas and additional sources on them. The work brings together the many facets of global studies into a solid reference tool and will help those developing and articulating an ideological perspective." -- Library Journal The Encyclopedia of Global Studies is the reference work for the emerging field of global studies. It covers both transnational topics and intellectual approaches to the study of global themes, including the globalization of economies and technologies; the diaspora of cultures and dispersion of peoples; the transnational aspects of social and political change; the global impact of environmental, technological, and health changes; and the organizations and issues related to global civil society. Key Themes: * Global civil society * Global communications, transportation, technology * Global conflict and security * Global culture, media * Global demographic change * Global economic issues * Global environmental and energy issues * Global governance and world order * Global health and nutrition * Global historical antecedents * Global justice and legal issues * Global religions, beliefs, ideologies * Global studies * Identities in global society Readership: Students and academics in the fields of politics and international relations, international business, geography and environmental studies, sociology and cultural studies, and health.
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Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology
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Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.
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Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History
"Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, using film, literature, human rights, politics, landmark legislation, activism, the arts, language, sports, and historical events as points of entry into the content"
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy. (Two Volume Set)
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An essential reference to all facets of the world economy Increasing economic globalization has made understanding the world economy more important than ever. From trade agreements to offshore outsourcing to foreign aid, this two-volume encyclopedia explains the key elements of the world economy and provides a first step to further research for students and scholars in public policy, international studies, business, and the broader social sciences, as well as for economic policy professionals. Written by an international team of contributors, this comprehensive reference includes more than 300 up-to-date entries covering a wide range of topics in international trade, finance, production, and economic development. These topics include concepts and principles, models and theory, institutions and agreements, policies and instruments, analysis and tools, and sectors and special issues. Each entry includes cross-references and a list of sources for further reading and research. Complete with an index and a table of contents that groups entries by topic, The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy is an essential resource for anyone who needs to better understand the global economy. More than 300 alphabetically arranged articles on topics in international trade, finance, production, and economic development International team of contributors Annotated list of further reading with each article Topical list of entries Full index and cross-references Entry categories and sample topics: Concepts and principles: globalization, anti-globalization, fair trade, foreign direct investment, international migration, economic development, multinational enterprises Models and theory: Heckscher-Ohlin model, internalization theory, New Trade Theory, North-South trade, Triffin dilemma Institutions and agreements: European Union, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, World Bank, Doha Round, international investment agreements Policies and instruments: dollar standard, international aid, sanctions, tariffs Analysis and tools: exchange rate forecasting, effective protection, monetary policy rules Sectors and special issues: child labor, corporate governance, the digital divide, health and globalization, illegal drugs trade, petroleum, steel
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SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Second Edition addresses the persistence of poverty across the globe while updating and expanding the landmark work, Encyclopedia of World Poverty, originally published in 2006 prior to the economic calamities of 2008.
ISBN: 1483345726Publication Date: 2015
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EIU Viewpoint and Country Reports (Economist Intelligence Unit) This link opens in a new windowContains Country Reports, Country Finance, and Country Commerce, plus special reports on current international issues. Updated continuously.
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Europa World Plus This link opens in a new windowAn encyclopedia with detailed entries covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories. Not limited to Europe! Frequently updated.
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Foreign Policy This link opens in a new windowGlobal news magazine providing insights and analysis as well as original reporting.
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Policy Commons This link opens in a new windowReports, working papers, policy briefs, data, and audio and visual media drawn from a directory of thousands of government, nongovernment, and intergovernmental institutions and research centers.
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Statista This link opens in a new windowBrings together data and graphs on every imaginable topic from business to government, surveys, sports, and scientific topics. Under the Reports dropdown menu, there is a collection of reports on Countries & Regions.with demographic data.
- BBC News Country Profiles
Authoritative source for country information, reports, white papers and studies.
Library Media Collections
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Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online Premium provides video content to a broad range of subject areas, including documentaries and journalistic content on topics in business, politics, history, music, public health, education and more.
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Docuseek This link opens in a new windowDocumentary films for higher education. Browse the subject categories--there is one for Anthropology.
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Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new windowA curated collection of films for the Northeastern community, including feature films as well as high-interest documentaries. You may use Scholar OneSearch to find out if Northeastern has a particular film. Closed captions and transcripts included. Films provided by HBO and Neon Films cannot be viewed outside of the U.S.
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Music Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new windowMega site combining American Music, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Jazz Music Library, Popular Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, as well as the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.
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Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowAn international network of music audio archives grounded in the mission of the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Offers access to the "smaller voices" of people all over the world via digital downloads. Aims to heighten communication among and about people and cultures. Also notes, images, videos, educational features, and lesson plans.
Open resource, or free, videos are online. Noteworthy collections include:
- youtube.com
- TED Talks -- View the playlist for Anthropology
- Internet Archives is searchable. One short anthropology film is Cannabis Workers' Issues: Getting High on Anthropology
Sample TED Talk video
Podcasts
- AAA Podcast Library -- American Anthropological Association
- Anthropologist on the Street
- This American Life
Create an account to access current digital editions of these newspapers--
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Financial TimesLondon-based and international in scope, with extensive business, marketing, economic, political, news and trends worldwide. Also hosts subject-focused newsletters, podcasts, and live conferences. Access to the Financial Times requires registration with a Northeastern or NU London email address.
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New York Times via NYTimes.com This link opens in a new windowNortheastern offers current and archival access to the New York Times. Please use the link above to register with a Northeastern email address. Once registered, users can log in directly at https://www.nytimes.com or use the New York Times app on a smartphone or device. Our subscription does not include access to the Cooking, Games, or Athletic sections of nytimes.com.
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Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowLeading economic, business, finance, and political news, information, commentary and analysis. For historic WSJ content dating back to 1985, please use Factiva (Opens in new window). Individual registration using a Northeastern email address is required.
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Washington PostWashington D.C.'s newspaper, with coverage of the city and region, national events, and coverage of federal government "inside-the-beltway" news. For off-campus access, please create an account and then follow these instructions (PPT)(Opens in new window) to link our university subscription. Once registered, users can log in directly at www.washingtonpost.com.
NU authentication is required to access the following current and historical news sources:
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Boston Globe (1872-present) (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowHistorical and current access to the Boston Globe, one of two major daily newspapers in Boston. Historic content (1872-1990) includes a PDF view of the newspaper including illustrations, charts, and advertisements. After 1990, only text is available. Link to the most recent issue.
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Boston Herald (via Access World News) This link opens in a new windowFull text from 1991 to the present. The newspaper is one of two daily newspapers in Boston.
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East Boston Community News (Northeastern University) This link opens in a new windowFull scans of issues of The East Boston Community News from 1970 to 1989 which include coverage on neighborhood issues and events such as the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, politics, land use, and airport issues.
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Hindustan Times 1960-2000 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowAccess to the second most widely read English newspaper in India, covering subjects such as colonialism and post-colonialism, British and world history, class and gender issues, international relations, comparative religion, international economics, terrorism, and more.
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Latin American Newspapers 1805-1922 (World Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new windowOver 50 online and full text historic newspapers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.
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Los Angeles Times 1881-2012 (Proquest)Fully digitized newspaper Los Angeles Times from 1881 to 2012.
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MideastWire This link opens in a new windowA daily country-by-country summary and translation of news from around the Miiddle East region. Covers news sources from all 22 Arab countries, plus Iran and the Arab diaspora, including key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces.
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Nikkei Asia This link opens in a new windowCoverage of Asia's economic, political, business and technology news in English. Established with a goal to change the way the Asia is covered internationally and to enhance the world’s understanding of pan-Asian affairs.
Also includes data on financial markets and top companies in the region.
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Philadelphia Tribune 1912-2001 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowThe historical Philadelphia Tribune collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text.
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South Asia Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive) (Readex/Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowSearchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia, especially India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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South China Morning Post 1903-2001 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides news coverage of the politics, society and events of China and Hong Kong. In addition to article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads.
Selected Open Resource Newspapers
What are primary sources?
Some examples of Primary Sources:
- Audio recordings of a speech or oral history
- Autobiographies, diaries, or letters
- Certain government documents, such as congressional hearings or agency reports
- Interviews
- Journal articles which report first hand observations
- Newspaper accounts of events
- Photographs or moving images of an event
- Records of an organization, often kept in Archives
Primary Source Collections include:
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Boston's Asian Community History (Northeastern University)Over 7,000 records from the Chinese Progressive Association, selected from the Northeastern Library’s Archives and Special Collections. Records are in English and Chinese, and document Asian American activism in Boston, including tenants' rights, workers' rights, political empowerment, and local Chinatown issues.
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Boston's Latinx Community History (Northeastern University) This link opens in a new windowDocuments and images from the Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción and La Alianza Hispana records in the Northeastern Library’s Archives and Special Collections. They document policymaking, urban planning, community relations, cultural and educational programs, violence prevention, and minority rights in Boston in the late 20th century.
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Boston's LGBTQA+ History (Northeastern University)Brings together items from the library's archival collections illustrating a diverse range of individuals, activism, and networks in the Boston LGBTQA community from the 1970s onwards.
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Boston Public Schools Desegregation Collection (Northeastern University) This link opens in a new windowThis project was partially funded by the Boston Library Consortium.
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Decolonization: The Politics of Independence in Former Colonial Territories (Gale) This link opens in a new windowNEW! Includes primary sources related to the complex process of decolonization across 60 former colonial territories and Commonwealth nations in the 20th century. The core content consists of over 250,000 pages of rare pamphlets, newsletters, correspondence, posters, and more.
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Digital Transgender Archive (Northeastern University and others) This link opens in a new windowThe purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
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Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new windowDigitized primary source material from the Newberry Library's extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection, dating from the earliest contact with European settlers up to the mid-twentieth century.
- What this includes: manuscripts, art work, newspapers, treaties, speeches,diaries, historic maps,photographs.
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Lower Roxbury Black History Project (Northeastern University)From 2007-2009, with the assistance of her son, London Parker-McWhorter, photographer and documentary filmmaker Lolita Parker Jr spoke with over 40 residents of Roxbury to collect the audio, video, interviews and oral histories, scans, and photographs documenting the rich history of Boston’s Lower Roxbury community.
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Public Housing, Racial Policies, and Civil Rights: The Intergroup Relations Branch of the Federal Public Housing Administration, 1936-1963 (Gale) This link opens in a new windowNEW! Among the documents are civil rights correspondence, statements and policy about race, labor-based state activity records, local housing authorities’ policies on hiring minorities, court cases involving housing decisions, racially-restrictive covenants, and news clippings.
- Story Corps is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Our mission: to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all — one story at a time. Archived at the Library of Congress, the digital archive is "the largest collection of human voices eer gathered. One collection is Story Corps Working.
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AgeLine (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowAgeLine focuses on those aged 50+ and the literature of social gerontology. Covers aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. Content includes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos.
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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowScholarly overviews in 37 academic subjects, mostly biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. Excellent for finding authoritative overviews of new topics. Check the Anthropology section.
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BrowZine Web Edition This link opens in a new windowBrowZine is software that allows you to browse, read, and monitor many of the library's scholarly journals in a format optimized for your iOS or Android device. Have journal favorites? You can get email updates when a new issue is released!
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Cabell's Predatory Reports This link opens in a new windowThinking of publishing? This database identifies deceptive and fraudulent journals. Specialists identify and analyze over 70 behavioral indicators to flag potentially exploitative or dishonest operations. Also includes Journalytics, a list of approved journals.
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Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowWith over 2.7 million entries, Proquest Dissertations is the authoritative resource for searching doctoral dissertations and master's theses from around the world, from 1861 to the present. Full text PDFs are usually available to download for theses published since 1997. Beginning in 2008, Northeastern University Masters and PhD students submit their completed dissertations to this "database of record" for graduate research.
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Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate) This link opens in a new windowJCR is a widely used source of citation data, used to compare and evaluate scholarly journals. For example, the most well-known indicator in the JCR is the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). This measure provides a ratio of citations to a journal in a given year to the citable items in the prior two years. Journal Citation Reports can show you the:
Most frequently cited journals in a field
Highest impact journals in a field
Largest journals in a field
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowOne of the most trusted sources for scholarly books and historical journal backfiles. Now includes searchable images and primary sources.
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LGBT Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text of 26 magazines, chiefly from the US, covering LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) interests. Covers more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community.
Selected open resource collections
- UMass Amherst Guide of Reparations in the United States--Historical Timeline of Reparations Payments Made From 1783 through 2022 by the United States Government, States, Cities, Religious Institutions, Universities, Corporations, and Communities