Key Resources
- Knovel Library This link opens in a new windowE-books, handbooks, scientific and engineering reference manuals, and datasets.
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowCombines the citations and full text links of Compendex and Inspec with full text books from Knovel, for a more comprehensive search on computer science and engineering topics.
- ASCE Library This link opens in a new windowSelect full text peer-reviewed journals, e-books, standards, and proceedings from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Journal coverage beings in 1983. Proceeding coverage begins in 2000.
- Web of Science, Core Collection 1975-present This link opens in a new windowUse for citation tracking, finding seminal literature, data visualizations, author alerts, institutional affiliations, and impact factors. LInks to full text for Northeastern-subscribed journals.
- Scite.ai This link opens in a new windowAn AI-powered research platform that analyzes and provides citation context for scientific papers, helping researchers evaluate the credibility and impact of scholarly articles. Account registration is necessary for some features.
- ScienceDirect Topics (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowUse these topic pages to get up to speed with an area of research that’s new to you. Search your topic and get foundational and reference materials including scientific dictionary and encyclopedia articles, journal review articles, books and book chapters, and handbooks.
- GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowDrawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE is an informative resource containing nearly 300,000 records, with full text for selected titles, and searchable cited references with library links for more than 200 additional titles
- Scopus and Scopus AI This link opens in a new windowEnter a natural language query and receive results from the largest multidisciplinary abstract and citation database including graphical representations showing connections among keywords, pointers to influential papers, and suggested related queries to further your research.
- Building GreenAn array of media and information resources about green design. Includes Environmental Building News from 1992 to present, a Green Products directory, and 200 high performance buildings case studies.
- Green Building Information Gateway (GBIG)USGBC's centralized platform that integrates hundreds of data sources, including green building certifications, public disclosures, awards, organizations, news and other resources related to sustainable building
- engrxivAn open access preprint server for all areas of engineering
- DETAIL Inspiration This link opens in a new windowImage and reference full-text online database. It contains more than 4,000 international project documentations from the print magazine DETAIL. The database contains detailed project descriptions, drawings, pictures and information on architects and, more recently, manufacturers.
- TRID (Open Access)[Transportation Research] TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide. Replaces TRIS.
- AccessEngineering (McGraw-Hill) This link opens in a new windowAccess Engineering is an engineering reference tool that provides access to authoritative and updated engineering reference information. Users can access more than 530 books, 760 instructional videos, 3800 interactive graphs, and an Excel calculator tool to streamline calculations.
Need a book/e-book, video, periodical, or other type of material?
Use the Scholar OneSearch box below for one-stop searching for books, e-books, videos, articles, digital media and more. Search local Northeastern collections and global resources - many items available full text online.
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Looking for Technical Reports?
- Technical Reports Archive & Image Library (TRAIL)The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.
You can also browse TRAIL's collections by series using these TRAIL guides.
Need a quick refresh on your research skills?
The library has many more research tutorials on common research questions and skills. To see what else is available, visit the library's Research Tutorials page.
Interlibrary loan
Can't find an article or book on our collections? Request it through Interlibrary Loan and we'll try to borrow it from another library on your behalf. Learn more about Interlibrary Loan.
- ILLiad log-in (Opens in new window)Need a book, book chapter, or article not available at Northeastern? Current US-based Northeastern faculty, staff, and students can request materials that aren't available at the Northeastern University Library through ILLiad, our interlibrary loan software.
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