Doctor of Law and Policy : Get Started

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Welcome DLP students! Roxanne and Christine are your library partners. Please contact us as needed!

Our guide focuses on interdisciplinary resources. DLP students work across many disciplines, and subject specific guides and additional subject specialists are also available. We can connect you with our colleagues!

Key Resources

Scholar OneSearch
Scholar OneSearch provides one-stop searching for books, articles, digital media, government publications, and more. To search the NU library catalogs for books, e-books, and other local resources, select the Boston Library Catalogs option in Scholar OneSearch.

Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Search federal and state court cases, statutes and codes as well as European Union laws and regulations. Secondary sources include the American Law Reports and the American Jurisprudence encyclopedia, law reviews, journals, and newspapers.
- Tutorials: Find cases and articles in Westlaw, video or PDF
EconLit (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Useful for political economy, public finance, and budgetary policy as well as materials on development and globalization.
The American Economic Association's electronic database and the foremost source of references to economic literature. The online heir to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), EconLit is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research.
Policy Commons This link opens in a new window
NU is now a member of Policy Commons! Use this resource to access reports and other materials from IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, government agencies, and academic research centers.
PolicyFile This link opens in a new window
Use PolicyFile to locate reports from over 350 public policy think tanks, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
Web of Science, Core Collection 1975-present This link opens in a new window
Use for citation tracking, finding seminal literature, data visualizations, author alerts, institutional affiliations, and impact factors. Links to full text.
Includes:
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Science Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index
Book Citation Index (2005-present)
Conference Citation Index
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Current Chemical Reactions Index
Index Chemicus
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database useful for searching a broad range of policy issues. Many full-text articles are available; click the PDF or the check for full-text link to locate them!
GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database useful for searching a broad range of policy issues. Many full-text articles are available; click the PDF or the check for full-text link to locate them!
A free version of this resource is also available.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR archives full-text scholarly articles across the disciplines: social sciences, the humanities, and sciences and technology. The collection now includes books and book chapters.
Most journals include extended historic backfiles and not current issues. Arts and Sciences collections 1 thru XV are available, plus the Life Sciences collection, and Business III.

The Northeastern Library also purchases individual e-book titles from JSTOR. The books are available chapter-by-chapter as PDFs.

Arts and Sciences IV content is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition (2015) This link opens in a new window
The Encyclopedia is often a good starting point for research on comparative politics and political philosophy and theory.
Social Sciences Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and professional citations and abstracts with full text links in politics and public policy, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, information sciences and education. Professional society databases included.
Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, Social Sciences Premium includes

Sociology Database
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
PAIS Index
Political Science Database
PolicyFile
Criminal Justice Database
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Library Science Database
Library & Information Science Abstracts
Education Database
ERIC
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics Database
Social Science Database
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

SIGN UP!! Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and New York Times

New York Times - Current and archival access to the New York Times. Access requires registration with a Northeastern email address. Once registered, users can log in directly at https://www.nytimes.com.

Wall Street Journal - Individuals must register with a Northeastern or @nchlondon.ac.uk email address to create an individual account. After completing the registration form, you will receive an email prompt to confirm the registration. Once you've provided confirmation and signed into the Journal, your account will be active.

Financial Times - Individuals must register with a Northeastern or @nchlondon.ac.uk email address to create a personal account.