Welcome DLP students in Boston and Seattle!
Welcome DLP students! Roxanne and Christine are your library partners. Please contact us as needed!
This guide focuses on interdisciplinary resources. DLP students work across many disciplines, and subject specific guides and additional subject specialists are available. We can connect you with our colleagues and a wide range of library resources and services!
- DLP Cohort XVIII PowerPoint slides introducing library services and resources for DLP research.
- DLP Seattle Student Tool KitPowerPoint slides of resources and research services for DLP
Key Resources
- Scholar OneSearchScholar OneSearch provides one-stop searching for books, articles, digital media, government publications, and more. You will be prompted to choose a location (Boston, Oakland, Global) before you enter your search.
- Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowAcademic 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!
- EconLit (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowUseful for political economy, public finance, and budgetary policy as well as materials on development and globalization.
- GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowMaterials on sustainability and its connection to health, policy, law, and the environment.
- International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition (2015) This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia is often a good starting point for research on most social science disciplines. Signed, scholarly articles provide coverage of a variety of topics from theoretical frameworks to foundational essays.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR archives full-text scholarly articles across the disciplines: social sciences, the humanities, and sciences and technology. The collection now includes books and book chapters.
- Policy Commons This link opens in a new windowNU is 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. Policy Commons is one of our primary sources of grey literature.
- Policy File (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowUse PolicyFile to locate reports from over 350 public policy think tanks, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
- PubMed (NU customized) This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive source of journal literature in the life sciences and biomedicine from the National Library of Medicine. Includes selected full text from PubMed Central, and NCBI Bookshelf. PubMed is a free web resource, however this version contains links to Northeastern-subscribed journals that require a login.
- 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.
- Social Sciences Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowScholarly 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.
- 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.
- 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 see a PDF version
Library Quick Links
- Scholar OneSearchScholar OneSearch provides simple, 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 Library Catalogs option in Scholar OneSearch.
Need more help?
Please contact Roxanne Palmatier or Christine Oka, library partners for the DLP program.