Search Online Databases
Danforth's collections include a variety of online databases which may be accessed onsite by anyone, or remotely by members of the NEC community. To access from off-campus you must enter your 6-digit college identification number.
Serials Solutions federated search engine. Search multiple library databases simultaneously
ARTstor Digital Library: Our newest database! ARTstor is is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
CIA World Factbook (Website) Information on countries, including statistical information, maps, flags, resources, etc.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online: Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
CQPress Includes CQ Researcher (controversial topics), CQ Global Researcher (international controversial topics), and CQ Weekly
Daily Life Through History A international social history database with books, articles, images, maps, and primary documents.
Directory of Open Access Journals: (Website) This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
EBSCOHost . Find articles in databases which include general reference collections to subject-specific databases. Need help using EBSCOhost? EBSCOhost User Manuals
EBSCOhost Literary Reference Center: A comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works
Facts on File Seven decades of domestic and international news plus World News Digest, Science Today, and Issues and Controversies databases.
Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies Issues, trends, market conditions, products, services, and vendors in the IT and communications industries. For remote access to this database please contact LibraryHelp@nec.edu.
Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context: Gale reinvents Opposing Viewpoints! The same great information on today's hottest social issues is still here, but with an updated interface that includes a web-like interface,convenient user tools such as Search Assist, interactive maps, Web 2.0 sharing, ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology, language translations and more.
Humanities E-Book Project A digital collection of over 1,700 books in the Humanities.
JSTOR Includes Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences VII, and the Life Sciences Collection. Subject areas include : economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences, and titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics biological, health, and general sciences.
JSTOR Plant Science Danforth Library has received complementary access to this database to the end of 2011. It offers access to botanical and other resources from around the world
Lexis-Nexis Academic Legal, corporate, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic, and risk and compliance assessment information.
NewsBank: Access World News: (All newspapers) The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources
NewsBank: Concord Monitor (newspaper- Concord, NH)
NewsBank: New Hampshire Union Leader (newspaper- Manchester, NH)
Oxford Reference Online Dictionaries, thesauruses, quotations, maps, timelines, an encyclopedia, and subject references.
Proquest: Includes NY Times Current (1980+) and NY Times Historical (1851+), New York Tribune (1841-1922), Wall Street Journal (1984+).
Proquest Central This is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today, with thousands of periodical titles and millions of full-text articles available. Subject areas include: The Arts, Business,Health and Medicine, History, Literature and Language, News and Newspapers.
Proquest Natural Sciences (through CSA Illumina): includes abstracts only from: EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements, Environment Abstracts, Sustainability Science Abstracts
PubMed Central (Website) A digital archive of free full-text biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) There is also the Pubmed site which has abstracts for 18,000 articles (the full-text must be ordered through interlibrary loan) and some full-text.
The Royal Society Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available.
Journal dates run from January 1665 to the present.
Sage Journals Online. Important information about searching this database. Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
(Website) is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 370 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Standard and Poor's Reference Suite Company and industry information, market news, and a learning center.
Women Working (1800-1930) (Website) Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images including: 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets, 1,200 photographs.
World Bank Data and Research: (Website) Recognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the World Bank Group now provides free, open, and easy access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe—some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English.
