Log in to your library account using your NEIU user ID and password - the same username you use with NEIUport and campus email. Then you can use your library account to:
Renew your books online
Create and save lists of materials to your e-Shelf
Request books to be put on hold or delivered to your nearest campus library
The NEIU Libraries Search box allows you to find and access books, articles, streaming media, and more through a single search box.
Please note that there are many ways to search for and find online resources such as journal articles, e-books, and streaming media. The Library Catalog is not a comprehensive search of all library resources, but it is the most effective way to explore multiple library resources from a single interface.
This guide was prepared to answer all of your questions about how to search for and access different types of materials.
When a professor asks that you find scholarly articles on a topic for a research paper, it can be confusing to know where to start, how to find them, and how to tell what counts as a scholarly article. The tutorials on this page are all about how to find scholarly, or peer-reviewed, articles in the library "databases."
Below are videos that answer the questions: What is a journal and peer-reviewed article? What are the library databases? And, how do I search in a database?
In this video, you will learn what is especially valuable about library resources, versus what you can find for free on the internet.
Length: 1:40
In this video, you will learn what a database is (vs. a website or search engine), and how to evaluate which database may be best suited for your own research.
Length: 1:23
Best bet to find academic books: Using the library website search box, filter your results by "books" as Resource Type. To find ebooks, filter by "books" as Resource Type and "available online" as Availability option.
Best bet to find peer-reviewed scholarly articles: Using the library website search box, filter your results by "articles" as Resource Type, and "peer-reviewed journals" and "available online" as Availability options.
Best bet to find a film: Using the library website search box, filter your results by "videos" as Resource Type. To find streaming video, add "available online" as an Availability option.
Best bet to find popular press articles: If it's an option, using library website search box, filter your results by "newspapers search" as Resource Type. If it's not an option, go to the Academic Search Ultimate database and filter your results by "magazines" and "newspapers" as Source Types.
Citations:
In this video, you will learn how to evaluate the difference between scholarly journals and other kinds of periodicals, and how to describe the peer-review process.
Length: 1:24
References to journal articles, books, magazines, and more in the areas of mass media, communications theory, linguistics, organizational communication, phonetics, and speech pathology dating back to 1900. A merger of Communication & Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts, Communication Source is the premier database for communication and media studies.
References to articles from over 10,000 full text journals on a wide range of academic areas. Included is a searchable collection of images plus videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
