A-Z Database List

Content: One central search that contains all of NU's subscribed EBSCO databases.

Purpose: Search for articles from multiple disciplines with this collection of databases from EBSCO. 

Content: Business research database covering economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.

Purpose: This is a key database for business and leadership students.

Special Features: Country and market reports, SWOT analysis functionality, browsable by topic pathway.

Content: Scholarly journals, academic content, periodicals and videos covering a broad range of academic disciplines.

Purpose: A good starting point for research with coverage across many disciplines and fields.

Special Features: Text-to-speech listening feature. Tool to help discover citing articles.

Content: The Association of Computing Machinery database is a research, discovery and network platform. The database provides journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.

Purpose: An essential database computing and technology research topics.

Special Features: Provides a list of authors after an initial topic search, includes a dataset search filter, and the ability to sort results by most cited.

Content: Contains bibliographic records for relevant articles from hundreds of journals.

Purpose: Designed for physicians, therapists, medical researchers, and clinicians looking to learn more about alternative treatments.

Content: An alternative and complementary medicine journals database. Some focused searches may result in more magazine articles than peer-reviewed journal articles. 

Purpose: An alternative medicine database for nursing and health students.

Special Features: Includes a browsable index of subject terms, and text-to-speech feature for some articles.

Content: American Chemical Society journals, eBooks, scientific programs, and the news magazine Chemical & Engineering News.

Purpose: Provides access to peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences.

Content: Literature review database covering psychology, sociology, anthropology, environment and resources, law and social science, political science, and public health.  

Purpose: Provides articles that synthesize primary research and discuss the topic in historical context. Discover seminal works and literature gaps. 

Special Features: Multimedia and supplemental materials.

Content: APA database that offers full-text for journals published by APA, the Canadian Psychological Association, Hogrefe Publishing Group and APA's Educational Publishing Foundation. View the APA PsycArticles Journal History for a complete coverage list.

Purpose: Important database for psychology, counseling, and education students.

Special Features: The database is updated bi-weekly all content is available in PDF and HTML formats.

Content: APA compiled conference proceedings, newsletters, reports, patient-oriented factsheets and brochures, magazines, monographs, standards and guidelines, and more.

Purpose: Allows students to go beyond traditional peer-reviewed content and view original, high-quality research and materials from prominent professional sources.

Content: Journal article database from the American Psychological Association that indexes over 2,500 journals along with book chapters and dissertations.

Purpose: Provides a single source of vetted, authoritative research for users across the behavioral and social sciences.

Special Features: citations in APA Style®, updated bi-weekly, spans 600 years of content

Content: Psychological tests and measures designed for use with social and behavioral science research

Purpose: Allows students and researchers to find and download instruments for research and/or teaching. Focused primarily on unpublished tests, this database was designed to save researchers time from having to reproduce tests when conducting research on previously measured constructs.

Special Features: Records include summary of the construct, and users can find information on reliability, validity, and factor analysis when that data is reported in the source document.

Content: Database of open access, peer-reviewed journals specializing in biomedicine and life sciences.

Purpose: Database for science and medical students.

Special Features: Easily browse by journal, however, there is no advanced searching functionality.

Content: Search Business Source Complete, Regional Business News, and Newswires for information covering topics including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, management information systems, and more.

Purpose: This is a key database for business, accounting, and economics students.

Special Features: SWOT analysis functionality, market research reports, country reports, industry profiles, and more.

Content: Business research database covering topics including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, management information systems, and more.

Purpose: This is a key database for business, accounting, and economics students.

Special Features: SWOT analysis functionality, market research reports, country reports, industry profiles, and more.

Content: EBSCO’s nursing database covering biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.

Purpose: Database for research in nursing, medicine, and consumer health.

Special Features: Strong qualitative studies. Filter studies by nurse as author, evidence-based practice, and type of study. Includes MESH indexing, PICO search functionality, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a tool for discovering citing articles.

Content: Database of intervention focused systematic reviews.

Purpose: Learn the effectiveness of interventions proven through evidence-based research.

Special Features: Includes MESH and PICO search functionality.

Content: Free research and reference content about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Purpose: Information for healthcare professionals and researchers.

Content: Repository of scholarly, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Purpose: A single point of reference for finding high-quality open-access journals.

Content: A small collection of electronic journals.

Purpose: Provides access to important journals not found in other library databases.

Special Features: This database is not recommended for keyword searches. 

Content: An education database covering curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. 

Purpose: A specialized database for academic, scholarly, and peer-reviewed resources in the field of education.

Special Features: Includes a tool to discover citing articles, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a thesaurus feature to assist you in the discovery process.

Contents: Journals in management, library and information services, engineering, applied science and technology. 

Purpose: Find peer-reviewed journals in selected disciplines.

Special Features: View National University's holdings by selecting “My Products” from the menu bar.

Content: Bibliographic coverage of the international literature for research in civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, transportation engineering, forensic engineering, engineering services, education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, mathematics/computation, design, construction, and latest technological developments.

Purpose: Provides comprehensive, authoritative coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. 

Content: Government (Department of Education) database focusing on education research and information.

Purpose: Excellent database to use for all topics in education. 

Special Features: After an initial search, filter by audience, grade level, survey used, and main topic. Includes a thesaurus to aid in the discovery process.

Content: Bilingual (English and Spanish) full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

Purpose: Provides researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.

Special Features: Contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

Content: Includes full text for over 500 education journals.

Purpose: Provides access to lesson plans, students tools, curriculum standards and links to sites valuable for teachers.

Content: A new EBSCO interface for primary school children.

Purpose: Includes with Core Curriculum standards for teachers. 

Content: A new EBSCO interface for secondary school children.

Purpose: Includes Core Curriculum standards for teachers. 

Content: Multidisciplinary content in a number of different formats, from academic articles to magazines

Purpose: Provides users with a broad range of content about diverse topics in different source types

Special Features: Includes a visualization tool and browse-by-topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, the ability to highlight and add notes to text, and a read-aloud feature.

Content: Comprehensive consumer health resource providing authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

Purpose: Provides background reading on health issues. Check the "Refereed publications" box to find peer-reviewed, scholarly articles. 

Special Features: A broad collection of premier full-text reference works, Spanish editions of notable content and a Spanish-language search filter, streaming video, audio, and images

Content: Includes access to Gale Literature Resource Center (literary commentary), Gale Literature Criticism (biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers), and Gale Literature: Something About the Author (lives/works of children and young adult authors and illustrators).

Purpose: This interface brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.

Special Features: Browse by topic, search for an author, search for a specific work, see your search history, and much more!

Content: Journals, books and magazines covering preschool to college levels and bilingual education studies, health, technology and testing. 

Purpose: A great resource for any educator—from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level.

Special Features: Includes a visualization tool and browse by topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, the ability to highlight and add notes to text, and a read-aloud feature.

Content: EBSCO database of environmental studies, covering all aspects of human impact on the environment, including agriculture, education, law, health, and technology. 

Purpose: Informs users about environmental topics with sources that range from popular, to governmental, to scholarly

Special Features:  Includes a text-to-speech listening feature for some articles, as well as a tool for discovering citing articles, and a browsable index of subject terms

Content: Includes consumer health information and provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and health pamphlets

Purpose: Aimed at the consumer or patient, this database covers a wide variety of subjects, including information on specific diseases as well as overall health topics.

Special Features: Includes Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary

Content: EBSCO database of nursing and allied health journals with  nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Purpose: Informs users about topics such as pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law, and more.

Content: Traditional legal materials (reported cases, statutes, government regulations, academic law reviews, commercially produced law journals and magazines, and classic treatises), historical, governmental, and political documents, legislative debates, legislative and executive branch reports, world constitutions, international treaties, and reports and other documents of international organizations.

Purpose: Informs users about a broad range of legal and governmental topics.

Special Features: Users can narrow by topic and subject and may also search particular databases.

Content: Full-text peer-reviewed journals, transactions, magazines, conference proceedings, and published standards in the areas of electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

Purpose: Users may learn about technology industry information

Special Features: Users may search datasets

Content: Contains resources for research on national security. Topics include regional conflicts, civil liberties, criminal justice, disaster & recovery, public health threats, cyber security, risk management, bio-terrorism, and more.

Purpose: Provides users with information and resources relevant to many topics pertaining to international security and terrorism

Special Features: Includes a tool for discovering citing articles, a browsable index of subject terms, and text-to-speech feature for some articles.

Content: Current and past issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Purpose: Allows access to research from the AMA.

Content: Ovid Nursing Full Text PLUS contains 43 premier nursing journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and the nursing subset of MedLine. The database also contains indexes and abstracts to other nursing journals on OVID, and the "Find it!" link is provided for full-text content.

Purpose: Provides access to scholarly journals covering clinical and theoretical content. 

Special Features: Also includes access to a multimedia library.

Content: JSTOR is a digital library of journals, academic ebooks, images, and primary sources. National University subscribes to these JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collections: I - IX. 

Purpose: JSTOR is an archive of core research journals containing the full text of scholarly journals. Some of the journal issues go back to the 19th century, but there is a gap of typically 1 to 5 years between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. To locate recent issues of a journal, use the Library Catalog or Online Journal List. 

Special Features: Create an account to sign up to try JSTOR’s interactive research tool in beta. 

Content: Open-access articles and book chapters covering arts, humanities, business, education, government, health, medicine, and psychology.

Purpose: Provides users with open-access content ranging from peer-reviewed literature to books.

Special Features: Features JSTOR Daily, which combines news trends with scholarly literature and includes links to open-access works.

Content: Ebooks, journals, and conference proceedings related to education and instruction.

Purpose: Informs users of trends and theories regarding education and instruction.

Special Features: Users may explore topics or search for particular formats.

Content: LISTA provides indexing and abstracting for hundreds of key journals, books, and research reports in the fields of library and information studies.

Purpose: Provides searchable cited references to 239 journals.

Content: Contains full text for popular high school magazines covering various subject areas, including history, science, careers, and more. The database also contains non-fiction and reference books from top educational publishers and university presses.

Purpose: Provides students with access to full-text magazines and high-quality eBook collections.

Special Features: Also includes thousands of full-text primary source documents and videos from the Associated Press.

Content: Reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information for mathematical sciences literature.

Purpose: Indexes and tracks over 550 journals so researchers can easily find literature in the mathematical sciences fields.

Special Features: Search by Mathematics Subject Classification, author, title, or topic.

Content: Biomedical and health journals. Provides MESH subject headings and offers the full text of many popular MEDLINE-indexed journals that are not available in other databases.

Purpose: Informs users about health and medicine topics

Special Features: Includes text-to-speech function for some articles

Content: Full-text database providing popular middle school magazines, reference e-books, and thousands of primary source documents and videos.

Purpose: Covers subjects such as history, current events, science, and sports.

Special Features: Also includes The Encyclopedia of Animals and reference e-books from top educational publishers. 

Content: Scholarly journals, e-books, videos and more. 

Purpose: A key multidisciplinary database for most topics. It is one of the library’s main search engines and the most comprehensive single search. 

Note: Certain library databases and publisher content are not searchable in NavigatorSearch, and individual databases may need to be searched to retrieve information due to unique content. NavigatorSearch can be found at https://resources.nu.edu.

Content: From the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), this database contains thousands of e-books, chapters, tables and graphs, papers, articles, summaries, indicators, databases, and now also Podcasts - discoverable by theme, country or content type.

Purpose: Helps academics and students of all levels access the latest research and data to support their work and keep up to date with the latest developments in their field.

Special Features: All book and journal content is available to all users to read online by clicking the READ icon or the WEB icon. Time saving features such as easy linking and a citation tool are also available for all users.

Content:  EBSCO database of journals and magazines covering education, social sciences, and technology.

Purpose: Users may engage with journals and magazines to learn more about a wide range of topics.

Special Features: Features include a thesaurus for discovery and read-aloud functionality.

Content: Medical database covering nursing, allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine.

Purpose: Provides information about all topics relevant to nursing and nursing education

Special Features: Advanced search functions including MESH capability.

Content: Full text for the most popular children's magazines, e-books, and easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids.

Purpose: Educational content especially for elementary teachers.

Special Features: Additional content in Primary Search includes reference e-books from top children's publishers.

Content: Comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin.

Purpose: Interdisciplinary database for social science and humanities.

Special Features: Features Spanish, Portuguese, and English language content. Research assistant on the full text page with key takeaways.

Content: Full-text database of over 100 scholarly journals covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Purpose: Database for humanities and social science students.

Content: Collection of more than 30 Proquest subject-specific databases covering Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.

Purpose: Students can view a massive amount of peer-reviewed research across multiple disciplines.

Special Features: Includes a Thesaurus feature that assists in using the database’s controlled vocabulary, as well as read-aloud feature. AI research assistant on the full text page with key takeaways.

Content: Scholarly journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations, and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. 

Purpose: Use for comprehensive research coverage of COVID-19, as well as past pandemics and epidemic such as MERS and SARS

Special Features: Includes a read-aloud feature

Content: Includes full-text scholarly journals and dissertations supporting research on the theory and practice of education. It also covers literature and research on special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Purpose: Provides access to a large range of full-text journals and dissertations supporting research on the theory and practice of education..

Special Features: Includes a read-aloud feature.

Content: A comprehensive medical information resource providing full-text journal content, reference ebooks, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.

Purpose: Provides content for learning and researching biomedical science and related subject areas.

Special Features: Includes instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice. AI research assistant on the full text page with key takeaways.

Content: ProQuest One Academic combines all four of ProQuest’s multidisciplinary products on the ProQuest platform (ProQuest Central, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Academic Complete, and Academic Video Online).

Purpose: Search all of ProQuest's products at one time to discover journal articles, ebooks, dissertations, videos, and more.

Special Features: Books and articles have an AI research assistant on the full-text pages with key takeaways. Dissertations have AI-generated foundational research results about the topic on the full-text page.

Content: Scholarly journal articles, magazine articles, trade publications, and other sources covering virtually every academic discipline .

Purpose: A key multidisciplinary database for most topics. 

Special Features: Includes a read-aloud feature. AI research assistant on the full-text page with key takeaways.

Content: Includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. 

Purpose: Provides comprehensive coverage of research in the fields of science and technology.

Special Features: For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovering relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.  AI research assistant on the full-text page with key takeaways.

Content: Provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.

Purpose: Full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers, and students.

Special Features: Includes many journals indexed in APA PsycInfo.

Content: Journal articles, reports, and other worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of traumatic events.

Purpose: Find information and public policy around the assessment, prevention, and treatment of traumatized populations

Special Features: Includes a read-aloud feature, PTSD and trauma focused thesaurus, listing of tests and measures. 

Content: Includes citations to millions of biomedical journal articles, as well as some books, book chapters, and reports. 

Purpose: An essential database for biomedical and health topics 

Special Features: Includes MeSH search functionality

Content: A service from Springer that allows researchers to post preprints of their manuscripts during article submission for 530 Springer Nature journals.

Purpose: Allows students to view articles prior to official publication.

Special Features: Pre-publication access

Content: Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles only, in health science, biomedical science, engineering, social science, and the humanities. 

Purpose: Use for scholarly research in most fields. 

Special Features: Includes discipline hubs for browsing and citation search.

Content: Elsevier’s science database covering computer science, health science, and social sciences. Contains peer-reviewed and open-access journal articles and book chapters.

Purpose: A great resource that covers foundational science to new and novel research.

Special Features: Covers theoretical and practical aspects of physical, life, health, and social sciences.

Content: Sociology research database with open access and peer-review, non-open access journal articles dating back to 1895.

Purpose: Great for comprehensive research in sociology.

Special Features: SocINDEX with Full Text includes 3,115 active indexed and abstracted journals. 2,994 of them are peer-reviewed. 

Content: Scholarly journals, magazines, and books focusing on health. Specific subject areas include physical fitness, exercise, coaching, athletic administration, college and university sports, facility design and management, allied health, occupational health and therapy, public health, and much more.

Purpose: Use to research health in relation to education, psychology, or other disciplines.

Special Features: Includes Open Access (OA) journals as well as traditionally published journals.

Contents: Scholarly journals and other resources covering science, technology, business, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences, 1997 to present

Purpose: Millions of scientific documents on a large variety of disciplines.

Special Features: Browse by discipline or keyword search. Filter results by article, book chapter, reference book, discipline, and sub-discipline. Coverage for most journals is from the first issue to the current issue.

Content: Scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all disciplines.

Special Features: Browse by topic or keyword search.

Content: A collection of print and online journals spans topics in the humanities and social sciences, with concentrations in sociology, musicology, history, religion, cultural and area studies, ornithology, law, and literature.

Purpose: Founded in 1893, University of California Press, Journals and Digital Publishing Division, disseminates scholarship of enduring value.

Content: Primary and analytical law sources, news, trade publications, company information, and more.

Purpose: Use to search legal cases, codes, and other information.

Content: Scholarly journals, e-books, and reference materials.

Purpose: Subject areas include Anthropology, Business, Economics, Finance, Geography, Family Studies, Law, Management, and Psychology.