LibGuides: Knowledge Management: Specialized Databases

Database Tutorial Videos

Gale Academic OneFile A series of short videos demonstrating the search features for Gale Academic OneFile database.
IEEE A collection of short tutorials, including Searching with IEEE Xplore.
IGI Global PDF to download for leaning to use the database and search functions. Quick tutorial video coming soon!
ProQuest Overview Collection of 5 short videos on using the ProQuest database - Basic Search, Advanced Search, Publications Search, Search Results & Thesaurus
Statista A series of short videos introduces you to the Statista databases and its functions.

Specialized Databases

To see all NU Library Databases, go to the A-Z Database List.

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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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.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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
To limit to full-text only, change the results from "All Results" to "My Subscribed Content".
IGI Global InfoSci Books This link opens in a new window
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Content: Books, chapters, and peer-reviewed content about a diverse range of topics.
Purpose: Users may access full text, and authoritative information about many topics.
Special Features: Users may explore topics and subjects.
IGI Global InfoSci Videos This link opens in a new window
Content: Educational videos on business, education, medical & healthcare, security & forensics, information science and technology, and other social sciences topics.
Purpose: Informs users of a range of social science topics through video lectures that are between 1-5 hours in length.
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Content: Database containing data and statistics on over 60,000 topics, including media, business, finance, politics, and much more.
Purpose: A key database for business and economics students.
Special Features: PDF/PNG downloadable content for easy insertion into papers or presentations, charts, graphs, reports, and dossiers.