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  • A-All EBSCO Databases
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    Best Bet Good Starting Point

    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. 

  • ACLS Humanities E-Books
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    Content: An online collection of approximately 4,300 books of high quality in the humanities.

    Purpose: Good starting point for background or in-depth research in the humanities.

  • ACM Digital Library
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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.

  • APA PsycBooks®
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    Content: Ebook database from the American Psychological Association that includes the most current scholarly and professional titles published by APA, as well as historical and classic works from the behavioral and social sciences.

    Purpose: A fundamental resource for any psychology student.

  • Business Search Interface (EBSCO)
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    Best Bet New

    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.

  • Business Source Complete
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    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.

  • Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Updates and Information
    • e-Book
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    • News
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    Content: Free research and reference content about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

    Purpose: Information for healthcare professionals and researchers.

  • Credo Reference
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    • Full-Text Available

    Content: A reference database useful for accessing scholarly definitions, background and contextual information. Subjects covered include art, biography, business, economics, education, history, literature, music, psychology, religion, and science and technology.

    Purpose: An excellent starting point for brainstorming a research topic and building out your initial search terms list.

    Special Features: Mindmap; related articles; image search

  • DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
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    Content: Repository of multi-disciplinary scholarly, open access, peer-reviewed books.

    Purpose: A single point of reference for finding open access, scholarly books online.

    Special Features: Researcher FAQ

  • Ebook Central
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    Content: Ebooks with coverage across all academic disciplines. The collection offers a critical mass of more than 150,000 foundational scholarly ebooks with balanced quantity and quality to improve teaching, learning and research workflow and outcomes.

    Purpose: Provides access to multidisciplinary ebooks for download or to be read online.

    Special Features: Browse by subject option; highlight and take notes in text.