Welcome to the Library! This Faculty Library Guide provides comprehensive information for faculty about the Library's resources and services.
If you have any questions, please contact the Library at library@ncu.edu.
Use the menu on the left to navigate through this guide.
Start with the Library Website Quick Tutorial or view the Library Orientation Workshop.
Start with the SME Library Orientation Quick Tutorial.
Head to the Request a Purchase page to read about library collection development policies and submit your request.
View the Searching 101 and Searching 102 workshops to learn about how to effectively conduct research in the Library.
See the Student Library Support page to learn about our self-directed learning resources, workshops, and live support services.
Use Find a Resource to search for a particular journal you would like to read. If available, setup alerts to get notified of new content.
The Library Guides, also called LibGuides, are a collection of subject-specific guides and instructional how-to guides. From the main page, you view the guides grouped by a broad subject area or filter by group, type, or librarian. Note that each degree specialization has its own Library Guide filled with related selected databases, journals, books, dissertations, and more. These subject guides are a great starting point for becoming familiar with resources in that discipline.
If you have any questions, or would like to suggest a resource for inclusion within a particular library guide, you may locate the librarian's contact information on the lower left-hand column within that guide. You may also contact the Library at library@ncu.edu.
The Library provides high-quality resources to support both the university curriculum and lifelong learning. The collection includes thousands of peer-reviewed journals, as well as newspapers, magazines, videos, e-books, dissertations, and more. The free Interlibrary Loan service allows users to request and electronically receive articles, book chapters, reports, or other resources when not available in full-text. Alumni have continued access to a growing collection of journals and databases following graduation. See the Alumni Guide for details.
To access all Library resources, go to the A-Z Databases link on the homepage. For quick access to the most frequently used resources, see the box below.
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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: The most comprehensive video database covering more than 67,000 titles on anthropology, business, counseling, film health, history, music, and more.
Purpose: Curated for the educational experience of all types of library patrons.
This link opens in a new windowContent: 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.
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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.
This link opens in a new windowContent: 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.
Content: National University & NCU student dissertations and literature reviews.
Purpose: Use for foundational research, to locate test instruments and data, and more.
Special Features: Search by advisor (chair), degree, degree level, or department. Includes a read-aloud feature.
Content: Global student dissertations and literature reviews.
Purpose: Use for foundational research, to locate test instruments and data, and more.
Special Features: Search by advisor (chair), degree, degree level, or department. Includes a read-aloud feature
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This link opens in a new windowContent: Books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos on research methods and design.
Purpose: Use to learn more about qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research.
Special Features: Includes a methods map, project planner, and "which stats" test
Content: Citation management tool.
Purpose: Use to record your sources and automate the creation of your bibliography in APA format.
Special Features: Can function as cloud storage for your research.
