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ACLS Humanities Ebooks (American Council of Learned Societies)

Subject: 
Humanities
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    Full-text, fully searchable, high-quality books in the Humanities from 19 learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office.

    Stable links to books may be inserted into Blackboard.

    Printing: up to 3 pages at a time

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL/LiOn)

Subject: 
Humanities
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
Maximum number of users at a time: 
4
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    Indexes scholarly publications on English, American and Commonwealthliterature, English literature bibliography, and English language and culture. Indexes books, articles, book reviews, essays, published and unpublished dissertations, with some full-text.  Covers 1920 to the present.

    Detailed subjects: 
    English & American Literature, Literature

Annual Reviews

Subject: 
Biomedical & Health, Science, Social Sciences
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    Definitive reviews in 37 scientific disciplines, mostly biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. Excellent for finding overviews of new topics.

BioOne

Subject: 
Biomedical & Health, Science
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    Not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Books in Print

Subject: 
Interdisciplinary
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Current NU plus alumni
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    One of the largest collections of bibliographic information about published books, even those not yet in library collections. Can be used to verify titles, publishers, and publication dates, or to find new titles.

Cambridge Histories Online

Subject: 
Humanities, Social Sciences
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    Completely searchable full text of the 247 volumes in the Cambridge Histories series. Explore American and British history, ancient history, Islamic history, economic history, the histories of philosophy, science, music, literature, religion, social histories, and much more. "My Histories" allows you to create and share a personalized library with your own bookmarks and notes.

    Stable links to PDFs of books and book chapters can be inserted into Blackboard.

    Printing: one chapter at a time

Cambridge Univ. Press Journals On Line

Subject: 
Interdisciplinary
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    High-quality academic journals published by Cambridge University in all disciplines.

Chicago Manual of Style

Subject: 
Interdisciplinary
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Current NU plus alumni
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    Provides information on manuscript preparation, punctuation, spelling, quotations, captions, tables, abbreviations, references, bibliographies, notes, and indexes, with sections on journals and electronic media.

CQ Electronic Library

Subject: 
Government & Law, Social Sciences
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    Congressional Quarterly's portal for research in US government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Includes CQ's Politics in America, as well as other almanacs, data, and news publications.

CQ Researcher

Subject: 
Social Sciences
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Current NU plus alumni
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    CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

D&B's Key Business Ratios (Dun and Bradstreet)

Maximum of 5 users at a time
Subject: 
Business & Management
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    Calculate business ratios that identify key relationships between financial data. 14 key business ratios cover all critical areas of business performance, broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles. Arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes.

Dictionary of Energy

Subject: 
Engineering, Science, Social Sciences
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    Expanded edition of the Elsevier Dictionary with over 650 topic entries and biographies.

e-Duke Scholarly Collection

Subject: 
Social Sciences, Humanities
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    Humanities and social sciences journals from Duke University Press and associated learned societies, available in full text

EdITLib

Subject: 
Social Sciences, Humanities
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    The EdITLib Digital Library is an online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

    Detailed subjects: 
    Education

Empire Online

Subject: 
Humanities, Social Sciences
Access: 
Current NU plus alumni
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    Empire Online is a collection of original primary source documents relating to Empire Studies, from libraries and archives around the world.

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