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• America: History and Life (Current NU Only)
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• American State Papers (Current NU Only)
  Legislative and executive documents from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817.
• Blackwell (Current NU Only)
  Selected titles available, now part of Wiley Interscience.
• Cambridge Univ. Press Journals On Line (Current NU plus alumni)
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• Chronicle of Higher Education Online (Current NU only)
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• Communications and Mass Media Complete (Current NU Only)
  For research in areas related to communication and mass media. Significant full text is available. [More Info]
• Criminal Justice Abstracts (Current NU Only)
  Note: Off-campus? Access the Criminal Justice Abstracts here, (QuickBib Citation formatting is not available off-campus.)
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• EconLit (Current NU Only)
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• EIU.com (Economist Intelligence Unit, Country Info) (Current NU Only)
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  Content: Country Reports, International Business Newsletters, Country Monitor, Country Finance, Country Commerce, European Policy Analyst.
• Emerald Fulltext (Current NU Only)
  
• ERIC (Cambridge Scientific) (Current NU Only)
  Note: Off-campus? Access ERIC (Cambridge Scientific) here, (QuickBib Citation formatting not available off-campus)
  Contains citations to documents related to education. [More Info]
• ERIC (EbscoHost) (Current NU Only)
  Contains citations to documents related to education. [More Info]
• Ethnic Newswatch (Current NU Only)
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• Expanded Academic ASAP Plus (Current NU Only)
  Note: Available courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Comissioners.
  
• FMG On Demand (Current NU Only)
  Note: Windows Media Player 9 or above required.
  3 videos are currently available for streaming.
• Foreign Law Guide (Current NU Only)
  Note: Courtesy of the NU School of Law
  A brief introduction to the legal systems of 190 foreign countries and jurisdications, a list of codifications, gazettes and other sources of law. Also, it identifies any available English translations. Searchable by country, subject, or keyword.
• Genderwatch (Current NU Only)
  reprints full articles from women's studies magazines and newsletters (including some that are hard to find in print), as well as some scholarly journals. Some articles go back to the 1970's. You can browse a list of subjects or search by key words. [More Info]
• HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) (Current NU Only)
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• HeinOnline (Current NU Only)
  HeinOnline Journals provides access to online, full-text pre-1980 law reviews and journals.
• Historical Abstracts (Current NU Only)
  Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. Indexing/abstracting of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955 with links to full text where available.
• Historical Statistics of the United States (Current NU Only)
  A classic 2-volume reference work containing statistics about the United States has been updated and is now available online from Cambridge. Tables of statistics include information about population, slavery, the economy, and much more. Download in Excel or .csv. Sorting, graphs and plots available.
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• History Cooperative (Current NU plus alumni)
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• ICPSR
  (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) ICPSR is a non-profit membership-based data archive based at University of Michigan. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
• International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Current NU Only)
  
• JSTOR (Current NU Only)
  Note: Arts and Sciences IV courtesy of NU School of Law
  Collections: Arts and Sciences I and IV, Health and General Science [More Info]
• LexisNexis Academic (Current NU Only)
  Up-to-date business and legal information is the strength of the LexisNexis Academic service. It allows you to search for newspapers, periodicals, public records, and legal documents, often within 24 hours of publication, and in some cases going back 20 years. Most documents are available in full text. [More Info]
• LexisNexis Congressional (Current NU Only/not available to Law affiliates)
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• LexisNexis Statistical (Current NU Only)
  
• Mental Measurements Yearbook (Current NU Only)
  Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Allows for evaluation of test products in psychology, education, business, and leadership. This online service covers from Volume 9 to the present.
• Metapress (Current NU Only)
  Note: Selected articles from Frank Cass, Taylor & Francis and Routledge publishers
  
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (Current NU Only)
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• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (Open Access)
  Note: U.S. Department of Justice Web site
  
• Oxford University Press Journals Online (Current NU Only)
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• PAIS (Current NU Only)
  Broad coverage of the social sciences, 1972 to present. International in scope. No full-text; abstracts of books, journal articles, conference proceedings, and government publications. [More Info]
• PAIS Archive
  Indexes public affairs books, articles and documents published between 1915 and 1976. [More Info]
• PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (Current NU Only)
  PILOTS is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. Includes journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages. [More Info]
• Project MUSE (Current NU plus alumni)
  Project Muse allows searching of articles from journals in the humanities, including religion, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, women's studies, film and the arts. Coverage is generally from about 1994 to the present, depending on the journal.
• PsycArticles (Current NU Only, no walk-in use)
  Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Includes over 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations.
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Current NU Only)
  A select collection of full-text articles in psychology from chiefly peer-reviewed journals.
• PsycINFO (Current NU Only, no walk-in use)
  The American Psychological Association's flagship database of 2.4 million articles, books and other international documents in psychology going back over a century. 98% peer-reviewed! [More Info]
• Sage Journals Online (Current NU Only)
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• Social Services Abstracts (Current NU Only)
  Social work research is indexed and abstracted in this service, including the family, human services, social welfare, gerontology, support groups, poverty and homelessness and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services. Articles are from 1980 to the present. [More Info]
• Sociological Abstracts (Current NU Only)
  Note: Off-campus? Access the Sociological Abstracts here, (QuikBib citation formatting is not available off-campus)
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• Springer LINK online journals (Current NU Only)
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• Stat-USA (Current NU plus alumni)
  Note: (includes Globus & NTDB)
  Economic and international trade data, full-text.
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set 1817-1980 (Current NU Only)
  Important documents of the United States Congress including reports, journals (1817-1952), Senate executive documents, treaties (after 1978), committee reports, executive reports to congress, and more.