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Library Quick Links
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Scholar OneSearchScholar OneSearch provides simple, one-stop searching for books, articles, digital media, government publications, and more. To search the NU library catalogs for books, e-books, and other local resources, select the Library Catalogs option in Scholar OneSearch.
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Welcome DLP students! Roxanne and Christine are your library partners. Please contact us as needed!
Our guide focuses on interdisciplinary resources. DLP students work across many disciplines, and subject specific guides and additional subject specialists are also available. We can connect you with our colleagues!
Key Resources
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Scholar OneSearchScholar OneSearch provides simple, one-stop searching for books, articles, digital media, government publications, and more. To search the NU library catalogs for books, e-books, and other local resources, select the Library Catalogs option in Scholar OneSearch.
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Nexis UniReplaces Lexis/Nexis Academic. Extensive full-text coverage of national, regional, and international newspapers. Also provides full-text access to laws, court cases, and law review articles.
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Academic Search CompleteAcademic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database useful for searching a broad range of policy issues. Many full-text articles are available; click the PDF or the check for full-text link to locate them!
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JSTORJSTOR archives full-text scholarly articles across the disciplines: social sciences, the humanities, and sciences and technology. The collection now includes articles published in recent years.
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EconLitUseful for political economy, public finance, and budgetary policy as well as materials on development and globalization.
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GreenFILEMaterials on sustainability and its connection to health, policy, law, and the environment.
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International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral SciencesThe Encyclopedia is often a good starting point for research on comparative politics and political philosophy and theory.
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PolicyFIleUse PolicyFile to locate reports from over 350 public policy think tanks, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
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Social Sciences Premium CollectionIncludes PAIS, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Social Services Abstracts, and a number of full-text journal collections. Databases may be searched individually or as a group.
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Web of ScienceThe Web of Science provides access to citation data for high-impact journals across the disciplines.
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Key Data Resources
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iPoll (Roper Center)Database of the Roper Center at Cornell University. Provides data from national opinion polls, 1935 to present.
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SimplyAnalyticsThis mapping application enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, health, crime, and marketing data variables.
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Data Citation Index (1900 to current)The Data Citation Index provides a single point of access to research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.
Key E-Journal Collections
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Cambridge CoreSelected journals and e-books published by CUP.
IRB and DLP Research Forms
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DLP Thesis Policies and Procedures Also contains DLP forms required for IRB /HSPB
Need more help?
Please contact Roxanne Palmatier or Christine Oka, library partners for the DLP program.