Research Guides: Fulbright applicant library resources: Getting Started

Welcome

Our University Library is committed to providing you with access to a rich collection of materials that encourage exploration and learning.

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NUsearch is the main search tool for Northwestern University Library, combining the library catalog with a wealth of other databases and online collections.

Electronic Resources
ER provides access to our multitude of resources in electronic formats.
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The Library maintains subscriptions to hundreds of databases that cover all of the fields of study taught at Northwestern University. There are databases that provide access to E-books, audio visual resources, indexes to articles, library catalogs, reference sources and much more.

Getting started

Our online library information system serves as an interactive gateway to a variety of library resources, including NUcat; catalogs of libraries around the world; multidisciplinary and subject-specific reference & research databases;and the web pages of NU’s libraries.

Let us help you with all your research and information needs.

Connecting from off campus via VPN
Virtual Private Network establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the NU Network.
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Most of the library's online resources are available to you from off-campus. Remember to link to resources from library web pages so you'll be recognized as a member of the Northwestern community. For example, if you try to access JSTOR by going directly to www.jstor.org from off-campus, you won't be able to get in. If you link to JSTOR from the library's electronic resources, you'l be asked for your NetID and passed on through.
Set your preferences in Google Scholar
On a search result in Google Scholar you may be asked to pay for articles. Instead, click on the "Find It @ NU" button you set in your preferences to discover NU's no-charge options.
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Demo: how to set your preferences in Google Scholar.
Look for information on a topic
Start with our Virtual Reference Collection, a wide variety of electronic ready reference tools to help you locate facts, statistics, definitions and more.
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Don't know where to start? Remember that NU subscribes to several hundred journal article databases.
Use the Reference Department's guides, handouts & tutorials
Guides on How to Find... books, periodicals, reviews, criticism, monologues, dissertations, etc. Tutorials on NUcat, EndNote, using Boolean operators, etc.
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Use specialized databases to find material in research periodicals. Remember, not all databases have full text of articles they index. Use "Find it @ NU" button to find full article.

Librarian

Scott Garton

Email Me

Contact:

2 North - Core
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
s-garton@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-3825

Subjects: Anthropology, Native American Studies