Library
New Western University has a mission to provide our students and faculty with resources to support their educational goals. ​Students and faculty have access to the entire library throughout their program of study. Library services are available to users 24/7 through the NWU’s online learning platform.​​​​​​​
Welcome to the NWU Library!
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We're here to empower students and faculty with the resources and skills you need to succeed. Whether you're diving into research, perfecting your citations, or honing your information literacy, we've got you covered.
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Reach out to us anytime – we're ready to help!​​
NWU Library
library@nwuus.org
Library Database
​​​Library and Information Resources Network (LIRN)
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The LIRN® virtual library provides students with millions of peer-reviewed and full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, podcasts, audio, and video resources to support their academic studies from Gale Cengage, ProQuest, EBSCO, CREDO Reference, eLibrary, and more, covering topics for General Education, Business, and Medical programs.
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The LIRN® Library Core Collection contains millions of articles, television and radio transcripts, photographs, video and audio clips, encyclopedias, books and reference titles included in these available databases:
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Gale Cengage/InfoTrac databases
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Academic OneFile
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Business & Company Resource Center
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Business Economics and Theory Collection
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Business Index ASAP
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Communications and Mass Media Collection
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Computer Database
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Custom Newspapers
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Expanded Academic
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General Business File
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General OneFile
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
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Health Reference Center Academic
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Literature Resource Center
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Nursing and Allied Health Collection
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center with Critical Thinking
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Psychology Collection
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Student Resources in Context
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Virtual Reference Library
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APA Writing Lab by Owl
​​The APA writing lab develop by Owl (Purdue University) provides students with an online tool for ensuring their papers, are properly formatted for APA style.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/18/
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Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII)
​The Cornell LII is a small research, engineering, and editorial group housed at the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY. Our collaborators include publishers, legal scholars, computer scientists, government agencies, and other groups and individuals that promote open access to law worldwide.
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Digital Commons Network
Provides free full-text access to over 5 million scholarly resources from over 700 academic institutions.
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​​​​​Directory of Open Access Books
Indexes and provides free access scholarly, open-access, peer-reviewed books.
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Edgar
​Learn how to quickly research a company’s operations and financial information with EDGAR search tools. Data and information compiled by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html
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ERIC
​ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
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Free Management Library
Free Management Library provides free, easy-to-access, online articles to develop yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations (whether the organization is for-profit or nonprofit).
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Google Scholar
​Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
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HathiTrust
HathiTrust provides free access to 18+ million digitized items from a variety of academic libraries around the world.
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​​Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization that aims to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge. The site provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public.