Contact the subject specialist librarian, Larissa Garcia at larissagarcia@niu.edu for personalized help.
NOTE: In order to access many of the Libraries' resources, you need to be authenticated as an NIU student, faculty or staff member with your Z-ID or A-ID and password. For more information about authenticating and off-campus access, visit Authentication and Off-Campus Access Help.
Faculty may request individual films for required classroom usage. Faculty requests are premised on creating a one-time faculty profile. To create a faculty profile, please go to the vendor's site and click on "Login":
On the next page, click on "Create Instructor Account" and submit the completed form:
Please allow a forty-eight hour window for approval and activation of individual requests.
ACLS Humanities E-Book Provides full-text and full-page-image access to titles in most humanities disciplines and in area studies. The books included have been recommended by scholars as significant contributions to their respective fields. Offered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in collaboration with ten learned societies and nearly 80 contributing publishers.
Ebook Central includes more than 70,000 individual texts covering a broad array of academic disciplines. The database boasts a distinguished set of publishers including such university presses as Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, etc. The content of the database is well paired with an advanced set of tools that allows for expansive searching capabilities, and manipulation and storage of text.
eBook Collection offers access to digitized books, including all of the titles produced by the Gutenberg Project. In addition, the University Libraries offers full-text access to some 1,500 titles in business, computer science, and general reference.
ALT Text: A search with quotations around a phrase like "higher education" will include results with those two words beside each other. A search with OR between two words like principal OR administrator will include results with either term. In Google Scholar, exclude a word from a search with a hyphen before the word. For example, neurdivergent -ADHD will include results about neurodiversity but not ADHD. You can also specify that your search words are in the title or author of results by placing intitle: or author: at the front of your search. In ERIC and Education Source (EBSCO), exclude a word from a search by putting NOT before the word. Also, ending a word with an asterisk will include results with different endings of the word. For example, a search for academ* will include results like academic, academy, academies, etc.
