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Full Listing of Resources

LINKS TO DIGITAL AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE FACULTY AND GRADS

This listing is intended to be a starting place for faculty and graduate students embarking on independent research at NU. Additions and suggestions are welcome. Please send all comments/suggestions to: Feedback.

Anthropology Department Labs & field Schools

Art History Visual Media CollectionSearchable database of digital images from NU's art slide collection

ART Resource Fine art stock photo archive. Draws from museum collections and archives worldwide.

ARTstor Shared, multi-institution scholarly archive of art historical images

Art Theory & Practice’s Database of Resources

Web Gallery of Art Searchable online database of European painting images.

Asian and Middle East Studies Resources From the departmental pages of Asian and Middle East Studies.

Business Research Compiled by NU Library staff.

Circulation ServicesPolicies and services regarding NU Library circulation.

Classics Projects and Online/Research Tools Digital projects, reference and text analysis tools, from the Classics Department.

Cognitive Science Web links From the interdisciplinary Cognitive Science program at NU.

Cogprints An electronic archive for self-archiving papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience and Linguistics.

Digital Media Services Assists with digitizing and streaming media in and out of the classroom.

Du Bois Review Journal devoted to research and criticism on race in the social sciences.

Funding for Economics Research From the Economics Department website.

Web resources Economics From the Economics Department website.

Einstein Portal to electronic journals, databases, and NU Library assets. Allows simultaneous searching of multiple databases, and saving of search results.

Electronic Reserves Guidelines How to place and pick up library items on reserve.

Electronic Resources Forum Annual all-day computing training for Humanities and Social Science graduate students

Electronic Resources NU Library's basic search tool for e-journals, online catalogs, indexes, and other local and web-based resources.

EndNote bibliographical tool support Widely used bibliographical software. Licensed for NU via the Library.

English Dept Graduate resources page

Environmental Community/Conservation From NU's Program in Environmental Policy and Culture..

Gender Studies Programs Listing Links from the Gender Studies Program website

GIS software Vislab offers Geographic Information Systems software

GIS in Government Info Library-based assistance and instruction in the use of Geographic Information Systems.

Government and Geographic Info Resources GIS and government publications.

The Graduate School Research assistance site from The Graduate School.

History Research Opportunities Travel, funding and other resources from the History Department.

History Weblinks From the History Departmental pages.

How to Submit a Proposal From the WCAS Dean's Office, a guide to grant and research proposal writing.

InteLex Past Masters Primary source full-text humanities databases.

Inter-Library Loan How to borrow materials from other university libraries.

Institute on Complex Systems Transdisciplinary research center at NU.

JSTOR Archive of scholarly journals

Jewish Studies Links From the homepage of the Jewish Studies Program.

Library Briefings NU Library newsletter for faculty.

Linguistics on the Web From the Linguistics Department pages.

Linguistic Data Consortium A national clearinghouse of data, tools and standards for Linguistics scholars.

Linguistics Laboratories On-campus facilities for linguistics analysis.

Marjorie I. Mitchell Multimedia Center NU Library media tech services and circulating video collection

MATLAB For data analysis and more. Faculty and Staff licenses only.

MATLAB licenses available through WCAS.

MDID (Madison Digital Image Database) NU Visual Media Collection's digitized image database with accompanying library record data. Faculty may create slide presentations using images from this collection combined with personal images.

MultiMedia Learning Center Classroom and server-side tech support center

NUIT Northwestern's Information Technology Center.

NU Library Subject Specialists Listing and contact information for subject-area and collections bibliographers/selectors at the Library.

NU Library Digital Collections A listing of the Library's original digital-only collections.

NUcat Library Catalog system Main search page for NU Library holdings

Psychology Department resources webpage.

Reference Department Workshops at the NU Library Provides training in the use of bibliographic tools, database searches, academic career resources and more.

RePEc Online database of links to economics working papers, articles, and university-based contacts. Over 379,000 records..

Research Guides by Subject(aka Research Guides A-Z) Guide to vast resources for research in all subjects. Maintained by NU Main Library.

SSH Secure Shell File transfer software. Essential for transferring sensitive documents or materials.

Social Sciences Computing Cluster Hardware, software and data storage available for running large statistical analyses.

SSDS, Social Science Data Services via NU Library ICPSR, UCSD's Data on the Net, and other sources of data sets and social science literature.

Stata Data analysis package available through Social Science Computing Cluster. Site includes a manual on using Stata and what textbooks contain relevant data sets.

State and International Geospatial Data and Maps At the NU Library.

2East Library Trainings and Workshops Workshop series for faculty on using technology resources in teaching.

Visualization Services Lab Also known as Vislab. NUIT's Academic Technologies created it both for faculty use and to demonstrate low cost capabilities for departments with significant visualization needs.

VPN connection page Using and configuring NU's secure connection. Allows users to access NU databases and other resources from off-campus.

WCAS Research Funding Page From the Dean's Office of Research and Graduate Studies, a partial listing of the funding opportunities for faculty research projects.

WCAS Research Support Page From the Dean's Office of Research and Graduate Studies, a guide to the general support and assistance available for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Winterton collection of African Photographs Study collection of original images from Africa