Welcome to the new library homepage for students who enrolled through Northcentral University. To access the old NCU library homepage, click here. If you enrolled through National University, click here. Please be aware that the NU and NCU students have access to all of the same resources, and we will be merging library homepages by next year.
Welcome to the new library homepage! If you are looking for the old homepage, click here.
O’Reilly Safari's collection of ebooks, streaming videos, and short courses covers both computer science and engineering (including certification exam prep, system administration and security issues, programming languages, etc.) and business topics (such as project and product management, marketing, finance, and career development).
To learn how to set up your personal O’Reilly Safari account, click here.
Gale allows you to search a large collection of specialist encyclopedias and handbooks. Use Gale to find definitions, timelines, biographies and brief histories, and images.
CQ Researcher is a collection of frequently-updated reports on a wide range of current and controversial topics, written and fact-checked by professional journalists. Each entry includes substantial references, background essays, data tables and graphs, chronologies, lists of "pros and cons", and lists of related research and advocacy groups.
When you click on the link for any of our online resources, you'll be asked to log in.
Click on the blue Single Sign On button and use your usual SSO credentials (just like you would to log into SOAR).
You can find more help for logging in here.
The Library's interlibrary loan service allows you to request books (and articles) from other lenders. This service is free, but please allow time for processing and delivery. We're unable to process requests for class textbooks through interlibrary loan.
You can learn more about the interlibrary loan service, and find the request form, here..
Please note that, due to COVID-19-related campus closures, we aren't currently able to process requests for physical materials..
Books Direct is a book delivery service for the National University community. We'll ship books from our Library to other National University campuses, or to home addresses outside of San Diego, for free. Learn more about the Books Direct service, and fill in the request form, here.
Please note that, due to COVID-19-related campus closures, we aren't currently able to process requests for physical materials..
You can access O'Reilly Safari at https://nu.libguides.com/OReilly.
We've got a digital handout to show you how to set up your O’Reilly Safari account; click here to access it.
