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.
Encyclopedias (& other reference works)
These sources are similar to Wikipedia, but were written and edited by scholars. They're a great place to start gathering facts about a person.
Watch this quick tutorial to learn how to search CREDO and Gale for encyclopedia entries about a person (or a theory, movement, or historical event).
Books (biographies and autobiographies)
The Library has a large collection of biographies and autobiographies. Try searching for someone's name (and any aliases or nicknames they used).
Watch this tutorial to learn how to search for ebooks in the Library's collection.
You can search for books using the SmartSearch bar below.
Articles (including interviews) from popular sources
Reading articles and interviews from newspapers and magazines can give you some first-person and historical perspectives on your topic.
SmartSearch is a good place to start looking for magazine and newspaper articles.
