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Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Over one hundred journals have PDF backfiles to 1975 or later, and searchable references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society provides the worldwide scientific community with a comprehensive collection of the most-cited, peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences.
Nazarbayev University has access to all journals and journal archives.
Nineteen of the most cited, peer-reviewed journal publications in physics. AIP is made up of several member societies: American Physical Society, American Astronomical Society, Acoustical Society of America, American Association of Physics Teachers and others. We have subscriptions to current and archive issues of AIP journals.
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Keep up with the highlights of physics research with journal articles with viewpoints, focus points, and synopsis that don't rely on jargon and technical detail. Search for articles and sign up for weekly alerts.
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Find journals and conference proceedings on engineering subjects.
AnthroSource is an online portal connecting more than 35 journals published by the American Anthropological Association.
ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, is an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services.
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Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content. Students and faculty in medical, nursing, and related programs will appreciate the careful attention to clinical accuracy, as well as the range of patient types profiled in the series.
Human Visualization Platform. This interactive, medically accurate virtual body enables users to learn about anatomy, health conditions, and treatments in visual format that resembles life itself.
Please, create a free account to access.
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people, and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news, and insight around the world.
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BMJ Best Practice quickly and accurately provides you with the latest evidence-based information whenever and wherever you need it.
Step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention is updated daily using robust evidence-based methodology and expert opinion.
BMJ Learning offers high-quality continuing medical education for doctors and other healthcare professionals. It features hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed learning modules in text, video, and audio formats.
When you sign in to BMJ Learning, you'll see your own personal homepage, which displays modules tailored to you based on your profession, speciality and location. This makes choosing the right modules for your CME/CPD quicker and easier.
This collection includes resources on European history, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and philosophy along with an Asian studies collection. Besides English, there are books in German, French and Arabic languages.
Business Source Complete provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
Searchable cited references date back to 1998 and include full-text coverage in all business disciplines, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics.
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More than 1,000 eBooks from Cambridge University Press. Subject areas include: English language learning and teaching, History, Sociology, Medicine, Physics, Math, and many more.
Cambridge Histories Online contains over 300 volumes, covering 15 academic subjects: American History, Regional History, British History, General History, Economic History, Religious Studies, Literary Studies, Political and Social Theory, Language and Linguistics, Music, Theatre Studies and Performing Arts, History of the Book, Philosophy, History of Science, and Warfare.
The database allows users to export citations and create bibliographic reference pages.
Cambridge Journals publishes over 380 peer-reviewed periodicals from a broad sweep of subject areas. As well as those journals owned by the Press itself, Cambridge Journals publish on behalf of over 100 learned and professional societies.
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), is the world's repository of experimentally determined organic and metal-organic crystal structures, and related applications software including GOLD and Relibase+. CSD also comprises software for database access, structure visualization and data analysis, and structural knowledge bases derived from the CSD.
Campus is a place where you can learn, share and connect with colleagues at universities and colleges all over the world. It contains resources for academics and university staff on the following topics: academic teaching and learning, the internationalisation of higher education, progressing towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), improving equity, diversity and inclusion, research management, and supporting early career researchers.
This resource is included in Times Higher Education.
Database includes web-based training materials for researchers, used by government agencies and commercial organisations in the U.S. and around the world. It might be of interest not only for researchers but for project coordinators and for administrator offices as well.
There are following courses available:
To use this resource you need to create an account. Just go to the webpage, type Nazarbayev University in the field "Select Your Organization Affiliation" and use NU.EDU.KZ e-mail address for registration.
ClinicalKey is a clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions by making finding and applying relevant knowledge easier.
ClinicalKey provides physicians with the evidence-based information they need to stay current and make informed decisions. ClinicalKey is for:
ClinicalKey Student is an interactive education platform that supports students and faculty by enhancing the learning experience with tools tailored to develop and assess the medical knowledge of aspiring professionals.
Users are required to create a personal profile to access any content on the site. A personal profile also enables users to use Bookshelf (with highlighting, note-making, and bookmarking functionality), share notes/highlighting, and export notes to OneNote.
A free mobile app is available through iOS and Android app stores, search “ClinicalKey Student Bookshelf”.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups. Cochrane Library Training
Cochrane Clinical Answers are the focused entry points to rigorous research from Cochrane systematic reviews. Each Cochrane Clinical Answer contains a clinical question, a short answer, and an opportunity to ‘drill down’ to the evidence from relevant Cochrane reviews. Visit Cochrane Clinical Answer
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
It incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. It offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles. This database includes full text for over 450 journals.
Compustat, through WRDS, provides preliminary and final data for annual, quarterly, and year-to-date periods for 100 of the largest global companies. The database also contains point-in-time information using data values available at that time in history.
To use Compustat, please go to the WRDS portal, select the Register tab, or click the “Register for a WRDS Account" link.
More than 200 titles in Engineering and BioScience with access anytime including on your mobile.
A collection of 600 reference titles (dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, handbooks, manuals, biographies, quotations, fact finders) from world-known publishers in all major subject areas.
Use Credo Reference to aid in researching essential subjects and topics of interest while continuing to expand on critical background knowledge with trusted reference content.
The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta-based and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, mutual funds, and real estate data.
This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East European and Central European countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
This multidisciplinary database has over 230000 full-text eBooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, guides, handbooks and textbooks.
To download the eBook or its parts, Adobe Digital Edition or any other software suitable for the device is required (note: some titles are read online only). Create an account to access a personalized bookshelf where you can organize books that you read frequently, highlight text, and take notes.
A collection of multidisciplinary ebooks from a number of academic publishers. Can be searched simultaneously with other EBSCOhost databases.
EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit adheres to the high quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886.
It provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and much more. EconLit uses the JEL classification system and controlled vocabulary of keywords to index six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature. These sources bring the total records available in the database to more than 1.2 million.
The Economist is an English-language weekly newspaper. A source of insight, analysis and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance and science and technology.
Please register your account using the NU domain email (@nu.edu.kz) to have full access to:
The collection of perpetually owned eBooks includes monographs, handbooks, 1 encyclopedia, 2 commentaries, and 2 research reviews.
The subjects covered are extensive, with significant holdings in Politics and Public Policy, Sociology and Social Policy, Economics and Finance, Law - Academic, and Business and Management. Other key areas include Development Studies, Geography, Environment, Urban and Regional Studies, and Innovation and Technology.
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Nazarbayev University Library has perpetual access to 1995-2004 content of several collections of journals from ScienceDirect:
NU has limited access to the following collections:
Select “Only content I have access to” option to refine the results.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, it is an essential tool for education researchers of all kinds.
An international daily newspaper that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Financial Times delivers unbiased expert industry analysis and data-driven market intelligence that organisations trust to help them make more informed business and policy decisions, strengthen client relations, avoid risk and identify new opportunities. Financial Times supports various disciplines, from economics and management to accounting and international relations. FT.com is an essential source of breaking news, comment, data, analysis, and research tools.
If this is your first time reading FT, you must first activate your account by registering for the website with the NU domain (@nu.edu.kz).
To access the full text of the articles, you have to log in to the FT site. Also available in the mobile app.
Access to 1853 ebooks covering nearly every research area and discipline.
GeoScienceWorld is a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the earth sciences. GeoScienceWorld is built on a core database of peer-reviewed journals and is integrated with the GeoRef index.
Founding organizations include: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, American Geosciences Institute, Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London, Mineralogical Society of America, Society for Sedimentary Geology, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on:
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. The nursing edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, with over 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets. Searchable together with other EbscoHost databases. For medical and pre-med students.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library is the name of the platform where you have unlimited, full-text access to more than three million documents of all resources below:
The IET Digital Library showcases the science, engineering, and technology-focused content produced by one of the world’s largest engineering institutions. It holds technical documents, including 120 eBooks, open access conference publications, and journal articles. The Journal of Engineering, the IET's broad-based open access research journal and it contains a range of inter-disciplinary, peer-reviewed articles that are free to view.
IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content. IOPscience platform contains peer-reviewed journals in the physical sciences and eBooks published by IOP (Institute of Physics) Publishing.
The JAMA Network brings together twelve JAMA journals to offer enhanced access to the research, reviews, and perspectives shaping the future of medicine. Through a variety of innovative tools, The JAMA Network provides the insights that matter most to medical research and practice. We have access to both current and archive content for 11 journals in the network. Check out the new JAMA Cardiology journal!
Established in 1997, JSTOR is the largest provider of archived academic information. JSTOR provides a breadth of coverage across 50 disciplines, but what is even more important and rare is that it tries to have complete runs of journals, preserving journal pages exactly the way they looked when they were published. NU subscription includes ten collections with 1,358 titles and over 35,330,000 scanned pages in PDF format in the following collections: JStor Archive Collection Arts&Sciences Life sciences (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX)
Knovel is an online resource that combines technical references, and interactive tools, reference books, research papers, articles, handbooks, and manuals. It helps you apply knowledge to provide sustainable solutions and prepare professionals and students for new engineering challenges.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is a free research database for library and information science studies.
LISTA provides indexing and abstracting for hundreds of key journals, books, research reports.
Loeb Classical Library makes Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers. Harvard University Press presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians the entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate and share content with ease.
Available via LWWHealthLibrary.com, this package covers the six core clerkship rotations: Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Surgery. It includes 30+ textbooks, 150+ cases, 4,700+ Q&A, and regularly updated editions. Features include advanced search, multiple content views, downloadable images, and mobile optimization. Users can personalize access with a MyHealthLibrary account and explore essential resources like the Step Up To and Blueprints series.
MasterFILE Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. Searchable together with other EbscoHost databases. For general use.
Citation and reference list of mathematical articles. Some articles contain synopses not full text.
The largest companion to the MEDLINE index, this full-text database provides access to top-tier biomedical and health journals. Covering a wide range of subjects, it is an essential resource for doctors, nurses, health professionals and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
Nature publishes high-impact journals across physical, chemical, applied sciences, and clinical medicine. Additional resources include job boards, conference listings, blogs, podcasts, and mobile apps for academic support. NU's subscription includes key journals like Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, Nature Energy, Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Cancer, and Scientific American, among others.
O'Reilly for Higher Education (Safari Books Online) is a fully searchable e-reference library housing a collection of technical eBooks that cover the technologies most essential to users, including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Users are able to search hundreds of books simultaneously online.
OnePetro is an online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry. With contributions from 20 publishing partners and providing access to over 180,000 items, OnePetro is the definitive resource on upstream oil and gas.
You can access a large collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content via OSA's digital library, Optics InfoBase. This cutting-edge repository includes all of OSA's content and complements it with key co-publications. With more than 185,000 articles, OSA's content covers a breadth of disciplines, many of which are available free of charge in full text.
This medical research platform aggregates the following resources:
Multidisciplinary collection of journals. NU has access to the following collections: biology, linguistics, mathematics, physics, political science, and social work. Other collections are not included.
Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly-expanding research library, and has grown to be one of the leading academic research resources in the world. Oxford Scholarship Online offers full-text access to scholarly works from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law, providing quick and easy access to award-winning Oxford University Press scholarship.
The world's most comprehensive policy database, with over 14 million reports from 40,000 think tanks, agencies, governments, and cities—and tools to supercharge your research.
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.
The platform for one search through databases containing scholarly journals, eBooks, dissertations and theses, conference papers, videos, audio, reports and newspapers.
The resource contains ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global with 2.7 million searchable citations and 1.2 million full text dissertations available for download in PDF format.
Regional Business News has over 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps and flags. It covers more than 80 regional business publications in all major metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles from more than 4000 peer-reviewed Elsevier journals and more than 35,000 eBooks in a range of subjects, including engineering, sciences, technology, medicine, and social sciences.
To access the resource register with your NU email.
Elsevier’s SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 4,600 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide. A ready-to-use solution with unparalleled power and flexibility, SciVal enables you to navigate the world of research and devise an optimal plan to drive and analyze your performance. SciVal allows you to view and compare any desired research entities such as institutions, countries, self-defined research topics and researcher groups.
Journals, books, abstracts promoting the science of geophysics and the professional development of geoscientists by disseminating information about geophysical research and its applications.
SocINDEX is a sociology research database with over two million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. SocINDEX has full text articles from more than 860 journals, as well as full text for more than 830 eBooks and over 16,800 conference papers.
Books from Springer are an unparalleled resource for scientific research. The Springer eBook collection delivers complete access to the largest single-publisher collection of scientific, technical and medical publications (STM) available today.
NU Library provides access to more than 1500 titles. Disable the limiter "Include Preview-Only content" to find subscribed and open access books.
After years of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press, the Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) provides access to primary source materials from Stalin's personal papers and insightful monographs on communism. In addition, it seeks to advance research and teaching through new ways for scholars and students to interact with this content and collaborate.
The SDA collections include RGASPI documents from Stalin's personal papers, which will eventually number over 400,000 pages. Highlights include foreign policy with Germany before World War II, communications during the Great Purges, relations with Western intellectuals and leaders, and private notations on many Soviet leaders. The Annals of Communism series contains 25 volumes of scholarly commentary, annotation, and interpretation of documents from state and party archives selected by teams of Western and Russian editors. These volumes span the history of Soviet and international communism.
The vast collection of eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities and social science, which are led by a global network of editors and authors.
Taylor and Francis Group’s journals encompass over 1,800 titles and as one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology.
Please register using your Nazarbayev University domain @nu.edu.kz email address and enjoy immediate access.
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. 22 specialties are covered, with over 10,500 topic reviews, each of which answers multiple clinical questions.
You have to update your registration every 90 days from the link in this description and login on UpToDate website. After that you may use your account remotely without visiting the libray website for 90 days.
Wiley online library is an extensive multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It offers integrated access to more than 4 million articles from 1,500 journals, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols, encyclopedias, databases and handbooks.
Wiley Researcher Academy can help you navigate the publishing process and increase your chances of publishing successfully. The academy has 14 courses covering various topics, such as:
These self-paced online courses are written and presented by a global network of journal editors and industry experts from Wiley’s scientific publishing portfolio.
See the steps below for instructions on how to register:
A single integrated, continually expanding system that covers the breadth and depth of technical computing.
The IAU WHED Portal is the International Association of Universities' unique online reference tool that provides comprehensive and detailed information on Higher Education Systems and Credentials (in 186 countries) and Institutions (more than 18,400) around the world. Regular updates include data received from higher education authorities and IAU Members.
Please contact library@nu.edu.kz to get the login and password for the resource.
WHARTON RESEARCH DATA SERVICES is a comprehensive Internet-based data management system that allows researchers to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources. This hosted data service has become the focus for quantitative data research and is recognized by the academic and financial research community around the world as the leading business intelligence tool.
Select the Register tab or link “Register for a WRDS Account.”