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Academic
OneFile A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more
than 5000 journals, plus indexing of an additional 4000+ journals, newspapers
and wire services. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Extensive coverage
of the social sciences and other disciplines. Use this database for a broad
search to retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources. For
a less broad search of first tier sources only, use
Expanded
Academic ASAP (EXAC).- Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Academic
Search Elite - Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS)
- Access World News Access World News from NewsBank provides articles from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with the individual newspaper; some have several years of archives.
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
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Africa (AllAfrica) News and current events reported from all countries of Africa. Search by country, region, or topics.
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African American Newspapers and Periodicals A description of 4,000-6,000 titles and their locations. This web site lists microfilmed African American newspapers and periodicals available for Interlibrary borrowing.
AGELINE
Alternative
Press Index Citations to articles of 5 or more paragraphs
from approximately 300 alternative, radical, and left publications. - American Academy of Audiology (AAA)
- American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology
- American Auditory Society (AAS)
The
American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary
The
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
American
Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - American Laryngological Association (ALA)
American National
Biography Articles and portraits of about 19,000 historically
noteworthy Americans.- American Sign Language Browser
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Database (ABSEARCH Online Databases)
Annual
Review of Neuroscience -
Annual
Review of Psychology
AP
Images About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive
moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over
3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present.
Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are
archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics,
charts, and timelines.- Aphasia Hope Foundation
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APS
Online: American Periodical Series I, II & III Digitized
images of articles from over 1100 American periodicals published
between 1741 and 1900.
ArchiveGrid Searches
thousands of libraries (NU included), museums, and archives for
historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held
around the world.-
ArchivesUSA Bibliographic
records describing primary source materials in archives and manuscript
repositories from throughout the U.S. Is comprised of three major
resources: Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories
in the United States (DAMRUS); National Union Catalog of Manuscript
Collections (NUCMC); and names and detailed subject indexing
from the major microform set National Inventory of Documentary
Sources in the United States (NIDS).
ARTFL
Project, University of Chicago The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French
Language (ARTFL) includes technical writing in such subjects as history and
economics. The 18th through 20th centuries are about equally represented, with
a smaller selection of 17th century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance
texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence,
and treatises in English and French. - ASHA Guide to Graduate Programs
- ASHA Guide to Doctoral Programs
- ASHA Foundation (scholarship and grant information)
- ASL University
- Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)
- AudiologyNet
- Audiology Online (search engine)
- Autism
Society of America
Baillière's
Midwives' Dictionary
Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations. 10th Edition, 1919 - Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
Bilingual
Dictionaries--Oxford English to French, German, Italian,
Latin, Spanish and vis versa.- Bilingualism Database Weblinks
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Biographical
Dictionary Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women
from ancient times to the present day. Can be searched by
birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary
and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords. -
Biography
Resource Center Biographical information on nearly 275,000
people from throughout history; includes some full-text feature-length
biographical articles and links to selected web sites.
BIOSIS
Previews (1969-present)
Black
Firsts
Black's
Medical Dictionary, 41st Edition
Bloomsbury
Biographical Dictionary of Quotations
Bloomsbury
Thesaurus-
Books on Demand This service from ProQuest/UMI offers more than 150,000 out-of-print books in a wide range of disciplines that are available for black-and-white reproduction.
- Braille Bug - for Children
Britannica
Concise Encyclopedia -
British
Newspaper Index Contains indexes of The Times, The Sunday
Times, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education
Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, the Financial Times,
and the Independent. - British Society of Audiology
The
Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases- BUND:
British Universities Newsreel Database
Cambridge
Dictionary of American English-
Cambridge
Klett Compact, French-English -
Cambridge
Klett Compact, Spanish-English - Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA)
Chambers
Biographical Dictionary
Chambers
Dictionary of World History
Chambers
21st Century Dictionary
Chicago
Defender Available as part of the Black Studies Center.
Currently available: full text of issues from 1935-1975.
Chicago
Tribune (Historical) Searchable full-image articles and
complete content from 1849 through the 1980's.
Chicago
Tribune (Today and Recent Years)
China
Core Newspapers Chinese language periodicals. From the
year 2000+, access to over 125,000 new full-text articles per
year primarily on "Politics/Military/Law" with other topics
as well. These are predominately in Chinese, some English,
some both.
Churchill
Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing
CINAHL:
Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
CogNet
Collins
Dictionary of Medicine
Collins
English Dictionary
Collins
French Dictionary
Collins
German Dictionary
Collins
Irish Dictionary-
Collins
Italian Dictionary
Collins
Latin Dictionary-
Collins
Portuguese Dictionary
Collins
Spanish Dictionary
The
Columbia Encyclopedia
CommSearch,
3rd Edition
Communication
Abstracts
Communication & Mass
Media Complete- Concise Atlas of World History, Andromeda
Concise
Medical Dictionary -
Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies (UC Berkeley) Lively and unedited video interviews and printable transcripts, with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Includes over 300 diplomats, statesmen, stateswomen, soldiers, economists, political scientists, activists and artists. Click on "Interviews by Guest Name" for the alphabetical list.
- Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences & Disorders (CAPCSD)
The
Crystal Reference Encyclopedia
Database
of African Theses & Dissertations: DATAD "For
many reasons, African research results are rarely indexed in
major international databases, a problem that is further exacerbated
by the inaccessibility of theses and dissertations completed
in the region, many of which contain local empirical data that
is not available in international literature." Currently
contains citations and abstracts from ten leading universities,
with more planned, in all subject areas.- Deaf Education - Teacher Preparation
Debrett's
Peerage and Baronetage
Debrett's
People of Today-
Dictionary
of American History, 3rd edition, 10 volumes, 2003.
A
Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the present
Dictionary
of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations, H.W. Wilson
Dictionary
of Languages
Dictionary
of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations -
Dictionary
of Medicine, Peter Collin Publishing -
Dictionary
of Optometry and Visual Science - Disability Information- U.S. Federal Government
Dissertations
-- Foreign (CRL) Thousands of foreign doctoral dissertations
available through the Center for Research Libraries. If author
is not found, read the introductory note to take further action.-
Dorland's
Illustrated Medical Dictionary - Dysphasia Resource Center
Early American
Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) Cover-to-cover “reproductions
of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one
million pages as full text-searchable facsimile images.”
Early
English Books Online (ProQuest) Full images of books
published in English from 1475 to 1700. Searchable by keywords
in the
citation only. To search within the texts, use the EEBO-TCP version.
Over 100,000 works from Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title
Catalog, Wing's Short-Title Catalog, and Thomason Tracts, a compendium
of
broadsides on the English Civil War. Documents may be viewed
online using the Dj Vu Plugin or downloaded using Adobe Acrobat.
Users may
search by author keyword, title keyword, subject keyword, or
bibliographic number. In addition, users may choose to search
only within the illustrations,
and may limit searches by originating collection, source library,
language or date. -
Early
English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) Growing
collection of searchable texts published in English between
1475 and 1700. To search all EEBO titles (over 100,000)
by keyword in
citations (as opposed to searching within text) and view
full-page images, use the ProQuest version.
ebrary This
is a full text database of thousands of e-books. Search by
subject headings such as nonverbal communication or communication
and culture. To access from your office or residence hall:
Click on "Get
ebrary Reader." You need do this only once (i.e.,
you do not have to do it again next time you use ebrary).
Education
Abstracts
Eighteenth
Century Collection Online (ECCO) Full-text searchable facsimile
page displays of approximately 150,000 books published in Britain
and its
colonies during
the 18th century.
Encyclopedia
of Health Care Management, Sage
Encyclopedia
of U.S. History- Journalists- English- Resources at NU
ERIC:
Educational Resources Information Center (Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts)
ERIC:
Educational Resources Information Center (SilverPlatter)-
ESTC:
English Short Title Catalog This is an e-catalogue of books
and ephemera (from 1475 to 1700) and serials (1620-1800), many
of which
are available
in microform (check NUCat).
It provides materials, in any language, printed in Great Britain
and its colonies as well as materials, in English, printed
anywhere in
the world.
. . ."serves
as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of
surviving copies."
Ethnic
NewsWatch Full-text articles and bibliographic information
from over 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals, with interfaces
both in English and in Spanish.- European Library: "...portal which offers access to the combined resources... both digital and non-digital... of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects – some free, some priced." Allows cross-collection searching. A few of the national libraries include: Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, Russia-St. Peterburg, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and United Kingdom.
- Exceptional Child Education Resources (ECER)
Expanded
Academic ASAP (EXAC) This is an important database for
social sciences (political economy, gender studies, development,
etc) with more than 20 years of coverage of about 3,500 first
tier, indexed, and full-text titles, of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed.
For a broader search which will retrieve both first tier as
well as second tier sources, see
Academic
OneFile.
Factiva-domestic & international
news Provides access to over 6,000 US and foreign full-text
news and business publications, e.g., Bangkok Post, Concord
Times (Sierra Leone), Dunya (Turkey), O Estado de Sao Paulo,
Jakarta Post, The Straits Times (Singapore), Die Welt (Germany),
etc. Includes reports, stock quotes, and documents such as
treaties of the EU. For search help, go to the Factiva
Help Page.- Foreign Languages for Travelers Includes basic phrases with pronunciations in Real Audio in over sixty languages and links to language services and translating dictionaries.
- Foreign Press Sources, their Home Pages, & Auto-Translations A list from WatchingAmerica.com which includes auto-translations or English versions of foreign presses (e.g., Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Al Messa, Diaro Decuyo).
- French- Resources at NU
- Galaxy references (search engine)
- Genetic and Rare Conditions Clearinghouse of Resources
German Reference Database:
Xipolis - German- Resources at NU
Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Global
NewsBank Citations and selected full-text articles from
U.S. and international news sources. -
Google Books Full-text of out-of-copyright books and partial text of in-copyright books. Out-of-copyright works are from the library of the Complutense University of Madrid, the libraries of universities of Michigan and California, Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, and from the New York Public Library. Limited access to some in-copyright works is also available, with links to options for purchase. (Check NUCat to see if NU owns the title.)
- HandSpeak
Health
Source: Consumer Edition
Health
Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition- Hear-It
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Historical
Newspapers Online Indexing for early periods of The
Times of London and the New York Times. - History E-Book Project A continuously growing database designed by 8 learned societies and 10 university presses. Recent and older books on topics such as race relations, the Paris Peace Conference, political participation in Greece, modern Islamic political thought, equality before the law. "Browse" to search subject fields.
- Human Languages Page Extensive guide to web resources related to language. (Now named iLoveLanguages).
The
Hutchinson Chronology of World History
The
Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
The
Hutchinson Encyclopedia, Helicon
- Illinois Newspaper Project Database Database of newspaper titles and holdings information at Illinois Libraries.
- Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association
-
International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an
international selection of publications, including over 2600
journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis
on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
International
Dictionary of Homeopathy- Italian- Resources at NU
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Journal
Citation Reports JCR is comprised of two editions including
the JCR Social Science Edition which "contains
data from about 1,500 social sciences journals. Data collected or calculated
includes: citation and article counts; impact factor; immediacy index; cited
half-life; citing half-life; source data listing; citing journal listing; cited
journal listing; subject categories; publisher information; and journal title
changes. Online help includes extensive and detailed instructions for locating
such information as the most-cited journals in a particular subject area, or
how often articles in a journal refer to articles previously published in that
journal." Note that not all areas of study are represented. Click on "Information
for New Users" to get started.
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Latin
American Newsletters (Latinnews; The Latin Intelligence Service) LAN
is a premier, comprehensive intelligence service on 33 countries
in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean covering
political, security, economic and strategic issues as well
as general news. -
LLBA:
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
LexisNexis Academic Click "News" on
the left.
(1) For non-English news, in "Step One: Select a news category" select "Not English language news." In "Step Two: Select a news source" select a language. Proceed to Step Three.
(2) For English language news, in "Step One" select the appropriate category.
Los
Angeles Times (Today and Recent Years)
Scroll down to see LA Times. Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years. For articles older than what appear in this database, go to
Los
Angeles Times (Historical).
Los
Angeles Times (Historical) Use
this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th
century (1881) through the 21st century (up to a few years
ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see
Los
Angeles Times (Today and Recent Years).
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Macmillan
Dictionary of Toxicology
The
Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
The
Macmillan Encyclopedia
The
Macquarie Dictionary
Martindale's
Center of World Sign Languages and Braille
McGraw-Hill
Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
MD
Consult (Select Journals tab on the homepage)
Medline
(FirstSearch)
Medline
(Ovid)
MEDLINE Plus
Health Information- MedMark-Medical Bookmarks (see Otorhinolaryngology; numerous links)
Mental
Measurements Yearbook- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
-
Merriam-Webster
Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Merriam-Webster's
Medical Desk Dictionary
Le
Monde
Mosby's
Dental Dictionary
Mosby's
Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine-
Mosby's
Emergency Dictionary -
Mosby's
Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements -
Mosby's
Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary
- National Aphasia Association
- National Association of Future Doctors of Audiology (NAFDA)- Chapter member: Northwestern University
- National Black Association for Speech Language and Hearing (NBASLH)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- National Library of Medicine - Catalog, Locator
- National Student Speech-Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA)
- Nations of the World A-Z list of all countries in the world and their official languages. Click on the country name to link to "One World - Nations Online" which provides news links, maps, statistics, current topics, and more on languages of every country of the world.
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Natural
Medicine Instructions for Patients -
NetLibrary Thousands
of full text e-books. Search by author, title, keyword, subject,
or in the full text.
New
York Times (Today and Recent Years) Scroll
down to see NYT. Use this link to see today's paper or articles
from the last few years. For articles older than what appear
in this database, go to
New
York Times (Historical).
New
York Times (Historical) Use
this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th
century (1851) through the 21st century (up to a few years
ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see
New
York Times (Today and Recent Years).- News and Newspapers Online Excellent source maintained by the University of North Carolina. Lists sites that cover regions, followed by titles listed by country, then alphabetically within regions.
Newspaper
Abstracts Citations and abstracts of major articles from
the Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Boston
Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York
Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington
Post. Incorporates the Index to Black Newspapers.-
Newspaper
Source Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from
more than 150 newspapers, including complete full-text coverage
of 15 international newspapers. - Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues
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On-Line Books Page An index to and listing of over 25,000 freely-available e-books on the Internet. Searchable directory.
- Online Dictionary Net Links to many online dictionaries covering many languages and topics.
- Online Newspapers from Around the World Excellent listings by the University of Michigan's Internet Public Library. Papers listed by region, by country within region, by states or provinces within country.
- Opinion-Pages Search engine providing access to opinion and editorials in newspapers from all over the world.
- L'Ordre des orthophonistes et audiologistes du Québec (OOAQ)
Oxford
Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography-
Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations -
Oxford English
Dictionary: OED Online This contains two separate texts,
the complete Second Edition and the New Edition in progress.
The first set is a complete A to Z sequence of entries, while
the second is incomplete, but growing every quarter.
PAIS
International Bibliographic index to the literature of
public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in
general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical
compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports
of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations,
and most other forms of printed literature from all over
the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present.
Go to PAIS
International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The
archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
Palmer's
Index to The Times 1790-1905 Citations to articles in the The
Times (London), 1790-1905.
Past Masters Includes
the complete works, variant editions, selections, and/or
correspondence of the following and many more:
The
Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women-
Pharmaceutical
Medicine Dictionary
Philip's
Encyclopedia
ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses: Full Text Through this resource,
you may access all available dissertations (full-text PDF files)
from institutions in the US and some other countries. Includes
citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted
last semester. Full-text online dissertations from some universities
date as far back as the early 20th century; others are more
recent. It is not possible to predict which dissertations are
available and which are not. Some universities have digitized
their dissertations and made these available for free to all.
Some are subscription based. And finally, some departments,
schools, and individuals do not allow free access to their
dissertations and these are only available through payment
or Interlibrary Loan. (In these cases, it is still usually
possible to see in this database an abstract and, sometimes,
a limited page preview.)- Public Papers
of the Presidents of the United States Currently "covers
the published speeches and documents of Presidents Hoover,
Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford,
Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton." Search "across
all volumes at the initial screen or search within a volume.
Basic searches are amplified by boolean and proximity searches.
Results can be sorted by author, title, date, and frequency."
The
Reader's Companion to American History -
The
Reader's Companion to Military History -
The
Reader's Companion to the American Presidency -
The
Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History - Research on Language and Social Interaction
Roget's
II: The New Thesaurus
Royal
Society of Medicine Health Encyclopedia
Royal
Society of Medicine: Medicines
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Saunders
Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary
ScienceDirect- Self-Help for the Hard of Hearing (SHHH)
- SLP Start Page for Speech-Language
Social Sciences Abstracts Comprehensive sets of citations and abstracts to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. Includes many links to full text. Also includes databases for subjects in humanities and law. - Spanish & Portuguese- Resources at NU
- Speech-LanguagePathologist.org
- Special Education Resources on
the Internet (SERI)
Taber's
Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Television News Archive
(Vanderbilt University) Includes more than 30,000 individual
network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national
broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than
9,000 hours of special news-related programming including
ABC's Nightline
since 1989. See "Important Note" on front page
of website (NU affiliates have free access).
Times
of London Digital Archive Searchable full-image articles
and complete content of the Times of London from 1785
to 1985.
UN
Oral History Project Yale University’s United Nations
Studies Program has undertaken an oral history study to preserve
the recollections of those involved in international political
developments in which the UN has played a role. This resource
contains over 150 transcribed interviews with key players,
from numerous countries, involved in major international
events. The transcripts are divided into two groups: 1989-1991
and 1996-2002.
- Wake Forest's Center for Voice Disorders
Wall
Street Journal (Today and Recent Years)
Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years. For articles older than what appear in this database, go to
Wall
Street Journal (Historical).
Wall
Street Journal (Historical) Use
this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th
century (1889) through about the 21st century (up to a few
years ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see
Wall
Street Journal (Today and Recent Years).
Washington
Post (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image
articles from the 19th century (1877) through the 21st century
(up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent
articles, see
Washington
Post (Today and Recent Years).
Washington
Post (Today and Recent Years) Scroll down to see the Post.
Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last
few years. For articles older than what appear in this database,
go to
Washington
Post (Historical).- Watching America: Foreign Press Accounts WatchingAmerica reflects what the world thinks of current issues that involve the U.S., by providing foreign press articles including many translated into English.
Web
of Science This database contains cited references in the
Social Sciences from 1956 to the present; in the Humanities,
from 1975 to the present; and in the Sciences, from 1955 to
the present. It is best to simultaneously search all three
(which is the default). Use the "Cited Reference Search" to
find articles that cite an author or work and obtain a comprehensive
bibliography of the author's works: articles, books, communications,
proceedings papers, etc. Searches may also lead to related
records and articles with citations in common. For instructions,
click on "Information for New Users." Results may
be printed, saved to a text file, exported in a delimited format
for import into personal bibliographic programs such as EndNote
or ProCite, or may be sent via email. -
Webster's
New World™ Medical Dictionary - Western European News and Newspapers, Selected, Current
Who's
Who in Ancient Egypt, Routledge -
Who's
Who in Gay and Lesbian History, Routledge -
Who's
Who in The Roman World, Routledge
World
Biographical System Information Online "A wealth of
biographical information on more than 5 million people: men
and women from all classes and professions, from all countries
and regions of the earth, from the 4th millennium BC to the
present..."
World News Connection (WNC) A
continuation of the FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Daily Reports. Available in microform beginning in 1946 (for
exact holdings, inquire in the Government
and Geographic Information and Data Services Department).
WNC online is full-text and searchable from the mid 1990's to
the present.
For further information, contact:
Robert Michaelson
Head Librarian
Seeley
G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering
Northwestern
University
2233 Tech Drive (formerly 2233 N. Campus Drive)
Evanston, IL 60208-3530
(847)
491-3057
rmichael@northwestern.edu
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