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FTU has teamed up with The Library and Information Resources Network (LIRN). The LIRN collection provides students with millions of peer-reviewed and full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, podcasts, audio, and video resources to support their academic studies from ProQuest, Gale Cengage, EBSCO, eLibrary, Books24x7, and more, covering topics for General Education, Business, and Medical programs. FTU Students are given access to LIRN upon enrollment and in FTU Online.
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