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NASA Astrophysics Data System

NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 8.6 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. Some full-text articles, as well as astronomy preprints, are available, including digitized historical astronomy and astrophysics literature.

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Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
Nation Archive

The Nation is an important clearinghouse of primary source material in America and around the world. The archive includes perspectives on news, politics, and culture from writers, artists, novelists, and playwrights. The Nation Archive is a fully searchable electronic version of the magazine's complete backfile, dating back to the magazine's first issue from July 6, 1865.

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Coverage Dates: 1865 - present
National Criminal Justice Reference Service

NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

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Coverage Dates: varies by publication
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS)

Database of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts with summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.

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Coverage Dates: 1970 - present; updated weekly
National Geographic Virtual Library

This comprehensive collection includes National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1995-Current, National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World, and National Geographic Kids, as well as a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.

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National Review Archive

National Review has been an important American journal of opinion and has provides readers with well-reasoned editorial commentary on critical issues. National Review Archive offers complete indexing, abstracting and full text for the magazine from the first issue in 1955 to the present. 

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Coverage Dates: 1955 - present
National Security Archive

DNSA offers the most powerful research and teaching tool available in the area of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence and security issues since 1945. Over 55,000 of the most important, declassified primary documents – totaling more than 420,000 pages – are included in the database.

 

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Coverage Dates: 1945 - 2002; updated annually
National Technical Reports Library

Free public access to a searchable online database of more than 3 million Federal publications from the U.S. National Technical Information Service (NTIS).  

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Nations of the World (nations and associated jurisdictions)

Full text of laws, regulations and court decisions for different nations of the world.

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Naxos Music Library

Allows five users access at a time.  Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.

Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 87,860 CDs with more than 1,247,500 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CD-length recordings are added to the library every month.

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Naxos Music Library Jazz

Allows three users access at a time.  Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource. When you are finished using Naxos, please click on the red logout button.

Naxos Music Library Jazz [NMLJ] is one of the most comprehensive collections of jazz music available online. It offers over 65,000 tracks of jazz from more than 7,000 albums. Over 32,000 jazz artists are represented. The recordings in Naxos Music Library Jazz come from over 200 labels, and include the catalogue of Blue Note Records, Warner Jazz, EMI, Fantasy and others.

 

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NC Digital Heritage Center - (NCDHC)

The Digital Heritage Center works with cultural heritage institutions across North Carolina to digitize and publish historic materials online. Collections include North Carolina Memory, North Carolina College and University Yearbooks, North Carolina Newspapers, and more.

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Coverage Dates: varies
NC DOCKS

NC DOCKS is the shared institutional repository of five University of North Carolina System universities: ASU, ECU, UNCG, UNCP, and UNCW. It provides open access to various research in digital form produced by the faculty and graduate students of the member universities, including but not limited to peer-reviewed literature, working papers, student terminal projects, and technical papers.

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NC Health Info

Offers access to free web sites of local health services, providers, and programs serving residents of North Carolina.

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NC LIVE

Core group of reference and research materials online in the form of full-text electronic information and indexes. Note: if you are not affiliated with UNCW, then click here. You will need a password from your local library.

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NC Live Video Collection

The NC Live Video Collection has migrated to Films on Demand.

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NC MOSAIC

NC government information searchable in one online location. Find maps, publications, records, and historical documents made available on the Internet by libraries, historical societies, government agencies, and corporate offices throughout North Carolina.

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NCpedia

Encyclopedia of North Carolina - short entries

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NetAdvantage (from S&P Global)

Broad spectrum of industry, company and investment analysis including S&P Industry Surveys, Stock Reports (S&P Equity Research), and “Markets” tab with drill downs to industry and sub-industry key ratios, benchmarks, constituents, etc. Company data covers a global universe of over 3 million private and public companies.

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New Republic Archive

The New Republic, founded in 1914, is considered of the country's leading journals of opinion on politics and the arts. It features award-winning writers and critics from many fields and from most political viewpoints. This digital archive offers a searchable full-text backfile of all issues of the magazine. 

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Coverage Dates: 1914 - present
New York Amsterdam News (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Digital archive for the New York Amsterdam News from 1922-1993. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

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Coverage Dates: 1922 - 1993
New York Public Library Digital Collections

Explore well over a half a million items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. Spanning a wide range of historical eras, geography, and media, NYPL Digital Collections offers drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, videos, audio, and more. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of The Library, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.

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New York Stock Exchange Trade & Quote (NYSE TAQ)

For on-campus use only. 

Daily TAQ (Trade and Quote) provides users access to all trades and quotes for all issues traded on NYSE, Nasdaq and the regional exchanges for a single trading day. It’s a comprehensive history of daily activity from NYSE markets and the U.S. Consolidated Tape covering U.S. Equities instruments (CTA and UTP participating markets). Subscription includes data from 2012 to present. 

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Coverage Dates: 2012 - present
New York Times

Follow the link to create an account on NYTimes.com as a UNCW student/staff/faculty. Once you create an account you will have an "All Digital Access Pass" that will allow you to log in and access all NYTimes.com content from any computer and the NY Times mobile app. Faculty and staff users will have to re-register annually. Please contact us if you need assistance. 

NYTimes.com contains most of the articles that appear in the printed New York Times paper, as well as a wealth of blogs, interactive features, videos and other web-only content.

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New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Digital archive for the New York Times dating back to 1851. An excellent database for history, including full-text and full-image articles. For most dates, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files. For access to recent issues, go to the New York Times online or search US Newsstream.

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Coverage Dates: 1851 - 2009
News & Observer Collection

Coverage of the Raleigh News & Observer from 1991-present.

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Coverage Dates: 1991- present
News & Observer Index

The News & Observer Index is an alphabetical list of names and subjects, with references to the newspaper articles in which they occur and a guide to help find references to articles with more information about a particular topic.

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Coverage Dates: 1926 - 1992
News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive

An archival collection comprising the backfiles of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive), spanning areas including current events, international relations, and public policy. These titles offer multiple perspectives on the contemporary contexts of the major events, trends, and interests in these fields throughout the twentieth century. The collection will provide valuable primary source content for researchers in fields ranging from history and political science, through to law and economics.

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Coverage Dates: 1918 - 2015
Newspaper Source Plus
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Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts

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Nexis Uni
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After trials conducted and feedback received Randall Library is switching from Nexis Uni to Westlaw Campus.

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Nichols Newspaper Collection
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The Nichols Newspapers Collection features London newspapers and pamphlets gathered by antiquarian and printer John Nichols. This collection, sourced from the Bodleian Library, spans the years 1672 to 1737 and complements the titles and issues found in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Burney Collection Newspapers.

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Coverage Dates: 1672 - 1737
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)

Primary source collections of the “long” nineteenth century. Content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Topics include Asia and the West, British Politics and Society, British Theatre, Music and Literature, Children's Literature, Europe and Africa, Mapping the World, Photography, Science, Technology and Medicine and Women.

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Nineteenth-Century Fiction

A collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Brontës feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature.

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Norfolk Journal and Guide (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Digital archive for the Norfolk Journal and Guide from 1916 - 2003. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

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Coverage Dates: 1916-2003
North American Women's Letters and Diaries

Full text of letters and diaries. The collection includes bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 7,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources.

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Coverage Dates: Colonial to 1950
North Carolina City Directories

Visit the website to search and browse more than 300 directories from cities and towns across North Carolina from the 1860's to the 1930's.

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Coverage Dates: 1860's - 1930's
North Carolina Digital Collections

North Carolina Digital Collections contain over 90,000 historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts, and other resources on topics related to North Carolina. The Collections are free and full-text searchable, bringing together content from the State Archives of North Carolina and the State Library of North Carolina. They support researchers of the history and culture of North Carolina. 

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North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Online Library

The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) is responsible for the stewardship of the state's marine and estuarine resources. The division's jurisdiction encompasses all coastal waters and extends to 3 miles offshore. The Division of Marine Fisheries is dedicated to ensuring sustainable marine and estuarine fisheries and habitats for the benefit and health of the people of North Carolina.

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North Carolina News Sources

North Carolina News Sources is a collection of more than 190 media sources from across the state,  including the Wilmington Star News, the Charlotte Observer, and the Raleigh News & Observer.

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North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project

Digitized newspapers from the North Carolina State Archives collection that were only available on microfilm. These materials include papers dating from 1751-1890s.

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Coverage Dates: varies by title
North Carolina Newspaper Locator

The North Carolina Newspaper Locator database, reflecting the microfilm holdings of the Government & Heritage Library, contains listings for nearly 2,000 unique newspaper titles dating from 1751 to today. 

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Coverage Dates: 1751 - present
North Carolina Periodicals Index

Selective index of articles in North Carolina periodicals.

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Coverage Dates: 1992 - present; updated regularly
North Carolina State Government Publications Collection

Find full text current and historic publications produced by North Carolina state government. The collection includes publications on a wide variety of topics including health care, agriculture, transportation, and education.

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NoveList Plus

A readers’ advisory resource that uses appeal factors and expert reviews to offer read-alike and listen-alike recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.

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Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest)

Formerly named ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

This database offers comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine and more. Sources include journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more. Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations in nursing and related fields. Part of ProQuest Central.

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Coverage Dates: 1986 - present
Nursing @ Ovid

Ovid Nursing database includes full-text content from current journals through  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, combined with a Nursing subset of MEDLINE.

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Coverage Dates: 1946 - present
Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile)

Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health includes full-text titles cited in CINAHL to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management. Nursing and Allied Health helps nursing professionals working in the field as well as students studying a nursing-focused curriculum.

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Nursing and Mental Health in Video

Features over 240 videos of the most common mental health disorders nurses may encounter – whether in a primary care setting, emergency room, medical, psychiatric or other.

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Nursing Assessment in Video

Nursing Assessment in Video is an online database that provides access to the assessment series of training videos from Medcom Trainex, provider of nursing education programs worldwide. Each title features leading industry experts providing hands-on demonstrations and step-by-step instructions in key assessment areas. All content was produced since 2012, so the collection delivers accurate, up-to-date information.

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Nursing Education in Video

Nursing Education in Video is a unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS. This current release includes 420 videos.

 

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Nursing Reference Center

Designed specifically for nurses, this resource provides evidence-based information for point of care, continuing education, nursing research and more. 

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NYTimes.com

Follow the link to create an account on NYTimes.com as a UNCW student/staff/faculty. Once you create an account you will have an "All Digital Access Pass" that will allow you to log in and access all NYTimes.com content from any computer and the NY Times mobile app. Faculty and staff users will have to re-register annually. Please contact us if you need assistance. 

NYTimes.com contains most of the articles that appear in the printed New York Times paper, as well as a wealth of blogs, interactive features, videos and other web-only content.

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