Databases by Title
N - Restricted to WMU users  - Open Access
National Bureau of Economic Research
Access unbiased economic research by policy makers, business professionals, and the academic community. Use this to search the Working paper series of NBER.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Summarizes more than 170,000 publications, including Federal, State and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles and unpublished research on all aspects of criminal justice. Coverage: 1975 - present.
National Journal Group's Policy Central
Provides daily access to political and government issues of interest to researchers across the social sciences. It includes the following publicaions--National Journal Online, Congress Daily, Technology Daily, and The Hotline--along with reference sources such as the Almanac of American Politics, Ad Spotlight and Markup Reports and Bill Status.
National Newspaper Abstracts
Index and abstracts for New York Times (1980- ), USA Today (1989- ), and Wall Street Journal (1984- ). Direct links to full text for Wall Street Journal.
National Technical Information Service DARTS
This database provides access to much of its collection of technical documents to federal depository libraries through its Depository Access to Reports, Technical & Scientific (DARTS) program. The DARTS database is password protected. You must make an appointment with the Documents Librarian to get logged onto the system. The password can not be shared. You can contact the librarian by phone (269 387-5208) or email Michael.McDonnell@wmich.edu.
Native Health History Database
Index with abstracts of documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. Coverage from 1652 to approximately 1966.
Native Health Research Database
Index with abstracts to information about health and medical issues of the American Indian and Alaska Native population. Coverage 1970-date.
Naxos Music Library
Offers access to the entire Naxos catalog of recordings as well as tracks from more than 30 other labels. Includes classical, contemporary jazz, world, folk, new age, and Chinese music. Features text resources such as music terms, a pronunciation guide, opera synopses and libretti, historical notes, and more.
NetLibrary
A collection of over 24,000 electronic books that are searchable and readable online. To create a personal list of books, make notes or in other ways customize NetLibrary for your own use, create a Free Account.
For best results, search WestCat for all books whether print or electronic. Please note that not all NetLibrary titles are accessible on Macs. Some work only with Internet Explorer, available in Waldo Library at select Scholar Workstations.
New York Times
Full-text articles from 1995 to date available from InfoTrac and from 2000 in NewsBank.
Full-text articles from 1851-2003 are available in the New York Times 1851-2003 (ProQuest)
Selective full-text articles since 1980 are available from LexisNexis.
New York Times Online, the official site of the paper, provides free articles from the last 7 days and archives to previous issues.
Print copies: recent issues are kept at the Science Reference Desk until the microfilm arrives.
Microfilm: AN 2 on the Lower Level, 1851 to date.
New York Times 1851-2003 (ProQuest)
Search the full-text articles of this national newspaper from 1851-2003.
New York Times Online
The official site provides free articles from the last 7 days and free reviews from 1981, as long as you register. To view more than the first paragraph of other articles, you will have to purchase them. The archive can be searched with two indexes, 1851-1980 provides page image (PDF) articles, while 1981-present is text only.
NewsBank
Full text articles from over 700 U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts. Includes NewsBank NewsFile, Business NewsBank, America's Newspapers (which include many Michigan newspapers), and American News Magazines. Coverage varies. Updated daily.
NewsBank NewsFile
Contains full text articles from over 700 U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts from 1992 to date. Updated daily.
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.
Nineteenth-Century Masterfile
An index to over 8 million articles from popular and scholarly journals published between 1802 and 1906. Based on Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, the Masterfile adds periodicals, books, newspapers, U.S. and U.K. government documents, and U.S. patents not found in the old print index.
Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
(CD-ROM, Waldo library, First Floor. Reference Area)
Established in 1983, this database provides increasingly complete listings of all books in English wherever published and all translations from English published in the nineteenth century.
NLM Gateway
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway provides links to its catalog, Medline/PubMed, Medline Plus and other databases. A global search can be done across all of these.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
A digital collection of letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories of immigrants to America and Canada. The 100,000 pages of materials cover 1840 to 1980 and represent immigrants from many countries.
North American Indian Thought and Culture
This digital collection of texts and images contains more than 119,000 pages of personal stories, many previously unpublished or rare. Virtually all Indian nations (approximately 500) are covered. This database now contains the WPA’s Indian-Pioneer History Collection which includes information, collected mostly through oral history interviews, on American Indian life.
North American Women's Drama
This edition contains 1,174 plays by 275 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,500 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Over 150,000 pages of published and unpublished diaries and letters by over 1,300 women in the US and Canada from the colonial period to 1950. All ethnic groups, ages, classes, and geographical regions are included. Users can search by keyword, time period, place, marital status, nationality, and other variables.
Nutrition Care Manual
The Nutrition Care Manual provides a searchable interface to the Manual of Clinical Dietetics, 6th edition. Containing
information on nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and monitoring & evaluation. In addition the database provides calculators for: BMI, body surface area, calorie & weight goals, enteral & tube feeding solutions,infant formulas, metric converter, milligram to milliequivalent converter, diabetic exchanges and more, customizable formulary of nutritional solutions, disease specific screening and assessment forms, and more. Updated annually. Please LOGOFF when finished.
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