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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publications, including Federal, State and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles and unpublished research on all aspects of criminal justice.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 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-date.

Naxos Music Library
Offers access to 500,000 tracks from 170 labels, including the entire Naxos catalog. Includes classical, contemporary jazz, world, folk, and new age. Features text resources such as music terms, a pronunciation guide, opera synopses and libretti, historical notes, and more.
This subscription is limited to eight simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.

NetAdvantage
Standard & Poor's is an international investment research and commentary database. Includes independent credit ratings, indices such as S&P 500, risk evaluation, stock reports, mutual funds research, company descriptions and financial data. Includes information from S & P publications such as: Industry Surveys (U.S. & Global), Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Company Profiles (U.S. & Global) Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Credit Week, Earnings Guide, Dividend Record, Stock Market Encyclopedia, and Security Dealers of North America.

NetLibrary
A collection of over 25,000 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 the Library Catalog 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 1985 to date available from NewsBank and also from InfoTrac. Older articles are available in New York Times 1851-2006 (ProQuest)
Print copies: recent issues are kept at the Recreational Reading Area on the Lower Level of Waldo until the microfilm arrives.
Microfilm: AN 2 on the Lower Level Waldo, 1851 to date.

New York Times 1851-2006 (ProQuest)
Search the full-text articles of this national newspaper from 1851-2006.

New York Times Online
The official site provides immediate access to articles from the last 7 days. Search the archives through their search box. Use the site map to see for which years the articles are free and which are for pay.

NewsBank
Provides the Access World News Resaerch Collection with full text articles from over 4500 U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts. There is access to America's Historical Newspapers, as well as Hot Topics and Special Reports on current issues in the news.

NewsBank NewsFile
Contains full text articles from over 700 U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts from 1992 to summer 2009.

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.
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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
Over 1,500 plays by 330 playwrights, with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. 30% of the plays have not been published before. Also included: 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.

Nursing Resource Center
Information on diagnosing, treating, and nursing care for patients includes material from the Gale Encyclopedias of Medicine, Cancer, Genetic Disorders, Mental Disorders, Nursing and Allied Health, Surgery. Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior, Nutrition, and Public Health. Also includes Delmar Foundations of Basic Nursing , Maternity Nursing Care, and Pediatric Nursing Care Plans. Also includes journal articles and more.

Nutrition Care Manual
The Nutrition Care Manual provides a searchable interface to the Manual of Clinical Dietetics, 6^th 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. This subscription is limited to five simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.