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NASA Technical Reports Server
An experimental service that allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs.
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The Nation Archive--July 6, 1865 forward
The Archive provides access to images of the original pages of The Nation, America's oldest continuously published weekly journal. Includes articles, editorials, poems, reviews, illustrations and advertisements since first published in July, 1865.
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National and International Data Sources and Links
Links to national statistical offices provided by the United Nations.
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National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 500 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals.
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National Criminal Justice Reference Data Base
-- See Justice Information Center
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
Web version
Covers corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminal justice statistics, drugs and crime, international resources, juvenile justice, law enforcement, research and evaluation, and victims. NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, as well as the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Index, abstracts, and some fulltext.
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National Image Library (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
"The National Image Library contains still photo images of wildlife, plants, National Wildlife Refuges and other scenics, as well as wildlife management work. You may search all the images through the National Image Library, or you may search by individual collection." Users are welcome to download these images, which are in the public domain.
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National Journal Group's Policy Central
National Journal Group is the leading source of nonpartisan reporting on the current political environment and emerging policy trends. Click on "My Publications" in the upper right of the screen to navigate to National Journal Daily, National Journal Hotline, National Journal Almanac, and Daybook.
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National Newspaper Index
Article references or abstracts from The New York Times (late and national editions), The Wall Street Journal (eastern and western editions), The Christian Science Monitor (national edition), The Washington Post (final edition), and The Los Angeles Times (home edition). Part of the Tennessee Electronic Library.
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National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (Bioethics Databases from Georgetown)
'ETHX on the Web' indexes articles from journals received by Georgetown plus selected additional sources. 'Genetics and Ethics', a subset of the complete Georgetown collection, indexes articles, books, and audiovisual materials. This site also connects to the National Library of Medicine's PubMED database: see their SearchTips for techniques to restrict to the Bioethics subset.
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National Security Archive
Full-text collection of the thousands of documents that have been declassified and organized into Electronic Briefing Books. Each document is accompanied by identifying information and a summary of its significance. See also Digital National Security Archive
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National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
As a gateway to archival and manuscript collections, NUCMC provides access to the Research Libraries Group (RLG) Union Catalog of Archivally Controlled Materials and the OCLC catalog of Manuscripts Records. The RLG catalog includes descriptions of archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies in North America and worldwide. The OCLC bibliographic database includes descriptions of archival and manuscript collections in public, college and university, and special libraries in North America and worldwide.
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Naxos Music Library
This streaming audio database contains more than 15,000 CDs and over 230,000 tracks of music. 500 CDs are added every month. Special features include comprehensive liner notes, opera synopses and libretti, composer and artist biographies and audio clips of native speakers pronouncing composer and artist names. A good portion of this database is devoted to classical music but it also contains Jazz, Contemporary, and World/Folk music. We have five simultaneous users for this resource: please remember to "log out" once you are done (use red log out button).
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NDB ADB Deutsche Biographie
hrsg. von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek / mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
This digitized collection contains the complete set of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie and the first twenty-three volumes (Aachen - Schwarz) of the Neue Deutsche Biographie. It provides access to more than 46,000 biographical articles on people in German history from the Middle Ages to the present.
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netLibrary (please use ebooks on EBSCOhost)
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New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: a comprehensive resource library
This resource includes over 960 works on Mormon studies that were previously published in print.
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Available only on workstations in the Divinity Library
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
"Written by 1506 eminent contributors, this new edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics retains many classic essays of enduring importance and contains 1,872 articles."
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New Pauly (including supplements)
New Pauly Online features the complete sets of both Brill’s New Pauly and Metzler’s Der Neue Pauly. This work provides authoritative coverage of the ancient world, from the prehistory of the Aegean (2d millennium BCE) to early medieval Europe. Special emphasis is given to the interaction between Greco-Roman culture on the one hand, and Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavonic culture, and ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on the other hand. Coverage also includes the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship.
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New Testament Abstracts (Ebsco host)
Periodical abstracts and book notices of primarily European and American works dealing with the New Testament. NTA typically abstracts around 2,000 articles chosen from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages. Around 800 current books are also summarized annually. The database contains more than 40,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 14,900 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985. Some articles available full-text.
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New Testament Gateway
This web site provides an annotated directory of good academic New Testament web resources.
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New York Times (1851-2009)
Offers access to full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times for the years 1851-2009. Users can perform keyword searches of the text of articles, classified advertisements and other text of the New York Times issues to identify articles of interest. Date ranges or specific dates may be specified. Users can print images of the articles. Users can also choose to view and even download reproductions of complete New York Times page images. Full-page images from every New York issue--cover to cover--are provided in PDF file format.
INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE
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New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast) (1980 to current)
The New York Times, founded in 1851, is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. It is often regarded as a national newspaper of record, meaning that it is frequently relied upon as the authoritative reference for modern events. The New York Times has won 96 Pulitzer Prizes and Citations, far more than any other newspaper.
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Newspapers and Broadcast Media sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians
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Niles' National Register (Baltimore), 1837-1849
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Niles' Weekly Register (Baltimore), 1814-1837
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Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (19th Century U.S. Newspapers)
"A full-text searchable, facsimile-image database of 200 newspapers, chronicling 19th-century American culture, daily life and events. Provides a broad yet sensitive depiction of the United States in the 1800s valuable to both professional and general researchers."
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Available only to Tennessee residents.
NIOSHTIC
occupational safety & health
Searchable databases can be used to obtain detailed chemical information for research, study or any number of reasons.
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NIST / EPA / NIH Mass Spectral Library
(Available only on Science-Engineering Reference CD-ROM workstation)
The January 1998 release of the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Library contains electron impact mass spectra and associatedinformation for 107,886 compounds. The Main collection contains a single spectrum for each compound. In a separate file are21,250 selected replicate (alternate) spectra for 13,205 compounds represented in the Main file. This database is assembled from an archive of more than 175,000 electron ionization mass spectra. .Virtually all compounds are accompanied by structures and approximately 70% of the compounds have CAS registrynumbers.
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NIST Chemistry WebBook
Provides easy access to chemical and physical property data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program. The database may be searched by chemical formula, chemical name, CAS registry number, molecular weight, chemical structure,and author. Data includes thermochemical and thermophysical properties as well as IR spectra, mass spectra, UV/Vis spectra.
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NIST/TRC Web Thermo Tables
WTT - Professional Edition, a Web version of the TRC Thermodynamic Tables, represents a complete collection of critically evaluated thermodynamic property data primarily for pure organic compounds.
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Nonprofit Managers Resource Directory
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Available in Central Library on Reference CD-ROM workstation
Nov. 7, 2002, to date
-- See The Tennessean (ProQuest)
NTIS Electronic Catalog
The NTIS Electronic Catalog is used to locate and order government publications (technical reports) and other products issued by National Technical Information Service. Searching capability is limited to titles and topics. Most records do NOT include product summaries (Abstracts).
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Nuclear Law Bulletin
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NYPL Digital Gallery
"NYPL Digital Gallery is The New York Public Library's new image database, developed to provide free and open online access to thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of the Research Libraries. Spanning a wide range of visual media, NYPL Digital Gallery offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of the Research Libraries, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences."
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