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Database Title	Summary - Full Description	Coverage	Full Text
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper Series	Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.	1973-	Yes
National Center for Biotechnology Information	Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.		No
NetLibrary>>Now EBSCO eBook Collection	NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.		Yes
New York Times Historical	Complete cover-to-cover backfiles of the New York Times from 1851 up to three years prior to the current year. Fully searchable content includes articles, photos, ads, editorials, maps, graphics, and cartoons. (Current issues available via Lexis Nexis).	1851 - 3 years prior to current year	Yes
Newspaper Source	Provides selected full text coverage of over 150 U.S. and international newspapers, with indexing and abstracting for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.	1994 - present	Partial
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers	19th Century British Library Newspapers provide searchable full text of full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to represent nineteenth-century Britain. This collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as newspapers from: established country or university towns; the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands; and Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. Penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also included. There are also contextual essays regarding the role of newspapers in the Victorian age, bibliographic headnotes and a chronological overview.	1800-1900	Yes
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)	NCCO will be an extensive database with multiple content types, developed in a rolling release over several years. Sources will include monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, photographs, maps, ephemera, and statistical data. The collection modules are topically based, in addition to some devoted to specific regions. AVAILABLE MODULES: 1) British Politics and Society; 2) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; 3) British Theatre, Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture; 4) European Literature 1790-1840: the Corvey Collection. FORTHCOMING MODULES will include: 5) South Asia; 6) History of Science; 7) History of Photography; 8) Nineteenth-century Americana. A large portion of the initial content will come from the British Library and the British National Archives. A key criterion for inclusion is avoidance of overlap with existing digitized nineteenth-century source documents, e.g. the content scanned in the Google Books project and available in HathiTrust.	1750s-1930s	Yes
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers	19th Century U.S. Newspapers is a searchable database of digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; and it encompasses the entire 19th century.	1800-1900	Yes
NIST/TRC Web Thermo Tables	Provides online access to the"TRC Thermodynamic Tables - Hydrocarbons" and "TRC Thermodynamic Tables - Non-Hydrocarbons". Almost 900,000 data points for over 7,700 compounds are provided, including information on critical properties, heat capacities, vapor pressures, phase transition properties, refraction indexes, volumetric properties, transport properties, reaction state-change properties, and more.		No
Nonbook Materials Core Collection	Annotated list of electronic resources, audiobooks, video recordings, sound recordings, games, simulations and more, useful for curriculum support for school and public libraries and is intended for collection development, readers guidance and reference services. Cataloging information is provided for all items. It can be searched with other databases in the Core Collection series for comprehensive coverage in all areas of collection development.	1987-current	Partial
NTIS (National Technical Information Service)	produced by the National Technical Information Service, is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources. Additionally, information is available from international government departments and other international organizations including those from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries.	1964 - present	Partial
Nursing Resource Center	"An easy-to-use source for extensive, comprehensive and trusted reference, periodical and multimedia content, presented in a manner that correlates to the "Nursing Process" covered in community college nursing programs. The steps in the process are: Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Implementation and Evaluation. Each of these stages has various actions associated with them, and the results pages for any search executed in the Nursing Resource Center are organized to closely reflect this process."		Partial