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• National Archives of the United Kingdom Open Access
  1,000 years of British history | Browse popular online collections | Does not include the collections digitised in partnership with commercial publishers.
• National Center for Education Statistics Open Access
  U. S. Government Information | Statistics | Condition of Education | Digest of Education Statistics | High School Dropout & Completion Rates | Indicators of School Crime | Projections of Education Statistics
• National Center for Health Statistics Open Access
  U. S. Government Information | Statistics | Births | Deaths | Health | Disease | Exercise & Lifestyle | Intimate Partner Violence | Child Abuse
• National Institute for Standards and Technology Open Access
  
• National Organization of Rare Disorders (NORD) Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Database of Research Reports and Article Citations for over 1,200 Rare Diseases | Information for Patients and Medical Professionals | Advocacy for Rare-Disease Community
• Naxos Music Library
  Online library for classical music | Streaming access to more than 143,400 CDs plus over 2 million tracks of both standard and rare repertoire | Over 800 new CDs added monthly
• Naxos Music Library: Jazz
  Online library for jazz music | Streaming access to contents from over 9500 jazz CDs
• New Oxford Shakespeare
  New consideration of Shakespeare's works | Modern Critical Edition of complete works, with modern spelling | Critical Reference Edition, with original spelling, notes, historical contexts | Authorship Companion, with essays on questions of authorship and chronology
• New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
  Over 3000 Economics terms defined and explained | Written by leading experts in the field | Updated regularly
• New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, 1990 to Present
  Streaming Video | 200 Award Winning Feature Films | 50 Award Winning Short Films | Leading Independent Distributors | Presented at Major Film Festivals
• New York Times (1980-present)
  Search five New York Times publications | Late Edition (East Coast) | International Edition | Book Review | NYT Magazine | Online Edition | subset of Global Newsstream
• New York Times (Historical)
  Full text articles | 1851-2014
• Newspaper Library, University of Illinois Open Access
  Search for newspaper holdings at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the "World`s Largest University Newspaper Library."
• Newspaper Source/EBSCO
  Fulltext Articles | U. S and International Newspapers
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture (Gale)
  Topics: Arts in the Victorian Era | Playbills | Scripts | Scores | Popular Culture
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women: Transnational Networks (Gale)
  Women's history | Issues at the intersection of gender and class | Suffrage movements, culture, immigration, health, and more | Late 18th century through early 20th century | Primary sources | Books, journals, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals
• Nineteenth Century U. S. Newspapers (Gale)
  Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century America | American Civil War | African American Culture and History | Westward Migration | Antebellum-Era Life | Political Party Newspapers
• Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Series I: New Readerships & Series II: Empire (Gale)
  (Primary Sources) Topics: Women's | Children's | Humour | Leisure/Sport | Travel and Anthropology | Economics | Missionary and Colonial
• Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE) Open Access
  Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833) | Northern Star (1838-1852) | Leader (1850-1860) | English Woman's Journal (1858-1864) | Tomahawk (1867-1870) | Publishers' Circular (1880-1890)
• NoveList K-8 Plus
  Subset of Novelist Plus | Readers Advisory Tool | Book Reviews | Learning Center offers Teaching Tools for Classroom Use
• NoveList Plus
  Readers' Advisory tool | Database for discovery of popular reading titles by genre, theme, subject, author, award-winners, and more | Book Reviews | Includes Fiction and Nonfiction | Adult, YA, and Children's

Subject Specific

• Clase and Periodica
  Scholarly Articles | Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English Languages | 24 Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Interdisciplinary and Related

• ERIC/EBSCO Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Largest Education Database | Articles | Documents and Reports | Pre-K-12 Education | Postsecondary Education | Continuing Education | Special Education | ELL | Counseling | Gender & Education | Speech Disorders in Children
• Mometrix e-Library
  Study guides | Practice tests | Flash cards | Over 1800 in all | Test prep materials for GMAT, GRE, HESI, ILTS, LSAT, MCAT, NCLEX, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT | Topics include Business, Careers, College admissions and placement, Construction, Counseling, English Language, Finance, Grad school, K12, Medical professional, Medical technology, Nursing, Nutrition, Personal fitness, Public service and legal, Teaching
• Scopus
  Peer-reviewed research | Citations and abstracts | Science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities | Search for cited references and author and affiliation profiles | Data from over 22,000 journals and over 150,000 books | Track, analyze, and visualize scholarly research | Create an account to save searches and set up email alerts
• Wiley Online Library eBooks
  Over 3000 ebooks from Wiley from 2017-2021 across 60+ subject areas | May be used as course materials or for course reserves | Unlimited access through June 30, 2021 | Provided through Booth Library's CARLI consortium membership