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NANOnetBASE 
Current; NANOnetBASE is the world�s premier online collection of nanoscience and nanotechnology reference books. It offers researchers, students, and professionals the most authoritative and convenient source available for both introductory and specialized information.
NASA Astrophysics Data System
1975-present; this database of abstracts contains data from several sources, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through our Abstract Service query forms and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though our Browse interface. Integrated in its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives. [This resource is publicly available]
National Journal Group's Policy Central
Current; comprehensive resource on politics and policy for the academic community. Policy Central helps to track American politics and campaigns, to follow the key players and legislative process on Capitol Hill, and to provide analysis and data on every member of Congress. It also monitors important news and trends in information technology politics and policy, provides a database of public opinion surveys, and tracks the status of specific legislation with coverage of every congressional markup session.
National Trade Data Bank (NTDB)
Current; documents and statistics from the federal government on foreign trade along with trade contact information. Ask at the Reference Desk for a password.
Naxos Music Library 
Current; Naxos Music Library is a unique resource of classical music online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including classical music, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. Users can access and play the entire catalogue of Naxos recordings, selecting works, for example, by composer, artist, period, year of composition, solo instrument or genre. Playlists can easily be created for educational use and hours of continuous enjoyment. Includes notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of jazz music available online. It offers close to 20,000* tracks of jazz from over 1,900* albums. Over 500* jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artists. US-based Fantasy Jazz has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B.
NCCS (National Center for Charitable Statistics) Data Web
1989-present: NCCS Data Web, maintained by the National Center for Charitable Statistics, offers a weath of data about the non-profit sector in the United States. Data include the Busines Master File (BMF), which has descriptive data on organizations registered with the IRS; IRS Return Transaction Files (RTF), which contains financial data for organizations that file IRS Forms 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF; and IRS Statistics of Income Sample Files (SOI), which has 300 variables for 501(c)(3) organizations.
New Grove Music
Grove Music Online is now a part of Oxford Music Online.
New Pauly Online
Brill's New Pauly is an English translation (with revisions) of the German Der Neue Pauly which itself is the latest revision of the great multi-volume encyclopedia of the ancient world, known familiarly as Pauly-Wissowa. This resource in print was known as the Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft begun by August Pauly in 1839, with an expanded edition by Georg Wissowa published between 1890 and 1980. The New Pauly is still in progress, but includes access to the German edition, which was completed in 2003. The online version, like the print edition, includes two sections: Antiquity and the Classical Tradition.
Newscan Virtual News Library
Current; Virtual News Library (Newscan) provides online access and full text searching of major French newspapers and magazines. The archives of the following titles, which are updated daily, are available to Brown users: Le Monde (1987 to date), Libration (1995 to date), Le Courrier International (2004 to date), LExpress (1993 to date), Le Nouvel Observateur (2003 to date), and Le Point (1995 to date).
Niles Register Cumulative Index, 1811-1849
Niles' Register - also known as The Weekly Register, Niles' Weekly Register, and Niles' National Register - was a newsweekly founded by Hezekiah Niles in 1811. It covered both the United States and the world. The Register was famous in its own day for its comprehensiveness and reliability - it was routinely cited as an authoritative source of information in courtrooms and legislatures - and it has since become a standard source of information for historians and genealogists. More than 2,500 full-text articles are embedded in the index and will be retrieved automatically (along with index entries) in response to an appropriate search. The Cumulative Index will be updated at six-month intervals by the addition of at least 500 full-text articles per update.
Nineteenth (19th) Century Masterfile
1802-early 20th Century; provides online access to an enhanced version of the major Anglo-American subject index for periodicals of the 19th century, as well as a number of other general and publication specific indexes for journals, newspapers, and books of the era. Now includes Catalogue of Scientific Papers!
Nineteenth (19th) Century U.S. Newspapers
Provides access to approximately 1.5 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects.
Nineteenth Century Fiction
A collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Bronts feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature.
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Colonial-1950; ongoing. When complete, the collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 7,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Includes materials from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings.
Nuevo Tesoro Lexicografico de la Lengua Espanola
2001; includes 66 dictionaries, from Antonio de Nebrija's Vocabulario Espanol Latino (Salamanca, 1495) to the Real Academia Espanola's Diccionario Manual e Ilustrado de la Lengua Epa�ola (4. ed. rev. Madrid : Espasa Calpe, 1989).(Available at the Reserves Desk for use on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.)
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