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Alphabetical List of Resources

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FindIt! Button If you see this icon in your search results, click on it to either be taken to the full-text of the article you are looking for, or to fill out an interlibrary loan request for the article.

Citation Linker

If you have a journal or book citation and would like to see if the full-text for it is available online, select Citation Linker and enter the information you have.  If it is available, you will be presented with a menu of full-text options.  If it is not available online, you will be given options to either find it in the UW Colleges library catalog or request it on interlibrary loan via ILLiad.


Accessing Licensed Electronic Resources From Off-Campus Via the Proxy Server

Most of the databases listed below have been purchased by UW System or UW Colleges and therefore are legally bound by software licenses, copyright restrictions and other contractual agreements which require access to them to be restricted to UW Colleges students, faculty and staff. Please contact your UW Colleges campus library for further information regarding accessing these resources via proxy server or for instruction on how to use these databases.


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National Archives Videos via Google Video Description: A project of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and Google, this project's ultimate goal is to put online as many of NARA's 114,000 films and 37,000 videos as possible. The first phase, launched February 24, 2006, made available 101 films from the archives' collections, including the earliest film held there, Carmencita-Spanish Dance from 1894; government newsreels documenting World War II; NASA films on the history of its space program: and documentaries on the history of national and state parks.
Coverage: 1894-
Full-text: No
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Nature Description: Nature, an interdisciplinary scientific journal, appears weekly and publishes papers from any area of science with great potential impact.
Coverage: 1987-present; 1950-present from Archive link
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Nature Archive Description: Nature, an interdisciplinary scientific journal, appears weekly and publishes papers from any area of science with great potential impact.
Coverage: January, 1950-present.
Full-text: Yes.
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
NetLibrary Description: NetLibrary provides access to the full text of the over 9,600 electronic books purchased by the Wisconsin NetLibrary Academic and Public Library Consortia, as well as free e-books whose content is in the public domain.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through a personally customizable NetLibrary account.
New England Journal of Medicine Description: Full-text coverage of NEJM from 1993 to the present and abstracts from 1975-1992.
Coverage: 1975-present
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians -- See Oxford Music Online 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery -- See NYPL Digital Gallery 
Newspaper Source Plus via EbscoHost Description: Newspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 601,300 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts.
Coverage: Varies by title.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
NewspaperARCHIVE.com -- See Access NewspaperARCHIVE 
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) -- See Literature Criticism Online 
NoodleTools via Noodle Tools, Inc. Description: Powerful note-taking software that promotes critical thinking and creativity combined with the most comprehensive and accurate MLA- and APA-style bibliography composer on the Web. In order to use NoodleTools both on- and off-campus you must create a User Account ON-CAMPUS. Accounts cannot be created off-campus due to software restrictions. Once an account is created on-campus you can then access your account from any Internet connection.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: An online KnowledgeBase and User's Guide are available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories via Alexander Street Press Description: The North American Immigrant database provides detailed information on more than 2,100 people (totaling approximately 100,000 pages of information) and attempts to provide a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. The database is comprised of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories, much of the material being previously unpublished. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included. The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. In selected cases, users can to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants or view images of their scrapbooks.
Coverage: 1840-present
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: A Guided Tour and online help are available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 via Alexander Street Press Description: This collection attempts to document the immediate experiences of more than 1,300 women and includes more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters spanning from Colonial America to 1950. Also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Coverage: Approximately 1675 to 1950
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: A Guided Tour and online help are available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
NoveList via EbscoHost Description: NoveList, a readers' advisory service, not only provides access to information on 155,000 fiction titles, but it also offers a wide range of feature content including author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes.
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
Nursing Consult via Elsevier Description: Mosby's Nursing Consult contains information to help nurses quickly answer clinical questions using the latest drug information, patient education information, professional journals, reference books, current news, clinical practice, evidence-based content, and care planning tools.
Coverage: Varies by title. Many journal holdings go back to 2001.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
NYPL Digital Gallery via New York Public Library Description: NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.

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Last updated 10/19/2009. Comments to
Mary Rieder.

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