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NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files

  • Coverage: 1913-1972
  • Access: University of Utah
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The NAACP branch files in this module chronicle the local heroes of the civil rights revolution via NAACP branches throughout the United States, from 1913-1972. The contributions of scores of local leaders ”attorneys, community organizers, financial benefactors, students, mothers, school teachers, and other participants” are revealed in these records. The Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files in this module of NAACP Papers will allow researchers at all levels new opportunities to explore the contributions of NAACP local leaders. The branch files also indicate how effectively the NAACP national office used the branch network to advance the NAACP national program. The Youth Department Files document how the NAACP tapped the energy and talent of college students and other young people at the state and local levels.

NAACP Papers: Special Subjects

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The NAACP was involved in several subjects that did not rise to the level of major campaigns but were still vital to the organization. This module contains records on those subjects, and in so doing, reveals the wide scope of NAACP activism and interest. These files cover subjects and episodes that are crucial to the NAACP's history, such as civil rights complaints and legislation, the Klan, Birth of a Nation, the Walter White-W. E. B. Du Bois controversy of 1933-1934, communism and anticommunism during the years of the "red scare," the congressional prosecution of Hollywood personalities, the prosecution of conscientious objectors during World War II, NAACP's relations with African colonial liberation movements, NAACP fundraising and membership recruitment, urban riots, the War on Poverty, and the emergence of the Black Power Movement.

NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints

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This NAACP module focuses on the NAACPs efforts regarding anti-lynching, peonage, and discrimination in employment and the criminal justice system. A rich set of records in this module is the NAACP file on one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the 20th century the case of the Scottsboro boys. In this case, nine young black men were accused of raping two white women on a train in northern Alabama. Sixteen days after their arrest, eight of the nine teenagers were sentenced to death in the electric chair. All eight escaped execution when the Supreme Court, in the landmark case of Powell v. Alabama, ruled that the defendants had been inadequately represented by counsel.

NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces

  • Coverage: 1954-1965
  • Access: University of Utah
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Major campaigns for equal access to education, voting, employment, housing and the military are covered in this module. The education files in this module document the NAACPs systematic assault on segregated education that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Files from 1955-1965 focus on the NAACPs efforts to implement the Brown decision as well as to combat de facto segregation outside of the South.

NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns: Legal Department Files

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This module consists of Papers of the NAACP Legal Department from 1956-1972. For the period from 1956-1965, this includes the working case files of the NAACP's general counsel, Robert Carter. Among the topics covered in these cases are school desegregation, abuses of police procedure, freedom of speech, desegregation of public facilities, voting rights, housing discrimination, and employment discrimination. The files include the background correspondence of NAACP attorneys as well as court documents, including transcripts of court proceedings. A small sampling of the important cases in this module include NAACP v. Alabama (freedom of association), Gomillion v. Lightfoot (voting rights), Allen v. County School Board and Griffin v. County School Board (school desegregation in Virginia), Ogletree v. McNamara (employment discrimination), and Powell v. McCormack (seating of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in the U.S. House of Representatives).
NACA Reports
- See: TRAIL
National Academies Press eBooks (ebrary)
- See: Proquest Ebook Central
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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

  • Coverage: ~1973 - Current
  • Access: University of Utah
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This database provides access to a collection of papers, working papers, and other information from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Approximately 1000 papers are published each year, and are added to the collection as they become available.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
- See: Criminology Collection
This database covers literature related to research, policy and practice in criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. Search over 189,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations and unpublished research. Coverage: 1975 - current

National Forest Service Library (FS Info)

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This is a database from the USDA Forest Service that provides an index of forestry articles, publications, and other items. Subjects covered by the database include resource management, wildlife management, economics, silviculture, ecosystems, forest soils, forest fire mangement, rangelands, forest recreation, forest products industries, and methodolgy and advanced technology. Links to full-text results are provided if available.

National Geographic Archive

  • Coverage: 1888-1994
  • Access: University of Utah
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From its founding in 1888, the National Geographic Society has grown into an organization synonymous with exploration, photography, maps, and rethinking the world as we know it. From the iconic National Geographic magazine archive view hundreds of books, maps, videos and images.

National Theatre Collection

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The National Theatre Collection is a multimedia database made possible by an exclusive collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre to offer a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre's archive. Exclusive digitized archival materials are presented alongside videos to present a holistic view of the stagecraft involved in supporting world-class productions.

Native Health Database

  • Coverage: 1600 to present
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
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The Native Health Database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The database provides information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples.

Natural Medicines

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Eccles Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
The most authoritative resource available on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies. Formerly Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database.
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Natural Product Updates (NPU) Online

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: University of Utah
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Natural Product Updates (NPU) provides access to graphical abstracts of new developments in natural product chemistry, selected from dozens of primary source journals. Some topics covered in the database include isolation studies, biosynthesis, new natural products, known compounds from new sources, structure determinations, and more. Around 200 graphical abstracts are published online each month, including structure diagrams, trivial and taxonomic names, molecular formulas, and physical and biological properties. Where items are taken from Royal Society of Chemistry journal articles, direct links are provided to the full text if it is available online.
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Naxos Music Library

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
This database provides access to a collection of over 1,000,000 music tracks drawn from over 75,000 CD recordings, with more than 1,000 new CDs added monthly. Records also include liner notes, opera synopses, libretti, and composer and artist biographies. Genres in the collection include classical music, contemporary jazz, world music, pop, folk, contemporary instrumental, rock, and more.
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Naxos Video Library

  • Coverage: Varies
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The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 1,300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, and EuroArts, among others, and is continuously updated.

New Catholic Encyclopedia

  • Coverage: current
  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: UALC
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
The New Catholic Encyclopedia was named one of the top fifty reference sources produced in the last 1,000 years and is prized for its scholarly presentation of persons and subjects related to Christianity and the humanities. The New Catholic Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource for questions related to the world’s religions. The Encyclopedia contains 12,000 articles in 15 volumes.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
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This database provides access to the online edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, a general reference on economics written by over 1,500 contributors. The Dictionary contains over 1,900 articles and 5.7 million words, and is updated on a quarterly basis.

New Play Exchange

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The New Play Exchange (NPX) is the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers. Readers can use the powerful search interface to locate subject keywords in a play's description or browse plays by genre, length, intended audience, cast size and diversity, character gender and race, and playwright demographics. Download writing samples and full texts of plays, when provided by the playwright, or use the “Inquire About Rights” form to contact a playwright directly. Additional information includes script development, production history, and awards, as well as recommendations by other readers and audience reviews.
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New York Review of Books

  • Coverage: 1963 - Current
  • Access: University of Utah
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The New York Review of Books is a bi-weekly literary and critical publication focused on current events, discussion of new books, and other commentary. This listing provides access to over 16,000 articles and reviews from the NYRB, which comprise nearly every piece published from the first issue in 1963 to the most recent one. The link above is for the most recent issue, while previous issues can be found in the NYRB archive.
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New York Times

  • Coverage: current
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: University of Utah
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Log in instructions : 1. Go to accessnyt.com and look up "University of Utah“ Salt Lake City, UT" 2. Click the blue Go button at the bottom of the page 3. Log into the campus network 4. On the NYT registration page, click Create Account button 5. Input information 6. Click Create Account button This is for initial registration only. Once registered, you can go directly to nytimes.com to log in and view content. Access to current New York Times for Students, Staff, and Faculty of the University of Utah. For many years the Collegiate Readership Fee has funded access to Newspapers for University of Utah students. Last year ASUU Student Leaders facilitated a survey to a sample of students asking if they would be interested in an online news option instead. Many students indicated interest in an online option, rather than the current/previous readership program which solely featured paper copies around campus.
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New York Times Historical Newspaper

  • Coverage: 1851 - 2019
  • Access: University of Utah
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This database provides access to the searchable text of the New York Times. Many parts of the text besides the articles themselves are also searchable, including short items like stock quotes, broadcast schedules, display and classified ads. Articles can be displayed in their page context and one can read through an issue page by page.

Newspaper Source Plus

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: Pioneer
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, and more. The database also contains selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers, and a selection of full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, and others.

Newspapers.com

  • Coverage: varies
  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: UALC
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Contains Utah archival newspapers. Campus has access to the 8 million pages from Utah newspapers, however, 95% of their content is behind the pay wall.
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Nexis Uni

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
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Nexis Uni's features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis with an intuitive interface that offers discovery across all content types.

Nick Hern Books Modern Plays

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Nick Hern Books is one of the UK's leading specialist performing arts publishers, with a vast collection of plays, screenplays and theatre books in their catalogue. They also license most of their plays for amateur performance.
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Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue

  • Coverage: 1801 - 1919
  • Access: University of Utah
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This database provides access to listings comprising more than 1.2 million records of British books printed between 1801-1919, drawn from eight copyright and research libraries. British books are taken to include all books published in Britain, its colonies and the United States of America, all books in English (published anywhere), and all translations from English into other languages. The database is updated regularly as new information becomes available.
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NoodleTools

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
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NoodleTools is a web application that includes tools for creating APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian documentation, annotated bibliographies, notecards, resource analysis, and more. Users must register for a personal account with NoodleTools to use the website because the tools store data individually. If you need assistance using this database, please consult the NoodleTools How-To Guide!

North American Indian Drama

  • Coverage: 1920-2019
  • Access: University of Utah
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Description: North American Indian Drama contains 244 plays by 48 playwrights representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century. More than half of the works are previously unpublished, and hard to find, representing groups such as Cherokee, MÃtis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater's diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama melding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.

North American Women's Drama, 2nd Edition

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North American Women's Drama contains the full text of 1,517 plays written from colonial times to the present by more than 330 playwrights from the United States and Canada.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
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This database includes a collection of immediate experiences from over 1,300 women, drawn from more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters spanning more than 300 years. The collection also includes biographies and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
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NRC Research Press

  • Coverage: Varies by Title
  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: UALC
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This listing provides access to a collection of journals in many areas of science, technology, engineering, and medicine, provided by the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI). Note that this is an archival collection only, and no new issues of journals are added.

Nursing Reference Center Plus

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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Nursing Reference Center Plus is an evidence-based point-of-care resource to quickly answers nurse clinical questions. This expanded resource includes multimedia (e.g. videos and images), nursing management topics, care plans, leadership and management continuing education modules, additional skills. This resource includes continuously updated information, based on the best available evidence in nursing, allied health, and biomedical literature, written specifically for nurses. It also contains cultural competencies, patient education, drug information, and reference books, guidelines, legal cases, and research instruments. Nursing Reference Center Plus is the premier evidence-based resource to support nurses in the provision of improved patient care and patient outcomes while decreasing healthcare costs.

Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
NOTE: This database has been canceled. Access will expire on January 1st, 2024.

Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews is a searchable abstract database covering information on issues related to food and health, including food composition, safety, obesity, parenteral nutrition and allergies. It includes papers relevant to human nutrition selected from more than 6,000 academic journals, books, reports and conferences published worldwide. The collection is updated weekly with approximately 500 searchable summaries covering key English and non-English language publications, reports, theses, conferences and books. The database includes a searchable backfile of over 689,000 abstracts from 1973 onward, with over 25,000 new records added each year.