DATABASES & E-REFERENCE MATERIALS: N

New Play Exchange (NPX) is the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers. NPX is created by the National New Play Network, an alliance of professional theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays.

A comprehensive and authoritative reference on all aspects of poetry including: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more.

Streaming full-length feature films from leading independent distributors and award-winning short films.

Access the African-American historical newspaper the New York Amsterdam News, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

New York Review Of Books publishes articles, essays, and reviews of books on a variety of subjects, including literature, culture, the arts, economics, science, and current affairs.

Full text online archive of the New York Times, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues, excluding the most recent 30 days. 

NOTE: Access to the most recent month of New York Times online content is available via NYTimes.com in the Databases & E-Reference listing.

Published since 1925, the New Yorker is one of the oldest American weekly magazines featuring journalism, political and cultural commentary, essays, fiction, poetry, and humor.

Provides full text to over 500 U.S. newspapers and over 600 international newspapers. Real time news updates are also available through newswires such as CNN Newswire, PR Newswire, and CNN. This database also provides access to over 1.6 million radio and television transcripts.

Features 15,000+ news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1790. Some full text is available.

OU Libraries will cease subscribing to Nexis Uni, effective July 1, 2024. More information about this decision, as well as a list of databases covering the content in Nexis Uni, is available. 

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Historical Place Names (日本歴史地名大系) is a 50-volume encyclopedia published between 1979 and 2005. Access is through the Japan Knowledge database.