The NWC Archives is open to all for primary source research support. Learn how to find and use archival sources to develop rich and original research projects.
Use Primo VE search or WorldCat to search the library's book collection.
Classified Classrooms
Students and faculty have a wide range of materials and electronic resources available in the Classified Library—the Classified Collection, SIPRNET, and the Classified Classrooms.
Classified Library
This library offers students and faculty access to a wide range of classified and restricted resources that include lecture outlines, research papers, publications, and more.
Individual electronic resources may contain additional research material that is not found in the search results of Primo VE search or WorldCat.
The NWC library subscribes to several eBook collections that allow the user to search titles and content—eBrary, EBSCOhost, OECD and ACLS Humanities.
The NWC library contains a comprehensive list of periodicals. Use this site to find out if the library has a specific publication in paper, microfilm, or electronic format.
Search, browse, and view personal papers, photographs, oral histories and other documents related to NWC's past staff, faculty, and students, as well as naval activity in Narragansett Bay.
Search, browse, and view NWC's administrative and curricular records from 1883 to current day.
Perry Collection
Bequeathed to the college in 1970, the 7,000-book collection of Cmdr. Marsden J. Perry includes close to 1,000 unique titles.