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Electronic Resources Gateway
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The Gateway will become part of the new Libraries Website to be rolled out Aug. 9, 2004. Preview it here.
Databases - 35:
Indexes & Articles - 24; Reference - 7; eBooks & eTexts - 4; Data/Statistics/GIS - 0 Journals - 9 
 - Core resources
 - ND only access
 - enabled
 - Free
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1985-
Description: Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for 1,800+ publications (including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed journals). Indexing and abstracts provided for all 3,200+ journals in the collection. Full text information dating as far back as 1985.
Access UN
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1998-
Description: Indexes current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications (Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, UN Treaty Series citations) and includes full-text of several thousand UN documents.
* Index to United Nations documents and publications [Coverage to 1998]
America, History and Life
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1954-
Description: Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present and citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations.
Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
Anthropological Literature
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: late 19th cent.-
Description: Indexed citations to articles (two or more pages long) and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies published in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present.
AP Archive
Type: Reference
Description: "The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos from their 50 million image print and negative library, as well as charts, graphs, tables, and maps from the AP's graphics portfolio."
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
ATLA Religion Database
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1949-
Description: Comprehensive online database supporting religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Compilation of three print indexes: Religion Index One: Periodicals (RIO), Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBBR). Provides citations on such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history and religious perspectives on social issues. Includes links to 50+ online full-text scholarly religion periodicals in the ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials) project.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
* Database coverage list for ATLA Religion Database
* List of journals available in full text via ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials) project * Search tips for ATLA Religion Database * Use "ATLA Religion Database on CD-ROM" to search Methodist Reviews Index 1818-1985 (not available in online web version of ATLA Religion Database)
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides a free-of-charge, full-text collection of selected literature, reference and verse. Includes works such as the Oxford Shakespeare, Columbia encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, the Harvard classics, Bartlett's familiar quotations, and Columbia gazetteer.
Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides Internet access to digitized executive branch serial documents originally issued by Brazil's national government between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial government from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire to 1889.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Indexed citations to articles published in more than 150 Roman Catholic periodicals, as well as papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith, authored by Catholics, or produced by Catholic publishers.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
Center for Research Libraries Catalog
Type: Reference
Description: Provides online access to over 500,000 bibliographic records representing CRL's scholarly research resources (monographs, newspapers, serials, archival materials in microform, microform sets and title analytics).
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1991-
Description: Contains searchable full text of international affairs working papers from university research institutes, conference proceedings, policy briefs, economic indicators, foundation-funded research projects and links to international affairs centers, institutes, and further resources.
EconLit
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Comprehensive indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature (over 300 major economic journals and collected volumes) compiled from the American Economic Association's Journal of economic literature and the Index of economic articles in journals and collective volumes.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Type: Reference
Description: Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, articles not yet in the print Britannica encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (tenth edition), and the Britannica book of the year.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,000+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.
Factiva
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Factiva can only be used with IE 5.01 or greater on the PC and with IE 5.1 or greater on the Mac (does NOT work with Netscape).
Description: Successor to Dow Jones News Service, Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs.
Historical Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts of scholarly articles, books, and essays on European and world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada, which are covered in: America: History and Life).
Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
Index Islamicus on CD-ROM
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: ed.4(1906/1999)
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstations 30 and 31. Select "All Titles" folder, then "Index islamicus."
Description: Bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world. Also includes reviews.
Index to Jewish Periodicals
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: v.26/41(1988/2003)
Description: Provides citations to articles, book reviews, and feature stories in 150+ English language periodicals of Jewish interest.
Users: Licensed for 1 simultaneous user.
Index to United Nations Documents and Publications
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Issue 93(1961/1998)
Description: Indexes UN documents and publications, with selected full-text resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council and the Economic and Social Council.
International Political Science Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1989-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts to articles on political science published in scholarly journals and yearbooks worldwide.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides access to tables of contents for hundreds of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America; Web database with search by journal and article and browse by country.
LexisNexis Academic
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.
NetLibrary E-book Collection
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.
Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides selected full text for 23 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. Selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. Full text television & radio news transcripts provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
PAIS International
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1915-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
Polling the Nations
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A compilation of questions and responses from more than 12,000 national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and 70 other countries from 1986 through the present.
PsycINFO
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1872-
Description: Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Issued in 1991, this national commission investigated and documented human rights abuses during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
Sociological Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1963-
Description: Abstracts and indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines in social and behavioral sciences. Citations to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Web of Science
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: "... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.
Users: Licensed for 8 simultaneous users; please be sure to 'logout' so others may 'login.'
Acknowledgment: Special thanks to the Graduate School and the Provost's Office for their generous support in helping the University Libraries make this acquisition possible.
* More about Web of Science
* Using Web of Science Tips & Caveats [Michigan State University Libraries]
World Biographical Index
Type: Reference
* Click on language of choice. Click on search type. Enter search data. Click Search button. Click on Hitlist button to view results.
Description: Consists of several million indexed, brief biographical entries for eminent individuals worldwide, with citations to thousands of reference works in which information on the individuals appears.
World News Connection
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A successor to the Daily reports from the Foreign Broadcasting Information Service and the JPRS reports from the Joint Publications Research Service provided through the National Technical Information Service. The material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. The content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
WorldCat
Type: Reference
Description: Over 50 million bibliographic records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries; includes records describing manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
Worldscope Global
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1993-2002 (May disc only for each year; content date may vary)
Description: Critical financial and business information on top publicly traded companies worldwide. A companion publication to Compact D/SEC which covers companies in the U.S. and Canada.
Users: Licensed for five simultaneous users.
* Data Definitions Guide (530 p.)
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: "CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI/Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy"--Online factsheet.
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