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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 - 31:
Indexes & Articles - 14; Reference - 7; eBooks & eTexts - 7; Data/Statistics/GIS - 3 Journals - 256 
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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]
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.
CQ's Politics in America
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: 2000
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstations 30 and 31. Select the All Titles folder, then CQ's politics in America.
Description: Contains profiles of members of Congress, their committee assignments, key votes, etc., and background information on members' districts.
Cuentas Nacionales de México
Type: Reference
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk.
Description: "El disco compacto Cuentas Nacionales de México contiene la información macroeconómica de las Series Anuales y los indicadores Macroeconómicas de Coyuntura que se han obtenido en el marco del SCNM."
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Digital images from microfilmed Spanish-language government documents of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches from the 19th century forward.
GDF Online
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Description: GDF online includes a comprehensive set of tables with statistical data for 136 countries that report debt under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. It contains data on total external debt stocks and flows, aggregates, and key debt ratios, and provides a detailed, country-by-country picture of debt.
GPO Access
Type: Reference
Description: Provides free electronic access to information products produced by the U.S. Federal Government's legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Information provided on this site is the official, published version; information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
GPO Monthly Catalog
Type: Indexes & Articles, eJournals
Coverage: 1976-
Description: Provides bibliographic citations to all types of U.S. government publications, including congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, etc., in records published by the Government Printing Office since 1976.
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 the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Cumulative index of House of Commons parliamentary papers published from 1801 to 1900. Draws from Chadwyck-Healey's Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons parliamentary papers 1801-1900.
Users: Licensed for one 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.
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.
LexisNexis Congressional
Type: Reference
Description: Provides daily updated U.S. legislative information, including full text of bills starting in 1989, public laws starting in 1988, committee reports starting in 1990, House and Senate documents starting in 1995, Congressional Record starting in 1985, Federal Register starting in 1980, and Congressional Indexes 1789-1969.
LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1988-
Description: Indexes the contents of over 150 U.S. federal government periodicals; provides links from a list of periodicals indexed to full-text periodical issues when available.
Margaret Thatcher : Complete Public Statements 1945-1990
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Collection of more than 7,100 statements made by Margaret Thatcher and includes speeches, broadcasts, press conferences, interviews, and articles.
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.
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.
Past Masters
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Collection of searchable, full-text humanities databases of scholarly complete editions or selections from classics in philosophy, political science, and economics. Works by Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Austin, Ayer, Berkeley, Calvin, Collingwood, Davidson, Descartes, Dewey, Fichte, Hegel, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Nietzsche, Plato, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein. Includes Oxford classical dictionary, 3rd ed., 1996.
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.
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).
STAT-USA Internet
Type: Reference
* Password required -- available at the BIC (Business Information Center) and Hesburgh Reference
Description: Provides access to approximately 3,000 statistical publications including economic and trade related records.
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]
Whitewater
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstations 30 and 31. Select the All Titles folder, then Whitewater, the Wall Street journal.
Description: CD-ROM consists of "all six volumes of the Journal's collected editorials and op-ed stories on the Clinton Administration. Included is the "The Journal's "Who Is.."." editorial series ... Each volume is indexed, and, for the CD-ROM version there is also a index by author, with hotlinks to the articles they wrote."
Working Papers (ICPS: Institut de Ciències Polítiques I Socials)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains full text of Working papers no. 1-156 from this Catalonian organization, with references and abstracts to related publications.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
World Bank E-Library
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1999-
Description: Contains over 1,200 World Bank titles, searchable by keywords, title, and author.
World Development Indicators
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
Description: The World Bank's comprehensive database on development data (social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators) including more than 500 indicators, more than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups; with coverage from 1960 onward, where data are available.
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.
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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