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"Notre Dame Libraries license and pay for access to most of these resources. They are intended for your individual educational use only. Excessive use, such as downloading entire journal issues, is prohibited by contract and may result in loss of access for the entire Notre Dame community." [ Acceptable Use Policy]
ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1920-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to articles, books, dissertations, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published worldwide since 1920 pertaining to bibliography and English language and literature.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
ABES: Annotated Bibliography for English Studies
Type: Indexes & Articles
Important: Temporarily unavailable. Estimated time for return of availablility July 15, 2004.
Description: Contains annotated citations to books, essays, and journal articles published worldwide on English language and linguistics, cultural studies, literary studies, and film studies.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
ABI/INFORM Global
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1971-
Description: Article citations and abstracts (some full text and image) for 1600+ U.S. and international business publications, covering business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, etc. Includes access to the Wall Street Journal.
Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
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.
AGRICOLA
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Began in 1990s.
Description: Provides indexed citations to books, serials, audiovisuals, etc. held by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators (1970-present) and to journal articles, book chapters, etc. (1979-present), covering agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.
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.
American Humanities Index (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: Provides bibliographic citations to articles, essays, reviews and original creative works in the humanities from 700+ literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the U.S. and Canada since 1975.
Année Philologique
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Contains citations from the print publication "Annee philologique" of scholarly work on ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy, in the time period second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D.
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.
Applied Science and Technology Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1983-
Description: Indexes international English-language periodicals in applied sciences and technology, including engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer technology, data processing and energy-realted disciplines.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
Archives USA
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Directory of primary source material from repositories and collections in the United States. Features the entire collection of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) from 1959 to the present. Records include descriptions of holdings, detailed indexes, hours of service, and contact information. For maximum coverage of archival and manuscript collections found in the United States, ArchivesUSA should be used in conjunction with two other online catalogs: RLG Union Catalog AMC File and OCLC Mixed Materials File.
Art Full Text
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1984- (Indexing); 1994- (Abstracting); 1997- (Selected full-text)
Description: Indexes and abstracts articles on archaeology, architecture, art, motion pictures and photography in international periodicals (including full-text of selected periodicals). Titles covered are English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Art Full Text also indexes reproductions of works of art in these periodicals.
Art Index Retrospective
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1929-1984
Description: Cumulates citations to the printed version Art Index, vols. 1-32 (1929-1984), citing articles from periodicals published worldwide, yearbooks, museum bulletins, and indexing reproductions of works of art appearing in indexed periodicals. Topics include archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, decorative arts, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, and sculpture.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1974-
Description: Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on modern and contemporary art (dating from the late 19th century onwards) including photography, performance art, video art, computer and electronic art, theater arts, etc., as well as painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
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.
ATLA Religion Database on CD-ROM
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Methodist reviews index 1818-1985
Description: The CD-ROM version of ATLA religion database includes indexing and citations from Methodist reviews index 1818-1985.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1930s-
Description: Indexes over 2,000 international periodicals on architecture, archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation published from the 1930s to the present, with selective coverage back to the 1860s.
BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1973-
Description: Indexes over 4,000 international periodicals on European and American art from antiquity to the present.
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
Type: eBooks & eTexts, Indexes & Articles, eJournals
Important: Trial ends Sept. 2, 2004; site does NOT work with Netscape
Description: Search and browse editorial content of the periodical Biblical Archaeology Review, as well as five books published by Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS): Ancient Israel : from Abraham to the Roman destruction of the Temple / edited by Hershel Shanks. Rev. and expanded ed., 1999 -- Aspects of monotheism : how God is one / editors, Hershel Shanks, Jack Meinhardt, 1997 -- Feminist approaches to the Bible : symposium ... / Phyllis Trible ... [et al.], 1995 -- The rise of ancient Israel / Hershel Shanks ... [et al.], 1992 -- The search for Jesus : modern scholarship looks at the Gospels / Stephen J. Patterson, Marcus J. Borg, John Dominic Crossan, 1994.
Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Provides citations to publications appearing in all languages on Spanish literature, literary theory, and literary genres from books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, and conference proceedings.
Bibliografía Mayor del Mito de Don Juan en Todas las Artes
Type: Indexes & Articles
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 Bibliografía mayor del mito de Don Juan.
Description: Contains bibliographic citations (6,000 authors in more than 20 languages) about the fictional character Don Juan. Many citations supported with images, sound and multimedia attachments.
Bibliografia Bíblica Latino-americana
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Homepage as viewed on May 7, 2003
Description: A bibliography of books and articles on the Bible, listing primarily Brazilian or other Latin American publications; includes several detailed indexes.
Bibliographie Internationale de L'Humanisme et de la Renaissance
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1965/1995
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstation 31. Select the All Titles folder, then Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme.
Description: Searchable bibliography of scholarly books and articles on humanism and the Renaissance.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1971-
Description: Provides citations on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide since 1971 in western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs (through 1991 only), chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften, etc. Updated regularly.
Biological Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Indexes and abstracts international research in life sciences, covering agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.
Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
Book Review Digest
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1983-
Description: Indexes and abstracts reviews of English-language adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles; reviews are selected from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Business and Company Resource Center
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Provides access to a wide variety of global business information, including company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and industry news and periodicals.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1965-
Description: Comprehensive business database of scholarly journals and business periodicals. Indexes and abstracts more than 4,500 business titles with coverage from 1965; of these, 3,600+ with full text.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift. Bibliographie
Type: Indexes & Articles
* You will be asked for a password; it's not needed; just click OK.
Coverage: Ed. 1 covers bibliographic data from v. 84-93 (1991-2000) and supplements 1-3.
Description: Cumulative bibliography of essays and monographs cited in Byzantinische Zeitschrift and its supplement, indexed by keywords; bibliographic citation records can be searched, browsed, copied, exported and printed.
CASSI
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1907/1996
* See also SciFinder Scholar which retrieves information contained in databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service.
Description: Lists publication abbreviations used in Chemical Abstracts, as well as many abbreviations used in article/book bibliographies; also provides complete bibliographic details for any publication cited in CA or the CAS databases.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Catálogo Colectivo de Fondo Antiguo, Siglos XV-XIX, de la Asociación de Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamérica (ABINIA)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1 CD-ROM
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 Biblioteca Nacional.
Description: Contains bibliographic records for monographs published until 1900, contributed by 22 Ibero-American national libraries, including those of Spain and Portugal.
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.
Chicano Database
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1960s-
Description: Comprehensive bibliographic index of information about Mexican-American topics (coverage from the 1960s to the present and selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s). Records added since 1992 include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Contains the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
CiteSeer
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Features ResearchIndex a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, presented by NEC Research Institute. Provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. Contains citations and indexed articles.
Compendex
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Provides access to bibliographic databases of engineering research literature, including Compendex (citations and abstracts to 5000+ engineering journals, conferences and technical reports), as well as to patents, standards and handbooks.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1992-
Description: Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets.
Crossfire
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Chemical information system comprising Beilstein Database, Gmelin Database, AutoNom, CrossFire search and retrieval server software, and Beilstein Commander client. Allows search and display of chemical information by substances (structures and properties), reactions, or bibliographic citations. Beilstein database contains literature of organic chemistry from 1779 to date; Gmelin database contains that of inorganic and organometallic chemistry from 1817 to date. AutoNom (Automatic Nomenclature) generates IUPAC systematic nomenclature directly from structure diagrams of organic compounds. Beilstein and Gmelin databases are updated 4 times a year.
Current Index to Statistics
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1974-
Description: Contains bibliographic citations to statistical books and articles in more than 1,000 journals.
Deutsche Geschichte von 1949 bis Zur Gegenwart
Type: Indexes & Articles
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 Deutsche Geschischte von 1949 bis zur Gegenwart.
Description: Multimedia presentation in German of post-World War II German history from reconstruction to reunion, including texts, photos and other graphics, and video and audio clips.
Dissertation Abstracts Online
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs. Look for and click on the "Free Download" button on the search results screen.
Coverage: 1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting Dissertations); 1988- (Abstracting Theses).
Description: Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Dissertations from all institutions since 1997 have 24-page previews freely available without restriction. Masters theses selectively indexed since 1962. Includes citations for thousands of Canadian dissertations and an increasing number of papers accepted in institutions abroad. Professional (e.g., M.D., LL.D.) and honorary degrees not included.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Index to dissertations in progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995.
EBSCO Animals
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
EBSCOhost
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.
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.
Economist Intelligence Unit Database Access
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1996-
Description: Includes full text access to 1) Business Operations Report (Concise fortnightly business briefing), 2) Country Commerce (Guide to business environment, regulatory framework, trading risks, key economic indicators, including level of foreign direct investment), 3) Country Finance (In-depth analysis of national financial conditions and instruments, comprehensive guide on how to maximize return on overseas investments, case studies of foreign and domestic companies), 4) Country Monitor (Weekly briefings which highlight key developments from around the world affecting global business). Also: Business Africa, Business Asia, Business Eastern Europe, Business Europe, Business Latin America.
Education Abstracts Full Text
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1983- (Indexing); 1994- (Abstracting); 1996- (selected Full Text).
Description: Indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals and yearbooks on education; also indexes English-language books relating to education. Includes selected full text.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
ELDB: Economic Literature Database
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1940s-
Description: Provides article citations from several hundred journals in economics, finance, accounting, real estate, insurance and related subjects.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Emusicquest
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: The former Music-in-Print series in a completely searchable online database of published music in print; includes current versions of Choral Music In Print; Classical Guitar Music in Print; Classical Vocal Music in Print; Orchestral Music in Print; Sacred Choral music in Print; Secular Choral Music in Print; String Music in Print; and Woodwind Music in Print.
EPA STORET Region 5:3
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1998
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
ERIC (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1966-
Description: Provides article citations and abstracting to more than 750 educational journals, related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC), and educational symposium report literature. Selected full text articles available for thousands of ERIC digest records.
Essay and General Literature Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1985-
Description: Indexes essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Areas covered include the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Ethics Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1990-1996
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 Ethics Index.
Description: Indexes journal article and essay literature in the field of ethics from 1990 to 1996.
User Guides: Accompanied by user's manual and a quick reference guide.
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.
Feminae : Medieval Women and Gender Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1992-
Description: Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.
General Business File ASAP
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Access to business research information (finance, acquisitions and mergers, international trade, new technologies and products, trends, investments and banking) from national magazines, trade journals, full-text investment reports, business directory listings, company profiles, and Wall Street Journal (citations only).
General Science Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1984-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts to general scientific literature.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
GeoRef
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains citations and selected abstracts to worldwide technical literature on geology and geophysics, covering North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
GHCN Global Climate
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: "... a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion ..."--Home page.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1970-
Description: Provides citations to articles, book reviews, and documents on Hispanic American topics in over 400 social science and humanities journals.
Hartlib Papers
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Set contains the entire collection of Hartlib papers now held in Sheffield University Library. This amounts to about 20,000 pages of manuscript, together with a further 5,000 pages of printed ephemera; also includes more than 23,000 images of original documents.
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.
Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-1922
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1863-1905 and 1913-Sept. 1922
Description: Fully searchable database of index entries to the New York times for the available date range; valuable reference material for students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: Provides bibliographic descriptions of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
IEEE Conference Proceedings
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1998-
User Guides: Please contact Engineering Librarian with any questions or send e-mail to: Carol.A.Szambelan.1@nd.edu.
Immigrant Experience
Type: Indexes & Articles
Mode of access: Available only from public access computers in Hesburgh Library or any ND branch library. Path: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Immigrant Experience.
Description: Fully indexed and searchable collection of information and primary source documents relating to the history of immigrants to the United States. Includes timelines, documents, pictures, maps, audio, and graphics.
In the Heart of Hilandar
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: The first complete interactive computer-based presentation of the frescoes in the main church of the Hilandar monastery on Mt. Athos.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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 of Christian Art Database
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Dating from Early Apostolic times to 1400 A.D.
Description: Based on The index of Christian art, a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects to 1400 begun at Princeton University in 1917. The database contains records of works indexed by the archive since 1991. No images are presently available.
Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
Index Theologicus
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1989-
Description: Indexes articles published in theological and religious studies periodicals, in festschrift and in conference publications since 1989.
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 Scientific and Technical Proceedings
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1991-
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Chemistry-Physics Library.
Description: Indexes published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops and conventions worldwide; includes a wide range of disciplines in science and technology. Covers only publications in which proceedings are published for the first time and only those which contain complete papers, not just abstracts.
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.
Informe! (Revistas en Español)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1998-
Description: Full text coverage of news and popular culture entirely in Spanish.
INSPEC (SilverPlatter)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering & computer science.
International Civil Engineering Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1976-
Description: Provides abstracts and citations to articles from 150+ civil engineering journals, covering such topics as construction management and environmental, structural and hydraulic engineering.
International Medieval Bibliography Online
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Click on "Enter databases", then select International Medieval Bibliography - online.
Coverage: 1967-
Description: Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.
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.
Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1868-1942
Description: The Jahrbuch Project provides a bibliographic database capturing the content of the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik (JFM) and a digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942.
JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: An enhanced, online version of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) (full text: 1998- ) integrated with other sources of cancer information. "Search All" screen returns results from JNCI, more than 25 additional journals with cancer-related content, cancer statistics from various health agencies, recent news coverage, Physician data query, selected relevant entries in Physicians' desk reference, and abstracts from Cochrane reviews and from IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans.
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.
Left Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1982-
Description: Provides citations and abstracts, with some full text, to publications from leftist and radical media worldwide since 1982, covering topics such as the labor movement, ecology and the environment, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.
Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
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.
Library Literature and Information Science
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Indexes articles and book reviews from library and information science periodicals, books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses and pamphlets.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1973-
Description: Provides abstracts covering three subject areas: research in linguistics, research in language, and research in speech, language, and hearing pathology, from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, recent books, and dissertations, plus citations of book reviews.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Full text as far back as 1990 from over 400 periodicals covering general reference and current events; indexing and abstract backfiles as far back as 1984.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides full text from over 1,810 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,780 periodicals. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984.
Materials Science
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides a gateway to and search engine for Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' (CSA) journal indexing and abstracting databases in materials science and related subjects.
MathSciNet
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1940-
The period between 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time is reserved for maintenance. MathSciNet may be unavailable during that period.
Description: Consists of reviews and citations to the world's research literature in mathematics and related areas compiled from: Mathematical reviews, and: Current mathematical publications, 1940-
Medioevo Latino
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: v.1/10(1980/89), v.17(1996)
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute: Standalone workstation.
Description: Cumulation of the print version issued with the same title, focuses on texts written in Latin between 457 CE and the beginning of the 16th century.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
MEDLINE Plus
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: An extensive guide to health information resources. Includes common diseases and conditions, dictionaries, organizations, clearinghouses, publications, directories, consumer health libraries, MEDLINE and other medical databases.
Middle Search Plus (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: In addition to full text as far back as 1990, indexes and abstracts as far back as 1984 selected magazines covering general reference, health, and science topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students. Includes thousands of full text entries from Magill book reviews.
MLA International Bibliography
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1963-
Description: Provides indexing to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in nearly 2,000 journals and series as well as covering relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, etc.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
Music Index Online
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1979-
Description: Provides citations to music periodical literature, compiled from over 600 international music periodicals offering historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data.
NASA Astrophysics Data System.
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Introduces the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which provides astronomical data to scientific users. Features its Abstract Service, providing over 210,000 textual abstracts and 6,000 journal images. Offers further information on ASIAS Abstract and Article Services, ADS Digital Library, ADS Data Catalogs and Archives, and ADS Graphical User Interface. Links to recent publications.
NASA CASI Technical Report Server
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains citations and abstracts to unclassified documents announced in Scientific and technical aerospace reports, to the document series produced by NASA's predecessor, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and to the NASA open literature file, covering aeronautics, space science, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, and physics.
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Home page of the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL), a specialized collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics. Includes access to services and publications of the NRCBL.
NCDC Surface Airways
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
New York Times (LexisNexis Academic)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Latest 2 years
Description: Comprehensive coverage of national, foreign, business and local New York news from The Times' bureaus in the U.S. and foreign news network. Access to certain freelance articles and other features (i.e. photographs, classifieds, etc.) may not be available. Coverage from June 1, 1980 through current.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1851-three years before present
Description: Searchable database with access to every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF from the first issue in 1851 to three years before the current year. Additional year of coverage added once a year.
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.
Old Testament Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1978-
Description: Provides citations with abstracts (in English regardless of language of original work) to journal articles, books, essays, and software on Old Testament topics, antiquities, archaeology, Biblical theology, and philology.
PAIS International
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, reports and studies on topics of public concern in state, national and international affairs, public policy, and social policy.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
PapersFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to papers presented at conferences worldwide, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993.
PCI : Periodicals Contents Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1770-1995
Description: Index to millions of articles in thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worldwide, covering major Western languages.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
Philosopher's Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1940-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts of books and journals on philosophy and related fields (ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, etc.).
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
POIESIS
Type: Indexes & Articles, eJournals
* Notre Dame has full text access only to those journals for which we have print subscriptions.
Description: Provides searchable full-text online access to selected philosophy journals; database ultimately to contain 100 philosophy journals and UMI's collection of philosophy dissertation abstracts.
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.
Primary Search (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides full text from dozens of children's magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children's reading rooms. Indexing and abstracting from additional selected publications. Other full text sources include World Almanac for Kids.
PRIMMUS
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1 computer file
Description: "This CD-ROM is a reference source indexing, at item-level, the full contents of the following Primary Source Microfilm music manuscript collections: Music manuscripts from the great English collections ; Italian music manuscripts from the British Library, London ; Twentieth century composers : Tippett, Bliss and Finzi" --manual.
User Guides: Accompanied by user's manual, shelved in Music Seminar Room.
ProceedingsFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to worldwide conference proceedings, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993; citations include listing of papers presented at those conferences.
PsycARTICLES
Type: Indexes & Articles, eJournals
Coverage: 1987-
Description: Provides full-text access, citations and abstracts to articles from journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations via Ovid search interface. Coverage 1987- when available. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
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.
PubMed
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1890-1982
Description: Provides comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890-1982.
Users: Licensed for unlimited number of users.
Research in Ministry
Type: Indexes & Articles
* REQUIRES: Internet Explorer 5 or higher version browser (does NOT work with Netscape)
Coverage: 1981-
Description: Searchable database which indexes and abstracts D.Min. theses and projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
RIBA Library
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: The Royal Institute of British Architects' British Architectural Library is the largest and most comprehensive resource in the United Kingdom for research and information on all aspects of architecture. The RIBA library catalogue is a searchable database of more than 200,000 records, with abstracts, describing journal articles, books, drawings, photographs, manuscripts and archives.
RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Over 200,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
RIPM
Type: Indexes & Articles
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
RISM
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: "RISM is an international, non-profit joint venture which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts of printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections"--NISC product fact sheet.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
SciFinder Scholar
Type: Indexes & Articles
Mode of access: Available only from public access computers in Hesburgh Library or any ND branch library. Path: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/SciFinder Scholar. If you do not find this on your start menu, Windows and Macintosh users may download the software from http://www.nd.edu/~chemlib/databases/scifinder.htm
Description: Provides access to CAplus, a database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service.
SLAC SPIRES HEP Database
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Search high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974.
Sociological Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1963-
Description: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records for journal articles added after 1974 contain in-depth abstracts. Major areas of coverage include culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; women's studies.
Sport Discus
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: Indexed citations on exercise physiology, physical education, physical fitness, sports, and sports medicine, including books, sections of books, conference proceedings, periodical articles and research papers.
Sports Business Research Network
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains full text articles on news and market research information from sports industry sources, including trade magazines and newsletters dealing with finance, licensing, sponsorship, sports broadcasting, ratings and more.
Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University
Type: Indexes & Articles
* ALL USERS MUST REGISTER TO USE THIS DATABASE. Click on "Enter TV-NewsSearch" at the bottom of the page then complete the Customer Registration form. Our Status is: Member of Sponsoring Institution.
Description: Provides descriptive summaries of the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs and other news-related programming collected in its archive since August 5, 1968. Loan copies of videotapes in 3/4 inch U-matic & 1/2 inch VHS format are available for a fee from the Archive. Users from educational institution subscribers to the Archive may freely view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN nightly news broadcasts back to 1998 (requires RealOne media player); new material added daily with a 72-hour delay.
THOMAS
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides free access to a wide range of legislative information on the Congress, including the full text of the Congressional Record and bills for the 103rd to the present Congress, a directory of congressional committees and members of Congress, the weekly floor schedule for the House, and a schedule of daily committee hearings. Includes text of How our laws are made by Edward F. Willett Jr.

Transportation Research Information Services Online
(Use TRIS Online)
TRIS Online
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) ) Online contains more than 400,000 records of published transportation research (books, journal articles, and technical reports) from the 1960's to the present.
USGS Daily Values. Central
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
USGS Peak Values
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Indexes printed sources of Victorian thought and opinion. Includes indexing of 45 of the most important monthly and quarterly periodicals, with a table of contents for every periodical indexed.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
User Guides: Accompanied by user's guide.
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.
World Shakespeare Bibliography
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Each year, coverage will move forward one year and backwards at least three years. Currently covers 1968-2003.
Description: When complete, will provide annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900.
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.
Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst (ZID) Theologie
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Most recent 3 months
Description: Current awareness service providing rolling three months' listings of newly published articles (table-of-contents format) on theology, religious studies, and the Ancient Near East. Listings based on 600+ regularly received periodicals in the Tübingen University Library.
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