Electronic Resources Gateway

Type: eJournals

Coverage: 2000:1(2000:06)-

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Coverage: 2001-2002

Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Business Information Center (BIC).

Type: Reference

Coverage: 1 CD-ROM

Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstation 30. Select start, programs, then .

Description: Includes biographical core data of over 80,000 people in German history. Simple or advanced searching possible.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Coverage: Titles by subject page as viewed on Apr. 14, 2004

Description: List of 28 OPEN ACCESS books available electronically. The printed version of these books are held in the Notre Dame University Libraries.

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.

* RLG Union Catalog AMC File
* OCLC Mixed Materials File

Type: Reference

Coverage: 2 CD-ROMs

Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstation 30. Select the All Titles folder, then BibleWorks 6.

Description: BibleWorks is an electronic Bible concordance and morphological analysis program. It includes texts of the Hebrew O.T., Greek O.T. and N.T. and a wide range of English and modern foreign language texts. It also has Bible dictionaries and other aids.

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.

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.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: Website as view on July 7, 2004

Description: Chicago Fact Finder is a searchable database containing Census information for Chicago, Cook County, and the six-county metropolitan area. A unique additional feature is that it also provides detailed information about the people who live in each of Chicago's 77 community areas and in 59 towns and villages of suburban Cook County.

Type: Reference

Type: Reference

Coverage: 1 CD-ROM

Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstation 30. Select start, programs, then .

Description: Comprehensive collection of reference materials on the Dead Sea scrolls and related areas of interest including digitized images of the scrolls, transcriptions, translations, and associated literature.

Type: Reference

Coverage: A-F

Description: Defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: "Comprising nearly 2,000 individual titles written during the 16th and 17th centuries, the DLCR will give researchers immediate, Web-based access to hundreds of hard-to-find works, including papal documents, synodal decrees, catechisms, confessors' manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises, sacred drama, liturgical works, inquisitorial manuals, preaching guides, accounts of saints' lives, and devotional works."

Type: Reference

Type: Reference

* Click on "Enter databases", then select Europa Sacra.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Coverage: 1982-2001

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.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: 1999-

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: 1998-

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: The IFS database contains time series data from 1948. The browser software provides a familiar and easy-to-use Windows interface for browsing the database, selecting series of interest, displaying the selected series in a spreadsheet format, and saving the selected series for transfer to other software systems, such as Microsoft Excel®.

Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

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.

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.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: Provides access to the full portfolio of Latin American Newsletter information resources along with a series of bespoke services including the Client Response Unit, Special Bulletins, Personal Briefings, and Five-Year Forecasts.

Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

Type: Reference

* Click on "Enter databases", then select Lexikon des Mittelalters Online.

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.

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.

* 1851-three years before present New York Times, via 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.

* Latest 2 years New York Times, via LexisNexis Academic

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1790-1905

Type: eJournals

Description: Project Euclid is a joint effort by Cornell University Library and Duke University Press. Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement, these publishers will join forces and participate in an online presence with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their intellectual or economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices. Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important components of the project.

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.

Type: eBooks & eTexts, Reference, Data/Statistics/GIS

* Fully accessible ONLY in the Mahaffey Business Info. Center. Go to the Information desk and ask to be logged on at workstation #25.

Coverage: 2004

Type: eBooks & eTexts, Reference

Important: Note: The "Options" link and "My Folders" Link on the Checkpoint toolbar are not currently available.

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.

Type: Reference

Description: Includes editorial and copyright information, as well as a site search engine. Offers an alphabetical index to the publication's contents. Contains information on individual philosophers and their beliefs.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Coverage: Disc 1

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 .

Description: "This [hypertext] project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War:" Staunton, Va. and Chambersburg, Pa. The project includes an electronic archives of the sources on which the narrative is based (The Eve of war, and The War years), including maps & images, church records, military records, letters & diaries, newspapers, and public records.

* Website related to the CD-ROM version

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: Began in 2000s?

Description: Contains over 1,200 World Bank titles, searchable by keywords, title, and author.

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.

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.