Electronic Resources Gateway

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.

Type: Reference

Description: Provides selected text from newspaper collections: Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800; The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Nov. 1860-Apr. 1865); African American Newspapers: The 19th Century.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Users: Licensed for four simultaneous users.

* Link to list of LION collections
* Link to LION home page

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.

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.

* Database coverage list for Anthropological literature

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.

Type: Reference

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 Encarta Africana.

Description: Multimedia encyclopedia with more than 3600 articles, over 2900 media elements (videos, audio clips, maps and photographs), an interactive timeline of Africans and people of African descent, and a civil rights chronology.

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.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: The first release of the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress contains approximately 2,000 items relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862-1895. The collection also contains the writings of some of Douglass's contemporaries such as Henry Ward Beecher, Ida B. Wells, Gerrit Smith, and Horace Greeley. Subjects covered in the collection include politics, emancipation, racial prejudice, women's suffrage, and prison reform.

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.

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.

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.

* MLA Directory of Periodicals a guide to journals and series in languages and literatures.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: A 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.

* NetLibrary user guide
* ND titles

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.

* Database coverage list for PCI, Periodicals Contents Index
* PCI Training Manual

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.

* Database coverage list for PsycINFO
* Guide to searching PsycINFO
* Online tutorial for searching

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.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

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: Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866. Format allows users to track information by time period and geographic region, and includes interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic connections. The accompanying data contains materials about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century; complete text of each poem with any integral textual images or illustrations.

Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.

* Link to list of LION collections
* Link to LION home page

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.