Electronic Resources Gateway

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.

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

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: 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: Reference

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Description: Biographical resource for more than 17,000 notable people in American history; updates include recently deceased notables as well as figures from the past who were not subjects in the print edition.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early 20th century and drawn from over 1,200 printed sources.

Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.

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

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 Official records of the Union and Confederate armies.

Description: Identical to the book version (128 vols., 131,000 p., with maps, tables, illustrations and general index) with enhanced searching capabilities.

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.

* Database coverage list for Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Type: Reference

Description: Indexes reference works (biographical dictionaries, who's who editions, subject encyclopedias, etc.) containing multiple biographies on individuals, living and deceased, from every field of activity worldwide.

Users: Licensed for two concurrent users.

Type: Reference

Coverage: Indiana.

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: 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.

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.

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: eBooks & eTexts

Description: Multimedia presentation of the life and work of Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation author and poet, via text, photographs, graphics, sound, animation, and video; complete works and excerpted writings of Kerouac, archival materials, biographical information, interviews, and bebop music.

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: eBooks & eTexts

Description: A fully searchable library of over 350,000 works of English and American literature, overseen by an academic Advisory Board.

Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users

Type: Reference

Description: Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.

Users: Licensed for two concurrent users.

* Database coverage list for Literature Resource Center

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: 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 Native American Collection.

Description: Includes Dawes Final Rolls with names of citizens and freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory, Chilocco Indian School Records, 1896 Dawes enrollment applications, Dawes Rejected Names, microfilm catalog of Oklahoma Historical Society and National Archives Native American and Southwest Regional Archives in Fort Worth, scanned photographs of prominent tribal members and their families, directory of addresses of Native American tribes. The texts of D.C. Gideon's Indian Territory, H.F. and E.S. O'Beines' Indian Territory and Paul W.H. Dewitz's Notable Men of Indian Territory are also included.

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: 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: eBooks & eTexts

Description: Provides access to 120,000 pages of letters and diaries of more than 600 women writing from Colonial times to 1950. Writers reflect all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, and many geographical regions.

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

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.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: Includes 3 sections: studies by theme, periodicals, and statistics. Studies by theme, containing monographs and annual reports, include 19 topics: agriculture & food; education & skills; emerging economics; employment; energy; enterprise, industry & trade; environment & sustainable development; finance & investment; general economics & future studies; governance; international development; nuclear energy; science & information technology; social issues & migration; statistics sources & methods; taxation; territorial economy; transition economics; transport.

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: 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.

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.

* Database coverage list for Worldwide Political Science Abstracts