Electronic Resources Gateway

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: Reference

HRAF CD-ROM can also be found in Hesburgh Reference: ask at Reference Desk.

Description: Cross-cultural database of descriptive information on the cultures of the world. Full-text materials subject-indexed at the paragraph level for comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture.

* User Guides Include tutorial, searching and browsing information, and glossary

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.

* Titles indexed

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: Reference

Coverage: 1973-

Description: Provides access to statistics issued by the U.S. government (1973- ) via Congressional Information Service (CIS)' American Statistics Index, including Statistical abstract of the United States; issued by private and state government sources (1980- ) via CIS' Statistical Reference Index; and issued by international intergovernmental organizations (1983- ) via CIS' Index to International Statistics.

     * Current access
     * New interface beginning June 2004.

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.

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.

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* ND titles

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.

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.

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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.