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Arts and Humanities (General): 54 Databases
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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.
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.
Aristoteles Latinus Database
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: 1 CD-ROM
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: The complete corpus of medieval Greek-Latin translations of the works of Aristotle as published in the printed work, Aristoteles Latinus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Books in Print With Reviews
Type: Reference
Description: An index of books and book reviews currently available from North American publishers. Search by author, title, subject, ISBN, keyword, etc.
Catholic Base Builder
Type: eBooks & eTexts
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 Catholic base builder.
Description: Includes New Jerusalem Bible, New American Bible, the Latin vulgate, Jerome's biblical commentary, and Confessions of St. Augustine.
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.
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.
DYABOLA
Type: Reference
Description: The online subject catalogue of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome, the most comprehensive library in the world devoted to classical studies. Organized as a hierarchical tree of 32,000 subject and key words, with entries to books and journal articles in classical archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, archaeology of the Near East, Byzantine art history, epigraphs, numismatics, classical history, and antique social and legal history.
Early Church Fathers
Type: eBooks & eTexts
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 Logos Library System.
Description: Full text of the writings of the early church fathers translated into English (American reprint of the 38-volume Edinburgh edition: The ante-Nicene fathers ; The select library of the Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church, 1st and 2nd series) reflecting the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era.
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.
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.
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.
Great Councils
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides access to English-language texts of documents from all ecumenical councils, with topical index and historical sketches of the councils.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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.
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 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.
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.
Labyrinth
Type: Reference
Description: The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. This project not only provides an organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but also serves as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study. The Labyrinth project is open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies.
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.
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.
Librairie des Ducs de Bourgogne
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: v.1 CD-ROM
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: Each CD-ROM contains two complementary databases: a textual database and an image bank. The textual database consists of all the descriptive notes of the manuscripts. The image bank comprises the reproductions of all illustrations. In addition, there is a series of background articles relating to the history of the Burgundy Library, important persons, or stylistic trends.
Literature Resource Center
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.
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.
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.
OED : Oxford English Dictionary
Type: Reference
Description: Authoritative usage and meaning of English words and phrases from 1150 to the present. Full text of the 2nd ed., 1989, the Additions 1993-1997, the 3rd ed. (in progress) Mar. 2000-, and a projection of 1,000 new and revised words added each quarter.
Past Masters
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Collection of searchable, full-text humanities databases of scholarly complete editions or selections from classics in philosophy, political science, and economics. Works by Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Austin, Ayer, Berkeley, Calvin, Collingwood, Davidson, Descartes, Dewey, Fichte, Hegel, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Nietzsche, Plato, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein.
Patrologia Latina
Type: eBooks & eTexts
* USE Internet Explorer 5 or greater, or Netscape 6 or greater
Description: Provides access to the first edition of Migne's PL, including index volumes, published 1844-1864. Works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to Pope Innocent III in 1216.
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.
PoetriaNova
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: A collection of medieval Latin poetry produced in Europe between the 7th and the 13th centuries. Query functions permit a consultation of archives comprising more than 900,000 verses; plus texts extending to earlier periods. It is primarily aimed at inter-textual searching.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Walt Whitman
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Includes full text of New York University Press's scholarly ed. of The collected writings of Walt Whitman, a large selection of manuscripts from the Library of Congress's Feinberg and Thomas B. Harned collections, New York Public Library's Oscar Lion and Berg collections, facsimiles of editions of Leaves of grass published during Whitman's lifetime, Two rivulets, Drum taps, Sequel to drum taps, over 100 images of Whitman, an archival recording of Whitman's voice, and contemporary reviews of Whitmans's work.
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.
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.
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