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Electronic Resources Gateway
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"Notre Dame Libraries license and pay for access to most of these resources. They are intended for your individual educational use only. Excessive use, such as downloading entire journal issues, is prohibited by contract and may result in loss of access for the entire Notre Dame community." [Acceptable Use Policy]
Databases - 15:
Indexes & Articles - 7; Reference - 3; eBooks & eTexts - 2; Data/Statistics/GIS - 3 Journals - 940 
 - Core resources
 - ND only access
 - enabled
 - Free
Access Science
Type: Reference
Coverage: Began in 2000?
Description: Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. Also includes over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.
AGRICOLA
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Began in 1990s.
Description: Provides indexed citations to books, serials, audiovisuals, etc. held by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators (1970-present) and to journal articles, book chapters, etc. (1979-present), covering agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.
Biological Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Indexes and abstracts international research in life sciences, covering agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.
Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
General Science Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1984-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts to general scientific literature.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: An enhanced, online version of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) (full text: 1998- ) integrated with other sources of cancer information. "Search All" screen returns results from JNCI, more than 25 additional journals with cancer-related content, cancer statistics from various health agencies, recent news coverage, Physician data query, selected relevant entries in Physicians' desk reference, and abstracts from Cochrane reviews and from IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
MEDLINE Plus
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: An extensive guide to health information resources. Includes common diseases and conditions, dictionaries, organizations, clearinghouses, publications, directories, consumer health libraries, MEDLINE and other medical databases.
Merck Index
Type: Reference
Coverage: version 12:3(1999)
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download Description: Database of more than 10,000 monographs (covering human and veterinary drugs, biologicals, natural products, agricultural compounds, commercial and laboratory chemicals and environmentally significant compounds) from the 12th ed. of the Merck index.
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
NetLibrary E-book Collection
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.
Social Science Electronic Data Library
Type: Reference, Data/Statistics/GIS
Description: "The Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) is a premium health and social science resource that consists of ... data sets from ... comprising six topically-focused collections. SSEDL is a unique source of high quality social science data and documentation for researchers, educators, students, and policy analysts ... contains ... data sets from AIDS/STD, Disability in the U.S., American family, Adolescent pregnancy & pregnancy prevention, Aging, Maternal drug abuse, Contextual data archive"--Title screen.
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.
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