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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 - 58:
Indexes & Articles - 27; Reference - 19; eBooks & eTexts - 5; Data/Statistics/GIS - 7 Journals - 1109 
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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.
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.
Applied Science and Technology Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1983-
Description: Indexes international English-language periodicals in applied sciences and technology, including engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer technology, data processing and energy-realted disciplines.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
Architectural Graphic Standards
Type: Reference
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: Based on and contains all information from the printed 10th ed. of Architectural Graphic Standards.
Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
ASAE Standards
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1999
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/ASAE Standards 1999.
Description: Consensus documents developed and adopted by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers to meet standardization needs for agricultural field equipment, farmstead equipment, structures, soil and water resource management, turf and landscape equipment, forest engineering, food and process engineering, electric power applications, plant and animal environment, and waste management.
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.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1965-
Description: Comprehensive business database of scholarly journals and business periodicals. Indexes and abstracts more than 4,500 business titles with coverage from 1965; of these, 3,600+ with full text.
CASSI
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1907/1996
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 * See also SciFinder Scholar which retrieves information contained in databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service.
Description: Lists publication abbreviations used in Chemical Abstracts, as well as many abbreviations used in article/book bibliographies; also provides complete bibliographic details for any publication cited in CA or the CAS databases.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
CiteSeer
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Features ResearchIndex a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, presented by NEC Research Institute. Provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. Contains citations and indexed articles.
Compendex
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Provides access to bibliographic databases of engineering research literature, including Compendex (citations and abstracts to 5000+ engineering journals, conferences and technical reports), as well as to patents, standards and handbooks.
Comprehensive Composite Materials
Type: Reference
Description: Provides an online version of the 6-vol. print encyclopedic work covering key aspects of naturally occurring and synthetic composite materials including history, mechanical properties, physical properties, structural design, structural analysis, manufacturing processes, quality assurance, test methods, applications, recycling and disposal.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Type: Reference
Coverage: 80th ed.(1999/2000)
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: Contains frequently used data in chemistry and physics (basic constants, units, and conversion factors; symbols, terminology, and nomenclature; physical constants of organic compounds; properties of the elements and inorganic compounds; information on molecular structure; etc.)
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
Current Index to Statistics
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1974-
Description: Contains bibliographic citations to statistical books and articles in more than 1,000 journals.
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.
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.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Type: Reference
Description: Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, articles not yet in the print Britannica encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (tenth edition), and the Britannica book of the year.
Energy Citations Database
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1948-
Description: The Energy Citations Database (ECD) provides one-stop shopping access to historical and current announcement records (1948 to the present) for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information.
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.
General Science Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1984-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts to general scientific literature.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
GeoRef
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains citations and selected abstracts to worldwide technical literature on geology and geophysics, covering North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
GrayLIT Network
Type: Reference
Description: Provides a full-text search across the gray literature of multiple government agencies within a science portal of technical reports It taps into the search engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the user to find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency.
Heat Transfer Textbook, 3rd Ed.
Type: eBooks & eTexts
System requirements: requires the Adobe reader. For best results, save the 7+ MB file to disk and view with Acrobat 5.0.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: Provides bibliographic descriptions of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
IEEE Conference Proceedings
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1998-
User Guides: Please contact Engineering Librarian with any questions or send e-mail to: Carol.A.Szambelan.1@nd.edu.
Information Bridge
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1995-
Description: Access to full-text U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research and development in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental cleanup, energy technologies, and other topics; includes the full-text and bibliographic records of DOE-sponsored report literature produced by the DOE and DOE contractor research and development community.
INSPEC (SilverPlatter)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering & computer science.
International Civil Engineering Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1976-
Description: Provides abstracts and citations to articles from 150+ civil engineering journals, covering such topics as construction management and environmental, structural and hydraulic engineering.
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Description: Offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties and is a major reference source used by those in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Many tables have been "knovelized" to be interactive. The full text of the original print version is available in PDF format (full- text searchable), including original index. All entries in index hyperlinked to their page numbers.
Journal Citation Reports on the Web (Science Ed. & Social Sciences Ed.)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1999-2001
Description: Resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide, showing the relationship between citing and cited journals.
Knovel Critical Tables
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Description: kCT is a brand new reference featuring tables of properties for commonly used chemical compounds in the physical properties tables. kCT has expanded the original 6,000 chemical compounds in the physical properties tables of International Critical Table. Using multiple sources, kCT contains the most up-to-date chemical properties information available online.
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.
Materials Science
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides a gateway to and search engine for Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' (CSA) journal indexing and abstracting databases in materials science and related subjects.
MathSciNet
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1940-
The period between 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time is reserved for maintenance. MathSciNet may be unavailable during that period.
Description: Consists of reviews and citations to the world's research literature in mathematics and related areas compiled from: Mathematical reviews, and: Current mathematical publications, 1940-
Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures
Type: Reference
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
NASA CASI Technical Report Server
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains citations and abstracts to unclassified documents announced in Scientific and technical aerospace reports, to the document series produced by NASA's predecessor, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and to the NASA open literature file, covering aeronautics, space science, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, and physics.
National Technical Information Service
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1990-
Description: Contains references to 370,000 technical publications, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual materials added to the NTIS collection within the last 10 years.
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.
NISO Standards
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides access to downloadable texts of current and draft standards for information coding and exchange, as well as links to standards maintenance organizations and related resources.
NIST Chemistry Webbook
Type: Reference, eBooks & eTexts, Data/Statistics/GIS
Description: Provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.
NIST Critically Selected Stability Constants of Metal Complexes
Type: Reference, Data/Statistics/GIS
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: Covers interactions for aqueous systems of organic and inorganic ligands with protons and various metal ions; related to 6-vol. Critical stability constants, by Martell and Smith.
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
PapersFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to papers presented at conferences worldwide, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993.
Polymer Data Handbook
Type: Reference
* Password may be required, located in holdings record. Ask at reference desk.
Description: Provides information on the syntheses, structures, properties, and applications of more than 200 important polymeric materials.
Powder Diffraction File
Type: Reference, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: Sets 1/51,70/89
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Engineering Library.
Description: A collection of tens of thousands of single phase X-ray diffraction patterns used for identification of crystalline compounds.
PrePRINT Network
Type: Reference
Description: This is a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE. Such disciplines include the great bulk of physics, materials, and chemistry, as well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine. It also complements DOE's PubSCIENCE and Information Bridge.
ProceedingsFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to worldwide conference proceedings, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993; citations include listing of papers presented at those conferences.
Scientific and Technical Information Network (Public)
Type: Reference
Coverage: Dec. 1974-
Description: Public STINET gives you access to all unclassified, unlimited citations added into DTIC from late December 1974 to present.
Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Ed.)
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Description: Comprising 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data, the information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. On knovel, the Smithsonian physical tables are now easy to navigate and are full-text searchable. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.
Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Description: This reference is a revision of the table of values for the heats of formation in the thermochemistry section in International Critical Tables. It includes 5,840 values of heats of formation and 350 values of heats of transition, fusion, vaporization, and reaction. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.
TRIS Online
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) ) Online contains more than 400,000 records of published transportation research (books, journal articles, and technical reports) from the 1960's to the present.
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Access to issued patents' full-text (since 1976) and full-page image (since 1790) databases.
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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WorldCat
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.
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