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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 - 59:
Indexes & Articles - 12; Reference - 13; eBooks & eTexts - 34; Data/Statistics/GIS - 0 Journals - 119 
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 - ND only access
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20th Century American Poetry
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Full text of more than 50,000 poems from hundreds of important and influential American poets of the 20th century.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
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.
ABES: Annotated Bibliography for English Studies
Type: Indexes & Articles
Important: Temporarily unavailable. Estimated time for return of availablility July 15, 2004.
Description: Contains annotated citations to books, essays, and journal articles published worldwide on English language and linguistics, cultural studies, literary studies, and film studies.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
African-American Poetry
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Users: Licensed for four simultaneous users.
American Drama
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: More than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing.
Users: Licensed for four simultaneous users.
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.
American Poetry
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.
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides a free-of-charge, full-text collection of selected literature, reference and verse. Includes works such as the Oxford Shakespeare, Columbia encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, the Harvard classics, Bartlett's familiar quotations, and Columbia gazetteer.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
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.
Biography Resource Center
Type: Reference
Description: Database of biographical information on more than 200,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas, containing approximately 300,000 biographies from Gale sources and full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
Chaucer : the General Prologue on CD-ROM
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. SOftware has been installed on Reference Workstation 30. Select start, program, then Chaucer-The General prologue.
Chaucer, Life and Times
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 Chaucer.
Description: Includes the complete works of Chaucer with modern translations and glossary, critical commentary, historical information, extensive graphics, and audio clips in Middle English.
Dictionary of Old English
Type: Reference
Coverage: A-F
Description: Defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language.
Dictionary of Old English Old English Corpus
Type: Reference, eBooks & eTexts
Description: This edition includes over 3,000 different texts and was constructed from a version supplied by the Dictionary of Old English Project in 1998.
Early American Fiction
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Contains full text of first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes, including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
Early English books online - text creation partnership(Use EEBO TCP: Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership)
Early English Prose Fiction
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Contains 211 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: "The complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries."
Users: Limited to 4 concurrent users
EEBO : Early English Books Online
Type: eBooks & eTexts
* The works in this collection are presented as images, which may be viewed online, or downloaded in PDF format for viewing off-line. No plugins are required to view images online. To view PDF documents, you will need the Acrobat Reader plugin from Adobe.
Description: Reproduces works listed in: Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title catalogue, Wing's Short title catalogue and Thomason tracts, online via ProQuest Direct.
EEBO TCP: Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Subset of Early English Books Online. SGML/XML encoded with full text searching capabilities. Currently includes 2,000 plus titles. 200-300 titles are added monthly. When complete, EEBO-TCP will contain 25,000 texts.
Eighteenth Century Fiction
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides the complete text of 96 works of prose fiction, written in the British Isles between 1700 and 1780, including Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
Electronic Beowulf
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 "Humanities & History" folder, then Electronic Beowulf.
Description: Contains an image-based edition of Beowulf, the greatest Old English poem surviving in the British Library in a composite codex known as Cotton Ms. Vitellius A. xv.
English Drama
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides full text access to the two databases English verse drama and English prose drama, containing 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late 13th to early 20th centuries.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
English Poetry
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Contains over 165,000 poems essentially comprising the complete English poetic canon from 600-1900. Drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources, more than 1,250 poets are represented.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
English Short Title Catalogue
Type: Reference
Description: Contains bibliographic records for publications printed in British territory or in English anywhere in the world from 1473 to 1800; includes reel numbers for the microfilm collections "Early English Books, 1473-1700," "Thomason Tracts," and "The Eighteenth Century Collection." (Microfilm reel numbers only appear for publications that have been microfilmed; they do not appear for publications that have not yet been microfilmed.) Notre Dame does not own the "Thomason Tracts" collection at this time.
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.
Faber Poetry Library
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: " ... contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. The authors are all part of the Faber Poetry list and the database enjoys the active support of the publisher and the poets or estates."--About page.
Users: Limited to 4 concurrent users.
Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, John Hopkins(Use Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)
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.
Jack Kerouac Romnibus
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.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Type: Reference
Description: A full-text searchable database of articles and primary source materials on individual critics and theorists and critical and theoretical schools and movements.
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.
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online
Type: Reference
* Click on "Enter databases", then select Lexikon des Mittelalters Online.
Linguistics and language behavior abstracts(Use LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
Lion, Literature Online
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
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.
Masterplots
Type: Reference
Description: Includes the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of world authors, the Cyclopedia of literary characters, as well as 10 years of Magill's literary annual and Magill book reviews.
Middle English Compendium
Type: Reference
Description: Provides integrated access to three major Middle English electronic resources: the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources, including a large collection of Middle English texts.
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.
* MLA Directory of Periodicals a guide to journals and series in languages and literatures.
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.
Nineteenth-century Fiction
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides access to full text of 250 novels by more than 100 authors from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Eliot and Hardy, as well as Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
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.
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.
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.
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. Vol. 1, Corpus Christi College, Oxford MS 201
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 Piers Plowman electronic archive folder.
Description: Early scribal version of the alpha family of B text of Piers Plowman. Includes sixteen passus and contains about 170 lines not shared with the majority of other B manuscripts. Features SGML and HTML versions of text and images.
Scientific and Medical Writing in Old and Middle English
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of acces: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstations 30 and 31. Select the All Titles folder, then Scientific and medical writing in Old and Middle English.
Description: Provides information on more than 8,500 texts from the earliest significant body of technical and learned writing in English. Features Old and Middle English manuscripts found in American and British museums and libraries.
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century; complete text of each poem with any integral textual images or illustrations.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
Twentieth Century English Poetry
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Contains poetry of nearly 300 poets, including poetry in English by poets from outside the British Isles, since 1900. When available, a poet's collected edition has been keyed.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
Unreal City: A Hypertext Guide to T.S. Eliot
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: Macintosh computers with direct connection to the Notre Dame campus network.
Description: "... multiple links and paths of hypertext to explore the multiple meanings of Eliot's poem [The waste land]."--Publisher's website.
Victorian Women Writers Project
Type: eBooks & eTexts
* Click on "Proceed to Victorian Women Writers Collection" and choose your preferred mode of access.
Description: Provides SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period, including anthologies, broadsides, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
Virginia Woolf
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, the Virginia Woolf.
Description: "The complete works of Virginia Woolf including variant and hard-to-find editions. Over 12,000 manuscript images from the Henry W and Albert A. Berg Collection at the New York Public Library and the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex"--Portfolio.
W.B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995)
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction. Where available, the scholarly editions in the Scribner/Macmillan Collected Edition of the Works of W.B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, general editors) have been used.
Users: Limited to 4 concurrent users.
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.
* More about Web of Science
* Using Web of Science Tips & Caveats [Michigan State University Libraries]
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
Type: Reference
Description: "... the text of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published in 1961, and subsequent updates which take account of current usage. ... the current vocabulary of standard written and spoken English."--About page.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Type: Indexes & Articles
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: Indexes printed sources of Victorian thought and opinion. Includes indexing of 45 of the most important monthly and quarterly periodicals, with a table of contents for every periodical indexed.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
User Guides: Accompanied by user's guide.
Wife of Bath's Prologue
Type: eBooks & eTexts
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: Provides a transcription of all 58 15th-century witnesses to The wife of Bath's prologue, with word-by-word collation of the witnesses, digital images of all pages transcribed, transcriptions of glosses, descriptions of the witnesses, and spelling databases.
Women Writers Online
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Browsable and searchable SGML-encoded texts of women's writings covering a period from 1400 to 1850. To include 100 Renaissance texts from the main WWP textbase, together with contextual introductions and topical essays on women's life and writing in the Renaissance, called: Renaissance women online.
World Shakespeare Bibliography
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Each year, coverage will move forward one year and backwards at least three years. Currently covers 1968-2003.
Description: When complete, will provide annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900.
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