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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 - 26:
Indexes & Articles - 11; Reference - 9; eBooks & eTexts - 6; Data/Statistics/GIS - 0 Journals - 26 
 - Core resources
 - ND only access
 - enabled
 - Free
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 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 Film Institute Catalog
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1893-1970
Description: Enables users to access information on more than 17,000 American films, made from 1893 to 1970. Access is possible via keyword, film title, character name, cast and crew production, release information, subject, genre, and songs. Plot summaries included in most entries.
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
ARTFL Database
Type: Reference, eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides full-text of classical French writings, including literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.
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.
Cinema Ireland
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: Provides creative and technical details for over 1600 Irish films produced 1896-1986; includes film type, description, references, director, leading artists, production company, etc.
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Factiva
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Factiva can only be used with IE 5.01 or greater on the PC and with IE 5.1 or greater on the Mac (does NOT work with Netscape).
Description: Successor to Dow Jones News Service, Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs.
International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains indexing, abstracting and some full text of the performing arts literature.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History
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 Thanhouser films.
Description: A comprehensive history of Thanhouser Films with many references to the early film industry, including a complete catalog of the company's films, biographies of on and off screen personnel, as well as still photos, film clips and posters.
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1979-
Description: "... provides data on over 210,000 regularly published and irregularly issued serials including over 47,000 cessations since 1979. This reference provides purchasing and contact information (conventional and electronic) for over 90,000 publishers in 200 countries."--About page.
Users: Licensed for two concurrent users.
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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