Electronic Resources Gateway

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1992-

Description: Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets.

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.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: "The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writiings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group."--Title screen.

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.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1992-

Description: Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.

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.

Type: Reference

* Click on "Enter databases", then select Lexikon des Mittelalters Online.

Type: Reference

Coverage: 1973-

Description: Provides access to statistics issued by the U.S. government (1973- ) via Congressional Information Service (CIS)' American Statistics Index, including Statistical abstract of the United States; issued by private and state government sources (1980- ) via CIS' Statistical Reference Index; and issued by international intergovernmental organizations (1983- ) via CIS' Index to International Statistics.

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.

* NetLibrary user guide
* ND titles

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.

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.

* Database coverage list for PCI, Periodicals Contents Index
* PCI Training Manual

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1872-

Description: Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

* Database coverage list for PsycINFO
* Guide to searching PsycINFO
* Online tutorial for searching

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1963-

Description: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records for journal articles added after 1974 contain in-depth abstracts. Major areas of coverage include culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; women's studies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: "... results of some initial research into the impact of globalization and trade liberalization on women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the challenges it presents, and the strategies women are using to meet those challenges."--p. v.

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.