Electronic Resources Gateway

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.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1954-

Description: Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present and citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations.

Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: late 19th cent.-

Description: Indexed citations to articles (two or more pages long) and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies published in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present.

* Database coverage list for Anthropological literature

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

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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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: 1984-

Description: Provides indexing and abstracts to general scientific literature.

Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

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.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1969-

Description: Provides indexing and abstracts of scholarly articles, books, and essays on European and world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada, which are covered in: America: History and Life).

Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.

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.

* Database coverage list for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1969-

Description: Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering & computer science.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: Includes 3 sections: studies by theme, periodicals, and statistics. Studies by theme, containing monographs and annual reports, include 19 topics: agriculture & food; education & skills; emerging economics; employment; energy; enterprise, industry & trade; environment & sustainable development; finance & investment; general economics & future studies; governance; international development; nuclear energy; science & information technology; social issues & migration; statistics sources & methods; taxation; territorial economy; transition economics; transport.

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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