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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 - 42:
Indexes & Articles - 17; Reference - 10; eBooks & eTexts - 13; Data/Statistics/GIS - 2 Journals - 153 
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 - ND only access
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Abraham Lincoln Papers At the Library of Congress
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Consists of approximately 20,000 documents of general correspondence, including incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65.
Accessible Archives
Type: Reference
Description: Provides selected text from newspaper collections: Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800; The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Nov. 1860-Apr. 1865); African American Newspapers: The 19th Century.
America, History and Life
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.
American National Biography
Type: Reference
* Click on "Begin Search"
Description: Biographical resource for more than 17,000 notable people in American history; updates include recently deceased notables as well as figures from the past who were not subjects in the print edition.
Archives USA
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Directory of primary source material from repositories and collections in the United States. Features the entire collection of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) from 1959 to the present. Records include descriptions of holdings, detailed indexes, hours of service, and contact information. For maximum coverage of archival and manuscript collections found in the United States, ArchivesUSA should be used in conjunction with two other online catalogs: RLG Union Catalog AMC File and OCLC Mixed Materials File.
Archivum Secretum Vaticanum, Reg. Vat.
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: reg.vat.1-reg.vat.523
Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: JPEG images of papal letters as recorded in the Secret Vatican Archives, Reg. Vat. collection.
Army Official Records
Type: Reference
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 Official records of the Union and Confederate armies.
Description: Identical to the book version (128 vols., 131,000 p., with maps, tables, illustrations and general index) with enhanced searching capabilities.
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.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift. Bibliographie
Type: Indexes & Articles
* You will be asked for a password; it's not needed; just click OK.
Coverage: Ed. 1 covers bibliographic data from v. 84-93 (1991-2000) and supplements 1-3.
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: Cumulative bibliography of essays and monographs cited in Byzantinische Zeitschrift and its supplement, indexed by keywords; bibliographic citation records can be searched, browsed, copied, exported and printed.
Deutsche Geschichte von 1949 bis Zur Gegenwart
Type: Indexes & Articles
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 Deutsche Geschischte von 1949 bis zur Gegenwart.
Description: Multimedia presentation in German of post-World War II German history from reconstruction to reunion, including texts, photos and other graphics, and video and audio clips.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: "Comprising nearly 2,000 individual titles written during the 16th and 17th centuries, the DLCR will give researchers immediate, Web-based access to hundreds of hard-to-find works, including papal documents, synodal decrees, catechisms, confessors' manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises, sacred drama, liturgical works, inquisitorial manuals, preaching guides, accounts of saints' lives, and devotional works."
Early English books online - text creation partnership(Use EEBO TCP: Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership)
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.
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.
Frederick Douglass Papers At the Library of Congress
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: The first release of the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress contains approximately 2,000 items relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862-1895. The collection also contains the writings of some of Douglass's contemporaries such as Henry Ward Beecher, Ida B. Wells, Gerrit Smith, and Horace Greeley. Subjects covered in the collection include politics, emancipation, racial prejudice, women's suffrage, and prison reform.
Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature Catalog
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: Provides access to over 60,000 economics and business primary source microform titles searchable by subject, year, author, title, reel number, and book number.
Hartlib Papers
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: Set contains the entire collection of Hartlib papers now held in Sheffield University Library. This amounts to about 20,000 pages of manuscript, together with a further 5,000 pages of printed ephemera; also includes more than 23,000 images of original documents.
Historical Abstracts
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.
Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-1922
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1863-1905 and 1913-Sept. 1922
Description: Fully searchable database of index entries to the New York times for the available date range; valuable reference material for students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history.
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.
Index Islamicus on CD-ROM
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: ed.4(1906/1999)
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstations 30 and 31. Select "All Titles" folder, then "Index islamicus."
Description: Bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world. Also includes reviews.
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.
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.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: eMGH 4(2004)
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: Searchable electronic version of texts from all five divisions of Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates) providing primary source materials from northern Europe for the period through ca. 1200 C.E.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
User Guides: User guide by Rudolf Schieffer in English and German, shelved in Medieval Institute.
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.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1851-three years before present
Description: Searchable database with access to every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF from the first issue in 1851 to three years before the current year. Additional year of coverage added once a year.
* Latest 2 years New York Times, via LexisNexis Academic
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.
Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Presents a collection of historical maps of Europe from 1 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Provides the ability to enlarge maps or to view sections. Provides maps to supplement De imperatoribus Romanis : an online encyclopedia of Roman emperors, including an index of battle maps.
Polling the Nations
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A compilation of questions and responses from more than 12,000 national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and 70 other countries from 1986 through the present.
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: A database the aim of which is to record all surviving information about every individual mentioned in Byzantine textual sources, together with as many as possible of the individuals recorded in seal sources, for the period 641-1261.
Source OECD
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.
Theodore Psalter
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: Digital version of illuminated liturgical manuscript (BL Add. 19352) from the Byzantine Empire, known as the Theodore psalter; the digital version features full-color magnified views of all pages, searchable text in original Greek and in English translation, and scholarly essays.
Thesaurus Diplomaticus
Type: Reference
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/Thesaurus Diplomaticus.
Description: "Over 6,000 charters and 13,000 analysed documents ... for studying the medieval history of Western Europe."--Publisher's website.
Thesaurus Formarum Totius Latinitatis
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: "Database for the study of the vocabulary of the entire Latin world."--User's guide.
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
Valley of the Shadow
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: Disc 1
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
Description: "This [hypertext] project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War:" Staunton, Va. and Chambersburg, Pa. The project includes an electronic archives of the sources on which the narrative is based (The Eve of war, and The War years), including maps & images, church records, military records, letters & diaries, newspapers, and public records.
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.
Whitewater
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 Whitewater, the Wall Street journal.
Description: CD-ROM consists of "all six volumes of the Journal's collected editorials and op-ed stories on the Clinton Administration. Included is the "The Journal's "Who Is.."." editorial series ... Each volume is indexed, and, for the CD-ROM version there is also a index by author, with hotlinks to the articles they wrote."
World Development Indicators
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
Description: The World Bank's comprehensive database on development data (social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators) including more than 500 indicators, more than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups; with coverage from 1960 onward, where data are available.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: "CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI/Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy"--Online factsheet.
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