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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 - 31:
Indexes & Articles - 11; Reference - 11; eBooks & eTexts - 8; Data/Statistics/GIS - 1 Journals - 17 
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 - ND only access
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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.
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.
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
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: Full-text searchable database of medieval Latin texts associated with Ireland from the corpus of Celtic-Latin literature from the period 400-1200 as part of the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources project.
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
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.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
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: Indexed citations to articles published in more than 150 Roman Catholic periodicals, as well as papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith, authored by Catholics, or produced by Catholic publishers.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
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.
Directory of Sources for Women's History in Ireland
Type: Reference
Description: Descriptions of over 14,000 collections and sources in several hundred repositories in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland relating to history of women in Ireland from earliest times to the present.
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.
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.
Fellowship of Freedom: the United Irishmen and the Rebellion of 1798
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 Fellowship of freedom.
Description: Interactive CD-ROM of documents, works of art and other materials from the collection of the National Library of Ireland, the National Museum of Ireland and the National Gallery of Ireland outlining the background to the 1798 Rebellion, describing how the main events of the military conflict unfolded and providing biographies of 23 of the leaders.
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.
Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900
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: Cumulative index of House of Commons parliamentary papers published from 1801 to 1900. Draws from Chadwyck-Healey's Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons parliamentary papers 1801-1900.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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