Electronic Resources Gateway

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: Collection of treatises on art and architecture printed and published between 1470 to 1775 and structured around the two Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, with translations mostly from the publication period; contains approximately 4,000 images.

Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.

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

* 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

Description: A full-text searchable database of articles and primary source materials on individual critics and theorists and critical and theoretical schools and movements.

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.

Type: Reference

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

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.

* Database coverage list for Literature Resource Center

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.

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: 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: Reference

Description: Texts on Italian music theory and aesthetics designed to extend Thesaurus musicarum Latinarum, including scanned images of all musical examples, Table of codes and noteshapes for mensural notation, and Principles of orthography for the TML.

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.