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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]
Science and Technology (General): 29 Databases
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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.
Access Science
Type: Reference
Coverage: Began in 2000?
Description: Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. Also includes over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.
Applied Science and Technology Index
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
CASSI
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1907/1996
* See also SciFinder Scholar which retrieves information contained in databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service.
Description: Lists publication abbreviations used in Chemical Abstracts, as well as many abbreviations used in article/book bibliographies; also provides complete bibliographic details for any publication cited in CA or the CAS databases.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Dissertation Abstracts Online
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.
EBSCOhost
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.
EPA STORET Region 5:3
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1998
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
General Science Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1984-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts to general scientific literature.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
GHCN Global Climate
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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 to Scientific and Technical Proceedings
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1991-
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Chemistry-Physics Library.
Description: Indexes published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops and conventions worldwide; includes a wide range of disciplines in science and technology. Covers only publications in which proceedings are published for the first time and only those which contain complete papers, not just abstracts.
International Civil Engineering Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1976-
Description: Provides abstracts and citations to articles from 150+ civil engineering journals, covering such topics as construction management and environmental, structural and hydraulic engineering.
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.
Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1868-1942
Description: The Jahrbuch Project provides a bibliographic database capturing the content of the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik (JFM) and a digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942.
LexisNexis Academic
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.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides full text from over 1,810 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,780 periodicals. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984.
Merck Index
Type: Reference
Coverage: version 12:3(1999)
Description: Database of more than 10,000 monographs (covering human and veterinary drugs, biologicals, natural products, agricultural compounds, commercial and laboratory chemicals and environmentally significant compounds) from the 12th ed. of the Merck index.
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
NCDC Surface Airways
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
ProceedingsFirst
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.
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.
USGS Daily Values. Central
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
USGS Peak Values
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Web of Science
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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