Electronic Resources Gateway

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1960s-

Description: Comprehensive bibliographic index of information about Mexican-American topics (coverage from the 1960s to the present and selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s). Records added since 1992 include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Contains the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.

Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

* Database coverage list for Chicano Database

Type: Reference

HRAF CD-ROM can also be found in Hesburgh Reference: ask at Reference Desk.

Description: Cross-cultural database of descriptive information on the cultures of the world. Full-text materials subject-indexed at the paragraph level for comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture.

* User Guides Include tutorial, searching and browsing information, and glossary

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: GDF online includes a comprehensive set of tables with statistical data for 136 countries that report debt under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. It contains data on total external debt stocks and flows, aggregates, and key debt ratios, and provides a detailed, country-by-country picture of debt.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1982-

Description: Provides citations and abstracts, with some full text, to publications from leftist and radical media worldwide since 1982, covering topics such as the labor movement, ecology and the environment, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.

Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.

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

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.

Type: Reference, Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: "The Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) is a premium health and social science resource that consists of ... data sets from ... comprising six topically-focused collections. SSEDL is a unique source of high quality social science data and documentation for researchers, educators, students, and policy analysts ... contains ... data sets from AIDS/STD, Disability in the U.S., American family, Adolescent pregnancy & pregnancy prevention, Aging, Maternal drug abuse, Contextual data archive"--Title screen.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1963-

Description: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records for journal articles added after 1974 contain in-depth abstracts. Major areas of coverage include culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; women's studies.

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: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: Began in 2000s?

Description: Contains over 1,200 World Bank titles, searchable by keywords, title, and author.

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.