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• Film Reviews
  
  UC Berkeley web site for film reviews and film criticism

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• Access to the Middle Ages: Medieval Manuscripts in Facsimile
  
  An introduction to medieval manuscripts and to medieval scripts through a selection of modern facsimile reproductions available in the University of Notre Dame Libraries. ... []
• Ambrosiana Microfilm Collection
  
  Information on the Medieval Institute collection of microfilms (negatives) and photographic copies of manuscript materials housed in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, Italy. ... []
• American book prices current
  
  Mode of access: Product made available on the public computer in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (102 Hesburgh Library).
  Call Number: SPEC REF Electronic
  Provides "an annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction. Regions covered include North America and the UK, with sales from such other countries as Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, the Netherlands, Australia and France." --from provider's web site. ... []
• AMS Math on the Web
  
  AMS Math on the Web is an interactive site of mathematical guides, servers and people
• CAIN Web Service: Conflict Archive on the Internet.
  
  Coverage: 1968 to the present.
  Information and source materials on the conflict and politics in Northern Ireland.
• Career transitions
  
  Walks users through the job-search process. Users can create and return to their profile to track and update progress exploring new career possibilities, assessing interests and experience, identifying ways to improve prospects, preparing for a job search, and searching and applying for jobs. ... []
• Careershift
  
  Provides integrated job hunting tools accessible from any web browser. Search and store job listings and contact information. A depository for organizing and managing job searches. ... []
• Carolingian culture at Reichenau and St. Gall
  
  This site presents digital versions of two of the gems surviving from the monasteries of Reichenau and St. Gall. One is the unique architectural drawing known as the Plan of St. Gall. The other is the extensive ninth-century library collections of the two monasteries, identifiable by their distinctive script. ... []
• Catalogue of digitized medieval manuscripts
  
  Site designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.
• Catholic Newspapers in the Hesburgh Libraries
  
  The Catholic Newspapers collection includes historical titles and currently received Catholic newspapers. These cover nationally distributed and locally produced publications in several languages. ... []
• Checklist of Selected Reference Sources in Romance Languages and Literatures
  
  A list of over fifty print and electronic resources relating to romance language literature at the University Libraries of Notre Dame. ... []
• CIAO: Columbia international affairs online
  
  Coverage: 1991-
  Contains searchable full text of international affairs working papers from university research institutes, conference proceedings, policy briefs, economic indicators, foundation-funded research projects and links to international affairs centers, institutes, and further resources. ... []
• Course pages & Research guides
  
• DHO Discovery / Fionnachtain
  
  A gateway to Irish digital collections and resources, information and knowledge.
• Digital South Asia Library
  
  "provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This project builds upon a two-year pilot project funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources Program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."--About DSAL. ... []
• Directorio Web de Archivos Iberoamericanos
  
  Este Directorio Web de Archivos permite consultar de manera rápida y sencilla un amplio listado de aquellos archivos iberoamericanos que disponen de una pagina web- propia o alojada en otra institución- en la que ofrezcan información relacionada con sus fondos y/o con los servicios que presta el archivo. Los archivos históricos de cada país están organizados por categorías según su dependencia administrativa o la composición de sus fondos. ... []
• Early English newspapers : bibliography and guide to the microfilm collection
  
  Call Number: MICRO GUIDE PN 5114 .C69 1983c
  Provides listing of titles in the microfilmed Burney Collection of early English newspapers, with holdings information and microfilm reel number. ... []
• Editing Latin Texts
  
• Eighteenth Century: A Research Guide
  
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
  
  Comprehensive listing of major web sites related to the Classics
• Europa world year book online
  
  Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Contact information for international organizations. Features statistical data and directories. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user. ... []
• FamilySearch. Family History Library catalog
  
• Film Reviews
  
  UC Berkeley web site for film reviews and film criticism
• German Studies Web
  
  A wealth of reference and research resources for German Studies, recommended by librarians under the auspices of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Western European Studies Section ... []
• Guía de archivos de derechos humanos Mercosur-Chile
  
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic JC 599 .S65 G84 2005
• Guía de documentos novohispanos del Archivo Histórico de la Basílica de Guadalupe
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic BX 4610 .B27 G85 2006
• How to find Out-of-Print Books
  
  Online guide with links on how to search for out of print books.
• In principio online
  
  A collection of approximately 1,000,000 incipits covering all known Latin texts, in manuscript form, from the start of Latin literature to around 1500 A.D. This includes ancient, patristic, medieval, and humanist literature and covers all genres: theology and liberal arts, history and poetry, medicine and liturgy, civil and canon law, exact and occult sciences, summons and sermons, glossaries and correspondences, cooking recipes and cursing formulas, large and small treatises, even isolated sentences. Updated semi-annually. Access info: Click on "Enter databases" then select In Principio ... []
• Index of Christian art database
  
  Coverage: Dating from Early Apostolic times to 1400 A.D.
  Based on The index of Christian art, a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects to 1400 begun at Princeton University in 1917. The database contains records of works indexed by the archive since 1991. No images are presently available. Usage info: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users. ... []
• Information on music;
  
  Call Number: HESB MUS ML 113 .M33 H23 1975
  Coverage: v.1-v.3
  This work is an older and less comprehensive work than Music Reference and Research Materials, but it has a wider scope of materials from which to choose. ... []
• International field guides
  
  Searchable bibliographic database of field guides for plants, animals, and other objects in North America and around the world. A merger of Schmidt's printed book A Guide to Field Guides: Identifying the Natural History of North America and its Web supplement for international guides. ... []
• Irish Resources in the Humanities
  
  A gateway to websites with substantial content in the humanities in the area of Irish Studies, created by Dr. Susan Schreibman at the University of Maryland. ... []
• Irish Studies Newsletters
  
  Occasional newsletters from the Hesburgh Library on books, resources and services for Irish Studies.
• Irish Studies Resources, Department of Special Collections
  
  Irish Studies Resources in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame.
• Labyrinth
  
  Provides free, searchable access to electronic resources in medieval studies with connections to databases, services, texts, and images. ... []
• Letras y folios: fuentes documentales para la historia colonial del Nuevo Reino de Granada
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic F 2251 .L48 2002
  Contains digital reproductions of four works published about the colonial history of Colombia. Includes digitized archival and historical documents of the New Kingdom of Granada, Cauca, Rionegro, Marinilla, and Boyacá. ... []
• Library of Congress Classification Outline
  
  Browsers will find here a descriptive outline of the organization system used by the Hesburgh Libraries (and the Library of Congress and most research and academic libraries in the U.S.). The letters and titles of the main subject divisions are listed--click on any subject division to view an outline of its subdivisions. ... []
• Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies. 5th edition. By James L. Harner
  
• Literatures in English: A Notre Dame Library Guide
  
  A list of nearly 50 electronic or print sources for researching English-language literature.
• Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
  
  Information on the pre-1600 manuscript materials in the Department of Rare Books & Special Collections in the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame ... []
• Medieval microfilms & facsimiles database
  
  Database identifying and locating the microfilms and facsimiles available at Notre Dame for medieval manuscripts.
• Medieval Seals
  
  An introduction to medieval seals based on the collection of seal replicas in the Medieval Institute Library.
• Monastic Manuscript Project
  
  Provides links to many quality resources relevant to early medieval monasticism.
• Music titles in translation :
  
  Call Number: HESB MUS ML 111 .H7
  This work is an important guide to translating the title of a piece of music as you remember it into the "real" title.
• Ménestrel
  
  Selective inventory of electronic resources for medievalists, with particular emphasis on French-speaking areas.
• Nanotechnology Research
  
  Suggested library resources for research in nanoscale science and engineering.
• Newsplan Database
  
  Listing of Irish newspapers held in the National Library of Ireland, the British Library, public libraries, universities, archives and newspaper offices. The information for each title includes the years and formats held, and their locations. ... []
• Northern Ireland: A Guide to Research at the Hesburgh Library
  
  A Guide to Resources in NorthernIreland in the Hesburgh Library
• Paleontology Portal
  
  The Fossil Gallery has a large section of invertebrate fossil images. The site was produced by the University of California Museum of Paleontology, the Paleontological Society, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and the United States Geological Survey. ... []
• Popular titles and subtitles of musical compositions /
  
  Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 113 .B39 P663 1975
  This work is an important guide to translating the title of a piece of music as you remember it into the "real" title.
• Projeto resgate
  
  Full-text access to thousands of historical documents related to Brazil, particularly its colonial period.
• Refdesk.com
  
  Provides links to a wide array of reference sources.
• Reference universe
  
  Access to some 50,000 print and online encyclopedias and similar reference works through the indexing of their contents and article titles. If the Library has access to any online resource covered, link directly to that entry. If not, connect to the Library's online catalog to show if the Library has the print resource. ... []
• Research Guide to French Language and Literature
  
  A list of print and electronic resources relating to French Language and Literature at the University Libraries of Notre Dame.
• Researching Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese Literature
  
  The Notre Dame Library has a good collection of works by Brazilian, Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish writers.
• Revelations Medieval Style
  
  Brief description and images from 10 facsimiles of manuscripts of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by the ninth-century Spanish monk Beatus. These facsimiles are available in the Medieval Institute Collection at the University of Notre Dame. ... []
• Russian & Eastern European Studies Virtual Library (REESWeb)
  
  Large site of links and resources related to Russian studies hosted by the University of Pittsburgh
• Spanish Publishers Specialized in Literature and Linguistics
  
  A Compilation of Their Series
• Statcentral.ie: The Portal to Ireland's Official Statistics.
  
  A portal providing links to statistics from the Central Statistics Office and government departments, agencies and other state bodies. The portal also provides documentation on the statistics. ... []
• Technical Reports
  
  Technical Report Information on the Web for All Engineers, Aerospace, Civil, Computer Science, Energy, and Nuclear.
• Transcend : a peace and development network
  
  "TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL [an initiative of Johan Galtung and Fumio Nishimura] connects autonomous individuals and centers working on peace by peaceful means ..."--Home page. ... []
• Tree of life
  
  Provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics.
• Ut per litteras apostolicas online
  
  Searchable registers of papal letters from the 13th- and 14th-century popes, based on Registres et lettres des Papes du XIIIe siècle (32 vols.; Rome, 1883- ) and Registres et lettres des Papes du XIVe siècle (48 vols.; Rome, 1899- ). Access info: "Enter databases" then select Papal letters ... []
• Vetus Latina database online
  
  Comprehensive patristic records for the Vetus Latina Institut in Beurum. Access info: Click on "Enter databases" then select Vetus Latina ... []