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Recommended Resources (All Resources: 36 databases | 9 e-journals )

• Academic search premier (EBSCO)

  
  

  Coverage:

  Inclusive coverage: 1984 to present.
  "The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database"--About page. It also includes indexing and abstracts for additional periodicals.

• Biography resource center

  
  
  Database of biographical information on more than 200,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas, containing approximately 300,000 biographies from Gale sources and full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.

• Book review digest

  
  

  Coverage:

  1983-
  Indexes and abstracts reviews of English-language adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles; reviews are selected from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

• CQ researcher

  
  

  Coverage:

  1991-
  Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more. Usage info: Licensed for 10 simultaneous users.

• Dissertation abstracts online

  
  

  Coverage:

  1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting Dissertations); 1988- (Abstracting Theses).
  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. Access info: 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.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica online

  
  
  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.

• Expanded academic ASAP

  
  

  Coverage:

  1980-
  Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.

• Factiva

  
  
  Successor to Dow Jones News Service, Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users. Access info: Historically Factiva only worked with IE version 5 or higher. Since then, several other browser options have been added.Classroom Instruction (for training classes only)

• LexisNexis academic

  
  
  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.

• Literature resource center

  
  
  Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.

• New York times (ProQuest historical newspapers)

  
  

  Coverage:

  1851-three years before present
  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.

• Readers' guide retrospective

  
  

  Coverage:

  1890-1982
  Provides comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890-1982.

• Web of science

  
  

  Coverage:

  1900-
  "... 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.More about Web of Science

• Webster's third new international dictionary, unabridged

  
  
  "... the text of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published in 1961, and subsequent updates which take account of current usage. ... the current vocabulary of standard written and spoken English."--About page.Link to list of LION collections Link to LION home page

• WorldCat

  
  
  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.

Other General and Multidisciplinary Resources

General and local information: Genealogy

Formats: Data, statistics and survey results · Dissertations and theses · Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Photographs and images

Research tools: Bibliographies · Biographies · Catalogs · Dictionaries · Directories · Encyclopedias · Guides and finding aids · Indexes and abstracts · Newspapers and news sources · Reviews (book, film, etc.)

E-Journal Collections: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Muse · ScienceDirect · Springer LINK · Wiley InterScience