Hesburgh Libraries

Research

Research Resources

Databases

Browse an alphabetical list of databases and online resources.

Subjects A-Z

Find resources, guides, and services selected by librarians for wide range of subject areas.

Librarians by Subject and Speciality

Browse librarians for research support in specific subjects and interdisciplinary areas of specialty.

Library Guides

Subject guides, course guides, and how-to guides authored by librarians

Copyright and Fair Use

The Hesburgh Libraries offer information and help in relation to copyright law and how it might impact your scholarship and teaching.

Research Data Services

Learn more about resources and tools for optimizing data management and regulatory compliance, and how to request help from the Research Data Services Team.

Center for Digital Scholarship

Digital scholarship leverages state-of-the-art technologies to transform the ways in which teaching, research, and scholarship are performed. Digital scholarship is concerned with transformative uses of content that result in innovative research or new tools to engage with intellectual materials rather than with passive uses of electronic content, such as emailing or word processing.

Library Research Award

Award given to undergraduate students demonstrating excellence in library research skills by using library resources for course assignments, research projects, and creative endeavors.

Starting Your Research Guide

Find recommended resources for starting your research.

DMPTool

Resources to help write a data management plan for your research.

Citation Management

Learn more about options for citing sources and managing citations.

Open Science Framework (OSF)

Free and open source research project management tool - including collaboration, workflow, and repository features - for researchers across the entire research lifecycle.

RefWorks

Citation management software designed to help you save, organize, and format bibliographic citations.

Electronic Resource Trials

The Hesburgh Libraries run trials on electronic resources, which will be listed here as they are run.

BrowZine

BrowZine is a web and mobile app for tablets and smart phones that allows you to browse and access ejournals from different publishers in a unified interface.

Unique Collections

Rare Books & Special Collections

Open to the public. Collections include rare books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, coins and currency, ephemera, and stamps.

University Archives

On Hesburgh Library's 6th floor, the University Archives houses the official records of the University, the personal papers of Notre Dame faculty and alumni, and a broad manuscript collection documenting the history of American Catholicism.

Finding Aids for Specialized Collections

Find finding aids for materials in Rare Books and Specialized Collections and the University Archives.

Medieval Institute Library

On Hesburgh Library's 7th floor, the Medieval Institute Library includes resources for research on Ancient and Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Near East/Mediterranean.

Digital Exhibits

Digital exhibits that include online browsable galleries and showcases enhanced with curated descriptive information.

Marble - Digital Collections

Explore distinctive cultural heritage materials from the Hesburgh Libraries and the Snite Museum of Art.

CurateND

Notre Dame's institutional repository for scholarship, research data, and electronic theses and dissertations.

Library Exhibits

Explore exhibits from the Hesburgh Libraries.

Featured Databases

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is Google's scholarly search engine that focuses on academic content. Google Scholar indexes peer reviewed articles, abstracts, books, theses, pre-prints, and technical reports from academic publishers, universities, pre-print repositories, professional societies, and other scholarly organizations.

Academic Search Complete

A scholarly, multidisciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and others. Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals. Offers coverage of many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. This release contains 1,000 more journals than Academic Search Premier (ASP).

JSTOR

Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis.

Web of Science

The Web of Science is a combination of several databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Science & Technical Edition). It indexes more than 12,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts. Every item of significance is listed: articles, reviews, letters, notes, corrections, and editorials. In addition to access by author, title, and institution, it is also possible to search by cited authors and to find articles sharing one or more cited reference. It is possible to search the three databases independently or in any combination. Live links to electronic journals with full text are included for some publishers. The Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Science & Technical edition) is a Web of Science database that provides access to published literature from conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. This resource offers access to conference proceedings and their impact on global research, including cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature.

WorldCat.org

WorldCat is the world’s largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online.

Search Tools

OneSearch

Find articles, technical reports, book reviews, as well as books, journals, movies and music.

ND Catalog

Find books, journals, music, movies, etc. at the Hesburgh Libraries.

Catalog Classic

An older interface to find books, journals, music, movies, etc. at the Hesburgh Libraries.

eJournal Locator

Find online journals available through the Hesburgh Libraries.

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