Browse an alphabetical list of databases and online resources.
Find resources, guides, and services selected by librarians for wide range of subject areas.
Browse librarians for research support in specific subjects and interdisciplinary areas of specialty.
Subject guides, course guides, and how-to guides authored by librarians
The Hesburgh Libraries offer information and help in relation to copyright law and how it might impact your scholarship and teaching.
Open Access (OA) publishing is defined as free global access to published materials at no cost and with limited barriers to readers.
Learn more about resources and tools for optimizing data management and regulatory compliance, and how to request help from the Research Data Services Team.
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.
Award given to undergraduate students demonstrating excellence in library research skills by using library resources for course assignments, research projects, and creative endeavors.
Find recommended resources for starting your research.
Resources to help write a data management plan for your research.
Learn more about options for citing sources and managing citations.
Free and open source research project management tool - including collaboration, workflow, and repository features - for researchers across the entire research lifecycle.
Citation management software designed to help you save, organize, and format bibliographic citations.
The Hesburgh Libraries run trials on electronic resources, which will be listed here as they are run.
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.
Open to the public. Collections include rare books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, coins and currency, ephemera, and stamps.
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.
Find finding aids for materials in Rare Books and Specialized Collections and the University Archives.
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 that include online browsable galleries and showcases enhanced with curated descriptive information.
Explore distinctive cultural heritage materials from the Hesburgh Libraries and the Snite Museum of Art.
Notre Dame's institutional repository for scholarship, research data, and electronic theses and dissertations.
Explore exhibits from the Hesburgh Libraries.
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.
Provides full-text for over 1,200 journals (some back to 1990) covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies and education. It also has abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and over 1,700 are peer-reviewed. The Wall Street journal, New York times, and the Christian Science Monitor are also indexed.
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 indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
WorldCat is the world’s largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online.
Find articles, technical reports, book reviews, as well as books, journals, movies and music.
Find books, journals, music, movies, etc. at the Hesburgh Libraries.
An older interface to find books, journals, music, movies, etc. at the Hesburgh Libraries.
Find online journals available through the Hesburgh Libraries.