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A-Z Databases
Find the best library databases for your research.
A multidisciplinary database that provides access to scholarly journals, full-text periodicals, reports, videos, and more. One of the most comprehensive or all-inclusive databases, containing the broadest range of subjects.
Provides full-text articles plus indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, as well as company profiles, SWOT analyses, market research reports, and more.
Subject guides and essays covering a wide range of current issues, with a Canadian focus. Provides access to topic overviews and background information, point and counterpoint arguments, and links to further reading. Also provides information about writing research papers, organizing information, evaluating information, and citing sources.
Provides full-text access to nearly 500 popular magazines, as well as biographies, primary source documents, reference books. It also includes an Image Collection with photos, maps, and flags.
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An authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Yale University Press developed this innovative site to provide greater access to and discoverability of recent, key backlist, and out-of-print titles on a wide variety of subjects from some of the world’s finest academic and museum publishers. Peer-reviewed born-digital content is also published on the A&AePortal.
Britannica Academic contains both the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, as well as magazine and journal articles written by Pulitzer Prize winners and leading experts, a world atlas, country data, and timelines.
Digital news archives of The Vancouver Sun (1912-2010), The Times Colonist (1884-2010), and the Province (1894-2010). No log-in required from British Columbia and the Yukon. Contains nearly 5 million digitized pages of news, ads, images.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Database provides access to Canadian academic journals, newspapers, magazines and reports on topics ranging from business, current events, public policy, health, culture, and more.
"Critical Collective is an initiative by art curator and critic Gayatri Sinha. Critical Collective works towards building knowledge in the arts in India." -- Critical Collective website
"Curio.ca gives teachers and students streaming access to the best in educational video and audio from CBC and Radio-Canada. You'll find documentaries from television and radio, news reports and more — all available with a single subscription!" - description from curio
The settling of vast areas of the world by Europeans has left a particular and lasting influence on history. Frontier Life captures the experiences of people living on the edge of European settlement across the frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Through a huge array of digitised primary source materials, it documents the relationships and interaction between new arrivals and indigenous peoples, and the results of these encounters: the creation of new states and trade networks, internal migration, and the marginalisation and decline of indigenous peoples.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) provides the history, meaning and pronunciation of 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world, and traces the evolution of the English language through millions of quotations.
