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Academic Search Premier
Date Range: 1984-present
Full text/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Social sciences, humanities, education, computer
sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences,
and ethnic studies.
User Notes: Contains 8,025 abstracted and indexed journals; 4,513
full text journals; 6,850 peer-reviewed, abstracted and indexed journals; and 3,630
peer-reviewed, full text journals.
Alt Healthwatch
Date Range: 1990-present
Full text/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Focuses on complementary, holistic, and integrated
approaches to health care and wellness.
User Notes: Includes 50,000 articles from over 175 international,
peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings and association
and consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports,
original research and book excerpts. In addition to the standard bibliographic citations,
the database indexes each article by more than 225 subject categories, 16 articles
types and 11 publication types.
Applied Science & Technology Full Text
Date Range: 1984-present
Full text/partial: Full text/indexed
Topics Covered: Content covers a wide variety of applied science
specialties.
User Notes: Full text access to approximately 180 titles.
Art Full Text
Date Range: 1984-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/ indexed
Topics Covered: Fine art, decorative and commercial art, archaeology,
architecture, art history, costume, crafts, industrial design, films, photography,
and ceramics.
User Notes: Full text access to approximately 195 titles.
BC Books Online
Date Range: 1960-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/ indexed
Topics Covered: The collection contains books on history, natural
history, Aboriginal, arts and culture, political commentary, biography and autobiography,
urban issues, the environment and other contemporary issues that concern the people
of British Columbia.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
Date Range: 1984-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text /indexed
Topics Covered: Clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health care system.
User Notes: Full text access to approximately 900 titles.
Biomedical Reference Collection
Date Range: 1960-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/indexed
Topics Covered: Clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health care system.
User Notes: Full text access to approximately 900 titles.
British
Colonist
Date Range: 1858-1910
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: Newspaper
User Notes: The date range is key, because it covers the years
when Victoria was the largest city in the province, and the Colonist was the largest
newspaper. Included are articles, advertisements and photographs.
Business Source Premier
Date Range: 1982-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text /indexed
Topics Covered: Management economics, finance, accounting, and
international business.
User Notes: This database contains over 3,600 full text scholarly
journals and business periodicals. The database also includes country economic reports
from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, CountryWatch, etc. Business Source Premier
contains PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are searchable
and scanned-in-color. 10,000 substantial company profiles and 1,600 industry reports
are also included.
Canadian Literary Centre
Date Range:1971-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Focusing on Canadian literature and authors, this
index includes monographs, biographies, essay, literary criticism, and book reviews.
User Notes: The Canadian Literary Centre consists of book and reference
content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press. ECW Press also provides several individual
monographs and biographies, essays and literary criticism. The database includes
book reviews, essays, author biographies, and much more.
Canadian Newsstand
Date Range: 1985-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: Articles, columns, editorials and features published
in a variety of Canadian newspapers
User Notes: This database provides primarily full text access to
the articles, columns, editorials and features published in a variety of Canadian
newspapers, many with extensive back files. Database content is updated daily, following
a seven-day embargo period.
Canadian Reference Centre
Date Range: 1975-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Includes leading Canadian periodicals and leading
U.S. and U.K. periodicals.
User Notes: The database also contains full text reference books;
96,600 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and
flags, including 80,000 Canadian images.
Canadian Research Index
Date Range: 1980-present
Fulltext/partial: Abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Canadian government and research publications
User Notes: The database includes all depository publications of
research value issued by both the federal government and the ten provinces and three
territories; hard to find non-depository publications issued by hundreds of Canadian
government agencies and departments; scientific and technical report literature
issued by research institutes and government laboratories
CBCA - Business
Date Range: 1982-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: In depth access to a broad range of Canadian business
periodicals.
User Notes: Over 400 journals make up the collection with file
depth back to the early 1980's. Included are trade journals, general business publications,
academic journals, topical journals, and professional publications.
CBCA Reference
Date Range: 1982-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Canadian periodicals and current affairs information,
and incorporates a comprehensive subject guide to periodical literature.
User Notes: Full text access to approximately 247 titles.
CINAHL with Fulltext
Date Range: 1982-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary
medicine and consumer health
User Notes: Indexes over 2,700 journals, and provides full text
access to over 300 journals. In addition, this database offers access to health
care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of
practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.
Community and Career College eBook Collection
Date Range: 75% post2000 and 25% pre1999
Fulltext/partial: Full text ebooks
Topics Covered: Nursing, practical nursing, criminology, humanities,
science, IMG, photography, social sciences, trades and vocational and continuing
studies topics, including welding, construction, and culinary arts, career and job
skills, and much more.
User Notes: Over 19,500 titles accessible.
Consumer Health Complete
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Consumer orientated health content covering topics
such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics
and health.
User Notes: Full text for more than 200 health reference books
and encyclopaedias.
CUFTS Journal Search
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: N/A
Topics Covered: CUFTS allows users to search by journal title or
ISSN to determine what databases and electronic collections contain a specific journal.
This helps locate full text article availability and where a title has been indexed.
Directory
of Canadian Adult Literacy Research in English
Date Range: 1994-date
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts
Topics Covered: Canadian research in adult literacy and research
in progress.
User Notes: Note that although some materials seem to be available
for a cost, this reflects the cost of a paper copy; online access is free where
available.
Directory
of Open Access Journals
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: Scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects
and languages.
User Notes: There are approximately 4,297 journals in the directory.
Currently, over 1,500 journals are searchable at the article level.
Empire Club Index of Speeches
Date Range: 1998-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts
Topics Covered: Speeches given by prominent Canadian and international
leaders to the Empire Club of Canada on a variety of political topics.
User Notes: Free access website.
ERIC
Date Range: 1966-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Research findings, technical reports, and unpublished
manuscripts related to education.
User Notes: Indexes over 1,000 US, Canadian and British education
periodicals.
First Nations Periodical Index
Date Range: 1980-date
Fulltext/partial: Indexed
Topics Covered: Mainly Canadian Native content.
User Notes: Free access website.
Gale Literary Index
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Indexed
Topics Covered: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary
Canadian Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800,
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism,
Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, and World Literature
Criticism.
User Notes: Free access website
General Science Index
Date Range: 1984-present
Fulltext/partial: Indexed
Topics Covered: Wide range of scientific disciplines
Global Books in Print
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Indexed
Topics Covered: GlobalBooksInPrint.com is an essential bibliographic
tool for libraries, booksellers, and publishers worldwide.
GreenFILE
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts
Topics Covered: Global warming, agriculture, education, technology,
alternative fuel sources and recycling.
User Notes: Contains 295,000 records, 4,600 of which are full text
and are comprised of scholarly, general interest, government documents and reports.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Date Range: 1990-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Health topics including the medical sciences, food
sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
User Notes: Full text for over 160 journals and 1,016 health-related
pamphlets.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Date Range: 1990-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Focuses on many medical disciplines. Coverage of
nursing and allied health is particularly strong.
User Notes: Full text access to approximately 550 titles.
Hospitality and Tourism Complete
Date Range: 1965-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts
Topics Covered: Culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development
& investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management
& administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, and
technology.
User Notes: Full text access to approximately 700 titles.
Humanities Full Text
Date Range: 1984-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/Indexed
Topics Covered: Feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies,
original works of fiction, drama, poetry, book reviews, reviews of ballets, dance
programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs,
and more.
User Notes: Full text access to approximately 300 titles.
MasterFILE Premier
Date Range: 1975-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: General reference, business, health, education,
general science, multicultural issues and much more.
User Notes: Full text for nearly 1,750 periodicals, full text for
nearly 500 reference books, 86,017 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents,
and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags.
Medline Full Text
Date Range: 1965-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/indexed
Topics Covered: All aspects of medicine, nursing, health care system,
veterinary medicine, and much more.
User Notes: Full text for more than 1,370 titles.
Middle Search Plus
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: Middle school magazines, biographies, historical
essay, primary source documents, and reference books
User Notes: More than 140 full text periodicals, 293,480 photos,
maps and flags, 84,774 full text biographies, 100,554 primary source documents.
NRC Research Press Journals
Date Range: 1996-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: Biology, chemistry and physics.
User Notes: Free access website
OvidSP
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: Nursing, medicine, life sciences, behavioural and
social sciences.
Primary Search
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: General interest
User Notes: Contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary
school magazines. Primary Search includes easy-to-read encyclopaedic entries written
specifically for kids. This database also provides an Image Collection of 341,655
photos, maps and flags.
Professional Development Collection
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Education
User Notes: 722 Abstracted and Indexed Journals, 518 Full Text
Journals, 506 Peer-Reviewed, Abstracted and Indexed Journals, 343 Peer-Reviewed,
Full Text Journals
PsycArticles
Date Range: 1988-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: Psychology as well as basic, applied, clinical
and theoretical research.
User Notes: More than 26,000 searchable full-text articles from
53 peer reviewed journals.
PsycINFO
Date Range: 1887-present
Fulltext/partial: Abstracts/Indexed
Topics Covered: Psychological literature
User Notes: 2 million references to psychological literature from
journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations.
Regional Business News
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: Business News
User Notes: Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75
business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas
within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. Regional Business
News has full text for more than 60 sources.
Readers' Guide Abstracts
Date Range: 1983-present
Fulltext/partial: Abstracts
Topics Covered: General interest
User Notes: Citations and abstracts from over 240 popular and general
interest North American periodicals which are updated monthly.
Social Sciences Full Text
Date Range: 1984-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text/indexed
Topics Covered: Social Sciences
User Notes: Full text access to approximately 300 titles.
Teacher Reference Center
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Abstracts/indexed
Topics Covered: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education,
Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher
Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration,
Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
User Notes: 96% of journals indexed in Teacher Reference Center
are peer-reviewed.
Thesis Canada Portal
Date Range: 1965-present
Fulltext/partial: Full text
Topics Covered: Access and search the full text electronic versions
of numerous Canadian theses and dissertations.
User Notes: Free access website
TOXLINE
Date Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Full text/abstracts
Topics Covered: Biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and
toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
User Notes: Free access website
Henderson International Nursing Library
Range: N/A
Fulltext/partial: Abstracts
Topics Covered: Nursing
User Notes: Free access website