Welcome to NIC Library & Learning Commons' research databases page. Search and access peer-reviewed journals, scholarly articles, e-books, archives, multimedia resources and many more from the databases below. For questions or assistance, please contact Library.Research@nic.bc.ca
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Portico now hosts the content from 13 ebook series in the Colloquium Digital Library of the Life Sciences, published by Morgan & Claypool. These titles presented introductory overviews of important research areas in the biomedical and life sciences, authored by leading experts in each field.
This free research database offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness. In addition to proprietary essays, photographs, graphs and charts, Exploring Race in Society includes: Thousands of full-text articles from academic journals; Government agency reports curated and provided by HeinOnline; Full-text articles, primary source documents and speeches from BlackPast, a leading source on African American history and experience; Journal content covering issues related to race, including those of Indigenous communities.
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) in NLM Digital Collections provides online access to images from the historical collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. IHM includes image files of a wide variety of visual media including fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.
The Native Health Database (NHD) was conceived in the early-1990s, when Dr. William W. Schottstaedt donated over 3,000 documents (dated from 1672-1966) as a collection of “Papers on Indian Health” to UNM's Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC). Under the leadership of Director Erika Love, a multi-year project (1993-1997) was undertaken by HSLIC's Janet Johnson and Henrietta Stockel to create a high-quality, single source of information resources focused on historical American Indian and Alaska Native health/medical issues. This would become the Native Health History Database. Contemporaneously, from 1997-2005, the United States Indian Health Service (IHS) contracted with HSLIC to create a unique resource for contemporary American Indian/Alaska Native bibliographic health and medical information. In particular, IHS wanted a space for descriptions of IHS research and reporting that was not typically published for public access. Separate from the Native Health History Database, this contractual arrangement with IHS saw over 5,000 abstracts (dated 1966-present) described in a new, Native Health Research Database. A new Director for HSLIC and strong advocate for the NHD, Holly Buchanan, was hired in 1998, and from 1998-2007 both databases were run separately until 2003 when they were combined into one URL and referred to as the Native Health Databases.
PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice.
Building on a strong legacy of pioneering innovation, PLOS continues to be a catalyst, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing, and publishing research outputs that enable everyone to learn from, reuse and build upon scientific knowledge.
We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all