| A |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Academic Search Premier |
All Subjects. Full text. |
| ACM Digital Library |
Computer Information Systems, software, hardware, networking, etc. Journals, magazines and conference proceedings from Association for Computing machinery. Full text. |
| Adam Matthew Digital |
History. Primary source documents from 7 digital collections. Coverage includes China, Gender studies, Eighteenth Century Journals, the Empire, Mass Observation (Britian between 1937-57), Medieval Travel and Slavery and Abolition. |
| Ageline |
Free access is no longer available. |
| Agricola |
Agriculture articles and books. |
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ALPSP Learned Journals Collection |
All subject areas. The collection is comprised of 696 journal titles by 52 publishers. |
| Alt HealthWatch |
Complementary and alternative medicine. Full text. |
| America: History & Life with Full Text |
History of North America. Full text. |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
Chemistry. Full text. |
| Applied Science and Technology Index |
Applied mathematics, chemistry, engineering, geology, etc. |
| Art Full Text |
Art, architecture, photography, etc. |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index |
Arts & Humanities Citation Index, via the Web of Science. |
| ARTstor |
Art image database of over 1,000,000 images. Architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design. |
| B |
| Database Name |
Description |
| BC Laws |
Statutes and Regulations of B.C. For Hansard, Bills, Votes and Proceedings, see Legislative Assembly of B.C. website. |
| Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS Online) |
Asian studies. Citations only (no full text).
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Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)  |
Abstracts of scholarly articles and books written about the history of western art, made available by the J. Paul Getty Trust. |
| Biological & Agricultural Index Plus |
Agriculture, biology, food sciences, plant pathology, etc. Full text. |
| Bioline International - Open Access Journals |
Tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, new diseases, biodiversity, environment, conservation, development. Journals are from South America, South Asia and Africa. Full text. |
| B.C. Newspaper & B.C. Periodical Index |
Selective index to the Province, Vancouver Sun and Victoria Times Colonist, plus selected B.C. periodicals. Also see Canadian Newsstand for other Canadian newspapers. |
| B.C. Stats |
Central statistical agency of the Province of British Columbia. Full text. |
| Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition |
Medical journals, with almost 900 full text. Designed for doctors, researchers, students. |
| Books In Print |
Database of over 11 million books, audio books and video titles. Provides publishing and price information. |
| British Colonist, 1858-1910 |
One of western Canada's oldest newspapers. Full text. |
| Business Source Premier |
Business, economics, accounting, management, finance. Full text. |
| C |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Cairn |
Comprehensive collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and the humanities. |
| Cambridge Journals Online |
Cambridge University Press journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text. |
| Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) |
Canadian Business & Current Affairs™ (CBCA) covers current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada. It combines 3 database subsets: CBCA Business, CBCA Reference and CBCA Education. |
| Canadian Census Analyzer |
Census information from Statistics Canada. Interface provided by CHASS. |
| Canadian Newsstand |
Canadian major daily newspapers, now including the Globe & Mail. Full text. |
| Canadian Reference Centre |
LIcense has been discontinued. Details. For alternative, see Canadian Business & Current Affairs, or Canadian Newsstand. |
| Canadian Research Index |
Subscription cancelled. Click here for alternative sites for finding Canadian government publications. |
| Canadian Student Research Centre (Grades 5-12) |
Resources for students and teachers, grades 5 - 12. Includes magazine, newspaper, photos, maps, radio and tv transcripts, an encyclopedia, a dictionary and more. Teacher Resources include education journals. |
| CANSIM |
Time series data from Statistics Canada. Interface provided by CHASS. |
| Choice Reviews Online |
Reviews of academic books and electronic resources. |
| CINAHL with Full Text |
Nursing and allied health. Indexing for 2737 journals, as well as full text for 329 journals. |
| Classical Scores Library |
Classical music scores |
| Cochrane Library |
See EBM Reviews |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete |
Communication, mass media, journalism, linguistics, speech. Full text. |
| Consumer Health Complete |
License has been discontinued. Details. For alternative, see Health Source - Consumer Edition. or Alt Healthwatch |
| Criminal Justice Abstracts |
Criminology and related disciplines. |
| D |
| Database Name |
Description |
| DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals |
All subjects - nearly 5000 free scholarly journals. Full text. |
| E |
| Database Name |
Description |
| EBM Reviews |
Medicine, Nursing. Includes 7 databases: Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews (CDSR), ACP Journal Club, Database of Reviews of Abstracts of Effectiveness (DARE), and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR), plus more. Full text. |
| eHRAF World Cultures |
Cultural and ethnic groups. Anthropology, ethnology. Includes full text books and articles.
Outline of Cultural Materials topics/subjects. |
| Encyclopedia of British Columbia |
Comprehensive online reference source for BC-related information, containing more than 4,000 articles plus hundreds of sound files, images, maps, charts and graphs. |
| ERIC (Ebsco version) |
Education, educational psychology, physical education, special education. |
| ERIC (CSA version) |
| ERIC (free version) |
| Erudit |
Canadian index of French language periodicals and theses. Includes many full text journals, and a limited number of French language books. |
| Equinox |
Formerly IDLS. Data and statistics. Census information, longitudinal surveys, microdata, geospatial files. |
| E-Stat |
Stats Canada database with Census data, CANSIM time series, and Environmental data. Can produce graphs, tables and maps. |
| F |
| Database Name |
Description |
Faulkner's Advisory for Information Technology Studies (FAITS)
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Current full text reports on the IT industry, from infrastructure, security, wireless, networking and more. Company and product profiles.
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| FindArticles.com |
All subjects. Full text. |
| First Nations Periodical Index |
Free index to journals and newspapers with Canadian native content. |
| G |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Gale Literary Index |
Index to 180 Gale Literary series, including Contemporary Literary Criticism. For full text of series publications, use the Literature Resource Center. |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Subject specialized encyclopedias from prestigious academic publishers including Greenwood, Elsevier, MacMillan and Gale. |
| General Science Index |
Botany, earth science, environment, medicine, nutrition, physics, physiology, etc. |
| GeoRef |
Geology, paleontology, seismology. |
| GeoScienceWorld |
Geosciences. 37 full text journals. |
| Globe & Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844 |
Globe & Mail digitized newspaper from 1844 to 2005. Full text. Off campus access now available; limited simultaneous users allowed. |
| Google Scholar |
Google Scholar covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. |
| GreenFILE |
Environmental issues. Some full text. |
| H |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Health Source: Consumer Edition |
Consumer health information. Full text. |
| Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition |
Scholarly nursing and allied health journals. Full Text for 550 journals. Full text. |
| HighWire Press |
Sciences & medicine. Selective full text. |
| Historical Abstracts with Full Text |
World History (excluding North America). Full Text. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States |
Historical statistics on population, work and welfare, economics, governance and international relations. U.S. |
| Hoover's Company Records |
Corporate data on over 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives. |
| Humanities Full Text |
Archaeology, history, literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion, etc. |
| I |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Ingenta |
All subjects. Free index to over 20,000 scholarly journals. |
| Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals |
Subscription cancelled. See Subject list for other Physics resources. |
| InteLex Past Masters |
InteLex Past Masters makes available definitive editions of the complete corpora of seminal figures in the humanities and social sciences. Representative authors include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Austen, Behn, Betham, Bronte, Calvin, Darwin, Dewey, Dickens, and many more. |
| J |
| Database Name |
Description |
| JSTOR |
All subjects, with strength in the Humanities. Full text. Coverage starts with Vol. 1, No. 1 of all titles, and goes up to 3 to 5 years ago. |
| K |
| Kids Search (Grades K-5) |
License has been discontinued. Details. |
| L |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Literature Resource Center (Gale) |
Literary criticism, author biographies, plot summaries, interviews, and more. Full text. |
| LISTA with Full Text |
Librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management. |
| LWW Total Access Journal Collection |
Medicine, Nursing. 240 full text journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins are included in the larger Journals@Ovid database. Full text. |
| M |
| Database Name |
Description |
| MAS Ultra (School Ed.) |
Popular high school magazines, pamphlets, reference books, and more. Full text. |
| MasterFILE Premier |
License has been discontinued. Details. For alternative, see MAS Ultra, Academic Search Premier or Canadian Business & Current Affairs |
| MathSciNet |
Mathematics. American Mathematical Society's database of more than 1.8 million items for mathematics research, with more than 192,000 links to original articles. Links to full text. |
Medline with Full Text
(Ebsco) |
Medicine, nursing, dentistry. Scholarly biomedical journals indexed. |
| Medline (OVID version) |
| Microdata Analysis and Subsetting Service |
Data and statistics, mostly provided by Statistics Canada. Interface provided by CHASS or SDA. |
| Military & Government Collection |
Military and government. Includes journals & pamphlets. Full text. |
| MLA International Bibliography |
Literature, language, linguistics, folklore, dramatic arts, literary theory & criticism. |
| N |
| Database Name |
Description |
| National Film Board |
Hundreds of streaming videos, including animated shorts and feature length documentaries. |
| National Research Council Journals |
Science. 15 Canadian science journals from the NRC. Click on 'search' to search one or all titles. Full text. |
| NCJRS Abstracts Database |
Criminal justice, corrections, law enforcement, juvenile justice. U.S. and international publications. |
| NoveList |
.License has been discontinued. Details. |
| NoveList K-8 |
License has been discontinued. |
| O |
| Database Name |
Description |
| OVID Main Database Menu |
Gateway to all EBM Reviews, Medline databases, and Journals@OVID options. |
| Oxford English Dictionary (OED) |
The meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words in the English language, both present and past. It traces the usage and etymology of words. |
| Oxford Reference Online Premium |
Oxford Reference Online Premium provides fulltext access to 170+ key Oxford dictionaries and reference works across a broad subject range. |
| P |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Periodicals Archive Online |
An archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities & social sciences. |
| Philosopher's Index |
Philosophy, ethics & religion. |
| PILOTS |
Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress. |
| Professional Development Collection |
Education journals and reports. Full text. |
| Project MUSE |
Humanities and social sciences. Full text. |
| PsycARTICLES |
Psychology. 56 full text journals published by APA and allied organizations. |
| PsycINFO |
Psychology and related disciplines. Indexes journal articles, books chapters, dissertations. Coverage back to 1880's. Very comprehensive. |
PubMed
(see also Medline) |
Medicine. 15 million citations for scholarly biomedical articles back to the 1950's. Citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. |
| Q |
| Database Name |
Description |
| R |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Reader's Guide Abstracts |
General interest periodicals, mostly U.S. |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
Chemistry. Full text. |
| S |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Sage Journals Online |
Searchable collection of over 500 full text journals from Sage. |
| Science Citation Index |
Science Citation Index via the Web of Science. |
| ScienceDirect |
Science, technology and medicine. ScienceDirect is the world's largest electronic collection of full text and bibliographic information in this area. |
| Social Sciences Citation Index |
Social Sciences Citation Index (via the Web of Science). |
| Social Sciences Full Text |
Anthropology, economics, criminology, geography, psychology, sociology, and more. |
| Social Services Abstracts |
Social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development |
| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociology, social work, social sciences; can also search Social Services Abstracts and link to Social Services InfoNet. |
| SPORTDiscus |
Kinesiology, sport, fitness topics, index only. |
| SpringerLink |
Science, technology, life sciences and engineering disciplines. Full text. |
| Statistics Canada: downloadable government publications |
Demographic, social, business & crime statistics. Full text. |
| T |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Teacher Reference Center |
Education. Indexes 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
|
| Theatre in Video |
More than 250 plays and documentaries in streaming video. |
| Theses Canada Portal |
Full text Canadian theses and dissertations published from 1998 onwards. Also, search 220,000+ Canadian theses held by the Library and Archives Canada. |
| Times Digital Archive, 1785 - 1985 |
The Times (London) newspaper from 1785 - 1985. |
| U |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Ulrich's Periodicals Directory |
Directory of serials (journals, magazines, etc.) published throughout the world. Includes ordering information such as price, frequency, name of publisher. |
| W |
| Database Name |
Description |
| Web of Science (ISI) |
All subjects. Databases included: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, & Arts & Humanities Citation Index. |
| Wiley Online Library |
Sciences, geography, medicine, nursing, social sciences, business, computer science, psychology, education and more. Full text. |
| World Bank Data Catalog |
Key indicators and statistics on 228 countries of the world. |
| World Book Online |
Suite of products including: online version of the 22-volume print encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, French and Spanish encyclopedias. All subjects. |
