New Databases - 2010
National Film Board
The National Film Board of Canada is a world renowned creator of Canadian film content. UFV now has an institutional license for classroom use of NFB streaming videos. This growing collection has hundreds of English and French language animated films and full length documentaries in streaming video. (March 4/10)
Project MUSE is a collection of over 400 journals in the humanities and social sciences, published by leading universities and scholarly societies. MUSE journals cover many fields of study including literature, history, politics and policy studies, economics, education, film, religion and women's studies. (Jan. 5/10)
Gale’s Times Digital Archive, 1785 - 1985 allows you to search and view online the best known and most cited newspaper in the world, The Times (London), in its original published context. Hailed as the world’s “newspaper of record” since 1785, The Times (London) is regarded as the most authoritative medium for political, legal, business and social news.
Its high resolution digital format allows you to see the complete page of every issue of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985, providing you a comprehensive and accurate view of the world from the detailed perspective of journalists who lived and reported the events of the last 200 years.
(from Times Digital Archive Navigation Guide, Gale) (Jan. 5/10)
Database Changes
The Sage Full Text Collections (Criminology, Sociology, Psychology, and more) are no longer available on the CSA platform. All content, including a deep backfile, is available on the Sage Journals Online platform.
The Institute of Physics (IOP) database was not renewed in 2010.
2009
GeoScienceWorld
GeoScienceWorld provides access to scientifically peer-reviewed full-text articles from 37 high impact geoscience publications. A search of GSW will also show results from the GeoRef database. (26/08/09)
Canadian Student Research Centre (Grades 5-12)
Resources for students and teachers, grades 5 - 12. Includes magazine & newspaper articles, photos, maps, radio and tv transcripts, an encyclopedia, a dictionary and more. Teacher Resources include education journals. (6/3)
Kids Search (Grades K-5)
Resources for teachers and students in grades K-8. Includes magazine, newspaper, photos, maps, radio and tv transcripts, EBSCO animals, an encyclopedia, a dictionary and more. Teacher Resources include education journals. (6/3)
NoveList
NoveList is a reader's advisory database with over 150,000 fiction titles. It includes author read-alikes, book discussion guides, genre resources, booktalks, and more. Teen and adult literature. Useful for anyone who likes to read for pleasure. (6/3)
NoveList K-8
This is the children's version of the NoveList reader's advisory database, with over 60,000 children's literature titles. Designed for students, teachers and librarians. Author read-alikes, book discussion guides, genre resources, booktalks, and more. (6/3)
Medline with Full Text
Provides access to the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database and offers the full text for more than 1,370 of those journals indexed. Articles cover topics in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. [ Complete list of journal titles ] (4/20)
Blackwell Online Journals added to Wiley Interscience
We are pleased to announce to addition of over 750 peer-reviewed Blackwell Publishing journals to our Wiley-Interscience database. These journals cover a broad range of subject areas, with strengths in life and physical science, medicine, social and behavioural science, business and economics, nursing, health and dentistry, the humanities, and agriculture and animal sciences. (4/20)
Updated March 4, 2010 pw
