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General Reference Databases

Resource
Description
Coverage
Omnifile Full-Text Mega Collection
  • Combines 12 databases into one for one-stop searching in ethnic studies, women's studies, history, and more.
  • 4,000 publications, 2300 full text.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • All subjects
  • 1982 - present
  • Partial Full-Text

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Expanded Academic Index ASAP
  • Includes full-text articles from almost 3000 publications.  From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • All subjects
  • 1997 - present
  • Full-Text
  • Title List

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Academic Search Elite
  • Full text for nearly 2,050 publications, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals.
  • Indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,474 journals in the collection.
  • Provides full text information from a variety of source-types such as scholarly monographs.
  • The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • All subjects
  • Full-Text

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Masterfile Premier
  • Provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.
  • Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,700 titles.
  • Features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 433 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,135 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • All subjects
  • 1975 - present
  • Full-Text

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Canadian Reference Centre
  • Includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K.) periodicals in full text; full text reference books;
  • 84,074 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags;
  • Full text information for over 150 Canadian periodicals and over 400 international periodicals;
  • Also contains over 30 Canadian and international newspapers and over 20 Canadian reference books and 100 international reference books;
  • Updated on a daily basis.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • All subjects
  • Full-Text

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Canadian Periodicals Index [CPI-Q]
  • Access over 400 indexed Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, Canadian biographies, and other reference content. with full text for many articles.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • All subjects
  • 1988 - present
  • Full-Text
  • Title List

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Canadian Almanac and Directory
  • Approximately 47,000 listings, including associations, federal, provincial and territorial governments, municipal governments, libraries, book publishers, newspapers and magazines, broadcasters, art galleries, museums, archives, zoos, botanical gardens, banks, trust companies, investment fund managers, stock exchanges, insurance companies, accounting firms, boards of trade/chambers of commerce, consultant lobbyists, major canadian companies, school boards, private schools, universities, colleges and other post-secondary educational institutions, hospitals and healthcare facilities, courts and law firms.
  • Also included are Images (flags, coats of arms, photographs of Canadian Prime Ministers and Governors General, etc.), Statistical Tables, and Miscellany (documents on regulations, abbreviations, Canadian and Commonwealth honours, forms of address, etc.).
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Directory

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ProQuest Canadian NewsStand
  • Includes the full-text of major Canadian news sources.
  • Includes a complete electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each.
  • Updated daily (**7 day embargo period)
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access

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Oxford Reference Online
  • Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, providing unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Language Reference
  • Performing Arts
  • General Reference
  • Multiple Subjects
  • Collection Updates
  • Title List
History Resource Centre
  • Covers Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Near East and Asia, as well as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, modern Middle East and Latin America.
  • Includes journal articles, primary source documents, historical maps, news sources and web links to academic history-specific sites, primary source sites and special-collection sites.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • History
  • Partial Full-Text

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Termium
  • English-French-Spanish electronic dictionary consisting of terms, synonyms, acronyms, definitions, phraseology units, examples of usage and observations in a wide variety of fields such as administration, science and informatics;
  • three million five hundred thousand terms and names, with definitions, contexts, examples of usage and observations;
  • a wide range of official titles including names of national and international organizations, statutes and programs, as well as abbreviations, acronyms, initialisms, geographical names, etc.
  • Availability: Campus Access Only [5 simultaneous users]
  • Language Reference

 

Credo Reference
  • Provides online access to dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference materials. The collection features over 2 million entries such as 180,000 audio pronunciation files; 66,000 art, science, and medical images; and 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features throughout the world.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Reference
  • Full-Text
Encyclopedia Britannica
  • One of the most comprehensive, authoritative information databases on the Internet.
  • Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. 
  • Includes over 118,000 articles, 14,000 illustrations (including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags), and over 215,000 entries--including definitions, pronunciation guides, and word histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • All Subjects
  • Full-Text
Early Canadiana Online
  • Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital library providing access to over 1,037,000 pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Canadiana
  • Full-Text
Empire Club of Canada Speeches
  • Established in 1903, the Empire Club of Canada is recognized as one of Canada's oldest and largest speakers' forums with a membership comprised of some of Canada's most influential leaders from business, labour, education and government vocations. Access to both synopses of speeches and full texts of over 2,500 speeches is available through this website.
  • Availability: Free Access
  • All Subjects
  • Speeches
  • Full-Text
Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. Includes free access to full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. There are now 561 journals in the directory.
  • Availability: Free Access
  • All Subjects
  • Journals
  • Full-Text
Career Cruising
    • A personal Portfolio Tool with a built-in Resume Builder
    • An Employment Guide and Job Search Tool
    • An Interest Based Assessment Tool
    • A Skills Assessment
    • A Learning Styles Inventory
    • Over 550 Career Profiles
    • Information on Colleges, Universities, and Apprenticeship Training
    • Free Web Training
    • Availability: Free Access

 

Native North American Databases

Resource
Description
Coverage
Bibliography of Native North Americans
  • Covers aspects of native North American culture, history, and life.
  • Wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.
  • Contains more than 122,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.
  • Some Full-Text.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Native Studies
  • 16th century - present
  • Index; some full-text

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Visual Arts Databases

Resource
Description
Coverage
Art Index
  • Instructions: For ART INDEX, click on EBSCOhost Web link ; scroll down ART FULL TEXT (H.W. WILSON) and click the box then CONTINUE to gain access to Art Index.
  • Indexes articles from visual arts periodicals published throughout the world. Coverage includes periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
  • Full-Text.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Visual Arts
  • 1994 - present
  • Full-text

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Journal of Curatorial Studies
  • The Journal of Curatorial Studies is an international, peer-reviewed publication that explores the cultural functioning of curating and its relation to exhibitions, institutions, audiences, aesthetics and display culture. The journal takes a wide perspective in the inquiry into what constitutes "the curatorial." Curating has evolved considerably from the connoisseurship model of arranging objects to now encompass performative, virtual and interventionist strategies.
  • Visual Arts
  • Volume 1, Number 1, January 2012 -
  • Full Text

 

Music/Audio Databases

Resource
Description
Coverage
Oxford (Grove) Music Online
  • Includes the full text of The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
  • 25 million words with over 29,000 articles;
  • coverage of new schools of thought within musicology, such as feminism and gay and lesbian music;
  • increased coverage of world, jazz, popular and 20th-century music.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Music
  • Full-Text
AES Electronic Library
  • Includes all of the Audio Engineering Society papers from the Journal of the AES, plus papers from conventions and conferences.
  • Over 10,000 fully searchable PDFs documenting the progression of audio research during the past fifty years.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Audio
  • Full-Text

Business and Leadership Databases

Resource
Description
Coverage
ProQuest Canadian NewsStand
  • Includes the full-text of major Canadian news sources.
  • Includes a complete electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each.
  • Updated daily (**7 day embargo period)
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access

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Business Source Elite
  • Provides full text coverage for 1,125 scholarly business, management and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications.
  • Includes indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals.
  • Updated daily.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Business
  • Company Information
  • 1985 - present
  • Full-Text 

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Regional Business News
  • Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Business
  • Company Information
  • Full-Text 

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Writing, Literature and Language Databases

Resource
Description
Coverage
Oxford Reference Online
  • Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, providing unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Language Reference
  • Performing Arts
  • General Reference
  • Multiple Subjects
  • Collection Updates
  • Title List
Shakespeare Collection
  • Comprehensive, cross-searchable coverage of Shakespeare's work, critical reception, textual history, performance history and cultural and historical context. Includes the complete Arden Shakespeare (texts, notes, introductions and commentaries), and the inclusion of primary sources, historical editions, and contemporary criticism.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Literature
  • Full-Text

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Literature Resource Centre
  • An interdisciplinary approach to literature which includes journals, essays, links to websites, biographies, author portraits, and definitions of literary terms from a global perspective.
  • 280 journals, 70,000 critical essays, 7000 work overviews, 5000 links to authoritative websites, 140,000 author biographies, 3000 author portraits and 10,000 definitions of literary terms.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Literature
  • Full-Text

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Canadian Literary Centre
  • Provides book and reference content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press). ECW Press also provides several individual monographs and biographies, essays and literary criticism.
  • Includes book reviews, essays, author biographies, and features full text sources such as Canadian Fiction Studies, Canadian Biography Series, Canadian Writers and Their Works (Poetry and Fiction Series), ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists, ECW's Guide to Canadian Poets, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, Essays on Canadian Writing (1974-present), Books in Canada (1971-present), Quill & Quire (1996-present), Textual Studies in Canada, University of Toronto Quarterly (1975-present), and many more.
  • Updated on a daily basis.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Literature
  • 1971 - present
  • Full-Text 
 

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Health Reference Databases

Resource
Description
Coverage
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety Databases
  • Includes MSDS's for common industrial and commercial chemical products; chemical and physical properties; spill and disposal procedures; health hazards; emergency and first aid; storage and handling; personal protection; reactivity; environmental and regulatory data.
  • Availability: Campus Access Only
  • Health & Safety
  • Full-Text
Health Reference Center-Academic
  • Articles on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. Full Text. 
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access

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Health Centre Consumer
  • Provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals;
  • Indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 300 periodicals. Also included in this database is searchable full text for nearly 1,100 health-related pamphlets; 135 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society; more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); and Stedman's Medical Dictionary, which provides users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine.
  • Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Health
  • 1985 - present
  • Full-Text

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Alternative Health Watch
  • Provides full text for articles from more than 140 international and often peer-reviewed journals, reports and proceedings, as well as association and consumer newsletters.
  • Includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
  • Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
  • The majority of the full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
  • Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
  • Health (alt/holistic)
  • Full-Text

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e-Journals: Full-Text

Resource
Description
Coverage

TDR - The Drama Review

  • TDR covers performance in everyday life, rituals, media, dance, theatre, performance art, popular entertainments, and sports--emphasizing the experimental, the anthropological, the intercultural, and the inter-disciplinary;
  • Scholarly articles on theatre, dance, popular entertainments, rituals, performance theory; editorial comments and reports on performances and books;
  • Articles by social scientists, theorists, artists, and critics;
  • Interviews with performers, choreographers, directors, and performance artists;
  • Texts of performance works;
  • Translations of important new writing on performance.
  • Availability: Campus Access Only
  • Drama
  • Performance Art
  • Full-Text

Kurt Weill Newsletter

  • Published twice a year, the Kurt Weill Newsletter features articles and reviews (books, performances, recordings) that center on Kurt Weill but take a broader look at issues of twentieth-century music and theater.
  • Music
  • Full-Text

Leonardo Online

  • Articles explore the work of contemporary artists, scientists, developers of new media resources, and other practitioners working at the intersection of art, science and technology.
  • Availability: Campus Access Only
  • Visual Arts
  • Technology
  • Full-Text

Leonardo Music Journal

  • Includes full-text articles covering music, multimedia art, sound science and technology.
  • Availability: Campus Access Only
  • Visual Arts
  • Media Arts
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Full-Text

October

  • October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature.
  • This journal explores relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, and addresses a broad range of readers. 
  • Availability: Campus Access Only
  • Visual Arts
  • Media Arts
  • Critical Analysis
  • Full-Text

PAJ

  • Covers new directions of in performance, video, installations, dance, photography, media, film, and music.
  • Featured in the issues are artists' writings, critical commentary, interviews and dialogues, historical documents, performance texts and plays, international festival reports, and book reviews.
  • Availability: Campus Access Only
  • Visual Arts
  • Media Arts
  • Music
  • Performance
  • Full-Text

Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments

  • Includes coverage of research and designs applicable to advanced electromechanical and computer devices.
  • This journal will be of interest to mechanical and electrical engineers concerned with teleoperators; computer scientists, high-tech artists, media people, and others interested in virtual environments; and psychologists involved in the study of human-machine interfaces and sensorimotor/cognitive behavior.
  • Availability: Campus Access Only
  • Visual Arts
  • Media Arts
  • Technology
  • Psychology
  • Full-Text

Sculpture

  • Sculpture is an international, monthly magazine dedicated to all forms of contemporary sculpture.It contains provocative criticisms, knowledgeable technical discussions and timely exploration of new materials and techniques.
  • Visual Arts
  • Media Arts
  • Critical Analysis
  • Full-Text

Tempo

  • Tempo is the premier English-language journal devoted to 20th-century and contemporary concert music. Literate and scholarly articles, often illustrated with music examples, explore many aspects of the work of composers throughout the world.
  • Issues feature interviews with leading composers, a tabulated news section, and lively and wide-ranging reviews of recent recordings, books and first performances around the world. Selected issues also contain specially-commissioned music supplements.
  • Music
  • Full-Text


Hardcopy Journals

(available in the library)

  • A Peak Inside
  • After Image 
  • Alberta Native News
  • Alberta Views
  • American Ceramics
  • American Theatre
  • Aperture
  • Art Asia Pacific
  • Art in America
  • Art Papers
  • ArtForum International
  • Artsboard
  • ATA Chronicle
  • Bomb
  • Books in Canada
  • Border Crossings
  • Brick
  • Buffalo Mountain Drum
  • C Magazine
  • Cairn
  • Canadian Art
  • Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology
  • CTR Canadian New Media
  • Canadian Theatre Review
  • Calgary Herald, The
  • Canplay
  • Chamber Music
  • Classical Music
  • CMA Matters
  • Coda Magazine
  • College Music Society - Music Vacancy List
  • College Music Society - Newsletter
  • Computer Graphics World
  • Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter
  • Crafts
  • Crag & Canyon, The
  • Critical Inquiry
  • CV Ciel Variable
  • Dance International
  • Dance Magazine
  • Descant
  • Devoir, Le (weekend edition)
  • Down Beat
  • Educause Quarterly
  • Educause Review
  • Ellipse
  • European Photography
  • Event
  • Fiddlehead
  • Film Quarterly
  • Flash Art Magazine
  • Focus on Culture
  • Fuse Magazine
  • Gaudeamus Information
  • Globe and Mail, The
  • Grain
  • Gramophone, The
  • Geist
  • Granta
  • Guitar Review
  • Hand Papermaking Newsletter
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Information Outlook
  • Inter Art Actuel
  • International Arts Manager
  • International Journal of Arts Management
  • International Musician
  • Jazz Education Journal
  • JazzTimes
  • Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
  • Keyboard
  • Kurt Weill Newsletter
  • L'Actualite
  • Leadership Compass
  • Legacy
  • Leonardo
  • Leonardo Electronic Almanac
  • Leonardo Music Journal
  • Literacies
  • Maclean’s
  • Macworld
  • Malahat Review, The
  • Mix Professional Audio and Music Production
  • Mix: Independent Art and Culture Magazine
  • Mountain Research and Development
  • Musicworks
  • National Geographic Magazine
  • National Post, The
  • New Criterion, The
  • Newsweek
  • New York Times (Sunday edition)
  • New York Times Magazine
  • October
  • Opera Canada
  • Opera News
  • Opus
  • Opus - Opera Canada's Job Bulletin
  • PAJ: a journal of performance and art
  • Pacific Rim Review of Books, The
  • Parabola
  • PC World
  • Perspectives of New Music
  • Piano
  • Prairie Fire
  • Prairie Journal
  • Prairie Sounds
  • Prefix Photo
  • Presence
  • Public Access
  • Quill & Quire
  • Research Money
  • Review, Literature and Art of the Americas
  • Revue de la Céramique et du Verre
  • Revue de la Cinematheque, La
  • Rocky Mountain Outlook, The
  • Sculpture
  • Singer, The
  • Smiths Knoll
  • Strad,The
  • Strings
  • Studio Potter, The
  • TDR - The Drama Review
  • TD&T - Theatre Design and Technology
  • Tempo
  • Translation Review
  • Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, The
  • Third Text
  • Walrus
  • Windspeaker
  • Words & Music