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Business, Management, and Trade - scholarly and trade journal articles, dissertations, market reports, industry reports, business cases and global and trade news.
Academic Complete is ProQuest’s award-winning subscription database trusted by libraries around the world. For more than a decade, students have relied on Academic Completes unlimited access, multidisciplinary coverage, and powerful research tools.
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This database contains essential publications for information about the financial services industry, including accounting, tax, banking, and industry trends.
The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.
This database contains the leading agricultural journals published in North America. ProQuest Agriculture Journals offers the complete text as well as complete images from such journals as Agricultural Research, Forest Products Journal, Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and Plant Physiology.
AM Explorer provides access to millions of pages of primary sources from the fifteenth to twenty-first centuries.
Major index for historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Subjects covered include popular culture, women's studies, anthropology, folklore, sociology, economics, music, art, etc. Coverage: 1964-present.
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Alternate Name(s) HerbalGram HerbalClip
Access HerbalGram, HerbClip, and other publications of the American Botanical Society.
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ACS Publications manages the scholarly publishing program for the American Chemcial Society. Includes over 40 peer-reviewed journals across a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.
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Access to full text of more than 30 American Anthropological Association publications. Coverage from 1888 (varies by title.)
Online version of L'Année Philologique, the major index for journals in Classics. Citations and abstracts; searchable by ancient and modern authors, subjects and disciplines, keywords. Coverage from 1959; updated annually; currently about two years behind.
Index to periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins by subject, name, and art work. Covers art, architecture, city planning, film, photography, and related fields. Coverage: 1984-present.

The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of the Laboratoire ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.

Note: ARTFL includes both subscription and public access databases. All public access databases may be accessed (on and off campus) from the ARTFL Public Databases page.

ARTFL Subscrption Databases include:

- FRANTEXT, the main ARTFL Database, comprising more than 3,500 French language texts spanning from the 12th through the 20th centuries

- French Women Writers, a collection of works from the 16th to 19th centuries

- Provencal Poetry, texts from the 12th and 13th centuries

- Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie

- Several other collections

For more information about ARTFL, please see the ARTFL Project main page.

This database, compiled and maintained by the National Gallery of Canada, identifies and locates documentation files on Canadian artists. The Mount Allison Libraries' collections include microfilm copies of many of these files. Entries provide links to biographical information, including the full text articles from A Dictionary of Canadian Artists.
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Scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles covering the subjects of Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies
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Open access to nearly 2,000,000 articles in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
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This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines.
Covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. Coverage: 1949 to present.
Popular movies and documentaries.
Library and Archives Canada's library catalogue.
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This database includes ongoing full-text academic journals published in Australia and New Zealand. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
Stream hundreds of informative videos and documentaries. This database provides the abilities to create and customize clips, read along with transcripts, and provides persistent linking for all your research.
Stream hundreds of informative videos and documentaries. This database provides the abilities to create and customize clips, read along with transcripts, and provides persistent linking for all your research.

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Published by Vittorio Klostermann Verlag since 1957 and comprises world-wide coverage of published literature on the German language, literature and general Germanic studies, including books, articles, essays, reviews, etc. This free version is a subset of the full bibliography available in print at Z 2231 .B 58 REF
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Streamed concerts archived and live performances. Each season, around 40 concerts are broadcast live and they can also be viewed at a later date in the concert archive. The archive contains hundreds of recordings. There are also documentaries and bonus films.
Bibliography of Native North Americans contains citations for books, essays, journal articles and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of content coverage range from the 16th century to the present.
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Academic, scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles and magazines with a focus on science and biology.
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BioOne provides an aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals in a variety of topics, including global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation.
Focused on Black Freedom, this database features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.
Bibliography of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, and Festschrifts on general linguistics, English, German, and Romance linguistics, with some other languages covered.
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Access to digitised copies of 30,000 ballads from the sixteenth- to the twentieth-century.
Alternate Name(s) Colonist, Times Colonist
Digital database of The British Colonist newspaper.
Coverage from 1858-1980.
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Includes national, regional and local newspapers from the United Kingdom. Coverage of British and world news, culture and society during the 19th century.
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This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
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Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database, providing a large collection of bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals as far back as 1886. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals

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Search over 400 peer-reviewed journals published by Cambridge University Press and covering all subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
NOTE: desLibris is now called Canada Commons. Recommended browser: Google Chrome
Canada Commons is an authoritative source for Canadian e-books, government and public policy documents. It brings rare, hard-to-find content from Canada that’s relevant to a wide range of studies including sociology, anthropology, business and economics.
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CBCA Complete is Canada's largest database of articles and other publications. Covers current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information on a wide range of topics. Includes over 500 periodicals and daily news sources (primarily Canadian), plus indexing to over 1,000 additional titles (over 95% Canadian).
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CIHI is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides detailed reports, statistics, datasets and interactive tools for information on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians.
An index to Canadian music journals, magazines, and newsletters. Coverage: Late 19th century to present.
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Full text news coverage of local and regional Canadian newspapers and television news broadcasts.
Canadian Research Index (ProQuest)
Discontinued. See Canada Commons for Canadian government content.
These biographies provide detailed information on the accomplishments of notable Canadians, from coast to coast. Detailed entries give date and place of birth, education, family details, career information, memberships, creative works, honours, languages, and awards, together with full addresses. Included are outstanding Canadians from business, academia, politics, sports, the arts and sciences, etc.
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The Canadiana Online collection contains digitized historical publications from the 16th to 20th centuries, including monographs, serials, and government publications. The collection is largely composed of materials published prior to 1921.
CanLII provides free access to Canadian legal information: Court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions, and links to CanLII Connects with case commentary and summaries by lawyers, scholars and others with professional competency in legal analysis. Funded by Canada's provincial and territorial law societies.
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The definitive source for vocational information and career search resources.
CMC provides streaming audio access to the archival recordings of several thousand works by Canadian composers. To use this service, you will first need to create a (free) account.
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This database provides access to historical material on the people and places of the Isthmus of Chignecto held by the Ralph Pickard Bell Bell Library, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB.
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Part of the Adam Matthew Digital Collections, this database includes English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980.
Publishing some 5,000 new reviews annually and serving more than 2,400 institutions worldwide, Choice Reviews and its print companion, Choice, are invaluable sources of bibliographic reference and recommendation for both collection development and individual research.
Contains 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. Works of major and lesser known composers, Renaissance to 21st century.
A collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.
Created by the Institute for Composer Diversity at SUNY Fredonia, this database compiles profiles on composers from historically excluded groups to help connect with new composers and their music.
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Journal articles with a focus on database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, intranets and the internet.
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Constellate is a text analysis platform and a cloud-based lab. Workshops and tutorials are available asynchronously. In Fall 2024, there are Skill Build courses on Python, Large Language Models, machine learning, and data literacy.
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Journal articles and magazines focusing on consumer health.
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This database includes ongoing full-text academic journals published in certain European countries. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
A health and medical research database for available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak
This microsite provides links and references to all relevant COVID-19 research articles, book chapters and information that can be freely accessed on Taylor & Francis Online and Taylor & Francis ebooks in support of the global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and further research into COVID-19.
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(Formerly CICA Standards and Guidance Collection.) Collection of Canadian professional standards, practice aids, accounting and auditing resources. Includes: CPA Canada Handbook – Accounting, CPA Canada Handbook – Assurance, and CPA Canada Public Sector Accounting Handbook (formerly CICA handbooks) and other related publications.
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Journal articles with a focus on criminology and criminal justice.
Criterion Pictures has developed an on-line digital delivery feature film platform called Criterion-on-Demand. Their goal is to provide easy access to educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian Higher Education Institutions.
Curio is CBC and Radio-Canada’s online subscriber-based streaming service developed expressly for the Canadian educational community.

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Part of the Adam Matthew Digital Collections, key topics addressed in this database include Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and Anatomy.
NOTE: desLibris is now called Canada Commons. Recommended browser: Google Chrome
Access to current public documents issued by Canadian public policy agencies and think tanks, as well as books from 100 Canadian publishers. Includes over 8,000 titles from 47 Canadian publishers and Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Taylor & Francis. Covers subjects in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences.
Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.
Streaming video of contemporary British theatre performances. Also includes interviews, documentaries, study guides and other written learning resources.
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DOAJ is "a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals." The directory includes close to 17,000 journals from 128 countries (as of September 2021).
A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
DDM is an international bibliographic database of completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, as well as related disciplines.
Drama Online includes the Core Collection and the Playwrights Canada Press Collection only. The Core collection features over 1,775 playtexts, including Arden Shakespeare play editions, Methuen Drama imprints, and “a diverse and rich catalogue of plays by the world's leading dramatists.”
Drama Online includes the Core Collection and the Playwrights Canada Press Collection only. The Playwrights Canada Press collection offers 175 plays from notable and award-winning authors including Daniel MacIvor and Hannah Moscovitch.

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Alternate Name(s) Canadiana Online
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About 10,000 digitised compositions from the British Library’s collections of sixteenth-century music anthologies including part books of vocal polyphony and printed tablatures of keyboard and plucked string instruments from Italy, Germany, France and England.
The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
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Ongoing full-text academic journals locally published in various East Asian and South Asian countries.The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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This database includes ongoing full-text academic journals published in East and Central Europe. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
Multidisciplinary selection of e-books available in full-text for reading online, printing, and downloading.
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Search all EBSCO databases simultaneously. Includes: America History & Life, Art Index, ATLA Religion Database, Business Source Elite, Environment Complete, Historical Abstracts, Library Literature & Information Science, MLA, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Regional Business News, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, and SocINDEX.
This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishes and university presses. Gain Unlimited Access to 201,500 E-Books Across Many Subjects
Abstracts and indexing of education journals, many in full-text.
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Part of the Adam Matthew Digital Collections, these journal collections are the first two of five included in the database. The collections include rare journal and newspaper titles collected by Bodleian Library, Oxford and The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
Electronic Enlightenment is an online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period. Includes interconnected letters and documents linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. Also includes biographical notes.
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Part of the Adam Matthew Digital Collections, this project explores colonial history, politics, culture and society. Material in the collection spans five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires; from the explorations of Columbus, Captain Cook, and others, right through to de-colonisation in the second half of the twentieth century and debates over American Imperialism.
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Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals.
The Environmental Science Database is a cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content of global literature across this field and related disciplines. It provides the most complete collection of resources available to support research and learning in environmental science and related fields. Content is selected from several specialist topic resources in disciplines such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
A large database sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education providing citations and abstracts for articles from professional journals and books on all aspects of teaching and learning.
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Érudit is a multi-institutional publishing consortium comprised of the Univ. de Montréal, Univ. Laval and Univ. du Québec à Montréal. This collection includes subscription journals, books and proceedings, theses, and documents and data. Most titles are published in French; there are also a few bilingual and English titles.
Eureka provides access to Canadian, U.S. and international news sources. Includes small, local news sources (such as the Sackville Tribune Post), larger international sources (such as The Independent (UK)), television news transcripts, and more.

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Alternate Name(s) FLI Online
Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews on film and television, published in magazines and journals from 30 countries between 1976 and 2001.
OCLC Online Union Catalog. Search the collections of academic libraries from across North America and other worldwide library collections.
This collection provides primary source documents on the frontiers of North America, Africa, and Australasia from archives around the world, including Canada’s Glenbow Museum and Hudson Bay’s Archive. There are approximately 250,000 images and 8,000 documents in the collection, covering the themes of frontier existence including: Settlement development, Law and order, Violence, Expeditions and exploration, Relations with Indigenous peoples, Trade and commerce, Death and disease, Missionaries and religion, Women’s history, Military matters, Mining, Religion, Gold rushes, Settler governance, Contested boundaries, and Agriculture and livestock.

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This resource contains the Market Share Reporter, which presents comparative business statistics. Each entry features a descriptive title; data and market description; a list of producers/products along with their market share; and cites original sources.
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GVRL includes encyclopedias and other reference works in a variety of subject areas.
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Master index to major literary products published by Gale, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volumes of these Gale series are available in print in the Reference Collection (check Library Catalogue for holdings details).
This database is the definitive cross-cultural resource for information on women's history. It spans more than four centuries and includes over two million pages.
Global Breaking Newswires is a library news product which provides timely access to the best newswire content available globally as well as growing archive of news that may not be captured in any of the traditional print sources
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A searchable full-image version of the Globe & Mail since its beginning in 1844.
International database of citations for books, journal articles, conference papers and dissertations on ancient history, classical philology and archaeology.
This search engine covers many types of academic sources in all disciplines. For on-campus, or MTA-authenticated users, results include links to some full text from MTA-subscribed content. For off campus: in Google Scholar, click on Settings; then Library Links; type Mount Allison in the search box; check the two "Find full text @ MTA" boxes; then click Save. Also see the instructions to install the off-campus bookmarklet in the "Off-Campus Access to Electronic Resources" on our Find Information: Articles & Journals page here: https://libraryguides.mta.ca/find_information/articles
Provides indexing and abstracts and some full text from scholarly and general interest journals, magazines and government reports dealing with the environment and related disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Part of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online is the authoritative resource for music research with over 51,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe.

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An annotated, multidisciplinary guide to books, articles, and essays on Latin America edited by the Hispanic Division, Library of Congress.
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Journal articles focusing on clinical and biomedical, consumer health, health administration, etc.
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Journal articles and dissertations focusing on Health Administration.
An open access repository of papers and data on the topic of high energy physics maintained by CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, and SLAC.
Héritage includes materials from some of Canada's most popular archival collections chronicling the country and its people from the 17th to the mid-20th centuries. Featured collections include Genealogy, Indigenous History, Government Documents, Military History, and Landmark Papers. The majority of the material in Héritage is handwritten.
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Major index for historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (EXCLUDING the United States and Canada). Subjects covered include sociology, psychology, women's studies, religion, anthropology, political science, economics, music, art, etc.

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An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. Note: MtA no longer subscribes to ICPSR. Some data will no longer will be available for download.
The International Music Score Library Project features a large and growing collection of downloadable public domain music.
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This database is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource of full-text, scholarly journals published in India, supporting many subjects, including business, medicine, science, technology, social sciences and humanities.
From the sheet music held in several repositories at Indiana University, this web site allows you to search some of the holdings from the Lilly Library's approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music, including those for which digitized images are available.
With a broad range of international Indigenous research resources brought together, the Informit Indigenous Collection offers a variety of content on both historical and topical issues within Indigenous studies. Readily available, the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework encompasses anthropology, community development, cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law and land rights, literature, politics and policymaking, (post)colonial studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts.
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InteLex Past Masters -- see Past Masters
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The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It provides cross-disciplinary coverage across the social sciences, focused on four primary subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
This searchable collection provides you with the complete set of the latest International Financial Reporting Standards incorporating International Accounting Standards and Interpretations. Also includes all current IASB Exposure Drafts, Draft Interpretations, and a Glossary of Terms.
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International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
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IOPscience is an online service for scholarly journal content published by Institute Of Physics (IOP) Publishing.
"The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts."
Alternate Name(s) IPA, IPANow
IPANow! Online by PhoneticSoft is a one-of-a-kind web application that transcribes English, Latin, Italian, German, Spanish and French texts into International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols by applying rules utilized by scholarly lyric diction textbooks.

Log in information is available via the Libraries & Archives Moodle page.
A bibliography of more than 1.2 million citations for secondary source material about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400 - 1700.

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Full-text archive of journals in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Current and recent volumes (last 2 to 5 years) not available for most titles.

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Content is selected and requested by faculty to support teaching and learning. Stream hundreds of informative videos and documentaries, provided on a subscription basis for educational use. This database provides the abilities to create and customize clips, read along with transcripts, and provides persistent linking for all your research.

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A digital collection of full-text peer reviewed journals in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The content is open access. To be sure to get only open access content, select "External Content Only"/"Solo contenido externo"
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Ongoing full-text academic journals published in Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction includes more than 100,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, novels, and more than 450 plays for the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigrations issues, and political history
Part of Special Collections at The Johns Hopkins University it contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960.
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Journal articles focusing on library science, online retrieval, archives, and information technology.
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Full-text database with scholarly journal articles and other sources covering linguistics.
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Literature Criticism Online provides full-text access to Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) beginning with volume 325 (2012) to volume 393 (2016)(no new volumes will be added as this title was cancelled in March 2016). Older volumes are available in print in the library (Basement Reference, PN 771 .C59). CLC provides full-text or excerpted criticism reproduced from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.
Founded by James Loeb in 1911, Harvard University Press presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture — in short, our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease.

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The Maclean's Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of this influential Canadian magazine beginning in 1905 and ending in December 2015.
The Gale Directory Library hosts the Market Share Reporter, which presents comparative business statistics. Each entry features a descriptive title; data and market description; a list of producers/products along with their market share; and cites original sources.
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Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organization whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965. The material at the Mass Observation Archive, and now on Mass Observation Online, offers insight into everyday life in the 1930s and 1940s. This publication opens up a host of essay and project possibilities on topics such as abortion, old age, crime, eating habits, shopping, fashion, dance, popular music, sex, sport, reading, ethnic minorities, and the decline of Empire.
Materials science is an interdisciplinary database featuring scholarly articles written within the fields of science and engineering, including applied physics and chemistry, as well as chemical, mechanical, civil and electrical engineering.
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MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
This classical music channel features over 1,800 programs (3,000 original works), including concerts and archived historical concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, artist portraits, and educational programs and master classes.
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Part of the Adam Matthew Digital Collections, this project provides manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China.
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Ongoing full-text academic journals published in Middle Eastern and African countries. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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A full-text database supported by a specialized Abstract & Index file. Covers comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary.
Index to scholarly research in several languages covering topics in language, literature, linguistics, folklore and film. Includes citations from more than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers as well as series, proceedings, theses.
A searchable full-image version of the Montreal Gazette since its beginning in 1785.
An index to the music recorded since 1980 on audiocassette or compact disc of Department of Music concerts by faculty, guests, departmental ensembles, and students. Concert programs are included with each recording. Recordings are available in the Alfred Whitehead Music Library.

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Streamed historic recordings from the vast collections of the Library of Congress.
A repository of content owned and sustained by Canadian public libraries. Working with international partners, libraries, readers, and publishers (particularly Canadian ones) to make copies of books in accessible formats available to readers in Canada who have print disabilities.
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National Theatre Vols. 1 & 2 provides streaming access to 50 productions from the National Theatre in the UK, including their celebrated productions of A Streetcar Named Desire (starring Gillian Anderson), Angels in America (with Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield) and more!
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"A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants." Most items include a direct link to the USDA (US Dept. of Agriculture) Plants Database. Supported by University of Michigan - Dearborn.
Streaming audio service; more than a million tracks of music across a broad spectrum of styles and periods. Important note: we have a limited number of user spaces for this resource. Please log out when you’re done.
An extensive collection of jazz music available for streaming.
An extensive collection of world music recordings.
Comprehensive collection of classic audiobooks and independent publisher productions,
Extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.
Online guide to orchestral and chamber music works.
Nesstar (Statistics Canada DLI)
See Rich Data Services database. Nesstar is no longer available due to cybersecurity issues. Statistics Canada will provide a new analytical platform in April 2022.

Nesstar is a database provided by Statistics Canada containing public use microdata files, the raw data from many of Statistics Canada's surveys. Files can be manipulated online by selecting variables to generate custom tables or downloaded for use with most statistical software. For assistance with this product, please contact MTA's DLI Contact and Data Librarian, Elizabeth Stregger
UNB's collection of fulltext searchable digitized historical newspapers. (Does not include the Irving-owned newspapers.)
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This historical newspaper provides first-hand accounts and coverage of politics, society, and events in the past. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-2020) provides searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the New York Times.
Includes full text articles from U.S., Canadian and international newspapers, magazines and journals; company financial data and directories, SEC filings, industry and market news & reports, and sources for accounting, government, medical and legal research.
Access to thousands of National Film Board productions online
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Contact the Music Library to set up your free account to get started.
Curate playlists with your favourite editions of works and view them in your personal library across all your devices. Share your markings with your students, orchestra, ensemble or friends via Whatsapp, Facebook or any of your other socials.
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Journal articles, books, videos, and dissertations with a focus on nursing and allied health.

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More than one million records linking to dissertations and theses from over 26 universities worldwide. Click the link within the record to get to the full text.

OpenAlex is a free and open catalog of the world's scholarly research system. Try the off-campus bookmarklet for accessing documents off-campus.

Oxford Bibliographies in Buddhism provides students and scholars with a reliable and authoritative solution to the problem of information overload. Oxford Bibliographies in Buddhism offers an expert filter that relies on expertise that no algorithm can replicate.
Oxford Bibliographies provide authoritative resources on over 250 topics in music. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in the database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations.
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Full text access to nearly 300 scholarly journals in all subject areas published by Oxford University Press.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online provides access to Oxford's bilingual language dictionaries including French, German, and Spanish, with additional study materials.
Includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music, the Oxford Companion to Music, and Grove Music Online. Grove is the most comprehensive source of the three, and may be easier to search on its own for some topics. To do so, use the Grove Music Online link in the A-Z list.
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A collection of Oxford UP encyclopedias and companions.

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Public affairs, public and social policies, international relations - journal articles, books, government documents, statistics, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, microfiche, Internet material, etc.
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Presents full-text editions, in both original language and English translation, of the works of seminal figures in the humanities and social sciences.
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PeerJ is an Open Access journal focused on biology and medicine.
Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) is a dynamic knowledge translation tool. The PEN System provides nutrition practitioners with ready access to timely, current and authoritative guidance on food and nutrition. It offers evidence-based answers to the questions encountered in every day practice.
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Periodicals Archive Online is an archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
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A retrospective full-text collection of over 80 French-language, refereed, scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, and a variety of serial publications such as reports, directories, and conference proceedings.
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Collection of Greek and Roman Materials includes primary and secondary sources (in original language or English translation), and the Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser. Other collections in Perseus include: Arabic, Germanic, 19th-Century American, Renaissance, Richmond Times, and Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin.
Index to journals and books on philosophy and related interdisciplinary publications in various languages. Provides links to some full-text content.
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"Comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers." Includes journal articles, books, personal papers, and open access archives.
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Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) ensures the immediate and long-term accessibility of journal content published by APS. The complete archive includes:

-Physical Review Series I and II, in their entirety (1893–1969)
-Physical Review A–D from 1970–2016
-Physical Review E from 1993–2016
-Physical Review Letters from 1958–2016
-Reviews of Modern Physics from 1929–2016

At the end of each calendar year, PROLA adds another year of content.
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PLOS ONE is a multi-disciplinary Open Access journal focused on the sciences and hosts over 100,000 peer-reviewed scholarly articles.
This database covers content from books, articles, working papers, reports, policy briefs, data sets, tables, charts, media, case studies, and statistical publications provide current, vetted, hard statistical and factual content. No fake news! There are also publications from more than 500 defunct and inactive think tanks and more added every quarter. Content covers many disciplines—agriculture, energy, pharmaceuticals, diversity, crime, librarianship, and much more.
Policy File Index is the leading web-based resource for information on public policy issues with indexing and linking to the output of over 350 think tanks and similar organizations
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Journal articles focusing on international relations and political science.
This collection combines the PAIS Index, Policy File Index, Political Science Database, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts into one search.
A peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. The journal is global in scope and submission is open to all researchers worldwide.
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The Professional Engagement Guide (PEG), Formerly C-PEM – Canadian Professional Engagement Manual -- Contains practical guidance on the key requirements and concepts in the professional standards and provides a comprehensive road map to performing effective and efficient engagements in Canada today. Includes Core Concepts, Professional Guidance and Templates (all forms-checklists-letters in fillable Word format) modules. Plus current 300+-page Model Financial Statements for Private Enterprises AND for Private Sector Not-for-Profit Organizations PDF files.
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Full-text access to the Project Muse Standard Collection of peer-reviewed journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Also serves as an index to addtional Humanities and Social Sciences journals not included in the Standard Collection.
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Search all ProQuest databases simultaneously: ABI, Canadian Research Index, CBCA, Periodicals Archive Online, the Politics Collection (PAIS, Policy File Index, Political Science Database, Worldwide Political Abstracts), Philosopher's Index, ProQuest Central, Research Library, and the Historical Newspapers collections of the Globe & Mail (1844-2013) and Toronto Star (1894-2015).
ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary research database. It provides access to databases across many subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports all together on one platform.
With ProQuest One Academic, four core multi-disciplinary content sets - ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online (AVON) and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global - are now available and cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
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PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
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Journal articles focused on psychology theory and practice.
The PsycINFO database is the American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations.
Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycTests “serves as a repository for a growing selection of psychological tests and measures, including thousands of actual test instruments and test items that are available for immediate download and use in research and teaching…. While focused on contemporary instances of test use, coverage spans more than a century.”
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Journals articles, magazines, news, reports, and dissertations with a focus on health and medicine.
Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports.
PubMed comprises more than 32 million citations (as of September 2021) for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. For more details, please see the PubMed User Guide.

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The Queen Victoria's Journals resource is the product of a unique partnership between the Bodleian Libraries and the Royal Archives, working in collaboration with the online publisher ProQuest. In total 141 volumes of her journal survive, numbering 43,765 pages. As well as detailing household and family matters, the journals reflect affairs of state, describe meetings with statesmen and other eminent figures, and comment on the literature of the day.

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Full text of over 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business news sources including newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, trade publications, magazines, and newswires.
Coverage: 1990 - present.
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Journal articles with a focus on international religion and spirituality.
A general interest subject and name index to articles, book-, film-, and drama reviews from over 600 French-language journals from Canada, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
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Broad coverage of a wide range of subject areas, including arts, business, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Includes scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers.
Rich Data Services (RDS) is Statistics Canada’s analytical platform for Public Use Microdata files (PUMFs) and their metadata. The RDS Explorer and Tabulation Engine's interfaces allow users to browse, interact, and download data and metadata for online or offline analysis.
Comprehensive international bibliography of music literature including articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogues, theses, reviews, etc. Coverage: from 1967; currency of title coverage varies.
Vast catalogue of musical sources, primarily manuscripts created prior to 1800, reflecting the holdings of hundreds of libraries around the world. Most entries include item description, thematic incipits, and the shelfmark identifier of the holding library.
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Full text access to the complete collection of e-journals published by the the Royal Society of Chemistry. In addition to the core chemical sciences, titles span fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine and physics.

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SAGE Journals Online provides online access to the full text of more than 560 SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's discipline-specific research databases, are now integrated into SAGE Journals Online.
A large search index of papers in the field of astrophysics maintained by the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory and NASA.
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Journal articles focusing on science and technology
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Alternate Name(s) American Association for the Advancement of Science
Visit our “Coronavirus: Research, Commentary, and News” page to find the latest updates on what we know about the pandemic, the race for a cure, and the research and experts behind the headlines.
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ScienceDirect contains peer-reviewed, full-text, scientific, technical, and medical content as well as journals in the social sciences and humanities.
To access SciFinder-n, users are required to register and create an account. Once the account is created, users may access SciFinder from any computer with Internet access.

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the Chemical Abstracts Society (CAS) databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.
SCOAP3 is a Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. Working with leading publishers, SCOAP3 has converted key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics to Open Access at no cost for authors. All articles funded by SCOAP3 appear in the SCOAP3 repository upon publication, alongside the publishers’ own platforms. Articles are published under a CC-BY license and can be freely downloaded and further disseminated.
Bloomsbury's Screen Studies digital platform is designed to support moving-image studies. The Library's subscription includes the Bloomsbury and Faber Screenplays and Criticism collection, the BFI Film Studies collection of e-books, and Learning Resources.
An index to the 7000-piece collection of sheet music in the Music Library. Holdings, not entered into the Libraries’ catalogue, include choral sheet music, popular songs, and pieces of classical sheet music organized by type (either keyboard, solo vocal, or instrumental pieces).
This site provides access to the sheet music collections of music libraries, including those of York University, the Library of Congress (US), Indiana University, the National Library of Australia.
Free access to an extensive collection of digitized publications, mostly scores not held widely or digitized elsewhere, from the collections of the Sibley Music Library, the largest academic music library in North America.
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This database includes collections on the history of the transatlantic slave trade from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. It includes over a million pages from books, journals, manuscript collections, and encyclopedias. It also has links to websites, biographies, chronology, bibliographies, and information on key collections, to give users background and context for further research.
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Part of the Adam Matthew Digital Collections, this resource is a portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections in history between 1490 and 2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
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Journal articles covering topics in the social sciences.
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The first place to look for most Soc topics. SocINDEX indexes and provides full text access for hundreds of Sociology journals from 1908 to the present. This database also includes full text for hundreds of books and monographs, and full text for thousands of conference papers.
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Journal articles with a focus on sociology and social work.
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Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.
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Statista provides users with a tool for researching quantitative data, statistics, and related information. The product is aimed at business clients and academics. Statista.com integrates data on over 80.000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. Data sources include market research reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) maintains a database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Includes all Taylor & Francis Social Sciences and Humanities journals. Covers Arts and Humanities, Business and Management, Economics, Education and Social Sciences.
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Journal articles, magazines, and newsletters covering topics in telecommunications.
The Electronic Trilingual Dictionary and Linguistic Database of the Government of Canada Translation Bureau. Coverage: French, English and Spanish terms, with definitions and documentation.
This is a full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage allowing researchers to view the paper in its original published context.
Includes streaming video of more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries.
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Searches bibliographic records of all theses & dissertations in the National Library of Canada collection (1965-). Full-text access to Canadian digital theses from 1998-. (Note: a four-year delay exists for full-text access to theses digitized by ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.)
Searchable tables of contents of nearly 200 journals and some article collections in Classics.
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A searchable full-image version of the Toronto Star from its beginning in 1894 to 2019.
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Over 54,000 full text peer reviewed research publications by Research and Development scientists in the US Forest Service and others, including journal articles, conference proceedings, and books.
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TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide, with many links to the full text, including books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and articles from hundreds of scanned journals.
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This database includes ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published in Turkey. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

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Ongoing full-text academic journals published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
Ulrichsweb is a source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.
Please note: our temporary subscription to this database has expired. Want the library to restore access? Please let us know!

This database "traces the evolution and development of a visual literary genre from the first underground comics of the 1960s to modern sequential art. The collection includes 75,000 pages of original material and more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism. It also includes the only online edition of the complete run of The Comics Journal."
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US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

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Sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing; features audio, video, and text resources on singing. Indexes Journal of Singing, to which Mount Allison Music Library subscribes in paper edition: ML 27 .U5 N265.
Library and Archives Canada’s catalogue, which also includes the holdings of libraries from across Canada.

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DFO Libraries Catalogue. (Formerly "WAVES"; can be searched separately within the Federal Science Library Catalogue.) Links to full text Department of Fisheries and Oceans materials; indexes books, government documents, reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and theses on marine and fisheries-related topics.
Web of Science
Access to Web of Science was cancelled in June 2015.
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Wiley Online Library features 1500 journals, over 14,000 Online Books, and hundreds of multi-volume reference works, databases, and other resources.
The full run of the Tribune.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. Access to Women and Social Movements in the United States was cancelled in July 2023.
An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Issues are scanned in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
World History in Context
Access to World History in Context was cancelled in June 2016.
Index to Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide.
OCLC Online Union Catalog. Search the collections of academic libraries from across North America and other worldwide library collections.
International political science and international relations - journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers

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Includes newspapers, newsbooks, proclamations and pamphlets covering English cultural, political, social and historical events of the 17th and 18th centuries.

New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
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Constellate is a text analysis platform and a cloud-based lab. Workshops and tutorials are available asynchronously. In Fall 2024, there are Skill Build courses on Python, Large Language Models, machine learning, and data literacy.
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National Theatre Vols. 1 & 2 provides streaming access to 50 productions from the National Theatre in the UK, including their celebrated productions of A Streetcar Named Desire (starring Gillian Anderson), Angels in America (with Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield) and more!
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This historical newspaper provides first-hand accounts and coverage of politics, society, and events in the past. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-2020) provides searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the New York Times.
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Alternate Name(s) American Association for the Advancement of Science
Visit our “Coronavirus: Research, Commentary, and News” page to find the latest updates on what we know about the pandemic, the race for a cure, and the research and experts behind the headlines.

About Library Databases

Most databases included in the A-Z List of Databases are licensed for use by members of the Mount Allison University community.  The A-Z list also includes selected freely available (or open access) databases. 

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