Databases for Research: Canadian Content
Off-Campus Access
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contains a significant amount of Canadian content
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no login required (open access)
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| Academic OneFile (Gale Group) Provides access to a large multi-discipinary collection of more than 5100 magazines, journals, newspapers, podcasts and transcripts (NPR, CNN, CBC). |
| AdForum (Maydream Inc.) Information on over 20,000 agencies and 70,000 ads (tv, print, interactive, etc.) from around the world. Also includes information about advertising award winners and jobs in the fields of advertising and design. |
| Aerospace and High Technology (CSA) Provides access to citations, abstracts of journal articles covering basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics and space science. |
| AP Images (Accunet / Associated Press) AccuNet/Associated Press Images contains over one million photographs dating back to 1845. |
| Associations Canada (Micromedia ProQuest) Covers Canadian organizations and international groups including industry, commercial and professional associations, registered charities, special interest and common interest organization. Detailed listings enable users to identify an organizations budget, founding date, scope of activity, licensing body, sources of funding, executive information, full address and complete contact information. |
| Auto Repair Reference Center (EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to auto repair information for over 33,000 makes and models from 1945 to the present, including step-by-step instructions, technical-service bulletins and recalls. |
| BestCase (Canada Law Book) Provides access to Canadian law reports, case summaries, unreported decisions and Canadian criminal cases dating back to 1898. |
| Britannica Online (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Provides access to Encyclopædia Britannica, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. |
| Business Source Premier (EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to the industry's most used business research database of more than 8800 full-text magazines, journals, newspapers, reports, profiles, case studies, books and trade publications. |
| C.P.I.Q. (Canadian Periodical Index) (Gale Group) Provides access to a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, biographies, and other reference sources. Includes selected Globe and Mail coverage. |
| Canada in Context (Gale Group) Provides access to Canadian content including biographies, news, essays and podcasts. |
| Canada Statute Service (Canada Law Book) Provides access to the consolidated version of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985. |
| Canadian Encyclopedia Online (Historica) Provides access to information about Canadian personalities, places, events, history and achievements. |
| Canadian Literary Centre (EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to Canadian literary resources including: biographies, criticism, essays and book reviews. |
| Canadian Newsstand (Micromedia ProQuest) Provides full-text access to 18 Canadian news sources. |
| Canadian Points of View (EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to essays with differing points of view on current issues. Essays include an overview, arguments, counter arguments and a guide to Critical Thinking. |
| Career Cruising (Anaca Technologies Ltd.) Career Cruising provides access to career planning resources including: detailed occupation profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary education information. |
| CBCA Business (ProQuest Information and Learning) Provides access to a broad range of Canadian business magazines, newspapers and journals. |
| CBCA Current Events - please note that this database is now part of CBCA Reference and Current Events |
| CBCA Education (ProQuest Information and Learning) Provides access to core education literature in Canada. |
| CBCA Reference (ProQuest Information and Learning) Provides access to a wide diversity of Canadian periodicals ranging from academic titles to special interest publications to general magazines. |
| CBCA Reference and Current Events (ProQuest Information and Learning) Provides access to a wide diversity of Canadian periodicals, ranging from academic titles to special interest publications to general magazines and news. |
| CISTI Journals (Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) (National Research Council (NRC)) Provides access to journals published by the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. |
| Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Library Archives of Canada) Provides access to authoritative biographical information about significant figures of Canada's past, including both detailed articles on Canada's major historical figures, and short articles on minor personages. |
| Dissertations & Theses: Abstracts and Indexes (ProQuest Information and Learning) Provides access to over 2 million abstracts and citations of doctoral dissertations and master theses from all disciplines. |
| e-CPS - Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (Canadian Pharmacists Association) e-CPS is the online edition of the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS). It contains information on proprietary and nonproprietary Canadian drugs for both medical specialists and patients. It also provides links to Health Canada advisories. |
| E-Laws (Queens Printer for Ontario) Provides access to consolidated versions of most of Ontario's public statutes and regulations. |
| E-STAT (Statistics Canada) Provides access to reliable and timely statistics about Canada and its ever changing people. |
| ERIC (EBSCO Publishing) The world's largest source of education research and information. |
| Eureka.cc (CEDROM) (Cedrom SNI) Provides access to French-language newspapers and news services, First Nations newspapers, and other Canadian news publications. |
| Financial Post Advisor (displays best with the latest Internet Explorer web browser) (Can West Global) Provides information on more than 4,500 Canadian companies, as well as business and financial insight. Financial Post Corporate Analyzer allows you to search for investment information on Canada's top 1,500 publicly traded companies. |
| Gale Custom Newspapers (Gale Group) Full-text articles from international English-language newspapers and news agencies. |
| Humanities International Index (EBSCO Publishing) Provides comprehensive humanities coverage including citations and abstacts for articles and essays as well as original creative works. |
| Ipsos News Centre (Ipsos Reid) Public opinion poll results, market research, news, and press releases from the Ipsos Group (in Canada, Ipsos Reid), useful for marketing, advertising, business, and social science researchers. |
| LawSource (Westlaw Carswell) Contains Abridgments: Canadian Case Digests and Canadian Encyclopedic Digest. |
| LexisNexis Academic Universe (LexisNexis) Provides access to a large database of over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works. |
| Literary Reference Center and Canadian Literary Centre (EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to author biographies, literary criticism, book reviews, essays, plot summaries, poetry, short stories and novels. |
| MEDLINE (EBSCO) (EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences. |
| Military & Government Collection (EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to current news pertaining to all branches of the military. |
| MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) Plus CHEMINFO (CCINFO Web) (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety) Provides information on issues pertaining to various chemical substances as well as occupational health and safety. |
| O'Brien's Ontario Court Forms - Division VIII (Canada Law book ) O'Brien's provides access to the most current and up-to-date forms and precedents online which enables you to search for specific clauses, and integrate and customize them into fillable documents that can be printed, saved or emailed. |
| Ontario Statute Citator Service (Canada Law Book) Provides access to the official consolidation of the Revised Statutes of Ontario 1990, amendments, new Acts, the fully consolidated Revised Regulations of Ontario 1990, plus the Ontario Statute Citator. |
| Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art Online) (Amigos) Provides access to an extensive art collection including: Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. |
| Passport GMID Academic (Global Market Information Database) (EuroMonitor International) Provides access to global market analysis with comprehensive coverage of industries, countries and consumer trends. |
| Primary Search (EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to magazines, photos, maps and flags specifically designed for elementary students, also includes EBSCO Animals and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. Contains 200,000+ images |
| PubMed (National Center for Biotechnology Information) PubMed provides access to citations to journal articles included in MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE as well as general science and chemistry journal citations. |
| Regional Business News (EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to regional business publications. |
| Scott's Directories - National All Plus (Scott's Directories) Please Note: Maximum 10 concurrent users. Provides access to a comprehensive directory of Canadian businesses with more than 350,000+ contacts from manufacturing, government, medical and education sectors. |
| Theses Canada Portal (Library and Archives Canada) Provides full-text access to Canadian theses and dissertations. |
| Toronto Star (Pages of the Past) (Micromedia Proquest) Provides archival access to the Toronto Star, including all news stories, images, advertisements, classifieds, political cartoons, birth, and death notices. |
| Ultimate HR Manual (CCH Online) (works only with Internet Explorer 6+) (CCH) Provides practical advice and solutions to help deal with the HR and employment issues; developed in conjunction with the Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario (HRPAO). |
| Weissmann Online (Weissmann) Provides online travel information with coverage on every country in the world, including more than 200 cities and cruise ports in depth, a global network of correspondents, and and in-house staff of knowledgeable, well-traveled writers and editors. |
| WorldCat (OCLC) Provides access to the world's largest 'library' catalog containing more than 1.3 billion items. |
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