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Past Masters provides full text access to primary source humanities resources which usually contain the complete works of specific authors. It is possible to both browse and search the database.

Access University of Alberta's collection of resources dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of the history and culture of the Canadian Prairies. The site contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies and a fully searchable collection of the full texts of many of these items.

This database provides full text access to resources published in the arts, humanities and social sciences over the last 200 years.

The site is useful for finding maps (particularly political maps) of areas around the world. It contains up-to-date maps as well as historical maps. There are also a number of maps available with specific themes as well as ones related to current events/issues. The maps on this site are a valuable tool for keeping up with rapidly changing political boundaries around the world.

The Pew Research Center provides data about many areas of American life, including education, internet usage, domestic policy, and economics.

PhilPapers provides access to scholarly resources in the discipline of philosophy, including books, journal articles, and book chapters. Many resources are open access.

The AU Library doesn't subscribe to this currently.  One can get some information from the new organization by going to: Vividata.

This database includes information from the PMB survey of Canadians usage of products and services. Demographic data, as well as information about media consumption and attitudes are included

Search a collection of references to northern and native subjects from the University of Alberta. PolarInfo indexes journal articles, northern newspapers, native newspapers, newsletters, conference proceedings, annual and government reports, and other grey literature.

Twenty-one journals from SAGE, previously published by Libertas Academica, are now available through the Portico archive. Most of these journals include published material in the fields of medicine, biology, chemistry, and psychology.
 

This database provides access to open access dissertations and theses.

Project Gutenberg provides free online access to over 42,000 classic and important texts in education, music, history, philosophy, political science and other subjects.

"With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 600,000 are available in native or image PDF formats for immediate free download."

This database provides access to back issues of a number of American newspapers, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Each issue of these newspapers has been digitized in its original format.

Provides full text access to a selection of journals published by the American Psychological Association and other related organizations. Journals indexed in this database are also indexed in PsycINFO.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Also access the Entrez nucleotide, protein, taxonomy, structure, genome, expression and chemical databases.

PubMed Central (PMC), "the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature", provides access to a collection of free and open access full text journals.

PubMed Central Canada website is now closed permanently

All manuscripts along with all other content remain publicly searchable on PubMed Central (US) and Europe PubMed Central. Approximately 3,000 manuscripts authored by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-funded researchers have now also been added to the National Research Council’s (NRC) Digital Repository and form the Canadian Institutes of Health Research 2009-2017 Collection.