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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.

This database contains a variety of popular music styles, from jazz, blues and rock, to hip hop, new age and ambient. Many of the artists represented in this database are well known. This is part of Music Online by Alexander Street Press.

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.

PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. PRISMA focuses on the reporting of reviews evaluating randomized trials, but can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews of other types of research, particularly evaluations of interventions.

Who should use PRISMA?

• Authors: PRISMA aims to help authors improve the reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
• Journal Peer reviewers and editors: PRISMA may also be useful for critical appraisal of published systematic reviews, although it is not a quality assessment instrument to gauge the quality of a systematic review.

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.

It contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. 

Enhanced by interpretive sources such as book reviews and criticism sourced from wider, interdisciplinary publications in the fields such as humanities and history, it provides diverse, global perspectives with sources from all over the world – Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America - the majority of which are in full-text.

PROSPERO is an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care, welfare, public health, education, crime, justice, and international development, where there is a health related outcome. Key features from the review protocol are recorded and maintained as a permanent record. PROSPERO aims to provide a comprehensive listing of systematic reviews registered at inception to help avoid duplication and reduce opportunity for reporting bias by enabling comparison of the completed review with what was planned in the protocol.

PROSPERO is produced by CRD and funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

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.