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AATA Online provides access to abstracts of literature pertaining to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage, including works of art and archaeological and architectural sites and materials. Coverage includes journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, audiovisual and digital resources, "Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts" (AATA), abstracts published by the Fogg Art Museum and the Freer Gallery of Art and all of the AATA special subject supplements.

ABI/Inform Complete is a comprehensive business database which includes a large number of full text journals, dissertations, working papers, newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, and country and industry reports and data.

This multidisciplinary database provides access to full text articles in a range of subject areas, with coverage dating back as far as 1980.

The database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more.

Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary full text database which provides access to more than 5500 full text periodicals, the majority of which are peer-reviewed. It also includes abstracts for more than 9500 journals, and contains pdf content back as far as 1865. The database also includes monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.

A project of the Legal Studies, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, ACJNet makes available information and educational resources on justice and legal issues of interest to Canadians. There are links to Canadian news releases relevant to law and justice; a section on Canadian Law with quick access to bills, cases, by-laws, statutes, and other primary legal materials; information about law-related services; and a resource centre that links to electronic journals, magazines, newspapers and common ready reference tools such as dictionaries.

Search this database from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) to access quality information in the scientific computing field. Includes full text articles from ACM magazines, journals and conference proceedings as well as publications from affiliated organizations.

This bibliographic database provides citations for articles on topics related to Africa and African women. It is searchable by geographic region and country.

The World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), has developed an international index to improve access to what has been published on health issues in African countries and to promote global visibility of African medical and biomedical publishers.

Use this database to search scholarly journals published within Africa and covering a variety of academic disciplines.

This indexing and abstracting service focuses on materials published about the sub-Saharan African region. It deals with a range of topics in the social sciences and humanities, including history, anthropology, geology, language and literature, geography and ecology.

The database indexes books, government documents, articles in edited books, journal and other periodical articles, theses and dissertations, conference papers, and videocassettes published in English about African women. It is an "outgrowth of a three volume work published in 1989 by Greenwood Press that indexed materials on African Women published during the International Women's Decade, 1975-1985."

Search this database for information on topics such as agriculture, earth sciences, ecology, business and environmental science.

This database of medication information is a recognized standard for patient drug information. This trusted, independent resource is the backbone of consumer drug information for many popular websites, including the National Library of Medicine.

Use this database to research topics in alternative medicine and health. Made available through the TAL Subscriptions Alberta agreement.

Access full text articles from the journals Environmental Science & Technology, and the Journal of Chemical Education. You can also view over 1000 open access articles.

The Anthropological Index is based on the anthropology journal collection of the Anthropology Library at The British Museum. More than 100,000 records have been indexed, reaching as far back as 1957.

From the Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, the University of Florida, this database provides information about research articles, books and reports on plant ecology, physiology, utilization and control.

Applied Science Full Text provides access to scholarly materials in a range of subjects in the sciences including physics, atmospheric sciences, marine technology and geology.

Supported by the University Library System, University of Pittsburg, this electronic repository and archive provides access to research materials on the topic of European integration and unification. Coverage includes independently-produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents.

The ASTIS database contains abstracts of government, academic and industry publications and research projects about northern Canada, and is maintained by the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary.

This database provides citations for articles on topics related to astronomy. Articles may be from conference proceedings or journals.

This database provides access to scholarly publications in art, architecture, archaeology, and other related fields. Full text is available for select journals published since 1997.

Search this index of articles from the table of contents pages of thousands of journals in Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, Business, the Humanities, and Popular Culture.

A citation index allows you to search an article's cited references and enables you to use a published article that you know to locate later articles that cite it. This index covers the world's leading arts and humanities journals and individually selected, relevant items from thousands of major science and social science journals.

arXiv is an e-print database that provides access to materials in physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science and quantitative biology.

Search the full text version of the ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Religion Database. Covers religion and theology journals representing major religious faiths and denominations.

This is a database of open access journals. The journal articles are freely accessible online and include both the sciences and the humanities

bepress is a searchable, browseable repository of law-related working papers from law schools and associations.

Search for information about books, essays, journal articles, and government documents pertaining to the culture, history, and life of North America's indigenous peoples.

This database provides access to research materials in the areas of biology, botany, environmental science, wildlife management, and agricultural economics. Select full text is available from some journals.

BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Provides access to over 300 open access journals. It is possible to use BioMed to search for journals in PubMed.

BioOne provides access to full text bioscience research journal articles. The focus of this database is content published by small societies and non-commercial presses.

The Black Studies Center provides full text access to scholarly research, historical newspaper articles and other publications on the topic of Black Studies.

Access non-fiction writings by leading African Americans from colonial times to the present. The collection includes well-known works as well as unique and previously unpublished materials.

Access to business magazines and scholarly journals, along with SIC and NAICS codes is provided in this database.

This database contains articles in the subject areas of business, economics, finance, agricultural economics, sociology and legal studies.

Athabasca University Library no longer subscribes to this database.  We suggest that you use BusinessSource Complete or ABI/Inform Global or one of the other databases listed in the Business and Management database list.

Formerly known as Business and Company Resource Centre, Business Insights: Essentials provides access to company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, full text articles and detailed company and industry news and information.

This database includes publications in nearly every area of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics and more

Business Source Complete provides full text access to a large number of articles on business related topics. It also provides author profiles and company profiles.

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This database is a collection of French language articles in the humanities and social sciences. Full text coverage is available from 2001. The main subject areas covered by CAIRN are history, economics, psychology, political science and sociology.

Access journals from Cambridge University Press covering the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Canadian Labour Law Library provides access to a range of materials on the topics of Canadian law, labour and employment, and civil litigation and criminal law.

Access essays and book reviews from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press) as well as a number of ECW Press monographs, biographies, essays and literary criticism. Made available through the TAL Subscriptions Alberta agreement.

CMPI is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals and includes information about articles dating from the late-19th century to the present.

Search CPI.Q for articles from Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, Canadian biographies, etc.

Canadian Points of View Reference Centre is designed to present various points of view on topics of current interest in Canada, and includes help sheets for writing thesis statements and evaluating materials for accuracy. Essays included within this database have been written specifically for this database.

Access Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires, biographies, reference books, and an image collection. Includes some international (U.S. and U.K.) sources.

This database has over 500 full text publications covering business, finance and economics published in trade, academic and professional journals.

CBCA Complete is a comprehensive database of Canadian materials, and comprises CBCA Business, CBCA Education, and CBCA Reference & Current Events. It includes full text journal articles, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.

Access some of the principal education literature published in Canada, including over 265 journals on teaching, educational research, and administration from current general and specialized magazines and newspapers.

This collection includes newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, general and news magazines, and academic journals on Canadian current affairs topics including business, culture, literature, language, agriculture, history, government, and politics.

Access full text and citations for journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Includes legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

The Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) database provides access to citations of international disability and rehabilitation research published between 1990 and the present.

CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.

Access a collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Search this bibliographic database produced by the agencies of the National Institute of Health for topics relating to health and medicine.

Search this database to find full text articles in the areas of communication studies, business, education, European literature, journalism, language and linguistics, psychology and sociology.

Search this database to locate articles in areas related to communication studies and mass media. CMMC represents a merging of the indexes CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.

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This database contains articles in subject areas related to computers, including business and industry, education, engineering, government and political science.

This database provides access to literature in the areas of computing and applied sciences. It indexes academic journals, professional publications and other reference sources.

Access an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.

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This database provides access to articles in many different areas of criminal justice, including family, environmental, business and civil law, criminology, health policy, and law enforcement and corrections.

This database contains primary documents, the majority of which are available for the first time in digital form. Documents include ephemera, diaries, periodicals, letters, and poetry, among other things, and have been fully indexed to allow easy access to the content.

This directory provides a searchable, browseable listing of freely accessible online scientific and scholarly journals in a wide range of disciplines.

This database is now known as LearnTechLib. Please visit LearnTechLib to access resource.

This database provides access to a range of publications related to education, including adult education, distance education, library science, instructional media and teaching methods.

Education Research Complete provides access to literature published in the area of education, ranging from early childhood to higher education. In addition to indexing journals, it also contains full text for more than 70 books and monographs, and for a number of conference papers.

Search or browse archaeological traditions in this full-text, fully-indexed archaeology database, published annually by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). The documents (books, journal articles, dissertations) are indexed at the paragraph-level for quick retrieval of information.

Search or browse cultures in this full-text, fully-indexed cultural database, published annually by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). It focuses on mostly pre-industrial cultures from around the world, and on North American immigrant groups. The documents (books, journal articles, dissertations) are indexed at the paragraph-level for quick retrieval of information.

The Eighteenth Century Journals I & II collection contains rare journals published between 1693 and 1799. Topics covered in these journals include all aspects of eighteenth century social, political and literary life. Among the specific subjects covered are marriage, morality, theatre and opera, religion, Alexander Pope, the Irish Rebellion, the French and American revolutions, radicalism and education.

The Electronic Journals Library allows you to search for academic scholarly journals on the web. It indexes titles that provide full text freely available on the web and those that only provide citations and abstracts. To locate full text for items which are not available freely, please search the AU Journal Title List by the name of the journal.

The AU Library no longer subscribes to eLibrary Canada.  Please use the Discover search box tool on the Library's home page.  You can also use Canadian Newsstream to look for articles in Canadian newspapers.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Use this powerful business research tool to access full text articles and abstracts from international publications in a wide range of management disciplines including strategy, leadership, library and information management, marketing and human resource management as well as titles in engineering, applied science and technology.

This database indexes literature published in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution, environmental technology and law, public policy, and urban planning.

Search this database for full text articles on subjects including agriculture, biology, business, earth sciences, ecology, energy, mining, environmental studies, food science, political science and health and medicine.

Search the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, for indexing and abstracts of journal and non-journal items in the field of education. ERIC Documents (items with an ED number) issued after 1993 are available fulltext.

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Érudit provides access to French language scholarly materials from journals, e-books, proceedings, and theses in the humanities and social sciences, and the natural sciences.

Access a collection of publicly available electronic books from academic presses on topics in the arts and sciences. The collection is searchable and can be browsed by subject, author, or title. eScholarship Editions are published by the California Digital Library.

This database provides access to a range of resources related to the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and technology.

This index to journals of mainly Canadian native content, includes Canadian Journal of Native Education, Native Studies Review, and Canadian Journal of Native Studies.

This site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Journals are listed by specialty, and alphabetically by title, and non-English journals are listed as well.

Formerly known as History Resource Center: World, you can search this database to find research materials on topics and people related to history.

The digital library catalogue of la bibliothèque nationale de France provides access to digitized works, images, and sound resources, the majority of which are in French. Coverage includes history, literature, sciences, philosophy, law, economics and political science and runs from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century.

This database focuses on providing information on gender and work from a feminist political economy perspective. The modules included are health care, migration, precarious employment, technology, unions, and unpaid work.

Search this database for materials on scientific subjects, including biology, earth sciences, the environment, physics, astronomy and chemistry

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

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This database provides access to scholarly peer reviewed materials in the Humanities, including music, literature, art, history and criticism.

Search this database to find research materials in the areas of computing science and electrical engineering.

This database contains two separate collections, InfoSci-Books and InfoSci-Journals available through IGI Global. It includes every e-book published by IGI Global, a computing science and information technology publisher, since 2000. Every journal indexed in this database is peer reviewed.

InformaHealthcare.com combines the pharmaceutical, life science and medical journal titles published by Informa Healthcare onto one platform to simplify your experience, and deliver online content from more than 170 journals.

Search this database of hundreds of journals from over 50 publishers and societies covering Clinical Medicine, Behavioral & Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Nursing, Physical Science & Engineering, and Psychology. Full text is included for selected titles, with particular strength in the areas of nursing and medicine.

The Electronic Collection of Library and Archives Canada (LAC) includes over 6000 Canadian book and periodical titles published online by commercial and government publishers. The publications exist in various formats, including HTML, PDF, ASCII and others and in some cases software such as Acrobat Reader is required to read the texts. Some titles are labeled "Restricted Access" and are accessible on-site at the LAC only.

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographical information about authors, literary criticism and reviews.

This database is designed specifically for public libraries. It provides access to reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection that includes photos, maps and flags. Made available through the TAL Subscriptions Alberta agreement.

Use MathSciNet, from the American Mathematical Society, to access the signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews, beginning in 1940, and Current Mathematical Publications, a current awareness journal.

The Access Engineering Library provides access to full text e-books and chapters on more than 200 topics in the field of engineering.

This site provides citations and abstracts to current and historic First Nations health research Canada and the United States. This extensive collection includes articles, reports, and surveys dating back to 1652.

Access peer-reviewed scientific journals published by the National Research Council, covering a wide range of scientific disciplines.

OAIster provides access to over twenty two million items fom open access repositories across the globe. OAIster can be searched or browsed.

This database provides access to multidisciplinary periodical literature, with considerable full text access. Subjects covered include education, Biology, history, humanities and social sciences, and business.

OpenDOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories, is a directory of academic open access repositories. Included in this resource are repositories from global universities and colleges, as well as Libraries, historical societies, and a range of other academically focused organizations.

Oxford Journals provides backfile access to over 230 academic and research journals published by Oxford University Press in the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, law, medicine, mathematics and physical sciences.

Oxford Scholarship Online provides full text access to more than 1200 e-books published in the areas of philosophy, economics and finance, political science and religion.

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

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

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.

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.

PMC Canada aims to provide a freely accessible, Canada-based archive of biomedical and health research findings. PubMed Central Canada is a free digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed health and life sciences literature based on PubMed Central, the archive developed by the US National Library of Medicine and in partnership with the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The search interface allows anyone to browse, search and download articles.

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.

This database focuses on U.S. regional business publications. Made available through the TAL Subscriptions Alberta agreement.

This database provides access to full text, peer reviewed journals on topics such as economics, business, marketing, political science, international studies, health and medicine, law, policy and science and technology.  All are published by de Gruyter.

Access Royal Society of Chemistry journals, with over two dozen journals covering all branches of chemistry, including analytical chemistry, chemical physics, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry.

Access hundreds of full text journals through Sage, nearly a third of which are owned by professional associations and societies. The "extensive list of journals spans more than 30 disciplines and includes some of the premier journals in the social sciences and medicine and technology."

A citation index allows you to search an article's cited references and enables you to use a published article that you know to locate later articles that cite it. This index provides access to major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.

ScienceDirect is one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature. Access a selection of journals from Elsevier Science covering all fields of science (including journal titles from Business, Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Social Science).

A citation index allows you to search an article's cited references and enables you to use a published article that you know to locate later articles that cite it. This index provides access to journals spanning 50 social sciences disciplines and includes individually selected, relevant items from thousands of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

This database is an excellent starting point for researching sociology topics. SocINDEX with Full Text replaces and provides equivalent coverage to Sociological Abstracts database along with improved access to full text articles.

Formerly known as Springer-Verlag Journals, from this site you are able to access hundreds of Springer-Verlag and Kluwer journal titles, with considerable full text online. Coverage includes Chemical Sciences, Computer Sciences, Economics, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geosciences, Law, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Astronomy.

Search this database for articles on subjects including health, cultural studies, business, earth sciences, literature, and others. The database also includes citations for books on a variety of topics.

Search the Web version of Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index.

Wiley Online Library, formerly known as Wiley InterScience now includes journal content formerly on Blackwell Synergy, providing access to more than 3 million articles across 2300+ journals. Coverage includes business, computer science, criminology, education, health, law, mathematics, psychology, sciences and social sciences.

The World Christian Database (WCD) includes detailed information on all major world religions. Extensive religious and secular statistics are available on 9,000 Christian denominations, 238 countries and 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. The WCD incorporates the core data from the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE) and World Christian Trends (WCT).

The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world's religions for the period 1900 to 2050.

Use WorldLII (World Legal Information Institute) to search over 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries, including the databases of world-wide Legal Information Institutes such as CanLII. This is an excellent source for researching case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, and law journals from around the globe.