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Articles

  • Anthropology Plus
    Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides  indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
  • AnthroSource
    This database features the current issues for 11 of the American Anthropological Association's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
  • GeoRef

    Is the online version of the American Geological Institute's geoscience database containing North American records since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. This resource indexes many publications dedicated to the science of archaeology.

  • Web of Science

    Provides access to three multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Each Web of Science database includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography). This unique feature allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work.

  • SCOPUS

    Scopus provides broad coverage to literature in the sciences and social sciences. Users have access to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, and web sources.

  • Google Scholar

    Google Scholar provides access to the scholarly literature in many disciplines, however, because it draws its information from unknown sources, it can miss alot of important publications and retreive alot of irrelevant and redundant material. It's best to use Google Scholar as a starting point and in addition to other library research databases.

  • America History and Life

    Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. It provides citations and abstracts to articles, books, and dissertations. From 1989 forward it also includes citations to reviews of films, videos, and non-print media.

  • Kewa Bibliography - Article Index

    Kewa is the newsletter of the London Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society. It includes research articles devoted to the archaeology of the Lake Erie-Lake Huron drainage basin, as well as the drainage of the extreme western-most end of Lake Ontario. Our readership is comprised of professional, educational, avocational, and interested members of the general public. Eight issues of the Kewa are produced per year and the latest issue is 2011(1).

  • Dissertations and Theses

    Searches ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text  and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses UK and Ireland, and Dissertations and Theses at University of Western Ontario.

  • The Ontario Archaeology Theses Database
    The Ontario Archaeology Theses Database is a a comprehenisve index of theses and dissertations on Ontario Archaeology compiled by the Ontario Archaeological Society.
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Maps

  • Map Library Catalogue

    The Map and Data Centre Catalogue provides access to 222,000 sheet maps, providing global coverage at a variety of scales. This includes all current paper versions of Canadian federal topographic maps at 1:50,000 and
    1:250,000 and all hydrographic charts for Canadian waters. In addition, the catalogue provides access to over 2,000 atlases in both paper and digital formats, covering a wide range of themes and areas.

  • Scholars GeoPortal

    This new GIS portal will allow access to selected large scale geospatial datasets owned and licensed by Ontario institutions.  Sophisticated search, discovery and analysis tools will make vector and raster data readily available to you at your fingertips.  The data can be exported in a number of popular formats, including as a shapefile, DWG, DXF, GeoTiff, and MrSID.

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News Sources

  • Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies

    This database offers the full text of many leading Canadian news sources via the ProQuest Interface. Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies provides full access to articles, columns, editorials and feature articles. Database content is updated daily, following a two-day embargo period.

  • London Free Press Archives 1995-present

    Find the text of stories published in LFP for the past 17 years. The database allows you to limit your results by date, use a variety of complex searching techniques and print the text.  Help using the LFP Archives is available at http://save6.sunmedia.ca/Save/classic/sp/sunmedia/web/Save6_help.html.  (Note that the Weldon Library still provides access to the microfilm version which includes photographs and advertisements.)

  • Ethnic NewsWatch Complete

    This is a comprehensive full-text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.  While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are unique.

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