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Articles

  • GEOBASE
    GeoBase is a bibliographic database of the global literature in earth science, ecology, geography and marine science. Broad subject coverage and the range of sources abstracted make this an ideal tool for searching multidisciplinary topics such as environmental or geographical studies and other areas that cross traditional subject boundaries.
  • Academic Search Complete

    Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

  • Sociological Abstracts

    Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. It provides good subject coverage for many topics in Human Geography such as class, race & ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, health & well-being, poverty, social justice, and many more.

  • Public Affairs Information Service, Inc. (PAIS) International

    PAIS International is a bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. It indexes journal articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world.

  • Web of Science

    Web of Science contains searchable author abstracts from 1,700 major journals across a broad range of disciplines in the social sciences, sciences and arts & humanities. This database also covers individually selected, relevant items from more than 3,400 of the world's leading natural and physical science journals. Each Web of Science database includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography). This unique feature allows searches for articles that cite a known author of work.

  • GreenFILE
    A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet
  • Canadian Public Policy Collection
    This is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centers and other public interest groups. N.B. An additional plugin is required to view content in this database - be sure to download the ebrary Reader. This resource is provided courtesy of the G. Emmett Cardinal Carter Library of King's University College at UWO.
  • PubMed
    PubMed is an international bibliographic database of over 4500 biomedical journals. It covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences from 1966 to the present. Topics in Health and Environment are selectively covered here.
  • Dissertations & Theses

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

    ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text is the world's most comprehensive database of dissertations and theses published in North America and provides full-text access to most of the disseratations added since 1997 and strong retrospective coverage for older graduate works.

    ProQuest Dissertations & Theses UK and Ireland provides access to abstracts of disseratations published in the UK and Ireland.

  • SCOPUS

    Scopus contains over 27 million records (back to 1966) covering articles from 14,200 peer-reviewed titles, including international publishers. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and General Sciences.

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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.

  • 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.

  • Scholars GeoPortal

    This 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
    Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies offers full text access to articles, columns, editorials and feature articles from many leading Canadian news sources.  Following a two-day embargo period, the content is updated daily.
  • Lexis Nexis
    A comprehensive resource providing full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications. Areas of interest include: U.S. and International newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, and non-English language sources.
  • Ethnic New Watch 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.
  • Alt-Press Watch
    This is a full-text database of more than 170 interdisciplinary newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent press.  It provides a valuable source of viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers
    An online resource to a variety of historical newspapers, offering full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.  For most titles, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files.
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Statistics and Data

  • E-STAT

    An interactive database containing articles from Canadian Social Trends and the latest edition of the Canada Year Book. Also includes Canadian social and economic data, as well as current and historical Census data dating back to 1665.

  • Statistics Canada
  • Equinox Data Delivery System

    The Equinox Data Delivery System provides access to data made available through Statistics Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) as well as selected data from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and provides pointers to other sources of data.

  • <Odesi> Data Discovery

    <Odesi> (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data.  <Odesi> provides access to extensive collections of polling and social survey data including: Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA) , Canadian Gallup , and Ipsos Reid . Statistics Canada's public-use survey data forms the core of <odesi>'s social survey data holdings.

  • UNdata

    UNdata provides access to United Nations statistical databases through a single entry point.   There are over 60 million data points, covering a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.

  • OECD iLibrary Statistics

    OECD iLibrary is OECD’s Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It has replaced SourceOECD in July 2010. OECD iLibrary hosts all content so users can find - and cite - tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters.

  • World Development Indicators

    World Development Indicators Online offers over 575 development indicators and time series data from 1960 to 2007 for over 220 countries. Data includes social, economic, financial, natual resources, and environmental indicators.

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