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  • 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 extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, and edited works 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.
  • ProQuest Social Sciences
  • JSTOR
    Provides access to full-text, full-image, scholarly literature. The growing database contains the archives of major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines. JSTOR offers the scanned image of each journal page as it was originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Coverage for each journal starts with the very first issue, many of which date from the 1800's.
  • eHRAF World Cultures
    The eHRAF World Cultures collection is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. eHRAF is produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University, a non-profit consortium of universities and colleges that encourage and facilitate worldwide and other comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture.
  • SocIndex
    SocINDEX offers article index coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
    LLBA provides citations and abstracts to journal articles in all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. It also includes coverage of various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics.
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News Sources

  • Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies

    This resource 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.

  • Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies

    This resource 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.

  • Factiva

    This database provides access to news from over 8,000 sources, from 118 countries in 22 languages. There are 96 Canadian publications, including The Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and National Post. Extensive company and industry search capabilities are also available. An excellent Help Guide, produced by the Business Library is available.

  • 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.

  • 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.)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • AJE Al Jazeera English
  • 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.

  • AJE Al Jazeera English

    English version of the Arabic-language news network. Breaking news and features plus background material including profiles and global reactions.

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