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ABI/INFORM Global contains the full text of thousands of business journals, including essential scholarly journals and the most important trade journals. Coverage: 1923- Selected full-text coverage going back to the 19th century.

Title List (in Excel)

It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 3,140 publications, with over 2,930 in full-text. With ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others. Coverage: 1971-

Abstracts in Anthropology is the only comprehensive abstracting journal in the field of anthropology, publishing three thousand abstracts per volume which provide a thorough coverage of anthropological scholarship in all its subfields: Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics. Coverage: 1999-

The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Coverage: 1980-

 

Online resource that contains reference material that covers all major scientific disciplines. It offers links to primary research material, videos and exclusive animations, plus specially designed curriculum maps for teachers.
Full text of every article ever published by ACM and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing. Coverage: varies
ACP Journal Club (ACP) is part of Ovid's Evidence Based Medicine Reviews collection, and consists of two journals, ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication of the American College of Physicians and the British Medical Journal Group. Coverage: 1991-
Access to over 100 years of chemistry content contained within nearly 1000 ACS journal archives volumes published by the society during the period 1879-. This collection is particularly suitable for specialists in the advanced fields of chemistry, chemical engineering and related subjects.
Adam Matthew Digital Collection

Please see individual collections: China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980, Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Eighteenth Century Journals I & II, Empire Online, Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters, Mass Observation Online, Medieval Travel Writing, and Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice 1490-2007.

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world‘s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Canadian

Covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for over 1,700 journals from 1955 to present and full-text coverage of more than 230 journals and nearly 100 books. Coverage: 1955-

Title List

AIP aims to serve physics, astronomy, and related fields of science and technology by serving its Member Societies and their associates, individual scientists, educators, R&D leaders, and the general public with programs, services and publications.
Annual Reviews offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics. Coverage: 2002-2016
A full-text database of the American Anthropological Association. It includes 32 full-text journals
Spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. The database abstracts and indexes over 500 journals.
Archeion
Canadian
Canadian

Archeion brings together information about archives held by organizations all over Ontario. This database allows you to search in one place for over 13,000 primary sources or archival collections, and find out more information about how to access those records

Canadian

Search archival, library, and art collections held by the Archives of Ontario. This is particularly useful for accessing Ontario government documents. Some materials are available digitally

Canadian

Search across descriptions of all materials held by Library and Archives Canada, including archival records, government documents, and publications. Some materials are available full-text digitally.

A central source for information on diverse aspects of the Arctic environment and the health of northern peoples.
Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—with coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Coverage:1984-
Provides access to the bibliographic and citation information for journal articles in the arts & humanities. Coverage: 1975-
Open access to 836,183 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Alternate Name(s):ProQuest European Business ProQuest Asian Business
This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines.
The ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Digital Collection provides unparalleled depth, breadth, and quality of peer-reviewed content:
ASME’s Journals from 1959 – present
ASME’s Conference Proceedings from 2000 – present, plus select proceedings back to 1955
ASME eBooks from 1993 – present, plus select titles back to 1944
(Arctic Science and Technology Information System) - Recent literature about the north (Yukon and Northwest Territories, the northern parts of the provinces and some material from other circumpolar regions). Coverage: 1974-
Includes both current/active versions of standards as well as historical and redlined versions of standards. It also includes access to the Geotechnical Testing Journal and some research reports.
Database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.

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BELIT provides access to approx. 650,000 records from the integrated German, American and French databases. It is an extensive bibliographic directory of literature in the area of bioethics unique world wide, containing references to monographs, grey literature, legal documents, journal articles, newspaper articles and book contributions.
A still-growing list of scholarship about 738 recovered writers and located texts, canonical and non-canonical. It identifies many hitherto unknown writers, including among them not only already familiar figures, but also women refugees such as the recusants, women in the colonies, Marrano women (Anusot), women translators, and English women writers in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.
Bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life Coverage: Works published from the 16th century to the present.
Bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art.
Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries.
Indexes over 127 high impact bioscience journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Coverage: 2000- Includes full text to open access content.
Brings together scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology—Birds of North America and Neotropical Birds (originally published by the Cornell Lab) with Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive and Bird Families of the World (originally published by Lynx Edicions)—into one rich and colourful hub where you can find comprehensive, authoritative information on birds.
Includes almost 110,000 commercial and over 430,000 open access titles.
Includes hundreds of full-text medical books.
This K-12 ebook database provides access to 1,400 Britannica ebook titles from 40 popular Britannica series/collections. This database can be searched by keyword, grade and reading levels. It covers 39 specific subjects that are included in Kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum from the areas of science, social studies, and language arts.

A business database providing full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.

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Cabell's is the complete source for journal info, evaluation metrics, and submission details-for universities of any size.

Access to an index of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines. (does not include full-text access)
A consortium of mostly US law schools that conducts applied research and development in the area of computer-mediated legal education.
Includes over 400 e-journals in different subjects.
Canadian

Canada Commons, (formerly Canadian Electronic Library) includes e-books and Canadian public policy papers from Government, NGOs, and Think Tanks. Topics inlclude: Indigenous Peoples, climate change, human rights, health, economics etc.

Canadian

Biographical and publication information for more than 470 women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940.

Canadian
Alternate Name(s):cbca

Combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). Subject coverage is comprehensive and information is available from the broadest range of Canadian sources anywhere. With over 4.5 million records and more than 1,665 titles Coverage: 1971 -
Full text content 1985 –

Canadian business periodicals – many full-text Coverage: 1971 – , Full text content 1985 –
This database focuses on literature and language periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues.
Provides access to Canadian Census data, including profile tables and mircrodata files.
Canadian

Includes 15 full-text Canadian Major Daily newspapers. Earliest coverage: 1977-

Canadian

Index to Canadian music periodical literature. Coverage: Late-19th century to the present day

Canadian

The portal leverages newly created and liberated Census datasets to provide new insights into how urban neighbourhoods across Canada have changed over the past 70 years.

Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources is a free searchable database of digitized parliamentary publications from the 1st Session of the 1st Parliament in 1867 until coverage at sencanada.ca and ourcommons.ca begins.
This database lets you access 147 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 2,250,000 patent documents.
Collection of several hundred e-books from Canadian University Presses.

Canadian Primary Sources

Canadiana Online identifies, catalogue, and digitizes documentary heritage—books, newspapers, periodicals, images and nationally-significant archival materials.

Monographs - spanning three and a half centuries of Canadian documentary history, holds rich primary materials exploring a wide range of subjects and disciplines. With a projected 84,000 titles by completion, this resource is the most comprehensive full-text searchable set of historical monographs currently available for the study of Canada. 

Serials - includes a wide range of dailies, weeklies, specialized journals and mass-market magazines, as well as city directories and annual reports from churches, schools, and corporations. Specialized publications include trade or industry journals as well as many men’s, women’s, student’s and children’s popular magazines

Government Publications - includes over 1.7 million pages of historical pre-1920 colonial, provincial and federal government documents. This collection includes government acts, bills, committee reports, court rules, debates, journals, ordinances, a selection of official publications from France and Great Britain, sessional papers, regulations, royal commission reports, voter’s lists and treaties.

Canadiana Online is projected to digitalize the entire CIHM collection by the end of 2018.

Provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions.
A database of case commentary and case summaries which is contributed to, on a daily basis, by lawyers, scholars and others with professional competency in legal analysis.
Provides access to CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System), Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database.
The collection contains 115 of the Champlain Society's volumes (over 50,000 printed pages) dealing with exploration and discovery over three centuries. It includes first-hand accounts of Samuel de Champlain's voyages in New France, the diary from Sir John Franklin's first land expedition to the Arctic, 1819–22, plus many other fascinating stories.
Comprehensive coverage of the world's chemical literature. Restricted hours of access: 8:00 am Sunday to 5:00 am Monday, 5:00 pm to 5:00 am Monday to Friday. 5:00 pm Friday to 6:00 pm Saturday. Coverage: 1907 -

Chicago Manual of Style: provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices. Chicago NB system is often used in the humanities and provides writers with a system for referencing their sources. Includes the newest edition, the 18th and the 17th edition (as of September 2024).
 

Alternate Name(s):Adam Matthew Digital Collection

English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980. Includes maps, illustrations, diaries, essays etc.

A searchable database containing almost 200,000 reviews of academic titles ranging over the past 28 years.

(Cumulative index to nursing & allied health literature) - Index to English language periodical literature in nursing. Coverage: 1981-

 

Tutorial:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BUBmheI_pE

List of Journals Indexed: https://www.ebsco.com/m/ee/Marketing/titleLists/cin-coverage.xls

 

The Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database contains 6800 records describing publications about all aspects of human health in the circumpolar region. The database is a project of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Team in Circumpolar Health Research.
A bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials, and part of Ovid's Evidence Based Medicine Reviews collection.
Access to over five million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings in all areas of engineering. Coverage: 1969-
Canadian

Economic intelligence on Canada, the Provinces, Metropolitan areas and the United States.

Contains over 5,000 research documents on economic trends, organizational performance and public policy.
Canadian

Bilingual resource to more than 400 English- and French-language journals, including more than 30 American titles dealing with North American and international issues. It provides both Canadian and worldwide coverage of mainstream and academic periodicals, as well as 80 business journals. It includes some full-text titles. Coverage: 1980-

The Canadian standard for drug monographs, contains thousands of products including monographs for drugs, vaccines, natural health products and medical devices, approved by Health Canada. It includes Lexi-Interact drug interaction checker and critical updates such as warnings and advisories.

Offering more than 1,200 highly regarded titles from over 80 publishers, Credo Reference covers every major subject. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, chronologies, images, websites, etc.

Criterion on Demand
Streaming Video
Streaming Video

A collection of thousands of online videos.

The approximately five million newspapers, journals, books, pamphlets, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other resources held by CRL support research and teaching. CRL acquisitions include materials from all world regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. While materials are held in the original as well as in microformats
Curio.ca
Canadian Streaming Video
Canadian Streaming Video

Curio.ca is CBC and Radio-Canada’s online subscriber-based streaming service developed expressly for the Canadian educational community, The collection features thousands of programs and hundreds of teacher resource guides carefully curated to support provincial K-12 curricula and post-secondary courses across the country. Curio.ca gives teachers and students 24/7 access to a wealth of primary-source content in English and French.

If you wish to create a playlist, you will need to create an account.

An electronic library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.

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A full text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. DARE contains structured abstracts of systematic reviews from around the world. Its records cover topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment.
Alternate Name(s):Adam Matthew Digital Collection

Provides access to a vast body of original sources in Gender Studies.

Restricted Number of Users

Contains over 59,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the present (only 1 simultaneous user).

The Library has an older print version of the Oxford DNB called Dictionary of National Biography from earliest times until 1985. It is located on the Main Floor: CT 773 D55

Thousands of archival primary source images, texts, and recordings relating to Thunder Bay and regional history, made available by the Lakehead University Archives
Alternate Name(s):DPLA
DPLA provides access to almost 50 million digitized primary source images, texts, and recordings from across the United States. It also develops and hosts themed sets of primary sources for teaching
An online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Definitions and classifications of mental disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association. Includes fully revised text and references, updated diagnostic criteria and ICD-10-CM codes.

Available through Psychiatry Online.

Offers evidence-based clinical guidance written by physicians. It provides answers to clinical questions quickly and easily, with the most up-to-date evidence.

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e-Laws provides access to official copies of Ontario’s statutes and regulations.
Includes access to all of our Ebsco databases including: America: History & Life with Full Text, Bibliography of Native North Americans, CINAHL, Education Source, ERIC, Historical Abstracts with Full Text etc.
ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP.

It includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature. Users have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each document, as well as to the full text of most of the information provided.
Education Source includes the full-text for more than 1,900 English language journals, and provides indexing for nearly 3,500 journals with coverage dating back to 1929. Provides scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. Information on all educational specialties is included as well as all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education. Education Source also includes access to books and education conference proceedings.
Collection of resource materials on selected cultures from all major areas of the world.
Alternate Name(s):Adam Matthew Digital Collection

A portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815 brings together rare journals printed between c1685 and 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics covered are extremely wide-ranging and include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion.

This collection includes a subset of theses submitted by graduates of the University of Waterloo as a partial requirement of a degree program at the Master's or PhD level. It includes all electronically submitted theses. (Electronic submission was optional from 1996 through 2006. Electronic submission became the default submission format in October 2006.)
This collection also includes a subset of UW theses that were scanned through the Theses Canada program. (The subset includes UW PhD theses from 1998 - 2002.)
A collection of close to 1000 e-boooks on law, public policy, geography, sociology etc.
A biomedical and pharmaceutical database Coverage: 1974-
Emcare, produced by Elsevier, covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions. Emcare includes international coverage of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical care medicine. 1995-
Alternate Name(s):Adam Matthew Digital Collection

A collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world.

engrXiv (engineering archive) is dedicated to the dissemination of engineering knowledge quickly and efficiently. engrXiv was launched in beta in July 2016 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and in partnership with the Center for Open Science.
The Bibliography contains over 45,000 annotated citations to books, articles, and dissertations published from 1633 to the present and is updated online quarterly. Approximately 1,000 citations are added each year. Recent additions also appear quarterly in the “new scholarship” section of the journal Environmental History.
A collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence.
A major resource for North American research in the field of education and education-related topics. Coverage: 1966-
Erudit is the digital gateway to North American French-language
research outputs in Social Sciences and Humanities. Erudit explores more than 200,000 scholarly and cultural publications in the social sciences and humanities in French and English. it includes journals, theses, books, proceedings and research reports.

Erudit includes the full-text of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association and Ontario History.
Search over 250,000 theses in the UK. Many theses available for free downloading
Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750.
Europeana provides access to over 50 million digitized primary source images, texts, and recordings from across the European Union.
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Reviews
Restricted Number of Users
Restricted Number of Users

Contains the fulltext of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Best Evidence (the American College of Physicians Journal Club) and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE). Also contains citations from the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (no fulltext). Coverage: 1991-

Limited to 13 simultaneous users

It provides a searchable way for researchers to find out what has been learned from previous cross-cultural research about cultural universals and differences. This is done by summarizing the purpose of each study, the hypotheses tested, whether the hypotheses are supported, the variables and the subject-categories in eHRAF that may apply to these variables. In addition, ancillary information, such as the sample used in each study, the citation, etc. are included.

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The First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Association of Ontario is a subject association for educators teaching First Nations, Métis and Inuit Studies, and Native Languages in Ontario, Canada.

Access to the "Members Only" section of this site is available for all current Lakehead University students, staff and faculty. A unique password (NOT your Lakehead username and password) is required to login.
For username and password information send an email to edlib@lakeheadu.ca (Current Faculty of Education students, staff and faculty can also check the "Education Passwords" course site).
WWW.FPIC.INFO is a free resource that aims to promote good knowledge of Indigenous Rights, especially the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent, into the hands of researchers, Indigenous communities, and other indigenous allies. This includes articles, toolkits, videos, voice messages, and community stories about FPIC and Consultation.
Alternate Name(s):Adam Matthew Digital Collection

This digital collection of primary documents on the frontiers of North America, Africa and Australasia brings together documents from 16 archives around the world.

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A database of over 40 full-text encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
GALLOP Portal is intended as a one-stop access point to full-text searchable electronic government documents collected by Legislative libraries in Canada for their jurisdictions. As of 2022-02-06, the portal provides full-text access to the content from the electronic government documents collections of the following:

Alberta Legislature Library
Legislative Library of British Columbia
Manitoba Legislative Library
New Brunswick Legislative Library
Newfoundland and Labrador Legislative Library
Northwest Territories Legislative Library
Nova Scotia Legislative Library
Ontario Legislative Library
Library of the National Assembly, Québec
Saskatchewan Legislative Library
Nunavut Legislative Library
This is a subject index which brings together newspaper and magazine articles on Thunder Bay and northwestern Ontario. This index includes more than 50,000 headlines over the past 16+ years.
Literature on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Coverage: 1973 -
Scholars GeoPortal is geospatial data discovery tool allowing Ontario’s university students and researchers to enrich their teaching and research by engaging with OCUL’s growing collection of geospatial data. The portal offers search, preview, query, download and sharing functionality for datasets licensed by Ontario university libraries, covering such topics as land use, transportation networks, census boundaries, geology, soils, air photo imagery, points of interest (such as healthcare facilities, schools), and more.
GeoRef, published by the American Geosciences Institute, contains more than 3.3 million abstract records from geoscience journals, books, maps, conference papers and more. Dating back to 1669 for North America and 1933 for the rest of the world.
Repository for all Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) bibliographic information.
Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration.
Includes:

Imperial Russian Newspapers
Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers
Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers
Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers
Southeast Asian Newspapers
Google Patents includes patent applications and grants from the USPTO, EPO, JPO, SIPO, WIPO, DPMA, and CIPO. Patents without English full text are machine-translated to English, so you can search foreign patent documents using only English keywords.
Google Scholar provides a way to search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment.

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HARVEST is a technology and service platform (institutional repository) that contributes to the mission of the University community by enabling sharing and long-term preservation of research, scholarly, and artistic works. It also functions as the digital repository for the College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies electronic theses collection.

An online research product with more than 90 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. 
Includes coverage from inception of more than 1,600 law and law-related periodicals, Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more.

The Héritage project is a 10-year initiative to digitize and make accessible online some of Canada’s most popular archival collections encompassing roughly 60 million pages of primary-source documents. Chronicling the country and its people from the 1600s to the mid-1900s, this collection represents a vast and unique resource for Canadian historians, students, and genealogists.
The Hill Times is an Ottawa-based newspaper which offers extensive coverage of Canadian federal politics and global affairs, first rolled off the presses on Oct. 5, 1989
Provides indexing of historical articles from more than 3,100 journals in over 40 languages dating back to 1955. In addition, this database provides access to the full text of more than 380 journals and 140 books.
Trial

Over 5 million pages of newspapers, archival materials, letters, diaries, photographs, and other critical historical documents.

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Covering every major civil and structural engineering discipline, the ICE Virtual Library is the most comprehensive online civil engineering database in the world. Its powerful searching and browsing tools allow you to find the information you need quickly and easily. Thanks to ahead of print publication, you can access new articles online as soon as they are published.
ICON provides a freely accessible database of bibliographic information for more than 25,000 newspaper titles from participating institutions. Newspapers which are available in the Center for Research Libraries may be requested for Interlibrary loan via RACER.
Access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature. Coverage: 1988-

A digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
An index to over 22,000,000 current articles taken from over 30,000 multidisciplinary journals. IngentaConnect provides keyword access to article titles, authors, and journal titles.
A collection of 117 full-text humanities databases that make available cohesive collections of editions, in both original language and in English translation, of seminal figures in the humanities and social sciences.
This database includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year.
Over 90 Physics e-journals
The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) connects faculty, students, researchers and members of the community with electronic resources: books, articles, theses, documents, photographs, archival resources, maps, etc. It is an initiative of the University of Saskatchewan Library.

Online access to the entire Irwin digital library, with over 200 titles currently available. New titles are regularly added as they are published.

Index to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700) Coverage: Journal titles indexed in Iter (published since 1784), collection of essays indexed in Iter (published since 1931), access to e-books via Scholar Portal Books

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Indexes hundreds of scientific, technical and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.

Full-text multidisciplinary archive of journal articles. Includes over 500 open access e-books.

Access to over 2,000 open content e-books and all journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere is freely available
The online source of the consolidated Acts and regulations of Canada. The consolidations are generally updated every two weeks.

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Streaming Video

Kanopy Streaming Service offers thousands of online videos. 
Our access uses a "patron driven acquisitions model" which means that films in this collection can be viewed by Lakehead students, faculty and staff 3 times before a licence for 1 year is triggered.
All films include public performance rights.

Films can be viewed on Personal computers (requires Flash) or iPads, iPhones and other mobile devices.

Provides access to articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in KCI. KCI is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in Korea.

1980-
Includes Lakehead University dissertations and theses, research and scholarly works and university publications.

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Search descriptions of all archival primary source documents held by Lakehead University on the Thunder Bay Campus. Most material is available for LU students to access and work with.

Provides Canadian legal news, analysis and current awareness online, on
mobile, and through frequent newsletters for lawyers who need a real-time view on the shifting legal landscape.

LEGISinfo is your primary source of information regarding legislation before Parliament. Stay up to date with recently introduced bills in the Senate or House of Commons. Access a wide range of information, such as:

The full text of the most recent version of a bill and any previous versions of the bill.
The bill's life cycle, from the day it is introduced for first reading until it receives royal assent.
Links to the relevant content in official parliamentary publications associated with the passage of a bill.
Browse all bills from previous sessions going back to the 37th Parliament in 2001. (Note: Essential data, such as bill numbers, titles and the text of most bills considered by Parliament between 1994 and 2000 – the 35th and 36th Parliaments – are also available.)

LEGISinfo is a collaborative effort of the Senate, the House of Commons, and the Library of Parliament.
Full Text Legal database with access to over 150 Canadian legal textbooks.

LexisNexis upgraded legal database for Canada with comprehensive primary and secondary sources. Includes access to Practical Guidance.

All new Law Students will need to register for this product.

Covers librarianship, classification, information management, and more and indexes more than 700 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
A database of LA&C with more than 880 thousand records of peer reviewed journals, thesis and dissertations, government documents, annals of congresses and books, published since 1982.
It includes systematic reviews, randomized controlled clinical trials, evidence synthesis, health technology evaluation studies, economic evaluation studies, clinical practice guidelines, technical reports, case reports and others.
Provides online access to literary criticism from 1400 to 2014. Includes children's literature.

* Contemporary Literary Criticism - from 1973-2014
* Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism - from 1978-2014
* Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism - from 1981-2014
* Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 - from 2007-2014
* Children's Literature Review - from 1976-2014
Biographical information, overviews, criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all periods and from around the world.
Canada’s largest collection of online Court Documents. It combines
litigation-focused research with practice tools to support your strategic
decisions
A collection of archival digital material including government publications and legal materials from Canada, the United States, and other countries.

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George Mason University's Search Engine for Open Source Textbooks.
Alternate Name(s):Adam Matthew Digital Collection

British Social History, 1937-1972. insight into everyday life in the 1930s and 1940s.

Includes Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications Coverage: 1940-
Alternate Name(s):Adam Matthew Digital Collection

Presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period.

Ovid MEDLINE® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,600 journals published world-wide.
Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Note: Only 1 simultaneous user
Modern languages, literatures, folklore, linguistics. Coverage: 1926 - Note: For more information about the journals and series that are covered in the MLA International Bibliography database, check out the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
Contains more than 53,000 titles and 1.3 million printable pages of the most important scores in classical music, ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. Coverage: 1874-

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The information found here can be used for research projects such as documenting land claims, or for studying independent Statutes and Acts, Treaties and Court Decisions.
NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals. Available as PDFs.
Contains summaries of over 189,000 U.S. and international publications on criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. Coverage: 1970-
Bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of Native American, Inuit people of Alaska, and Canadian First Nations.
More than 15,000 news, legal and business sources, Nexis Uni helps students find credible sources including:
• Print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts,
newswires and blogs
• Local, regional, national and international newspapers
with deep archives
• Extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and
statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions
since 1790
• Business information on more than
80 million U.S. and international companies and more
than 75 million executives
Streaming Video

Access to over 6,000 films in English and in French.

 

Includes over 30 Canadian scientific e-journals
Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database
Includes access to over 700 peer reviewed journals, over 300 clinical skills videos, multicultural reports, and grey literature.
comprises a diverse body of literature focusing on nursing education, specialties of care in both the hospital and non-hospital settings, interdepartmental care, administrative aspects of nursing, and medico-legal features. SSRN helps fosters research and collaboration with the aim of hosting research that can improve public health and nursing care around the world.

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Resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 4,660,285 theses and dissertations.
Use ODESI to download thousands of surveys from Statistics Canada's Data Liberation Initiative as well as historic and current public opinion polls from Gallup Canada and other polling companies.
Many data formats are available including SPSS, SAS, Stata and text.
Offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. It is an essential tool for health researchers and policy advisors in governments, the private sector and the academic community, to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health care systems.
From the list of Ontario cities, choose your desired search city. In most cases - including Orillia - you would do a keyword search in the newspaper index - and then write down the date of publication of the article(s), and visit the local public library to find that article on microfilm/microfiche.
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost.
OpenDissertations.org, the project from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and BiblioLabs, includes more than 800,000 Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD).
These online resources support the implementation of Ontario’s H&PE Curriculum for Grades 1-8. Each university student and employee is required to create a new, free account on the new site in order to access the Ophea Health & Physical Education (H&PE) Curriculum Resources (Elementary/Grades 1-8 and Secondary/Grades 9-12). To create an account, go to www.ophea.net and click on "Login" then Click on “Create Account” and complete the required fields.
These online resources support the implementation of Ontario’s H&PE Curriculum for Grades 9-12. Each university student and employee is required to create a new, free account on the new site in order to access the Ophea Health & Physical Education (H&PE) Curriculum Resources (Elementary/Grades 1-8 and Secondary/Grades 9-12). To create an account, go to www.ophea.net and click on "Login" then Click on “Create Account” and complete the required fields.
OPHID is a free database index resource for researchers, students, or anyone working on or with population health issues. It provides an on-line, searchable index of a wide variety of data sources relevant to Ontario (as well as Canada), details about their content, and how to gain access to them.
A unique partnership with cultural and heritage organizations of all shapes and sizes, designed to make digital content discoverable to a global audience. Part of Knowledge Ontario, OurOntario.ca is one search across hundreds of sites – in seconds. It allows you to find audio, video, text, government documents, images and collections about Ontario, or from an Ontario organization.
Emcare, produced by Elsevier, covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions. Emcare includes international coverage of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical care medicine. 1995-
Ovid HealthSTAR is comprised of data from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE and former HealthSTAR databases. As such, it contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. The following topics are included: evaluation of patient outcomes; effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services and processes; administration and planning of health facilities, services and manpower; health insurance; health policy; health services research; health economics and financial management; laws and regulation; personnel administration; quality assurance; licensure; and accreditation.
Contains over 56,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the present (only 1 simultaneous user)

The Library has an older print version of the Oxford DNB called Dictionary of National Biography from earliest times until 1985. It is located on the Main Floor: CT 773 D55
The most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. It traces the development of English from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day. The varieties of English covered include British English, American English, Australian English, New Zealand English, the Englishes of the Indian subcontinent, Southern Africa, and the Caribbean, among others.
Restricted Number of Users

Brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. It contains over 180 works in over 20 different subjects. 2-5 simultaneous users.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,200 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
It contains over 350 full-text journals.

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History and culture of the Canadian Prairies. It is based on the Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies.
Periodicals Archive Online an archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Using advanced trawling techniques and large scale crowdsourcing, we monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. We also host the largest open access archive in philosophy.
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The world's most comprehensive policy database, with over 14 million reports from 40,000 think tanks, agencies, governments, and cities—and tools to supercharge your research.

ProQuest's open access dissertations and theses

Discover preprints for key research articles ahead of the formal publication in a journal from a range of internationally selected and evaluated preprint repositories in the sciences, social sciences and arts & humanities

Discover preprints connected to author profiles and peer-reviewed literature in the Web of Science.

(1991-present)
Over 600 full-text journals in the Humanities.
Collection of e-books from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Taylor & Francis.
Alternate Name(s):The Globe and Mail
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.
Includes over 20 databases in a variety of subjects
The world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities.

1637 to present
Database of full-text articles from more than 60 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group
PsycCRITIQUES, a database of the American Psychological Association, ended publication in Fall 2017. The critiques are made available here in partnership with the APA.

PsycCRITIQUES contains 43,056 full-text reviews of books in psychology and the social sciences, as well as professional videos and popular films from a psychological perspective. Reviews occasionally include comparative or retrospective book reviews.

The database also includes all reviews published in the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books between 1956 (Volume 1, Issue 1) and 2004.
Includes references to periodicals, books, monographs, reports, dissertations, and other materials from world literature on psychology and the behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1806 -
Covers over 3,000 of the world’s leading biomedical journals and periodicals, providing bibliographic citations and authors’ abstracts relating to all aspects of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Coverage: 1947-

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(Remote Sensing Online Retrieval System) - Provide access to archived information on the technologies and applications of remote sensing and is available through the Earth Sciences Information Centre (ESIC) of Natural Resources Canada. Coverage: 1950-1995
Full text journals spanning all branches of chemistry

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A collection of over 500 full-text journals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Provides access to over 3,000 e-books, encyclopedias and handbooks. Subjects include: Business, Communication, Counseling & Psychotherapy Criminology & Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Environment, Family Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Geography, Health & Social Welfare, History Politics & International Relations, Psychology, Public Policy & Public Administration, Research Methods and Evaluation, Social Issues, Social Work Coverage: 2008-2014
Alternate Name(s):GeoPortal
Scholars GeoPortal is geospatial data discovery tool allowing Ontario’s university students and researchers to enrich their teaching and research by engaging with OCUL’s growing collection of geospatial data. The portal offers search, preview, query, download and sharing functionality for datasets licensed by Ontario university libraries, covering such topics as land use, transportation networks, census boundaries, geology, soils, air photo imagery, points of interest (such as healthcare facilities, schools), and more.
Includes over 115,000 commercial and over 430,000 open access titles.
A digital repository of over 40 million scholarly articles covering every academic discipline.
Research in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa. Access nearly 650 titles, over 4 million cited references.
Access to 8,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals across 150 disciplines. Coverage: 1975- and Conference Proceedings 1990-present.
All aspects of science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural and weird fiction. History, criticism, commentary, fan writings and some reviews are all included. Coverage: 1879-
Includes over 1800 full-text journals. Subjects covered include: biology, business, chemistry, medicine, nursing, physics etc.
SciVal provides access to the research performance of over 21,300 research institutions and their associated researchers, from 234 nations worldwide.
Alternate Name(s):Adam Matthew Digital Collection

An important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007.

Includes Social Science research articles and conference proceedings. Coverage: 1975- and Conference Proceedings 1990-present.
Covers current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, community development and related areas. Coverage: 1979-
International literature in Sociology Index Coverage: 1952- and full text coverage varies.
Covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles indexed in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. As well as hundreds of full text scholarly journals, the database also includes over 500 recent full-text doctoral dissertations on sociology.
The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), a subset of the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP), creates and maintains a collection of open access materials for the study of South Asia.

There are 4 curated collections including Caste & Social Structure, Literature, Social & Economic History and Women & Gender.
(Scott Polar Research Institute) Ice and Snow - A collection of publications covering all aspects of snow and ice worldwide. Coverage: 1661-

Collection of over 15,000 books in many different subject areas

Includes over 1500 full-text journals. Subjects covered include: biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics, physics etc.

Rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 483,500 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 392,900 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. Please note that not every document is freely available.
Statista features:
-Over 1.5 million statistics (400-500 new statistics added each day)
-Covering more than 80,000 topics of information
-Over 1,500 Infographics
-Over 18,000 sources of information
This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.
Information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. Lakehead has access to Collections 1 and 2.

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Thousands of online journal articles in different topics.
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
TumbleBookCloud is a collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks, Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos (from National Geographic!), and Audio Books suitable for middle school and high school grades. Lesson plans and quizzes accompany the books.
New Canadian Streaming Video

A selection of early Canadian films. This collection of archival film provides insights into life, work and technology from a century ago.

Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video
Full-text versions of Canadian theses and dissertations published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002. Also contains bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965.
This is a subject index which brings together newspaper and magazine articles on Thunder Bay and northwestern Ontario. This index includes more than 50,000 headlines over the past 16+ years.
TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 15%).
The Tumblebook Library is a collection of electronic animated, talking picture books with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles for children. The Tumblebook collection includes read alongs (chapter books) ebooks, puzzles and games and TumbleResources for teachers and students.
TumbleMath is a comprehensive collection of math picture books, all in the amazing TumbleBook format complete with animation and narration. The books are accompanied by supplementary materials such as lesson plans and quizzes. Click on Quiz Portal and you will find a Portal containing thousands of quizzes created by math teachers specifically for your state/provincial standards.

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Over 140 reporter countries provide the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) with their annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities and partner countries.

 

A data access system to all of the United Nations databases. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point from which users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN System.
Search descriptions of all primary source documents held by the United States National Archives, including archival records and publications. Some materials are available digitally
Patents from 1790 through 1975 are searchable only by Issue Date, Patent Number, and Current US Classification.
Full text theses and dissertations from 1992 to present.
E-Books published in 2022 from Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Columbia University Press, University of California Press, and Stanford University Press."
Over 2600 e-books from University Presses. They include: Oxford University Press, University of California Pressm Edinburgh University Press, Policy Press (University of Bristol), University Press of Florida, University Press of Kentucky, Fordham University Press, American University in Cairo Press, Hong Kong University Press, and Manchester University Press
UpToDate (For Nursing Students Only)
Nursing Only
Nursing Only

UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource

For access information, please contact D. Gold - dgold@lakeheadu.ca

all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines

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Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes index to dissertations and theses and conference proceedings and cited reference searching. Coverage: 1975-

 

Database of Canadian Law and legal research.

Law Students will need to register for this product.
Access to over 1,634 onlne e-journals.
The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. The materials in World Heritage Sites: Africa serve researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, Diaspora studies, folklore and literature, geography, and history, as well as those focused on geomatics, advanced visual and spatial technologies, historic preservation, and urban planning.
The world's largest network of library content. It contains more than 1 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries. It includes books, computer data files, computer programs, films and slides, journals, magazines, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, and videotapes.

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Primary Sources

The digitization of nearly 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities in the UK spanning more than one million pages brings together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain.

 

For more information about 19th Century British Pamphlets, check out this video.



 

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