Find the best library databases for your research.
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)
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-
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.
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-
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
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
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 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.
Cabell's is the complete source for journal info, evaluation metrics, and submission details-for universities of any size.
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.
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.
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 –
Index to Canadian music periodical literature. Coverage: Late-19th century to the present day
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.
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.
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).
English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980. Includes maps, illustrations, diaries, essays etc.
(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
Economic intelligence on Canada, the Provinces, Metropolitan areas and the United States.
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-
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.
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.
Provides access to a vast body of original sources in Gender Studies.
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
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.
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.
A collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
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
This digital collection of primary documents on the frontiers of North America, Africa and Australasia brings together documents from 16 archives around the world.
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.
Over 5 million pages of newspapers, archival materials, letters, diaries, photographs, and other critical historical documents.
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
Full-text multidisciplinary archive of journal articles. Includes over 500 open access e-books.
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 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.
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.
British Social History, 1937-1972. insight into everyday life in the 1930s and 1940s.
Presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period.
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.
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.
An important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007.
Includes over 1500 full-text journals. Subjects covered include: biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics, physics etc.
A selection of early Canadian films. This collection of archival film provides insights into life, work and technology from a century ago.
Over 140 reporter countries provide the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) with their annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities and partner countries.
UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource
For access information, please contact D. Gold - dgold@lakeheadu.ca
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-
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.