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Omni - Multiple Database Search
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Try the Omni search on the library homepage. It searches a wide range of library databases, ranking the results by relevancy. And you can limit your results to scholarly/peer reviewed articles, books, news articles, etc. Give it a try!
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Key Article Databases
- ERIC (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowA major resource for North American research in the field of education and education-related topics. Coverage: 1966-
- GeoBase This link opens in a new windowLiterature on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Coverage: 1973 -
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text multidisciplinary archive of journal articles. Includes over 500 open access e-books.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowIncludes references to periodicals, books, monographs, reports, dissertations, and other materials from world literature on psychology and the behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1806 -
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowInternational literature in Sociology Index Coverage: 1952- and full text coverage varies.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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-
Databases for Canadian Content
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA) This link opens in a new window
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 – - CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index) This link opens in a new window
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-
- Canadian Public Documents Collection (via Scholars Portal Books) This link opens in a new windowThis is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups.
Databases for News
- Canadian Major Dailies (formerly Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies) This link opens in a new windowIncludes 15 full-text Canadian Major Daily newspapers. Earliest coverage: 1977-
- Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History [includes Thunder Bay District News Index] This link opens in a new windowThis 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.