E-Resources by type

Dissertations and Theses


$subunit$subunit$subunit Theses Canada Portal provides information on theses and dissertations in the Library and Archives Canada collection published since 1965. It includes some full-text availability from 1998 onward.

$subunit ProQuest Dissertations and Theses provides information on over 2 million North American and international theses and dissertations. Includes full-text availability for many titles published since 1998.

$subunit$subunit$subunit EThOS is the Electronic Theses Online Service from the British Library.

E-Books


$subunit Scholars Portal Books provides a single source for accessing digital texts from many publishers.

$subunit$subunit ebrary features E-Books from Canadian and international publishers. Collections include Canadian Public Policy and Canadian Health Research.

$subunit$subunit eBook Collection provides access to E-Books covering a variety of subjects. Formerly titled netLibrary.

$subunit MyiLibrary is a collection of E-Books by scholarly publishers including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis, and Ingram.

$subunit ACLS Humanities E-Book is digital collection of full-text E-Books in the Humanities.

$subunit$subunit Safari Tech Books Online features computer and technical E-Books and more.

$subunit$subunit$subunit Google Book Search features previews and information about books. Click on "Find in a library" to check availability. Includes full-text access to some public domain E-Books.

$subunit$subunit$subunit Open-Access Text Archive hosted by the Internet Archive offers permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.

$subunit$subunit Oxford Reference Online Premium is a comprehensive collection of subject dictionaries and encyclopedias covering a variety of fields from the Oxford University Press. It also includes English and bilingual dictionaries.

$subunit SpringerLink contains full-text E-Books and journals covering biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.

$subunit MIT Cognet includes books, reference sources, journal articles, and conference materials covering cognitive and brain sciences.

$subunit$subunit Books @ Ovid contains full-text e-books covering Nursing and Clinical Medicine.

$subunit Eighteenth Century Collections Online features content published in Great Britain and the Americas including books, directories, Bibles, pamphlets, sheet music, sermons, advertisements, and more.

Primary Sources


$subunit American Film Scripts Online is a full-text collection of scripts that also includes detailed information about scenes, characters and the people related to the scripts.

$subunit Asian American Drama contains plays, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Also includes selected playbills and production photographs.

$subunit ARTstor provides online access to hundred of thousands of visual images and related data from different cultures and disciplines.

$subunit Black Drama - 1850 to present contains plays, related production information, playbills, photographs, and more. It includes playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

$subunit Black Thought and Culture is a collection of full-text books, articles, letters, interviews, speeches and other non-fiction resources by leading African Americans from colonial times to the present.

Publisher Journal Collections


$subunit ALJC- ALPSP Learned Journals Collection is a multidisciplinary collection of journals from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers covering various topics related to the Humanities, Social Sciences, General Sciences, and Technology.

$subunit Berkeley Electronic Press offers full-text access to journal articles covering the fields of economics, business, marketing, law, political science, science, technology, medicine, education and statistics.

$subunit Cairn offers access to a comprehensive collection of European French language journals in the social sciences and humanities.

$subunit Cambridge Journals online provides access to journals published by the Cambridge University Press covering a variety of disciplines.

$subunit$subunit$subunit Directory of Open Access Journals offers access to thousands of free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

$subunit Duke University Press Journals provides full-text access to journals covering a wide range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.

$subunit Eighteenth Century Journals I & II contains full-text newspapers and journals relating to various aspects of eighteenth century social, literary, and political life.

$subunit Érudit provides access to Canadian journals, E-Books, proceedings, theses and other documents published mainly in French covering topics in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

$subunit$subunit$subunit HighWire Press is a division of Stanford University Libraries that provides journal articles covering medicine, science, and technology.

$subunit JSTOR is an archival database of full-text journals covering a wide variety of fields within the Arts, Science, and Business. Typically it does not include volumes published in the last 3 to 5 years.

$subunit Oxford Journals Online contains journals published by Oxford University Press covering a variety of academic disciplines.

$subunit Periodicals Archive Online provides full-text access to the backfiles of journals covering the humanities and social sciences.

$subunit$subunit Project MUSE is a full-text database providing access to peer-reviewed journals in cultural studies, history, politics, music, theatre, film, and literary criticism.

$subunit SAGE Journals Online features journals covering humanities, medicine, physical sciences, and social sciences.

$subunit SpringerLink contains full-text E-Books and journals covering biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.

$subunit Taylor & Francis Online provides full-text access to journals covering education, health sciences, science, social sciences and humanities.

$subunit Wiley Online Library features full-text journals covering a variety of academic disciplines.

$subunit Oxford Scholarship Online offers titles from Oxford University Press.

Reference


$subunit$subunit Oxford Reference Online Premium is a comprehensive collection of subject dictionaries and encyclopedias covering a variety of fields from the Oxford University Press. It also includes English and bilingual dictionaries.

$subunit$subunit$subunit Virtual Reference Library features links to reliable information on the Internet with special focus on Canadian and Ontario information.

$subunit$subunit Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary that covers the development of the English language. It includes detailed entries for words from 1150 CE to the present.

$subunit$subunit Book Review Digest provides review excerpts and book summaries from 1983 to present for current English-language fiction and non-fiction books for all ages.

$subunit Cabell's Directories provides publishing details for selected Business, Education, and Nursing journals including topics covered, submission guidelines, acceptance rates and details about the review process.

$subunit$subunit Gale Virtual Reference Library includes subject-specific encyclopedias and specialized reference sources.

$subunit$subunit$subunit Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online provides biographies of those who died between the years 1000 and 1930.

$subunit$subunit$subunit Canadian Encyclopedia features the complete content of the print version, in both official languages, as well as the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (English only) plus interactive and multi-media resources.

$subunit$subunit$subunit Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a reference source that features articles written by expects.

$subunit$subunit Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides entries covering a broad variety of subjects.

$subunit$subunit The Serials Directory contains bibliographic and pricing information for journals, newspapers, and magazines.

$subunit MLA Directory of Periodicals provides information on journals and series covered in the MLA International Bibliography database.

Streaming Resources


$subunit$subunit National Film Board is making many films available online. The Library has secured the performance rights for these to be screened in classrooms.

$subunit Classical Music Library contains recordings of classical music, including vocal and choral music, chamber, orchestral and solo instrumental music, and opera.

$subunit Theatre in Video features streaming video of plays and documentaries.

$subunit$subunit Video Streaming - Nursing features on-demand streaming video and supplemental materials related to nursing.