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Historical Abstracts (EbscoHost) provides coverage of world history (excluding Canada and the United States) from the 15th century to the present.

America: History & Life (EbscoHost) covers U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.

Scholars Portal Journals (Scholars Portal) is a multi-disciplinary database with millions of articles drawn from journals covering every academic discipline. Previously known as E-Journals @ Nipissing University (Scholars Portal).

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.

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

Iter indexes journals, essays, books and reviews covering the Renaissance and Medieval periods in Europe (400 to 1700 AD). This database contains citations and selected full-text access.

Troubles connecting? There is a known issue regarding Iter access.

Victorian Database Online provides access to records listing books, articles, and dissertation abstracts on nineteenth-century British studies published from 1945 to the present.

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

Military and Intelligence Database (Knowledge Ontario) provides access to titles related to military and naval science, international relations, defence industries and aerospace.

Canadian Encyclopedia (Historica) 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.

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

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost) consists of a wide range of articles related to the social sciences, general sciences, humanities and education. It contains journals, magazines, newspapers, and more.