French Databases
Erudit
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rudit publishes and disseminates any scholarly journals, regardless of the publisher. It also serves as a publishing centre for journals supported by the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture. The majority of the journals are in French. Retrospective digitization is done for more than half of the 67 journals, and at least for a substantial part of their collection. At the demand of journal publishers,
Érudit maintained the moving wall principle for filtered access: the last two years of journal publications are available to subscribers. Over 80% of the content is open access while still allowing journals to obtain the revenue they need to ensure the continuation of their publishing projects.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains indexing for over 8,000 publications covering virtually every area of academic study. More than 3,600 of these are peer-reviewed, full text journals.
· Coverage: 1975 - (for more than 100 of the journals)
· Type: citations, abstracts and full-text
ArticleFirst - OCLC
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: Jan. 1990-; daily
· Citations
WorldCat Database (the OCLC Union Catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 48 million bibliographic records representing books and other materials (but not journal articles) in 400 languages. Covers information back to 2100 B.C. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world as well as records describing selected internet resources. Includes the
Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
é0 Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily
Gale's Literary Index
Index to the major literature series published by the Gale Group, containing biographies on more than 137,000 authors and critical essays on their writings.
é01 Coverage: all series issues
é12 Type: Citation index
Medieval Feminist Index
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books, covering women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
é23 Coverage: 1994-
é34 Type: citation index
Early Canadiana Online
Canada's printed heritage published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early twentieth century. Concentration on the subjects of women's history, exploration, government documents, English Canadian literature, history of French Canada,
Hudson's Bay,
Jesuit Relations and Native studies.
é45 Type: full-text
Project Gutenberg
A collection of public domain books in electronic format. Mainly comprised of classic literature.
é56000 Coverage: 1400-
é67111 Type: full-text