General Reference & Interdisciplinary Databases
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).
· Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily
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
Bartelby
Covers English fiction, non-fiction, verse and reference works, including Bartlett's quotations. Searchable by subject, title and author.
· Coverage: 1400-
· Type: full-text
Canadian Reference Centre
Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books in full text as well as over 84,000 full text biographies and an Image Collection of more than 193,000 photos, maps and flags.
CIA World Factbook
Provides country profiles detailing geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues, as well as country maps and flags.
· Coverage: current year
· Text: full year
CPIQ: Canadian Periodical Index
The electronic version of the
Canadian Periodical Index, with indexing of nearly 700 Canadian and international periodicals including
The Globe and Mail;
Maclean's weekly magazine;
Canadian News Facts; and reference materials, such as the
Canadian Parliamentary Guide and
Canadian Newsmakers. With full-text articles from 240 periodicals.
· Coverage: 1988-
·000 Type: Citations and some full text (from 1995 to present)
Current Research -- UMI / Proquest / Bell & Howell
Provides access to UMI's Dissertation abstracts database; entire database available only to institutional subscribers, citation and abstract searches open to the general public.
·111 Coverage: 1996-
·222 Type: full-text available for a fee (free to institutional subscribers)
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Search by keyword or browse alphabetically or by subject. Also available are a dictionary, thesaurus and atlas.
·333 Type: full-text
First Nations Periodical Index
Accesses a listing of journals containing mainly Canadian Native content.
·444 Coverage: 1992-
·555 Type: citation index
Internet Public Library
Contains thousands of titles that can be browsed or searched by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.
·666 Coverage: 1400 -
·777 Type: full text
jake
Answers the questions, "Which database indexes this journal?" and "Where can I find the full text?"
·888 Coverage: varies by journal
·999 Type: database index
On-Line Books Page
Includes thousands of English language books and serials.
·002 Coverage: 1400-
·113 Type: full text
Population Index
Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
·224 Coverage: citation index and abstracts
·335 Type: 1986-
Project Gutenberg
A collection of public domain books in electronic format. Mainly comprised of classic literature.
·446 Coverage: 1400-
·557 Type: full text
Television News Archive - Vanderbilt University
"The world's most available, extensive and complete archive of television news. Since 1968, the Archive has consistently recorded, indexed, and preserved network television news for research, review, and study. The Archive offers: loans of duplicated tapes, loans of compiled tapes and in-archive viewing."
·668 Coverage: 1968-
·779 Type: citations and abstracts