Geography Databases
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).
· Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily
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-
· Type: Citations and some full text (from 1995 to present)
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.
HLAS Online [Handbook of Latin American Studies]
A bibliography on Latin America, providing comprehensive access to future, current, and retrospective volumes of the
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS).
· Coverage: 1936-
· Type: bibliographic
IDRC (International Development Research Centre): Biblio
The library of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The IDRC is a public corporation created by the Canadian government to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research; "science for humanity."
· Coverage: 1965-
·0000 Type: citations with some full text
Making of America, Cornell University (1840-1900)
And at
University of Michigan (1850-1877)
Drawing on the depth of primary materials at the University of Michigan and Cornell University libraries, these two institutions are developing a thematically-related digital library documenting American social history. The collections are particularly strong in the areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
·1111 Coverage: 1840 - 1900 (Cornell)
·2222 Coverage: 1850 - 1877 (U of Michigan)
·3333 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.
·4444 Coverage: citation index and abstracts
·5555 Type: 1986-
First Nations Periodical Index
Accesses a listing of journals containing mainly Canadian Native content.
·6666 Coverage: 1992-
·7777 Type: citation index