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Abacus data repository

Abacus is UBC's collection of data sets, including public use microdata from Statistics Canada, public opinion polls, and geospatial data. Look here for Statistics Canada surveys and data. Some open access.

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ABI/INFORM Collection

ABI/INFORM Collection comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. It includes journals and business periodicals, dissertations, and country-and industry-focused reports

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Academic Search Complete

A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications.

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Access Medicine - Case Files

Updated regularly, this comprehensive collection helps students learn and apply basic science and clinical medicine concepts in the context of realistic patient cases.

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AccessMedicine

Approximately 100 e-books, including a clinical library (Harrison's Online, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and more), Lange Educational Library, and a USMLE self-assessment tool and 50+ clinical cases.

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AccessPharmacy

Collection of books, drug information and more, including DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach.

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Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

PRIVACY NOTICE: UBC Library makes Acland's Visual Atlas available for you for your convenience. Your use of this resource is voluntary. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose when creating an account is stored on servers located outside of Canada. When you use this resource, no personal information about you is collected by or for UBC. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide when using this resource. Please review Acland's Anatomy Privacy Policy on their website before using this resource if you have any concerns.

Series of anatomy lessons on video using unembalmed human specimens to illustrate anatomical structures.

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ACLS Humanities eBook Project

An online collection of approximately 4,700 books in the humanities.

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ACM Digital Library

Technology-related journals, magazines, newsletters and conference proceedings. Use for: Technology topics such as e-commerce, supply chain management, human computer interfaces, RFID, etc.

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ACP Journal Club

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Concise evaluative commentaries on original studies and reviews from key clinical journals. By the American College of Physicians (ACP).

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Acts of the Parliament of Canada 1792- (via HeinOnline)

Contains the session laws (or statutes) of the Acts of the Parliament of Canada from 1792.

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Acts of the Parliament of Canada 1867- (via LLMC)

Contains the session laws of the Acts of the Parliament of Canada from 1867-1984.

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Afghan Central Press

Includes four national, Kabul-based publications of Afghanistan: the English-language Kabul Times and the publications Anīs, Hewād, and Iṣlāḥ.

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Afghan Serials Collection (DA-ASC) Partisan Publications from the Wahdat Library

Afghan newspapers and journals published in Persian, Pushto, Arabic, Urdu, and English from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.

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Africa bibliography

Indexes a wide range of material relating to Africa. Includes monographs, book chapters, journal articles and casual publications. Not restricted by language. Coverage extends back to the mid nineteen-eighties.

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African and Diaspora Children's Literature Project

An online, collaborative resource for children, parents, caregivers, teachers & librarians to experience African & Diaspora literature. Covers literary types & genres suitable for children through secondary school age.

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African Newspapers

Over 40 19th- and 20th-century African newspapers featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

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AgEcon Search

Free repository of working papers, conference papers and journal articles in applied economics, including agricultural, energy, environmental, resource, and consumer economics.

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AGIS Plus Text (Australian database from informit)

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Full-text online database which offers secondary law resources covering all aspects of law in Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific.

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Agri-Food Trade Service

Market information, trade counselling and export support activities, which will take the exporter from initial enquiry to foreign market.

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Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (AESD)

AESD facilitates in-depth research and comprehensive literature reviews in agricultural and environmental science. It includes AGRICOLA, Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management, and Environmental Impact Statements.

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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center

Literature about agriculture-related communications in 170 countries.

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AHR net (Art History Research Net)

Articles and biographies for researching the history of 19th and 20th century art and design.

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Airiti Library

TEPS includes 80% of Taiwanese academic journal articles; CETD Thesis. Some content from Airiti Library not available.

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Al-Ahram Digital Archive (1876-2020)

Al-Ahram Digital Archive includes all obtainable published issues of the newspaper from July 1876 to November 2020. Additional content is added on an annual basis.

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All4Maternity

Resource for maternity workers, student midwives, midwives. Includes access to The Practicing Midwife and Student Midwife journals. Also provide access to over 50 e-modules, blogs and educational podcasts.

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Alternative Press Index (EBSCO)

Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals

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America History and Life

The definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from pre-contact times to the present.

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American Antiquarian Society historical periodicals collection

Digitized content of more than 7,500 periodicals comprising over seven million pages. Coverage ranges from 1691-1877. Multidisciplinary.

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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)

Covers journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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American Book Prices Current

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ABPC indexes auction sales of books, manuscripts and autographs reported by American Book Prices Current.

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American Chemical Society Publications

Select access to a wide-range of journals, e-books, as well as the Style Guide to Scholarly Communication, from the American Chemical Society.

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American Film Scripts Online

Contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.

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American Geophysical Union Digital Library

Nearly 100 years of Earth and space sciences research from AGU’s journals and its international newspaper, Eos.

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American History I 1493-1859: from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history

Will ultimately comprise over 50,000 primary source documents supported by a range of secondary resources including chronologies, essays, and video lectures.

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American Institute of Physics Online Conference Proceedings

Online access to American Institute of Physics conference proceedings beginning with volume 500.

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American Law Institute (ALI) Library (via HeinOnline)

Consists of full runs of the Institute's Annual Reports, Proceedings, Annual Meeting Speeches & the Institute's newsletter, with Institute projects and publications going back to the organization's founding.

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American Music (Alexander Street Press Music Online)

Audio streaming database focusing on the history of American life.

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American National Biography Online

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Features nearly 18,000 biographies.

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American Periodicals Series Online

Includes over 1500 American magazines and journals published between the colonial era the beginning of the 20th century.

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American West

From the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library - includes papers of early pioneers & explorers; original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon; evolution of Western towns & growth of railway & road networks

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AnatomyTV

Interactive 3D anatomy tool

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Année Philologique (Brepols)

L’Année philologique, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

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ANNO: AustriaN Newspapers Online. ( Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften Online)

ANNO is a digitized collection of Austrian newspapers and journals published between 1568 and 1942.

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Annotated Bibliography of Canadian Demography

Produced by the Population Studies Centre, University of Western Ontario, the Bibliography covers research on Canada's population, including journals, books, doctoral dissertations and government publications.

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Annual Reviews

Literature reviews and topic overviews in the sciences and social sciences.

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Anthropology Plus

This key anthropology database is a comprehensive index of the literature in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, museum studies, and related interdisciplinary research.

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AnthroSource

Full-text database of the American Anthropological Association's journals and bulletins, including key peer-reviewed publications American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, & Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

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APA (American Psychological Association) Handbooks

APA Handbooks are accessible on the PsycNET platform such as: Adolescent and Young Adult Development, Ethics in Psychology, Multicultural Psychology, Psychopathology, Testing and Assessment in Psychology.

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Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980

British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980.

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Arcade: Catalog of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)

Provides a single search interface for the research libraries of three leading art museums in New York City: The Brooklyn Museum, The Frick Collection and The Museum of Modern Art.

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Archaeopress

The range of publications includes monographs, conference proceedings, catalogues of archaeological material, excavation reports and archaeological biographies.

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Archives of Sexuality and Gender

Rare and unique documentation of LGBTQ history through fully-searchable newsletters, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other primary sources.

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Archives Unbound

Topically-focused collections of historical documents in digital format. Five NEW collections including "Intelligence Reports from the NSC’s Vietnam Information Group" and more.

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Archivision

No need to log in on the MDID site.

Archivision is a database of over 80,000 high quality, professionally photographed images of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, archaeology, and design searchable within the MDID platform.

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Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA Online)

Covers restoration and preservation of artworks, material culture and archaeology

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Art and Architecture Archive: Architecture & Design

Full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of architecture and design, dating from the late-19th to 21st century.

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Art Full Text

User limit: 20 maximum

Indexes Art, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning journals. Reproductions of works of art appearing in periodicals are also indexed.

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Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984

User limit: 5 maximum

Provides high-quality indexing of nearly 600 publications - many of which are peer-reviewed - and citations of over 25,000 book reviews. Coverage includes fine, decorative and commercial arts.

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ARTbibliographies Modern

Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art

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ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)

Main database of almost 115 million words, constituting 1880 French texts from the 12th to the 20th centuries, and other files

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Artists in Canada

Union list of Canadian artists, giving biographical information and location of files of over 42,000 Canadian artists in 23 libraries and galleries across Canada.

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Artists of the World

Artists of the World contains authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on artists and entries on communities of visual artists from all over the world and from all eras.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)

Multidisciplinary index. Can be used to determine where and how many times an article has been cited.

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Artstor

The Artstor website will be retired on August 1, 2024 and will move to the JSTOR website. Saved Artstor Image Groups will move over to JSTOR as well. For more information and how access - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ubc.ca?url=https://www.jstor.org/artstor

Artstor is a digital image library for the arts and sciences with an unparalleled range of images licensed for educational use at UBC.

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ASABE Technical Library

Database of publications from the American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers, including journal articles, conference proceedings, standards, monographs, lectures.

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Asahi Shinbun Cross-Search 朝日新聞クロスサーチ

A newspaper database for Asahi shinbun published from 1879 to present. Also includes articles from Aera, Shūkan Asahi, Chiezō, Asahi shinbun jinbutsu dētabēsu, and Asahi shinbun rekishi shashin ākaibu.

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ASCE Research Library

Provides bibliographic access to all ASCE publications and access to citations and abstracts for ASCE journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers published since 1970.

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ASFA - Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts is an internationally known bibliographic database for aquatic sciences and fisheries.

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Asia-Studies Full-text Online

Reports on business, government, economic, environmental and social issues in 55 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Asian American Drama

Contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Chinese, Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian descent.

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ASM Handbooks Online

Provides online access to the complete ASM Handbook series including the multi-volume ASM Engineering Materials Handbook and ASM Metals Handbook.

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Association of Canadian University Publishers

Some titles have added restrictions and require Adobe Digital Editions in order to "check out" the ebook.

eBooks published by Canadian University presses available via Scholar's Portal.

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ASTIS: Arctic science and technology information system

Find articles, conference papers, government publications, reports, theses and books about all aspects of northern Canada and adjacent marine areas.

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ASTM Compass

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Includes a digital edition of nearly every ASTM International book and paper spanning 140+ industries and 100+ years including books, journals, Special Technical Publications (STPs) and standards.

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Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials

Compiled by the American Theological Library Association. Covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues.

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Audio Cine Films

Access open to UBC students, staff and faculty only. No walk-in users.

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Streaming versions of feature films from major Hollywood and international distributors.

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Australian Education Index

Australian Education Index (formerly International ERIC). Updated Monthly.

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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Covers the subjects of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.

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中國方志庫和基本古籍庫 Erudition

On the website, select "ancient classics", click "Login" to access it and remember to "Exit" when finished.

You will see the two databases highlighted in red:

中國基本古籍庫V7.0 & 中國方志庫 初集 二集

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The largest Chinese database of pre-20th century texts covering all fields of knowledge, has in recent years become a standard reference for anyone working on pre-20th-century China.

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