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PubMed (1946 - present)

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Premier biomedical database with over 30 million journal article references. Freely available and includes MEDLINE.

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MEDLINE (Ovid)

Premier biomedical database with over 36 million life sciences journal articles from ~6000 journals since1946. Content matches PubMed and operating system supports editable structured searching with links to full text.

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MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost)

Premier international index to biomedical research covering nearly 6000 journals and indexing over 26 million citations from 1946 to present.

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MEDLINE (via Web of Science)

Access through the Web of Science platform. MEDLINE® is the US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world.

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Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Access to PLOS Open Access journals: PLOS One, PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

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MedlinePlus (Consumer Health)

Freely-searchable consumer health information site linking to simple overviews, dictionaries, directories, organizations and news for ~750 topics.

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20-seiki Media Jōhō Dētabēsu

Article Index of newspapers and periodicals published during the Occupation (1945-1949) from the Prange Collection. Over 3.2 million records are included.

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BioMed Central

BioMed Central publishes 290+ peer-reviewed open access journals. UBC Library pays for a Supporters Membership which entitles UBC authors to a 15% discount on the article-processing charge.

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Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive

Abstracts and full text of journal articles in the health sciences.

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The Republican Daily News(1916~1947)/ 民國日報

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Had great influence in China's modern political history, one of the most renowned newspapers at the time. CNBSKY has digitalized all 110,000 pages of its first to its final issue.

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Illume

Catalogue of the holdings of British Columbia's public, college, and institute libraries.

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Literary Manuscripts: Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library

Literary manuscripts supplemented by rare printed material.

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IOP electronic journals & Journal archive

IOPscience is an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content.

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Library Stack

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The Library is providing access to Library Stack to you for your convenience. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose to create a temporary account will be stored on servers outside of Canada. When you use this service, no personal information about you is collected by or for UBC. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide directly to Library Stack. For more information please review the Library Stack Privacy Policy.

A catalogue and index of ebooks, audio files, videos, apps, and digital documents published within the fields of contemporary art, design, architecture, media studies, cinema, and philosophy.

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Read

PRIVACY NOTICE: UBC Library makes READ by QxMD available for you for your convenience. Downloading the App and your use of READ by QxMD is voluntary. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose when creating an account is stored on servers outside of Canada. You will be asked to accept their Privacy Policy when you create an account.  When you use the App, no personal information about you is collected by or for UBC. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide when creating an account.

Your creation of an account and use of the QxMD App is an implicit acknowledgement that you have read, and agree with, this notice.

‘Read by QxMD’ provides a single place to discover new research, read outstanding topic reviews and search PubMed.

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Royal Society of Chemistry Journals

The Royal Society of Chemistry publishes 58 peer-reviewed journals in chemistry and related fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine and physics.

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Statista

A simple to use statistics portal that integrates statistics from thousands of sources, on topics related to business, media, public policy, health and others.

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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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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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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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Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA)

Covers western art from late antiquity (4th century A.D.) to 2007. Coverage of contemporary art includes critical and theoretical publications.

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Bloomsbury Law Collections (Hart)

Books sourced from Hart Publishing and Verlag C.H. Beck on academic study of law as well as to its development and practical implementation.

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CINAHL (via EBSCOhost) - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

Key database for nursing and allied health. From 1982 and covering journal articles, book chapters, theses, instrumentation this database has excellent coverage for rehabilitation sciences and psychosocial medicine.

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Health Technology Assessment (OvidSP)

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Database of health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions).

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Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series (IPM)

The Index to Printed Music (IPM) is the only electronic resource for finding individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions.

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Journals@OVID - LWW

E-journal collection covering medicine, nursing, rehabilitation sciences and dentistry.

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) publishes new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching - quickly, informally, and at a high level.

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PsychiatryOnline

Psychiatric references and journals from American Psychiatric Publishing, featuring DSM-5 and The American Journal of Psychiatry.

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Recent Researches in Music Online

Online access to all titles in the seven Recent Researches in Music series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th/20th centuries, American (including MUSA), and Oral Traditions.

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Royal College of Physicians archive

The Royal College of Physicians archive, which ranges from the year 1205 through 1980, reflects the history and development of modern Western medicine.

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Scopus

Comprehensive abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines including science, technology, medicine, social science, arts and humanities.

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SpringerOpen

SpringerOpen includes Open Access journals & books from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.

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The New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences' digital archive covers the development of the natural, technological, and biomedical sciences in government and corporation documents, field notes, maps, conference proceedings and more.

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Wiley Online Library

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Wiley is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world's leading societies.

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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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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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Annual Reviews

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

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Archivision

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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 Full Text

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

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Brepolis

Home to the online products of Brepols publishers and its partners.

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Brill eBooks

Founded in 1683, Brill is a publishing house with a rich history and a strong international focus. eBooks cover a wide range of topics in the humanities & sciences.

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Brill's New Pauly Online

An encyclopaedia of the ancient world covering the history and culture of Greco-Roman Antiquity.

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British Literary Manuscripts

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Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE.

Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.

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BrowZine

BrowZine can be accessed online or via an app. It organizes articles found in our ejournals, uniting them into journals, then arranging these journals on a virtual newsstand for browsing.

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CAIRN

Comprehensive collection of 230 French language periodicals covering areas such as history, psychology, economics, political science and sociology.

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Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Core platform provides access to over 30,000 ebooks and more than 380 peer-reviewed journals in subjects as diverse as astronomy, Shakespeare studies, economics, mathematics and politics.

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Canada Commons

Searchable access to current public documents issued by Canadian public policy, health research agencies, think tanks, and books from Canadian publishers. Former title Des Libris

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Canadian Encyclopedia

Canada's national encyclopedia covering all branches of knowledge. Includes more than 35,000 articles in English and French.

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Censuses of Canada 1665 to 1871

350 statistical tables on the social and economic conditions of Canada from 98 Censuses of the earliest settlements to Confederation in 1867 and on to 1871.

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Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

Catalogue and Digital Collections of the CRL consortium of North American university and independent research libraries. Items are available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

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This resource contains multiple collections. License permissions vary by collection. For license permissions specific to a collection, please consult the full display for the resource page. If you require assistance, please contact here.

CLE Online (Continuing Legal Education)

Please note that the login will change periodically and access is restricted to current UBC users.

Includes Online Practice Manuals, Online Course Materials, and Case Digest Connection from the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia.

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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)

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Citations to controlled trials identified by the contributors of the Cochrane Collaboration.

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Compendex Engineering Village

Compendex covers the core literature of engineering providing peer reviewed and indexed publications with over 35 million records from 87 countries. Every record is indexed using the Engineering Index Thesaurus.

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Corpus Pierre Bayle

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Consists of the Dictionnaire historique et critique (edition of 1740) and his Œuvres littéraires et philosophiques complètes (edition of 1727-1731).

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CSA OnDemand Standards - Complete CSA Collection (No IT)

CSA standards can be downloaded as protected PDFs with no printing on-campus or on the VPN using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Many CSA standards are available in the CCOHS database (Legislation section): http://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=144

Additional CSA standards are available here (registration required): https://community.csagroup.org/welcome  

Online access to CSA standards, with exception of IT and Telecommunication standards. Please see http://guides.library.ubc.ca/standards for more information on standards.

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Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement

Primary source collection of newspapers, videos, texts and images that document the rise of a social movement around disability history and disability studies.

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Drama Online

Includes Core Collection, Shakespeare's Globe on Screen, Playwrights Canada Press, Royal Shakespeare Company Live, Critical Studies & Performance Practice, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, and National Theatre Collections

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Encyclopédie d'Yverdon

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Published from 1770-1780 under the editorship of Swiss Calvinist Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice. The original intention was to 'improve' and complete the Paris Encyclopédie. In the end, it was completely transformed.

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Guangming Ribao Digital Archive 《光明日报》图文电子版1949-2018

The full-image and full-text Guangming Daily 光明日报 gives comprehensive insights into developments in China after 1949.

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HeinOnline

Full-text access to legal journals and other legal materials, from volume 1 of each title. A project in progress, it will include all indexed legal journals.

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Historical Abstracts

Covers all aspects of history, excluding that of Canada and the US, from the late fifteenth-century on.

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Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003

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The world’s first fully-illustrated weekly newspaper presented in a fully-searchable digital format.

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International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

The definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).

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JBI

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JBI EBP includes 3,000+ records & many publication types: Evidence Based Recommended Practices and Summaries, Best Practice Information Sheets, Systematic Reviews, Consumer Information & Reports

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JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) Research

UBC Library has access to JoVE Research:

  • JoVE Journal with 13 sections: Behavior, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Cancer Research, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Engineering, Environment, Genetics, Immunology and Infection, Medicine, Neuroscience
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JoVE Research: Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing laboratory protocols in a video format. UBC has access to all 13 journal sections, and JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments.

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Korean Current Topics Dictionary

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Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)

LISA currently abstracts over 440 library and information science periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages.

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Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991

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The complete 62-year run of The Listener, the BBC periodical published from 1929-1991

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Merck Index Online

Online version of The Merck Index: searchable database of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals.

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MIT Press Complete Collection

Access to all ebooks published by MIT Press, over 3000 titles, dating back to the first date of publication.

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Music Periodicals Database

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) is the ultimate resource for music periodicals available on the web. It provides indexing and abstracts for 445 international music periodicals from over 20 countries.

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National Academies Press (NAP)

4000+ free ebooks on science, engineering, and health.

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online

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Fully-searchable primary documents arranged in subject-specific archives. Encompasses a variety of disciplines from History to Literature to Women's studies to Science

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NK PRO

NK PRO is a one-stop resource for news, data, and analysis on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). Related: NK News, KCNA Watch.

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PEN (Practice Based Evidence in Nutrition)

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Evidence-based information on nutrition and dietetics produced by the Dietitians of Canada.

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Poison Management Manual

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Resource on the toxicity, clinical effects and treatment of frequently encountered poison exposures and poison or drug overdoses commonly associated with a poor outcome.

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Policy Commons

Database for public policy. The Library subscribes to: Cities: Canada; Global Think Tanks; North American City Reports (trial to April 2024). At the Policy Commons site, click on Modules to access each.

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PsycInfo (Includes full text from PsycArticles) (via EBSCO)

From the American Psychological Association. Covers psychology and the psychological aspects of various other disciplines: journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, plus citations to dissertations.

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Sage Journals Online

SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals.

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Shinpen Kokka taikan

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A digital version of the foundational resource for Japanese literature research, Shinpen Kokka taikan [Encyclopedia of Japanese Waka Poetry] in this new edition contains about 450,000 poems from 1,162 anthologies.

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SPIE Digital Library

Provides access to research on all topics of optics and photonics research published in SPIE journals and conference proceedings.

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The Hill Times

Canada's politics and government news service. Includes in-depth coverage of federal politics and substantive policy briefings.

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Warc : World Advertising Research Center

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Full-text articles, reports and case studies on advertising. Includes advertising expenditure data. Can search by brand, advertiser, and agency.

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Wiley Digital Archives

Digitized archives of academic and scientific societies. UBC Library has purchased 4 archives: Royal College of Physicians, Royal Anthropological Institute, New York Academy of Sciences, and Royal Geographical Society.

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BioCyc

BioCyc is a collection of 14560 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), plus software tools for exploring them.

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BSI Knowledge - BSOL

BSOL includes access to equivalent standards for many ISO, IEC and EN standards.

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Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)

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Database of studies relevant to the methodology of systematic reviews in healthcare and social interventions.

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Patrologia Latina

The first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina in electronic form.

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U.S. Declassified Documents

Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE.

Provides online access to more than 500,000 pages of previously classified US government documents.

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