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Canadian Newsstream

Canadian Newsstream offers the full text of almost 300 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail, National Post and the Vancouver Sun.

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News on the Web (NOW)

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UBC faculty and graduate students may also request access to a downloadable version of NOW.

The News on the Web (NOW) corpus contains billions of words of data from online magazines and newspapers in 20 English-speaking countries from 2010 to the present.

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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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Chinese Newspapers Collection

Full text of 22 historical English-language daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines published in China between 1832 and 1953

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Latin American Newspapers

Full text of 35 newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere.

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South Asian Newspapers - NewsBank

Full text of 10 newspapers published in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Taiwan UDN Newspapers Online / 全文報紙資料庫

Newspaper database of the United Daily News Group, the largest news group in Taiwan

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Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers

Publications from across this dynamic region, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late 19th through the late 20th century.

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17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

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

A full-text/full-image searchable digital archive of about 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom; digitized by the British Library.

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19th Century British Newspapers

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National, regional and local British newspapers from the holdings of the British Library. Includes the full text of 71 newspapers, totalling over 3 million pages.

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19th Century U.S. Newspapers

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Digitized images of over 1.7 million pages from nineteenth-century American newspapers.

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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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Caribbean newspapers from the American antiquarian society, 1718-1876

Includes fully-searchable page images from more than 140 newspapers. Predominantly in English but Spanish-, French- and Danish-language titles are also included.

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Gale NewsVault

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

A range of historical newspaper and periodical collections.

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Hongkong News Online

This complete run of The Hongkong News as published during the Japanese Occupation offers scholars the voice of Japan from Hong Kong.

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Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003

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

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

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Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers

Full-text open access to historical newspapers from China

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Naver News Library

Full text coverage of 3 Korean historical newspapers (Tonga Ilbo, Kyonghyang Sinmun, and Maeil Kyongje Sinmun) from 1920 - 1999.

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Southeast Asian Newspapers

Southeast Asian Newspapers collection contains 129 publications from Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, and chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region between 1839 and 1976.

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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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Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals (Series 3) 1800-1900

Publication details for 73,000 nineteenth-century English periodicals and newspapers.

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World News Connection Archive

Please EXIT when done.

Archive of translated and English-language news and information compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources.

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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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British Columbia Newspaper Index

Selective index of The Province, Vancouver Sun and Times-Colonist; 1991-2007. From the BC Legislative Library.

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Central Daily News (1928~1949) 中央日報

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Nationalists' party newspaper established in Shanghai

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Eighteenth Century Journals: Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815

British periodicals of the eighteenth century.

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Le Monde (archive)

Digitized access to Le Monde, a French daily newspaper, known for its analysis and opinion pieces on current events. Coverage: 1944-2000

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Modern newspaper in China / 近代报纸数据库

Over 200 newspapers published nation wide or locally in modern China 1911-1949

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Montreal Gazette (archive)

Full text access to the Montreal Gazette, the only English-language daily newspaper currently published in the city. Coverage: 1867 - 2010

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National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals

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A group of databases giving access to articles published in Chinese periodicals from 1833 to current, compiled by the Shanghai Library, and Shanghai Tuqing Information Co., Ltd.

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Rafu Shimpo Digital Archive

The Rafu Shimpo (羅府新報, L.A. Japanese Daily News) is the longest-running Japanese American newspaper in the United States.

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South Asian Newspapers - East View

Collection of 12 publications from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, covering the period from 1850 to 1992, and featuring multiple languages such as Bengali, Dari, English, Nepali and more.

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South China Morning Post (archive)

Digitized access to the South China Morning Post - an English language newspaper published in Hong Kong - which reports on Hong Kong and other countries in Asia. Coverage: 1903 - 2000

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Times of India (archive)

Full text access to the English language daily newspaper founded in 1838 to serve British residents of West India. Coverage: 1838 - 2010

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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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Toronto Star (archive)

Full text access to the Toronto Star. Coverage: 1894 - 2018

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Bloomberg

PRIVACY NOTICE: UBC Library makes Bloomberg available for you for your convenience. Your use of Bloomberg is voluntary. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose when creating an account is stored on servers located in the United States. 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 to Bloomberg.

Your creation and use of a personal log-in ID for Bloomberg is an implicit acknowledgement that you have read, and agree with, this notice.

You can only set up your personal login ID with your personal ubc.ca email address. Using a ubc.ca email account that does not belong to you constitutes non-academic misconduct. You cannot use a non-UBC employer’s address.

Access open to current UBC students, staff and faculty only. No walk-in users. Remote access is not available.

UBC Sauder School of Business students can access Bloomberg via machines in the Wayne Deans Invesment Analysis Centre and the Leith Wheeler Investment Analysis Lab.  Non-Sauder UBC students may use any Bloomberg terminal in the Leith Wheeler Investment Analysis Lab, CLC 222 if it is not in use or booked by a Sauder student. If a Sauder student has booked a terminal they may ask the non-Sauder student to move to a different terminal. Terminal 6 is no longer bookable, and is available on strictly a drop-in basis. Please limit your usage to 2 hours per day.

Bloomberg is licensed for academic purposes only. Users cannot use this product for commercial purposes.

Bloomberg has data downloading limits. If a monthly downloading limit is reached, all the Bloomberg machines that share that license will also have reached that data limit and users will have to wait until the beginning of the next month before it resets. Please be judicious in downloading data to avoid hitting the limits for yourself and for all other users. For more information about Bloomberg data limits, read the blog post.

Please note that more than 3 unsuccessful login attempts will lock the station. If this happens, please use the "forgot your password" function within Bloomberg.

Investment analysis database. Use to find stock prices, ratios, betas, business news, freight rates, stock exchange members, etc.

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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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Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA)

Includes journals, magazines, and newspapers published in Canada in the fields of business, current events, education and general reference.

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Choson Ilbo Archive (조선일보 아카이브)

Database of Chosŏn Ilbo newspaper articles in PDF format from 1920 to present.

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Climatewire

Part of E&E News. Provides up-to-date coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society.

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DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index

Articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. Information on designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc.

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ENDS Europe

Provides the latest European environmental news and a wide range of services including analyses, interviews, opinion pieces and updates on national and EU laws, as well as additional reports on topical issues.

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Factiva

To comply with licensing, please limit number of articles downloaded to 100 per session.

Always LOGOUT (under drop-down, upper left on site) after session.

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Factiva provides access to a deep archive of news and business information, allowing users to conduct in-depth research on companies, industries, regional affairs.

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Independent Voices

Independent Voices is a four-year project to digitize over 1 million pages from the magazines, journals and newspapers of the alternative press archives.

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Law 360 Canada

Law360 Canada, formerly The Lawyer's Daily, is published by LexisNexis Canada. Law360 Canada provides Canadian legal news, analysis and current awareness online.

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LegalTrac

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Indexes articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law & bar association journals, & legal newspapers on US Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice.

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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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New York Times (archive)

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT - It may be known as “America’s newspaper” but for more than a century, The New York Times has commanded international readership. Coverage: 1851 - 2017

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Nexis Uni

One of the world's premier fulltext news, government, legal, finance and business information services. Research international news, corporate and legal materials.

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Nexis Uni - Legal

Provides access to primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations and secondary source materials such as legal news or law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic.

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Nineteenth Century Index [C19]

This database provides integrated access to the twelve most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives for 19th century studies.

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Peel's Prairie Provinces

Online bibliography of materials related to the development of the Prairies, and a searchable full-text collection of many of these items: 7,500 digitized books, over 66,000 newspaper issues, and more.

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Picture Post Historical Archive

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Complete, fully-text searchable facsimile archive of the Picture Post, the iconic newspaper published in Britain between 1938-1957 that defined the style of photojournalism in the 20th century.

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Shen Bao 申報

The largest newspaper in China in 1930's in terms of circulation.

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Standard & Poor's Compustat

Public company financial data items collected from news releases, shareholder reports, direct company contacts, and quarterly and annual documents filed with the Securities Exchange Commission.

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Tax Analysts (Tax Notes & Tax Notes International & Worldwide Tax Treaties)

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Expert commentary, news, analysis and special reports on US federal, state and international tax issues, including primary source documents.

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Tax Suite Premium

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Offers collection of Canadian tax research materials with commentary from Ernst & Young. Includes full coverage of federal income tax, GST/HST & excise, & provincial taxes PLUS a daily tax email news service.

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The Chairman's Bao

Resource limited to UBC students and faculty. No walk-in users.

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A database of over 8,000 news-based graded reading for beginner to advanced Chinese learners.

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The Globe and Mail (archive)

Electronic full-page newspaper archive from June 1844 to 2017.

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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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The Province (1894-2010)

One of Vancouver's two daily newspapers. Coverage: 1894 - 2010

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Vancouver Sun (1912-2010)

One of Vancouver's two daily newspapers. Coverage: 1912-2010

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Yi Shih Pao (Tianjin) (1915~1949) 益世报

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A large scale newspaper during the Republic China time.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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Australian Education Index

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

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BestCase

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Contains Canadian Criminal Cases, Dominion Law Reports, Labour Arbitration Cases, as well as a comprehensive collection of unreported decisions. It also includes CLB's case summary services & a note-up citator feature.

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Birds of the World

Comprehensive information (e.g. characteristics, distribution, migration, habitat, food habits, behaviour, sounds) for bird species around the world

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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

Iincludes approximately 100,000 pages of material assembled from numerous bibliographies and from newly conducted research. Alongside the published material are 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscripts

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Canadian Music Periodical Index

CMPI is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. CMPI is a free service provided by Library and Archives of Canada.

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Canadiana Online

'Canadian' source material written by Canadians, published in Canada or written/published outside the country but about Canada. Includes all the content formerly available through 'Early Canadiana online'.

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CB Insights

PRIVACY NOTICE: UBC Library makes the CB Insights service available for you for your convenience. Your use of CB Insights is voluntary. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose when creating an account is stored on servers located in the United States. 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 to CB Insights. Please review the CB Insights Privacy Policy on their website before using this service if you have any concerns.

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A comprehensive global database of private companies and investors activities.

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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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China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database 中国知网

Academic electronic materials from China, updated daily

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Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

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The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is a large, genre-balanced corpus of American English. The corpus contains more than one billion words of text (25+ million words each year 1990-2019) from eight genres.

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CPA Canada Handbook

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The CPA Canada Handbook (formerly known as the CICA Handbook) provides information on accounting practices and processes.

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CQ weekly & CQ.COM

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CQ weekly plus access to US federal government committee reports, congressional transcripts, and floor votes.

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CriminalSource

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Via WestlawNext Canada. Integrated research portal for most aspects of criminal law & includes Canadian Criminal Cases (CCC) and Weekly Criminal Bulletin (WCB).

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Curio

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Streaming access to the best in educational content from CBC and Radio-Canada

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Dacheng old periodical full-text database/ 大成老旧刊全文数据库

Historical Chinese-language periodicals published in China (1844-1949), plus 3 newspaper databases in the same time period: Shen Bao, Shuntian Shi Bao and Shanghai Evening Post

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Database for the History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements 1949-

Includes 4 collections: Cultural Revolution, Anti-Rightist Campaign, Great Leap Forward -- Great Famine Database, 1958-1962, Political Campaigns in the 1950s:(1949-1956)

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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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Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal (DTES RAP)

The Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal (DTES RAP) is an easy-to-use resource intended to improve access to academic and community-generated research related to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

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E&E (Environment & Energy) Publishing

Source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy politics and policy. Includes reporting of issues facing the White House, Congress, the courts, federal agencies and the states.

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Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800) and Supplement

Full text/image access to over 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides.

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Early American imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) and Supplement

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English Historical Documents Online

Sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, diaries and more.

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European Sources Online

ESO provides access to information on the institutions and activities of the EU, the countries, regions and other international organisations of Europe, and on issues of importance to European researchers.

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First Nations Periodical Index

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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports

The original mission of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service was to monitor and translate radio broadcasts from foreign governments and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. It covers 1941-1996.

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Gale Associated Press Collections Online

Contains materials from AP Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archives, including wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more, with coverage from the turn of the century to the early 2000s.

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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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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (OvidSP)

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Database of records providing comprehensive, accurate information about measurement tools and instruments used in health, sociology and psychology and produced by the Behavioral Measurement Database Services.

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Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America

Printed and archival material from the Edward E. Ayer collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Covers North and Central America from the period of first contact to the twentieth century.

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Indigenous peoples North America

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Includes manuscript material, monographs, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, and images of artwork drawn from a variety of repositories in the United States and Canada.

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LawSource

Collection of Canadian case law, legislation and editorial tools for legal research via Westlaw's platform.

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LesPlan

Current events resources for teachers published in French. Bâtir des ponts, Monde en Marche, Nos Nouvelles

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Lexis Advance Quicklaw Plus

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Lexis+

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Full-text court & tribunal decisions & case law summaries

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LGBTQ+ Source

The premier resource to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer issues.

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Maclean's magazine archive, 1905-2015.

110 years of the leading Canadian news and general interest magazine. Initially known as The Business Magazine, then The Busy Man’s Magazine, it became Maclean's in 1911.

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Music Index

The Music Index Online, produced by Harmonie Park Press, is the single most comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature.

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North American City Reports

Over five million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.

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North American Women's Letters and Diaries

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, colonial to 1950.

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North China Herald

The English-language North China Herald is the prime printed source in any language for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to 1940s.

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People's Daily (1946-present) 人民日报

人民日报电子版

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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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Sunday Times digital archive

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

The Sunday Times (not related to the Times newspaper) began publication in 1822. It is is said to have been the first weekly to serialize a novel.

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Ta Kung Pao / 大公报

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A highly influential newspaper in modern China. This database has included all pages of the Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hankou, Hong Kong and Guilin editions.

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The Independent [Digital archive]

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The important British daily newspaper which began publication in 1986.

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thegreensearch.ca

thegreenpages.ca network has created a specialised search engine that searches recommended Canadian environment-related web sites.

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Times Digital Archive

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An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times (London).

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Ulrichsweb

Provides detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (serials). Includes academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.

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vLex Global

Comprehensive coverage of primary law for over 20 jurisdictions & selected coverage for 100+ countries, vetted editorial content from 1,000+ partner publishers curated by a global editorial team, & Irwin Law titles.

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Voilá: Catalogue du Canada / Canada's Catalogue

Canada's national union catalogue. Includes published materials held by Libraries and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa as well as those in hundreds of other libraries across the country. The successor to AMICUS.

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Westlaw Edge Canada

Restricted to current Allard School of Law faculty & students.

  • Transfer / Exchange / Visiting / New LL.M. / New Ph.D. Students / New Faculty (in UBC’s Allard School of Law): should send an e-mail with their student number to Elim Wong in the Law Library to obtain registration associated with Allard School of Law. 
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Comprehensive case law and legislation.

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Yomidas (Yomiuri Database Service) ヨミダス

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This database includes full-text Yomiuri Shinbun articles from 1874 to the present, as well as the English-language "The Daily Yomiuri" from 1989.

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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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Daily Mail historical archive

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A pioneering example of the mass circulation British popular press, the Daily Mail was founded in 1896 by the future Lord Northcliffe.

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Ethnic Diversity Source

A full-text database of journal articles, books, and primary sources that focus on various topics around ethnicity and race within the Americas.

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Financial Times Historical Archive

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A fully-searchable facsimile edition of the FT running to over 700,000 pages.

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Integrum Profi

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Integrum Profi is the largest digital archive of the most influential sources of information of Russia, Ukraine and other FSU countries.

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South Asia Open Archives

The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) is a rich and growing collection of historical and contemporary primary sources in the arts, humanities and social sciences from and about South Asia.

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SUR, 1931-1991 [Digital Archive]

Now part of "Archives Unbound". Click "Collections" to find SUR

Digital archive of Latin American literary magazine SUR. Contains images of the complete run of the magazine (including covers, photographs and advertisements) with an interface in both Spanish & English.

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