Indexes and Databases


Humanities and Social Sciences A-Z Databases

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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

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

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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19th Century UK Periodicals

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

Subjects covered include women, children, leisure and sport, humour, anthropology, travel, missionaries. colonies. Totals over 2.1 million digitized page images.

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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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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 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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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

User limit: 1 maximum

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

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Artstor on JSTOR

Artstor has moved to the JSTOR website on August 1st, 2024. For information on saved Artsor images, go here- https://support.artstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/18952936497047-Your-Artstor-Image-Groups-on-JSTOR

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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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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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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Basque Database

Cover the literature of Basque history, language and culture, written or produced after 1994.

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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

With nearly 170,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and featuring regular updates, Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language.

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Berg Fashion Library

Online portal with cross-searchable access to an expanding range of content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and more.

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Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL)

An international bibliography of German language and literary studies, 1985- , with more than 365,000 entries.

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Bibliography of Asian Studies

Nearly 900,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

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Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America.

Covers the history & culture of Native North Americans including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, & literacy. Includes books, essays, journal articles, and government documents.

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Black Drama: Third Edition

Full text of 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries

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Black Thought and Culture

Contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.Includes interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, letters & other fugitive material.

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Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online

Intended to bridge the gap between the fields of New Testament studies and patristics, it covers the whole period of early Christianity to 600 CE. Expected to include 1300 articles upon completion.

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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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British Literary Manuscripts

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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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British Periodicals

The full text of hundreds of periodical titles from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.

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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 Histories Online

Provides access to the texts of the Cambridge Histories series. UBC Library has access to all titles in the collection.

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Canadian Book Review Annual Online

More than 40,000 reviews of Canadian-authored books over the last 35 years.

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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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CanLit Guides

CanLit Guides is an open educational resource, created and maintained by Canadian Literature, which supplements classroom learning and private study.

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CANSIM (CANadian Socioeconomic Information Management) Database (Statistics Canada)

CANSIM is a comprehensive database from Statistics Canada containing more than 52 million numeric time series covering a wide variety of social and economic indicators.

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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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Census of Canada 2006: Vancouver Local Areas

Census profile for official City of Vancouver neighbourhoods: age and sex, families and households, dwellings, language, ethnic origin, immigration, education, labour force, and income.

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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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Central and Eastern European Online Library

Includes over 900,000 journal articles in a variety of European languages with some English-language content.

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Child Welfare Information Gateway

The Child Welfare Information Gateway is a service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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China: culture and society

1200 English-language pamphlets from 1750-1929 relating to China.

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China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980

Includes a wide variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.

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CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online

Working papers, occasional papers series from NGOs, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs related to international affairs.

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Clarivate (Web of Science databases)

Access to these databases: Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Citation Reports, Food Science & Technology Abstracts, MEDLINE, Zoological Record, and KCI-Korean Journal Database.

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Communication & Mass Media Complete

A research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. Indexes and abstracts over 800 journals, and includes access to 500 full text journals.

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Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966

Foreign and Colonial Office documents concerning Africa

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Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969

Foreign and Colonial Office documents concerning Latin America.

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Confidential Print: Middle East, c1839-1969

Foreign and Colonial Office documents relating to the Middle East

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Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961

Foreign and Colonial Office documents relating to Canada, the Caribbean and the United States.

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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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Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE)

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The corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE; pronounced “globe”) allows researchers to carry out comparisons between different varieties of English. It contains about 1.9 billion words of text from 20 countries.

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Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)

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The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) contains more than 475 million words of text from the 1820s-2010s, balanced by genre decade by decade.

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Current Digest of the Russian Press

A weekly selection of Russian-language press materials, translated into English.

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Daily Mail historical archive

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

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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Database of Religious History

The DRH is one of the initiatives of the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium, based at UBC. It continues as an independent academic initiative, but involving worldwide partners and collaborators..

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Datastream

Please Note:  this resource has moved from Datastream Advance platform to Refinitiv Workspace platform.  Please follow instructions on the Refinitiv Workspace information page on how to request an individual account.

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International economic, company and financial data, that can be downloaded for analysis, display and print

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Defining gender

110 source documents (books and periodicals) from the early modern period to the nineteenth century supported by introductory essays, biographies, and chronologies.

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Dictionary of Canadian biography

The definitive Canadian biographical dictionary. Includes entries for non-Canadians who played a significant role in the history of the country.

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Dictionary of Old English Corpus

The Dictionary of Old English Corpus in Electronic Form is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every Old English text.

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Digital Himalaya

The Digital Himalaya project is designed as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region.

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Digital National Security Archive

The DNSA is the most comprehensive collection of primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Over 94,000 declassified documents - more than 650,000 pages - are included.

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Dyabola

DYABOLA provides citations to books, articles, and essays on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern antiquities, art, and archaeology

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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

Full text access to 36,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides.

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Early Encounters in North America

Documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales & British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

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Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)

EEBO-TCP creates XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early print books in ProQuest's Early English Books Online.

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EconLit

Core literature on global economics /American Economic Association Use for: researching scholarly topics in economics, business and public management.

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Economic Indicators (United States)

The Economics and Statistics Administration (database provider) provides timely economic analysis, disseminates national economic indicators, and oversees the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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Economist Historical Archive

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Includes every issue of The Economist from 1843 to latest year.

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eHRAF World Cultures

Full text collection of ethnographic books and articles on cultures from all regions of the world.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online

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

Eighteenth Century Collections Online delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

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Eighteenth Century Fiction

This collection brings together 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700 - 1780 by writers from the British Isles.

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

British periodicals of the eighteenth century.

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ElgarOnline

Edward Elgar ebooks cover Law, Business & Management, Geography, Planning & Tourism, Economics, Political Science & Public Policy, Sociology, Social Policy & Education.

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Empire Online

Primary documents, supported by interpretive essays and other secondary materials, for the study of 'Empire'.

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Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception

Covers the origins and development of the Bible and the history of biblical interpretation and reception, not only in Christianity and Judaism, but also in Islam and other non-Western religious traditions and movements.

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Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics

The Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics is a unique and comprehensive reference work, offering a systematic treatment of Turkic languages from Old Turkic to the languages and varieties spoken today.

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ERIC (EBSCO interface)

Most comprehensive education index, covering nearly 1000 journals, primarily American. Also indexes ERIC documents, including conferences, curricula, reports etc. ERIC (EBSCO) includes many links to full text.

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Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA)

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Digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.

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Ethnographic Video Online

Streaming ethnographic video database. Features the work of many influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.

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European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES)

EBSEES covers European scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, & the former Soviet Union. Journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications from 1991-2007.

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European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750

A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples.

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Everyday Life & Women in America, c.1800-1920

Primary source material from the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.

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FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals

Indexes over 500,000 articles from more than 345 academic and popular film journals periodicals, dating from 1972 onward.

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Film and Television Literature Index

Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.

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Financial Times Historical Archive

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

 

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

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First Nations Periodical Index

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First World War

Primary source documents, supported by contextual essays, covering various aspects of World War I. Includes interactive maps, a chronology of the War etc.

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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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Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980

The complete British Foreign Office Files for the period concerning China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947 - 1980

An outstanding resource for the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data

The Federal Reserve Economic Data provides access to about 61,000 U.S. and international time series from 48 sources.

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Geobase

Research literature with abstracts on human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics and development studies.

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Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO)

Information on Anabaptist-related congregations, denominations, conferences, institutions and significant individuals, as well as historical and theological topics.

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Google Scholar

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In your search results, click on UBC eLink to access licensed resources.

A simple way to search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities.

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Government of Canada Publications

Canadian federal government publications collected and permanently archived by Publishing and Depository Services.

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Grand Robert

A premier French online dictionary that provides all 6 volumes of the latest edition of this prestigious work. Includes numerous editorial supplements and unpublished extras.

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Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was a rite-of-passage for many aristocratic and wealthy young men between c1550 and c1850: a phenomenon which influenced British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy.

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GreenFILE

Approximately 300,000 articles on green issues, including green building, global warming, etc.

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Gutenberg-e

Open-access scholarly monographs. A collaboration between Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association.

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Habitat Exchange

A venue for the dissemination and discussion of best practices, action plans and other tools relevant to the pursuit of ecologically sound and socially equitable urbanization.

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Handbook of Latin American Studies

Selective bibliography of the humanities and social sciences literature on Latin America from 1935-present.

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Historical Statistics of the United States

Historical Statistics of the United States is the standard source for statistical indicators of American history, from Colonial times to the present.

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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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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907

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Index Translationum

An international bibliography of translations with coverage from 1979. Earlier print volumes, from 1932, also available in Koerner reference.

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India, Raj and Empire

Drawing upon the wonderfully rich and diverse manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, this collection looks at History of South Asia.

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Indigenous peoples North America

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

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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Informit Indigenous Collection

Collection includes journals, reports and monographs from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada, the US and the Pacific.

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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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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

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ICPSR is a repository and dissemination service for machine-readable social science datasets with more than 500,000 machine-readable files covering 130 countries in 7,500 research studies.

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International Bibliography of Humanism and Renaissance

Focuses on 16th and 17th century European history and culture. Also includes publications on the interaction with the wider world through exploration, colonization, slavery, and the Christian mission

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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text

Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance. Contains 450 full-text titles, including more than 140 full-text journals

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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Contains over 1000 detailed entries from experts in 40 countries on the philosophy, theories, concepts, methods and practices of Human Geography; biographies of geographers; and geographical thought and praxis worldwide.

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International Medieval Bibliography Online

Citations to articles in journals and miscellanies (collected essays, conference proceedings and Festschriften) covering all aspects of the European Middle Ages (c450-1500).

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iPortal : Indigenous Studies Portal

Note: Not all articles are Open Access. If you are asked to "Select your library or institution that may subscribe to an online version" select University of British Columbia from the dropdown menu. Only UBC Students, Staff & Faculty can access those articles (if we subscribe) from off campus.

The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) has over 25,000 records describing electronic resources: books, articles, theses, documents, photos, archival resources, and maps relevant to Indigenous studies and communities.

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Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954

Primary sources from the American Jewish Historical Society, New York

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

To use JCR in conjunction with Web of Science, open WoS in a new tab as well now.

Determine impact factor and other metrics for more than 12,000 scholarly journals in all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. 1997-present; some older issues available in print or microfiche.

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JSTOR Collection

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

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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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Latino Literature

Full text of poetry, fiction, and plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States.

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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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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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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

LISTA indexes nearly 700 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings; coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management.

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)

The main article index for Linguistics. Indexes journals, books, technical reports, papers, dissertations, and book reviews in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.

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Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991

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

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

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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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London Low Life

Street culture and the underworld of Victorian London during the nineteenth century from primary sources housed in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.

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Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963

Documents from the highest level of the British Government during the Macmillan Administration.

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Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926

Provides digital images for all pages of 22,000 American and British legal treatises published between 1800 through 1926.

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Making of the Modern World

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

Tracks the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth.

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Mass Observation Online

One of the most important archives for the study of twentieth-century British social history.

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Medieval Family Life

Full-colour images of medieval manuscripts from the Paston, Stonor, Cely, Plumpton and Armburgh Papers. Includes, where available, searchable full-text transcripts from the principal printed editions.

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Medieval Travel Writing

An extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The main focus is on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China.

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Meiji Japan: The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection from the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum

Papers from the Edward Sylvester Morse Collection at the Peabody Essex Museum's Phillips Library, Salem. Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925) was one of the first Americans to live in Japan.

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Mental Measurements Yearbook (now includes Tests in Print)

Information and critical reviews (but not full text) of new and revised versions of more than 3,000 English-language standardized tests in education, personality, aptitude, neuropsychology, achievement and intelligence.

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MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)

The MLA International Bibliography is the core database for English language and literature.

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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

The NBER is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that publishes economic research by academic researchers.Use for: finding the full text of NBER working papers on economic research from 1994 - present.

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National Criminal Justice Reference Service

National Criminal Justice Reference Service, founded in 1972, is a U.S. Federal information clearinghouse on criminal justice, juvenile justice, and drug policy.

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National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database

Summaries of over 210,000 U.S. and international publications about criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse.

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Native American Archives

USA. Original historical documents (18th - 20th century): treaties, ratified treaties, related correspondence, chronological list of treaties. Indexes place, tribe. Photos from 1898 Indian Congress by Frank A. Rinehart.

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Naxos Spoken Word Library

User limit: 10 maximum

Naxos provides online streaming access to over 400 audio books, comprising over 1,100 works and stories. Categories range from classic fiction to Shakespeare to selected children's works.

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News on the Web (NOW)

First-time users must register for an account to benefit from UBC's academic license. Use this link to create a new account affiliated with UBC.

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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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NFB Education (National Film Board)

NFB Campus has now become NFB Education. More information here - https://help.nfb.ca/knowledge-base/nfb-campus-is-becoming-nfb-education/

Provides access to online viewing of films produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

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Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets

Contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries.

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online

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

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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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories

A unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada concentrating on the period from 1890 to 1920.

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North American Indian Drama

Full text scripts of over 250 plays by American and Canadian Indigenous playwrights, with brief information about authors, characters, theatrical companies, productions and cast. Searchable by scene.

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North American Indian Thought and Culture

American and Canadian primary source materials. Mainly textual materials from American libraries (books, articles, pamphlets, oral histories). Indexed for place, event and individuals. Also audio, video, images.

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North American Women's Drama

The collection covers contemporary drama, including the works of performance artists.

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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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OAIster Institutional Repository Search Engine

A collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone.

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OECD iLibrary

OECD iLibrary is a complete online collection of journals, books, and statistical series and databases published by the OECD since 1998. Use for: full-text access to books, journals and statistics from the OECD.

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Online Egyptological bibliography

Indexes publications in Egyptology from 1822 to the present.

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OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.

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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history, & pronunciation of 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world.

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Oxford Handbooks Online

The Oxford Handbooks series covers 17 subject areas and UBC Library has access to all titles in all collections.

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Oxford Reference Online

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Over 300 key Oxford University Press dictionaries and other reference works. Multi-disciplinary.

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PAIS Index

PAIS is an index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.

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Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Live edition

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition.

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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England

The official record of of the meetings of Parliament from Edward I (1272-1307) to Henry VII (1485-1509).

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Passport GMID

Other Access Restrictions apply to this database.  It is open only to current UBC students, staff and faculty; it is not available for walk in-users.

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International statistical and market research reports for over 200 countries, covering consumer products and services, demographic and lifestyle reports and economic data.

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Past Masters

Electronic editions of major philosophical works as well as significant works in political thought, religious studies, sociology, the history of science, economics, literature and classics.

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Patrologia Latina

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

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Patrologiae Graecae

The Patrologia Graecae Database (PG) is a comprehensive electronic version of the Greek portion of Jacques-Paul Migne's massive Patrologiae Cursus Completus, including notes, glosses and indexes.

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Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700

British women's writings from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries. Contents range from memoirs to account books to medical receipt books.

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Periodicals Archive Online

The international scholarly literature of the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995.

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Perseus 4.0

Perseus has a particular focus upon the Greco-Roman world and upon classical Greek and Latin.

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Philosopher's Index

The Philosopher's Index is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy.

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PhilPapers

On the UBC Campus, access is provided by a license agreement between UBC Library and PhilPapers.

This resource is freely available here to non-UBC individuals logging on from IP addresses not associated with any university, i.e. home computers.

Comprehensive index of research literature in philosophy

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Picture Post Historical Archive

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

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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Polish Literary Bibliography

Covers Polish culture (literature, film, theatre, radio,television) in Poland and abroad in the years 1988-2000.

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Polling the Nations

Searchable full text of survey questions and responses covering a broad range of issues, from polling groups such as Gallup, Harris, Roper, and more than 700 other organizations

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Project Muse

Online access to a selection of important journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences.

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.

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Proquest U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection (Congressional Publications)

The U.S. Serial Set, along with the State Papers, includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports from the late 18th century onward; coverage here is 1789-1969..

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PsycArticles (Articles are included in PsycInfo)

From the American Psychological Association. Full text of more than 110 journals in general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. Coverage varies.

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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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PTSDpubs (formerly PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress)

Index to current and retrospective journal articles, books and reports on post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues resulting from traumatic events.

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Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982

The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature has become the ultimate index of subjects in the popular press, and has earned the trust of researchers at all levels.

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Repère

Repère provides the most comprehensive source for journal articles in French

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Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape

Literary manuscripts,letters and other material by Wordsworth, Coleridge, de Quincey and others supplemented by selections from printed books and images of the Lake District created by Gainsborough, Turner and others.

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Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

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The Roper Center holds a vast collection of public opinion polling data and information from the United States and international sources. Main features are downloadable data sets and a large question bank.

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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926

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A collection of pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and other published material relating to the Americas.

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SAGE Research Methods Online

A web-based research methods tool created to support researchers and students as they explore relevant content across the social and behavioral sciences, covering quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods

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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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SimplyAnalytics

PRIVACY NOTICE: UBC Library makes the SimplyAnalytics service available for you for your convenience. Your use of SimplyAnatics 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 Simply Analytics. Please review the SimplyAnalytics Privacy Statement on their website before using this service if you have any concerns.

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Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data.

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Sixties : Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974

Primary sources for the study of the history, culture and politics of America in the 'sixties.

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Slavery & anti-slavery: a transnational archive

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

Includes 5.4 million cross-searchable pages: 12,052 books, 170 serials, 71 manuscript collections, 377 US supreme court records and briefs, and 194 reference articles from scholarly encyclopedias.

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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007

An important portal for slavery and abolition studies.

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Smithsonian and Air & space magazines

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Two popular and highly-regarded magazines from the Smithsonian institution.

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Social Services Abstracts

Social Services Abstracts indexes current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.

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Social Work Abstracts

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Indexes current research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, community development.

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SportDiscus

International database that covers all aspects of sport and fitness

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State Papers online [U.K.]

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Consists predominately of the papers of the Secretaries of State now housed in the National Archives at Kew. Covers 1509-1782.

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Statistics Canada - Data Search Page

This webpage provides access to thousands of Statistics Canada data tables. Users can search by keyword and apply filters to limit results by subject, geography, frequency, survey, or statistical program.

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Statistics Canada: Index of downloadable publications

Statistics Canada publications archived by the Depository Services Program. The website is no longer updated; later access is through the Government of Canada Publications Website.

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SUR, 1931-1991 [Digital Archive]

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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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Termium Plus

Government of Canada's terminology and linguistic database. French, English, Spanish dictionary.

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The Globe and Mail (archive)

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

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Theatre in Context Collection

The Theatre in Context Collection (formerly North American Theatre Online) is a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of Canadian and American Theatre

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Theatre in Video

Online in streaming video. More than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries

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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae : TLG

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The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453

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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae : TLL

A free online version of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae is available from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences  providing access to PDF versions of the previously published volumes A - M and O - P, as well as parts of N and R (organized by volumes and lemmas).


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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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Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

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Contains images of every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902-2013. Fully-searchable.

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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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TOCS-IN Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists

TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program.

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Trade Analyser Database

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The Trade Analyser Database has detailed statistics on Canada's merchandise trade with other countries, 1988- . Use for: finding Canadian import and export data and world trade data.

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Trade Data Online

Trade Data Online provides the ability to generate customized reports on Canada's and U.S. trade in goods with over 200 countries.

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Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History

Women's travel diaries and correspondence from The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

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Twentieth Century North American Drama

Contains 2,000 plays from the United States and Canada. In addition the collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries.

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U.K. Parliamentary Papers

Nearly 11 million pages documenting the business of Parliament. Ranges from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material dating back to 1688.

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U.S. Declassified Documents

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

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UNdata

Selected statistics from the entire UN system. Summary tables cover agriculture, population, industry, national accounts, energy, health, human development, trade, refugees, education, employment, and technology.

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United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)

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Detailed trade statistics reported to the UN Statistics Division from 170 countries: imports, exports, trading partners, and commodities from 1962- .

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Victorian Popular Culture

A collection of primary sources, together with interpretive essays, describing popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930.

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Virginia Company Archives

Documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624, and other sources.

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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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Web of Science Core Collection

To use Journals Citation Reports at the same time as WoS, open JCR in a new tab as well now.

Multidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.

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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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Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000

The resource, which examines perspectives on women's social movements from colonial times to the present, was developed by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar of SUNY at Binghamton.

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Women in the National Archives

Documents from the Colonial Office and the Dominions Office relating to i) the status of native colonial women and ii) the debate over universal suffrage throughout the British empire.

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Women Writers Online

Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English.

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Women's Studies International

Contains content in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.

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World Bank Data

Development-oriented statistics from the World Bank: social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for over 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering 1960 to the present.

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World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

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World Heritage Sites: Africa

World Heritage Sites: Africa links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites.

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Yearbook of International Organizations

The Yearbook of International Organizations includes detailed information on over 37,000 active and 32,000 dormant international organizations from 300 countries and territories.

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Yearbook of the United Nations

The principal reference work of the United Nations, with a detailed description of activities in all areas from 1946. Each Yearbook is fully indexed and includes all resolutions and citations to original U.N. texts.

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