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Academic Search Complete
All subject areas are covered. Provides full text articles.

Agricola
Agriculture and related disciplines. Citations and abstracts only.

Alt HealthWatch
Alternative health. Provides full text articles.

Amicus
Union Catalogue.

Anatomy.tv: 3D Head & Neck Anatomy for Dentistry
Includes detailed 3D modeling of the key anatomy for dentistry.

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BC Stats   
Provides BC statistics.

BioMed Central
Indexes full text, peer-reviewed articles in biology and medicine.

Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition
Medicine. Most titles are available in full text.

British Columbia Government Publications Index
Indexes information published by the government of British Columbia.

Business Source Complete
Business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Contains full text articles.

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Canadian Encyclopedia
A source of extensive information about Canada.

Canadian Newsstand
Full text newspaper articles.

Canadian Periodical Index: CPI.Q
All subject areas. Emphasis on Canadian content. Full text articles.

Canadian Points of View Reference Centre
A full text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue

Canadian Reference Centre
All subject areas.

Canadian Research Index
Canadian government publications at federal, provincial and municipal levels. Provides citations only.
 
CanLII
This site contains case law and legislation from across Canada.

CANSIM
This database contains over 700,000 time series of Canadian data on national accounts, financial institutions, corporate finance, government, population, labour, prices, construction, investment, trade, travel and industry.

CARDOnline
Canadian advertising rates and data.

CBCA Complete
Canadian content in journals and magazines, including business publications. Provides full text articles.

CBR: Canadian Business Resource
Contains detailed profiles of top performing Canadian companies.

Child Development and Adolescent Studies
Growth and development of children through the age of 21.

CICA - Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Standards and Guidelines  Collection
Accounting. Includes the CICA Handbook.

CINAHL with Full Text
Extensive coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications. Full text is provided for hundreds of journals.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Provides the full text of systematic reviews that focus on the effects of healthcare. Available through the library's Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews database. 

Counseling and Therapy in Video 
Therapy sessions conducted by psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.

CPI.Q - See Canadian Periodical Index 

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Crime and criminal justice.

Criminal Justice Periodicals
Crime and criminal justice.

CUFTS: Council of Universities Full Text Link Resolver
Identifies databases that index your journal and also allows you to find out which databases include the full text of your journal.

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Biographical information about Canadians deceased from 1000-1920.

DOAJ: Directory of Access Journals
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subject areas and languages.

DSM-IV-TR
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

E

Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost)

E-Stat
Statistics Canada site for educators.

Early Canadiana Online
Primary sources in Canadian history from the arrival of the first Europeans to the late 19th century.

EBM Reviews - see Evidence Based Medicine Reviews

EBSCO  - All databases
Provides access to all EBSCO databases available through Douglas College Library. Provides full text articles.

e-CPS
Current Canadian drug information.

e-Therapeutics
Canadian drug and therapeutic information.

e-HL bc : Electronic Health Library of BC
Online health library resources.

EJS: Electronic Journal Service
All subject areas.

Encyclopedia of British Columbia
A reference source that contains a wide range of information about British Columbia.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Electronic reproduction of the original ten volume set.

ERIC
Education. Contains full text articles and full text ERIC Documents.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
Provides systematic reviews of topics, article reviews and access to definitive controlled trials.

F

First Nations Periodical Index
Canadian content.
 
FirstSearch see WorldCat/FirstSearch

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. Contains full text articles.

G

Gale's Literary Index
Gale's Literary Index is a master index to every literary series published by Gale (e.g., Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, etc.).

GeoRef
Geology, Hydrology, Geophysics, Petrology, Palaeontology, Oceanography and Mineralogy. This database indexes over 3,000 journals with some links to full text articles.

Google Books
Search the full text of books and discover new ones.

Google Scholar
A subset of Google that allows you to search for scholarly literature.

GreenFILE
Environmental Studies.

GREENR
Environment.

H

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Care. Provides full text articles.

Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition
Nursing. Provides full text articles.

Hoover's Company Profiles
US company profiles.

I

Index to Canadian Legal Periodical Literature - Print index. No web access.

Image Quick View Collection
Contains charts, maps, photos and illustrations for all subject areas.

Ingenta
Covers all subject areas. Contains citations only.

International Financial Reporting Standards
Accounting.

IIPA Full Text: International Index to Performing Arts
Covers dance, film, drama, television, the arts and entertainment industry, stagecraft, magic, musical theatre and performance art.

J

JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
Scholarly arts, humanities and social sciences journals.

L

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Total Access Collection
Also referred to as Your Journals @ Ovid. Subject: Medicine, nursing and life sciences.

Literary Reference Center
Provides information on thousands of authors and their works.

M

MAS Ultra  - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 550 popular general interest and current events publications. 

MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO)
Covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,  pre-clinical sciences and much more.

MEDLINE (Ovid)
Covers medicine, pre-clinical sciences and allied health sciences.

Military and Government Collection
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.

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Naxos Music Library
Multiple genres of music.

Naxos Spoken Word Library
Classic literature and non-fiction, some Shakespeare plays, etc.

Naxos Video Library
Streaming video of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.

NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service
This site contains full text documents related to Corrections, Drug and Crime, Crime Prevention, Criminal Justice Statistics, Law Enforcement and Juvenile Justice. Content is American.

O

Outlook Online
This database allows you to search simultaneously post-secondary and public library catalogues in British Columbia to find books, videos, periodicals and other materials.

Ovid Databases
Provides access to all Ovid databases available through Douglas College Library. Contains full text articles.

Oxford English Dictionary
Provides coverage of the meaning, history and pronunciation of words from across the English-speaking world.

Oxford Reference Online
Contains over 100 major reference books that cover a wide range of subject areas from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences.

P

Physical Education Index
Sport, recreation and fitness. Print index. No web access 
 
Project MUSE
Peer-reviewed humanities, arts and social sciences journals.

ProQuest Criminal Justice
Crime and criminal justice. Provides full text articles.

PsycARTICLES
Psychology. Contains full text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations.

PsychiatryOnline
Contains DSM-IV-TR, journals, reference books and textbooks.

PsycINFO
Psychology. Contains almost two million references to psychological literature from 1887-present. Includes full text journal articles.

PubMed  (publicly available MEDLINE)
Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry and related fields.
This database includes MEDLINE and contains links to some full text articles.

PubMed Central
PubMed's free archive. All full text.

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QP LegalEze
QP LegalEze provides current British Columbia legislation from official sources. This includes Statutes, Regulations and related information such as Third Reading Bills, Gazette Part II and Hansard.

QuickLaw
Canadian law.

R

Red Book Online
Guide to community, social and government agencies and services in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia.

RefWorks
Stores and formats bibliographies.

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ScienceDirect
Health and life sciences.

Scirus
Scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data.

SocINDEX with Full Text
Sociology and related fields.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text
All sport disciplines and sports medicine. Contains full text articles.

Statistics Canada Depository Site
Index of downloadable Statistics Canada publications.

T

Theses Canada
This site provides access to Canadian theses, including full text theses from 1998.

W

WorldCat/FirstSearch
OCLC Catalogue of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Access is restricted to Douglas College employees and students. 

WorldCat
OCLC Catalogue of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. This link provides unrestricted public access to WorldCat.

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Your Journals @ Ovid
Also referred to as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Subjects: Medicine, nursing and life sciences.

last updated: September 7, 2011