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Recommended Databases - News and Current Affairs
Use these databases when searching for news coverage. Some include broadcast transcripts.
- Canada in ContextCanada in Context includes quick reference works, periodicals, primary sources, and multimedia resources geared toward Canadian students and educators. Subject coverage is comprehensive, including Canada's provinces, people and points of view on many topics.
- Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new windowProquest
Over 300 full-text Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading newspaper dailies, including The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and more. Part of the ProQuest Central Collection.
Permitted Uses - CBCA Reference & Current Events This link opens in a new windowProquest
Include journals and magazines from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Part of the ProQuest Central Collection.
Permitted Uses - E-Library This link opens in a new windowProquest
Over 2,500 full-text magazines, newspapers, and books—plus maps, photographs, and video clips. Multidisciplinary. Permitted Uses
- Press DisplayInstant access to 2200+ newspapers from 97 countries in 54 languages.
Recommended Databases - Legal
These databases include written court and tribunal decisions, Acts and regulations and scholarly legal articles. Note: Not all court decisions are available electronically.
- Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice This link opens in a new windowGale
Over 360 Journals covering U.S. and International corrections, forensics, criminal law and more.
Permitted Uses - E-Laws This link opens in a new windowOntario Government
Ontario's statutes and regulations, both consolidated and source law. Permitted Uses - Quicklaw This link opens in a new windowLexisNexis
Canadian legislation, cases, and legal journals. Funded by The Law Foundation of Ontario.
This database has been changed to Lexis Advance Quicklaw
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Recommended Databases - Statistics
- Statista This link opens in a new windowAccess to data from over 18,000 sources including industry reports, dossiers, and statistics, including Statistics Canada. Download images, PPT slides, Excel files and more.
Permitted Uses - Statistics Canada This link opens in a new windowProvides statistical information and analysis about Canada’s economic and social structure. Open to the public.
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Recommended Databases - Business
Use these databases when researching company information, business intelligence by country and general business news.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowEBSCO
Company and industry profiles, SWOT analysis, market research, case studies, and nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed journals.
Permitted Uses - Euromonitor: Passport This link opens in a new windowEuromonitor
Extensive industry reports and city data. Includes over 200 Canadian Industrial sector reports. Permitted Uses
Recommended Databases - General Information and Encyclopedias
- Canadian Encyclopedia Online This link opens in a new windowCovers Canadian personalities, places, events, history and achievements.
Permitted Uses - Canadian Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new windowEBSCO
A series of short essays that present multiple perspectives on over 120 key Canadian topics. Multi-disciplinary.
Permitted Uses - Canadian Reference Centre This link opens in a new windowEBSCO
International and Canadian magazines and newspapers, images, newswires, reference books, and company information. Multi-disciplinary.
Permitted Uses - CultureGrams This link opens in a new windowProquest
Cultural reports for 182 countries and territories covering land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, common gestures, and more.
Permitted Uses - Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new windowEBSCO
The online Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. Includes topical descriptions, images and brief biographies. Multidisciplinary.
Permitted Uses - Gale eBooks This link opens in a new windowGale
A custom collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Multidisciplinary.
Permitted Uses - Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies This link opens in a new windowGale
100+ full-text, popular journals and magazines. Titles include: Macleans, Newsweek, Vogue, Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society.
Permitted Uses - Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism This link opens in a new windowGale
Over 200 full-text journals and magazines covering history, social science and current events.
Permitted Uses - Gale OneFile: World History This link opens in a new window
