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Academic Search Complete
Categories: Multi-disciplinary
Description:  Comprehensive scholarly full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Project Muse

Categories: Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts

Description: Project Muse offers a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. All journals participating in Project MUSE are peer-reviewed, scholarly titles. The basic criteria for participation in MUSE are that the journal must be peer-reviewed, be published by a not-for-profit press or scholarly society, and be a sensible fit with titles in the humanities, the social sciences and the arts.


Early Canadiana Online (ECO)

Categories: History, Canadian

Description: A digital library providing access to 2,358,069 pages of Canada's printed heritage.  Features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century.


eHRAF World Cultures

Categories: Anthropology

Description: eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains full-text information on a representative number of world cultures. Coverage includes books, dissertations, journal articles and government documents.


OmniFile Full Text, Mega

Categories: General

Description: A multidisciplinary, 100 % full text database covering a wide range of disciplines, including education.


Bibliography of Native North Americans
Categories: Aborginal and History
Description: Covers native North American culture, history, and life.  Contains abstracts and some full-text.  Topics covered include archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Dates of coverage range from the sixteenth century to the present.

eHRAF Archaeology

Categories: Aboriginal, History

Description: eHRAF Archaeology is a full-text, fully-indexed archaeology database. HRAF stands for the Human Relations Area Files, based at Yale University. 


Ethnographic Video Online

Categories: Anthropology, Aboriginal, History, Sociology, Women's Studies, Economics, International Studies

Description: Includes over 400 streaming videos on human culture and behaviour. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.


First Nations Periodical Index

Categories: Aboriginal, History

Description: This free database indexes journals with Canadian Native content.  Provides access to information about First Nations for students, educators, and researchers.


World History in Context

Categories: History

Description: From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 full-text journals.


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