CANS 407 - The Canadian North: Past and Present

Quick Reference Online

• Canadian Encyclopedia Online
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Oxford Companion to Canadian History

Research Databases - Canadian Sources

• CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index)
• Canadian Newsstand (full-text of Canadian newspapers)
• CBCA Complete (Canadian Business and Current Affairs) - journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, newswires.
• Repère (French language index to journals)
• PAB (Periodical Article Bibliography - Newfoundland & Labrador journal articles)
• First Nations Periodical Index
• Érudit (Open access journal collection of Quebec universities)

Research Databases - Polar

• AAR (Arctic and Antarctic Regions) 1800s to the present
• ASTIS (Arctic Institute of North America) 1978 to the present
• Nunavik Bibliography (an ASTIS subset)
• Polar info (1996 to June 2004)
• Hubert Wenger Eskimo Database (first contact & observations)

Research Databases - Other

• Periodicals Archive Online - full-text journal articles (no newspapers)
• Anthropological Literature
• Annual Review of Anthropology
• JSTOR (full-text journal collection)
• Project MUSE (full-text journal collection)

Research databases: The Malls

These are commercial websites with many databases. A selection of the most relevant are included below the site name.

• CSA Illumina Databases - click on "specific databases".
  • British Humanities Index
  • IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  • Communication Abstracts
  • Communication Studies: A Sage Full-Text Collection

• ProQuest - select "multiple databases" from pull-down menu.
  • Research Library
  • Dissertations and Theses

• EbscoHost - click on "choose databases" at top.
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Humanities International Index
  • Communication and Mass Media Complete

• WilsonWeb - click on "open databases" at top.
  • Art Index
  • Humanities Full Text
  • Social Sciences Full Text
  • Readers' Guide Full Text
  • Readers' Guide Retro
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective

Useful Webpage Links

Polar Studies Subject Guide (University of Alberta Libraries)

Course textbook: Canada's Changing North (Google Books - Limited preview)

Course textbook: Isuma (Google Books - Limited preview)

Locating Library Resources