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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary resource which provides indexing to peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and reports. Approximately half of the publications include the full-text.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 168 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking. Content: Books, Indexes, Magazines, Reviews, Scholarly Journals, Theses & Dissertations
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Note: To determine if the University of Lethbridge Library has the full-text of an item, conduct a search and click on the Find it @ the U of Lethbridge link from the results list. If it's not available in the Library, use the Library's Interlibrary Loan service. Content: Books, Free Access, General/Multidisciplinary, Scholarly Journals, Theses & Dissertations
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes citation mapping and citation reports. Search can be limited to the following databases: Science Citation Index Expanded Social Sciences Citation Index Arts & Humanities Citation Index Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities Book Citation Index - Science Book citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities Current Chemical Reactions Index Chemicus To limit your results to one of the above citation indexes, scroll down the main search page and click on the appropriate database.
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window Access scholarly research in the sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

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Canadian Reference Centre This link opens in a new window Canadian Reference Centre is the largest collection of regional full-text content available to Canadian schools and libraries. The database includes leading Canadian and international magazines, plus thousands of images from Canadian Press. In addition to full-text magazines and journals, Canadian Reference Centre provides full text for leading Canadian newspapers including Toronto Star, Winnipeg Free Press, The Hamilton Spectator, The Record and Guelph Mercury. It also includes includes newswires from the Canadian Press and La Presse Canadienne, as well as full-text transcripts from CBC Radio and CBC Television. Users also get access to an image collection of more than 2 million photos. Content: Canadian, General/Multidisciplinary, Magazines, Maps, Photographs, Primary Source, Reference
Cities and Buildings Database This link opens in a new window The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web. Content: Artwork, Free Access, Photographs, Primary Source
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. Content: Books, General/Multidisciplinary, Primary Source, Scholarly Journals

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