Databases
Search or browse for databases across all subject areas. Databases are collections of scholarly resources, such as articles, journals, videos, images, primary source materials, and more. We also recommend using Omni, our academic search tool, to quickly find individual titles across the library's collection.
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<odesi> | <odesi> is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social... | Connect |
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America: History and Life | Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database covers 1,700 journals, and in addition to its historical coverage, the database includes citations to related materials... | Connect |
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American Physiological Society Journals | Journals published by the American Physiological Society (APS), a nonprofit devoted to fostering education, scientific research, and dissemination of information in the physiological sciences. | Connect |
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Borealis | An open data repository for Canadian universities. Find open datasets from research projects by institutions across Canada, including the University of Windsor. For comprehensive data resources visit the Academic Data... | Connect |
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Business Source Complete | Covers business, marketing, MIS, POM, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Business Source Premier contains full-text from the world's top management and marketing journals... | Connect |
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Canada Commons | Provides full-text access to over 20,000 Canadian e-books and 75,000 public documents. This collection is a merger of 3 former collections: the Canadian Health Research Collection, the Canadian Public Policy Collection... | Connect |
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Canadian Census Analyser | Access to census profile data: Enumeration Area/Dissemination Area (2001) and Census District: 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 Census Tract and Census Metropolitan Area: 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006... | Connect |
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Canadian Newsstream | Full-text of 300 Canadian newspapers including The Windsor Star and The Globe and Mail. The database includes full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each newspaper. Database content... | Connect |
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CBCA Complete | A comprehensive Canadian periodical collection covering multiple subjects and topics, with millions of full-text records. The Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database features a diversified mix of... | Connect |
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CBCA Complete: Health & Medicine | News and current affairs in Canadian health and medicine. This database is a subset of CBCA Complete.Subject coverage:Medical ScienceNursingAllied HealthPublic HealthPharmacology | Connect |
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CBCA Complete: Science and Technology | Focuses on science and technology periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues. It is a subset of CBCA Complete. | Connect |
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CBCA Complete: Social Sciences | Focuses on social sciences periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues. It is a subset of CBCA Complete. | Connect |
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CINAHL Complete | Coverage of literature in nursing and the allied health sciences. This index provides abstracts for nearly 5,500 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with more than 6,000,000 records... | Connect |
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | The full-text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. | Connect |
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Cochrane Methodology Register | A database of studies relevant to the methods of systematic reviews of healthcare and social interventions. The database includes journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, conference abstracts and reports... | Connect |
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Conference Board of Canada e-Library | Conference Board research documents from 1998 to the present. This organization develops reports on economic trends, public policy and organizational performance. | Connect |
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Curio (CBC) | Curio.ca gives teachers and students streaming access to selected educational content from CBC and Radio-Canada, including documentaries from television and radio, news reports, archival material, stock shots and more.... | Connect |
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Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects | A full-text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. | Connect |
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Digital Commons Network | The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from universities and colleges who use the Digital Commons platform by BePress. Curated by university librarians and their supporting... | Connect |
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DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals | A directory of free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages. The Directory of Open Access Journals aims to: 1. increase the visibility and ease of use... | Connect |
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EBSCOHost eBook Collection | Access a multidisciplinary collection of e-books on the EBSCOhost platform. This includes e-books the library has subscribed to individually, and e-books that come from some of our subject databases. You can also search... | Connect |
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ERIC | The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides ready access to education... | Connect |
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Eureka | Eureka, formerly known as Newscan, offers full-text access to more than 8,000 general and specialized news sources covering a variety of fields, including politics, economy, current world issues, environment, health,... | Connect |
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Evidence Based Medicine Reviews | This multifile database allows you to search simultaneously the seven Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases: ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews... | Connect |
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Films On Demand Master | Stream full-length films in four categories: Business & Economics, Health & Medicine, Humanities & Social Sciences, Science & Mathematics, and Allied Health. Licensed for classroom use with Canadian... | Connect |
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Google Scholar | Leddy Library has registered its holdings with Google Scholar. Google Scholar indexes the scholarly press and university websites and with this link, adds "Get It!" for locally licensed content.For more... | Connect |
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Health and Safety Science Abstracts | Survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of... | Connect |
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Indigenous Studies Portal (I-Portal) | The I-Portal contains full-text electronic resources including articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, reports, and digitized archival documents and photographs. Its... | Connect |
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Inter-University Consortium For Political and Social Research | One of the world's largest electronic data archives of social science data. ICPSR is an organization of member institutions working together to acquire and preserve social science data, to provide open and equitable... | Connect |
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JSTOR | Over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs, primary sources and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always... | Connect |
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Mark H. McCormack Papers | With a growing collection of approximately 2,500 boxes of records that represent the personal life of Mark H. McCormack and the intertwined corporate records of IMG, the McCormack Papers provide an inside look at the... | Connect |
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MEDLINE via Ovid | Comprehensive coverage of the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and... | Connect |
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MEDLINE via ProQuest | Provides citations, many with abstracts, to the world's journal literature in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences (from 1950 to current... | Connect |
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Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print | Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments, containing information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education,... | Connect |
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National Film Board of Canada | Full-length films, trailers, and clips online for use in educational institutions. NFB showcases films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians: stories about the environment, human... | Connect |
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OAPEN: Online Library and Publication Platform | The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides... | Connect |
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OLH: Open Library of Humanities | The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). It is funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined... | Connect |
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Olympic World Library | Access the unique collections of The Olympic Studies Centre, with all the official Olympic publications, and also find books, articles and selected dissertations produced by academics and professionals from all around... | Connect |
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Open Library | Open Library account holders can borrow up to five electronic book titles for up to 2 weeks each and read the pdf or ePub either online or off. Over 200,000 electronic books are available including a growing... | Connect |
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OpenDOAR | OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not... | Connect |
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Ophea |
Registration is required before use.
Curriculum planning resources developed to support the implementation of Ontario’s 2010 H&PE Curriculum and replace the Ophea “binders”.
Note: To access Ophea you must create an account.Go to the... |
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OregonPDF in Health and Performance | OregonPDF in Health and Performance (formally Kinesiology Publications) makes available graduate dissertations and theses in areas related to health and performance. The intellectual focus of the collection is physical... | Connect |
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Our Ontario | Digital collections of resources pertaining to history, business, and scientific heritage in Ontario.Our Ontario is a non-profit organization offering services and platforms that enable digital creation and sharing of... | Connect |
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Our Ontario Community Newspapers Collection | Searchable historical Ontario newspapers from 1810 onward.This resource brings together over 200 years of newspaper titles throughout South Western Ontario from as early as 1810. This collection contains over 100,000... | Connect |
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Our Ontario Government Documents Collection | Over 29,000 government documents from the collection of the Ontario Legislative Library, with new documents being added quarterly. The Legislative Library began archiving Ontario government documents in July 2000.... | Connect |
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OVID | Simultaneously search all databases subscribed on the Ovid platform, including MEDLINE and many others. | Connect |
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Oxford Handbooks Online | Oxford Handbooks Online is an outstanding collection of the best Handbooks across many different subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, the Handbook series... | Connect |
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Oxford Reference | The full text of over 300 key reference titles from Oxford University Press, including scholarly articles from titles in Oxford Companions series, English and bilingual dictionaries, subject-based encyclopedias covering... | Connect |
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Oxford Scholarship Online | A collection of thousands of books covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine and law. | Connect |
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Project MUSE | Project MUSE provides online access to the full text of over 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the... | Connect |
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997. | Connect |
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ProQuest Ebook Central | ProQuest Ebook Central is a platform that hosts some of the ebooks that the Leddy Library purchases. Browse ebooks from all disciplines. | Connect |
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ProQuest Health and Medicine | Searches all the health and medicine databases on the Proquest platform including the following:ABI/INFORM GlobalABI/INFORM Trade & IndustryBiological SciencesBioOne Abstracts & IndexesCanadian Research... | Connect |
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ProQuest History | Searches all the history databases on the ProQuest platform including the following:American PeriodicalsBritish PeriodicalsCBCA: Reference & Current Events: HistoryCBCA Complete: HistoryCanadian... | Connect |
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ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source | A variety of scholarly resources pertaining to the fields of nursing and allied health. This index provides access to abstracts from more than 850 titles pertaining to the fields of nursing and allied health including... | Connect |
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ProQuest One Business | ProQuest One Business combines multiple ProQuest business information databases including the ABI/INFORM Collection and J.P. Morgan Research to a total of more than 130 million documents. It indexes more than 2,400... | Connect |
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ProQuest Recent Newspapers: Windsor Star (2011-Present) | Access and explore digital scans of print issues of the Windsor Star, starting from 2011. New issues are added after 2 weeks. This resource picks up from the ProQuest Historical Newspapers resource, which has digital... | Connect |
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ProQuest Social Sciences | A comprehensive resource that searches all social sciences databases on the ProQuest platform including:American PeriodicalsBritish PeriodicalDissertations & Theses @UWindsorERICLinguistics and Language Behavior... | Connect |
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ProQuest Sociology Collection | ProQuest Sociology provides access to Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, INTELECOM Sociology Video Collection and the other bibliographic databases in the Sociology Collection. The database includes over... | Connect |
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PsycINFO | International literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. All records from 1967 to the present are... | Connect |
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PsycTESTS | The full-text of tests that have previously been discussed or published in journal literature and books. Tag: Tests and Measurements | Connect |
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PubMed | Abstracts of biomedical and literature in a variety of health sciences fields including medicine, nursing, dentistry, and the allied health sciences.PubMed is a free, online index for biomedical literature. Its... | Connect |
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re3data.org | re3data.org is a registry of research data repositories. Use this website to find general, subject-specific, and country-specific web repositories for research data. For comprehensive data resources visit the Academic... | Connect |
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SAGE Journals Online | Access to a subset of journals. Available titles can be browsed using the "Sage Journals Available To Me" option. | Connect |
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SAGE Knowledge | SAGE Knowledge provides more than 2,700 titles of eBook and eReference content in the social sciences, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more. | Connect |
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Sage Research Methods | Reference material that guides users through the research process. From a quick dictionary definition, a case study example from a researcher in the field, a downloadable teaching dataset, a full-text title from the... | Connect |
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Scholars Portal Books | Almost 70,000 commercial and over 280,000 open access titles. Commercial publishers including Springer, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, and the Gibson CRKN and Public... | Connect |
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Scholars Portal GeoPortal | Offers search, preview, and download functionality for a growing selection of geospatial datasets covering such topics as land use, transportation networks, census boundaries, points of interest (such as schools,... | Connect |
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Scholars Portal Journals | A multi-disciplinary resource containing full-text scholarly literature in every academic discipline.Scholars Portal Journals is a database supported by the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) that provides... | Connect |
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Scholarship at UWindsor | Scholarship at UWindsor is your portal to research and collections at the University of Windsor. The mandate of the Scholarship at UWindsor repository is to enable researchers in our campus community to preserve and... | Connect |
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ScienceDirect | Full-text access to peer-reviewed literature pertaining to scientific, technical, and medical research.A product of Elsevier, ScienceDirect provides coverage for peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and medical research... | Connect |
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SciVal |
Registration is required before use.
Must use the VPN for access off-campus.
SciVal visualizes research performance of institutions and individuals by tracking citations of the scholarly literature and applying bibliometrics.
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Scopus | A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database covering over 19,000 titles, including 18,000 peer-reviewed journals (including 1,800 Open Access journals), 400 trade publications, and 300 book series. Also includes... | Connect |
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SPORTDiscus | Literature on sports, sports medicine, nutrition, and rehabilitation: physical therapy, occupational health, exercise physiology, and kinesiology. Additional topics include clinical specialties such as orthopedics,... | Connect |
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SpringerLink | SpringerLink provides access to books and journals published by SpringerNature. These publications span all disciplines. | Connect |
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Statistics Canada | Data from the nation's statistical agency—the starting point for any statistical research on Canada. Access Census and other survey data. Alternatively, access aggregate StatCan census data through CHASS, for easier... | Connect |
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Streaming videos licensed by the Leddy Library (Kanopy and Criterion on Demand) | Browse the library's streaming videos licensed from Kanopy and Criterion on Demand. These videos are accessible to all students, faculty, and staff. Note to instructors: For support obtaining streaming videos... | Connect |
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The Métis Voyageur | Updates and information on Métis history, culture, language and territory topics. | Connect |
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The Turtle Island News |
Registration is required before use.
Canada's only national native weekly newspaper, published every week at the Grand River Territory of the Six Nations in southern Ontario.
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Ulrich's International Periodical Directory | Provides information on virtually every active and ceased periodical, annual, irregular publication, and monographic series published throughout the world. This database allows users to retrieve, manipulate, and... | Connect |
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University of Windsor Thesis and Dissertation Collection | Access thousands of digitized theses and dissertations from the University of Windsor, with new materials being added each semester.The University of Windsor is a comprehensive university with 54 Masters and Doctoral... | Connect |
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Web of Science | Search for bibliographic records and citation data across several Web of Science databases. Using Web of Science, researchers can: "navigate forward in time" by dynamically tracking how many times an... | Connect |
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Wiley Online Library | Wiley features 1500 journals as well as thousands of eBooks and multi-volume reference works. The University of Windsor does not subscribe to the complete collection. | Connect |
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WorldCat Discovery | Search the catalogues of libraries worldwide and discover materials from more than 540 million bibliographic records. WorldCat is the most comprehensive bibliographic database in the world and is great for finding print... | Connect |
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