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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America: History and Life | Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database covers 1700 journals, and in addition to its historical coverage, the database includes citations to related materials for... | Connect |
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Historical Abstracts | Bibliographic information pertaining to world history from the 15th century to the present—excluding the United States and Canada.Historical Abstracts is an exceptional bibliographic database that covers the... | Connect |
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories | Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives,... | Connect |
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries | This collection includes the immediate experiences of numerous women and contains many pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly... | Connect |
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Oral History Online | Indexing of more than 2,500 collections of Oral History in English from around the world. The collection also provides keyword searching of more than 271,000 pages of full-text by some 9,000 individuals from all walks... | 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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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Concise biographies of over 60,000 influential historical British figures.The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a record of men and women responsible for shaping British history and culture worldwide from the... | 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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Periodicals Archive Online | A multidisciplinary full-text archive of periodicals pertaining to the humanities and social sciences.Periodicals Archive Online provides electronic access to backfiles of over 700 journals in the humanities and social... | 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 Historical Annual Reports (US) | Annual reports (1844-current) are available for over 800 US companies with indexed data such as financials, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor and related companies... | Connect |
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers | Access the historical back-files of several Canadian and US newspapers. The newspapers available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers are:Chicago Defender (1909-1975)Detroit Free Press (1831-1999)The Globe... | Connect |
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Detroit Free Press (1831-1999) | The Detroit Free Press published its first edition before Michigan entered statehood and when wild animals outnumbered the people living in the city. Its editor assigned a writer to walk the waterfront and record the... | Connect |
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail (1844 - 3 years ago) | The full-page newspaper archive of The Globe and Mail from June 1844 to 3 years ago. Coverage includes all the stories, plus thousands of images, advertisements, classifieds, political cartoons, births and deaths from... | Connect |
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851 - 5 years ago) | Provides researchers and scholars with the coverage of the politics, society, and events published in the New York Times from 1851 – 5 years ago (embargo period) | Connect |
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Windsor Star (1893-2010) | This title started as the weekly Windsor Record in 1888, becoming a daily and changing its name to the Border Cities Star in 1918, and then to the Windsor Daily Star in 1935. The current name of the Windsor Star was... | 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 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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Romanticism, Life, Literature & Landscape | The access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.... | Connect |
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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 | A resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Documents are presented alongside... | Connect |
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Sunday Times Digital Archive | Broke key stories of the 20th century such as the thalidomide scandal, Kim Philby as a Soviet double-agent, and the Israeli nuclear programme. 19th-century coverage covers Victorian literature, theatre, and everyday... | Connect |
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