Databases

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Social Services Abstracts
Covers current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications... Connect
Social Work Abstracts
Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, spans 1968 to the present and covers social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child, and family welfare, aging, substance abuse... Connect
North American Indian Thought and Culture
Approximately 27 000 pages of text and images included are biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters and oral histories. When complete IBIO will include 100 000 pages of text and... Connect
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
OECD iLibrary
Contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (... Connect
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
OpenEdition Books
OpenEdition Books is a web platform for books in the humanities and social sciences. More than half of them are available in Open Access.  Note to patrons: you can select either French or English for your search... Connect
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
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
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
OVID
Simultaneously search all databases subscribed on the Ovid platform, including MEDLINE and many others. Connect
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
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
Oxford Scholarship Online
A collection of thousands of books covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine and law. Connect
Oxford Very Short Introductions
Concise introductions to a wide range of subject areas including climate, consciousness, game theory, Islamic history, economics, and more. Entries written by experts in the field, synthesizing facts, analysis, and new... Connect
PAIS
PAIS has references to more than journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche,... Connect
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
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
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
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
ProQuest History
Searches all the history databases on the ProQuest platform including the following:American PeriodicalsBritish PeriodicalsCBCA: Reference & Current Events: HistoryCBCA Complete: HistoryCanadian... Connect
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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