Databases

Subject: First Nations, Anthropology, History.
Description: A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, governance, legend, and literacy.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Canadian streaming educational and documentary film collection. Includes indigenous and BC content.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets: Business, Current Events, Education and Reference. Allows cross searching with the Canadian Newsstream database. Emphasis on Canadian content.

Subject: Indigenous Studies, First Nations Studies
Description: The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) is a database of full-text electronic resources such as articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs. The iPortal content has a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.
Access: iPortal has freely available materials that can be used by anyone. It also includes resources that are licensed by the Douglas College library and can be accessed using your CNA to access.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Provides access to scholarly journals mainly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Subject coverage includes: Anthropology, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology
Access: JSTOR includes many publications that delay access to current issues.  Most of these access delays are in the 3 - 5 year range.  If a recent issue is not available check the journal's moving wall field to see when it will become available.  Note: the article may be available in another Douglas College Database.

Subject: Sociology, Criminology, Gender Studies, Social Psychology.
Description: Contains full text for 397 core journals dating back to 1908 and 150 priority journals.