Databases

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Academic Search Complete offers information in many areas of academic study including, anthropology, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, psychology, women's studies and many other fields.

Subjects: All subject areas.
Description: Delivers more than 63,000 (and growing) scholarly videos for virtually every discipline.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Douglas College alumni can access information resources through Academic Search Alumni Edition. Popular areas of academic study are covered ranging from biology and geography to music, religion and law.

Description: Delivers thousands of academic journals to your web browser and mobile devices. For mobile use - download the free BrowZine app and select Douglas College from the list of libraries.

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

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Full text access to BC and Canadian newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Province, the Vancouver Courier, Globe & Mail, National Post, and more.

Subject: All suject areas.
Description: Contains Indexing of Canadian periodicals (English and French) with many full-text articles. Also contains reference materials such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Contemporary Canadian Authors.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Provides a series of essays that present multiple sides of more than 120 key topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

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: All subject areas.
Description: Provides access to educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian Higher Education Institutions. The selection includes classics, new releases, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features.
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Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Streaming audio and video content from CBC and Radio-Canada. Provides access to thousands of programs and documentaries with English and French-language content.
Off Campus Access: Restricted to Douglas College students and employees. *Due to licensing restrictions some Curio content may be unavailable outside of Canada.

Subject: All subjects areas.  
Description: DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

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DOOR (DOuglas Open Repository) is a scholarly publishing platform which showcases and preserves the scholarly, research and creative works of the Douglas College community. Our open access repository contains a number of growing collections indexed by the major search engines and is also searchable directly here. DOOR is a member of Arca (https://arcabc.ca/) which is British Columbia's province-wide network of institutional repositories.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Full text ebook collection. Includes a broad range of mostly business-oriented titles, in areas such as accounting, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, economics and global economy, finance and banking.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Provides access to all EBSCO databases available through Douglas College library which contain full text articles, citations, abstracts, and more.

Subject: Social Sciences and Humanities.  
Description: Érudit publishes research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as select physical and natural science journals. Érudit is the largest provider of Canadian French and bilingual research publications and over 90% of the content on Érudit is offered in open access. 

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Subject: All subject areas.
Description: A multi-disciplinary collection of over 10,000 films available in streaming format; Provides access to thousands of programs and documentaries with English and French-language content. 

Subject: All subject areas
Description: Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. Contains full text articles.

Subject: All subject areas.  
Description: Google Scholar is a subset of Google that focuses on peer-reviewed journal articles and scholarly books. When you do a search in Google Scholar, links to full text articles are provided when available through Douglas College.

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Subject: All subjects (Union catalogue).  
Description: This database allows you to search simultaneously post-secondary and public library catalogues in British Columbia to find books, videos, periodicals and other materials.

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: British Columbia History.
Description: KnowBC is the online edition of the Encyclopedia of British Columbia. 

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Maclean’s Magazine Archive, 1905-2015, the leading Canadian news and general interest magazine. Topics include investigative reporting, opinion and analysis on politics, economy and business, science and technology, society, arts and culture, education and work.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: The MLA Directory of Periodicals provides detailed information on over 25,000 journals and book series that cover literature, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, language, linguistics, pedagogy, rhetoric and composition, and the history of printing and publishing. Articles published in works listed in the directory are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory is a valuable resource for scholars seeking outlets to publish their work as well as for librarians working to identify periodical publications that best meet their institutions’ needs.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Offers a range of documentaries, dramas and historical films, with a Canadian emphasis. Additional features include the ability to create personal play lists and access to study guides.
Access: This website offers freely accessible streaming videos as well as a National Film Board Campus collection of 500+ titles accessible to registered account holders at Douglas College.

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