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CANSIM (CHASS)

Description

Subject: Business, Economics, Statistics 
Description: CANSIM is a database of time series covering a wide variety of social and economic aspects of Canadian life. CANSIM tables are freely available on the Statistics Canada website . The CHASS version provides more powerful searching options than the Statcan website.

CBCA Complete

Description

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.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes
Allows e-reserves? Yes
Allows coursepacks? Yes
Upload to Blackboard? Yes

Child Development and Adolescent Studies

Description

Subject: Sociology, Growth and development of children through the age of 21.
Description: Includes all the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 - 2001. Currently updated by NISC with indexing of journals, technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes
Allows e-reserves? Yes
Allows coursepacks? No
Upload to Blackboard? Yes, with citation

 

CINAHL Complete

Description

Subject: Nursing, Medicine.
Description: CINAHL Complete covers nursing and allied health literature. It offers broad coverage of over 50 nursing specialties. Other content includes evidence-based care sheets, research instruments, continuing education modules, and quick lessons in diseases and conditions.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes
Allows e-reserves? Yes
Allows coursepacks? Yes
Upload to Blackboard? Link to content, no downloads

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Description

Subject: Medicine, Nursing.
Description: Provides the full text of systematic reviews that focus on the effects of healthcare. Available through the library's Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews database.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes
Allows e-reserves? No full text uploads - link to content only
Allows coursepacks? No
Upload to BlackBoard? No - link to content only

CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection

Description

Subject: Accounting, Business Administration.
Description: Accounting standards. Replaces the CICA Handbook. Includes: Accounting, Assurance, CPA Canada Public Sector Accounting Handbook, 

Permitted uses Allows ILL? No
Allows e-reserves? No - link to content only
Allows coursepacks? No
Upload to BlackBoard? No - link to content only

CPS (formerly e-Therapeutics and RxTx)

Description

Subject: Medicine, Nursing
Description: Comprehensive drug information resource produced by the Canadian Pharmacists Association. Includes e-CPS, e-Therapeutics, and the Lexi-Interact drug interactions module.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? No
Allows e-reserves? No, link only
Allows coursepacks? No
Upload to BlackBoard? No, link to content only

Criminal Justice Abstract with Full Text

Description

Subject: Criminology, Law.
Description: Provides information from journals on criminal justice topics, including corrections & prisons, police & policing, probation & parole, and substance abuse & addiction.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes
Allows e-reserves? Yes
Allows coursepacks? No
Upload to Blackboard? Yes

Criterion On Demand

Description

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.
Access: Clear cache and cookies if encountering an error message, or launch a different browser.

Permitted usesUpload to BlackBoard? No - provide link
Showing live in BlackBoard class? No - provide link
Recording in BB for asynchronous viewing? No - provide link

Public Performance Rights

Curio.ca

Description

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.

Permitted usesUpload to BlackBoard? No - provide link
Showing live in BlackBoard class? Yes, if recording functionality is turned off
Recording in BB for asynchronous viewing? No - provide link

Digital Concert Hall: Berliner Philharmoniker

Description

Subject: Music, Performing Arts
Description: The Digital Concert Hall is an online platform that provides access to live and recorded classical music performances by the Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra). It includes Live Concert Streaming, interviews and documentaries.
Access: The first time accessing access Digital Concert Hall: Berliner Philharmoniker, click on "Start Institutional Access" and register in order to create an account. Once registered you will be able to access the resource by clicking on Log in.

DOOR (DOuglas Open Repository)

Description

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.

DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition

Description

Subject: Psychiatry, Criminology, Nursing, Education, Psychology.
Description: DSM-5 is a classification of mental disorders with related diagnostic criteria. It is a standard reference for clinical practice in the mental health field. Available through PsychiatryOnline database.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes - 1 *print* article maximum
Allows e-reserves? Yes, with citation
Allows coursepacks? No - seek permission from relevant publisher
Upload to BlackBoard? Yes, provided there is NOT a note in the title record prohibiting it.

Early Canadiana Online

Subject
Description

Subject: History  Open access database
Description: Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a full text, searchable, online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century.

Terms & conditions

Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost)

Description

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.

EBSCO

Description

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.

Encyclopedia of British Columbia

Subject
Description

Subject: British Columbia History.
Description: Encyclopedia of British Columbia (a.k.a. KnowBC) was launched as the online edition of Harbour Publishing's Encyclopedia of British Columbia.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes
Allows e-reserves? Yes
Allows coursepacks? Yes, with citation
Upload to BlackBoard? No, link to content

Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Description

Subject: Philosophy.
Description: Electronic reproduction of the original ten volume set. 2nd edition, Gale 2005. The print edition is available at both campus libraries in the reference collection.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes
Allows coursepacks? Yes
Allows e-reserves? Yes

ERIC

Subject
Description

Subject: Education
Description: ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) contains citations and abstracts from over 900 educational and education-related journals, primarily American with some Canadian and British publications.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes
Allows e-reserves? No
Allows coursepacks? No
Upload to Blackboard? Yes

Erudit

Description

Subject: Social Sciences and Humanities.  Open access database
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. 

Terms & conditions

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews

Description

Subject: Nursing, Medicine.
Description: Contains seven sources: Cochrane Database of Systematic Review, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (CDMR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), Health Technology Assessments (HTA), NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED), ACP Journal Club, and Definitive Controlled Trial.

Permitted uses Allows ILL? Yes
Allows e-reserves? Yes
Allows coursepacks? Yes
Upload to Blackboard? Yes, with citation