Over 60,000 academic videos, including the Nursing Education Collection.

Alexander Street Press is a division of Proquest.

Over 60,000 academic videos, including the Nursing Education Collection.

Alexander Street Press is a division of Proquest.

AccessEngineering is an online reference library, combining thousands of published reference sources along with videos, spreadsheet templates and calulators, and interactive tables and charts. It is an excellent place to start research on a topic or access engineering handbooks. Many of the titles included in AccessEngineering can be found through the library catalogue.

Explore by topic or access: Schaum's Outline books in engineering and mathematics, Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, or Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers.

To use AccessEngineering on your mobile device from outside the UPEI network, follow these instructions. 

AccessEngineering is an online reference library, combining thousands of published reference sources along with videos, spreadsheet templates and calulators, and interactive tables and charts. It is an excellent place to start research on a topic or access engineering handbooks. Many of the titles included in AccessEngineering can be found through the library catalogue.

Explore by topic or access: Schaum's Outline books in engineering and mathematics, Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, or Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers.

To use AccessEngineering on your mobile device from outside the UPEI network, follow these instructions. 

•  
• The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:
• The Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.
• A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
• The ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database focused exclusively on the field of computing.
• A richly interlinked set of connections among authors, works, institutions, and specialized communities.

• Description from the publisher

A full text collection of ebooks published by a group of Canadian University Libraries for the years 2014-2017.

All of these can be read directly online through a web browser.

Some, but not all of these can be downloaded into a mobile device that has an app compatible with Adobe Digital Editions.

Scholarsportal's documentation about Ebooks on their platform and about using Adobe Digital Editions

More information about this collection

Key events and people, political, social, and cultural, for the USA in the 20th century and 2000-2009.

A Gale/Cengage database.

Description from the publisher:

American Indian History offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history, covering more than 600 Native American groups, through videos and slideshows, images, biographies of key people, event and topic entries, primary sources, maps and graphs, and timelines.

An interactive, multifaceted look at the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Highlights and Features:

• Authoritative Source List: Expertly researched and written content from a wealth of proprietary titles
• Easy Access to Relevant Content: Key content is handpicked by our editors to inform research and provide guided entryways into the database, plus convenient links to key areas are at the top of every page
• Editorially Curated Topic Centers: Specially selected content on a particular culture area or era—including articles, shareable slideshows, videos, primary sources, and more—provide valuable study guides and entry points into the content key topics

The Library licenses a specific selection of engineering standards, at the request of engineering faculty.

Some of them are on this platform, customized for the UPEI licenses, run by ANSI.org.

You can just read the standards directly, but if you "register" your own personal account on the site within the UPEI account, you will also be able to use a variety of useful features.

For more information or to request additional standards, contact the engineering librarian, Mackenzie Johnson, mtjohnson@upei.ca, 902-620-5290.

ArtStor is a collection of images of art across many cultures and times. UPEI does not subscribe to the main database, but a significant portion is freely available to all as the Public Collections.

Journals and proceedings published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

UPEI does not have a paid subscription, but some content on this site is open access/free.

Description provided by the publisher:

The ASME Digital Collection is ASME’s repository of current and archival literature featuring:

• ASME's Transaction Journals from 1960 to the present.
• ASME's Conference Proceedings from 2002 to the present.
• ASME Press eBooks selected from 1993 to the present.

Contact the engineering librarian for more information about this resource.

Journals and proceedings published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

UPEI does not have a paid subscription, but some content on this site is open access/free.

Description provided by the publisher:

The ASME Digital Collection is ASME’s repository of current and archival literature featuring:

• ASME's Transaction Journals from 1960 to the present.
• ASME's Conference Proceedings from 2002 to the present.
• ASME Press eBooks selected from 1993 to the present.

Contact the engineering librarian for more information about this resource.

BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.

This is a specialized database indexing both books (including exhibition catalogs) and articles.

It does not contain full text or links to the Library's full text or book collections, so use to identify resources and then look them up by title/author in OneSearch to check for access or place ILL requests.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the most comprehensive Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies, it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences.

Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage:

Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.

Gale Business Insights: Global provides students and researchers with the broad yet detailed coverage of international business they need to develop into savvy professionals that can compete and succeed working across the countries and cultures of the world. Gale Business Insights: Global is the most convenient and comprehensive way to access timely case studies, full-text articles, and robust data sets coupled with authoritative references and tools for analysis. This unique resource empowers users to not only research topics but also to interpret their research. Deep business intelligence powered by statistical data lets researchers spend less time searching and more time connecting their discoveries to practical applications.

Gale Business Insights: Global provides students and researchers with the broad yet detailed coverage of international business they need to develop into savvy professionals that can compete and succeed working across the countries and cultures of the world. Gale Business Insights: Global is the most convenient and comprehensive way to access timely case studies, full-text articles, and robust data sets coupled with authoritative references and tools for analysis. This unique resource empowers users to not only research topics but also to interpret their research. Deep business intelligence powered by statistical data lets researchers spend less time searching and more time connecting their discoveries to practical applications.

Gale Business Insights: Global provides students and researchers with the broad yet detailed coverage of international business they need to develop into savvy professionals that can compete and succeed working across the countries and cultures of the world. Gale Business Insights: Global is the most convenient and comprehensive way to access timely case studies, full-text articles, and robust data sets coupled with authoritative references and tools for analysis. This unique resource empowers users to not only research topics but also to interpret their research. Deep business intelligence powered by statistical data lets researchers spend less time searching and more time connecting their discoveries to practical applications.

Gale Business Insights: Global provides students and researchers with the broad yet detailed coverage of international business they need to develop into savvy professionals that can compete and succeed working across the countries and cultures of the world. Gale Business Insights: Global is the most convenient and comprehensive way to access timely case studies, full-text articles, and robust data sets coupled with authoritative references and tools for analysis. This unique resource empowers users to not only research topics but also to interpret their research. Deep business intelligence powered by statistical data lets researchers spend less time searching and more time connecting their discoveries to practical applications.

Provides access to ebooks in the following subject areas: Agriculture, Animal & Veterinary Science, Environmental Sciences, Human Health, Food & Nutrition, Leisure & Tourism, Plant Sciences.

Features include:

• Easy-to-use PDF eBooks
• Search keywords or browse by subject
• Discover content written by world experts, chapter by chapter
• Anytime/anywhere unlimited access
• No limits to concurrent users, downloads, printing, sharing or interlibrary loan.

Provides access to ebooks in the following subject areas: Agriculture, Animal & Veterinary Science, Environmental Sciences, Human Health, Food & Nutrition, Leisure & Tourism, Plant Sciences.

Features include:

• Easy-to-use PDF eBooks
• Search keywords or browse by subject
• Discover content written by world experts, chapter by chapter
• Anytime/anywhere unlimited access
• No limits to concurrent users, downloads, printing, sharing or interlibrary loan.

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada; provides access to Canadian Census Profile Tables by Census Geography and by Census Year; Microdata Files; and Postal Code Conversion Files.

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada; provides access to Canadian Census Profile Tables by Census Geography and by Census Year; Microdata Files; and Postal Code Conversion Files.

The Labour Studies Index offers over 6534 citations of journal articles, books, book chapters, theses, and other literature relating to Canadian labour issues, as of May 2016, and continuing to grow.

While the Index emphasizes open access publications, they also have indexed a number of recent books (including publisher descriptions), journal articles, and reports.

Scope of the Index (as of May 2016)

Open access is a key criterion for what is included in the Index. The following three scholarly journals are indexed comprehensively: Labour/Le Travail (1976-, open access except for the current year), Just Labour. A Canadian Journal of Work and Society (2002-2014, open access), and Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations (1945- , open access since 1964 except for the current two years). Work has been completed on the first two journals, while the latter is still in the process of being indexed. Just Labour, published by York University’s Centre for Work and Society, appears to have been indexed previously only by Google Scholar.

All other publications or resources are indexed selectively with priority given to recency (i.e., since 2000). They include research (e.g., theses, dissertations) in institutional repositories, Canadian university presses (e.g., Athabasca), Canadian publishers (e.g., Fernwood), commercial academic publishers, commissioned reports (e.g., Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives), and reviews.

This database lets you access 153 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 2,480,000 patent documents.

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database comprised of over 40 million time series and thousands of tables. CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.

CANSIM can be used to:

• Track trends
• Analyze market potential
• Study economic activity
• Make investment decisions
• Evaluate social conditions
• Conduct feasibility studies
• Forecast economic conditions
• Plan programs or services
• Profile demographics

CANSIM @ CHASS features:

• Search by text, table number or time series number
• Browse by subject, survey number, table titles and labels or by Statistics Canada's keywords classification for tables
• Various download formats
• Historical versions of CANSIM (available only at CHASS)
• Bilingual

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database comprised of over 40 million time series and thousands of tables. CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.

CANSIM can be used to:

• Track trends
• Analyze market potential
• Study economic activity
• Make investment decisions
• Evaluate social conditions
• Conduct feasibility studies
• Forecast economic conditions
• Plan programs or services
• Profile demographics

CANSIM @ CHASS features:

• Search by text, table number or time series number
• Browse by subject, survey number, table titles and labels or by Statistics Canada's keywords classification for tables
• Various download formats
• Historical versions of CANSIM (available only at CHASS)
• Bilingual

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database comprised of over 40 million time series and thousands of tables. CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.

CANSIM can be used to:

• Track trends
• Analyze market potential
• Study economic activity
• Make investment decisions
• Evaluate social conditions
• Conduct feasibility studies
• Forecast economic conditions
• Plan programs or services
• Profile demographics

CANSIM @ CHASS features:

• Search by text, table number or time series number
• Browse by subject, survey number, table titles and labels or by Statistics Canada's keywords classification for tables
• Various download formats
• Historical versions of CANSIM (available only at CHASS)
• Bilingual

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database comprised of over 40 million time series and thousands of tables. CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.

CANSIM can be used to:

• Track trends
• Analyze market potential
• Study economic activity
• Make investment decisions
• Evaluate social conditions
• Conduct feasibility studies
• Forecast economic conditions
• Plan programs or services
• Profile demographics

CANSIM @ CHASS features:

• Search by text, table number or time series number
• Browse by subject, survey number, table titles and labels or by Statistics Canada's keywords classification for tables
• Various download formats
• Historical versions of CANSIM (available only at CHASS)
• Bilingual

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database comprised of over 40 million time series and thousands of tables. CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.

CANSIM can be used to:

• Track trends
• Analyze market potential
• Study economic activity
• Make investment decisions
• Evaluate social conditions
• Conduct feasibility studies
• Forecast economic conditions
• Plan programs or services
• Profile demographics

CANSIM @ CHASS features:

• Search by text, table number or time series number
• Browse by subject, survey number, table titles and labels or by Statistics Canada's keywords classification for tables
• Various download formats
• Historical versions of CANSIM (available only at CHASS)
• Bilingual

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database comprised of over 40 million time series and thousands of tables. CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.

CANSIM can be used to:

• Track trends
• Analyze market potential
• Study economic activity
• Make investment decisions
• Evaluate social conditions
• Conduct feasibility studies
• Forecast economic conditions
• Plan programs or services
• Profile demographics

CANSIM @ CHASS features:

• Search by text, table number or time series number
• Browse by subject, survey number, table titles and labels or by Statistics Canada's keywords classification for tables
• Various download formats
• Historical versions of CANSIM (available only at CHASS)
• Bilingual

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database comprised of over 40 million time series and thousands of tables. CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.

CANSIM can be used to:

• Track trends
• Analyze market potential
• Study economic activity
• Make investment decisions
• Evaluate social conditions
• Conduct feasibility studies
• Forecast economic conditions
• Plan programs or services
• Profile demographics

CANSIM @ CHASS features:

• Search by text, table number or time series number
• Browse by subject, survey number, table titles and labels or by Statistics Canada's keywords classification for tables
• Various download formats
• Historical versions of CANSIM (available only at CHASS)
• Bilingual

Full text of Canadian case law and legislation, federal and all provinces.

Description from website:

Provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions. Our other website, CanLII Connects, hosts a database of case commentary and case summaries which is contributed to, on a daily basis, by lawyers, scholars and others with professional competency in legal analysis.

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.

Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)

Full text encyclopedic articles from Children's Literature (vols published from 2004 - 2014; Robertson Library has 1976 - 1999 in print).

Search by author name or broad topic (e.g. Censorship in Children's Literature).

The volume years do not correspond to when the children's books were published so you will find profiles of authors who predate that (e.g. Louisa May Alcott).

Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage:

When it comes to auto repair, do-it-yourselfers and students in the automotive trades have trusted Chilton manuals for years. Now these exceptional resources are available to your library's patrons in a comprehensive, simple-to-use database offered only by Gale. This 24-hour on-call "mechanic" provides quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today. Ford, Chrysler, GM, Honda, Toyota and numerous other makes are well-represented. With more than 50 years of information on actual auto tear-downs provided in step-by-step procedures, work on the engine, chassis, electrical, drive train, suspension, and more is made easier for mechanics of any experience. Photos, illustrations and repair procedures help to simplify even the most arduous tasks.

As of 2019, the entire PEI community can use Cochrane for free, as long as you connect using a device with an IP address that "geolocates" within the 4 Atlantic provinces, see further explanation below.

What is The Cochrane Library?

The Cochrane Library EAL (Enhanced Access License) is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.  It is owned by Cochrane and published by John Wiley & Sons.

The key user groups of the Cochrane Library – those that use the content to inform healthcare decisions – are clinicians and healthcare workers, researchers (including information specialists and guideline developers), students, consumers (including patients and carers), and policy-makers.

The Library includes the following:

• The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care.  Each Cochrane Review is a systematic review that has been prepared and supervised by a Cochrane Review Group (editorial team).  The CDSR includes systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarize and interpret the results of medical research.  The Cochrane Library aims to make the results of well-conducted controlled trials readily available and is a key resource inevidence-based medicine.

Editorials aim to stimulate discussion and ideas around the development of evidence synthesis to promote good decision-making in clinical care and health policy. The Editor in Chief may commission editorials linked to Cochrane Reviews of interest or on topics likely to be of interest to a broad readership.

• The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) is a highly concentrated source of reports of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials.  In addition to bibliographic details (author, title, source, year, etc.) CENTRAL records often include an abstract (a summary of the article). They do not contain the full text of the article.
• Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically-focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane Reviews. They are designed to be actionable and to inform point-of-care decision-making.  Each CCA contains a clinical question, a short answer, and data for the outcomes from the Cochrane Review deemed most relevant to practising healthcare professionals, our target audience.  The evidence is displayed in a user-friendly tabulated format that includes narratives, data, and links to graphics.  Cochrane Clinical Answers were developed by Cochrane Innovations and Wiley.

Who Has Access and How Does it Work?

All residents of the four Atlantic provinces have access.  If they are coming in from an Atlantic region IP, they get direct access (https://www.cochranelibrary.com/) with no need to login or authenticate. If they are coming in from outside of the region, they need to authenticate through their home institution (CAUL-CBUA institution, a provincial health authority, the IWK, or the public library system in their province).  Note that they can search The Cochrane Library without authenticating, but if they want to access the fulltext of the articles, they will need to authenticate.

Of note, many ISPs who service the Atlantic Region (Bell, Rogers, Telus, Koodoo, etc.) randomly assign their Atlantic Region customers IPs from Quebec, so on some days when you access the Internet at home, you may have an IP from one of the Atlantic provinces and you’ll have no problem accessing The Cochrane Library fulltext content, and one other days The Cochrane Library may say that you need to login to get to the fulltext content. This is likely because your ISP has assigned you an IP from Quebec that day.  So, to access Cochrane, you’ll need to authenticate. Unfortunately, there is no way to control what IP you get on any particular day from your ISP.  I plan to contact ISPs in the region to discuss this practice and the implications for these regional access deals; although I’m not sure if they will change their current practice.

A way to check what IP you’ve been assigned that day, and to what geographic area it resolves, you can go to an IP geolocation resolver to check. The one most akin to what Wiley will resolve the address to is https://www.iplocation.net/find-ip-address.

More information at the CAUL website

How to Use Cochrane Library

• Reference Guide [PDF]
• Training Hub 

As of 2019, the entire PEI community can use Cochrane for free, as long as you connect using a device with an IP address that "geolocates" within the 4 Atlantic provinces, see further explanation below.

What is The Cochrane Library?

The Cochrane Library EAL (Enhanced Access License) is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.  It is owned by Cochrane and published by John Wiley & Sons.

The key user groups of the Cochrane Library – those that use the content to inform healthcare decisions – are clinicians and healthcare workers, researchers (including information specialists and guideline developers), students, consumers (including patients and carers), and policy-makers.

The Library includes the following:

• The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care.  Each Cochrane Review is a systematic review that has been prepared and supervised by a Cochrane Review Group (editorial team).  The CDSR includes systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarize and interpret the results of medical research.  The Cochrane Library aims to make the results of well-conducted controlled trials readily available and is a key resource inevidence-based medicine.

Editorials aim to stimulate discussion and ideas around the development of evidence synthesis to promote good decision-making in clinical care and health policy. The Editor in Chief may commission editorials linked to Cochrane Reviews of interest or on topics likely to be of interest to a broad readership.

• The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) is a highly concentrated source of reports of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials.  In addition to bibliographic details (author, title, source, year, etc.) CENTRAL records often include an abstract (a summary of the article). They do not contain the full text of the article.
• Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically-focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane Reviews. They are designed to be actionable and to inform point-of-care decision-making.  Each CCA contains a clinical question, a short answer, and data for the outcomes from the Cochrane Review deemed most relevant to practising healthcare professionals, our target audience.  The evidence is displayed in a user-friendly tabulated format that includes narratives, data, and links to graphics.  Cochrane Clinical Answers were developed by Cochrane Innovations and Wiley.

Who Has Access and How Does it Work?

All residents of the four Atlantic provinces have access.  If they are coming in from an Atlantic region IP, they get direct access (https://www.cochranelibrary.com/) with no need to login or authenticate. If they are coming in from outside of the region, they need to authenticate through their home institution (CAUL-CBUA institution, a provincial health authority, the IWK, or the public library system in their province).  Note that they can search The Cochrane Library without authenticating, but if they want to access the fulltext of the articles, they will need to authenticate.

Of note, many ISPs who service the Atlantic Region (Bell, Rogers, Telus, Koodoo, etc.) randomly assign their Atlantic Region customers IPs from Quebec, so on some days when you access the Internet at home, you may have an IP from one of the Atlantic provinces and you’ll have no problem accessing The Cochrane Library fulltext content, and one other days The Cochrane Library may say that you need to login to get to the fulltext content. This is likely because your ISP has assigned you an IP from Quebec that day.  So, to access Cochrane, you’ll need to authenticate. Unfortunately, there is no way to control what IP you get on any particular day from your ISP.  I plan to contact ISPs in the region to discuss this practice and the implications for these regional access deals; although I’m not sure if they will change their current practice.

A way to check what IP you’ve been assigned that day, and to what geographic area it resolves, you can go to an IP geolocation resolver to check. The one most akin to what Wiley will resolve the address to is https://www.iplocation.net/find-ip-address.

More information at the CAUL website

How to Use Cochrane Library

• Reference Guide [PDF]
• Training Hub 

As of 2019, the entire PEI community can use Cochrane for free, as long as you connect using a device with an IP address that "geolocates" within the 4 Atlantic provinces, see further explanation below.

What is The Cochrane Library?

The Cochrane Library EAL (Enhanced Access License) is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.  It is owned by Cochrane and published by John Wiley & Sons.

The key user groups of the Cochrane Library – those that use the content to inform healthcare decisions – are clinicians and healthcare workers, researchers (including information specialists and guideline developers), students, consumers (including patients and carers), and policy-makers.

The Library includes the following:

• The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care.  Each Cochrane Review is a systematic review that has been prepared and supervised by a Cochrane Review Group (editorial team).  The CDSR includes systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarize and interpret the results of medical research.  The Cochrane Library aims to make the results of well-conducted controlled trials readily available and is a key resource inevidence-based medicine.

Editorials aim to stimulate discussion and ideas around the development of evidence synthesis to promote good decision-making in clinical care and health policy. The Editor in Chief may commission editorials linked to Cochrane Reviews of interest or on topics likely to be of interest to a broad readership.

• The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) is a highly concentrated source of reports of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials.  In addition to bibliographic details (author, title, source, year, etc.) CENTRAL records often include an abstract (a summary of the article). They do not contain the full text of the article.
• Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically-focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane Reviews. They are designed to be actionable and to inform point-of-care decision-making.  Each CCA contains a clinical question, a short answer, and data for the outcomes from the Cochrane Review deemed most relevant to practising healthcare professionals, our target audience.  The evidence is displayed in a user-friendly tabulated format that includes narratives, data, and links to graphics.  Cochrane Clinical Answers were developed by Cochrane Innovations and Wiley.

Who Has Access and How Does it Work?

All residents of the four Atlantic provinces have access.  If they are coming in from an Atlantic region IP, they get direct access (https://www.cochranelibrary.com/) with no need to login or authenticate. If they are coming in from outside of the region, they need to authenticate through their home institution (CAUL-CBUA institution, a provincial health authority, the IWK, or the public library system in their province).  Note that they can search The Cochrane Library without authenticating, but if they want to access the fulltext of the articles, they will need to authenticate.

Of note, many ISPs who service the Atlantic Region (Bell, Rogers, Telus, Koodoo, etc.) randomly assign their Atlantic Region customers IPs from Quebec, so on some days when you access the Internet at home, you may have an IP from one of the Atlantic provinces and you’ll have no problem accessing The Cochrane Library fulltext content, and one other days The Cochrane Library may say that you need to login to get to the fulltext content. This is likely because your ISP has assigned you an IP from Quebec that day.  So, to access Cochrane, you’ll need to authenticate. Unfortunately, there is no way to control what IP you get on any particular day from your ISP.  I plan to contact ISPs in the region to discuss this practice and the implications for these regional access deals; although I’m not sure if they will change their current practice.

A way to check what IP you’ve been assigned that day, and to what geographic area it resolves, you can go to an IP geolocation resolver to check. The one most akin to what Wiley will resolve the address to is https://www.iplocation.net/find-ip-address.

More information at the CAUL website

How to Use Cochrane Library

• Reference Guide [PDF]
• Training Hub 

Description from publisher:

Ei Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world with over 20 million indexed records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Every record is carefully selected and indexed using the Engineering Index Thesaurus.

Indexing is from 1969 - current.  This is an indexing database, not full text. A Check@UPEI link will be available to connect you to our full text journals.

Content sources (as of Sept 2016):

• 190 engineering disciplines
• 76 countries
• 2,129 publishers
• 3,639 journals
• 334 Open Access titles2
• 117 trade magazines
• 88,317 conference proceedings
• 84 book series
• articles in press from 1,260 journals
• 87,328 dissertations
• 8.8+ million records >1970
• 10.9 million journal articles
• 6.4 million conference papers
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Biographical information about authors. Collection includes Contemporary Authors (CA) v. 206-348 and Contemporary Authors New Revision (CANR) v. 114-264

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This Proquest database contains citations, abstracts, and the full text of dissertations and theses published at UPEI after 1996.

UPEI also provides free access to many of its theses in full text through its own institutional repository, IslandScholar.

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This Proquest database contains citations, abstracts, and the full text of dissertations and theses published at UPEI after 1996.

UPEI also provides free access to many of its theses in full text through its own institutional repository, IslandScholar.

For finding non UPEI dissertations, see also Proquest Open Access Dissertations and Theses and Open Access Theses and Dissertations (both of these are worldwide search tools, not just for UPEI theses)

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• Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
• Oceanic Abstracts
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This indexing + full text database from Proquest contains within it:

• Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
• Oceanic Abstracts
• Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)

Plus hundreds of full text journals and documents relating to earth, land, and air sciences.

This indexing + full text database from Proquest contains within it:

• Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
• Oceanic Abstracts
• Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)

Plus hundreds of full text journals and documents relating to earth, land, and air sciences.

Search or browse the UPEI ebrary e-book collection. Only includes those purchased through ebrary. Use the Catalogue to find all e-books available at UPEI.

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Search or browse the UPEI ebrary e-book collection. Only includes those purchased through ebrary. Use the Catalogue to find all e-books available at UPEI.

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Search or browse the UPEI ebrary e-book collection. Only includes those purchased through ebrary. Use the Catalogue to find all e-books available at UPEI.

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Part of RePEc, EconPapers provides access to Research Papers in Economics, the worlds largest collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles, and software.

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Part of RePEc, EconPapers provides access to Research Papers in Economics, the worlds largest collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles, and software.