Search Tools (Databases) - Complete List

Title Description Page
Academic Collection Complete (Proquest)

Search/browse the UPEI Proquest Ebook Central e-book collection of over 250,000 books. Also discoverable in Publication Finder (for specific titles) and OneSearch.

Academic Search Complete A multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for more than 8,500 periodicals, including full text for over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
Academic Videos Online (AVON)

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

Alexander Street Press is a division of Proquest.

 

AccessEngineering

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.

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy Contains nearly 330 videos of real human anatomic specimens in their natural colors
ACM Digital Library

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)'s complete collection of publications, including Journals, Transactions, Magazines, Proceedings, and ACM Books. Also includes the "ACM Guide to Computing Literature", a comprehensive database of citation information on the field of computing.

ACS Web Editions (American Chemical Society) The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation.
ACUP/Ebound through ScholarsPortal

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

Agricola (via National Agricultural Library) [Public Access] The National Agricultural Library collection of more than 3.5 million items covers all aspects of agriculture and related sciences.
America: History and Life The definitive index of literature covering the history & culture of the US & Canada, from prehistory to the present. Indexes 1,700 journals.
American Decades, 1900-2000

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

American Film Scripts: Film Scripts Online, Volume I American Film Scripts Online: Volume I contains scripts of American cinema's greatest classic films.
American History Primary Sources through 2009

A collection of more than two thousand primary sources on American history and culture.

American Indian History Collection

Covers 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.

American Writers

Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers. Presents scholar-signed essays prepared by experts in the field.

Annual Review of Anthropology Summarizes and critically reviews the best works in anthropology. Tables of Contents are provided 1972-1995; full text of articles 1996-present.
Annual Review of Political Science Summarizes and critically reviews the best works in political science. Tables of Contents are provided 1998- ; full text for the latest 5 years.
Annual Review of Psychology Summarizes and critically reviews the best work in all areas of psychology. Tables of Contents are provided 1950-1995; full text is available 1996-.
Annual Review of Sociology Summarizes and critically reviews the best works in sociology. Tables of contents are provided 1975-1995; full text of articles 1996-present.
ANSI Standards

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.

Anthropological Index Online Index to over 1,500 anthropology journals held at the British Museum. This is a bare-bones citation-only index, no abstracts or full text.
ArtStor Public Collections Search

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.

ArXiv An electronic archive for research articles, including physics, math, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, and statistics.
Asian American Drama Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
ASME Digital Collection

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.

  • 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.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

The definitive index for religious and theological literature. Covers all aspects of theology and world religions. ATLA provides some useful short video tutorials including "Three Methods to Search For Biblical Scripture Citations".

Audio Cine Films

Audio Cine Films collection offers access to 100s of titles from the world's most renowned film studios and producers including:

  • Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstones Pictures    
  • Hollywood Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures    
  • Tristar Pictures, Screen Gems
  • Universal Studios Canada (MCA)
  • MGM Studios, United Artists

The recommended system requirements include:

BHA and RILA combined search

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 Indigenous Peoples in North America

Contains citations for books, essays, journal articles and government documents of the United States and Canada pertaining to native North Americans, including culture, history and daily life. Useful for researching the contributions, struggles and issues surrounding North America's indigenous peoples. An EBSCO product, also included in OneSearch Full.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

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.

Black Drama: Second Edition Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1,462 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Black Thought and Culture Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history.
Blackpast

Description from website:

BlackPast is dedicated to providing reliable information on the history of Black people across the globe, and especially in North America. Our goal is to promote greater understanding of our common human experience through knowledge of the diversity of the Black experience and the ubiquity of the global Black presence. Welcome to the largest online encyclopedia on African American and Global African history on the Internet.

 

Blackwell Synergy -- See Wiley Online Wiley Online is a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history.
British Writers

Covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the fourteenth century to the present day. Includes in-depth critical and biographical analysis.

Business Insights: Global

Coverage of international business including timely case studies, full-text articles, and robust data sets coupled with authoritative references and tools for analysis.

Business Plans Handbook

Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. 

Business Source Complete A scholarly business database providing indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, dating back as far as 1886.
CAB Abstracts (via CAB Direct) Covers the significant research and development literature in applied life sciences, including agriculture, the environment, human nutrition, applied economics, leisure/tourism, and veterinary medicine. Access is provided directly through CAB Direct, CABI's online database platform.
CAB Abstracts (via EBSCOhost) Covers the significant research and development literature in applied life sciences, including agriculture, the environment, human nutrition, applied economics, leisure/tourism, and veterinary medicine.
CAB ebooks

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.
Cairn Cairn offers access to a comprehensive collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines. The Library does not subscribe to most of this content, so access is just to the citation information and portion of the site that is open access. However, you can place Interlibrary Loan requests for articles you discover on this platform.
Canada Commons

Canada Commons contains over 17,000 ebooks and over 180,000 Canadian documents of other kinds, mostly in English but also over 50,000 in French.

The documents are mostly from the Canadian government, but also many are from non-profit agencies and "think tanks".

 

Users off-campus may prefer to use this method of authentication/access, which bypasses our proxy server (this is known as SAML/SSO/Shibboleth access):

Canadian Census Analyzer (via CHASS)

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.

Canadian Labour Studies Index

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.

Canadian Music Periodical Index Index to Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines. Covers all aspects of musical activity in Canada. Includes information from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA) The Canadian Opinion Research Archive at Queen's University makes available commercial and independent surveys to the academic, research and journalistic communities. Founded in 1992, CORA contains hundreds of surveys including thousands of discrete items collected by major commercial Canadian firms dating back to the 1970s.
Canadian Patent Database

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.

Canadian Poetry Audio Archive A bilingual poetry audio archive featuring a sampling of contemporary recordings of Canada's most acclaimed poets and transcripts of Canadian poetry.
Canadian Publishers Collection A collection of over 8,000 French and English titles from 47 Canadian publishers, including major Canadian University Presses. To access the titles, select the Canadian Electronic Library (CRKN) collection from the options presented.
CANSIM - Canadian Socio-Economic Information (via CHASS)

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:

Canadiana Online

The Canadiana collections are the largest online collections of early textual Canadiana in the world and include valuable national documentary heritage that is used for research, teaching, and personal history.

They includes 95,000 titles (19 million pages) of monographs, serials (periodicals, newspapers, and annuals), and government publications.

They also include the Early Canadiana Online collection which consists of 5.8 million pages arranged in thematic sub-collections.

CanLII full text of Canadian laws, cases, regulations

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.

Catholic Research Resources

The Catholic Research Resources Alliance website has two resources of note: Catholic Portal, which allows users to identify items in a wide variety of research collections, and Catholic News Archive, a text-searchable collection of over 30,000 issues of Catholic newspapers with a focus on dioceses in the United States.

Canadian Business & Current Affairs Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete; despite its name, it encompasses all subject areas, with Canadian focus.
Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature A collection of databases of interest to music scholars. Includes Musical Borrowing: An Annotated Bibliography.
Chaucer Bibliography Online Provides citations to research literature on English writer Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-c.1400) from scholarly journals, books, and other sources.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Provides access to print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools covering topics on child welfare.
Children's Literature Review

Full text encyclopedic articles from Children's Literature (vols published from 2004 - 2014).

ChiltonLibrary

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.

China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital) Unique manuscript material relating to the activities & observations of British & American diplomats, missionaries, & others in China from 1793-1980.
Chronicling America (Library of Congress historical newspapers) Digitized local US newspapers back to the 1700s.
CINAHL The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) provides indexing for 3,000+ journals from the fields of nursing, physical therapy, nutrition, occupational therapy, and other allied health fields. Nursing topics include clinical practice, nursing education and teaching, nursing research, patient care, health promotion, patient education, and rehabilitation. Contains more than 2.3 million records dating back to 1981.
CiteSeerX CiteSeerx is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
Classical Net Covers all aspects of classical music through a network of commercial and noncommercial links.
Cochrane Library (free within Atlantic Provinces)| Cochrane Library (proxied for UPEI users outside of region)

The Cochrane Library, owned by Cochrane and published by John Wiley & Sons., is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Library includes the following:

Compendex (Engineering Village)

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

Computer Research Repository (arXiv) The Computing Research Repository (CoRR), sponsored by ACM, the arXiv.org e-Print archive, NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library), and AAAI. CoRR allows researchers to search, browse and download papers through its online repository. CoRR is available to all members of of the community at no charge.
Contemporary Authors

Biographical information about authors. Collection includes Contemporary Authors (CA) v. 206-348 and Contemporary Authors New Revision (CANR) v. 114-264

Contemporary Black Biography

Contemporary Black Biography provides informative biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African heritage who form the international black community

Contemporary Musicians v.1 - 80 (1989-2015)

Provides biographical information on important figures in today's musical arena, covering artists working in all genres of modern music, including rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel and reggae.

Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television

Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television
Biographical and career information on people currently working in the entertainment industry. For general and trade audiences.

Coronavirus Research Database (Proquest) The Coronavirus Research Database brings together trusted content from journals, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. This database brings together not only content from open-access journals, but also pre-prints and additional content being made freely available by major publishers from around the world.
Covidence

Covidence is online software for managing the systematic review process. It facilitates the process of screening references (both title/abstract and full-text), conducting data extraction, completing risk of bias analysis and creating a PRISMA flowchart. Request invitation to join University of Prince Edward Island's Covidence account: https://tinyurl.com/2p92b4yw 

CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection (CPACHB) Provides to up-to-date information on the changes to the accounting and assurance standards (formerly the CICA Standards and Guidance Collection) and the new Canadian Auditing Standards.
CPS All Access

The online version of the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties plus other handbooks.

Both professional information as well as patient information is provided for medications, according to Canadian regulations and standards.

For users wanting to use the mobile application, the UPEI organizational code is: 0007249

From the publisher's website:

The Canadian standard for drug monographs contains thousands of products, including:

Criterion-on-Demand

Criterion-on-Demand is a streaming video collection which represents a large number of feature film producers, including: 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Mongrel Media, Sony Pictures, Alliance Films, Miramax Films, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate Films, as well as a smaller number of independent producers. Our title selection includes classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features.

Curio.ca

CBC news and documentary videos, commercial free, streaming

Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online (Adam Matthew Digital) A wide range of original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, & poetry.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale)

Dictionary of Literary Biography contains biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world's most influential literary figures, over 16,000 articles.

Dissertations & Theses @ University of Prince Edward Island

This Proquest database contains citations, abstracts, and the full text of dissertations and theses published at UPEI from 1996 - 2014.

For more recent access, UPEI also provides many of its theses in full text through its own institutional repository, IslandScholar.

For finding UPEI and non-UPEI dissertations, see also Open Dissertations (EBSCO) and Open Access Theses and Dissertations.  

DOAJ : Directory of Open Access Journals A service that provides access to quality controlled scientific and scholarly Open Access Journals.
Docuseek

Docuseek is a streaming video platform.

UPEI does not have a site license, but can obtain annual licenses for specific videos upon request of faculty who need them for a specific course.

Faculty should contact their subject librarian to arrange access to a video if not previously licensed within the last year.

Early Canadiana Online A searchable full text collection of 3,000+ books & pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century.
Early Encounters in North America This collection includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database

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.

EBSCOhost (all individual databases)

UPEI subscribes to many different EBSCO databases via the EBSCOhost platform. They are all also integrated into OneSearch.

If you have previously created your own "My EBSCOhost" username and password within UPEI's overall account, you can login via this special direct link: 
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?profile=ehost&custid=uprince&groupid=main&authtype=user

EBSCOhost (New UI Summer 2024) A completely new interface to the EBSCOhost databases as of Summer 2024. Will select all databases by default, so start by clicking on "Searching: All databases" at the top to select your database.
EBSCOhost Ebook Collection

Ebook reading app is available for mobile devices.

Note that most but not all ebooks may be downloaded - this is decided by the individual book publishers.

EconLit with Full Text (EBSCOhost) Foremost source of references to economic literature. Provides indexing and abstracting of 450+ international economic periodicals, books & papers.
EconPapers (part of RePEc)

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

Education Research Complete Covers areas of curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Indexing & abstracts for more than 2,200 journals.
Education-Line A British database providing access to research in the educational field.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) An online library of over 136,000 titles (over 155,000 volumes), published between 1701 and 1800, and printed in English-speaking countries.
Eighteenth Century Journals I & II (Adam Matthew Digital) Contains rare journals printed between 1693 and 1799 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political, and literary life.
Emcare

Emcare is a nursing subset of the Elsevier Embase medical database.

It is provided on the Ovid platform as part of the library's "LWW Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection" of full text nursing journals.

It does not use MeSH subject headings, but has its own thesaurus.

The database indexes many journals that are not full text on Ovid, some of which the library may have elsewhere and some that may require interlibrary loan requests to read.

 

Empire Online (Adam Matthew Digital) Collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, including exploration journals, correspondence, periodicals, diaries & travel writing.
Encyclopedia of World Biography

A multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture.

English Historical Documents

English Historical Documents Online contains over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable British history primary documents from 500-1914. Type "AND" between keywords.

ERIC (EBSCOhost) Provides access to education literature and resources. Contains 1.3 million+ records and links to 323,000+ fulltext documents from ERIC back to 1966.
ERIC via the U.S. Dept of Education Provides citations back to 1966. Most documents issued from 1993-present are freely available online.
Erudit Provides access to academic journals, e-books & theses in the humanities, social sciences & natural sciences. Collection is primarily in French. UPEI does not currently subscribe to this database, so we only have access to the "open access" portions of its content.
Eureka (formerly Newscan)

Covers over 5,000 news sources, including newspapers & news wires. Full text to PEI newspapers The Guardian (1997-) and The Journal Pioneer (1999-).

Please note that we have a 10-simultaneous user limit, but the library can coordinate with the vendor to open that up for training days, so instructors who want to offer group hands-on training should contact one of the librarians to make those arrangements.

EPO Worldwide Bibliographic Database Patent information from around the world maintained by the European Patent Office; contains bibliographic data, such as titles and abstracts for millions of patents granted by various patent offices worldwide.
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database A tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators.
Exploring Race in Society

This is a small free database from EBSCO.

Content (as of August 2023) Includes:  
 
  • 100 proprietary essays covering topics relevant to current race-related issues
  • full-text articles from BlackPast, a leading source on the African American experience
  • photographs, graphs and charts
Federal Publication Locator Provides access to electronic Canadian federal government publications & bibliographic information about Canadian federal government publications.
Federal Science Library (on-campus link)Federal Science Library (proxied)

See below for description. Note that this service may provide links to full text that UPEI does not license. If you find materials that you want but cannot access, remember to use Interlibrary Loan to request copies. Be sure to check our journal list if you are off-campus because we may have that already licensed.

 

Description taken from press release, March 2017:

Search seven federal libraries! 
  
Federal Science Library creates a window into government science library collections and scientific research for all Canadians

Federal Science Library (formerly WAVES) Contains records for published & unpublished literature on fisheries, aquatic sciences & nautical sciences. You can search the entire Federal Science Library or limit your search to the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Collection (formerly known as WAVES).
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters

Description from publisher:

Frontier Life provides over 240,000 Images and 7,895 Documents pertaining to the Frontiers of North America, Africa and Australasia.   This collection has a wealth of primary source documents including 68% of the collections dedicated to North America, and 20% of that material specific to Canada.  There are more than 1,015 documents from the Glenbow Museum and Hudson Bay’s Archive. 

Gale Academic OneFile

Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.

Gale Databases (all) Gale Databases - access to all Gale databases from a single product menu
Gale Databases (all) via UPEI Microsoft Login Use your UPEI Microsoft credentials to access any of the Gale products off-campus (if the proxy server is unavailable)
Gale eBooks

Search across many subject encyclopedias and other handbooks.

Gale General OneFile

 

Gale General OneFile


Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.

Gale Health & Wellness

Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices. New periodical and newspaper articles are added daily.

Gale in Context: Biography

Biographies of over 500,000 people, including multimedia content. 

Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content. 

Built on a foundation of more than 700,000 biographies of more than 500,000 people gathered from more than 170 award-winning Gale reference sources. It delivers up-to-date, authoritative reference content integrated with the most in-demand resources—video, audio, podcasts, and more. 

 

Gale in Context: College

Introductory topic and research information for lower undergraduate term papers on a wide variety of popular topics.

Gale In Context: Environmental Studies

Content that covers topics about environmental concerns, such as soil science, science and management, introduction to agronomy, food, crops & environment.

Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.

(Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage)

This database was formerly known as GREENR.

Gale In Context: Global Issues

Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.

Gale In Context: Science

Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.

Gale In Context: U.S. History

Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources.

Gale In Context: World History

Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in world history from a variety of sources.

Gale Literary Index

A master index to every literary series published by The Gale Group. The Library has some of these in Gale Virtual Reference Library online and some in print.

Gale Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Gale Literature: Book Review Index

Quickly access reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape, and electronic media representing a wide range of interests.

Gale Literature: LitFinder

Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.

Gale OneFile: Academic

A multidisciplinary collection of full text articles, with topic browsing tools.

Gale OneFile: Agriculture

Access current and authoritative periodical content covering agriculture and its related fields.

Gale OneFile: Business

Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.

Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media

Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.

Gale OneFile: Computer Science

Access leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.

Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues

Find timely and historically relevant content on issues that influence women’s lives across the globe.

Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice

Comprehensive periodical content for researchers studying law, law enforcement, forensic science, terrorism, and more.

Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts

Find a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as key reference titles.

Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies

Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.

Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory

Discover content useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, and more.

Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete

Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.

Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship

Analyze business insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Updated daily. Best for business schools and entrepreneurs.

Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy

Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.

Gale OneFile: Fine Arts

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.

Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture

Find millions of articles on the practical and scientific aspects of horticulture studies. For all horticultural enthusiasts.

Gale OneFile: Gender Studies

Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine

Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals. More than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.

Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism

Discover well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.

Gale OneFile: Information Science

Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including library science. Updated daily.

Gale OneFile: Informe Académico

Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.

Gale OneFile: LegalTrac

Provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text. 

Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence

Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily.

Gale OneFile: News

Access major U.S. and international newspapers and news broadcast transcripts online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields. Over 200 Canadian newspapers included.

Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health

Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.

Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine

Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.

Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies

Access scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.

Gale OneFile: Psychology

Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.

Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy

Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.

Gale OneFile: U.S. History

Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.

Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers

Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches and maintaining a career.

Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism

Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.

Gale OneFile: World History

Access balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Gale Power Search

Over 70 database from Gale/Cengage on a wide variety of subjects.

These tend to be most useful for lower undergraduate courses, and while there are a few scholarly journals included, most sources are non-peer-reviewed (but still credible) such as newspapers, magazines, and many Gale ebooks.

 

Note: The Gale databases NOT included in the Power Search but must be searched separately are:

Times Digital Archive 1785-2014 Contains the digital edition of The Times (London) newspaper from 1785-2014, capturing the complete newspaper with articles, advertisements & illustrations.
Gale Virtual Reference Library

Full text biographies, literary criticism, authors, writers, musicians, famous people (American and world)

GeoRef

Produced by the American Geosciences Institute, this comprehensive geosciences database contains records for geosciences literature from around the world, including 3.8 million records from over 3,500 journals. Other records featured within the database include indexed books, maps, government reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations.

Subjects Include: Economic geology, Environmental and engineering geology, Geophysics, Hydrology, Paleontology, Petrology, Marine geology & oceanography, and Mineralogy.

globalEDGE

Information about international economies, industries, and emerging markets.

Description from website:

Created by the International Business Center and the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities. 

Globe & Mail: Canada's Heritage 1844-2019

Provides the online digitized full-image version of the complete works of the Globe and Mail newspaper from its inception until 2019.

 

Proquest's guide to using the historical newspapers database, including this one - note the tabs along the top for different sections of the guide

 

Looking for more recent Globe & Mail issues?

We have various date ranges in various formats, from plain text to PDFs.

Google Dataset Search

Across the web, there are millions of datasets about nearly any subject. Dataset Search has indexed almost 25 million of these datasets, giving you a single place to search for datasets and find links to where the data is. 

More links to free datasets

Google Scholar (on-campus link)Google Scholar (off-campus use only)

Searches scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles. Note: only use the proxied link when you are off-campus. If you are on campus, go directly to Google Scholar as http://scholar.google.ca.

GreenFile Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment, including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture & renewable energy.
Handbook of Latin American Studies - HLAS Online A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America covering the social sciences and humanities.
Health Evidence

Search healthevidence.org for access to 3,853 quality-rated systematic reviews evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions. We search the published literature and compile public health relevant reviews -- eliminating your need to search and screen individual databases. Use of the database requires registration which is free.

HeinOnline Canadian Core

Contains the full text (with PDF page images) of Canadian and US law-related documents, as well as some special collections of documents including Women and the Law primary historical documents.

Help Guides (Searching, Getting Started, full User Guide)

The Canadian core collection includes the following:

Heritage Project (Canadiana) Some of Canada's most popular archival collections, eventually encompassing 450 collections and roughly 60 million pages of primary-source documents. Chronicling the country and its people from the 1600s to the mid-1900s, this collection represents a vast and unique resource for Canadian historians, students, and genealogists. As of January 21, 2014, 79 collections comprised of 2.1 million images are freely available.
Historical Abstracts (European and World history) Indexes key historical journals, as well as a targeted selection of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
Human Kinetics Library

Featuring more than 160 ebooks and a range of videos, the Human Kinetics Library is a comprehensive digital platform dedicated to the research, teaching, and understanding of the kinesiology and exercise science disciplines. The Library's subscription includes the Core Collection

IEEE IEL Online (Xplore)

Engineering journals, proceedings, and standards, from IEEE and IET

Independent Voices

ABOUT THIS COLLECTION
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. This collection contains 17,651 issues from over 700 publications comprising 484,266 pages.

Index to Federal Royal Commissions Provides bibliographic access to materials associated with more than 200 federal Royal Commissions that have taken place since Confederation.
Indigenous Peoples of North America

Primary historical documents relating to the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada

Informit Indigenous Collection

Informit’s Indigenous Collection brings together ground-breaking and emerging research with topical and historical issues paramount to Indigenous studies across the world.

InfoTrac Newsstand

This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

Ingenta Contains citations to research articles from over 13,500 scholarly & popular journals. Coverage includes the humanities, social sciences & science.
INSPEC

Containing over 15 million records, Inspec is one of the most definitive abstract and indexing databases for subject specific and interdisciplinary research in the fields of engineering, physics and computer science. The Inspec database covers five main topics: physics; electrical engineering and electronics; computers and control; information technology for business; and mechanical and production engineering.

Inspec Analytics

[This is an add-on tool, not the article research database, Inspec]

Description from publisher:

Inspec Analytics is a powerful research intelligence tool based on the IET’s renowned Inspec database. Inspec Analytics uses semantic technology to connect each element of the literature indexed in Inspec to allow you to identify and compare research trends across thousands of organisations and scientific concepts.

InteLex Past Masters Past Masters contains 117 fulltext humanities databases, both in the original language and in English translation.
International Children's Digital Library Contains thousands of books for children, in many different languages, digitized from print.
IOP Electronic Journals (Institute of Physics) Provides full text access to over 100 IOP electronic journals. Subjects covered include atomic, molecular, optical, mathematical & general physics.
iPortal

The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) is a database of full-text electronic resources such as books, articles, theses and documents as well as digitized materials such as photographs, archival resources, maps, etc. focusing primarily on First Nations and Aboriginals of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.

IslandNewspapers A fully-searchable online archive of PEI's main newspaper of record, The Guardian, from 1890 to 1957
IslandScholar

IslandScholar is the institutional database for scholarly publications, including theses, by the UPEI community. It is a project of the UPEI Robertson Library and is part of the Virtual Research Environment project and uses the Islandora software.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Bibliographic database comprised of over 1.1 million citations of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
JSTOR

Provides access to archival issues of over 4,500 scholarly journals across most academic disciplines. Includes primary source materials.

The collections are the following: Arts & Sciences I to XV, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, Global Plants, Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa, and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

Kanopy

Over 26,000 videos, a combination of documentaries and feature films.

Faculty should contact their subject librarian to arrange access to a video if not previously licensed within the last year. Due to budget constraints, Kanopy videos will only be licensed if the faculty member intends to require them for viewing for a specific course. They should provide the librarian with the course name, number, and semester when it will be required.

Knoema

Statistical data by country. Site encourages you to create a free login but you don't need to do that to access the data - just use the Data or Infographics menus at the top of the home page.

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction includes more than 100,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, novels, and more than 450 plays for the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigrations issues, and political history.
Le Petit Robert

Le Petit Robert is a French dictionary (NOT a French-English translation dictionary)

  • 60 000 mots, 300 000 sens, 185 000 exemples d’emplois [60,000 words, 300,000 definitions, 185,000 usage examples]
  • L’étymologie, la phonétique, les synonymes et contraires, les expressions et proverbes [Etymology, phonetics, synonyms and antonyms, expressions and sayings]
  • 35 000 citations de 1 300 auteurs [35,000 quotations from 1,300 authors]

 

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Indexes over 600 periodicals, books, research reports & proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, bibliometrics & information management.
LWW Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection

This is a collection of over 100 full text nursing journals, many of which are considered "core".

They are published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW).

The link above will take you to browse the journals.

To search the set of journals, use this link instead, but we recommend that you search CINAHL instead, which is more comprehensive and will link you back to the LWW journals when appropriate.

MADCAD Engineering Standards

Full text of a select set of engineering-related standards as requested by engineering faculty from ASME, ASTM, and BSI.

Also includes over 6,000 standards provided for free, mostly from US states and US federal agencies.

MAS Ultra - School Edition Provides full text for over 500 general interest & current events journals, as well as educational materials geared to the high school student.
Mass Observation Online (Adam Matthew Digital) Original materials created & collected by the Mass-Observation organization regarding the cultural & social history of Britain from 1937-1965.
MathSciNet

Searchable web database providing access to over 58 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.

NOTE: As of Sept 2015, the entire MathSciNet database is also included within OneSearch. You can do a normal OneSearch search, then use the Databases Included at the bottom left to restrict results to MathSciNet.

Search tips:

Medieval and Classical Literature Library Collection of the most important literary works of Classical & Medieval civilization. Search or browse by title, author, genre & language.
Medieval Travel Writing (Adam Matthew Digital) Collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world, dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. Augmented by interactive maps.
Medline Ultimate MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) with full text of hundreds of approximately ~5100 journals (as of December 2023), including the JAMA family of journals. Includes some "ahead of print" citations.
Merck Veterinary Manual

Provides veterinarians and other animal health professionals with concise and authoritative information on diseases and management of food-producing, companion, laboratory, and exotic animals. 

The new, 11th print edition, released July 2016, was completely updated and revised from the previous edition to continue to address the many diverse aspects of veterinary medicine. The website mirrors the 11th edition, but with greatly expanded multimedia, enhanced interactive content and tools, reference links, and more.

Military & Government Collection Provides full text for over 320 military related periodicals and general interest magazines.
MLA Directory of Periodicals Provides detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.
MLA International Bibliography - EBSCOhost Bibliography of journal articles, books & dissertations. Contains over 2.2 million citations from over 4,400 journals/series & 1,000 book publishers.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume I Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume I contains over 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 25,000 scores. All the major classical music genres are included - orchestral, chamber, opera, vocal, solo instrumental, and choral.
National Geographic Society Publications Index Index to the National Geographic magazine, as well as to other publications of the Society.
National Rehabilitation Information Center

Description from website:

The National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) is the library of the [United States] National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). We collect, catalog, and disseminate the articles, reports, curricula, guides, and other publications and products of the research projects funded by NIDILRR, as well as the wider community of disability and rehabilitation research. 

 

Description from an online review:

National Sea Grant Depository Contains publications covering a wide variety of marine and freshwater subjects, including oceanography, marine education, aquaculture & law.
Native Health Database

Contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The database provides information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples. [Description from database website]

 

Naxos Music Library Provides streaming access to over 2.8 million tracks (188,000+ CDs), including the entire Naxos/Marco Polo catalogues and the catalogues of almost a thousand other record labels. This is the world's largest online classical music library.
NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Contains summaries of the more than 210,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice & substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.
New York Times

This link goes to the public version of the New York Times. Robertson Library does not have a paid license to this site.
The Library does have full text access to recent NYT issues via the Gale databases (1985 - present, may be delayed by one business day).

Newsbank Access World News Canada

Full text news sources from around Canada and the world. Includes the two PEI newspapers, the Charlottetown Guardian and the Summerside Journal-Pioneer.

Newscan - see Eureka Newscan is the former name of the full text newspaper database collection now named Eureka.
NFB Campus (National Film Board of Canada)

NFB Campus provides streaming access to films produced by the National Film Board.

Description provided by the site:

National Film Board of Canada's award-winning online Screening Room, featuring over 3,000 productions.

Our Collection includes documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works. We showcase films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians—stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories This collection includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
North American Indian Thought and Culture North American Indian Thought and Culture brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files for the first time.
North American Women's Drama North American Women's Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, the full text of plays written from Colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This collection includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection

 

Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection is composed of about 100 core nursing and related health scholarly journals, published by Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins and hosted on the search platform Ovid.

All of these titles are fully indexed in the CINAHL database and are also searchable within the OneSearch platform, so we recommend you use one of those search engines for topic searching rather than the Ovid platform directly.

O'Reilly Online Learning This subscription package to over 35,000 ebooks and 6,000 videos includes primarily computer science, but with many engineering and business books too. It also includes hundreds of interactive tutorials and an AI-like "answers" feature for technical questions.
ODESI

Established in 2007, Odesi (Open Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard. The datasets in Odesi are available to individuals affiliated with member and subscribing institutions.  However, anyone can use the <odesi> search functionality and freely available metadata to identify datasets of interest to them.

OneSearch (EBSCO EDS - Proxied)

OneSearch (EBSCO Discovery Service) searches most of Robertson Library's licensed content in a single search.

 

 

OneSearch (New UI Summer 2024) A completely new interface to OneSearch as of Summer 2024. Contains the same content as the "Classic" one.
Open Access Journals in the Field of Education A site which contains links to electronic journals which are scholarly, peer-reviewed, fulltext, and freely available.
Open Citation Search

Start with the DOI of an article, and then choose whether you want the list of references in that article ("citing"), or the list of articles that contain your article as one of their references ("cited by").

As of January 2020, the database contains over 600 million total citations.

It only includes publications that have a DOI assigned.

Technically it can include anything (eg book chapters) with DOIs, but for now it's almost entirely articles.

 

Open Dissertations (EBSCO) Over 1.5 million dissertations (mostly doctoral) from over 320 institutions, including UPEI, as of Oct 2023, in a free database from EBSCO.
Our Roots / Nos Racines A collections of digitized Canadian local history publications, in English and French. Search or browse by author, title or subject.
Oxford Academic

Oxford journals (about 240) and ebooks purchased from Oxford. This does NOT include the Oxford English Dictionary which is on its own platform.

Oxford English Dictionary Online Most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Meaning, history & pronunciation of 600,000 English words, past & present. Updated quarterly. Fall 2023 Note: Notes: Oxford upgraded OED in July 2023, causing unplanned access issues. Off-campus users may be told mid-session that they don't have access and have to start a new session. Oxford is working on the problem.
Papal Encyclicals Online A collection of encyclicals and materials from Catholic church councils. This is not an official website of the Vatican or the Catholic Church, but it does link to the Vatican's website when recent materials are available there.
PARLINE The PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 270 parliamentary chambers in all of the 193 countries where a national legislature exists.
PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database

PEDro is a free database of over 28,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

PEI Articles Database (PEI PAD): for all users Provides keyword searching & some subject indexing of references to articles in a wide range of periodicals & newspapers published on PEI 1998-present.
PEI Articles Database (PEI PAD): for UPEI users Provides keyword searching & some subject indexing of references to articles in a wide range of periodicals & newspapers published on PEI 1998-present.
PEI Daily Newspapers Provides the full text of The Guardian (May, 1997- ) and The Journal-Pioneer (April, 1999- )
PEN Nutrition Topics in PEN address the broad spectrum of practice in nutrition and dietetics including institutional care, primary health care, public/community health, consulting/private practice, food service management, professional education, food and the pharmaceutical industry and government. Recognized authorities on each topic or Knowledge Pathway addressed in PEN contribute to the identification of relevant literature from filtered and original sources and critically appraise, grade and synthesize that literature into key practice points or answers to practice questions.
Penn World Table via CHASS 1950-2007

Penn World Table 6.3

(189 countries, 1950-2007, 2005 as base year)

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2007. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.

Periodicals Archive Online (Proquest) Over 700 full text periodicals, mostly core academic but some popular, from 1802 - 2000, in the humanities and social sciences.
PhilPapers

[Description below provided by the database producer]

What is PhilPapers?

PhilPapers is an online research hub in philosophy that combines the following four services:

PIKA : Canadian Childrens Literature Database

Contains records for all children's books held by Library and Archives Canada (LAC), with over 35,000 titles dating from the 19th century to the present. 

Now part of the larger Aurora LAC catalogue search. The link will provide you with the Advanced search form with the PIKA limiting code already filled in. Add your own keywords as needed to other fields.

Plumb's Veterinary Drugs

Continuously updated pharmacological information for veterinary use.

 

Includes a dosage calculator, and information sheets for clients.

Primary Search Provides full text for over 80 children's magazines, reference books & pamphlets designed for the elementary school student. Reading levels provided.
Project MUSE Includes the full text of over 320 scholarly journals in the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences fields.
Proquest (all databases) All of the databases UPEI has licensed via Proquest, including CBCA, AVON videos, Ebooks, and many more.
PsycARTICLES Provides full text articles in the field of psychology. Includes the articles from approximately 80 journals published by APA & allied organizations.
Psychiatry Online

American Psychiatric Association (not to be confused with the American Psychological Association, who publishes the Publication Manual of the APA and PsycINFO) 

UPEI subscribes to the Psychiatry Online (POL) Premium package with the DSM-V add on, which means full text access to the DSM-V including its associated handbooks.

This package is described by the publisher as:

Psychotherapy.net

A collection of 100 videos relating to clinical psychology practice, selected by the UPEI Clinical Psychology faculty and psychology librarian from the larger set available on that platform.

The list of specific videos changes annually on April 1 based on usage and requests.

To provide feedback about the selected videos, or to request other videos, please contact the psychology librarian, Melissa Belvadi mbelvadi@upei.ca

 

PsycINFO Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in the field of psychology.
Public Health +

Public Health + comes to you via the McMaster Health Knowledge Refinery. Every article from over 120 medical and allied health academic journals is critically appraised to identify those that are methodologically sound. Articles that pass this process are rated (maximum 7) by clinicians for relevance and newsworthiness, and are then sent to this website. The articles are updated weekly and a searchable archive is kept on this website.

PubMed

Contains over 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals & online books.

 If you want to make a personal account within PubMed, go there using this unproxied link first, and then you can use the "more login options" to find University of Prince Edward Island (under U) and login via your campus account, or you can use one of the other options like Google or Microsoft with your personal (not UPEI) Google/Microsoft account.

Robertson Library Catalogue Find and access the Library's print books, as well as equipment (laptops, chargers, etc), music (scores, CDs, vinyl, etc.), DVDs, and materials in the PEI Collections.
Royal Society of Chemistry Search The Royal Society of Chemistry's primary and review journals covering all branches of chemistry.
RxFiles

RxFiles is an academic detailing program providing objective, comparative drug information to clinicians.  RxFiles also includes newsletter reviews, Q&As, trial summaries, and up-to-date drug comparison charts.  [description from database website]

New instructions as of February 2024 on how to use the mobile app with UPEI's subscription enabled: 

S-PAC Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences A comprehensive animal production and management conference proceeding database from the American Dairy Science Association.
SAGE Premier Collection Full text of over 600 journals published by SAGE in the fields of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology, and Medicine.
Sage Research Methods

SAGE Research Methods supports beginning and advanced researchers in every step of a research project, from writing a research question, choosing a method, gathering and analyzing data, to writing up and publishing the findings.

Sage Research Methods Foundations

SAGE Research Methods Foundations is a large series of extended articles/short books edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams. It is the perfect companion for novice researchers and provides bite-size, introductory overviews to all the major methods topics to help get you on your way.

SAGE Research Methods Video: Practical Research and Academic Skills

This collection of over 450 streaming videos on the SAGE Research Methods platform offers support on the practical skills that you need to successfully complete your research. Key areas such as writing a research proposal, planning and designing a research project, and securing ethical approval are explicitly covered. Practical skills such as project management, writing for publication, presenting work, and building networks are also presented through helpful explanatory videos.

Science.gov Gateway to government science information & research results. Searches over 50 scientific databases & 200 million pages of science information.
ScienceDirect Provides full text to peer-reviewed journals from Elsevier Science, including a large number of journals in the life sciences.
SciFinder-n access (account needed)

SciFinder, produced by the Chemical Abstracts Service, is the major index of the chemical literature. It is searchable by chemical structure, chemical name, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula, chemical reaction, research topic, author name, company name, and CA abstract number or patent number.

You must create an individual account before using SciFinder.

SCOAP³

SCOAP³ is the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. It is an intermediary repository for gold open-access articles that will also appear on the publishers' sites and on arXiv. It is specific to the field of High-Energy (Particle) Physics. 

Keywords: SCOAP, SCOAP3

Scopus

Scopus provides broad indexing and citation coverage of academic journals, books and conference proceedings published worldwide. Delivering a comprehensive overview ofresearch output in the fields of science, engineering, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Access the Elsevier Scopus guide for information about searching. 

searchRxiv Find "canned" searches (also known in the medical research community as "search hedges") for various topics. This is an Open Access database - no login required.
Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is a free database of millions of scholarly publications in the fields of computer science and neuroscience. Most of the indexed content is open access, although some content may require use of Interlibrary Loan to get the full text.

As a joint project of Microsoft, Google, and Baidu, it offers a significantly more sophisticated search engine than Google Scholar for these fields including advanced filters designed specifically for those knowledge domains.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (Adam Matthew Digital) Provides access to thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images relating to slavery, abolition and social justice.
Small Business Collection

Ideal for business schools and entrepreneurs, Small Business Collection is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, And more.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

SSRN is an open access research platform used to share early-stage research, evolve ideas, measure results, and connect scholars around the world. Provides early access to scholarship by publishing article abstracts and full-text access to preprints/working papers for over 1.4 million articles from most academic fields, not just the social sciences. 

Some full text content requires paid subscription but most is free, but may require free account registration. 

SocINDEX with Full Text A sociology research database which provides over 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus.
SORA An open access e-journal archive of 13 major ornithological journals including The AUK, The Condor, Studies in Avian Biology & The Wilson Bulletin.
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)

Description from producer (JSTOR) as of Jan 2020:

Nearly 450,000 page images in the collection!

SPORTDiscus with Full Text Includes over 1.7 million records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses, and international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, and conference proceedings.
Springer LINK Contains over 1,900 full text electronic journals from the areas of science, technology, medicine, engineering, environment, economics, and law.
SSRN VetSciRN An open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers. SSRN fosters an interdisciplinary connection, helping veterinary scholars and educators discover current research in their own and related fields such as agriculture, cognitive science, law, medicine, neurology, and philosophy.
Statista

Integrates data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.

Statistics Canada's Rich Data Services (RDS)

Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada.

Theatre in Context Collection O’Dell’s Annals of the New York Stage, the Oxford University Press Companion series, and Greenwood’s American Theatre Companies series are just a few of the many in-copyright sources included in the Theatre in Context Collection.
Theatre in Video Contains over 400 plays & over 100 documentaries available online in streaming video, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors & directors.
Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL)

A massive dictionary of Latin.  As of December 2019, the project includes A-M, O-P. It is expected to be completed by 2050.

This is not a Latin-English translation dictionary, but more akin to what the Oxford English Dictionary is for English.

It is being provided open access (free) in large PDF chunks on this website.

A New York Times article describes it thus:

Theses Canada Portal

Provides full text access to Canadian theses from 1998 onwards held by the National Library of Canada & bibliographic information on theses from 1965.

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)

Times Online Searches The Times (London) from January 1, 2000 to the present day. Contains citation and abstract only.
Toronto Stock Exchange Monthly Review (eReview) Monthly statistical overview of trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Transport Research International Documentation

TRID (Transport Research International Documentation) is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information.

TRID covers all modes and disciplines of transportation and contains more than 1.4 million records of published research.  More than 422,000 records contain links to full-text documents.

Twentieth Century North American Drama Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 2,059 plays by 434 playwrights.
United States Patent and Trademark Office Information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents & SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 onwards.
VetMed Resource

CABI’s dedicated database for practicing vets that facilitates access to evidence-based research. Contains over 2.1 million records (derived from CAB Abstracts). 

Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

Authority files are a way of bringing together all of the different names for a person, place, organization, etc. to help researchers find everything connected to that term.

Examples of variant names that an authority file helps with are:

ViVa: A Bibliography of Womens History in Historical and Womens Studies Journals A current bibliography of journal articles about women's & gender history. Includes topics such as prostitution, witchcraft, sexuality & birth control.
Web of Science (Backfile)

Backfile thru December 2009 for Web of Science (WOS) Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) & Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)

 

Why just the backfile? See the Web of Science Subscription 2010.

What Works Clearinghouse (US Dept of Education) A collection of reports on scientific evidence for best practices in education, designed for educators.
Wiley Online

Wiley Online is a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. The Library subscribes to a large subset of the journals published by Wiley, but not all of them. As of Winter 2019, the Library also provides access to over 20,000 Wiley ebooks, which is most but not all of them. The Library is unable to provide access to Wiley Textbooks.

 

Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000 This collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and at the same time make those insights accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors.
Women in Politics: Bibliographic Database Provides bibliographic references to books, reports, and journal articles on all aspects of women's participation in political life worldwide.
Women's Studies International (EBSCOhost) Coverage includes more than 871,000 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present, from over 2,000 periodicals. Despite its name, this database covers a broad range of gender-identity-related issues, not just "women's studies".
World Bank Open Data

"Free and open access to global development data", with browse features by country or socio-economic indicator.

 

Includes a significant collection of population data at the subnational level.

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository The World Bank's official open access repository for its research, including books, articles, Policy Research Working Papers, & Economic & Sector Work.
WorldCat WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.