Search Tools (Databases) By Subject

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete; despite its name, it encompasses all subject areas, with Canadian focus, and peer-reviewed as well as popular magazine and news sources.

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

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.

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.

See all of our holdings for the Globe & Mail.

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).

The free Archives search offers 1851-present. Full text may be available on this site from 1851-1922 but access to full articles may be blocked by an account requirement. Library staff can help you place Interlibrary Loan (ILL) requests for any articles you need. 

Robertson Library also has the NY Times on microfilm from 1923-1986. Ask library staff for assistance.

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.

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.

The Héritage collection, developed in partnership with Library and Archives Canada and CRKN, includes 900 collections (41 million pages).

Chronicling the country and its people from the 1600s to the mid-1900s, this collection represents a vast and unique resource for historians, students, and genealogists.

Early Canadiana Online eco.canadiana.ca and Héritage (heritage.canadiana.ca) have their own websites and may be of interest for the themed views of content that they offered (e.g. History of French Canada, Military History, etc.) 

English Historical Documents Online contains over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable British history primary documents from 500-1914.

• Online version of the standard series of primary source documents in British history, conceived in wartime and with volumes published since 1953
• Over 5,500 documents from 13 volumes including American Colonial Documents (previously out of print)
• Documents selected by generations of eminent historians, and their comment provides context for each document
• Sources include government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters and diaries
• Covers political and constitutional topics and social, economic, religious and cultural history

Search Tips:

NOTE: By default, the system performs an 'OR' search: so if you put in two different terms the system will assume you are asking for documents in which either term is found.

By default, the system performs an 'OR' search: so if you put in two different terms the system will assume you are asking for documents in which either term is found.

For example: a simple search for the word 'Queen' (or equally for queen: the search is not case-sensitive) retrieves 938 results, and the equivalent for 'Victoria' will find 114. If you input Queen Victoria then 976 results are returned. Documents which contain both words will occur only once in the results set, but will be more highly ranked within that set because both words have been found.

If you search for queen AND victoria, the system will look for documents which contain both of those words (please note that the AND must be in upper case for this to work), and in this example finds 76 results. If you input the search term "queen victoria" within double quotes the search will look for that exact string of characters (again the case is not significant) and will find only 71 results.

In the last example, the use of the - (minus) sign instructs the system firstly to find all documents containing the word queen, but then to exclude from the results any of those it has found which also contain the word victoria.

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

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

Combining outstanding primary and secondary historical sources with great multimedia, World History In Context reaches back nearly 5,000 years to chronicle the rise and fall of cultures and societies across all continents and eras. Rare primary sources combine with reliable references to put content into context for every learner. A Web-like interface and intuitive functionality lead to a comprehensive selection of multimedia results that put the tools of the historian into users' hands with an ease and engagement never before experienced.

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

The U.S. History Collection is useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher, providing full-text, balanced coverage of both current thoughts on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.
 

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

World History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
 

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