This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts, literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies.

Use this database to answer questions like

• What are the basic ideas of the "clash of civilizations" model of International Relations?
• Is cognitive-behavioral therapy effective for alcohol and/or drug-dependent patients?
• Some people claim that the works attributed to Shakespeare were actually written by someone else. Is this a credible argument?

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• EBSCO

Articles, in full text, from hundreds of Canadian newspapers and magazines, and indexing for many more titles

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• PROQUEST

These databases allow access to full articles, columns and features from major Canadian dailies and smaller regional daily and weekly papers. Five million records from 1600 magazine titles provide access to popular, trade, professional and scholarly Canadian magazine articles. Full text of Calgary Herald articles from Dec 7, 1988 in Newsstand; indexing to the Herald from 1982 to 2001 in CBCA.

Use this database to answer questions like

• What happened in Calgary during the floods in June 2005?
• I would like to read the letter to the editor my uncle wrote in the Edmonton Journal.
• What are the advantages of flexible benefit plans?
• A couple of years ago Maclean's had an article about Mary Walsh liking to read. Can you find it for me?
• I need to find out about problems with Canada's water treatment facilities.

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• End user tips - Using Canadian Newsstand
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• PROQUEST

Use this database to find articles from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, Canadian biographies, and other reference content from Thomson Gale, all with a Canadian focus.

Use this database to answer questions like

• What can you tell me about the history of the Hudson's Bay Company?
• I need biographical information about current party leaders.
• What information can I find about the life and writings of Leonard Cohen?
• I'm looking for information about the relationship between cinnamon and cholesterol.

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• Training - Tours, Fact Sheets, Tutorials
• End user tips - Using Canadian Periodical Index

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• CENGAGE

Combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books in the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. It includes both Canadian and international (U.S. and U.K.) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; 84,011 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. Canadian magazines include: Alberta Sweetgrass, Bank of Canada Review, Beaver, Canadian Business, Canadian Geographic, Canadian Manager, Chatelaine, Computing Canada, Flare, Food in Canada, Harrowsmith Country Life, Maclean's, Time Canada and many more. Full text for Canadian newspapers and newswires includes: Canadian Associated Press, The Hamilton Spectator, La Presse Canadienne (en Francais), The Record, Toronto Star, etc. Full text Canadian reference books include: Canadian Global Almanac, Gage Canadian Dictionary, Gage Canadian Thesaurus, and many more.

Use this database to answer questions like

• Where would I find information about the famous restaurant in Sooke Harbour on Vancouver Island?
• What does the flag of Chile look like?
• What is the mortality rate of homeless women in Canada?
• I'm doing a project on Nova Scotia—can you find me a typical picture of Cape Breton Island?

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• End user tips - Searching EBSCO Databases
• End user tips - Using a Visual Picture to Search EBSCO databases
• End user tips - How to Create Alerts

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• EBSCO

This database provides full-text and indexed coverage of periodical articles for many academic disciplines including humanities, social sciences, technology and education. General interest topics are also covered and images are included for many journals.

Use this database to answer questions like

• How does West Nile Virus impact horses?
• What is the current status of the democratic movement in Myanmar?
• Describe life in Romania since the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu.

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• Training - Tours, Fact Sheets, Tutorials
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• End user tips - Tour of Expanded Academic ASAP

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• CENGAGE

Available 24 hours a day via the Internet, General Reference Center Gold on InfoTrac Web provides one-stop access to general interest magazines, business periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images and newspaper articles. Records are available with a combination of indexing, abstracts, image or full text formats.

Use this database to answer questions like

• is globalization the real cause of many of the world's problems?
• Do you have any information on encouraging "good bugs" to stay in your garden?
• Do you have articles on alcohol and pregnancy?
• I'd like to know about hiking trails in New Zealand.
• What does "branding" mean in the advertising world?

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• Training - Tours, Fact Sheets, Tutorials

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• CENGAGE

This is the on-line digitized full-image version of The Globe and Mail newspaper which includes every news story, photograph, map, advertisement, classified ad, political cartoon, birth and death notice from its inception in May 1844 (as The Globe) to December 2002. Issues can be browsed by date, or each page can be searched by keyword or phrase through optical character recognition. More recent newspapers can be searched by section (news, business, sports, etc.) or by general page designation (edition front page, lifestyle, etc).

Use this database to answer questions like

• I would like to see some newspaper articles from the time of the Canadian Confederation.
• My parents were married in Toronto in February 1958. Can I find a marriage announcement?
• Can I find the prices of clothing in the 1920's in Canada?

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• PROQUEST

The database features thousands of full text book reviews, biographies and primary source documents as well as hundreds of reference and travel books, including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications, including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review and Natural History.

Use this database to answer questions like

• Do you have any book reviews for Philip Roth's American Pastoral?
• What is the population of Brazil?
• When did Lillian Hellman publish her first book?
• What are the colours of the Kenyan flag?

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• End user tips - Searching EBSCO Databases
• End user tips - Using a Visual Picture to Search EBSCO databases
• End user tips - How to Create Alerts
• End user tips - Using MasterFile Premier

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• EBSCO

Archive owned by Calgary Public Library

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• Training - Tours, Fact Sheets, Tutorials

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• CENGAGE

Presents today's newspapers (over 230) as soon as the the edition is available from around the world in full-color, full-page format English and several languages. Includes all articles,pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. Newspapers are available back 60 days and can be searched by keyword. Same day access to Canadian newspapers such as the Calgary Herald and the Globe and Mail newspapers.

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• NewspaperDirect, Inc.

Every page of every Toronto Star newspaper from January 2, 1894 is included in this database: the news of the day plus editorial and opinion articles, business pages, photos, political cartoons, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements.

Use this database to answer questions like

• Is there information for an essay I am writing in History class on D Day in World War II in 1944?
• How was Neil Armstrong's first walk on the moon in July 1969 covered?
• I am trying to find a birth notice for a relative born in Toronto, but I just have the year of birth: could I find this?

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• PROQUEST

A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day

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• PROQUEST