Licensed Resources

This is a component of the BC ELN Common Suite.

An collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. [from vendor]

This collection consists of over 5,400 books of high quality in the humanities and related social sciences. [from vendor]

Offers portraits of more than 19,000 men and women whose lives have shaped America. Updated semi-annually with new entries and revisions of previously published entries. [from vendor]

This database produced by the American Psychological Association combines bibliographic records with unique full-text materials, offering conference presentations, newsletters, reports, fact sheets, magazines, monographs and more. [from vendor]

This database offers a diverse array of full-text and indexed content covering the full spectrum of the applied sciences and computing disciplines — from acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear engineering. [from vendor]

An archive index chronicling over a half a century of art literature. Covering fine, decorative and commercial art, it indexes hundreds of publications, plus thousands of book reviews, interviews, anthologies and more. Perpetual access for all BC ELN partner libraries through the Common Suite.

Streaming service for popular and classic films from ACF. [from vendor]

BC Historial Newspapers: full text archival content from the Province (1894-2010), the Times Colonist (1884-2010) and the Vancouver Sun (1912-2010).

Books at JSTOR offers more than 100,000 ebooks from renowned scholarly publishers, integrated with journals and primary sources on JSTOR's easy-to-use platform. [from vendor]

This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical macroeconomic market research. [from vendor]

Peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business. [from vendor]

A comprehensive and diverse full-text online database that combines content from three focused databases: CBCA Business, CBCA Education, and CBCA Reference & Current Events. [from vendor]

Canadian Newsstream provides users with unmatched full-text format access to current Canadian news content and archives as far back as the 1970s, from over 360 sources including newspapers, newswires, websites, and broadcasts. [from vendor]

CPoV contains resources that present multiple sides of a current issue — including information on key topics of interest to Canadian researchers — this database helps students develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. PoV contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue and provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. [from vendor]

Includes federal, provincial, and municipal depository publications, non-depository publications issued by Canadian government agencies and departments, scientific and technical reports, Statistics Canada monographs, and serials. [from vendor]

This citation style manual provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age. [from vendor]

This database provides the most-requested Canadian reference information available. It includes more than 1,300 Canadian periodicals (more than 700 full text), including the Globe and Mail and Maclean's, and travel handbooks from Fodor's. [from vendor]

An online digital delivery feature film platform providing easy access to educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian higher education institutions. [from vendor]

This database is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. [from vendor]

EBSCO is the leading discovery service provider for libraries with thousands of discovery customers worldwide. [from vendor]

This database is the world's largest full-text research database designed for education students, professionals and policymakers. [from vendor]

This resource contains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life. It is unique in having subject indexing at the paragraph level and offers researchers the ability to search by cultures, subjects, regions, and even subsistence types [from vendor]

Education rights allowing private, for-profit institutions to exhibit films in classrooms. See films covered by ACF.

Entertainment rights for showing films covered by Audio-Cine Films.

This Web-based digital video delivery service allows users to view streaming videos from thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. [from vendor]

This resource is an unsurpassed authority on all aspects of the visual arts, with 30,000 signed and peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 international scholars. [from vendor]

Includes foundational text essential to students’ business knowledge, case studies to prepare for their careers and tools to build lifelong soft skills.[from vendor]

Covers all areas of hospitality and tourism. In addition to full-text journals, it provides magazines, company and country reports, books and newspapers. [from vendor]

This full-text database covers literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. [from vendor]

Covers both topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies. Provides access to specialist journals, conference papers, reports, magazines, ebooks, and grey literature unavailable elsewhere online. [from vendor]

The online edition of the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, contains 4,000 entries and 1,500 accompanying photographs, maps, charts and tables, as well as sound and video clips. [from vendor]

This resource provides scholarly and popular LGBT publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. [from vendor]

This package consists of three resources: Literature Resource Center, Gale Literature, and select Gale eBooks titles.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more. Offered free with subscription to Academic Search. [from vendor]

Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government; a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and related content. [from vendor]

CAMPUS is the leading online streaming service for Canadian media content in the classroom. The film collection consists of over 3,700 documentaries, films and animations and is growing every month. [from vendor]

This online academic research database contains authoritative news content, including current coverage and deep archives. It provides university and college faculty and students with critical news, and legal and business information. [from vendor]

This dictionary is one of the largest in the world and the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language, tracing the use of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,000 years through 3.5 million quotations. [from vendor]

A core foundation of 150+ academic subject, language, and quotations dictionaries providing carefully vetted, trusted short-entry content. [from vendor]

Points to the Past is a collection of perpetual access Gale databases made freely available to all B.C. and Yukon citizens thanks to a partnership between the University of Victoria Libraries, University of British Columbia Library, and Simon Fraser University Library.

Professional Development Collection is a highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians and education researchers. [from vendor]

A database of digital humanities and social sciences journals from leading university presses and scholarly societies. [from vendor]

A collection of scholarly ebooks from leading publishers, with coverage in all academic subject areas. Librarian-curated ebooks essential to successful teaching, learning, and research outcomes. [from vendor]

RDA Toolkit is an integrated, browser-based, online product that allows users to interact with a collection of cataloging-related documents and resources, including RDA: Resource Description and Access.

A reference for authors, editors, publishers, students, and translators in all areas of science and related fields. [from vendor]

An archive database that includes the acclaimed Short Story Index from 1915 to 1983. It indexes tens of thousands of short stories across all literary genres. Subject indexing includes topics, themes, locales, genre and people. Perpetual access for all BC ELN partner libraries through the Common Suite.

This resource provides users with an innovative and intuitive tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information. [from vendor]

This is a Legacy resource, no new subscribers are able to join the agreement.