NOTE: The Common Suite will be sunset in May 2024. For information on what will happen after the end of the Common Suite, please see: the New Undergraduate Resource Bundle [2].
The Common Suite is a suite of databases subscribed to by all BC ELN partner libraries. It consists of Academic Search and Business Source at the Complete level. Libraries may instead choose Academic Search Premier and Business Source Complete, along with one of a selection of Wilson Source products.
Designed for academic institutions, this database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.
Academic Search Premier [3] covers the expansive academic disciplines offered in colleges and universities. It provides comprehensive content, including PDF backfiles and searchable cited references.
Academic Search Complete [4] offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Subscriptions to Academic search include MAS Ultra - School Edition [5], a full-text database of popular magazines, reference books and primary sources covering many subjects, including history, science and health. It also includes and over a million photos, maps and flags.
Business Source Complete [6] offers comprehensive full-text coverage plus indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, dating back as far as 1886.
When Business Source Complete is combined with the new comprehensive database Regional Business News Plus, the result is a package that delivers more key content to academic researchers than any other business database available.
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Last updated: May 2, 2020
Instead of Academic Search Complete, libraries may choose Academic Search Premier and one of these products, provided they do not already subscribe to it:
Academic Search and Business Source statistics can be retrieved by accessing the individual product statistics via Ebsco Admin.
See the Retrieving Statistics Help Sheet [20] for more details.
Institution | Subscription |
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Alexander College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
College of the Rockies | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Columbia Bible College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Columbia College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Nicola Valley Institute of Technology | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Northern Lights College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Coast Mountain College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
College of New Caledonia | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
North Island College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Selkirk College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Justice Institute of BC | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Yukon University | Academic Search Premier + Business Source Complete + Applied Science & Technology Source |
Langara College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Vancouver Community College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Camosun College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Douglas College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Okanagan College | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Acsenda School of Management | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
University Canada West | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Emily Carr University of Art + Design | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Royal Roads University | Academic Search Premier + Business Source Complete + Art & Architecture Source |
Trinity Western University | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
University of Northern BC | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Vancouver Island University | Academic Search Premier + Business Source Complete + Art & Architecture Source |
Capilano University | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
University of the Fraser Valley | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Kwantlen Polytechnic University | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
BC Institute of Technology | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Thompson Rivers University | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Simon Fraser University | Academic Search Premier + Business Source Complete + Art & Architecture Source |
University of Victoria | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
University of British Columbia | Academic Search Complete + Business Source Complete |
Links
[1] https://bceln.ca/vendors/ebsco
[2] https://bceln.ca/node/6119
[3] https://bceln.ca/resources/academic-search-premier
[4] https://bceln.ca/resources/academic-search-complete
[5] https://bceln.ca/resources/mas-ultra-school-edition
[6] https://bceln.ca/resources/business-source-complete
[7] https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/applied-science-technology-source
[8] https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/art-architecture-source
[9] https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/education-source
[10] https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/engineering-source
[11] https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/humanities-source
[12] https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/legal-source
[13] https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/library-information-science-source
[14] https://bceln.ca/resources/wilson-retrospective-indexes
[15] https://bceln.ca/resources/humanities-social-sciences-index-retrospective-1907-1984
[16] https://bceln.ca/resources/art-index-retrospective-1929-1984
[17] https://bceln.ca/resources/applied-science-technology-index-retrospective-1913-1983
[18] https://bceln.ca/resources/short-story-index-retrospective-1915-1983
[19] http://www.ebscohost.com/academic
[20] http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=3829
[21] https://bceln.ca/category/content-types/abstract
[22] https://bceln.ca/category/content-types/fulltext
[23] https://bceln.ca/category/content-types/index