Unless noted as UNRESTRICTED,
all indexes and databases listed below are available only on campus
(New Westminster or Maple Ridge). Off-campus access is available
to JIBC faculty/staff and students registered in a program. Please
contact the Library for a Username
and Password.
Article Indexes & Databases
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Article Indexes & Databases
- By Subject:
A
Academic
Search Premier (Tutorial) Provides abstracts and indexing for over 4,300 journals
covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Over
3,400 of these journals are full text (the entire article online).
Alt
HealthWatch
Focuses on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to
health care and wellness. Includes approximately 50,000 articles
from 174 international, peer-reviewed and professional journals,
magazines, reports, proceedings and association and consumer newsletters
(most from 1990 to the present), plus hundreds of full text pamphlets,
booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
B
BCStats
Site of the Provincial Government of British Columbia's largest
concentration of statistical products, services and expertise.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
- see Native
North American Literature
Native North American Literature can be found in a bibliographic
database called Bibliography of Native North Americans. This database
covers all aspects of native North American culture, history and
life, including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance,
legend and literacy and contains more than 100,000 citations for
books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the
United States and Canada. Dates of coverage range from the sixteenth
century to the present.
Books
in Print (Global)
Contains more than 11 million titles for books currently in print
in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. Includes videos and
audiocassettes from Canada and the U.S. plus special features such
as Table of Contents, full-text reviews and annotations. Also provides
publishing and price information.
British
Columbia Building Code
Provides full text access to the 2006 BC Building Code. The Code
is based on the model 2005 National Fire Code of Canada. The code
sets out technical provisions for the design and construction of
new buildings. It also applies to the alteration, change of use
and demolition of existing buildings.
British
Columbia Fire Code
Provides full text access to the 2006 BC Fire Code. The Code is
a regulation of the Fire Services Act, and is based on the model
2005 National Fire Code of Canada. The Code sets out technical provisions
regulating: activities related to the construction, use or demolition
of buildings & facilities. It also covers the design or construction
of specific elements of facilities related to certain hazards; and
protection measures for current or intended use of buildings.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Centre(trial ends March 31, 2010) Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center™ is a comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR). This collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas that are integral to BC/DR.
Business
Source Complete
Business Source Complete provides the leading collection of bibliographic
and full text content in all disciplines of business including marketing,
management, MIS, accounting, finance and economics. The database
offers full text from 11,200 sources including more than 1,100 scholarly
business journals.
C
Canadian
Newsstand
Provides full text to columns, articles, editorials and features
published by several national major dailies including: National
Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa
Citizen, Regina Leader Post, Vancouver Sun, and the Victoria Times
Colonist. Also includes access to selected regional major
papers and weeklies from British Columbia and the Yukon.
Canadian
Reference Centre
Combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference
books to create the largest collection of regional full text content
available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading
Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K) periodicals
in full text; full text reference books; 85,639 full text biographies
and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps, and flags. This
database is updated on a daily basis.
Canadian
Research Index A clearinghouse for Canadian research and report
literature in all fields. English and French publications from federal,
provincial, and municipal government agencies and departments. Includes
research, scientific, technical and annual reports, policy papers
and statistical materials. Citations and abstracts only.
CBCA
Business
CBCA Business provides in-depth access to a broad range of Canadian
business periodicals. Over 400 journals, many in fulltext, make
up the collection with file depth back to the early 1980's. Included
are trade journals, general business publications, academic journals,
topical journals, and professional publications.
CBCA Complete
CBCA Complete is a comprehensive bibliographic full text reference and current events database. Information is available from a broad range of Canadian sources with the database containing over 4 million records. Subjects covered are current events, business, science, the arts, and Canadian academic information. Full text is available from over 475 journals with indexing for an additional 800 periodicals and daily news sources.
CBCA
Current Events
CBCA Current Events provide subscribers with a broad scope of Canadian
current events including politics, business, the arts and sports,
many in fulltext. Formats include newspapers, newswires, newsmagazines
as well as television and radio transcript titles.
CBCA
Education
CBCA Fulltext Education covers monographs and journal articles from
over 150 Canadian education journals, many in fulltext. In addition,
it includes Canadian federal and provincial government research
reports, monographs from educational research communities across
Canada, provincial curriculum guides, graduate dissertations and
theses in education.
CBCA
Reference
CBCA Fulltext Reference provides fulltext access to Canadian periodicals
and current affairs information, and incorporates a comprehensive
subject guide to periodical literature.
Child
Welfare Information Gateway
UNRESTRICTED
Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare
Information Gateway provides access to information and resources
to help protect children and strengthen families. This site provides
access to print and electronic publications, websites, and online
databases covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency,
including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search
and reunion, and much more.
CINAHL
with Full-text: Nursing & Allied Health (Tutorial)
Covers all aspects of nursing, allied health (including paramedic
and pre-hospital care), consumer health, patient education information,
and more. Indexes 1,000+ nursing and allied health journals; full
text access is available for 300+ titles. Also indexes some books/book
chapters, standards of practice, and more.
CJPI:
Criminal Justice Periodical Index
Indexes 150 journals covering a broad range of criminal justice
issues. 44 of these journals are full text (the entire article online).
Cochrane Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
- see EBMR:
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
Evidence-based medicine is a movement in health care that encourages
physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals
to seek out, appraise and apply the best evidence from the medial
literature when confronted with patient treatment decisions. The
EBMR database provides systematic reviews of topics, article reviews
and access to definitive controlled trials.
Contains 4 sources: ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Central
Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects(DARE).
Consumer
Health Complete
Contains our three basic databases: Alt Healthwatch, Health Source
Consumer Edition, and Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition as
well as a number of e-books, pamphlets, and reports, unique to this
database.
CPI.Q:
Canadian Periodical Index
CPI.Q, the electronic version of the Canadian Periodical index,
provides access to Canadian and American periodical literature including
full text for selected sections of Canada's national newspaper,
The Globe and Mail; Maclean's magazine; Canadian News Facts and
encyclopedic reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary
Guide and Canadian Newsmaker. Indexes 415 Canadian periodicals with
full text articles from 165.
Criminal
Justice Abstracts
Criminal Justice Abstracts, the criminology database from SAGE Publications,
contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books,
reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and
related disciplines. Prepared in co-operation with the Criminal
Justice Collection of Rutgers University Library, Criminal Justice
Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence,
juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment
and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international
journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports
on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.
D
DOAJ - Directory
of Open Access Journals UNRESTRICTED
Provides access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific
and scholarly journals, covering all subjects. There are over 2600
journals in this directory of which over 750 journals are searchable
at the article level.
E
e-Books
E-Books by netLibrary is a collection of more than 700 full text
ebooks (electronic versions of printed books) covering most business
and management topics.
e-CPS
Canadian Pharmacists Association’s online Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (e-CPS) provides health care professionals with web access to the most current Canadian drug information available. Containing thousands of Health Canada–approved drug monographs, links to Health Canada advisories, printable information for patients, searchable product images and more, e-CPS is an advanced yet user-friendly resource that is updated regularly.
E-STAT
E-STAT is Statistics Canada's interactive learning tool designed
with the needs and interests of the education community in mind.
Using over 1,600 CANSIM II* Multidimensional tables and the most
recent as well as historical census data, E-STAT brings data to
life in colourful graphs and maps. As the JIBC Library has a site
license, upon entering scroll down and click on the "Accept
and enter" button.
EBMR:
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (Tutorial)
Evidence-based medicine is a movement in health care that encourages
physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals
to seek out, appraise and apply the best evidence from the medial
literature when confronted with patient treatment decisions. The
EBMR database provides systematic reviews of topics, article reviews
and access to definitive controlled trials.
Contains 4 sources: ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Central
Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects(DARE).
Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online
An online version of one of the World's most comprehensive reference
sources. EB Online includes the complete encyclopaedia in addition
to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book
of the Year. Through EB Online one can search an Internet directory
that includes more than 13,000 links to Web sites selected, rated
and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Encyclopedia
of British Columbia
A comprehensive online reference source for BC-related information,
containing more than 4,000 articles plus hundreds of sound files,
images, maps, charts and graphs.
ERIC
ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides
access to education literature and resources. The database provides
access to information from journals included in the Current Index
of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database
contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000
full-text documents from ERIC.
F
Fire
Articles Index UNRESTRICTED Provides abstracts and indexing for over
32,000 recent journal articles, updated quarterly. Compiled by the
Library of the New York State Academy of Fire Science.
FIREINF
FIREINF consists of 15 bibliographic databases (including the US
National Institute for Safety and Health - NIOSHTIC and NIOSHTIC-2)
relevant to the fire industry covering subject areas such as: fire,
health, safety and the fire environment. FIREINF has over 522,000
records to journal articles, guidance and advice, circulars, reports,
conference proceedings, research reports, statistics and codes of
practice from worldwide sources, all of which may be easily accessed.
First
Nations Periodical Index UNRESTRICTED
The First Nations Periodical Index is a joint project of the Saskatchewan
Indian Federated College, Saskatoon Campus, the Saskatchewan Indian
Cultural Centre and the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal
Peoples committee. This Index contains journals of mainly Canadian
Native content and serves as a tool providing access to information
about First Nations for students (high school or university), educators,
instructors and researchers.
H
Health
Sciences Online UNRESTRICTED Delivers
authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences
knowledge. Search and browse any health sciences topic from over
50,000 courses, references, guidelines, and other learning resources.
Materials are selected from accredited educational sources including
universities, governments, and professional societies, by HSO staff.
Health
Source: Consumer Edition
Includes consumer-oriented information on health topics taken from
over 300 journals, reference books and pamphlets with searchable
full text for over 190 journals. Combines Consumer Reports on Health
and Men's Health, USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient, Clinical
Reference Systems and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Comprised of more than 560 scholarly full text journals focussing
on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health
is particularly strong.
I
Influenza: Evidence-based PortalUNRESTRICTED
Due to Pandemic H1N1 Influenza and concerns about the 2009/2010 flu season, the EBSCO Publishing Medical and Nursing editors (database vendor from whom we purchase access to Academic Search Premier, Health Source databases, etc.) have made key influenza information from this resource freely available to health care providers worldwide.
IngentaConnect
A gateway to academic and professional publications where you can
search more than 17,000,000 articles, chapters, and reports. Although
many are not available full-text, you may register and purchase
the articles/reports online. However, some of these titles may be
available from the JIBC Library.
L
Library,
Information and Technology Abstracts Full Text (LISTA)
Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals,
and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings.
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management
and more.
LRC: Learning
Resource Centre UNRESTRICTED
The LRC is the library for the National Fire Academy (NFA) and the
Emergency Management Institute (EMI). The LRC Catalog identifies
resources on fire service and emergency management topics.
M
MasterFILE
Premier
MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for nearly 1,750 periodicals
covering general reference, business, health, education, general
science, multicultural issues and much more.
MEDLINE
with Full Text (EBSCO)
MEDLINE with Full Text provides access to the U.S. National Library
of Medicine's premier bibliographic database and offers the full
text for more than 1,370 of those journals indexed. Articles cover
topics in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the
health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
MEDLINE
(OVID) (Tutorial) (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online)
is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic
database that contains approximately 12 million references to journal
articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. Articles
cover topics in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
MEDLINE
(PubMed) UNRESTRICTED Limited full-text, no link to JIBC
holdings.
Military
and Government Collection
Compilation of periodicals, academic journals and other content
providing current news on all branches of the military and government.
This Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for more than
300 journals and periodicals.
N
Native
North American Literature
Native North American Literature can be found in a bibliographic
database called Bibliography of Native North Americans. This database
covers all aspects of native North American culture, history and
life, including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance,
legend and literacy and contains more than 100,000 citations for
books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the
United States and Canada. Dates of coverage range from the sixteenth
century to the present.
NCJRS:
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Provides users with information thoroughly covering the fields of
law enforcement and criminal justice. The database contains summaries
of more than 190,000 publications including books, government reports,
research reports, and unpublished research. It also includes content
from 189 journals, including 12 with core coverage. Content dates
range from 1970 to the present. Topics covered within the database
include corrections, courts, crime statistics, domestic preparedness,
drugs, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims.
NCJRS:
National Criminal Justice Reference Service UNRESTRICTED
Indexes journals, books, and government reports in the following
subject areas: criminology, courts, policing and corrections. Includes
indepth abstracts.
NFPA
Fire Codes
NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) develops and
publishes more than 300 timely consensus codes and standards intended
to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks.
Contains the full text of all NFPA Fire Codes, current and previous
editions.
O
OAIster
Digital Repository UNRESTRICTED
OAIster is an open-access database of academically-oriented digital
resources, freely available to everyone over the Web.
P
PILOTS UNRESTRICTED
The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature
on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health
consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by
the National Center for PTSD, and is electronically available to
the public. Links include PTSD
Research Quarterly and PTSD
Clinical Quarterly.
Professional
Development Collection
Includes full text for nearly 520 high quality education journals
including: Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week,
Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational
Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading
Teacher, and many others. This database also contains more than
200 educational reports.
PsycINFO
(Tutorial)
Covers psychology, psychiatry, and related fields such as medicine,
pharmacology, sociology, education, nursing, law, and more. Indexes
approx. 2,000 journals. Contains nearly 2 million citations and
summaries of journal articles, book chapters, technical reports,
and more. Index journal coverage goes back to 1887. Includes PsycARTICLES
which provides full-text access to 56 journals and 44,000 articles
through seamless linking. Full-text journal coverage goes back to
1985.
Q
Quicklaw
Quicklaw offers 2,300 databases of law and related information from
Canada, the United States, and other countries. This collection
includes caselaw, statutes, regulations, bills, and other materials
including texts (e.g. Irwin Law titles) articles, newsletters, and
press releases.
To access this collection, once the window displaying Terms of
Use pops up, choose
QPLegalEze
"Subscription service to the current laws of British Columbia
produced in partnership with the Ministry of Attorney General and
Legislative Assembly." Source to current B.C. legislation and
regulations.
R
Regional
Business News
A supplemental database to Business Source Elite. With daily updates,
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional
business publications (including titles from Crain Communications).
Regional Business News has full text for more than 60 sources.
S
Scientific
Commons
UNRESTRICTED
Provides comprehensive and freely available access to scientific
knowledge on the internet.
SocINDEX
with Full Text
SocINDEX™ with Full Text is a comprehensive sociology research
database. SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage
of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related
areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal
justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies,
marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural &
urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure,
social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history,
sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse &
other addictions, violence and many others.
SSRN - Social Science
Research Network UNRESTRICTED
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide
dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number
of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing
abstracts on over 228,900 scholarly working papers and forthcoming
papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over
187,500 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.
The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee
Based Partner Publications.
Stat!Ref
(Handout
19KB) (Tutorial)
STAT!Ref is an online cross-searchable, healthcare reference that
integrates core medical textbooks with evidence-based resources
and innovative tools. Provides access to the full-text of several
medical textbooks, such as The 5-Minute Clinical Consult, Harrison’s
Principles of Internal Medicine, and Trauma.
Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory
The authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information
on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and
scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles,
popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around
the world.
W
World
Book Advanced
World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes
encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases,
fully integrated in a single search. Research tools, including dictionary,
atlas, and local and country research guides, help users compile
the data and information they need.
