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Database for scholarly research with full-text journals and peer-reviewed journals focusing on STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities.
This resource provides all Albertans with perpetual access to 69 unique primary source collections, including content related to First Nations and Indigenous peoples, the Archives of Human Sexuality and Gender, Associated Press Collections, Smithsonian Collection Online, Sabin Americana, and 25 titles from Gale Virtual Reference Library. This includes monographs, photographs, newspapers, poetry, original documents, records, and more.
This alternative health research database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940
With material drawn from hundreds of institutions and organizations, including both major international activist organizations and local, grassroots groups, the documents in the Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940, Part I present important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. The archive illuminates the experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community. Historical records of political and social organizations founded by LGBTQ individuals are featured, as well as publications by and for lesbians and gays, and extensive coverage of governmental responses to the AIDS crisis.
Art, Design and Architecture Collection
A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts, the Art, Design & Architecture Collection includes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design & Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts), and International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text Arts & Humanities journals.
Art and Architecture Portal (A&Ae Portal)
Featuring eBooks on the scholarship of the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. The site includes many out-of-print titles, key backlist, recent releases from academic and museum publishers and image search functionality to find related publications.
This art research database covers a broad range of subjects from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. It features full-text articles, indexing and abstracts for an array of journals, books and more.
The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring a range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. All images are accompanied by comprehensive metadata and are rights-cleared for educational use. Note: See My library account for details on registering and creating a personal account for full access to Artstor resources. As of 2021, more than 95% of ArtStor collections are also visible on JSTOR.
NOTE: By summer 2023, all ArtStor collections, including the AUArts Teaching Image Collection will be available on JSTOR.
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A combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools.
BHA + RILA | Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) + Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA)
European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
Covers all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. It covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Contains more than 190,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of content coverage range from the 16th century to the present.
Database covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more. Indexing and abstracts and full text are available back as far as 1886.
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Calgary Herald Newspaper Archive
Access to over 125 years of Calgary Herald news coverage (1883-2010). More recent coverage (delayed 1 day) can be accessed through the Canadian Newsstream database.
Provides access to current Canadian news content with archives as far back as the 1970s, from over 360 news sources.
Database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international periodicals in full text, full-text reference books, thousands of full-text biographies and an image collection containing more than one million photos, maps and flags.
Database includes coverage of COVID-19 outbreak, and other openly available content related to coronaviruses.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA)
Database provides indexing for over 1,800 publications and full text for more than 700. Broad coverage from a Canadian perspective spans agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences, and many more subject areas.
CPI.Q(Canadian Periodical Index)
Canadian reference materials covering a wide range of disciplines. A resource for researchers in need of information from Canadian-focused journals, magazines, newspapers and reference sources.
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Covering a range of subjects, online versions of print books that your library has either purchased or has subscribed to.
eBook Comprehensive Academic Collection (NEW!)
Close to 248,000 titles, from leading university presses covering a multitude of topics including Art, Business & Economics, Education and Literary Criticism.
Covers the areas of curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding and related social issues. This database also includes full text for books, monographs and numerous education-related conference papers.
A full-text database offering extensive coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study. Both full text and indexing for journals, books and monographs.
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
ERIC contains more than 1.5 million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents dating back to 1966. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, policy papers and more.
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Online, streaming access to thousands of documentaries, educational films and news reels including Art 21.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
Database provides access to full-text consumer health magazines, reference books and health pamplets. Subjects include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women's health, children's health and more.
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JSTOR - Arts + Sciences + Essentials Collections (I, II, III, IV, VII, VIII + XI)
JSTOR Arts & Sciences + Essentials collections have extensive coverage in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, including literature, film, art, music, religion, classical studies, history, education, economics, political science, and sociology. This collection includes Full text articles, and a broad range of subjects.
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Unlimited access to over 24,000 films and documentaries from the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, A&E and A24. Instructors can embed video links directly into their course content.
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Library Stack provides access to a variety of digital materials covering the topics of art, design, theory, and architecture. It is a database, archive, publisher, and distributor. The collection includes eBooks, software, books on media theory, philosophy and technology, artists’ magazines, experimental fonts, podcasts, museum catalogues, essays and pamphlets, critical journals and project ephemera from the field of architecture, sound works and writings on experimental sound pieces and publications focused on the cinema.
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
Explore a range of over 2,000 courses and 106,000 tutorials on subjects including creative design, business skills, computer software (Macs and Windows) and video production and editing. New courses are added weekly to meet upcoming learning goals. To log-in, use the link to log in with your organization's account, and use your AUArts' email and password.
Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.
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Contains full text for general reference magazines and publications that cover a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. PDF backfiles are available as far back as 1922 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post and more. In addition, Science News is available in HTML back to 1975.
Access the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook online through MLA Handbook Plus. This E-Resource provides access to: full text of the ninth edition of the handbook, the first editions of the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy and MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, a video course on basic principles of the MLA style and an ability to search and save searches. Register with your AUArts email to access MLA Handbook Plus.
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Access thousands of the National Film Board of Canada’s (NFB) documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works. Instructors can access additional educator tools like creating/sharing playlists and chapters (contact library@auarts.ca for NFB Campus educator access).
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Database allows users to access—and simultaneously cross-search—an expanding range of Oxford’s acclaimed art reference works: Grove® Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from Dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language.
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Comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
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This database spans world history from the ancient world all the way up to recent current events, putting issues of interest in their historical context. Multi-media content includes journal articles, primary source documents, historical maps, news sources and web links.