Databases A-Z

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ABI/INFORM Collection

Description

ABI/INFORM Collection is the most comprehensive business database on the market today. Offering more than journal content, this diverse solution provides the right mix of content types to meet the needs of any researcher. Among the key titles included in ABI/INFORM Collection are:

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  • Wall Street Journal (exclusive);
  • 115,000-plus definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms,
  • 18,000-plus downloadable images, and

hundreds of videos illustrating key topics.
ABI/INFORM also offers coverage on hundreds of industries and focus areas such as oil, gas, mining, energy, environment, and healthcare management, and has an ever-growing range of content from around the globe. 

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: No
  • Available to: UCW students, staff, faculty
  • Make coursepacks: Yes
  • Share links: Yes
  • Download to courseshell: Yes
  • Interlibrary Loans: Yes
  • GenAI/LLM upload: No

 

Academic Search Ultimate

Description

Academic Search Ultimate is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 10,000 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,500 peer-reviewed journals, as well as other publication types including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: Yes
  • Available to: UCW students, staff, and faculty.
  • Make coursepacks: No
  • Share links: Yes
  • Download to courseshell: Yes
  • Interlibrary Loans: Yes
  • GenAI/LLM upload: No
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ACM Digital Library

Description

ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. ACM provides leading-edge publications, highly accredited ACM publications, newsletters, conference proceedings, magazines and career resources. The collection focuses on computer theory, practical skills, and all things related to computer science. Research is collected from many different countries, enabling ACM to provide the most up to date materials.

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: Yes
  • Available to: UCW students, staff, and faculty.
  • Make coursepacks: No
  • Share links: Yes
  • Download to courseshell: No
  • Interlibrary Loans: No
  • GenAI/LLM upload: No
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Business Source Ultimate

Description

Provides access to bibliographic and full-text content in the areas of business and management. This database provides full-text access to scholarly, popular and trade journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, videos, company profiles, SWOT analyses, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports and case studies.

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: Yes
  • Available to: UCW students, staff, and faculty.
  • Make coursepacks: No
  • Share links: Yes
  • Download to courseshell: Yes
  • Interlibrary Loans: Yes
  • GenAI/LLM upload: No
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Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA)

Description

CBCA Database provides high-quality 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.

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: No
  • Available to: UCW students, staff, and faculty.
  • Make coursepacks: Yes
  • Share links: Yes
  • Download to courseshell: No
  • Interlibrary Loans: Yes
  • GenAI/LLM upload: No

Canadian Points of View

Description

This is a database with articles on over 200 topics of interest to Canadian students. The articles are structured the same way:

  • Introduction: gives background information, the current research and suggestions for further reading
  • Point: this argues a particular side of the issue (e.g. "Child labour should be allowed sometimes")
  • Counterpoint: this argues the opposite side (e.g. "Child labour should be not be allowed under any circumstances")
  • Guide to critical analysis: what should you look for when evaluating resources on this topic
  • It also includes an online Canadian Oxford English Dictionary

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: Yes
  • Available to: UCW students, staff, and faculty
  • Make coursepacks: No
  • Share links: Yes
  • Download to courseshell: Yes
  • Interlibrary Loans: Yes
  • GenAI/LLM upload: No
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Communication & Mass Media Complete

Description

Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. Contains full text for over 450 journals, cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 750 journals, over 5,400 author profiles, a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus, and comprehensive reference browsing.

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: Yes
  • Available to: UCW students, staff, and faculty
  • Make coursepacks: No
  • Share links: Yes
  • Download to courseshell: Yes
  • Interlibrary Loans: Yes
  • GenAI/LLM upload: No
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Directory of Open Access Journals

Description

DOAJ is an online database of Open Access articles and journals. It includes peer-reviewed journals such topics as business, commerce, and finance. 

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: Yes
  • Follow the linked open license terms associated with each individual item in this database
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EBSCO eBooks Collections

Description

Contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter—from business and science, to engineering and humanities. Titles can be downloaded for a determined period of time onto your personal/mobile device.

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: Yes
  • Available to: UCW students, staff, and faculty
  • Make coursepacks: No
  • Share links to content: Yes
  • Download to courseshell: No
  • Interlibrary Loans: Yes, for DRM-free ebooks only
  • GenAI/LLM upload: No
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EconLit

Description

An economics research database containing over 390 full-text journals, including journals from the American Economic Association, the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, and others.

Access & Permitted Uses

  • UcanSearch integrated: Yes
  • Available to: UCW students, staff, and faculty
  • Make coursepacks: No
  • Share links to content: Yes
  • Download to courseshell: Yes
  • Interlibrary Loans: Yes
  • GenAI/LLM upload: No
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