Core Databases
Secondary Databases
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications.
- Geobase This link opens in a new windowResearch literature with abstracts on human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics and development studies.
- JSTOR Collection This link opens in a new windowIn addition to fully-searchable journal backfiles, also includes current issues for some titles as well as collections of primary-source documents such as their '19th century British pamphlets'.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
Multidisciplinary Databases - Art
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications.
- JSTOR Collection This link opens in a new windowIn addition to fully-searchable journal backfiles, also includes current issues for some titles as well as collections of primary-source documents such as their '19th century British pamphlets'.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
Canadian Databases
- Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada (1800-1950)Contains biographies of over 2,200 architects who lived and worked in Canada as well as those architects who resided in the United States, Britain and elsewhere, and for whom it is now possible to link their names with buildings constructed in Canada.
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) This link opens in a new windowIncludes journals, magazines, and newspapers published in Canada in the fields of business, current events, education and general reference.
- Canada Commons This link opens in a new windowSearchable access to current public documents issued by Canadian public policy and health research agencies and think tanks, as well as books from over 70 Canadian publishers.
- Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new windowCanadian Newsstream offers the full text of almost 400 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail, National Post and the Vancouver Sun.
- Proquest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail This link opens in a new windowElectronic full-page newspaper archive from June 1844 to 2013.
- British Columbia Newspaper Index This link opens in a new windowSelective index of The Province, Vancouver Sun and Times-Colonist; 1991-2007. From the BC Legislative Library.
- British Columbia Periodical Index This link opens in a new windowArticles selectively indexed from major British Columbia magazines.
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New Audio/Visual Resource Trial
UBC is currently trialing Berliner-Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall from January 14 to February 18, 2019.
Complete the online feedback form or send an email directly to Kevin Madill, UBC Music Librarian: kevin.madill@ubc.ca