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Library Resources
Library Catalogues:
Online Resources
Databases
General Reference Databases
Resource |
Description |
Coverage |
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Ebrary |
- The Ebrary Academic Complete Collection is a book
database that offers full-text online access to over
20,000 authoritative titles with concentrations in
Business & Economics, Computers & Technology,
Humanities, the Social Sciences, and more.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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| Omnifile Full-Text Mega Collection |
- Combines 12 databases into one for one-stop searching in ethnic studies, women's studies, history, and more.
- 4,000 publications, 2300 full text.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- All subjects
- 1982 - present
- Partial Full-Text

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Expanded Academic
Index ASAP |
- Includes full-text articles from almost 3000
publications. From arts and
the humanities to social sciences, science and
technology, this database meets research needs across
all academic disciplines.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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General Reference Centre Gold |
- Includes full-text articles and resources from
national news magazines and encyclopedias to core
business journals,
- Includes more than 2,000 titles including 1,200 in
full text, and more than 15 reference books.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Academic Search Elite |
- Full text for nearly 2,050 publications, including
nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals.
- Indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,474
journals in the collection.
- Provides full text information from a variety of
source-types such as scholarly monographs.
- The majority of full text titles are available in
native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- All subjects
- Full-Text

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Masterfile Premier |
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Provides full text for more
than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range
of disciplines including general reference, business,
education, health, general science, multi-cultural
issues and much more.
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Provides indexing and
abstracts for more than 2,700 titles.
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Features: 5,000 full text
Magill Book Reviews, 433 reference and travel
books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts;
full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,135 full text
primary source documents, American Heritage
Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection
of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- All subjects
- 1975 - present
- Full-Text

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Canadian Reference Centre |
- Includes leading Canadian periodicals and
international (U.S. and U.K.) periodicals in full
text; full text reference books;
- 84,074 full text biographies and an Image
Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags;
- Full text information for over 150 Canadian
periodicals and over 400 international periodicals;
- Also contains over 30 Canadian and international
newspapers and over 20 Canadian reference books and
100 international reference books;
- Updated on a daily basis.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- All subjects
- Full-Text

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Canadian Periodicals Index [CPI-Q] |
- Access over 400 indexed Canadian and international
journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe
and Mail, Canadian biographies, and other reference
content. with full text for many articles.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Canadian Almanac and Directory |
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Approximately 47,000 listings, including associations,
federal, provincial and territorial governments,
municipal governments, libraries, book publishers,
newspapers and magazines, broadcasters, art galleries,
museums, archives, zoos, botanical gardens, banks,
trust companies, investment fund managers, stock
exchanges, insurance companies, accounting firms,
boards of trade/chambers of commerce, consultant
lobbyists, major canadian companies, school boards,
private schools, universities, colleges and other
post-secondary educational institutions, hospitals and
healthcare facilities, courts and law firms.
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Also included are Images (flags, coats of arms,
photographs of Canadian Prime Ministers and Governors
General, etc.), Statistical Tables, and Miscellany
(documents on regulations, abbreviations, Canadian and
Commonwealth honours, forms of address, etc.).
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Directory

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ProQuest Canadian NewsStand |
- Includes the full-text of major Canadian news
sources.
- Includes a complete electronic backfile for most
newspapers, providing full access to the articles,
columns, editorials and features published in each.
- Updated daily (**7 day embargo period)
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Oxford Reference Online |
- Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference,
and subject reference works published by Oxford
University Press. It is a fully-indexed,
cross-searchable database of these books, providing unprecedented access to a comprehensive
information resource.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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| International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance |
- Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for a number of these titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available from selected books & monographs.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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| History Resource Centre |
- Covers Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Near East and Asia, as well as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, modern Middle East and Latin America.
- Includes journal articles, primary source documents, historical maps, news sources and web links to academic history-specific sites, primary source sites and special-collection sites.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- History
- Partial Full-Text

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| World History Collection |
- Offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. Covers a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- History
- Partial Full-Text

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| Humanities International Complete |
- All aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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| LGBT Life |
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
- Indexes worldwide literature on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Gender Issues
- Partial Full-Text
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| Gender Studies Database |
- Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Gender Issues
- Abstract Only

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| Communication and Mass Media Complete |
- Articles, essays, and reviews in the research areas of communication and mass media.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Communications
- Partial Full-Text

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| Encyclopedia Britannica |
- One of the most comprehensive, authoritative
information databases on the Internet.
- Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus,
Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the
Britannica Book of the Year.
- Includes over 118,000 articles, 14,000
illustrations (including photographs, drawings, maps,
and flags), and over 215,000 entries--including
definitions, pronunciation guides, and word
histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary and Thesaurus.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Early Canadiana Online |
- Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital library
providing access to over 1,037,000 pages of Canada's
printed heritage. It features works published from
the time of the first European settlers up to the
early 20th Century.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Canadiana
- Full-Text
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Empire Club of Canada
Speeches |
- Established in 1903, the Empire Club of Canada is
recognized as one of Canada's oldest and largest
speakers' forums with a membership comprised of some
of Canada's most influential leaders from business,
labour, education and government vocations. Access to
both synopses of speeches and full texts of over 2,500
speeches is available through this website.
- Availability: Free Access
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- All Subjects
- Speeches
- Full-Text
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Directory
of Open Access Journals |
- Directory of Open Access Journals is a service
that provides access to quality controlled Open Access
Journals. Includes free access to full-text, quality
controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all
subjects and languages. There are now 561 journals in
the directory.
- Availability: Free Access
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- All Subjects
- Journals
- Full-Text
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Native North American Databases
Resource |
Description |
Coverage |
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Bibliography of Native North Americans |
- Covers aspects of native North American culture, history, and life.
- Wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.
- Contains more than 122,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.
- Some Full-Text.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Native Studies
- 16th century - present
- Index; some full-text

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Visual Arts Databases
Resource |
Description |
Coverage |
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Art
Index |
- Indexes articles from visual arts periodicals
published throughout the world. Coverage includes
periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. In
addition to articles, this database indexes
reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed
periodicals.
- Full-Text.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Visual Arts
- 1994 - present
- Full-text

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Music/Audio Databases
Resource |
Description |
Coverage |
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Oxford (Grove) Music Online |
- Includes the full text of The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
- 25 million words with over 29,000 articles;
- coverage of new schools of thought within
musicology, such as feminism and gay and
lesbian music;
- increased coverage of world, jazz, popular and
20th-century music.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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AES Electronic
Library |
- Includes all of the Audio Engineering Society
papers from the Journal of the AES, plus papers from
conventions and conferences.
- Over 10,000 fully searchable PDFs documenting the
progression of audio research during the past fifty
years.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Business and Leadership Databases
Resource |
Description |
Coverage |
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ProQuest Canadian NewsStand |
- Includes the full-text of major Canadian news
sources.
- Includes a complete electronic backfile for most
newspapers, providing full access to the articles,
columns, editorials and features published in each.
- Updated daily (**7 day embargo period)
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Business Source Elite |
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Provides full text coverage for 1,125 scholarly business, management and economics
journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed
publications.
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Includes indexing and
abstracts for more than 1,800 journals.
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Updated daily.
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Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Business
- Company Information
- 1985 - present
- Full-Text

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Regional Business News |
- Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and
newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas
within the United States.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Business
- Company Information
- Full-Text

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Business and Company Resource Center
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- Fully integrated resource bringing together
company profiles, brand information, rankings,
investment reports, company histories, chronologies
and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed
company and industry news and information.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Business
- Company Information
- 1980 - present
- Full-Text

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Writing, Literature and Language Databases
Resource |
Description |
Coverage |
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Oxford Reference Online |
- Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference,
and subject reference works published by Oxford
University Press. It is a fully-indexed,
cross-searchable database of these books, providing unprecedented access to a comprehensive
information resource.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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| Shakespeare Collection |
- Comprehensive, cross-searchable coverage of Shakespeare's work, critical reception, textual history, performance history and cultural and historical context. Includes the complete Arden Shakespeare (texts, notes, introductions and commentaries), and the inclusion of primary sources, historical editions, and contemporary criticism.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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| Literature Resource Centre |
- An interdisciplinary approach to literature which includes journals, essays, links to websites, biographies, author portraits, and definitions of literary terms from a global perspective.
- 280 journals, 70,000 critical essays, 7000 work overviews, 5000 links to authoritative websites, 140,000 author biographies, 3000 author portraits and 10,000 definitions of literary terms.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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| Literary Reference Centre |
- Full-text database that combines information from books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, literary journals, and other unique sources. Contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.
- 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Literature
- Partial Full-Text

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Literature Online |
- Poetry, prose and drama from the 7th to the 21st century, along with literary criticism and reference sources.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Canadian Literary Centre |
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Provides book and reference
content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW
Press). ECW Press also provides several individual
monographs and biographies, essays and literary
criticism.
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Includes book reviews,
essays, author biographies, and features full text
sources such as Canadian Fiction Studies, Canadian
Biography Series, Canadian Writers and Their Works
(Poetry and Fiction Series), ECW's Biographical Guide
to Canadian Novelists, ECW's Guide to Canadian Poets,
George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction,
George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, The
Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors,
Essays on Canadian Writing (1974-present), Books in
Canada (1971-present), Quill & Quire (1996-present),
Textual Studies in Canada, University of Toronto
Quarterly (1975-present), and many more.
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Updated on a daily basis.
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Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Literature
- 1971 - present
- Full-Text

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Contemporary Authors |
- A bio-bibliographical guide, covers more than
110,000 current writers in a wide range of media;
- Includes current writers of fiction, general
nonfiction, poetry, and drama;
- Includes prominent print and broadcast
journalists, editors, photojournalists, syndicated
cartoonists, screenwriters, television scriptwriters,
and other media people;
- Includes authors who write in languages other than
English, provided their works have been published in
the United States or translated into English.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Health Reference Databases
Resource |
Description |
Coverage |
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Canadian Centre for
Occupational Health & Safety Databases |
- Includes MSDS's for common industrial and
commercial chemical products; chemical and physical
properties; spill and disposal procedures; health
hazards; emergency and first aid; storage and
handling; personal protection; reactivity;
environmental and regulatory data.
- Availability: Campus Access Only
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- Health & Safety
- Full-Text
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Health Reference
Center-Academic |
- Articles on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine,
Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational
Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs,
Prescription Drugs, etc. Full Text.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Health and Wellness Resource
Center |
- Magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions,
directories, and information on Fitness, Pregnancy,
Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health,
Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug
abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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Health Centre Consumer |
- Provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer
health periodicals;
- Indexing and abstracts are provided for more than
300 periodicals. Also included in this database is
searchable full text for nearly 1,100 health-related
pamphlets; 135 health reference books, including books
published by the People's Medical Society; more than
4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in
English and Spanish); and Stedman's Medical
Dictionary, which provides users with access to
terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics,
pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and
laboratory medicine.
- Many full text titles are available in native
(searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Health
- 1985 - present
- Full-Text

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Health Source Nursing/Academic |
- Provides more than 550 scholarly full text
journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals
focusing on many medical disciplines.
- Abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals.
- The majority of full text titles are available in
native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Health
- 1975 - present
- Full-Text

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Alternative Health Watch |
- Provides full text for articles from more than 140
international and often peer-reviewed journals,
reports and proceedings, as well as association and
consumer newsletters.
- Includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special
reports, original research and book excerpts.
- Provides in-depth coverage across the full
spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and
alternative medicine.
- The majority of the full text titles included in
the database are available in native (searchable) PDF,
or scanned-in-color.
- Availability: Campus and Off-Site Access
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- Health (alt/holistic)
- Full-Text

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Description |
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- TDR covers performance in
everyday life, rituals, media, dance, theatre,
performance art, popular entertainments, and
sports--emphasizing the experimental, the
anthropological, the intercultural, and the
inter-disciplinary;
- Scholarly articles on
theatre, dance, popular entertainments, rituals,
performance theory; editorial
comments and reports on performances and books;
- Articles by social scientists, theorists,
artists, and critics;
- Interviews with performers, choreographers,
directors, and performance artists;
- Texts of performance works;
- Translations of important new writing on
performance.
- Availability: Campus Access Only
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- Drama
- Performance Art
- Full-Text
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- Published twice a year, the Kurt Weill Newsletter
features articles and reviews (books, performances,
recordings) that center on Kurt Weill but take a broader
look at issues of twentieth-century music and theater.
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- Articles explore the work of contemporary
artists, scientists, developers of new media resources,
and other practitioners working at the intersection of
art, science and technology.
- Availability: Campus Access Only
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- Visual Arts
- Technology
- Full-Text
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- Leonardo is the leading
international journal for readers interested in the
application of contemporary science and technology to the
arts and music.
- Includes full-text articles covering music, multimedia
art, sound science and technology.
- Availability: Campus Access Only
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- Visual Arts
- Media Arts
- Music
- Technology
- Full-Text
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- October focuses critical attention on the contemporary
arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film,
painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture,
literature.
- This journal explores relationships between the arts and
their critical and social contexts, and addresses a broad
range of readers.
- Availability: Campus Access Only
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- Visual Arts
- Media Arts
- Critical Analysis
- Full-Text
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- Covers new directions of in performance, video,
installations, dance, photography, media, film, and music.
- Featured in the issues are artists' writings, critical
commentary, interviews and dialogues, historical
documents, performance texts and plays, international
festival reports, and book reviews.
- Availability: Campus Access Only
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- Visual Arts
- Media Arts
- Music
- Performance
- Full-Text
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- Includes coverage of research and
designs applicable to advanced electromechanical and
computer devices.
- This journal will be of interest
to mechanical and electrical engineers concerned with
teleoperators; computer scientists, high-tech artists,
media people, and others interested in virtual
environments; and psychologists involved in the study of
human-machine interfaces and sensorimotor/cognitive
behavior.
- Availability: Campus Access Only
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- Visual Arts
- Media Arts
- Technology
- Psychology
- Full-Text
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- Tempo is the premier English-language journal devoted to 20th-century and contemporary concert music. Literate and scholarly articles, often illustrated with music examples, explore many aspects of the work of composers throughout the world.
- Issues feature interviews with leading composers, a tabulated news section, and lively and wide-ranging reviews of recent recordings, books and first performances around the world. Selected issues also contain specially-commissioned music supplements.
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[available in the library]
- A Peak Inside
- After Image
- Alberta Native News
- Alberta Views
- American Ceramics
- American Theatre
- Aperture
- Art Asia Pacific
- Art in America
- Art Papers
- ArtForum International
- Artsboard
- ATA Chronicle
- Bomb
- Books in Canada
- Border Crossings
- Brick
- Buffalo Mountain Drum
- C Magazine
- Cairn
- Canadian Art
- Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology
- CTR Canadian New Media
- Canadian Theatre Review
- Calgary Herald, The
- Canplay
- Chamber Music
- Classical Music
- CMA Matters
- Coda Magazine
- College Music Society - Music Vacancy List
- College Music Society - Newsletter
- Computer Graphics World
- Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter
- Crafts
- Crag & Canyon, The
- Critical Inquiry
- CV Ciel Variable
- Dance International
- Dance Magazine
- Descant
- Devoir, Le (weekend edition)
- Down Beat
- Educause Quarterly
- Educause Review
- Ellipse
- European Photography
- Event
- Fiddlehead
- Film Quarterly
- Flash Art Magazine
- Focus on Culture
- Fuse Magazine
- Gaudeamus Information
- Globe and Mail, The
- Grain
- Gramophone, The
- Geist
- Granta
- Guitar Review
- Hand Papermaking Newsletter
- Harvard Business Review
- Information Outlook
- Inter Art Actuel
- International Arts Manager
- International Journal of Arts Management
- International Musician
- Jazz Education Journal
- JazzTimes
- Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
- Keyboard
- Kurt Weill Newsletter
- L'Actualite
- Leadership Compass
- Legacy
- Leonardo
- Leonardo Electronic Almanac
- Leonardo Music Journal
- Literacies
- Maclean’s
- Macworld
- Malahat Review, The
- Mix Professional Audio and Music Production
- Mix: Independent Art and Culture Magazine
- Mountain Research and Development
- Musicworks
- National Geographic Magazine
- National Post, The
- New Criterion, The
- Newsweek
- New York Times (Sunday edition)
- New York Times Magazine
- October
- Opera Canada
- Opera News
- Opus
- Opus - Opera Canada's Job Bulletin
- PAJ: a journal of performance and art
- Pacific Rim Review of Books, The
- Parabola
- PC World
- Perspectives of New Music
- Piano
- Prairie Fire
- Prairie Journal
- Prairie Sounds
- Prefix Photo
- Presence
- Public Access
- Quill & Quire
- Research Money
- Review, Literature and Art of the Americas
- Revue de la Céramique et du Verre
- Revue de la Cinematheque, La
- Rocky Mountain Outlook, The
- Sculpture
- Singer, The
- Smiths Knoll
- Strad,The
- Strings
- Studio Potter, The
- TDR - The Drama Review
- TD&T - Theatre Design and Technology
- Tempo
- Translation Review
- Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, The
- Third Text
- Walrus
- Windspeaker
- Words & Music
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