Library Card Required
EBSCOhost Research PlatformAccess credible, reliable, and scholarly abstracts and articles from three different journal databases. Citations and some full texts are available.
ProQuestComplete access to seven different databases, including over five-million digitized pages of news, ads, images and more that showcase BC’s heritage, accessing 125-plus years of news archives of The Province (1894-2010), The Times Colonist (1884-2010), and The Vancouver Sun (1912-2010).
Open Access Websites & Local Resources
Fact & Bias Checkers
Reliability and bias ratings for numerous news sources, articles, television programs, and podcasts.
Actively works to help you to understand the role media bias plays in the news and information you consume, as well as how to combat bias.
Plagiarism is a common (and often misunderstood) problem that is often the result of a lack of knowledge and skills. Learn what plagiarism is and how to avoid it with a comprehensive set of resources to help students write with integrity.
Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, the Social Media Lab is a multi- and interdisciplinary research laboratory at Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University. Conducts research studies, as well as provides research tools and resources for both educators and learners.
UBC – Evaluating Information Sources
This guide will help you to evaluate resources you use for research, whether it is an online or print journal article, a website, a book, a newspaper article, or other source that you want to cite.
Primary Sources & Journals
Canadian Historical Association
Digitized and free-to-download PDF version of booklets written by members of the Canadian Historical Association between 1953 and 2015.
Search the digital collections of libraries, archives, and museums from across Canada, as well as access 60 million pages of Canadian digital documentary heritage.
Cranbrook’s archival holdings document the history of Cranbrook and the East Kootenay area, and rail travel in Canada. The collection includes material relating to the municipality, schools, hospital, courthouse, businesses, family histories, industry, and local sports.
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, all from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites.
Historical Photographs Collection
Ever-growing digital collection of historical photographs, hosted and maintained by the Vancouver Public Library.
Library and Archives Canada provides access to published and archival heritage material that represents First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation experiences and contributions to Canada. One may also view the First Peoples’ Map of BC.
A collection of over 200 million pages of digitized historical documents made available by Cengage and three BC Universities. Any British Columbian connected to the internet in BC has barrier-free access to these primary sources.
Search nearly five-million digitized pages of news, ads, images and more that showcase BC’s heritage, accessing 125+ years of news archives of The Province (1894-2010), The Times Colonist (1884-2010), and The Vancouver Sun (1912-2010). This online access is made possible through a collaboration of academic, public, and school libraries across BC.
Public Library of Science – Journals
PLOS publishes a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine. Rigorously reported, peer reviewed, and immediately available without restrictions, promoting the widest readership and impact possible.
A free, full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the US National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM) with contributions from professionals world-wide.
Royal BC Museum – Learning Portal
A place for learners of all ages to explore British Columbia’s natural and human history through the Royal BC Museum collections.
The Lab is a free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian’s expansive community of knowledge and learning.
Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, the Social Media Lab is a multi- and interdisciplinary research laboratory at Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University. Conducts research studies, as well as provides research tools and resources for both educators and learners.
An online variety of historical regional newspapers from around the province.
Statistics
Central statistical agency of the Province of British Columbia. They offer data services, business and economic statistics, labour and social statistics, population stats, and survey and analysis.
Provided by a BC government department, this site contains thousands of data sets on a wide range of topics. Includes a geographic service to help map data, and tools to help conduct research, analyze statistics, and develop apps.
The official source for Canadian social and economic statistics and products.
The Data Catalogue provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources.