Databases

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets: Business, Current Events, Education and Reference. Allows cross searching with the Canadian Newsstream database. Emphasis on Canadian content.

Subject: Sociology, Growth and development of children through the age of 21.
Description: Includes all the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 - 2001. Currently updated by NISC with indexing of journals, technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations.

Subject: Nursing, Medicine.
Description: CINAHL Complete covers nursing and allied health literature. It offers broad coverage of over 50 nursing specialties. Other content includes evidence-based care sheets, research instruments, continuing education modules, and quick lessons in diseases and conditions.

Subject: Medicine, Nursing.
Description: Provides the full text of systematic reviews that focus on the effects of healthcare. Available through the library's Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews database.

Subject: British Columbia law, Criminology.  
Description: Provides full text rulings of the BC Supreme Court and Court of Appeal from 1996. See CanLII for earlier decisions.

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Subject: Accounting, Business Administration.
Description: Accounting standards. Replaces the CICA Handbook. Includes: Accounting, Assurance, CPA Canada Public Sector Accounting Handbook, 

Subject: Criminology, Law.
Description: Provides information from journals on criminal justice topics, including corrections & prisons, police & policing, probation & parole, and substance abuse & addiction.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Provides access to educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian Higher Education Institutions. The selection includes classics, new releases, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features.
Access: Clear cache and cookies if encountering an error message, or launch a different browser.

Public Performance Rights

Subject: Citation
Description: Now in its ninth edition and renamed the CSE manual: scientific style and format for authors, editors, and publishers, the Council of Science Editors (CSE) offers its most comprehensive recommendations yet, continuing to guide authors and editors through the ever-evolving world of scientific publishing. This fully searchable online edition makes it easy to find the answers you need quickly.

Access to previous 8th ed. here.

CSE Manual Scientific Style and Format Online

Subject: History.  
Description: Biographical information about Canadians deceased from 1000-1930 + selected biographies until the year 2000.

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Subject: Music, Performing Arts
Description: The Digital Concert Hall is an online platform that provides access to live and recorded classical music performances by the Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra). It includes Live Concert Streaming, interviews and documentaries.
Access: The first time accessing access Digital Concert Hall: Berliner Philharmoniker, click on "Start Institutional Access" and register in order to create an account. Once registered you will be able to access the resource by clicking on Log in.

Subject: All subjects areas. 
Description: DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

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DOOR (DOuglas Open Repository) is a scholarly publishing platform which showcases and preserves the scholarly, research and creative works of the Douglas College community. Our open access repository contains a number of growing collections indexed by the major search engines and is also searchable directly here. DOOR is a member of Arca (https://arcabc.ca/) which is British Columbia's province-wide network of institutional repositories.

Subject: Psychiatry, Criminology, Nursing, Education, Psychology.
Description: DSM-5 is a classification of mental disorders with related diagnostic criteria. It is a standard reference for clinical practice in the mental health field. Available through PsychiatryOnline database.

Subject: History 
Description: Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a full text, searchable, online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century.

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Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Full text ebook collection. Includes a broad range of mostly business-oriented titles, in areas such as accounting, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, economics and global economy, finance and banking.

Subject: All subject areas.
Description: Provides access to all EBSCO databases available through Douglas College library which contain full text articles, citations, abstracts, and more.

Subject: Education.
Description: Education Abstracts is an education research database providing indexing and abstracts for hundreds of journals. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes adult education, multicultural education and teaching methods.

Subject: British Columbia History.
Description: Encyclopedia of British Columbia (a.k.a. KnowBC) was launched as the online edition of Harbour Publishing's Encyclopedia of British Columbia.

Subject: Education
Description: ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) contains citations and abstracts from over 900 educational and education-related journals, primarily American with some Canadian and British publications.

Subject: Social Sciences and Humanities.  
Description: Érudit publishes research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as select physical and natural science journals. Érudit is the largest provider of Canadian French and bilingual research publications and over 90% of the content on Érudit is offered in open access. 

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Subject: Nursing, Medicine.
Description: Contains seven sources: Cochrane Database of Systematic Review, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (CDMR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), Health Technology Assessments (HTA), NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED), ACP Journal Club, and Definitive Controlled Trial.

Subject: Canadian law, Criminology.  
Description: Provides access to Federal Court decisions.

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Subject: All subject areas.
Description: A multi-disciplinary collection of over 10,000 films available in streaming format; Provides access to thousands of programs and documentaries with English and French-language content. 

Subject: History
Description: This collection is a treasure trove of archival and historical films from multiple sources.