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Alphabetical
database list
The complete A-Z list of databases available at MacRae
Library. Select the letter that matches the first letter
of the name of the database. Some databases are freely
available to the public. If you are off-campus, you
will need to enter your NSAC network
username and password.
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Provides full text for over 4,000 publications
in many subject areas. Updated daily. |
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Encyclopedia of Science and Technology |
Adam
Matthew Collections
A group of themed collections that offer digitized
historical primary source documents including
manuscripts and rare printed sources. Published
by Adam Matthew Digital.
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The Agriculture Network Information Center
is a portal for authoritative web sites for
food, agricultural, and environmental information
and resources. Published by the US National
Agricultural Library. |
Agricola
(Select from list)
This database contains bibliographic records
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National
Agricultural Library. Coverage dates back to
1970 and includes citations on all aspects of
agriculture and related disciplines. Also search
the free USDA
interface. |
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AgriWeb Canada is a national directory of
Canadian agriculture and agri-food information
resources available via the Internet. Excludes
commercial resources. Updated regularly. Published
by the Canadian Agriculture Library/CISTI. |
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An international information system for the
agricultural sciences and technology. You may
also search the free FAO
interface. Subjects include: agriculture,
forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences
and fisheries, and human nutrition from over
135 participating countries. |
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A collection comprised of almost 700 journal
titles from over 50 academic and professional
societies. |
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America: History and Life covers the history
and culture of the United States and Canada,
from prehistory to the present. Indexes 1,700
journals from 1964 to present. |
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Search over 30 peer-reviewed journals and
magazines published by ACS, relating to chemistry,
agriculture, engineering, and other sciences. |
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Contains citations and abstracts in Biological
& Medical Sciences subject area. Click on
OpenURL link to find full text. Current year
only. |
ASABE
Technical Library (American
Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers)
Over 1,500 full-text information resources
including technical papers from meetings and
conferences, peer-reviewed journal articles,
a membership magazine, textbooks, reference
books, and standards. |
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A not-for-profit electronic publishing service
committed to providing open access to quality
research journals published in developing countries
including Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya,
South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe and more to come. |
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Indexes over 240 publications from agricultural
and biological literature (mostly peer-reviewed).
Covers a wide range of subjects from animal
husbandry to envrionmental science, fishery
sciences and much more. Includes links to some
full-text. 1983 - present. |
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Covers the applied life
sciences, including agriculture, forestry, human
nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment.
Includes some links to full-text. 1973 - present.
Published by CABI. |
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CAB Abstracts covers
the applied life sciences, including agriculture,
forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine
and the environment. Includes some links to
full-text. 1910-1972. Hosted by OvidSP. |
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A collection of electronic books published
by CABI. Subject areas include: Agriculture,
Animal & Veterinary Sciences, Environmental
Sciences, Human Health, Food & Nutrition,
Leisure & Tourism and Plant Sciences. |
CAIRN
- Bouquet Général
A comprehensive collection of French language
periodicals in the social sciences and humanities
disciplines. |
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Access to over 8000
monographs from 47 Canadian publishers provided
through the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform
(DCP). Published by Gibson Library Connections.
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Search and retrieve
over 75 years of patent descriptions and images
from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. |
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CANSIS supports the research activities of
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada by building
the National Soil DataBase and acting as a source
of GIS products and expertise. |
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Contains classical music scores, manuscripts,
and previously unpublished material. Users can
access multiple types of scores across various
composers, genres and time periods. It contains
full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores,
as well as piano reductions. |
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CHLA is a core electronic
collection of full-text agricultural texts published
between the early nineteenth century and the
middle to late twentieth century. Subjects include:
agricultural economics, agricultural engineering,
animal science, crops and their protection,
food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural
sociology, and soil science. Published by Cornell
University. |
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Covering 200 countries, each report examines
the issues shaping the political scene, economic
policy, domestic economy, sectoral trends, and
foreign trade and payments of the country. Detailed
two-year forecasts complement the analysis and
pinpoint political and economic developments
and trends. |
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Covering 200 countries, country Profiles put
an annual perspective on the long-term political
and social issues affecting each country, providing
a complete introduction to all international
markets. |
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CRIS is the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's (USDA) documentation and reporting
system for ongoing and recently completed research
projects in agriculture, food and nutrition,
and forestry. |
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Covers free, full text, quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to include
all subjects and languages. Published by Lund
University Libraries. |
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Access Country
Reports, Country Profiles and Viewswire for
nearly 200 countries covering issues such as
the political scene, economic policy, domestic
economy, sectoral trends and more. |
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Includes links to subscribed databases including:
Academic Search Premier, Agricola, Biological
& Agricultural Index, Library and Information
Science & Technology Abstracts with full
text. |
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Offers full-text coverage in applicable areas
of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable
energy sources, natural resources, marine &
freshwater science, geography, pollution &
waste management, environmental technology,
environmental law, public policy, social impacts,
urban planning, and more. |
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Access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic
records of journal articles and other education-related
materials, with hundreds of new records added
multiple times per week. Links to full text
are included. |
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Provides access to French language documents
in the humanities and social sciences, as well
as the natural science disciplines: academic
journals, e-books, proceedings, theses and other
documents and data. Some articles are in English. |
E-STAT
(Statistics Canada)
E-STAT provides authorized MacRae Library
users access to Canadian census data, as well
as social and economic data from Statistics
Canada. Data can be presented as full colour
maps or graphs, and can be manipulated in a
variety of other ways. For educational/academic
purposes only. |
Eureka.cc
(formerly Newscan)
Searches many news sources,
including Canadian and US newspapers, radio
and television transcripts, blogs, websites
and more. Coverage dates vary among the different
publications.
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The FAO Corporate Document Repository houses
FAO documents and publications, as well as selected
non-FAO publications, in electronic format. |
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FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional
data relating to food and agriculture for some
200 countries. |
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A collection of digital facsimiles of historic
agricultural newspapers published in the United
States. Browse or search newspapers by date
or keyword.There is no charge to use this service
and users can print, download, or e-mail individual
articles.
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Food
Science Central (International Food Information
Service)
Food Science Central
is a gateway to free and subscription based
information relating to the world of food science,
food technology and food-related human nutrition.
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Search abstracts in
subjects such as: Biotechnology, Food safety,
Food science, Functional & novel foods,
Additives, Nutrition & Packaging. Coverage:
1969- present. |
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This database covers
34 physics related journals. Included are 10
years of full-text coverage and 31 years of
abstract coverage. Published by the Institute
of Physics. |
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Journal performance
metrics offer a systematic, objective means
to critically evaluate the world's leading journals.
Delivers quantifiable statistical information
based on citation data. Helps to determine a
journal's impact and influence in global research
community. Includes journal and category data.
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An archival database
of scholarly journals. Access full runs of journals
(Volume 1-, Issue No. 1-) excluding the current
two to five years. Includes 8 Collections. |
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Search over 100 reference
texts. Click "Search Food Science Collection"
then select “My Subscription” .
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Indexes 500 core journals and contains full
text for more than 240 journals. Subjects include:
librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics,
online information retrieval, information management
and more. Coverage: mid-1960s-present. |
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MSDS is a comprehensive
database of more than 200,000 Material Safety
Data Sheets, obtained directly from 1,200 North
American manufacturers and suppliers. Published
by the Canadian Centre for National Occupational
Health & Safety.
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The online version of
Mathematical Reviews, coverage: 1940 to the
present. Indexes 1600 current mathematic and
related journals, as well as book summaries.
No full-text articles. Published by the American
Mathematical Society. |
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MSDS: SEE
Material Safety Data Sheets |
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Medline SEE
PubMed |
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Acollection of electronic books with publishers
from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University
Press, Oxford University Press USA and Taylor
& Francis. Contains books in agriculture,
arts, sciences and social sciences. |
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The New Scientist keeps
its readers up to date with the latest science
and technology news from around the world. Indexes
and abstracts for all weekly issues of the magazine
from 1997 to present. |
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E-Books for business,
education, & nursing published by netLibrary. |
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Integrated library catalogue including the
collections of NSAC, Dal, St Mary's, UCCB, St.FX,
MSVU, Kings, NSCC, NSCAD & AST. Approximately
2.2 million records. |
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This is a series of
full-text humanities databases including: philosophy
; history of political thought and theory, education,
religious studies, economics, classics, history
and philosophy of science, germanic studies
and sociology; and more. |
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An archive of hundreds
of digitized journals published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences. Spans of 200
years of information. |
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Health Canada’s
Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), is
the federal agency responsible for the regulation
of pest control products in Canada. |
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Access to more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. It include subject areas including medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. It is developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
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A free full text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.) at the U.S. National INstitute of Health. |
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Access to the full-text of the Royal Society
of Chemistry's core journals in the chemical
sciences. |
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Full text access to 514 journals on SAGE Journals
Online from 1999 onwards. Includes journals
in the sciences, social sciences and medicine. |
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Search
more than 2500 peer-reviewed journals in science,
social science and arts & humanities. Full-text
is generally available from 1998-present. |
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation
database of peer-reviewed literature and web
sources with links to full text. Includes: Citation
tracker, Author Identifier, Journal Analyzer,
Affiliation Identifier and much more. Indexes
nearly 18,000 titles. |
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Established in 1969
to compile the world literature of arthropods
associated with soybeans and to produce a database
of that literature. The Center has published
bibliographies on soybean entomology, and served
growers, researchers, and institutions around
the world. |
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Over 400 full text electronic
journals published by, and in association with
Springer Verlag, are available through the Springer
LINK service Disciplines included are science,
technology, medicine, engineering, environment,
economics, and law. |
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Presents statistics based mainly on data obtained
from Canadian census material from Statistics
Canada. |
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Statistics based on the Agricultural Census
of Canada. |
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These profiles contain free information for
all Canadian communities (cities, towns, villages,
Indian reserves and Indian settlements, etc.),
for counties or their equivalents and for metropolitan
areas, as well as data for 2003 health regions.
Past data for 1996 is also available. |
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Search for information
covering agricultural science, animal science
and zoology, biocontrol and plant science, food
science and nutrition, environmental science
and technology, social science and education,
business, management and economics. |
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Contains more than 250 plays and more than
100 video documentaries available online in
streaming video. The collection includes interviews
with directors, designers, writers and actors
that span a wide range of periods and nationalities. |
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Provides access to records
from the National Library of Canada theses collection
(from 1965), and access to fulltext for theses
and dissertations submitted between 1998 and
2002. Since 2005 full text is harvested directly
from Canadian university web sites. |
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A cluster of databases
on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related
areas from the US National Library of Medicine. |
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TGIF provides quick
access to significant published and electronic
resources throughout the world. A gradually
increasing percentage of content linked to full-text
sources. Published by Michigan State University. |
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Covers 201 countries. ViewsWire offers daily
concise analytical briefings on economist, political,
business, finance and regulatory developments
around the world, archived to 1997. Published
by the Economist Intelligence Unit. |
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WAVES is the DFOs' library
catalogue. Contains bibliographic information
about the published and unpublished literature
relating to fisheries, aquatic sciences, and
nautical sciences in the collections in the
Fisheries and Oceans Canada libraries. |
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The Wild Blueberry Network Information Centre
project began in June 1997 to provide scientific
and technical information about wild blueberry
production and marketing for producers, agricultural
professionals, researchers and students by publishing
information on the Internet. Published by NSAC/AgNIC. |
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A multidisciplinary collection of online resources
covering life, health and physical sciences,
social science, and the humanities. Access articles
from journals, books and reference works, laboratory
protocols and databases. |
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WorldCat Local is a search tool that allows
you to search many libraries at once for an
item and also search your local library (NSAC).
It does not replace our traditional search tools. |
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