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Popular databases

Find articles, reports, policy documents, book chapters, and other research documents by searching the resources listed below. For more databases click on View all PUAD Databases.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is one of the largest abstract and citation databases of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central is the largest, multidisciplinary, full-text database available in the market today. This resource provides access to 47 of ProQuest's complete databases, with a variety of content types across over 175 subjects, making this the broadest single research resource in the world
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles, books, documents, reports, and statistical compilations about public policy, social policy and international development.
CBCA complete This link opens in a new window
Canada's largest and most comprehensive current events database
Canadian Research Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes Canadian government and research publications, including depository publications of the federal government and the provinces and territories, scientific and technical report literature, and Canadian dissertations.
Canada Commons This link opens in a new window
From DesLibris, offers public documents and ebooks from Canadian scholarly and independent publishers from a variety of fields.
Econlit This link opens in a new window
Key database for Economics
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Provides Canadian and worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, newswires, and transcripts. Best for recent Globe & Mail, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc. Provides content in 22 languages.
NexisUni This link opens in a new window
NexisUni is the new interface for Lexis/Nexis Academic. NexisUni provides access to more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Collection of over 2200 full text journals in a variety of subjects including Environmental Science,Health Sciences, and Social Sciences.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Key database for business management
Research Library This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts 2300+ journals and newspapers in many subject areas including: arts, business, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's studies. Full-text for hundreds of journals.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in a variety of subjects.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
This link provides the FindIt@Dal button. If searching from an off-campus location login with your Dalhousie NetID and password.
EBSCOhost Databases This link opens in a new window
Provides access to many databases purchased from EBSCO.

Credo Reference
An online reference library that provides access to a selection of 150 reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations.
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Key Online Journals

Libraries Search

Quick Links to news articles

The Globe & Mail
From the News Pages drop-down menu click on "Group Pages" tab to access the latest news.
If you are accessing this page from off-campus first log-in to Factiva. Access in Factiva goes back to 1977. Search Globe and Mail: Canada's heritage database for editions, back to 1844.
Report on Business
Corporate Intelligence
What matters right now in business. From WSJ reporters around the world.
The Economist - current issue
News analysis and views. To read articles from The Economist dating back to 1990 please click here or search in Factiva for articles back to 1981.
Wall Street Journal
Forbes
Top World Business News (by Industry)
N.B. To read the full article you should have the Factiva database opened in a seperate window.

RefWorks

Web-based citation management software. Dal NetID and password required. To access RefWorks please click here.

For a quick guide to using RefWorks 2.0 open the following documents.

Attaching files in RefWorks
RefWorks allows you to attach documents to your references (eg. .pdf, .doc, .xls, etc.). The documents are stored on RefWorks servers. The total storage limit per person is 100MB but there is no limit to the number of files you can attach.
Using Write-N-Cite and Word
Write-N-Cite works with your word-processor to create citations while you are writing your paper. With Write-N-Cite, you can cite references in a your document instantly.
RefShare: A Guide
Quick pointers on how to share your references using the RefWorks module, RefShare.