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Databases

Academic Search Premier ++ Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available

Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.  This collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

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Government of Canada Publications Unrestricted Resource Some full text available

Search this catalogue of over 180,000 Government of Canada publications where you can download from the free E-collection of 70,000 publications. You can use the Advanced Search page to limit your search to free electronic documents.

GreenFILE ++ Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available Resource contains images

GreenFILE covers all aspects of human impact to the environment.  Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as full-text for more than 4,600 records.

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Hindawi open access journals Unrestricted Resource Some full text available

Hindawi publishes more than 200 Open Access journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines. All articles published in Hindawi journals are open access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available

ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences provides the full text of over 1,200 journals as well as abstracts of almost 1,900 journals in the health and life sciences including environmental science, bioscience, and health.  While indexing may extend back as far as 1965, full-text coverage for the titles included in the Health and Life Sciences Collection begins in 1995.  

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Vocational Studies Premier ++ Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available Resource contains images

Vocational Studies Premier is designed specifically for junior and community colleges.  Subjects include accounting, agricultural sciences, child care services, cosmetology, culinary arts, forestry, food service management, graphic arts, hair dressing, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary technology and welding to name a few.

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Web Sites

Basic of APA Style Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

This tutorial is designed for those who have no previous knowledge of APA Style®. It shows users how to structure and format their work, recommends ways to reduce bias in language, identifies how to avoid charges of plagiarism, shows how to cite references in text, and provides selected reference examples.

D & T Online - Electronics Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video

the D&T Online information pages offer useful information on the various topics covered by Design &Technology Online, using a combination of text, pictures and animations.

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Unrestricted Resource

The U.S. Department of Energy website with loads of information on building technologies, solar power, wind energy, news and blogs.

Engineering ToolBox Unrestricted Resource

Resources, tools and basic information.

GlobalSpec Unrestricted Resource

GlobalSpec is the leading specialized vertical search, information services and e-publishing company serving the engineering, manufacturing and related scientific and technical market segments.

SCIRUS Unrestricted Resource

SCIRUS is a science-specific search engine providing access to freely-available, scholarly scientific, technical, and medical information on the web as well as journal content.  Although some full-text journal content is freely available, many articles can only be accessed through subscription services.  Users who wish to obtain subscription-based content should contact library services to see if it is available through other database services or via interlibrary loan.

Organizations

Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists (CCTT) Unrestricted Resource

The website for the Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists (CCTT) with links to the provincial associations including the ACETTPEI.