Indexes and Databases

The Royal Military College of Canada Library

Language and Literature

Academic Search Premier (through CFVL)
Academic Search Premier indexes over 8,000 scholarly publications, and provides full text for more than 4,450 of these titles, including 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Features such as citation indexes are provided. Coverage spans every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Book Review Digest, 1983 - (available in print in the Reference section of Massey Library REF Z 1219.C95 (1930-1982) and online (1983 - )
Book Review Digest is an index to reviews of current English language adult and childrens' fiction and non-fiction books published in 109 periodicals. Types of books not covered include government publications, textbooks and technical science and law books.
LION: Literature Online
Literature Online is a virtual library containing over 350,000 literary texts together with full-text journals, author biographies and other critical and reference resources.
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association), 1926-
International bibliography of books, and index to over 4400 periodicals, covering various aspects of the world's modern languages and literatures, such as grammar, book reviews, authors, etc.
Oxford Journals Collection and Archive
The Oxford Journals Collection offers full text for more than 200 journals in the areas of medicine, sciences, humanities, social sciences, and law.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE provides full text, subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Web of Knowledge, 2004-
The Web of Knowledge provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the world's leading scholarly research journals. It also provides *cited reference searching*. The following databases are included:
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index
  • Science Citation Index
  • Social Science Index
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Blackwell offers over 1400 full-text journal titles in areas such Business, Economics, and Finance, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Education,  Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Science and Computing, Law and Criminology, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medical, Veterinary and Health Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science, and Psychology.

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