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Library Guide for Political Studies
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  • Bourque Newswatch  
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    Popular news portal that highlights the important headlines of the day. This web site also includes a directory with links to most major Canadian newspapers and several international ones as well.
  • CBC.ca  
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    The web site for the CBC is updated very frequently. Keep up with the latest news, sports and weather and access schedule information for all television, radio and regional programming.
  • Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies  
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    Includes 21 national and leading regional newspapers such as The Globe and Mail, National Post, St. John's Telegram, Halifax Daily News, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Regina Leader Post, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times Colonist.
  • Canadian Newsstand Atlantic  
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    29 full text newspapers from the Atlantic region.
  • Newspapers: Full-Text (CEDROM-SNi)  
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    Full-text of newspapers around the World including 6 Nova Scotia newspapers

Canadian databases

  • CBCA Complete  
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    With over 4.5 million records and more than 1,680 titles, CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada. Includes nearly 600 periodicals and daily news sources (over 480 of which are Canadian), plus indexing to an additional 1,100 other titles (over 95% Canadian). Updated daily with full-text content (1985 to present) and bibliographic content (1971 to present).

Other Article Databases

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  
      
      
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    Eight thousand journals indexed/abstracted (4600 full-text) in various disciplines
  • Research Library  
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    4000 journals indexed/abstracted (2800 full-text) in various disciplines.
  • PAIS International- Public Affairs Information Service  
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    Government documents, books and 951 journals indexed/abstracted in the fields of politics, economics and social & public policy issues with some full-text links.
  • America History & Life  
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    index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from historical time to the present.
  • SocINDEX (EBSCO)  
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    Five hundred "priority" coverage journals as well as 1,390 "selective" coverage journals; links to full-text in Academic Search Premier
  • Digital Dissertations & Theses (Proquest)  
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    Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. More than 600,000 full text documents are available in PDF formats.
  • Web of Science  
      
      
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    A multidisciplinary index to over 8,700 leading peer-reviewed journal articles in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Sciences with the capability of searching an article's cited references to locate related research. Links are available to fu
  • Project Muse  
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    Over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
  • Taylor & Francis : Social Sciences and Humanities Collection  
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    A collection of 662 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
  • JSTOR ("Journal storage")  
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    The Arts & Sciences I and II Collections include the complete back runs of over 240 multidisciplinary academic journals including 45 dedicated to Political Science.
  • Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies  
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    Includes 21 national and leading regional newspapers such as The Globe and Mail, National Post, St. John's Telegram, Halifax Daily News, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Regina Leader Post, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times Colonist.

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