Guides: Public Policy: Books, Theses & More

Print Book Series

Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs (annual) 1960 + Call No. F 1001 C215.

How Ottawa Spends (annual) 1986 + Call No. HJ 7663 S6

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language and the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words.

Globe and Mail Archive [1844-2014] (CRKN - ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text newspaper archive of The Globe from June 1844 to The Globe and Mail until 2014.
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000 (CRKN - Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 currently includes 65 document projects with 1,800 documents, and more than 23,000 pages of additional full-text documents. It includes as well book, film and website reviews and teaching tools.

Policy Library
Policy Library is a social, economic and foreign policy resource - updated daily with the latest jobs, research, and events.

Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new window
Full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published since 1998.
MSVU e-Commons: MSVU Graduate Theses This link opens in a new window
Full-text versions of graduate theses produced at MSVU since 2006. Includes theses from Education, Family Studies & Gerontology, Applied Human Nutrition, Women and Gender studies, Child and Youth Study, and Public Relations.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
An index providing access to over 1 million full-text open access graduate theses and dissertations from institutions in Canada, United States, and all over the world.
EBSCO Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations. For students and researchers, the Union Catalog makes individual collections of NDLTD member institutions and consortia appear as one seamless digital library of ETDs.

Subject Databases
Many of our subject databases (including ERIC, PsycInfo, Ageline, MLA, SocIndex, Historical Abstracts/America: History & Life, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, Gender Studies) provide indexing of select dissertations.

Degree-granting institution
Check the home institution for an online repository/archive. More and more theses and dissertations are being made available in open access format.