Books
| Dawson Library Catalogue | To find print books only, search our library catalogue. When you find the item you want, check the location and availability, then take down the call number to help you find it in the library. |
| Other Libraries | This page links to other public and academic libraries in the Montreal area. Please note that you must obtain independent membership, if you wish to borrow from their collections. |
eBooks
| Canada Commons previously Canadian Electronic Library/td> | This truly Canadian resource contains nearly 54,000 titles, and includes eBooks from more than 60 leading Canadian publishers, as well as monographs relating to public policy, health and medical research, created by Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres, and other public interest groups. |
| eBook Academic Collection | This multidisciplinary eBook collection contains more than 140,000 titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter. |
Open Access eBooks
| Internet Archive | Provides access to an immense digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, containing over 11 million books and texts, 4 million audio recordings (including 160,000 live concerts), 3 million videos (including 1 million Television News programs), and 1 million images. En excellent place to find ‘primary source’ materials for research assignments. |
| OAIster | OAIster contains millions of records representing open access digital resources. It was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide. Today, the collection includes more than 30 million records, from more than 1,500 contributors. OAIster is searched by our Discovery Service”, but results will only display if the “Full Text” and “Available in Library Collection” options are deselected. |
| OAPEN | The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation. |
| Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. It includes high quality ebooks, from bona fide publishers, digitized and proofread with the help of thousands of volunteers. |
Articles & Journals
Databases
| Academic Search Complete | ▽ | |
| Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for nearly 4,600 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 are available for well over one hundred journals. | ||
| Cairn | ▽ | |
| Cairn provides full-text access to popular magazines and to limited open access journal and e-book content published in French. Among its holdings are the titles Cerveau & Psycho, Les Grands Dossiers des Sciences Humaines, Pour la Science, and Sciences Humaines. The Cairn collection is divided into three subdomains:Bibliothèque numérique en sciences humaines et sociales Bibliothèque numérique en sciences, techniques et médecine Bibliothèque numérique en droit et administration | ||
| Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (open access) | ▽ | |
| The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides free access to hundreds of full-text scientific and scholarly journals. | ||
| Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) (open access) | ▽ | |
| This is a resource for education-related research. Use “Advanced Search” and “Full-Text Availability” option, to ensure access to all search results. | ||
| Érudit | ▽ | |
| This database provides full text access to scholarly articles in French language journals. | ||
| Google Scholar (Link to Dawson Library) | ▽ | |
Google Scholar searches for articles, theses, books, abstracts and more, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other authoritative web sites. To link search results to the Dawson College Library:
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| HeinOnline | ▽ | |
| HeinOnline contains more than 173 million pages and 270,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. It includes a large collection of academic journals, with content from Canadian, U.S. and international legal and governmental bodies. | ||
| JSTOR | ▽ | |
| JSTOR is an archive of full-text scholarly journals from a wide range of different disciplines. | ||
| MasterFile Premier | ▽ | |
| Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. | ||
| OpenEdition (open access) | ▽ | |
| A comprehensive electronic infrastructure for academic communication in the humanities and social sciences. It combines four platforms dedicated to books, journals, research blogs, and academic announcements respectively. A high proportion of the content is published in French and a search can be limited to “only open access documents.” | ||
| Persée (open access) | ▽ | |
| Established by France’s Ministère de l’éducation nationale, Persée provides full-text access to the back files of French journals in the social and human sciences. | ||
| ProQuest Publicly Available Content (open access) | ▽ | |
| The ProQuest collection delivers full-text access to the contents of almost 5,000 open access scholarly journals. | ||
| PubMed (open access) | ▽ | |
| PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Enter keywords, search, then select “Free full text” under “Text Availability”. | ||
| Statista | ▽ | |
| Contains statistics and quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. Statista analysts gather, integrate and analyze data on over 80,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources into a single professional platform. | ||
| Vente et Gestion | ▽ | |
| Vente et Gestion provides full text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and the professional researcher. This collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others. | ||
Publication Finder
| Publication Finder | Use this tool to check our collection for digital, full-text access to specific magazines or journals. If access is available, the title record will link you to each database that contains it, and indicate the date ranges that are covered. |
News
Websites
Browse the websites of leading news outlets for news about Canada and the world.
How do I spot misinformation?
University of Toronto Libraries
Though our library does not subscribe to them, full-text access to Canada’s leading newspapers can be accessed inside the Canadian Major Dailies (English) and Eureka.cc (French) databases, by those who have a remote services subscription to the BAnQ.
Films
DVD
| Dawson Library Catalogue | Our library is home to more than 2000 videos, including documentaries, instructional series, and numerous feature films. Teachers may borrow films to screen in the classroom; students are welcome to watch films on-site. |
Streaming Films
| Academic Video Online (AVON) | Delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 17,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street. |
| Criterion-on-Demand | Criterion Pictures Canada represents a large number of feature film producers, including: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Mongrel Media, Sony Pictures Classics, Alliance Films, Miramax Films, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate Films, The Weinstein Company, as well as a smaller number of independent producers. |
| Curio | Contains a wealth of primary-source content in English and French, including the latest from CBC and Radio-Canada’s award-winning documentary, news, drama, and children’s programming (e.g. The Nature of Things, The Fifth Estate and The National). In addition to thousands of programs, there are hundreds of teacher resource guides carefully selected to support provincial K-12 curricula and post-secondary courses across the country. |
| Digital Theatre+ | Provides access to more than 650 high-quality theatre productions, over 800 video resources, and a wealth of educational materials. |
| Kanopy | Contains over 26,000 films, including award-winning documentaries, rare titles, independent and classic films, and world cinema, from producers such as Criterion, the Media Education Foundation, The Great Courses, New Day Films, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, and PBS. Browse the collection by subject and discipline, or search for a specific title. Please only use for academic purposes, as each “Play” incurs fees for the Library. |
| NFB Education (EN) / (FR) | NFB Education (and its parallel French language collection) provides online streaming access to more than 3,500 Canadian films and interactive titles. Many films in this collection are open to the public. You may create a personal account (‘become a member’) and sign-in to create personal playlists of films or film chapters. |
| CBC Digital Archives (open access) | Contains a rich digital archive of CBC radio and television clips by category: Arts & Entertainment, Economy & Business, Environment, Health, Lifestyle, Politics, Science & Technology, Society, Sports, and War & Conflict. The “Discover” tab showcases famous interviews, individuals, and CBC shows; and the “On this Day” feature highlights a key event in Canadian history for each day of the year. |
| Moving Image Archive, Internet Archive (open access) | Contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download. Check their FAQ for more information. |
Images
Image Databases
| ArtStor Collections (JSTOR Image Search) | Artstor is a digital library providing more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives and artists from all over the world. The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history and more. |
| Google Art Project (open access) | Allows users to discover artworks, collections and stories from museums and cultural institutions all around the world, offering images in extraordinary detail, while helping to preserve artifacts and cultural heritage for the future. |
| Web Gallery of Art (open access) | The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries. It is intended to be a free resource of art history primarily for students and teachers, and is a private initiative not related to any museums or art institutions. (Images and documents downloaded from this database can only be used for educational and personal purposes. Distribution of the images in any form is prohibited without the authorization of their legal owner.) |
Reference Sources
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
| Cambridge Dictionaries Online (open access) | Search engine which allows a simultaneous search in several different English dictionaries, general and specialized (Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms and Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs). | ||||||||||
| Canadian Encyclopedia (open access) | Published online by the Historica Foundation, the Canadian Encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive, objective and accurate source of information on Canada for students, readers and scholars across Canada and throughout the world. Contents have been contributed by more than 5000 scholars and specialists from every discipline and region of Canada. | ||||||||||
| Encyclopaedia Universalis | This is the online version of a large multi-volume French-language encyclopedia. | ||||||||||
| La vitrine linguistique (open access) | Maintained by the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF), this tools allows users to search both the Grand dictionnaire terminologique, for definitions and translations of words across numerous domains, as well as the Banque de dépannage linguistique, for information on French grammar, orthography (spelling), syntax, and usage. | ||||||||||
| Research Starters (Discovery Service) | This collection is built in to our Discovery Service, and contains articles/entries from a limited selection of electronic “Reference Sources”. To find/access these sources you must do a search inside Discovery, and then limit your results to this collection. To do this, find the list of “Databases being searched…” (left side of your results screen), select “Research Starters”, and update your search results. | ||||||||||
Dictionaries in Print
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National Building Code
The National Building Code and provincial codes are now available for free online from Codes Canada Publications page of the Government of Canada website. .