Canadiana
Databases:
AMICUS Web
A national catalogue, AMICUS shows not only the holdings statements of Library and Archives Canada (LAC), but also those of hundreds of libraries across Canada.
ArchiviaNet
ArchiviaNet, the National Archives of Canada’s online research and consultation tool, provides access to a variety of information resources related to the actual archival holdings.
Theses Canada Portal
The Theses Canada Portal is a central access point for Canadian theses. Theses published between 1998 and 2002 can be consulted online.
Dictionaries:
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
This biographical dictionary offers information on people who played an important role in the formation of what is now Canada. At present, this dictionary only includes biographies of persons who lived between the years 1000 and 1920.
Encyclopedias:
The Canadian Encyclopedia
This encyclopedia includes articles on various aspects of our country and its inhabitants: history, geography, science, arts, etc.
Statistics:
Statistics Canada Publications
Through the Depository Services Program, most Statistics Canada publications can be consulted online.
Community Profiles 2001 1996
This Statistics Canada Web site provides access to socio-economic data for Canadian cities and administrative regions.
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Country Information
Portals and Subject Directories:
Portals to the World – Library of Congress
This directory offers a selection of Web sites containing detailed information on every country in the world. The links are organized by broad themes: history, government, culture, business…
Governments on the WWW
A directory of Web sites for governmental institutions around the world: parliaments, departments, judiciary tribunals, embassies, municipal councils, central banks, etc.
Atlases, Geographic Directories, Road Maps:
Atlas of Canada – Natural Resources Canada
The Atlas of Canada Web site offers a collection of the richest, most dynamic and most complete maps and related information about Canada available on the Internet, all made accessible to users through effective and intuitive tools.
National Atlas of the United States of America
Canadian Geographical Names – Natural Resources Canada
This directory provides the spatial coordinates of Canada’s geographical sites (e.g. cities, lakes, mountains).
MapMachine – National Geographic
MapQuest
Road Maps
MSN Maps & Directions
Road Maps
Country Profiles:
See also Business Source Premier
World Fact Book – Central Intelligence Agency
The World Factbook is produced by CIA's Directorate of Intelligence. The
Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250
countries and other entities. It provides a wide range of updated business,
economic, social, political, opinion and environmental data and time series.
Country Briefings – The Economist
Country Briefings provides articles, background profiles, forecasts and statistics, market and currency updates, news wires and links on 60 countries.
Statistics:
Infonation – United Nations
InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and
compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United
Nations. You can select up to five countries for comparison or use
Country-at-a-Glance to see information profiles of individual countries.
World Development Indicators – World Bank
WDI Online contains statistical data for over 550 development indicators and
time series data from 1960-2002 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.
Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental
indicators. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by
percentage change, and charted. These features, plus data export options in
standard formats like Excel, make WDI Online a useful tool for researching
developmental data.
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Economy and Business:
See also “Country Information – Country Profiles ”
Portals and Directories by Subject:
WWW Virtual Library: Economics
Extensive resources for economists including the following types of information: statistical data, journal archives, dictionaries & encyclopedias, information on forecasting, economic development, technological change, meetings & conferences and statistical & computational software.
Company Profiles:
See also Business Source Premier
AnnualReportService.com
A free directory of annual reports for American companies available on the Web.
SEDAR
A Canadian Securities Authorities database, SEDAR offers access to documents from Canadian public corporations and mutual fund companies (e.g. annual reports, balance sheets, press releases).
EDGAR - U.S Securities and Exchange Commission
Database of public companies filings submitted to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Databases:
Business Source Premier
BSP provides access to full text and abstracts in periodicals on business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and many other subjects. In addition to periodicals, BSP provides access to SWOT analyses, market research reports, sector profiles and country reports published by the EIU, the OECD, Gartner and Datamonitor, among others.
The Conference Board E-Library
Provides full text access to many research reports and periodicals produced by the Conference Board, often before they are available in print.
EconLit
The American Economic Association's electronic database is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 610,000 records covering 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
Economics Search Engine
Search engine sponsored by the American Economic Association. More than 300,000 pages from 10,000 economics web sites are currently indexed.
NetLibrary
NetLibrary is a virtual library that provides a broad range of usable information. You can read eBooks online, anytime. Search thousands of volumes simultaneously. And search every word in every book. Best of all, eBooks are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week from any computer with Internet access.
RePEc
This economics database contains over 290,000 bibliographical references.
Dictionaries, Glossaries, Lexicons:
Lexique économique
A lexicon of economic terms developed by the Groupe d’étude en modélisation économique et analyse de politique [Economic Modeling and Political Analysis Research Group] of Université de Moncton (French only).
Directories:
Canadian Trade Index
CTI contains a comprehensive list of Canadian manufacturers, distributors and industrial service companies.
Detailed information is provided on over 29,000 Canadian companies, featuring over 94,000 product listings under 25,000 headings.
Fraser’s Trade Index
Fraser’s Canadian Trade Directory lists more that 30,000 suppliers of industrial products and services, 80,000 branch offices and over 30,000 product and service categories.
iCriq
icriq.com gives you free access to approximately 30,000 Québec companies and their manufactured and wholesale products.
Thomas Register
The Thomas Register lists more than 165,000 suppliers of products and services in Canada and the United States (paper version available at the library at 555 Booth St.)
Encyclopedias:
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
This encyclopedia attempts to survey the whole law and economics literature in nearly 5000 pages. Each entry contains a review written by an authority in the field and/or a bibliography.
Industry Profiles and Market Studies:
See Business Source Premier
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General Encyclopedias
Columbia Encyclopedia
The online version of the famous printed encyclopedia (6th edition). It includes more than 51,000 entries and 80,000 hypertext links.
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Language Tools
Acronyms:
Acronym Finder
Dictionaries:
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
This Web site provides access to the following dictionaries: Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Cambridge Klett Compact (French-English) and Cambridge Klett Compact (Spanish-English).
Merriam-Webster Online
The online version of the Dictionary of American English.
Grammar and Writing Guides:
Banque de dépannage linguistique
The BDL is a compendium of data on the French language and its particularities. The information is summarized, simplified, and explained in articles written in plain language, with clear examples to facilitate comprehension (French only).
The Canadian Style
The Canadian Style provides concise answers to all sorts of questions on written language in Canada. Among other subjects, it deals with decimals, geographical names, abbreviations, capitalization, punctuation, hyphenation, spelling, and frequently misused words. It also contains helpful tips for writing letters, memos, reports, indexes and bibliographies.
Le conjugueur
French grammar and verb conjugation tables.
The Language Nook of the Government of Canada
A dynamic tool full of tips on grammar, typography, gallicisms...
Terminology databases:
Grand dictionnaire terminologique
Le grand dictionnaire terminologique by the Office québécois de la langue française is a terminological database. It contains specialized terms, organized by subject area (French only).
Termium
The Government of Canada’s terminology and linguistic database.
Thesauri:
Thesaurus.com
The online version of Roget’s New Millennium Thesaurus. Useful for finding synonyms and antonyms of English words.
Dictionnaire des synonymes
A French thesaurus (French only).
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Patents and Trademarks
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
The Industry Canada Branch responsible for the administration and processing of the greater part of intellectual property in Canada.
DEPASTISnet - German Patent and Trade Mark Office
Esp@cenet – European Patent Office
Japan Patent Office
United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Science and Health
Databases, Search Engines and Library Catalogues:
ChemFinder
A portal to free and for-fee Web sites that provide information on chemical elements and molecules (e.g. structure, properties).
CISTI
Catalogue of the National Research Council of Canada Library.
CSA’s Material Science Database
Provides access to 9 bibliographical databases on material science, such as METADEX.
Ei Village
Provides access to Engineering Abstracts (Compendex) for periodical article abstracts, with full-text access where available.
ETDEWEB
ETDE World Energy Base offers more than 3 million bibliographic entries on energy research and technology.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
GrayLit Network
A portal for technical report information generated through federally funded (US government) research and development projects (e.g. NASA, Department of Energy, Defense.
Science Direct
A bibliographical database of more than 1,700 periodicals documented for scientific, technical and medical information. The full-text articles are available if the library subscribes to the paper version of the periodical in question.
Scirus
A science-specific search engine, Scirus enables you to find periodical article references, corporate Web sites, conferences, patents, etc.
Encyclopedias:
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
An online version of the chemical technology encyclopedia (English only).
Periodic Table, Constants:
The Laws List
This site briefly describes various laws, rules and principles of physics and astronomy (English only).
WebElements
Periodic table of chemical elements (English only).
Portals and Subject Directories:
Science and technology – Government of Canada
The Government of Canada’s scientific information portal. It covers major themes such as Energy, Food, Health and Space.
Science.gov – United States of America
The US Federal Government’s scientific information portal.
Medline Plus – U.S. National Library of Medicine
The largest of the health portals, this portal contains several resources including a Web site directory, a medical encyclopedia and a bibliographical database.
Internet Health and Safety Directory - CCOHS
A selection of Web sites on occupational health and safety.
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Standards
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Canadian Standards Association
ASTM International
Standards Council of Canada
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Canadian General Standards Board
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Statutes, Legislation
Portals and Subject Directories:
LexUM
This Web site operated by a research group from Université de Montréal offers links to various legal resources available on the Internet.
Canada:
Consolidated Statutes and Regulations – Justice Canada
Federal acts and regulations organized by title and subject, including Non Statutory Regulations and Repealed Acts. Links to federal and provincial case law, Table of public statutes and responsible ministers, Table of private acts and Index of statutory instruments.
LEGISinfo
LEGISinfo is an essential research tool for finding information on legislation currently before Parliament. This tool provides electronic access to a wide range of information about individual bills, such as: the text of the bill at various stages; government press releases and backgrounders (for government bills); legislative summaries from the Parliamentary Research Branch; important speeches at second reading; votes; and coming into force data.
United States:
Thomas – Library of Congress
Portal on legislative information from the US federal government (laws, committee reports from the House of Representatives and the Senate).
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Telephone Numbers and Postal Codes
White Pages:
Canada411
Yellow Pages:
Yellow Pages
Postal Codes:
Canada Post
U.S Zip Codes
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