"THROUGH THIS FACILITY, WE HAVE OPENED THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY. THE POWER OF NEW IDEAS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE IN EVERY CORNER OF THE PROVINCE AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD."
GORDON CAMPBELL
The goal of digital outreach at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is to go beyond the walls of campus by providing a flexible and technologically advanced facility that keeps pace with the evolution in information resources and education in the 21st century and beyond. Through the latest technologies in Web 2.0 and social software, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre offers innovative means and strategies in reaching the farthest corners of the local and global community. The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Library present open access resources as part of our mandate to serve not only as a focal point of education for students and teachers at UBC but also to support lifelong learning by people throughout B.C. and the world. These resources enable everyone in the public to work effectively together in continuing to build a better British Columbia through the sharing of knowledge and information services provided by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Library.
| Business Databases | Description |
| Canada's most comprehensive internet site for business information and statistics about Canada and other countries. | |
| Reports and filings submitted by US publicly traded companies to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. | |
| Contains public securities information filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators. | |
| Contains almost half a million records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation. | |
| Agricultural Science Databases | Description |
| AGRICOLA | Contains 2.9 million records covering every major agricultural subject. |
| Agricultural Communications Documentation Center | Agriculture-related communications in more than 90 countries and expands at the rate of about 100 documents a month. |
| ASABE Technical Library |
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers is a professional and technical organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. |
| Alcohol History Database |
The Alcohol History Collection is an assortment of over 500 monographs, pamphlets and journals on the Temperance and Prohibition movements. |
| Bacteriological Analytical Manual |
BAM presents preferred laboratory procedures for microbiological analyses of foods and cosmetics. |
| CGIAR Info Finder |
Established in the early 1970s, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) works to promote food security, poverty eradication, and the sound management of natural resources throughout the developing world. It is the largest scientific network of its kind. |
| Core Historical Literature of Agriculture |
Core collection of electronic texts on: agricultural economics & engineering, animal science, crops & their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, & soil science. Selected by scholars. |
| FAO (Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) |
A directory which has a core collection of electronic texts on, agricultural economics & engineering, animal science, crops & their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, & soil science. |
| Directory of Canadian Agri-Food Trade Service |
FAO's role in facilitating access to the scientific and technical literature in Agriculture in developing countries. |
| Food Irradiation 2 |
Collects and disseminates research results generated by agricultural centers in Asian & Pacific regions. |
| For over 50 years the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists has been the leading global Community of practice for information specialists contributing to a more productive and sustainable use of the world's land, water, renewable resources, and improved livelihoods of rural communities. | |
| IAALD (International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists) |
This portal provides a single access point for authorized official international and national information across the sectors of food safety, animal and plant health. |
| NALDR and the UDSA National Agriculture Library | A major international source for agriculture and related information, this website provides access to NAL's many resources and a gateway to its associated institutions. |
| Organic Eprints | Preprints (pre-review), postprints (post-review) and reprints (published) of scientific papers, conference papers and posters, theses, reports, books and book chapters, magazine articles, web products, project descriptions, and other published or unpublished documents. |
| Pherobase | Converts scientific data and knowledge from the literature and publish peer-reviewed information about behavioural modifying chemicals in insects into electronically searchable database entries. |
| ReefBase: a Global Information System for Coral Reefs | An international, non-profit research organization dedicated to reduce poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture |
| SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive | This archive provides access to an extensive Ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of Ornithology in North America over the last 120 years. |
| US Database of Completed Regulatory Agency Reviews | A publicly available resource that focuses on the agricultural products of modern biotechnology. |
| VITIS-VEA Viticulture and Enology Abstracts | An international English-language literature database in the field of viticulture and enology. |
| Water Quality Information Centre (USDA) | A database of online documents related to water and agriculture. |
| Forestry Databases | Description |
| Index of the British Columbia Ministry of Forestry electronic publications. | |
| Contains public securities information filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators. | |
| Local literature on forestry, the Forest Research Extension Partnership. | |
| Contains almost half a million records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation. | |
| Holds over 100,000 records from numerous forest information providers in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas | |
| Collaborative initiative of FORREX and other natural resource agencies in British Columbia. | |
| Describes the silvical characteristics of about 200 conifers and hardwood trees in the conterminous United States. | |
| Legislation, policy and planning, management, economic, and development as applied to forestry. | |
| TreeSearch & FS INFO
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US Forest Service Library Network contains over 12,000 online publications. |
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Collection of databases concerning nature conservation, developed in collaboration with a range of partners. |
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| UNECE Timber Committee/FAO Publications
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Detailed information on the forest products sector. |
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Summarizes information on wood as an engineering material. |
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| Science & Engineering Databases | Description |
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Covers all aspects of northern Canada and adjacent marine areas including geology, geomorphology and cold regions engineering. |
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Open access research in chemistry, from BioMed Central - the leading biomedical open access publisher. |
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Unique global partnership works to promote food security, poverty eradication, and the sound management of natural resources throughout the developing world. |
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Digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. |
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Leading Web site for the global R&D community. |
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Covers a variety of subjects, including oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation and law. |
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NASA aerospace information, and locate domestic and international STI pertinent to NASA's missions and Strategic Enterprises. |
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This resource provides access to scientific communication on R&D findings. |
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Contains information resources selected by the respective US government agencies as their best science information. |
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A free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. |
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Provides access to images and descriptive information about 20% of the Library's collection of 200,000 35mm slides. |
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| Music Databases | Description |
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Displays sheet music about British Columbia and present a segment of the music, social and local history of the province of British Columbia through this music. |
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CMPI is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. |
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Sponsored by the American Musicological Society, contains listings of dissertations in the field of musicology. |
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Includes the Music-In-Print volumes on Sacred Choral, Secular Choral, Classical Vocal, Orchestral, String, Classical Guitar, Woodwind, Organ and Piano Music In Print. |
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| History Databases | Description |
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This bibliography covers research on Canada's population. |
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Law report series with full-text judgments dating back to 1867. |
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Government documents and records; private historical manuscripts and papers; maps, charts and architectural plans; photographs; paintings, drawings and prints; audio and video tapes; film; newspapers. |
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Covers the first century of Canada's history, from 1867 to 1967, with historical text, tables, charts and maps. |
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Biographical information about significant figures from Canada's past. |
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Digital library providing access to 2,838,778 pages of Canada's printed heritage |
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Historical maps covering the area of what is now British Columbia up to joining Confederation in 1871. |
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Provides information on the electoral history of Canada since Confederation |
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Dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of the history and culture of the Canadian Prairies. |
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| Medical Databases | Description |
| Ageline |
More than 75,000 abstracts and summaries of current gerontology/geriatric literature. |
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The world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research. |
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Provides free access to peer-reviewed research articles and subscription-based access to reviews, commentaries and other information services. |
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An important Canadian Health Research Index that stores over 11,000 pieces of research |
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| CANCERLIT® |
A bibliographic database with more than 1.8 million citations and abstracts. |
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The largest, most current clinical knowledge base available to physicians and health professionals. |
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Promotes free access to full-text content in international medical journals. |
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LOCATORplus is the NLM's online Voyager web catalogue, which links to several of NLM's online health databases. |
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Authoritative Web resources, clinical trials, dictionaries, directories, organizations, news sources for more than 600 health topics. |
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Covers all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine. |
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One of the largest biomedical libraries in the world, NLM provides information services to other libraries and maintains a number of bibliographic and bioinformatics databases. |
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Bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. |
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Searches across multiple databases at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM); MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus. |
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Nursing and Allied Health Resources (The Peggy Sutherland Site) |
Aims to support students, researchers and practitioners in the nursing and allied health professions with an extensive information & links to websites. |
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The world's largest bibliographic demographic and reproductive health database. |
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Cover the world's demographic and population literature. |
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The premier international index to biomedical research covering nearly 5000 journals and indexing 16 million citations from 1949 to present. |
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A free, digital archive of journal articles in the life sciences, PMC is produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). |
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The database contains information on smoking and tobacco use and its effect on health. |
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A unified, searchable interface of all NLM databases in toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas, TOXNET is one of NLM's Specialized Information Services (SIS). |
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Digest on cutting-edge developments in HIV/AIDS research and treatmen, summarizing current research in treatments for HIV and AIDS in Canada and elsewhere. |
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Search engine for evidence-based medicine resources. |
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A systematic collection of important citations from the world's literature of common and rare chromosomal alterations, phenotypes and abnormalities in humans. |
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| Language Databases | Description |
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Chinese character dictionary inter-linked at acharacter-to-character level, allowing quick jumping across dictionaries to check the same character entry. |
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A source of meanings of Hindi words in English, and English words in Hindi. |
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Type the English word in the input box to get the Korean word or vice versa. |
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The World Wide Web edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary & Thesaurus |
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Sanskrit Language. |
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Translate English words to their Punjabi equivalent. |
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Roget's American English Thesaurus was produced by InfoSoft International in 1994. |
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Includes a Japanese dictionary, a Japanese-English dictionary, and an English-Japanese dictionary. |
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A source of meanings of Sanskrit words in English and English words in Sanskrit |
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A list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. |
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| Education Databases | Description |
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Produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. |
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Provides internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems. |
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Provides coverage on 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators |
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Indexes over 220,000 Canadian theses and dissertations held by the National Library of Canada. |
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| Language Databases | Description |
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Comprehensive registry of web resources providing full title access of journal abbreviations. |
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The directory contains information about open access journals. |
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Combines and cross-references about 147,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 195,000 titles into one source. |
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Bibliographic records for works published between 1473 and 1800, principally in Britain and North America. |
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Access to millions of documents and digital items across Europe. |
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Contains information about all the National Libraries of Europe, their services and the online exhibitions they offer. |
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European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies contains over 50,000 bibliographical citations to works published between 1991 and 1996. |
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Considered the most the most comprehensive directory of information about more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the world. |
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The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, which is part of the University of London. |
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Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board. |
