Library Guides @ VIU: RMOT &amp; BNRP Research Guide: Articles & Databases

Key Databases

American Fisheries Society (AFS) Journals This link opens in a new window
American Fisheries Society (AFS) publishes journals for aquatic resource professionals.

Fisheries & Oceans Canada Library (DFO Library, formerly known as WAVES)
- a searchable database
Fishbase.org

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
- aka 'Web of Knowledge'
Indexing, cited reference searching, and full text linking for journal articles in Arts & Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed journals in many disciplines with international coverage in full text.
Oxford Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford University Press’s full collection of academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, Date of coverage for most journals is 1996 forward.
Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Cambridge University Press peer-reviewed journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Cambridge University Press book titles may be available through other Library collections.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
International resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, books, and reference works.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Provides easy access to global market and consumer data from thousands of sources on topics related to business, media, public policy, health and others.

The following databases provide information on Canadian topics and/or a Canadian perspective on a topic or issue. In particular, they can provide some news and current events about issues such poaching bears and eagles in British Columbia.

Canadian Newsstream (formerly Canadian Newsstand) This link opens in a new window
- provides the full text of Canadian newspapers across the country
Full text of Canadian newspapers, including Pacific, Black Press, and regional and national major dailies.
CBCA Complete This link opens in a new window
- provides magazines, journal articles, and a couple of newspapers with some full text
Canadian periodicals from 1982 to date, including some full text.

Theses Canada Portal
- allows searching of all theses in Library and Archives Canada's theses collection est 1965)
- you can access and search the full text electronic versions of numerous Canadian theses and dissertations

Google Scholar Search

Journal Title Abbreviations & Acronyms

CASSI: Cas Source Index Search Tool
- use this tool to "identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications"
ISI Journal Title Abbreviations
Journal Abbreviations - (UBC)

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