ACM Digital Library (Open Access version) Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)'s complete collection of publications, including Journals, Transactions, Magazines, Proceedings, and ACM Books. Also includes the "ACM Guide to Computing Literature", a comprehensive database of citation information on the field of computing.
Agricola (US National Agricultural Library) The National Agricultural Library collection of more than 3.5 million items covers all aspects of agriculture and related sciences.
American Decades, 1900-2000 Key events and people, political, social, and cultural, for the USA in the 20th century and 2000-2009.
American Indian History Collection Covers more than 600 Native American groups, through videos and slideshows, images, biographies of key people, event and topic entries, primary sources, maps and graphs, and timelines.
Anthropological Index Online Index to over 1,500 anthropology journals held at the British Museum. This is a bare-bones citation-only index, no abstracts or full text.
ArtStor Public Collections Search ArtStor is a collection of images of art across many cultures and times. UPEI does not subscribe to the main database, but a significant portion is freely available to all as the Public Collections.
ArXiv An electronic archive for research articles, including physics, math, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, and statistics.
BHA and RILA combined search BHA and RILA index European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007. It is not full text/image.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage:
Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
Blackpast Blackpast is a free website with thousands of encyclopedia articles on African American and Global African history spanning 1526 to the present, as well as transcripts of speeches and primary documents, articles, bibliographies, and guides. Topics are chosen for their “clearly evident impact on African America, the United States, or the world.”
Business Plans Handbook Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses.
Cairn Cairn offers access to a comprehensive collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines.
The Library does not subscribe to most of this content, so access is just to the citation information and portion of the site that is open access. However, you can place Interlibrary Loan requests for articles you discover on this platform.
Cambridge Core (journals and books) Cambridge University Press journals and ebooks
Canadian Children's Literature at Library & Archives Canada Contains records for all Canadian children's books held by Library and Archives Canada (LAC), with over 35,000 titles dating from the 18th century to the present.
Canadian Labour Studies Index The Labour Studies Index offers over 13,000 citations of journal articles, books, book chapters, theses, and other literature relating to Canadian labour issues, as of October 2025, and continuing to grow.
Canadian Music Periodical Index Index to Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines. Covers all aspects of musical activity in Canada. Includes information from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA) The Canadian Opinion Research Archive at Queen's University makes available commercial and independent surveys to the academic, research and journalistic communities. Founded in 1992, CORA contains hundreds of surveys including thousands of discrete items collected by major commercial Canadian firms dating back to the 1970s.
Canadian Patent Database This database lets you access 153 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 2,480,000 patent documents.
Canadian Poetry Audio Archive A bilingual poetry audio archive featuring a sampling of contemporary recordings of Canada's most acclaimed poets and transcripts of Canadian poetry.
Canadian Science Publishing UPEI has backfile access to 25 titles on the Canadian Science Publishing platform, and a couple of current titles.
Canadiana Online The Canadiana collections are the largest online collections of early textual Canadiana in the world and include valuable national documentary heritage that is used for research, teaching, and personal history. They includes 95,000 titles (19 million pages) of monographs, serials (periodicals, newspapers, and annuals), and government publications. They also include the Early Canadiana Online collection which consists of 5.8 million pages arranged in thematic sub-collections.
CanLII full text of Canadian laws, cases, regulations Full text of Canadian case law and legislation, federal and all provinces.
Catholic Research Resources The Catholic Research Resources Alliance website has two resources of note: Catholic Portal, which allows users to identify items in a wide variety of research collections, and Catholic News Archive, a text-searchable collection of over 30,000 issues of Catholic newspapers with a focus on dioceses in the United States.
Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature A collection of databases of interest to music scholars. Includes Musical Borrowing: An Annotated Bibliography.
Chaucer Bibliography Online Provides citations to research literature on English writer Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-c.1400) from scholarly journals, books, and other sources.
Chemistry World Chemistry World provides expert, independent science journalism for the global chemical science community, provided by Royal Society of Chemistry.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Provides access to print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools covering topics on child welfare.
Children's Literature Review Full text encyclopedic articles from Children's Literature (vols published from 2004 - 2014).
ChiltonLibrary Quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today.
China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital) Unique manuscript material relating to the activities & observations of British & American diplomats, missionaries, & others in China from 1793-1980.
Chronicling America (Library of Congress historical newspapers) Digitized local US newspapers back to the 1700s.
Classical Net Covers all aspects of classical music through a network of commercial and noncommercial links.
Cochrane Library (free within Atlantic Provinces) | Cochrane Library (proxied for UPEI users outside of region) The Cochrane Library, owned by Cochrane and published by John Wiley & Sons., is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Library includes the following:
Computer Research Repository (arXiv) The Computing Research Repository (CoRR), sponsored by ACM, the arXiv.org e-Print archive, NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library), and AAAI. CoRR allows researchers to search, browse and download papers through its online repository. CoRR is available to all members of of the community at no charge.
Contemporary Black Biography Contemporary Black Biography provides informative biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African heritage who form the international black community
Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television
Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online (Adam Matthew Digital) A wide range of original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, & poetry.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale) Dictionary of Literary Biography contains biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world's most influential literary figures, over 16,000 articles.
DiscoverGov (United States) DiscoverGov provides simple, one-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases including GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and GovInfo.
DOAJ : Directory of Open Access Journals A service that provides access to quality controlled scientific and scholarly Open Access Journals.
Duke University Press UPEI has backfile for a few Duke University Press journals, and full text access to about 470 ebooks.
EconPapers (part of RePEc) Part of RePEc , EconPapers provides access to Research Papers in Economics, the worlds largest collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles, and software.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) An online library of over 136,000 titles (over 155,000 volumes), published between 1701 and 1800, and printed in English-speaking countries.
Eighteenth Century Journals I & II (Adam Matthew Digital) Contains rare journals printed between 1693 and 1799 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political, and literary life.
Empire Online (Adam Matthew Digital) Collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, including exploration journals, correspondence, periodicals, diaries & travel writing.
Encyclopedia of World Biography A multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture.
ERIC via the U.S. Dept of Education Provides citations back to 1966. Most documents issued from 1993-present are freely available online.
Érudit Provides access to academic journals, e-books & theses in the humanities, social sciences & natural sciences. Collection is primarily in French.
UPEI does not currently subscribe to this database, so we only have access to the "open access" portions of its content.
EPO Worldwide Bibliographic Database Patent information from around the world maintained by the European Patent Office; contains bibliographic data, such as titles and abstracts for millions of patents granted by various patent offices worldwide.
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database A tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators.
Federal Publication Locator Provides access to electronic Canadian federal government publications & bibliographic information about Canadian federal government publications.
Federal Science Library (on-campus link) Federal Science Library (proxied) Canadian government science libraries search - a one-stop, self-serve web portal that makes government research and resources visible to all Canadians by connecting them with the collections of seven departmental libraries.
Federal Science Library (formerly WAVES) Contains records for published & unpublished literature on fisheries, aquatic sciences & nautical sciences. You can search the entire Federal Science Library or limit your search to the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Collection (formerly known as WAVES).
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters Frontier Life provides over 240,000 Images and 7,895 Documents pertaining to the Frontiers of North America, Africa and Australasia.
Gale Business: Insights Coverage of international business including timely case studies, full-text articles, and robust data sets coupled with authoritative references and tools for analysis.
Gale Databases (all) Gale Databases - access to all Gale databases from a single product menu
Gale Literary Index A master index to every literary series published by The Gale Group. The Library has some of these in Gale Virtual Reference Library online and some in print.
Gale Power Search Over 70 database from Gale/Cengage on a wide variety of subjects. These tend to be most useful for lower undergraduate courses, and while there are a few scholarly journals included, most sources are non-peer-reviewed (but still credible) such as newspapers, magazines, and many Gale ebooks.
Times Digital Archive 1785-2014 Contains the digital edition of The Times (London) newspaper from 1785-2014, capturing the complete newspaper with articles, advertisements & illustrations.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Full text biographies, literary criticism, authors, writers, musicians, famous people (American and world)
globalEDGE Created by the International Business Center and the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.
Google Dataset Search Across the web, there are millions of datasets about nearly any subject. Dataset Search has indexed almost 25 million of these datasets, giving you a single place to search for datasets and find links to where the data is.
More links to free datasets
Google Scholar (on-campus link or non-UPEI users) Google Scholar (off-campus use only) Searches scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles. Note: only use the proxied link when you are off-campus. If you are on campus, go directly to Google Scholar as http://scholar.google.ca .
Handbook of Latin American Studies - HLAS Online A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America covering the social sciences and humanities.
Health Evidence Search healthevidence.org for access to 3,853 quality-rated systematic reviews evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions. We search the published literature and compile public health relevant reviews -- eliminating your need to search and screen individual databases. Use of the database requires registration which is free.
Independent Voices Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. This collection contains 17,651 issues from over 700 publications comprising 484,266 pages.
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America Presents a unique insight into interactions between Indigenous Peoples in North America and European colonists from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century.
Indigenous Peoples of North America Primary historical documents relating to the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada
InteLex Past Masters Past Masters contains 117 fulltext humanities databases, both in the original language and in English translation.
International Children's Digital Library Contains thousands of books for children, in many different languages, digitized from print.
Wayback Machine Explore more than 916 billion web pages saved over time.
IOP Electronic Journals (Institute of Physics) Provides full text access to over 100 IOP electronic journals. Subjects covered include atomic, molecular, optical, mathematical & general physics.
IslandScholar IslandScholar is the institutional database for scholarly publications, including theses, by the UPEI community. It is a project of the UPEI Robertson Library and is part of the Virtual Research Environment project and uses the Islandora software.
Le Petit Robert (De Marque) Le Petit Robert is a French dictionary (NOT a French-English translation dictionary)
60 000 mots, 300 000 sens, 185 000 exemples d’emplois [60,000 words, 300,000 definitions, 185,000 usage examples] L’étymologie, la phonétique, les synonymes et contraires, les expressions et proverbes [Etymology, phonetics, synonyms and antonyms, expressions and sayings] 35 000 citations de 1 300 auteurs [35,000 quotations from 1,300 authors]
Search Library of Congress Web Archives Library of Congress archive of worldwide web servers, 2015 forward.
Mass Observation Online (Adam Matthew Digital) Original materials created & collected by the Mass-Observation organization regarding the cultural & social history of Britain from 1937-1965.
MathSciNet Searchable web database providing access to over 58 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. NOTE: This database is also included within OneSearch. You can do a normal OneSearch search, then use the Databases Included at the bottom left to restrict results to MathSciNet.
Medical Services and Warfare (Adam Matthew Digital) Explore multiple perspectives on the history of injury, treatment and disease on the front line. Chart scientific advances through hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts, and discover the evidence of how war shaped medical practice across the centuries.
Medieval and Classical Literature Library Collection of the most important literary works of Classical & Medieval civilization. Search or browse by title, author, genre & language.
Medieval Travel Writing (Adam Matthew Digital) Collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world, dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. Augmented by interactive maps.
National Film Board of Canada Provides streaming access to films produced by the National Film Board.
National Rehabilitation Information Center The National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) is the library of the [United States] National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). We collect, catalog, and disseminate the articles, reports, curricula, guides, and other publications and products of the research projects funded by NIDILRR, as well as the wider community of disability and rehabilitation research.
Native Health Database Contains 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. The database provides information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples. [Description from database website]
NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Contains summaries of the more than 235,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice & substance abuse resources (US focus)
Open Citation Search Start with the DOI of an article, and then choose whether you want the list of references in that article ("citing"), or the list of articles that contain your article as one of their references ("cited by").
Open Dissertations (EBSCO free platform) Open Dissertations (EBSCO UPEI users platform) Over 1.5 million dissertations (mostly doctoral) from over 320 institutions, including UPEI, as of Oct 2023, in a free database from EBSCO.
OpenAlex A free, web-based academic search engine and comprehensive bibliographic catalog of scientific authors, institutions, and publications with free-to-use datasets, user-friendly interface, and effective indexing of diamond open access journals. It has indexed over 260 million scholarly works from 260,800 sources as of 2024, and growing.
Papal Encyclicals Online A collection of encyclicals and materials from Catholic church councils. This is not an official website of the Vatican or the Catholic Church, but it does link to the Vatican's website when recent materials are available there.
PARLINE The PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 270 parliamentary chambers in all of the 193 countries where a national legislature exists.
PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database PEDro is a free database of over 28,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
PhilPapers PhilPapers is an online research hub in philosophy that combines the following 4 services: a publication index of philosophy journal articles, book reviews, books, and book chapters in all languages; an open access aggregator that indexes open access philosophical content found on over 1000 open access archives and 3000 personal pages maintained by professional philosophers; an open access full-text archive that hosts the largest collection of open access philosophical material on the Internet (OAI-PMH handler here); and a structured bibliography comprising nearly 5000 subcategories covering all subjects in philosophy.
Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900 (Adam Matthew Digital) This collection showcases the development of 'popular' medicine in America during the nineteenth century, through an extensive range of material that was aimed at the general public rather than medical professionals. Explore an array of printed sources, including rare books, pamphlets, trade cards, and visually-rich advertising ephemera.
Project MUSE Includes the full text of over 320 scholarly journals in the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences fields.
Public Health + Public Health + comes to you via the McMaster Health Knowledge Refinery. Every article from over 120 medical and allied health academic journals is critically appraised to identify those that are methodologically sound. Articles that pass this process are rated (maximum 7) by clinicians for relevance and newsworthiness, and are then sent to this website. The articles are updated weekly and a searchable archive is kept on this website.
PubMed Database of biomedical and life sciences literature
Robertson Library Catalogue Find and access the Library's print books, as well as equipment (laptops, chargers, etc), music (scores, CDs, vinyl, etc.), DVDs, and materials in the PEI Collections.
Royal Society of Chemistry Search The Royal Society of Chemistry's primary and review journals covering all branches of chemistry.
SAGE Premier Collection Full text of over 600 journals published by SAGE in the fields of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology, and Medicine.
Sage Research Methods SAGE Research Methods supports beginning and advanced researchers in every step of a research project, from writing a research question, choosing a method, gathering and analyzing data, to writing up and publishing the findings.
Sage Research Methods Foundations SAGE Research Methods Foundations is a large series of extended articles/short books edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams. It is the perfect companion for novice researchers and provides bite-size, introductory overviews to all the major methods topics to help get you on your way.
SAGE Research Methods Video: Practical Research and Academic Skills This collection of over 450 streaming videos on the SAGE Research Methods platform offers support on the practical skills that you need to successfully complete your research. Key areas such as writing a research proposal, planning and designing a research project, and securing ethical approval are explicitly covered. Practical skills such as project management, writing for publication, presenting work, and building networks are also presented through helpful explanatory videos.
Science.gov Gateway to government science information & research results. Searches over 50 scientific databases & 200 million pages of science information.
SCOAP³ SCOAP³ is the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. It is an intermediary repository for gold open-access articles that will also appear on the publishers' sites and on arXiv. It is specific to the field of High-Energy (Particle) Physics.
Keywords: SCOAP, SCOAP3
searchRxiv Find "canned" searches (also known in the medical research community as "search hedges") for various topics. This is an Open Access database - no login required.
Semantic Scholar Semantic Scholar is a free database of millions of scholarly publications in the fields of computer science and neuroscience. Most of the indexed content is open access, although some content may require use of Interlibrary Loan to get the full text.
As a joint project of Microsoft, Google, and Baidu, it offers a significantly more sophisticated search engine than Google Scholar for these fields including advanced filters designed specifically for those knowledge domains.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (Adam Matthew Digital) Provides access to thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images relating to slavery, abolition and social justice.
SORA An open access e-journal archive of 13 major ornithological journals including The AUK, The Condor, Studies in Avian Biology & The Wilson Bulletin.
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Description from producer (JSTOR) as of Jan 2020:
Nearly 450,000 page images in the collection!
Springer LINK SpringerLink is the primary platform for books and journals published by Springer-Nature.
SSRN VetSciRN An open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers. SSRN fosters an interdisciplinary connection, helping veterinary scholars and educators discover current research in their own and related fields such as agriculture, cognitive science, law, medicine, neurology, and philosophy.
Taylor & Francis Ebooks Taylor & Francis is a major academic publisher of books, including under the imprints of Routledge and CRC.
Taylor & Francis Journals UPEI subscribes to two packages of Taylor & Francis journals: the Social Science & Humanities collection, and the Medical collection.
Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) A massive dictionary of Latin. As of October 2025, the project includes A - M and O - P, as well as parts of N and R. It is expected to be completed by 2050. This is not a Latin-English translation dictionary.
Theses Canada Portal Provides full text access to Canadian theses from 1998 onwards held by the National Library of Canada & bibliographic information on theses from 1965.
See also Proquest Open Access Dissertations and Theses and Open Access Theses and Dissertations (both of these are worldwide search tools, not just for UPEI theses)
Times Online Searches The Times (London) from January 1, 2000 to the present day. Contains citation and abstract only.
Transport Research International Documentation TRID (Transport Research International Documentation) is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information.
TRID covers all modes and disciplines of transportation and contains more than 1.4 million records of published research. More than 422,000 records contain links to full-text documents.
United States Patent and Trademark Office Information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents & SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 onwards.
ViVa: A Bibliography of Womens History in Historical and Womens Studies Journals A current bibliography of journal articles about women's & gender history. Includes topics such as prostitution, witchcraft, sexuality & birth control.
What Works Clearinghouse (US Dept of Education) A collection of reports on scientific evidence for best practices in education, designed for educators.
Wiley Online Wiley Online is a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. The Library subscribes to a large subset of the journals published by Wiley, but not all of them. As of Winter 2019, the Library also provides access to over 20,000 Wiley ebooks, which is most but not all of them. The Library is unable to provide access to Wiley Textbooks.
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000 This collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and at the same time make those insights accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors.
Women in Politics: Bibliographic Database Provides bibliographic references to books, reports, and journal articles on all aspects of women's participation in political life worldwide.
World Bank Open Data "Free and open access to global development data", with browse features by country or socio-economic indicator.
Includes a significant collection of population data at the subnational level.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository The World Bank's official open access repository for its research, including books, articles, Policy Research Working Papers, & Economic & Sector Work.
WorldCat WorldCat is the combined catalogue of hundreds of academic and public library catalogs.
