Canadian Databases: Home

(Gale) Provides access to a large multidisciplinary collection of more than 9600 magazines, journals, newspapers, podcasts and transcripts (NPR, CNN, CBC).

(Maydream Inc.) Information on over 20,000 agencies and 150 000 ad campaigns (tv, print, interactive, etc.) from around the world. Also includes information about advertising award winners and jobs in the fields of advertising and design.

(Encyclopaedia Britannica) Online access to the Encyclopdia Britannica as well as Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, the Britannica Year in Review, a World Atlas, and a country comparator.

(Gale) Provides access to Canadian content including biographies, news, essays and podcasts.

(Grey House) Online access to 20 Grey House Reference titles: Canadian Almanac and Directory, Associations Canada, Financial Services Canada, Canadian Environmental Resource Guide, Canadian Parliamentary Guide, Governments Canada, Libraries Canada, Health Guide Canada, History of Canada, Canadian Who's Who, Major Canadian Cities, Careers & Employment Canada, Cannabis Canada, and various FP financial titles.

(ProQuest) Part of ProQuest Central. Provides access to a broad range of Canadian magazines, newspapers, and journals.

(Historica) Provides access to information about Canadian personalities, places, events, history and achievements.

(EBSCO) Provides access to essays with differing points of view on current issues. Essays include an overview, arguments, counter arguments and a guide to Critical Thinking.

(EBSCO) Provides access to Canadian and international magazines, newspapers, newswires, reference books and company information.

(Brunico Communications) An online version of Canadian Advertising Rates and Data, providing advertising rates, data and media planning information for advertising, marketing, PR and communications professionals, including directory listings and contact names and numbers.

- The "Lite" version of this product, to which we subscribe, does not offer users access to the login-protected features of the full CARDonline service found under "Sign in".

(Career Cruising) Career Cruising provides access to career planning resources including detailed occupation profiles and comprehensive post-secondary education information.

(Knotia Canada) Information for importers and customs brokers: relevant legislation, the complete Customs Tariff and schedules, administrative materials, case law and findings by Canadian courts and tribunals, selected US and international materials such as NAFTA legislation and US tariff and customs rulings, as well as the Compendium of Classification Opinions and the Harmonized System Explanatory Notes issued by the World Customs Organization. Includes TaxMatters@EY and Commodity Tax News newsletters.

(Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety) Portal for occupational health and safety information. Includes SDS (Safety Data Sheets) as well as access to CHEMINFO, RTECS, and regulations and standards.

- Please note that CHEMpendium, the MSDS Management Service (CANMANAGE), and Canadian EnviroOSH Legislation are not part of our subscription.

(Statistics Canada) Provides access to data from the most recent Census as well previous Census data back to 1991.

(Knotia Canada) Provides access to the CPA's (Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada's) standards and guidance collection.

(Gale) Provides access to a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, biographies, and other reference sources. Includes selected Globe and Mail coverage.

(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)) Educational videos from CBC and Radio-Canada: documentaries from television and radio, news reports, archival material, stock shots and more. Our subscription includes selected, not complete, News in Review content only.

- Faculty: For the ability to add videos to a playlist, you must set up a separate Curio account. Please e-mail librarians@senecapolytechnic.ca from your Seneca faculty e-mail account for instructions.

Replaced by Canada Commons in June 2022. Please see Canada Commons under "C".

(University of Toronto/Universite Laval) Provides access to authoritative biographical information about significant figures of Canada's past, including both detailed articles on Canada's major historical figures, and short articles on minor personages.

(Various) Free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.

(ProQuest) Thousands of downloadable e-book titles covering all academic disciplines.

- Titles may be single-user or multiple-user. Check the information in the "Availability" field of each record.

(EBSCO) Provides access to a large collection of e-books in art, business, computer science, education, history, literature, health and medicine, law, and the humanities and social sciences.

- Titles may be single-user or multiple-user. Check the information in the "Concurrent User Level" field of each record.
NOTE: In February 2024, audiobooks formerly on this platform were moved to a different database Boundless Audiobooks from Baker & Taylor.

(Queen's Printer for Ontario) Provides access to consolidated versions of most of Ontario's public statutes and regulations.

(EBSCO) The Education Resources Information Center: the world's largest source of education research.

(Gale) A database of over 2500 full-text newspapers, newswire services, and news program transcripts from Canada, U.S. and abroad.

(Thomson Reuters / Carswell) Contains the text of, and noting-up functionality for, Canadian legal decisions and legislation, as well as the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, law report and journal articles, the Canadian Abridgment Case Digests, and Words & Phrases Judicially Defined.

(LexisNexis) Access to Canadian court and tribunal case decisions, full-text legal journal articles, rules of court, statutes and regulations, and legal dictionaries and glossaries.

- Sessions may time-out automatically after 60 minutes. To restart your session, do not click the "Sign In" button that appears in the Lexis platform. You must close your browser window and then come back through Seneca Libraries' website.

Permanently replaced by Nexis Uni on August 1, 2019. Please see Nexis Uni under "N".

(Sources) This online resource gives instant access to up-to-date contact information for print and broadcast media outlets across Canada, searchable by media type, subject, geography, language, ownership, and spokesperson expertise.

- Our subscription is for up to 50 simultaneous users only.

(EBSCO) Provides access to information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences.

(Migra International) Information for exporters, shippers, and logisticians on exporting from Canada to different countries, including regulatory and documentation requirements, definitions of terms, and international contact information.

(EBSCO) Provides access to current news pertaining to all branches of the military.

(National Film Board of Canada) Public performance rights to selected films produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Documentaries, animations, alternative dramas, trailers, and interactive productions on the Web.

- Faculty: To access certain CAMPUS titles and added features for instructors within this database, you must set up a separate NFB CAMPUS account. Please e-mail librarians@senecapolytechnic.ca from your Seneca faculty e-mail account for instructions.
- Videos in this platform labelled "PARTNER" and "CANADA SCREENS" are not part of the academic subscription licence offered by NFB. When in the database, to see only those titles to which we have access, change "Availability" to "Campus" or "Free".

(EBSCO) Provides descriptions and reviews of thousands of works of fiction, recommends similar titles and authors, and provides guides for book discussions. Note that the works described are not necessarily part of the Seneca Libraries collections.

(Canadian Science Publishing) Provides access to journals published by the National Research Council and affiliated publishers.

(Thomson Reuters) Downloadable and editable forms covering corporate law, leases, wills and trusts, Ontario Family Law proceedings, and Ontario Court proceedings.

- Please note that we do not subscribe to the commercial, labour, municipal, and computer/information technology Divisions/volumes of this publication (Divisions I, VII, IX, and X, respectively), only the Divisions/volumes on corporations, leases, wills and trusts, Ontario Family Law, and Ontario Court Forms (Divisions II, IV, V, VI, and VIII, respectively).

(OurDigitalWorld) Provides access to thousands of government documents from the collection of the Ontario Legislative Library. Allows simple searching, or browsing by titles, by ministry/agency, authors, subjects, or years. Note this collection does not contain all Ontario government documents. Documents have been taken from publicly accessible government websites and may have been reformatted from their original format for archiving purposes.

(Various) Advanced research and scholarship. Free to find, free to use. Records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

(OurDigitalWorld) Find digital photos, maps, videos, podcasts, and documents about Ontario people, places, events, history and culture from the collections of Ontario libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, community groups, government agencies, and content organizations.

(OurDigitalWorld) Community and historical newspapers of Ontario with content going back to the 1800s.

(Euromonitor International) Provides access to global market analysis with comprehensive coverage of industries, countries and consumer trends.

(EBSCO) Compiled specifically for elementary school students, this database provides access to articles, photos, maps, flags, and reference tools written for children such as biographies, histories, and The Encyclopedia of Animals.

(Toronto Star Newspapers) A news service monitoring political activity at Queen's Park and throughout the province of Ontario.

Please see Lexis Advance Quicklaw under "L" above.

(EBSCO) Provides access to regional business publications.

See Borealis under "B" (name change in 2022)

(Scott's Directories) Provides access to a comprehensive directory of Canadian businesses with more than 350,000+ contacts from manufacturing, government, medical and education sectors.

- Please note that all saved searches, downloads, and pick lists will be visible to all Seneca users.

(Seneca Polytechnic) The Archives identifies, preserves, and makes available for use the documentary heritage of Seneca Polytechnic. Our resources are open to all members of the College community and the public for the purposes of research, teaching, publication, television and radio programmes, and general interest.

(Seneca Polytechnic) This repository is a collection of selected final projects from students in Seneca Polytechnic programs. Each program develops their own criteria by which a project is selected for the repository.

(Seneca Polytechnic) A collection of contemporary zines including works created by students in the School of Creative Arts and Animation's Independent Illustration program.

- Please note that the link above is to a collection of mostly zine cover thumbnail images only. The actual print publications are kept at our Seneca@York campus library.

(Library and Archives Canada) Provides full-text access to Canadian theses and dissertations.

(Northstar Travel Media) Provides online travel information for countries around the world, including more than 5000 destination reports, hotel reviews, cruise ship information, and trip planning functionality.

- Users must create a separate Travel42 profile to use this service, using a Seneca Polytechnic email address to set up the account.
- Access to the vendor's pre-2020 legacy platform is available here, though it is unknown until when.

(Vividata) A database of consumer demographics, media usage, lifestyle and attitudinal data, and product usage across 150+ categories, resulting from an annual national survey of readers of Canadian magazines and newspapers. Vividata is the amalgamated organization of two other media measurement bodies, NADbank and PMB.

- Click the above link to get instructions on how to log into the Vividata site.
- For help with this database, see our Vividata FAQs as well as Vividata's own Dapresy Tool Guide.

(OCLC) Provides access to the world's largest 'library' catalog containing more than 1.3 billion items.