Manitoba Legislative Library
Databases
With many of these sites you will access actual data, text, or articles to be used in accordance with Canada's Copyright Act, particularly s. 29, the publisher's specified conditions or the vendor's licence agreement. Citation and style guides can help you cite electronic sources correctly.
The following databases are subscribed to by the Legislative Library to support the work of Manitoba's Members of the Legislative Assembly and civil service.
Manitoba government employees and Legislative Assembly staff have controlled access to these databases from their work-based desktops.
Canada's Copyright Act and licence agreements should be adhered to when using materials from these subscriptions.
The Canadian Electronic Library's Canadian Public Policy Collection (direct access link) is a fully searchable database with over 16,000 items published by institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups. Over 3,000 items are added yearly to this bilingual collection (see its vendor licence agreement).
EbscoHost Web is made up of 3 databases designed for research and bringing information right to your desktop. See the EbscoHost license agreement.
Canadian Reference Centre provides full text for 150 Canadian periodicals, 30 newspapers from Canada and elsewhere, as well as over 400 international periodicals. Examples of online sources in the Canadian Reference Centre include: Macleans, Beaver, Canadian Economic Observer, Canadian Geographic, CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canadian Banker, Toronto Star, Canadian Associated Presse. In addition, this database provides over 20 Canadian reference books and 100 international reference books, 84,606 full text biographies and an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Academic Search Premier database provides full text articles for nearly 4,500 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 3,600 journals. Nearly 1,800 journals are peer reviewed.
MasterFILE Elite database provides full text articles from over 1,100 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.
To search all three EbscoHost databases at once, you will need to check each database once you have entered EbscoHost Web
The Winnipeg Free Press is available from several databases:
Canadian Reference Centre from June 2004 to present (see vendor licence agreement)
Winnipeg Free Press Archive from 1874 to present day with several months' delay (see vendor licence agreement)
Manitobia has the weekly edition of the Manitoba Free Press for November 30, 1872 - May 18, 1878 on (See web site's use note.)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
"This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals." Includes listings for journals from a variety of subject areas and countries. Searchable, and browsable by subject or journal title. From Lund University Libraries, Sweden.
GreenFILE
Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports GreenFILE’s initial release will include abstracting and indexing for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage – from volume 1, issue 1 to present – for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.
ingenta
ingenta.com gives you free access to the article summaries of over 20,000 publications and the full-text of over 4,500 publications from 150 publishers. Non-subscribers are, in the majority of cases, able to pay-per-view.
PARLINE
The PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 264 parliamentary chambers in all of the 188 countries where a national legislature exists.
Canadian Company Capabilities
Industry Canada's database of over 35,000 companies that export products or services.
Community Information Database (CID)
The Community Information Database (CID) is a free internet-based resource developed to provide communities, researchers, and governments with access to consistent and reliable socio-economic and demographic data and information for all communities across Canada.
NRC Research Press Journals (controlled access)
Full-text access to these Canadian scientific journals: Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Canadian Journal of Botany, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Canadian Journal of Microbiology, Canadian Journal of Physics, Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Environmental Reviews, Genome, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science
PARLIT Database
Search for bibliographic references from 7,000 books and 30,000 articles taken from 160 periodicals on parliamentary law and practice.
