Subject Librarians
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Find Your Subject LibrarianFind out who the librarian is for your subject area/department, and contact them for library or research help!
Book Study Space
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Book a Study Space
Our libraries are a great place to get work done, but booking your own room in which to study, whether alone or in a group, can be really helpful.
Try it out!
Library Essentials
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Library EssentialsCheck out the handout I gave out at the Spring 2016 URI mixer.
Some key databases
There are hundreds of databases from which to choose. Below is a list of a few good ones, but try checking out the library Subject Guides for the different research areas in which are you interested. Looking at more than one guide is often helpful.
https://guides.library.ualberta.ca/
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Academic Search Complete Also known as: |Academic Search Premier| Academic Search Complete provides indexing and abstracts for a large number of scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, and full text for a subset of these journals.
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Web of Science - All Databases The Web of Science platform provides online access to their core Citation Indexes, and also hosts a number of subject-specific databases.
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Scopus Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.
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Canadian Newsstream Indexes and provides fulltext access to major Canadian newspapers. Full text is available for the articles and transcripts but graphical material (photos, illustrations, graphs, etc.) is excluded. Classified ads, advertisements, and stock market reports are also excluded.
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PubMed (with links to UofA e-journals) Also known as: |MEDLINE (PubMed version)| PubMed (1946 to the present) covers the world's biomedical and health sciences journal literature. Includes links to full text licensed by the University of Alberta. Can be used on-campus, or off-campus with authentication using a University of Alberta CCID.
To get you started...
Doing research needs to be more than a quick Google search [though there's nothing wrong with doing so to start!], but it's difficult to know to where to go and how to look for information we can trust [Google lets us down here, unfortunately]. I recommend checking out our tutorials:
https://www.library.ualberta.ca/tutorials
The ones below will give you a great start!
Ask us! We're here to help.
Cameron Library Public Service Team
Contact:
Cameron Library for
Sciences, Engineering & Business
cameronhelp@ualberta.ca
Sciences, Engineering & Business
cameronhelp@ualberta.ca
780-492-8440