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Jennifer Varcoe

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Barrie Campus Library, K210C

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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index of scholarly journals with focuses on social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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Canadian Points of View Reference Centre This link opens in a new window
Provides Canadian context for a variety of research topics and clearly illustrates differing points of view to help start research projects and opinion papers.
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Canadian Reference Centre This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of Canadian and international magazines such as Macleans, Scientific American, newspapers and news wires such as the Toronto Star, as well as reference books and company information, biographies and an image collection. This database also includes a Canadian Dictionary.
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CPI.Q This link opens in a new window
Canadian Periodical Index covers Canadian and international journals, magazines, newspapers and other references from 1988 with full-text from 1995. Includes selected sections on full-text of Globe and Mail from 1997.
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Curio This link opens in a new window
Stream access to the best in educational content from CBC and Radio-Canada. You'll find documentaries from television and radio, news reports, archival material, excerpts and more View content from shows like Marketplace and The Fifth Estate. Some collections and documentaries are accompanied by teacher resource guides in PDF format.
News in Review content available in a separate channel in Curio.
Not all videos have closed captioning.
PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Contains full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers psychology and behavioural sciences journals. Strong coverage in counselling, education, family, and child and adolescent psychology.
Science Direct College Edition This link opens in a new window
All sciences - technological, engineering, chemical, biological, medical, veterinary and social. All articles are peer reviewed and academic. This source includes ebooks on selected scientific topics.
Notice (Mar. 2019): Due to a misconfigured Elsevier server if you have created an individual account on ScienceDirect (Elsevier) using your personal/college email credentials, then change your password for those accounts.
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