In-house research databases and tools

Access to the following electronic resources is limited to Library and Archives Canada employees and on-site researchers.

Please note

This page is meant for internal use.

Databases starting with the letter A

• America: History and Life
  Index of journals on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
• Ancestry
  Genealogical research tool.

Databases starting with the letter C

• Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA)
  Index of Canadian periodicals, from 1933 to present.
• Canadian Research Index
  Index of federal, provincial and municipal materials published between 1900 and 2018.

Databases starting with the letter E

• Érudit
  Index of publications on social sciences and humanities.

Databases starting with the letter G

• The Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844
  Index of The Globe and Mail since 1844.

Databases starting with the letter I

• L’île (in French only)
  Collection and index of biographies and bibliographies about authors from Quebec.

Databases starting with the letter J

• JSTOR
  Digital collection of academic materials.

Databases starting with the letter L

• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
  Index of specialized publications on library and information science.
• Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
  Index of articles in library, information and archival science periodicals.
• Libris Canadiana
  Collection of Canadian periodicals of historical significance.
• LLMC Digital
  Collection of legal materials from Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Commonwealth. Website is in English only, but digitized documents are available in English and French.

Databases starting with the letter N

• Newspaper Archive
  Index of historical newspapers since 1607.

Databases starting with the letter P

• Paper of Record
  Index of historical newspapers from Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe and Australia, from 1752 to 2004.
• Project MUSE
  Collection of scholarly journals.

Databases starting with the letter T

• Toronto Star: Pages of the Past
  Index of the Toronto Star since 1894.