ALL ABOUT DATABASES

MRU Academic Databases for Nursing

• Comprised of four major providers, Gale, EBSCO, OVID, and ProQuest.
• Contain thousands of academic publications, prominent in the Nursing field.
• Publications are authoritative and reliable.

ProQuest Academic Databases: Features

• ProQuest platform is multidisciplinary and multi-content type: scholarly journals, books, videos & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers, Historical Newspapers, Magazines, Trade Journals, Reports, Wire feeds, Blogs, Podcasts & Websites...
• All video content in your ProQuest collections may be isolated by selecting Videos & Audio in Basic Search before running a search.  Doing this will not, however, exclusively isolate Academic Video Online content.  It will search all content within your ProQuest collections indexed as video content, including Academic Video Online.
• All book content in your ProQuest collections may be isolated by selecting Books in Basic Search before running a search.  However, this will not exclusively isolate Ebook Central content. It will search all content within your ProQuest collections indexed as book content, including Ebook Central.

Gale Academic Databases: Features

• Research academic topics ranging from art and literature to economics and the sciences. Ideal for smaller academic libraries.
• Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.
• Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.
• Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.

• Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.

• Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.

We also have pages that help you search in, evaluate, cite, and create permalinks to these eResources.

The following resources are indexed and searchable using the OneSearch bar at the top of this page.

Here's a list of the most popular databases. Each of these contains a huge collection of periodicals and other sources i.e.  magazines, reports, scholarly journals, etc.

• Academic Search Complete
• Business Source Ultimate
• Canadian Newsstream
• Canadian Points of View
• CBCA Complete
• CINAHL Complete
• Google Scholar
• JSTOR
• PsycINFO
• ScienceDirect
• SocINDEX

The following list of databases are Open Access and available freely

• Agricola
• AustLII (Australian Legal Information Institute)
• BaiLII (British and Irish Legal Information)
• BC Human Rights Tribunal
• BioMed Central
• Canadian Human Rights Tribunal - Decisions
• CanLII
• Courts of British Columbia
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
• Early Canadiana Online
• Erudit
• Federal Court of Canada Decisions
• illume
• LII (U.S. Legal Information)
• Points to the Past
• Provincial Court of British Columbia
• PubMed (publicly available MEDLINE)
• Statistics Canada
• Supreme Court of Canada Decisions
• The British Columbia Reports
• Theses Canada
• WorldCat
• WorldCat/FirstSearch
• WorldLII (World Legal Information)

What is EBSCOHost Passport?

EBSCOHost Passport is a browser extension that provides direct access to EBSCOHost resources as you browse the web. With Passport, you can discover articles, journals, and databases without first needing to navigate to the EBSCOHost platforms or Library's OneSearch.

How to Install EBSCOHost Passport

1. Visit the EBSCOHost Passport Download Page

2. Click on the extension/addon download links 
   Follow the instructions to install the extension on your preferred browser.

3. Sign In
   After installing, sign in with your Douglas College library credentials to enable access.

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Using EBSCOHost Passport Effectively

1. Search for Articles Directly from Google
   When you conduct a Google search, Passport will highlight related EBSCOHost articles if available, allowing you to access reliable academic sources without extra steps.

2. Save and Organize
   Use the save feature to collect articles for your assignments. You can organize saved materials in the EBSCOHost interface later.

3. Check for Full-Text Access
   If you see an article you're interested in, Passport will indicate if Douglas College provides full-text access.

Support & Troubleshooting

If you encounter issues with the extension or have questions make sure review the tutorials, look through EBSCO's support documentation, or contact our library team.