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CanLII : Canadian Legal Information Institute
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: Varying dates available online:
Full-text - Provides access to primary sources of Canadian Law accessible - Includes legislative and judicial texts and legal commentaries, from federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions.
Legal source
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1900-present available online:
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Index, abstracts, full-text - comprises 2.5 million records describing scholarly articles, case citations, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, periodicals and more - covers current issues, studies & trends in the legal world: criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment & more - the collection includes 1,200+ full-text scholarly law journals
Nexis Uni
Internet access available to MUN users only.
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Provides full-text access to U.S. federal and state statutes, regulations, court cases, administrative agency decisions, law reviews, to selected court briefs and pleadings, and legal news sources. Also includes international, national, local newspapers, and wire services, as well as radio and television transcripts. Business, medical, industry, and legislative magazines, journals, and newsletters and various directories are also available. Wide geographic coverage and translations from foreign-language sources, as well as news services like the Associated Press, Agence France Press, El Pais.
SSRN eLibrary
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 1995-present available online:
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Abstracts, full-text -- Comprises abstracts describing 581,000+ papers contributed by scholars worldwide, with links to full text - its Electronic Paper Collection offers full-text for 482,000+ working papers in PDF format -- Bibliometric analysis: 9 million references & 9.1 million footnotes have been matched to 6 million citations in EPC papers -- Entries include complete title, author, affiliation, ORCID IDs, abstract or description, keywords & distribution history.

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Annual statutes

Coverage: 2001- available online:
The Annual Statutes accessible on the Justice Laws Website are a collection of the Public General Acts in the form in which they were originally enacted by Parliament in a given calendar year. They include new Acts as well as Acts and provisions that amend existing Acts.
Canadian business & current affairs database
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1971-present available online:
Index, abstracts - Covers Canadian academic, trade & popular journals of interest to the humanities, education, social sciences, sciences & professions + news / current events - Includes 4.5 million records describing articles from 1,665 periodicals which focus on Canada - full-text for 540+ periodicals & daily news sources, 1985-present.
Canadian enviroOSH legislation plus standards
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: Current available online:
Index, full-text - comprises consolidated texts of all current Canadian health, safety & environmental legislation, critical guidelines & codes of practice [federal + 10 provinces & 3 territories] + quick guides: Legislation by Topic, CCOHS Legislation Monthly Report & OSH Answers: Legislation + relevant CGSB & CSA standards - browse by jurisdiction or topic; search using keywords or phrases in one jurisdiction or across all jurisdictions.
Canadian research index : CRI
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1982-2018 available online:
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Index, selected Full text online, Full text ALL on microfiche -- CRI covers Canadian government documents / reports created at the federal, provincial & municipal levels, scientific & technical reports, statistical reports, policy papers, annual reports -- Some CRI records include links to full text; ALL CRI records provide a Microlog ID; ALL CRI reports are available in the Microlog microfiche collection (Level 1, Queen Elizabeth II Library).
Criminal justice abstracts with full text

Coverage: 1968-present available online:
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This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. The increasing globalization of criminology is reflected in Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text's coverage of hundreds of journals from around the world.
Criminal justice database
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1981-present available online:
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Index, abstracts - comprehensive international database covering criminal justice journals. Subjects: criminology, law enforcement, corrections administration, addiction and drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, industrial security.
EmploymentSource
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: Varying coverage available online:
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An online employment law research tool combining expert commentary, case law and legislation.
FAOLEX
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 1900-present available online:
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Full-text - treaties, laws and regulations on food, agriculture & renewable natural resources worldwide - covers agriculture, livestock, environment, fisheries, food, forestry, land & soil, cultivated plants, water, wild species & ecosystems - records in English, French or Spanish or the language of communication used by the originating country.
GALLOP portal : government and legislative libraries online publications portal = Portail des PGPE : Portails des publications gouvernementales et parlementaires électronique
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 1995-present available online:
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Index - one-stop online access to 475,000+ provincial, territorial & federal government publications / legislative materials - GALLOP indexes full-text & bibliographic records from online government documents collections of the Canadian federal government + 10 provincial / territorial jurisdictions.
International bibliography of the social sciences : IBSS
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1951-present available online:
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Index, abstracts – Social sciences material from over 100 countries. Includes anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, archaeology, education, media, law, religious studies, and interdisciplinary fields.
LabourSource
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1948-present available online:
Index, full-text - Covers labour & employment legislation from all Canadian jurisdictions + labour cases & court decisions, labour arbitration cases & summaries - Includes full-text access to "Canadian labour arbitration? by Brown & Beatty.
Law Commons
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: Unspecified coverage available online:
Full-text - provides free access to 300,000+ full-text scholarly articles and other research in the area of law from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.
LEGISinfo
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: Jan. 1994-present available online:
Research tool for finding legislation before Parliament (beginning January 2001) - Includes text & status of bills, debates in Parliament, Committee meetings and reports, legislative summaries, and further readings.
NCJRS abstracts database
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 1970-present available online:
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Index, abstracts – Summaries of resources in the US National Criminal Justice Reference Service library collection. Subjects: corrections, courts, crime and crime prevention, drugs and substance abuse, law enforcement and the justice system, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims.
Periodicals index online
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1665-2005 available online:
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Index – Citations for millions of articles in the humanities and social sciences; includes three centuries of scholarly publications in over 60 languages and dialects.
ProQuest ebook central
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1960-present available online:
Index, full-text - comprises 36,600+ ebooks, most from Cambridge University Press, Oxford UP, Springer and Taylor & Francis - covers all academic subjects.
Regs4ships
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1945-present available online:
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Index, full-text -- searchable database comprising shipping & maritime codes, regulations, legislation & documents from the International Maritime Organization [IMO], International Labour Organization, European Union + Maritime & Coastguard Agency & other U.K. government departments.
Social justice suite
Internet access available to MUN users only.
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In October 2016, HeinOnline unveiled Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law, a unique database released free of charge on a global scale to help librarians guide their communities and create an environment for open and positive dialogue. Less than three years later, we announced another free database, Gun Regulation and Legislation in America, with the same vision. In 2020, at a crucial moment in history, we were proud to offer Civil Rights and Social Justice, another free research database dedicated to the fight for civil rights in America.
Worldwide political science abstracts
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1960-present available online:
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Index, abstracts - covers politics & political science: international relations & trade, law, electoral systems, developing nations, disarmament, environmental policy, security & military policy, public administration, etc. - comprises 1.5 million records describing journal articles, books/chapters, dissertations, reviews.

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Academic search complete
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1887-present:
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Index, full-text - a multi-disciplinary database providing access to millions of articles from thousands of scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.
Academic video online
Internet access available to MUN users only.
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Index, streaming video – Videos in all fields of study and research. Includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, and award-winning films, including Academy, Emmy & Peabody winners. & Peabody winners.
American doctoral dissertations
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 1902-present available online:
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Index, full-text - Record of dissertations accepted by American universities during the 20th century, many with links to full-text.
Annual reviews
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1932-present available online:
Index, full-text - comprises thousands of useful, intelligent syntheses covering significant primary research literature from 45 disciplines in the biological, medical, physical & social sciences - comprehensive, timely critical reviews that identify the principal contributions of any field and help researchers maintain current awareness in their field.
BASE : Bielefeld academic search engine
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 1200-present available online:
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Index, full-text – Millions of records describing open access documents in thousands of institutional repositories, selected websites, and local data collections.
DART-Europe E-theses portal
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 1602-present available online
Index, full-text - Research theses held in European repositories, with link to full-text of every thesis listed.
Dialnet
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: Varying dates available online:
Index - Over 2 million records in over 5,000 periodicals - Contains Spanish academic journals, theses and books in all fields of study - Limited full text and theses are available.
EHPS : European history primary sources
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 500-present available online:
Index - covers scholarly Web sites that offer online access to primary sources on the history of Europe - each Web site has a short description and is categorized according to country, language, period, subject and type of source.
Gale primary sources
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1400-2012 available online:
Index, full-text - integrated research environment, covering millions of pages from newspapers, books, manuscripts, maps & photographs, with searching across several primary source collections in the humanities & social sciences: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Illustrated London News (1842-2003), The Listener (1929-1991), Times Digital Archive (1785-1985), Times Literary Supplement (1902-2011) + four full-text archives covering hundreds of newspapers & magazines published 1600-1900 - includes analysis tools: term frequency & term-relationship + graphing tools to visualize trends over time.
Index to United Nations documents and publications
Available as CD-ROM on workstation, Webcat24, in The Commons on level 2.
Coverage: 1946-2006 available online:
Index - Includes references to the official records, documents & periodicals published by the United Nations, including full-text UN Resolutions, selected Provisional Verbatim & Summary documents. (See DATABASE = UNBISnet for additional / later information).
Journal citation reports

Coverage: 1997-present available online:
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The Journal Citation Reports module within InCites allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries/territories.
Monthly catalog of U.S. Government publications, 1895-1976
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1895-1976 available online:
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Index – Records describing reports, fact sheets, maps, handbooks, conference proceedings, etc. published by US Federal government agencies. Covers agriculture, earth sciences, defense, economics, education, energy, food, health, law, natural resources, public policy, science, technology, transportation, infrastructure, and more.
Open Knowledge Repository
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 1978-present available online:
Index, full-text – Open access repository of the research output and knowledge products of the World Bank. A source for open access development knowledge covering economics, agriculture, education, business, environment, social sciences, technology, and all aspects of development.
Paperity
Internet access unrestricted.
Coverage: 1850-present available online:
Index, full-text - multi-disciplinary aggregator of open access journals & papers: both gold & hybrid - access more than 1.2 million articles in 4,200+ journals from hundreds of disciplines: sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, humanities & the arts.
Periodicals archive online
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1802-2002 available online:
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Index, Full text - Complete digital backfiles for hundreds of journals in the humanities and social sciences.
ProQuest Central
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1665 to present available online:
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Index, abstracts - international coverage for 175 subject areas, featuring scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, videos & more - aggregated full-text database comprising thousands journals + 2,000 newspapers, 100,000 theses, 455,000 working papers, millions of up-to-date company reports, market & industry reports, and country profiles.
ProQuest dissertations & theses global
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1637-present available online:
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Index, abstracts, full-text - comprises 4.6 million detailed records describing dissertations & theses from around the world - comprehensive historic & ongoing coverage for North American works + significant international coverage - full-text for 2.1 million graduate works added since 1997 + strong retrospective full-text coverage - abstracts available: dissertations 1980- ; master's theses 1988- ; simple bibliographic citations from 1637 + 24-page dissertation / thesis previews when available.
Scopus
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1995-present; selective coverage from 1880 available online:
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Index, abstracts – Records for academic journals, books, and conference proceedings published worldwide. Covers science, engineering, medicine, social science, social work, arts, and humanities. Includes Scopus AI.
Web of science core collection
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1900-present available online:
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Index, abstracts – Records for academic journals, books, and conference proceedings published worldwide. Covers sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Includes Research Assistant, an AI tool.
Web of science. KCI-Korean journal database
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1980-present available online:
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Index, abstracts – Indexes South Korean scholarly journals, both open-access & subscription titles. Covers: engineering, science, technology, general internal medicine, sports sciences, business, economics, public administration, history, arts and humanities. Includes Research Assistant, an AI tool.
Web of science. SciELO citation index
Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1997-present available online:
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Index, abstracts – Cited references from hundreds of open access journals covering research in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa. Subjects: agricultural sciences; applied social science; biological sciences; engineering; exact and earth sciences; health sciences; linguistics, letters and arts; mathematics; physics; and social sciences. Includes Research Assistant, an AI tool.