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2023-24 Electronic Resource Changes

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2022-23 Electronic Resource Changes

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Changes
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Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America New name; previously known as Bibliography of Native North Americans May 2022
SciFinder-n New name and platform; previously known as SciFinder Scholar June 2022
Oxford Academic books New name and platform; previously known as University Press Scholarship Online July 2022
Oxford Handbooks Online New platform July 2022
American Society of Plant Biologists Journals now available via Oxford journals August 2022
Fisheries and Oceans Canada library New name and platform; previously known as Waves : the catalogue of the libraries of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Dec 2022
Statistics Canada's Rich Data Services New name and platform; previously known as Data Libreration Initiative Dec 2022
Not Renewed
Title Details Effective Date
Fish, fisheries & aquatic biodiversity worldwide Not renewed April 2022
Waters & oceans worldwide Not renewed April 2022
Gold Rush decision support tool Not renewed May 2022

2021-2022 Electronic Resource Changes

Additions
Title Details Effective Date
MLA Handbook New! January 2022
Access Medicine New! January 2022
Scholarly Publishing Collective New! January 2022
Statista New! January 2022
Changes
Title Details Effective Date
Teachers college record Now available via Sage; individual record has been removed January 2022
Not Renewed
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Paper of Record Not renewed May 2021
Hubert Wenger Eskimo database No longer available June 2021
Applied science and technology index Not renewed July 2021
Art index Not renewed July 2021
Biological and agricultural index plus Not renewed July 2021
General science abstracts Not renewed July 2021
Humanities full text Not renewed July 2021
Readers' guide abstracts Not renewed July 2021
Readers' guide to periodical literature Not renewed July 2021
Social sciences full text Not renewed July 2021

2020-21 Electronic Resource Changes

Additions
Title Details Effective Date
Paper of record New! May 2020
Gold Rush decision support tool New! June 2020
Taylor and Francis ebooks New! July 2020
LinkedIn Learning New! September 2020
Merck Index New! September 2020
Curio New! October 2020
Federated Research Data Repository New! November 2020
Civil rights and social justice New! December 2020
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law New! December 2020
Gun regulation and legislation in America New! December 2020
Changes
Title Details Effective Date
Mycological Society of America Now part of Taylor and Francis online journals June 2020
International Directory Network New platform; previously known as Global Change Master Directory July 2020
Cambridge open access Now part of Cambridge journals online July 2020
Institute of Physics open access journals Now part of Institute of Physics electronic journals July 2020
Inter-Research Science Center open access Now part of Inter-Research Science Center July 2020
JSTOR open access books Now part of JSTOR July 2020
Nature open access Now part of Nature journals online July 2020
Project MUSE open access books Now part of Project MUSE July 2020
Royal Society Publishing open access journals Now part of Royal Society Publishing July 2020
Science Direct open access journals Now part of Science Direct July 2020
SpringerLINK open access books Now part of SpringerLINK ebooks July 2020
SpringerLINK open access journals Now part of SpringerLINK Contemporary (1997-Present) July 2020
Taylor and Francis open access journals Now part of Taylor and Francis online journals July 2020
Wiley open access journals Now part of Wiley online library July 2020
America : history and life Now index only September 2020
Abacus New platform September 2020
Canadian Science Publishing and Canadian Science Publishing backfiles New platform November 2020
Modern Language Association Now part of Cambridge journals online March 2021
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Now part of Science Direct March 2021
EBSCO ebook collection Previously known as eBook collection March 2021
Not Renewed
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Canadian books and documents collection Not renewed on that platform; all books and documents are freely available online June 2020
Mergent key business ratios Not renewed July 2020
Bibliography of Canadian tree-ring research Resource no longer available July 2020
Winspear Canadian industry database Resource no longer available November 2020
Quicklaw Not renewed January 2021
Data citation index Not renewed January 2021
Geographical Association Not renewed January 2021
Geomatica Not renewed January 2021
Leisure tourism Not renewed January 2021
SimplyAnalytics Not renewed March 2021

2019-20 Electronic Resource Changes

Additions
Title Details Effective Date
SpringerLink open access books New! April 2019
Natural Resources & Environmental Studies Institute
Northern BC digital collection
UNBC faculty research and scholarship
UNBC graduate research projects
UNBC thesis collection
New records for the collections in our Institutional Repository June 2019
Ruth Fulton Benedict papers New! July 2019
SAGE Research Methods New! October 2019
Business Insights : Essentials New! October 2019
Gale Academic OneFile New! October 2019
Gale In Context : Canada New! October 2019
IWA Publishing open access New! January 2020
GeoRef open-access journals and series New! February 2020
Changes
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Theses Canada New platform May 2019
Ebook Central Access point for three previous collections: Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; and Taylor & Francis May 2019
Illume New platform; previously known as Outlook Online July 2019
Gale In Context : Environmental Studies New platform; previously known as GREENR July 2019
Sage Research Methods Cases Now available in SAGE Research Methods October 2019
British Library newspapers Previously known as 19th century British Library Newspapers December 2019
ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication New edition of the ACS style guide February 2020
CSA Online New platform February 2020
Ethnographic video online Now part of Academic video online March 2020
ACSESS digital library Now part of Wiley online library March 2020
American journal of health promotion Now part of Sage premier March 2020
Birds of the world New platform; previously known as Birds of North America March 2020
Not Renewed
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Early Canadiana Online Content is now available in Canadiana Online August 2019
Winds of heaven Streaming license has expired; please use the DVD October 2019
Natural resources library databases No longer available from the University of Minnesota's Natural Resources Library December 2019
University of Illinois Press Not renewed January 2020
Portland Press Not renewed January 2020
North American Indian thought and culture Not renewed January 2020
Early encounters in North America Not renewed January 2020

2018-19 Electronic Resource Changes

Additions
Title Details Effective Date
EBSCO Open Dissertations New! August 2018
Kanopy New! September 2018
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection New! September 2018
Project MUSE open access books New! September 2018
Maclean's magazine archive New! October 2018
Google news archive New! December 2018
Canadiana online New! January 2019
eBook nursing collection New! January 2019
PTSDpubs New! January 2019
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP database New! January 2019
Odesi New! February 2019
Colonial despatches New! February 2019
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
19th Century UK Periodicals
Associated Press collections online
British Literary Manuscripts Online
Chatham House online archives
Daily Mail Historical Archive
The Economist Historical Archive
Eighteenth Century collections online
The Financial Times historical archives
Indigenous Peoples of North America
The Illustrated London News historical archive
The Independent digital archive
Liberty Magazine historical archive
The Listener historical archive
Making of the modern world
Nineteenth Century collections online
Nineteenth Century U.S. newspapers
Picture Post historical archive
Punch Historical Archive
Sabin Americana
Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Smithsonian Collections Online
State papers online
The Sunday Times digital archive
The Times Literary Supplement historical archive
U.S. declassified documents online
As well as existing collections:
19th Century British Library Newspapers
Times digital archive
These collections are available to search together under Points to the Past; now each collection can be accessed individually February 2019
JSTOR Sustainability Collection New! March 2019
Shakespeare's Globe archive : theatres, players, & performance New! March 2019
Changes
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International historical statistics New platform April 2018
Forest History Society library, archives, and research portal New platform April 2018
Archaeology data service New name (previously: British and Irish archaeological bibliography) and platform November 2018
Women's travel diaries New platform November 2018
BC stats New platform January 2019
GovInfo New name (previously: FDSys) and platform January 2019
Natural resources library databases New name (previously: Forestry library databases) and platform January 2019
DynaMed Plus Upgraded from DynaMed January 2019
Oxford reference New name (previously: Encyclopedia of climate and weather); this collection has expanded to include additional titles February 2019
Not Renewed
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PrimateLit This publicly accessible collection is no longer available. January 2019
Lynne Reinner Publishers Titles from this publisher are now available via Brill online journals March 2019
American Ornithological Society Titles from this publisher are now available via Oxford journals March 2019

2017-18 Electronic Resource Changes

Additions
Title Details Effective Date
Frontier life New! September 2017
UN iLibrary New! January 2018
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists New! February 2018
Wildlife Disease Association New! February 2018
American Ornithological Society New! February 2018
Changes
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Canadian electronic library publisher's collection New platform April 2017
SimplyAnalytics New title (previously: SimplyMap) and new platform July 2017
Geological Society of America New platform August 2017
Health affairs New platform October 2017
Duke University Press New platform November 2017
JBI database of systematic reviews and implementation reports New title (previously: Joanna Briggs Institute library) and new platform December 2017
OECD data New title (previously: Statistics from A - Z) and new platform December 2017
Open data New platform December 2017
Saskatchewan economics journal New platform December 2017
American Physiological Society New platform December 2017
Wiley online library New platform March 2018
Not Renewed
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Environmental sciences and pollution management Not renewed April 2017
PAIS index Not renewed April 2017
Digitization projects registry Access point moved to the Government Documents subject guide April 2017
Government of Canada web archive Access point moved to the Government Documents subject guide April 2017
Commissions of Inquiry (Government of Canada Privy Council Office) Access point moved to the Government Documents subject guide April 2017
GALLOPP Access point moved to the Government Documents subject guide April 2017
Historical debates of the Parliament of Canada Access point moved to the Government Documents subject guide April 2017
West beyond the west Platform defunct; most content available on Arca BC or the Canadiana Discovery Portal. July 2017
CRSP 1925 US Stock database Not renewed August 2017
OFFSTATS Platform defunct August 2017
Worldwide political science abstracts Not renewed October 2017
IM PAN Not renewed December 2017
Botanical Society of America Titles now published by Wiley December 2017
American Society for Nutrition Not renewed December 2017
Safari technical books Not renewed; purchased high-use titles February 2018
First Nations periodical index Platform defunct March 2018

2016-17 Electronic Resource Changes

Additions
Title Details Effective Date
Cold regions bibliography project Replaces Antarctic bibliography and Bibliography on cold regions science and technology. April 2016
Social work reference center New October 2016
Registry of Canadian government information digitization projects  New February 2017
InTech open access books New February 2017
Cambridge open access books New February 2017 
Directory of open access books New February 2017
E-International Relations Publishing open access books New February 2017
JSTOR open access books New February 2017
PubAg New March 2017
Federal Science Library New March 2017
Changes
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Canadian major dailies Name change (previously: Canadian newsstand major dailies) June 2016
PAIS index Name change (previously: PAIS international and PAIS archive) June 2016
AnatomyTV Merged records for AnatomyTV and Anatomy & physiology; they are now hosted on the same platform September 2016
Canadian Newsstream Name change (previously two collections: Canadian Major Dailies and Canadian Newsstand Pacific) October 2016
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Name change (previously CBCA Education and CBCA Reference & Current Events; the new collection also includes CBCA Business) October 2016
Taylor & Francis Online Journals Subscribed to a different collection January 2017
Annual Reviews Subscribed to a different collection January 2017
Not Renewed
Title Details Effective Date
Antarctic bibliography Merged with Bibliography on cold regions science and
technology

April 2016

Bibliography on cold regions science and
technology
Merged with Antarctic bibliography

April 2016

Library Literature & Information Science (Wilson) Not renewed

May 2016

PAIS archive Merged with PAIS international to become PAIS index)

June 2016

Métis Centre of NAHO This resource is no longer available

June 2016

Global Resources Network Not renewed

July 2016

Women and social movements in the United States, 1600 – 2000 Not renewed January 2017
LexisNexis Not renewed January 2017
ArchiviaNet  This resource is no longer available February 2017
Forest Science Not renewed March 2017

Please contact Heather Empey, Collections & Acquisitions Librarian, by email at heather.empey@unbc.ca or by phone at 250-960-6468 with any questions or comments.