Springer Materials

Springer Materials is the world’s largest database for the identification of physical and chemical properties in Materials Science. It covers data from Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Engineering and other related fields. It supports research in the fields of bulk and fine chemical manufacturing, petroleum and petrochemicals, semiconductors and electronic materials, optical metals, ceramics, polymer synthesis and processing, and materials for fuels and energy application.

The latest addition to this platform, SpringerMaterials Interactive, is a set of advanced functionalities for visualizing and analyzing data. Examples of these functionalities include interactive graphs, dynamic data tables, and side-by- side comparisons of materials/properties. See this product overview for more information.

Adam Matthew: Primary Sources for Teaching and Research

Over 50 unique collections from Adam Matthew provide access to a wealth of primary source material from archives around the world:

• African American Communities
• Age of Exploration
• American Consumer Culture
• American History, 1493-1945
• American Indian Histories and Cultures
• American West
• Archives Direct
• China Studies
• China, America and the Pacific
• China: Culture and Society
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture
• Church Missionary Society Periodicals
• Colonial America
• Defining Gender
• East India Company
• Eighteenth Century Drama
• Eighteenth Century Journals
• Empire Online
• Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920
• First World War
• Frontier Life
• Global Commodities
• Grand Tour
• India, Raj & Empire
• J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
• Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954
• Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
• Literary Manuscripts Berg
• Literary Manuscripts Leeds
• Literary Print Culture
• London Low Life
• Market Research and American Business
• Mass Observation Online
• Medical Services And Warfare
• Medieval Family Life
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Meiji Japan
• Migration to New Worlds
• Perdita Manuscripts
• Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
• Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
• Race Relations in America
• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
• Service Newspapers of World War Two
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
• Socialism on Film
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home
• Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
• Victorian Popular Culture
• Virginia Company Archives
• World's Fairs

BrowZine

BrowZine is an app that allows for the page-by-page browsing of selected Open Access and UofA Libraries subscription-based scholarly journals. You can create your own bookshelf of favourite journals, and save individual articles for later reading.

BrowZine can be used on desktop or laptop computers, and on smartphones and tablets. The BrowZine Library lists the journals available for viewing. Click on the tablet icon in Browzine to download the app and set up your own account.

NFB CAMPUS

NFB CAMPUS is a collection of quality Canadian documentary, animation and fiction films in English and French. Content is organized around three key themes: environment and sustainability, Indigenous voices and reconciliation, and diversity and inclusion. It includes titles that are not free from the National Film Board.

CAMPUS includes a wide selection of study guides, a chaptering tool, and learning bundles for educational use.

PLEASE NOTE: To access the subscribed content on NFB Campus, you must register for an account and login to your account each time you use the database. To view the subscribed content after you login, you must click on EDUCATION with the CAMPUS logo:

WGSN Fashion

WGSN Fashion is a leading online trend forecasting, analysis and research service. It’s a key resource for students and researchers in Clothing, Textiles & Material Culture, and in Fashion Business Management. It provides creative content, tools and business intelligence to the apparel, style, beauty, design and retail industries.

This database covers 14 fashion-related product categories, and contains over 22 million images with a range of filters for searching. 

PLEASE NOTE: The publisher's license for this database is quite restrictive. UofA users must register for a personal account that is active for 90 days, and then requires reactivation from on campus to ensure that the user is still affiliated with the university.

Knovel

Knovel contains over 7,000 full text reference works and textbooks in 35 Engineering-related subject areas, and is an indispensable problem-solving tool for undergraduate and graduate students in Engineering and the Sciences.

It includes more than 120,000 interactive tables, equation plotters, charts and graphs that can be manipulated and exported into other tools such as Excel. New features in Knovel include Data Analytics and Material Properties Search.

Drama Online

Drama Online is an award-winning digital library of over 1,700 play texts, 350 audio plays and 150 hours of video from leading theatre publishers and companies offering a complete multimedia experience of theatre. It is designed to meet the full range of teaching and research needs for theatre studies, literature courses and drama schools.

Featured collections include: the theatre lists from Bloomsbury’s Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare imprints; Faber & Faber and Nick Hern Books; production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the American Shakespeare Center; audio plays from L.A. Theatre Works; filmed live performances from leading theatres such as Shakespeare’s Globe; BBC film adaptations and The Hollow Crown. New collections include: Playwrights Canada Press; Aurora Metro Books; and the Bloomsbury Scholarly Collection Critical Studies and Performance Practice.