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Collections

The ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û Libraries have the largest collection in Quebec and are one of Canada’s most important academic libraries with access to 6 million monographs and 80,000 online journals and databases collected to support all disciplines represented at ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û.

Library catalogue

The Libraries provide access to a wide range of primary and secondary resources. Its extensive holdings of electronic and print collections are available in most disciplinary areas and can be found by searching the .

Reference materials

Bookmark the  page for links to commonly used reference material such as dictionaries, directories, guidebooks, and much more.

E-books

When you search for books in the , the electronic versions appear in the search results on the left hand side of the screen just below the Books header.

  • To find individual e-book titles, search in the  form and under Narrow your search limit Format to eBook.
  • °¿³Ü°ùÌýE-books page has additional information about ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û Libraries' ebook subscriptions.

E-journals

If you are looking for a specific journal, you can use  to search for the journal by title. You may use also the Library’s Ìý´Ç°ùÌý.

Databases

If you are looking for a specialized database, you can use  to search for that database by name or use the Library’s Ìý±ô¾±²õ³Ù.

Off-campus access to resources is handled two ways, EZProxy will prompt you for a ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û username and password, if you connect to the resource from any Library webpage. Configuring the VPN (virtual private network) client and running a VPN session allows you to connect to any Library resource from any link.

Specialist resources

Rare books & archives

The Rare Books and Special Collections Library (RBSC) has significant holdings in the humanities and social sciences and in particular art and architecture, Canadiana, history, literature, the history of ideas (philosophy and religion), travel and exploration, the history of the book as well as the rare scientific book collections of the Blackader-Lauterman, the Blacker-Wood, Islamic Studies and Macdonald Campus libraries. RBSC also provides services for  from their 4th floor location in the McLennan Library building. The Libraries also have rare book and special collections in the Marvin Duchow Music Library, the Nahum Gelber Law Library and the Osler Library of the History of Medicine.

Explore the Libraries' many digital collections, texts, and virtual exhibitions.

Use our digitization services for your research needs.

The Libraries' web pages also contain links to Government information,ÌýMaps & geospatial dataÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýÌý°ù±ð²õ´Ç³Ü°ù³¦±ð²õ.

The Libraries' subscription to specialized databases such as ,Ìý,Ìý,Ìý,Ìý,ÌýÌý²¹²Ô»åÌý allow you to view audio and visual material in your office, in class or anywhere else.

Theses & disserations

ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û theses are submitted to the Library’s open access repository  via the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office.

  •  contains the full text of a growing number of ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û theses.
  •  includes full-text of over 100,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 onwards as well as citations and abstracts for many more.
  •  contains over 2 million open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

HathiTrust

The ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û Libraries are a member of , a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Centre for Research Libraries

The ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û Libraries are a member of the  (CRL). CRL’s five million newspapers, journals, books, pamphlets, dissertations, archives, and government publications from all world regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe are available on loan in microformats and increasingly as .

Interlibrary loans (ILL) service

The Libraries' Interlibrary loan service will locate materials not owned by ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û but held by other libraries in North America. ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û graduate students and faculty members are entitled to borrow materials on a long-term basis from the CRL.

Purchase requests

The ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û Libraries will make every effort to acquire any additional material required to support teaching and learning. Please let your Liaison Librarian know about any gaps or complete the Suggest a purchaseÌý´Ú´Ç°ù³¾.

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