Queen’s subscribes to hundreds of databases that include millions of journal articles, newspaper articles and ebooks. For each of these databases, Queen’s signs a license that allows students, faculty and staff to use the materials in these databases for different purposes. Most databases allow you to link to material, but some also allow you to include material in coursepacks and/or post materials in Learning Management Systems like Moodle.

In the past, it has been very difficult to find out what rights were included in each license, but we have now put in place a database that allows you to find out exactly what is permitted under the terms of the licensing agreements that we have with each database provider. This information is now integrated into services like Summon and the Get It! @ Queen’s links that appear when searching in Google Scholar – meaning that you will not need to search a stand-alone database to find out what you can do with specific articles.

Watch a quick video of how this new service works here:
Licensing Database 2-Minute Demo.

If you have any questions about the terms of use for these databases, please send an email to Mark Swartz at copy.right@queensu.ca.

Note: This menu will only appear for some of the databases in our collection. This is just a start – over the coming months, we will be adding Terms of Use information for all of the databases in the library electronic collection.

The Library now subscribes to Thomson ONE Research database.

Overview/Company Overview provides a comprehensive overview of a company. It includes key fundamentals, the latest transactions, the latest five deals, research reports, news and significant developments, and the top five shareholders. There is a Public Profile tab and a Private Profile tab. Data is global and continuously updated.

Research/Company Research provides in-depth research reports developed by expert analysts at nearly 1600 of the world’s top investment banks, brokerage houses, and research firms. Research reports are global in coverage and become available as soon as their release terms allow – from 3 days to a few weeks after release. Historical research reports are available back to 1982.

Also known as: Investext

The Library now subscribes to the International Bibliography of Art.

“The definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) . The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, with new records created by ProQuest using the same thesaurus and authority files. The database will grow by 25,000 records per year, ensuring unbroken coverage of journals that were indexed in BHA and IBA prior to 2010.  Subject coverage: European art since late antiquity; American art since the colonial period; Global art since 1945; Fine art in all media; Decorative arts and antiques; Museum studies and conservation; Archaeology and material culture; Folk art; Architectural history” — publisher’s website

The Library now subscribes to 19th Century UK Periodicals Series I (New Readerships) and Series II (Empire).  From the publisher’s website:

An online collection of British magazines, journals and specialty newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals provides an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age

Series I New Readerships: This first series in the five-series collection, New Readerships: Women’s, Children’s, Humor and Leisure/Sport charts the rapid rise of publishing in a reading culture expanding through a rise in literacy and leisure and an explosion of sports and hobbies.

Series II Empire:  This second series in the five-series collection, Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary and Colonial, covers the expansion of the Empire, addressing the economic as well as the non-mercantile aspects of British expansionism.

The Library now subscribes to the 17th & 18th Century UK Newpapers: The Burney Collection.  From the publisher’s website:

Documenting 200 years of cultural, political, social and historical events, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is the largest single collection of English news media, including newspapers, newsbooks, proclamations and pamphlets. It provides researchers with information and insight into England’s development as a world power, as well as the emergence of the modern newspaper. These 200 years of accounts are essential to the study of British history and culture at crucial periods in the nation’s development as a world power.  Gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney and now a well-known collection at the British Library, the original Burney volumes are in fragile condition and are restricted from reading-room use except as microfilm.

The Library now subscribes to the the Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842 to 2003.  From the publisher’s website:

The Illustrated London News Historical Archive gives students and researchers unprecedented online access to the entire run of the Illustrated London News from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full colour and every article and caption is full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations

The Library now has access to online editions of Le Grand Robert & Collins  and Le nouveau Petit Robert .

Le Grand Robert & Collins has the following features:

Le nouveau Petit Robert has the following features:

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses now offers full text for most of the dissertations and theses added since 1997 and strong retrospective coverage for older works. Citations are provided since 1861 and abstracts since 1980.

Queen’s theses since 1997 are also available in full-text and can be searched as a subset of the Dissertations and Theses database.

The Library now subscribes to the Library of Latin Texts Online.

From the publisher’s website:

CLCLT is the world’s leading database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions

The Library now subscribes to the database Sage Research Methods Online.

From the publisher’s website:

SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a research tool supported by a newly devised taxonomy that links content and methods terms. It provides the most comprehensive picture available today of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods)across the social and behavioural sciences. It includes more than 100,000 pages of SAGE book and reference material on research methods as well as editorially selected material from SAGE journals. In addition, SRMO contains content from more than 600 books, including the complete Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences “Little Green Books” series from SAGE