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Databases
Publication coverage: Current
The Canadian Law List provides a comprehensive listing of Canadian lawyers and judges. It also includes law firm profiles, world-wide affiliations, personal biographical information and a detailed listing of government departments, plus related services to the legal profession.
Canadian Legislative PULSE is an online Bill and Regulation tracking service that monitors across all Canadian jurisdictions daily. Legislative Pulse provides a searchable, cross-jurisdictional database of all Bills dating back to 2002 and Regulations dating back to 2007.
Publication coverage: Coverage varies beginning at 1977-
CORA contains hundreds of surveys including thousands of discrete items collected by major commercial Canadian firms dating back to the 1970s. In addition to providing open access to text searches for questions, the CORA site also provides access to trends and papers/reports.
Publication coverage: 1869 - present (updated weekly)
Produced by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), this database contains more than 2 million Canadian patents from 1869 to the present.Publication coverage: Indexed articles: 1980 - present ; Full-text articles: 1983 - present
This collection focuses on Canadian public policy and contains publications from government and non-government organizations. The library's subscription includes materials through 2019 and is available via the Scholars Portal Books platform. It is also discoverable through Omni.
CanLII provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions.
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New / Trial Databases
- Slavery And Anti-Slavery Digital Archive
Traces the history and ongoing cultural impact of slavery. It provides access to thousands of full-text primary source documents and archival records–on trial to Feb. 9th.
- Queen Victoria’s Journals
Queen Victoria's Journals is the product of a unique partnership between ProQuest, the Royal Archives, and the Bodleian Libraries. It reproduces high-resolution, colour images of every page of the surviving volumes of Queen Victoria's journals, from her first diary entry in 1832 to shortly before her death in 1901. The trial runs until Feb 21, 2020.