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Library reopening on January 24

As of Monday, January 24, all Library branches, including stack areas, will be accessible to current McGill students, faculty, and staff. In-person reference and circulation services will resume across branches. As a result of this reopening, the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service, Pickup Service and Study Hubs will be discontinued. More information available here.

Online Resources During COVID-19

E-book Collections

Oxford University Press (Oxford Scholarship Online)
Text mining is permitted, but certain conditions apply. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub
Cambridge Core
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Full-text access to Cambridge e-books and e-journals.
De Gruyter Online
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Scholarly e-book collection which includes access to some Harvard UP e-books .
Harvard University Press (de Gruyter)
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Taylor & Francis eBooks (includes Routledge ebooks)
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Platform for Taylor & Francis published e-books. Majority of titles are DRM-free with unlimited simultaneous users, and offer full download.

More e-book collections can be found on this page.

Article Databases

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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Provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 750 core serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers. Coverage: 1975 - current. Library can facilitate negotiating text-mining rights for this database for McGill faculty and students wishing to acquire the rights with their own research funds. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub
PAIS Index
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This resource covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.
Library can facilitate negotiating text-mining rights for this database for McGill faculty and students wishing to acquire the rights with their own research funds. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub