Explore your topic
Use Summon - which makes it possible to search across many of the library's collections simultaneously. Including books, ebooks, journal titles, games, music, videos, government information, maps, and more.

However,  Summon doesn't search everything that the library owns or subscribes to so you will still need to search other resources to find everything that you need. Summon also doesn't let you do sophisticated searches that you may be used to doing in specific databases or the library catalogue.  

When to use Summon

• When starting research on a topic
• If you are not sure which databases to use

Use the catalogue to find books, government documents, conference proceedings, films and journals.  Only the titles of journals are included in the catalogue: use the databases to search for individual articles.

If you know the title of the item you seek, perform a title search.

If you know the author, perform an author search.  Enter the author's name with the surname first.

Otherwise, try a keyword search.  Scroll down the keyword search page to get help and tips such as:

Use Boolean operators to refine or expand your search:

    AND to find all of the words in any order
    OR to find any of the words
    AND NOT to exclude one or more words

When using more than one operator, use parentheses to group words.

example (work or lab*r or employment) and canad*

Once you find one or more good books, look at the SUBJECT headings that have been used.  Follow those SUBJECT heading links to find related books.

Fulltext eBook Collections:
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Columbia International Affairs Online
Oxford University Press eBooks
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Canadian Publishers Collection
Wiley Online Journals

Digi 20  - A full-text edition of over 4000 German-language monographs in the humanities and social sciences from major German academic presses
OstDok - Eastern European Documents online.  Includes digitized versions of academic monographs and periodicals in Eastern European studies

Consult the News Guide for details of news sources.
Tips for searching newspaper databases.

For current newspapers/news:

•     Canadian Newsstream
•     PressReader
•     Factiva
•     LexisNexis

For historical Canadian & other newspapers:

•     The Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844
•     New York Times 1851-2005
•     Toronto Star: Pages of the Past
•     Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
•     Guardian (1821-2003)
   
• Argumenty i Fakty
  A popular weekly writing on all subjects. Boasts the biggest circulation among Russian weeklies.
• Current Digest of the Post Soviet Press
  Each week, it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, translated into English.
• The Center for Research Libraries (CRL catalog)
  A great institution to check for historical documents, newspapers, journals, archives and other sources. "The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery." Carleton University Library is a member of CRL.
• German History in Documents and Images
  A collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present.
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003

Russian Sources:

• National Library of Russia
  • Gazety Rossii (1703-1917)
  • Serials (Journals and Continuing resources)
  • Russkaia kniga grazhdanskoi pechati XVIII database
• State Archive of the Russian Federation
• Russian State Library
  • Catalogue of newspapers
  • Dissertations catalogue
  • Serials catalogue
  • Manuscripts catalogue
• Union catalogue of Russian Libraries (244 libraries)
• Russian Law Resources
  • Law Library
  • Federal Law Portal
• Political posters (The New York Public Libary)

Eurasia

• National Library of Kazakhstan
• Union Catalog of Kyrgyz Libraries
• National Library of Azerbaijan
• National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
• Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries

Western Europe

• Archives Nationale (France)
• Das Bundesarchiv (Germany)
• National Archives UK
• United Nations Treaty Collection (1946- )
• United States National Archives and Records Administration

Eastern Europe

• National Library of Poland
  • NUKAT (a union catalogue of Polish academic and research libraries)
• National Library of the Czech Republic
• Slovak National Library
• National Library of Hungary
• National Library of Ukraine

•    Library of Congress
•    Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
     Contains daily reports of developments in Eastern Europe.
•    Radio Prague
     An international broadcast station for the Czech Republic. Currently broadcast in five languages: English, Czech, German,
     Spanish and French. Covers Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
•    Interfax News Agency
     Website for news and information on Russia, CIS and Baltic countries.
•    Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst
     From Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University.
•    Russian public opinion center
  • Всероссийский центр изучения общественного мнения (ВЦИОМ)

    Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM). The "База данных" section includes a searchable database with data 1992-present; articles on current issues; ratings, conference reports, exit-poll data; data from ongoing projects. Other useful sections include Новости (News) and Выборы-2012 (Elections-2012).

  • Левада-Центр - Includes an omnibus survey service. Archive (Архив) includes a list of previous surveys and results. Data from some specific projects are available freely online. Includes several indexes of current PO data of general interest.