Canadian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley is an interdisciplinary program focused on the scholarly issues surrounding the study of Canada across a range of academic disciplines. The Library maintains a commitment to all areas of Canadian studies, including history, literature, and culture.
Collection Description
The Library collects materials in all areas of Canadian Studies, including history, literature, culture, and politics. The Library also maintains a strong French-Canadian and Quebec Studies collection.
Canadian Studies reference materials are kept in the Doe Library's North Reading Room. The major part of the collection is located in the Gardner (MAIN) Stacks, with additional materials in Moffitt Library.
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New Acquisitions in Canadian Studies
With OskiCat, new acquisitions lists are updated daily. The 15 most recent items in Canadian Studies are listed below while the full list of materials cataloged in the past 60 days can be viewed in html or subscribed to as an rss feed.
Canadian Oxford Dictionary / edited by Katherine Barber. 2nd ed. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2004. Main Stacks PE3235.C36 2004 & e-book
Guide to Canadian English usage / Margery Fee and Janice McAlpine. 2nd ed. Toronto; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Doe Reference PE3235.F44 2007 Dictionaries
Multi dictionnaire de la langue française / Marie-Éva de Villers. 4é ed. Montréal: Québec Amérique, 2003. Collection Langue et culture. Doe Reference PC2625.V54 2003 Dictionaries
Le Grand Robert electronique Based on the 12th edition of Le Grand Robert de la langue francaise (2001), it is the most complete French dictionary. Contains more than 100,000 entries, 325,000 quotations, and millions of synonyms and cross-references to related sources such as Petit Robert des noms propres (2004) and the bibliographie generale du Grand Robert. Advanced exploratory features for usage, derivation, variation, and etymologies of individual words.
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences Covers the disciplines of sociolgy, criminology, political science and women's studies. Presented with a Canadian emphasis and perspective.
Oxford Reference Online - Bilingual Dictionaries More bilingual dictionaries published by Oxford University Press including English to French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Latin. Includes several bilingual business dictionaries.
Tresor de la langue francaise informatise (TLFi) Freely available electronic version of the Tresor de la langue francaise: dictionnaire de la langue de XIX et du XX Siecle(1789-1960), a 16-volume etymological and historical dictionary of 19th and 20th century French.
Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists/ edited by Keir B. Sterling ... [et al.]. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Bioscience QH26.B535 1997 Ref Shelves Doe Refe QH26.B535 1997 Biographies
Canadian biographical index = Index biographique canadien = Kanadischer biographischer Index / compiled by Laureen Baillie. München: K.G. Saur, 2005.
Doe Refe F1006 .C353 2005 v.1-2 (2005)
Main Stacks F1005 .D5 v.1(1000/1700)-15(1921-1930)
Who's Who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada: A Contemporary Directory / Dawn P.... [2nd. ed.] Toronto: D.P. Williams, c2006.
Main Stacks CT283.W55 2006
Who's Who in Canada. Toronto, International Press, 1923-2001. Continues: Who's who and why
NRLF/Main Stacks F1005.W6
Who's Who in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Reference Press, 1985-1988.
Main Stacks PR9189.6.W47
Library Databases
Benezit Dictionary of Artists Over 190,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present. Searchable via Oxford Art Online along with Grove Art Online, The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms, etc.
Biography Reference Bank Contains biographical information on approximately 500,000 individuals from antiquity to the present.
Literature Resource Center (LRC) Indexes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
World Biographical Information System Indexes the complete contents of K. G. Saur's microfiche set Biographical Archives, providing short biographies on more than 3.6 million persons from all periods, countries and regions worldwide.
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
General or subject-specific encyclopedias, almanacs, and other collections of factual information.
Canadian Encyclopedia of Social Work / Francis J. Turner, editor. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. Social Welfare Reference HV12 .C36 2005 Online via ebrary
Encyclopedia Canadiana. [Editor-in-chief: John E. Robbins] Ottawa, Canadiana Co. [1968] Main Stacks F1006.E58 1968 v.1-10
*Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples / Paul Robert Magocsi, editor. Toronto; Buffalo: Published for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario by University of Toronto Press, c1999. Doe Reference F1006.E66 1999
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies / editor in chief, Jacob Ernest Cooke ; associate editors, W.J. Eccles ... [et al]. New York: C. Scribner's Sons; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993. Doe Refe E45.E53 1993 v.1-3 Moffitt Refe E45.E53 1993 v.1-3
Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America / editors, John M. Herrick, Paul H. Stuart. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, c2005. Doe Refe HV12.E497 2005
The Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates / editorial director Richard W. Pound ; supervising... 3rd ed. Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2005. Doe Refe F1006.M94 2005
Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies / edited by Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha. 2nd ed. London; New York: Routledge, 2009. Doe Refe P306.E57 2009
Library Databases
CIA World Factbook Provides fundamental and factual reference material on a country or issue including current economic statistics and indicators by country including population, GDP, external debt and birth and death rates. Includes maps.
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Covers the topics in contemporary linguistics from fundamental linguistic disciplines such as phonetics, syntax, and morphology to applications in other disciplines.
Europa World Provides political and economic information on over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism The Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of literary theory and criticism, providing entries on critical schools and movements, critics and theorists, and terms, along with references and bibliographies for further research.
Literature Resource Center (LRC) Indexes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers by providing access to content of numerous print counterparts including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Concise Historical Atlas of Canada / edited by William G. Dean ... [et al.] ; cartography by Geoffrey J. Matthews and Byron Moldofsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1998] Earth Sciences fG1116.S1.H52 1998
Library Databases
CIA World Factbook Provides fundamental and factual reference material on a country or issue including current economic statistics and indicators by country including population, GDP, external debt and birth and death rates. Includes maps.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World Geographical encyclopedia of names, descriptions, and characteristics of more than 165,000 places in the world.
Country Studies A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This series presently contains studies of 100 countries
David Rumsey Map Collection Contains to date over 8,000 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented.
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Portal for global mapping, imagery, and texts. Presents combinations of data from multiple disciplines visually and immediately.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection Provides electronic access to approximately 4,000 maps for all regions of the world. Maps cover mostly the 19th and 20th centuries though some represent time periods as far back as 980 C.E.
Web Portals
Web sites and subject-specific search engines available without restriction. See also Canadian Libraries and Archives under the Research Tools tab.
Use these web sites, print reference sources, or library databases to find primary sources, such as manuscripts, diaries, letters, firsthand accounts, or historical documents on a subject, person, event or issue. See also the library guide Finding Primary Sources and List of Archival Collections on the Berkeley campus.
*Blue asterisk indicates that the resource was recently added to the guide.
Ad*Access Project Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
David Rumsey Map Collection Contains to date over 8,000 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. [Note: This collection is also part of the UC Image Service and can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna Insight software provides greater functionality but must be downloaded.]
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Gerritsen Collection, Women's History Online, 1543-1945 Indexes over 4700 publications including books, pamphlets, and periodicals in 15 languages from Europe, US, UK, Canada and New Zealand that reflect the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) Indexes millions of articles published in over 4,700 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of some 475 journals published between 1802 and 1995.
Visual Collections: Images of Art, History and Culture Includes more than 30,000 images from some 35 image collections from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world in the areas of cartography, fine arts, architecture, and photography. Some of the collections included are free and open to the public; others are restricted to educational use only or on a subscription basis only. Among the collections included are: USF Rare Map Collection, MOAC (Museums and Online Archive of California), Japanese Historical Maps Catena Historic Gardens and Landscapes Archive and many more. [Note: This collection can be viewed in two ways: the Insight Browser allows users to view the collection using a web browser; the Luna Insight software provides greater functionality but must be downloaded.]
Article Indexes and Databases
Listed below is a broad selection of article indexes recommended for research in Canadian Studies. For additional resources, please consult the Library's Electronic Resource Finder.
America: History and Life Indexes over 2,000 journals published worldwide on the history of the US and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes all key English-language historical journals; selected historical journals from major countries, state, and local history journals; and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals) A comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, Canadian biographies, and other reference content from Gale, all with a Canadian focus.
Cairn Offers the most comprehensive collection of French and Belgian journals in the humanities and social sciences available online. UC Berkeley subscribes to the "Bouquet Sciences sociales" which includes the full text of more than 167 peer-reviewed academic journals. It also provides citations and archival access to more than 60 open access scholarly journals. For many of the OA titles, the current issues (generally the most recent 3 years) of the journals are not yet available.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) Indexes journals, books, policy briefs, working papers, and conference proceedings from research institutes worldwide related to international affairs analysis and advocacy materials. Also includes links to international affairs Internet sources.
Elsevier Geography Indexes over 2000 journals, monographs, books, conference proceedings, and theses covering the international literature in physical and human geography, as well as international development issues. Platform change: this database recently changed to the Ovid platform.
Ethnic News Watch Indexes over 200 ethnic, minority, and native press publications. Contains news, culture, and history searchable in both English and Spanish. Also includes a retrospective backfile of titles (1960-1989).
Film Index International Indexes almost 100,000 international feature films and shorts, Hollywood entertainment shorts, documentaries, and television movies from all over the world. Includes references to critical and industry articles on films, articles on personalities from approximately 260 international film/TV journals, information about film awards and prizes, and searchable plot summaries with cast and crew lists. This database is produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute.
FRANCIS Indexes over 3,000 journals, books, dissertations, and other American and European sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and economics. Produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique, most records are in French, with about 33% in English.
Historical Abstracts Indexes over 2,000 journals, as well as historical book reviews and dissertations, published worldwide about all aspects of world history (excluding US and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Articles covered were written from 1954 to the present.
Humanities International Complete Indexes thousands of journals, books and other published sources from around the world, with full text of over 770 journals.
Literature Resource Center (LRC) Indexes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers by providing access to content of numerous print counterparts including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
MLA International Bibliography Indexes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials supporting critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Sponsored by the Modern Language Association.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) Indexes millions of articles published in over 4,700 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of some 475 journals published between 1802 and 1995.
PAIS International Indexes books, journals, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and web sources related to public policy, politics, economics, and social issues worldwide. Includes publications from over 120 countries. Some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The Archive covers English-language material only. (Search all CSA/Illumina Social Sciences databases.)
Bibliographies and Subject Guides
Selected lists of materials in any format organized around a common theme or topic.
Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies
/ editor and compiler, Ernie Ingles; principal... 3rd ed., updated, rev. and enlarged. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Doe Refe F1008.A12.I64 1994
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Bibliotheca Americana
: a dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time. ACLS Humanities E-Book. Restricted to UCB IP addresses.
Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers
/ edited by Douglas
Ivison. Detroit: Gale Group, c2002. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 251
Doe Refe PS129.D5 v.251
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Canadian History: A Reader's Guide.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c1994.
Main Stacks F1026.A12.C36 1994 v.1-2
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Canadian Writers, 1890-1920
/ edited by W.H. New. Detroit: Gale Research, c1990. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 92
Doe Refe PS129.D5 v.92
Moffitt PS129.D5 v.92
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Canadian Writers Before 1890
/ edited by W.H. New. Detroit: Gale Research, c1990. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 99
Doe Refe PS129.D5 v.99
Moffitt PS129.D5 v.99
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The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
/ edited by Gerald Hallowell.
Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Doe Refe F1026.O93 2004
Online via Oxford Reference
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The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
/ edited by Eugene Benson and William Toye / 2nd ed [Oxford]: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Doe Refe PR9180.2.O94 1997
Online via Oxford Reference
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The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre
/ edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. Toronto; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Doe Refe PN2300.O94 1989
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Quebec National Cinema
/ Bill Marshall. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
Main Stacks PN1993.5.C2 M27 2001
Online via ebrary
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Listings of book and film reviews in journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. included in article databases and indexes, book review indexes, or review journals.
Library Databases
Book Review Digest Plus Indexes book reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults, from over 8000 leading magazines from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Includes several thousand full text reviews. For book reviews published from 1905 to 1982 go to Book Review Digest Retrospective which can be searched separately or simultaneously.
Book Review Index More than 5 million citations to book reviews from thousands of publications.
Google Scholar Lists journal articles, books, book reviews, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases may cover any given field more completely). Some listings include links to related articles and to other sources that cite the item. Includes content from free resources (such as ArXiv.org and university websites) as well as subscription resources (such as electronic journals from selected publishers). Use the UC-eLinks option, when available, to find the UCB access to a publication.
Historical Abstracts Indexes over 2,000 journals, as well as historical book reviews and dissertations, published worldwide about all aspects of world history (excluding US and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Articles covered were written from 1954 to the present
MLA International Bibliography Indexes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials supporting critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Sponsored by the Modern Language Association.
Find dissertations by searching Proquest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), which indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools and universities from 1861 to the present. Dissertations published since 1980 include brief abstracts written by the authors and some feature 24-page excerpts. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full text coverage for older graduate works.
Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources. Dissertations completed at UC Berkeley can be found in OskiCat, using the feature allowing you to limit to dissertations/theses:
Older dissertations not available full text may be obtained through Interlibrary Loan or using the "Request" option in Melvyl.
For more extensive indexing of doctoral dissertations and theses from Western Europe, here are a few other resources to consult:
Listings (may include abstracts or full text) of articles in newspapers, newsmagazines, broadcast news transcripts or wire services. Also includes web sites of these media, or directories of such sites.
ABYZ News Links A portal to online news sources from around the world. The database is primarily composed of links to online newspapers, but also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies. ABYZ News Links does not contain actual news content but only links to other news sources.
Access World News Provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources.
American Journalism Review News Link Links to more than 3,400 U.S. newspapers and 2,000 foreign newspapers. U.S. and Canadian newspapers are cross-indexed by category, state and province.
Ethnic News Watch Indexes over 200 ethnic, minority, and native press publications. Contains news, culture, and history searchable in both English and Spanish. Also includes a retrospective backfile of titles (1960-1989).
Factiva Provides general and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and news wires.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Electronic Index Indexes the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the US Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from various nations are the sources of this information. Reports since 1996 can be found in WorldNews Connection.
French Language News and Magazines A list of freely available French-language newspapers and news magazines. Compiled by the MIT Libraries.
iCON Newspaper Database A database of more than 20,000 newspaper titles from over 150 countries dating back over 350 years. A useful source for identifying the titles of newspapers from a region during a given time period. (The source does not link to full text.)
LexisNexis Academic Includes over 6,000 individual titles of international, national and local newspapers and wire services; radio and television transcripts; and business, medical, industry, and legislative magazines, journals, and newsletters.
OnlineNewspapers.com Links to the online editions of over 10,000 newspapers -- international in scope.
World News Connection Translated transcriptions and summaries of radio and television broadcasts, newspaper articles, conference proceedings, periodicals and non-classified technical reports, representing nearly every country in the world.
Canadian Libraries and Catalogs
Listings of books and other items belonging to a particular library or, as with union catalogs, a group of libraries, and usually containing information on the location and subject classification of each item. This category also includes national bibliographies, or lists of all books published in a particular country.
ArchiveGrid Searchable descriptions of nearly a million historical documents, personal papers, and family histories kept in libraries, museums, and archives worldwide.
Europeana Europeana the European digital library direct access to more than 15 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers.
Index Translationum Lists more than a million books in translation in over 400 languages of UNESCO Member States, on all subjects, published since 1979.
WorldCat on FirstSearch Combined catalog of over 1.5 billion books, journals, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, and other items in thousands of libraries worldwide. This is the original, subscription version of WorldCat - the world's largest network of library content and services. Also freely available at WorldCat.org or through Melvyl.
Library and Course Guides for Canadian Studies
Use subject guides and topical bibliographies, course guides, tip sheets, and general guides, created by librarians and library staff, to discover approaches to research.
E-book and e-journal collections, full-text online databases, and other digitized or born digital corpa relevant to Canadian Studies are listed below. Consult Article Databases and Indexes under the Research Tools tab to discover articles available in both print and electronic formats.
Journals in electronic form, available online either individually or as part of a larger collection. e-journals only available for the Berkeley campus are listed in OskiCat. The California Digital Library maintains a list of e-journals available to all UC libraries.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Gutenberg-e A collection of electronically published books selected by the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press. The titles represent a wide range of historical subjects.
North American Theatre Online More than 40,000 pages of critical, in-copyright reference works about authors, plays, theatres, productions, production companies, casts and related information covering the world of theatre from colonial times to the present.
North American Women's Drama Full text of over 1,500 plays written by 275 playwrights women since Colonial times in the U.S. and Canada with approximately one-quarter of the collection never before published.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries by more than 1000 women. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions.
Berkeley’s world-class education and research depend on the ready access offered by the Library to a comprehensive record of human knowledge, together with the latest discoveries in every field of learning.
From rare and precious manuscripts to thousands of titles used in day-to-day research, the University Library’s Canadian collection supports students and faculty in Berkeley’s academic departments and programs. The holdings range from core collections housed in the Doe/Moffitt Libraries to specialized research materials in our fourteen subject specialty libraries. Just as Berkeley’s academic programs consistently rank at the top among their peers worldwide, the Library's collections that support those departments are internationally renowned for their depth and breadth.
The University Library is seeking private support to maintain the excellence of its collections. The cost of building these collections has increased dramatically, due to spiraling book and journal costs, as well as to the declining value of the dollar. It is due, as well, to a burgeoning of new information - a dramatic rise in the number and specialization of journals, the availability of full text and searchable electronic versions of items previously held only in print, and the emergence of new genres of digital content.
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Claude H. Potts Librarian for Romance Language Collections 218 Doe Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
tel: 510.643.8966 fax: 510.643.0315
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Gifts of scholarly materials and the results of research have historically represented a significant element in the development of Berkeley's outstanding research collections. We welcome individual gifts, but due to space and staff limitations, we must be judicious in accepting large contributions. Donations of recently published books are welcomed. New book purchases will be checked to ensure titles aren’t already on order.
Please contact Frank Carothers to discuss your donation of books.
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