Guides: Animal Care: Articles & Databases

About Articles & Databases

These databases and journals are recommended for research in Animal Care. Content includes journal articles, conference papers and technical papers.

If you have a citation for an article, use the tool below to check and see if the Library has access to it:

Encyclopedia of Animals
Contains more than 2,000 animal profiles. These profiles include information on characteristics, habitat, and behavior. All profiles provide the scientific naming convention of the animal, detailed indexing, Lexile values, and related images.

Merck Veterinary Manual This link opens in a new window
Widely used comprehensive veterinary resources for professionals and consumers. Browse or search animal health topics, procedures, quizzes and case studies. Multimedia resources include images, infographics, videos, clinical calculators and more.
Biology Database This link opens in a new window
Agriculture Collection via Gale Onefile This link opens in a new window
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
CCOHS - Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety This link opens in a new window

Canadian Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
This database provides information on 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers. Provides a balanced series of articles that present multiple viewpoints on a variety of issues. Content includes essays, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. This database also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers.
Licence Details:
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
General Science Collection This link opens in a new window
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals (College Edition) This link opens in a new window
Statista This link opens in a new window
Access to data from over 18,000 sources including industry reports, dossiers, and statistics, including Statistics Canada. Download images, PPT slides, Excel files and more.
Licence Details:
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) This link opens in a new window
CAN LII provides links to all federal and provincial and territorial statutes, regulations and court tribunal decisions.
License Details:
Westlaw Canada This link opens in a new window
Contains O'Brien's Forms (Divisions I, V, VI, VIII), LabourSource, LawSource and CriminalSource. Access to Canadian case law and legislation, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, Canadian Abridgment Digests and various law journals.
License Details: