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Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires, and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full-text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K.) periodicals in full text, full-text reference books, full-text biographies, and an Image Collection of photos, maps, and flags.

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The most comprehensive Canadian literary database availableThe Canadian Literary Centre consists of book and reference content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press). ECW Press also provides several individual monographs and biographies, essays and literary criticism. The database includes book reviews, essays, author biographies and much more. Canadian Literary Centre features full- text sources such as Canadian Fiction Studies, Canadian Biography Series, Canadian Writers and Their Works (Poetry and Fiction Series), ECW’s Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists, ECW’s Guide to Canadian Poets, George Woodcock’s Introduction to Canadian Fiction, George Woodcock’s Introduction to Canadian Poetry, Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors, Essays on Canadian Writing, Books in Canada, Quill & Quire, Textual Studies in Canada, University of Toronto Quarterly and many more.

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