Research guides: JGI216: Globalization and Urban Change: Home

Specialized databases for finding articles

GEOBASE
Lot's of urban studies articles show up in GEOBASE. This is an international journal index which also includes many Canadian and even local Toronto urban studies topics.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
IBSS is a broad based social sciences journal index that goes a long way back in time in its coverage. You will find urban studies articles in this database and some of them will deal with Canada.
US Newsstand This link opens in a new window
Includes the major international daily newspapers with full text of articles back to the early '80s.

Search "All" button
The All button on the library's home page is a great place to start your search because it includes our library catalogue and many of our databases all in one shot. Results will display categorized into books, journal articles, etc.
Library catalogue
The library catalogue tells you what we hold here at the University of Toronto Libraries. You will find the catalogue under the red "Catalogue" tab on the libraries' home page.
Summon
Summon is a powerful search engine that searches across many journals in a multitude of disciplines. Articles included in Summon will include links to take you to those items which we hold here at U of T. You will fund Summon under the "Articles" tab on the library home page.
Google Scholar
Use the "Settings" gear to get to Scholar Settings. Here you can limit to the University of Toronto. This will ensure that articles are accessible to you as students at U of T are identified.

World Encyclopedia
For background information on your city.
UN Demographic Yearbook
To determine city populations croll down to POPULATION Section 8 – click on the Excel or PDF link and you will get a list of populations of all capital cities and any city over 100,000 people. Note: the PDF to the left outlines how the population numbers are collected.

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