ALA Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. ARBA Online is a comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works. The online edtion was launc… more »

MLA Literary Research Guide The Literary Research Guide is a selective, annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English, and related topics. Now availa… more »

Now available via UVic Libraries' website, under Databases A-Z or Databases by Subject Abbreviationes - Medieval Abbreviations Made Easy A database of medieval Latin abbreviations (first publicly shown in 1992, generally available since 1993), is a gr… more »

SpringerProtocols is the largest subscription-based electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiling protocols from Humana’s successful book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular… more »

A facsimile edition of the Codex Sinaiticus, known as the world's oldest bible, has been purchased by the library and is now housed in UVic Libraries' Special Collections.  Dated to somewhere in the middle of the fourth century, this manuscript is impor… more »