British Columbia's 4.6 million residents now have free perpetual access to leading Gale research databases – nearly 200 million pages of digital historical content – as part of a unique agreement arranged by the University of Victoria Libraries, University of British Columbia Library, and Simon Fraser University Library.
Through their local public, academic, school, or museum library, residents of British Columbia can now access all Gale Digital Collections databases including digitised versions of periodicals such as The Economist, The Financial Times and Associated Press content, as well as digitised materials from The Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex. In addition, residents will be able to explore the North American story through Indigenous Peoples: North America, as well as make new discoveries with access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online and Eighteenth Century Collections Online, often considered essential resources for the modern academic researcher.
All of the materials will be delivered via Gale's Artemis: Primary Sources platform, which means the collections are cross-searchable and leverage advanced research features such as graphing and search visualization tools.
