Canada Commons Demonstration
The definitive source for Canadian federal, provincial and municipal government information.
This is an index to, and collection of, over 1 million publications from more than 500 unique government sources. For the first time, federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal reports of research value—as well as literature from major political parties—are made discoverable in a single site.
Why is this important? Researchers can now discover information and data pertaining to the issues that matter in Canada—healthcare, climate, education, first peoples, and more—across a diversity of sources in a single, seamless search.
Highlights
Index and links for more than 500 Canadian government document collections, from major federal sites such as The Weekly Acquisitions List, to materials from political parties, local municipal departments, and individual historical websites.
Identification, capture, and preservation of rare, hard-to-find content. Where copyright allows, we capture copies of the material.
Hosting: We invite members of the Commons to upload or submit additional government documents for inclusion on the site.
Enriched content: Find tables within content and export them in CSV format.
Advanced Search: The file will enable keyword and advanced searching of more than 1m documents from the 1800’s to the present, together with facets and fielded searching
Curation: Our editors specifically look for organizations and content that’s outside existing sources.
Regular updates: Key sites are updated weekly.
Social tools: Follow individual topics, people, or organizations. Create branded portals. Receive alerts.
Integration: The database is fully cross-searchable with the e-books and documents on Canada Commons. It works with major discovery systems like Summon, EDS, and Primo.
For more information:
The following packages are available:
Canada Commons: Complete - a package of all modules.
Canadian History and Culture, 1919-1970 (forthcoming) - also available for purchase.
For more information please contact:
Salvy Trojman
The Trojman Corporation
145 Macarthur Drive, Thornhill, Ontario L4J 8J6
salvy@trojmancorp.com,
416-617-2592