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This Month: International Womens' Day
March 2015
About this newsletter

To illustrate the breadth and relevance of CEL content, this monthly release provides a small topical selection from the thousands of titles included in Canadian Electronic Library, featuring both new accessions and user favourites.

With a Canadian Electronic Library subscription, these and hundreds of other titles like them become instantly available to your library users.


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This Month's Issue
 

On March 8, women in Canada and around the world will be Making it Happen.  

Here we have drawn a few highlights from the wealth of materials on women's issues provided by Canadian Electronic Library.

If you missed it, be sure to check the February issue, which covers the subject of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women. Review the Public Access Collection available at this url.
 

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Public Documents
Sex Work in Canada: The Public Health Perspective
Canadian Public Health Association 2014
The Parent Trap: Child Care Fees in Canada's Big Cities
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 2014
Report on Equality Rights of Women
Canadian Human Rights Commission 2014
Unprotected, Unrecognized: Canadian Immigration Policy and Violence against Women, 2008-2013
Migrant Mothers Project, University of Toronto 2014
Sexual Assault Policies on Campus: A Discussion Paper
Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children 2014
Progress on Women's Rights: Missing in Action - A Shadow Report on Canada's Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 2014
Action Plan to Address Family Violence and Violent Crimes against Aboriginal Women and Girls
Status of Women Canada 2014
#CyberMisogyny: Using and Strengthening Canadian Legal Responses to Gendered Hate and Harassment Online
West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund 2014
Digging Deeper: Towards Greater Action on Global Rights for Women and Girls
Canadian Council for International Cooperation 2014
A Study on Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons 2014
The Impact of Resource Extraction on Inuit Women and Families in Qamani'tuaq, Nunavut Territory: A Qualitative Assessment
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada 2014
Trials and Trails of Accessing Abortion in PEI: Reporting on the Impact of PEI's Abortion Policies on Women
University of Prince Edward Island 2014
The Case for a National Action Plan on Violence against Women
Canadian Network of Women's Shelters and Transition Houses 2013
Your Words Are Worth Something: Identifying Barriers to the Well Being of Older Women: Older Women's Dialogue Project Report
Canadian Centre for Elder Law 2013
Beyond Appearances: Brief on the Main Issues Facing Girls in Canada
Girls Action Foundation 2013
Get on Board Corporate Canada: Greater Transparency Needed for Gender Diversity on Canadian Boards
TD Economics 2013
Rethinking Women and Healthy Living in Canada
British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health 2013
Those Who Take Us Away: Abusive Policing and Failures in Protection of Indigenous Women and Girls in Northern British Columbia, Canada
Human Rights Watch 2013
Domestic Workers across the World: Global and Regional Statistics and the Extent of Legal Protection
International Labour Organization 2013
It Shouldn't Be This Hard: A Gender-based Analysis of Family Law, Family Court and Violence against Women
Luke's Place Support and Resource Centre for Women and Children 2012
A Profile of Canadian Women in Rural, Remote and Northern Communities
Status of Women Canada 2012
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading? Canada's Treatment of Federally-Sentenced Women with Mental Health Issues
International Human Rights Program (IHRP), University of Toronto Faculty of Law 2012
Books
Beyond Bylines : Media Workers and Women's Rights in Canada
Barbara M. Freeman
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2011
Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work
Sheila Neysmith;Marge Reitsma-Street;Stephanie Baker-Collins;Elaine Porter
University of Toronto Press 2011
Caring For/Caring About : Women, Home Care and Unpaid Caregiving

University of Toronto Press Higher Education 2004
Defending Battered Women on Trial : Lessons from the Transcripts
Elizabeth A. Sheehy
UBC Press 2013
Democracy's Angels : The Work of Women Teachers
Kristina R. Llewellyn
McGill-Queen's University Press 2012
Discounted Labour : Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
Carmela Patrias;Ruth A. Frager
University of Toronto Press 2005
Doing Time on the Outside : Deconstructing the Benevolent Community
Madonna R. Maidment;MaDonna R. Maidment
University of Toronto Press 2006
Firekeepers of the Twenty-First Century : First Nations Women Chiefs
Cora Voyageur
McGill-Queen's University Press 2008
Gendered News : Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada
Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant
UBC Press 2013
Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy : Rebuilding Progress

IDRC Books/Les Éditions du CRDI 2011
Living the Edges : A Disabled Women's Reader

Inanna Publications and Education Inc. 2010
Opening Doors Wider : Women's Political Engagement in Canada

UBC Press 2009
Pinay on the Prairies : Filipino Women and Transnational Identities
Bonifacio;Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
UBC Press 2013
Public Policy for Women : The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues
Marjorie Griffin Cohen
University of Toronto Press 2009
Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds : Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women
Parin Dossa
University of Toronto Press 2009
Racialized Migrant Women in Canada : Essays on Health, Violence and Equity

University of Toronto Press 2009
Sex and the Revitalized City : Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship
Leslie Kern
UBC Press 2011
Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes : Canadian Women, Smoking, and Visual Culture, 1880-2000
Sharon Anne Cook
McGill-Queen's University Press 2012
Speaking Truth To Power : A Reader on Canadian Women's Inequality

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 2010
Stalled : The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments

UBC Press 2013
The Bold and the Brave : A History of Women in Science and Engineering
Monique Frize
University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 2010
The Strength of Women : Âhkamêyimowak
Priscilla Settee
Coteau Books 2011
Transforming Labour : Women and Work in Postwar Canada
Joan Sangster
University of Toronto Press 2010
Translating Women

University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 2011
Victim No More : Women's Resistance to Law, Culture and Power

Fernwood Publishing 2009
About Canadian Electronic Library

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Canadian Publishers Collection, the centrepiece of CEL, offers over 15,000 titles from over 70 publishers on an affordable subscription plan, which makes all titles available to all users all the time, eliminating wait time frustrations. Another 3,000 are available for purchase only.

Canadian Public Documents is a collection of monographs of lasting reference value harvested from the sites of thousands of public agencies on a regular basis and offered to libraries under a subscription model, although all documents are provided under a perpetual access license.  Over 37,000 titles are included currently, with hundreds added each month.

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About desLibris (pronounced "day-LEE-bris")

An alternate platform for CEL content, desLibris is an e-Resource. The public site provides open access to tens of  thousands of Canadian books and documents with previews. Add the desLibris url to your library e-Resource list to give your users full online access to all titles.

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The CEL subscription model puts these rich resources into an affordable price range for libraries of all types and sizes. Most libraries can acquire CEL for just pennies per title. The basic collection currently delivers over 53,000 Books and Documents under a simultaneous multiple-user license. Hundreds of new titles are added each month with full MARC support. The prices below cover the complete collection on the ebrary platform. Inquire for a specific quote for your library.
 
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