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All material in Wikipedia must be verifiable. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. Academic libraries are a great source of resources: indeed academic and peer-reviewed publications, scholarly monographs, and textbooks are often considered the most reliable sources for Wikipedia. Additionally, resources do not have to be accessible online: Printed books and journals and materials from academic databases can be used a resources to ensure verifiability of a topic (and Wikipedia based projects can be great opportunities to leverage library resources).

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Open Access (OA) resources

• OPANEN - Open monographs
• Directory of Open Access books
• JURN - OA search engine (journals primarily and some theses)

Women in STEM fields

• Women in STEM fields (Wikipedia article)
• Gender differences in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM) programs at university. Statistics Canada report.
• Science.ca's list of female scientists
• Famous Canadian Women - Scientists, Engineers and Astronauts

Databases

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Web of Science To find Canadian research on a topic, in the first search box, type: Canad* and select the Address field. In the second search box type keywords for your topic. For example, if you are looking for research about dairy cows, type the common names, synonyms and scientific names joined with the Boolean operator OR. e.g. "dairy cow*" OR "dairy cattle" OR "Bos taurus". See an example here.

[Note, quotation marks are used to search as a phrase e.g. "Bos taurus". The * symbol is used to find any ending. eg. farm* will find farm, farms, farming, farmer, farmers]