Library Guides: Canadian Government Information: Home

Catalogs

Aurora: Canadian National Catalogue [Library and Archives Canada]
A catalog of citations to materials held by libraries in Canada. More than 30 million records from 1,300 libraries.

Our Catalogue (Canadian Government)
A list of reports and publications of the Canadian federal government.
Federal Science Libraries
FLS contains the catalogs of seven Canadian government libraries. By selecting Full Text Online you can limit to only material you can see immediately.

Databases

Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly [Gale]
A database of articles and abstracts for Canadian and Canadian-focused journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Includes citations from 1980 forward to more than 1,300 periodicals, with more 700 titles available in full-text since 1983.

CANLII
Canadian Legal Information Institute
Open Information Portal
The goal of Open Information is to provide easy access to all of the Government of Canada’s information. This provides Canadians with greater transparency of government programs, activities, publications and spending.

Canadian Documents Collections

Government of Canada Publications
An access point for free and priced publications authored by the Government of Canada

Canadian Government Publications

Depository Collections

Western has more than 18,000 Canadian government publications. Most of them were acquired through the Canadian Depository Library System, which the government eliminated in 2013.

Western is also a depository for United States federal and Washington state documents.

Most government documents circulate. They can be checked out by anyone with valid identification, not just Western students.