Political Science

Canadian primary source content, includes books, magazines and government documents published from the time of the first European settlers to the first half of the 20th century.

The Héritage project hosts some of Canada’s most popular archival collections online. It provides access to primary-source documents, chronicling the country and its people from the 1600s to the mid-1900s. Digitization of this collection, as well as Canadiana, is ongoing and this collection continues to grow.

British state papers starting with Henry VIII's accession in 1509 through to the reign of George III. MRU access includes:

• Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
• Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
• Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
• Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland
• Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part I: State Papers Domestic, Military, Naval and Registers of the Privy Council
• Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part II: State Papers Foreign, Low Countries and Germany

Access to primary source documents, reference sources, full-text academic journals, maps, images and statistics.

Access to all the Gale Primary Source Collections.

For a full list of permitted uses for a particular collection, please refer to the entry for that collection in the MRU Library database list.

Alberta residents who are not MRU students or employees can access some of the resources via the Alberta Research Portal instead.

Digitized documents from and deposited by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development associated departments.

Cross-cultural resource for information on women's history. It spans more than four centuries and includes over two million pages.

The Alberta Research Portal provides primary sources including monographs, photographs, newspapers, poetry, original documents, records, and more. It includes extensive resources related to First Nations and Indigenous peoples, Human Sexuality and Gender, the Associated Press Collections, Smithsonian Collection Online, Sabin Americana, and more. Anyone in Alberta with an Internet-connected device can access these resources freely.

This collection contains monographs of research papers, reports, studies, policy papers & briefs, environmental scans and more.

Policy Commons is a one-stop community platform for objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, nonpartisan think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.

Canadian primary source content, includes books, magazines and government documents published from the time of the first European settlers to the first half of the 20th century.