New! June 2025 : Index to the Tamarack Review, 1956-1982

Compiled and edited by Gordon R. Adshead. TamarackEstablished and edited by Robert Weaver, the Tamarack Review was an important Canadian literary magazine which published literature in a wide variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, essays, travel memoirs, literary criticism and autobiography. From 1948 to 1985 editor Weaver worked at the CBC where he created a series of programs that featured then unknown Canadian writers such as Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, Mordecai Richler, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen. During the early years of the magazine the Tamarack editorial advisory board included the prominent Canadian literary figures F.R. Scott, W.J.M. Smith, James Reaney and George Woodcock.

New! February 2025 : An Annotated Index to BC Studies, 1969-2024

Compiled and edited by Gordon Adshead. BC Studies is a peer-reviewed BC Studiesinterdisciplinary academic journal published quarterly by the University of British Columbia since its establishment in 1969 by founding editors UBC history professor Margaret Prang and UBC Political Science Department head Walter D. Young. Papers published in BC Studies cover a wide range of topics: Indigenous studies, biography, social and political history, women’s issues, politics and government, economic history and development, archaeology, architecture and historic sites, geology and the enviroment, art and literature.

New! April 2024 : An Annotated Index to Prairie Forum, 1976-2013

Compiled and edited by Gordon Adshead. Prairie Forum was Prairie Forum an interdisciplinary scholarly journal published by the Canadian Plains Research Center in Regina, Saskatchewan: semi-annually from 1976 to 2010, and annually from 2011 to 2013. Topics covered include Canadian prairie region history, art and literature, architecture and historic sites, biography, geography, geology and the environment, industry and economy, social and political history, plains region indigenous peoples. Includes book reviews, lists of academic dissertations.

May 2023 : Full-text for The Canadian Magazine, 1893-1921

Full-text access for The Canadian Magazine will be available beginning later in 2024. Citations will link to text and illustrations in the form of facsimile pages online at Canadiana.ca.

January 2023 : Full-text for The University Magazine

Gordon Adshead has been been busy revising and augmenting the indexing for The University Magazine. Most citations now link to text and illustrations in the form of facsimile pages online at Canadiana.ca, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's invaluable site dedicated to the preservation of Canada's documentary heritage.

New! January 2022 : Chatelaine: An Annotated Index, 1928-2013

Chatelaine cover Chatelaine was first published in March 1928, created by the Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company with the purpose of focusing" on topics of interest to Canadian women: romance fiction, food, style and fashion, home design and furnishing, child care and upbringing, women’s health and relationships, with occasional articles on politics and women’s rights. Most authors were Canadians, both male and female, and almost all subjects covered were Canadian events and personalities.

August 2021 : The Canadian Illustrated News

CRKNGordon Adshead has been been continuing with annotated indexing for the Canadian Illustrated News, and Volumes One to Ten are now complete. All citations link to text and illustrations in the form of facsimile pages online at Canadiana.ca, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's site dedicated to the preservation of Canada's documentary heritage.

March 2021 : Libris Canadiana Reviewed

An in-depth review of Libris Canadiana appears in the March, 2021 issue of The Indexer.The Indexer First published by the Society of Indexers (UK) in 1958 on a twice-yearly basis, it moved in 2008 to a quarterly publication. From 2019 the journal is published by Liverpool University Press. The Indexer is published on behalf of indexing societies worldwide. It seeks to cover the full range of subjects, from articles at the cutting edge of new techniques to contributions discussing in a practical way the new tools available to indexers at all points in the technical spectrum or exploring the history of indexing.

December 2020 : Full-text for Everywoman's World

Also available on the Canadiana.ca site are some issues of Everywoman’s World. There is fair to good coverage for the years 1914 to 1920, and Libris now links to these images. The Libris Index covers 68 issues and full-text is available from CRKN for thirty-five of these. However, our own indexing lacks many examples of this rare publication, and we would like to augment our coverage. Please contact the Editor should you find copies in your attic.

November 2020 : Full-text for the Canadian Illustrated News

CRKNIn October of this year Gordon Adshead began annotated indexing for the Canadian Illustrated News, and Volumes One and Two are now complete. A very useful feature of this project is that all citations link to text and illustrations in the form of facsimile pages online at Canadiana.ca, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's site dedicated to the preservation of Canada's documentary heritage.