EDUQ, an open archive

EDUQ.info, the open archive of the Quebec college network, collects, retains, and disseminates documents about teaching, learning, and institutional development in Quebec’s Cegeps and colleges.

With EDUQ, you can consult full-text digital resources and borrow documents. You can query the open archive by author, title, subject, date, publisher, or language. We also offer thematic and specific collections such as:

• Parea reports
• Pédagogie collégiale articles
• Documents curated by the CDC team

EDUQ is freely accessible without an account or password.

EDUQ stores submitted documents (articles, theses, research reports, etc.) and ensures their dissemination throughout the college network. For more information, go to the Deposit Service section.

Digital Resources

Databases: scientific articles, reports, theses, conference and symposium proceedings

Databases

• BAnQ numérique : Online Resources
  Access to the databases is free but requires a BAnQ subscription to connect. (ABI/INFORM collection, Academic Search Premier, Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database…)
• Cairn
  Journals of humanities and social sciences.
• ERIC
  Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a database produced by the US Department of Education that contains over one million bibliographic references on all aspects of education.
• Érudit
  Research in the humanities and social sciences and in arts and letters.
• LearnTechLib
  International journal articles and conference proceedings relating specifically to the teaching of technologies and e-learning.

Search Tools

• BASE
  Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) allows you to locate documents from 10,000 different sources (journals, institutional repositories, digital collections), most of which are available in full text
• DOAJ
  DOAJ is an index of open access journals from around the world
• Google Scholar
  Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across a wide range of publication formats and disciplines. When it provides a link to the full text of an article, it is usually made freely available and comes from an academic publisher, professional society, or repository of preprint and web-published scholarly articles.
• HAL SHS
  The open archive HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), is intended for the deposit and dissemination of scientific articles at research level, published or not, from French or foreign educational and research establishments. , in all disciplines of the humanities and society.

For help guides and tutorials, go to the Help section.

College Documentation Bulletin

Two or three times a year, the CDC publishes a bulletin to promote specific areas of its collection. For each issue, a resource person, recognized in the college network for his or her expertise in the field, is asked to select and present the resources and to write the accompanying texts.

To consult the published bulletins, go to the CDC Bulletin Collection in ÉDUQ.

To be notified of each publication of the College Documentation Bulletin, subscribe to the CDC newsletter.

ÉDUthès thesaurus

ÉDUthès is a thesaurus in the field of education. It is an organized list of controlled and standardized terms associated with educational concepts. At the CDC, using ÉDUthès fulfills the dual purpose of providing information on the topics of the text when documents are added to ÉDUQ and of refining search terms under these topics.

For more information on how to use ÉDUthès topics when conducting a search, go to the ÉDUQ Search Tips by “Subject” section in EDUQ.