Year-End Roundup: 2025 Most Searched and Borrowed Resources

This year, thousands of community members clicked, streamed, borrowed, bookmarked, binged, and dove deep into our collections. Now it’s time to look back at the topics and resources that defined your year.

Whether you’re cozying up at home or logging in from far away over the holiday break, the Libraries are still right at your fingertips. With round-the-clock access to e-books, articles, journals, databases, newspapers, and more, your next great read or research spark is never out of reach.

If you’re craving something festive (or just fun), our Video & Film and Online Audio & Discographies guides are packed with streamable picks to keep you entertained all season – think movies, music, documentaries, and deep cuts you didn’t know you needed.

Ready to see what the McGill community obsessed over this year? Scroll on for the 2025 most accessed titles and standout favourites across our collections.

A warm thank-you to Andrew Senior, Coordinator of Electronic Resources and Serials, for gathering the data that made this year’s look-back possible.

Wishing you a restful, curious, and cozy holiday season!


Rétrospective de fin d’année : les ressources les plus consultées et empruntées en 2025

Cette année, des milliers de membres de notre communauté ont cliqué, écouté, emprunté, ajouté à leurs favoris, dévoré… et plongé au cœur de nos collections. Il est maintenant temps de revenir sur les sujets et les ressources qui ont marqué votre année.

Que vous soyez bien au chaud à la maison ou connecté de loin pendant le congé des Fêtes, les Bibliothèques restent à portée de main. Avec un accès en tout temps à des livres numériques, articles, revues, bases de données, journaux et bien plus encore, votre prochaine lecture ou inspiration de recherche n’est jamais bien loin.

Envie de quelque chose de festif (ou simplement amusant)? Nos guides Vidéo et films et Audio en ligne et discographies regorgent de suggestions à regarder ou à écouter pour vous divertir tout au long de la saison – films, musique, documentaires et découvertes insoupçonnées au menu.

Prêt à découvrir ce qui a captivé la communauté mcgilloise cette année? Parcourez la suite pour explorer les titres les plus consultés de 2025 et les favoris qui se démarquent dans nos collections.

Un chaleureux merci à Andrew Senior, coordonnateur des ressources électroniques et des périodiques, pour avoir rassemblé les données qui rendent ce retour en arrière possible.

Nous vous souhaitons une saison des Fêtes reposante, curieuse et réconfortante!


Top 20 Watched Films on Kanopy

  1. Sink or Swim
  2. Vivre sa vie
  3. Close-Up
  4. Tampopo
  5. Persona
  6. The Gleaners and I
  7. Hiroshima Mon Amour
  8. Parasite
  9. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
  10. Altar of Fire
  11. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  12. Suspiria
  13. Night of the Living Dead
  14. Stella Dallas
  15. Cleo From 5 to 7
  16. The Battle of Algiers
  17. Leviathan
  18. The Marriage of Maria Braun
  19. In the Mood for Love
  20. The Worst Person in the World

Top 20 E-Books of the Year from Publishers

  1. American Foreign Relations Reconsidered
  2. Cold Wars : Asia, the Middle East, Europe
  3. Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption
  4. Teams That Work : the Seven Drivers of Team Effectiveness
  5. Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences : Research in an Age of Info-glut
  6. An Introduction to Thermal Physics
  7. Balance of Power : Theory and Practice in the 21st Century
  8. Global Horizons : an Introduction to International Relations
  9. Giving to God : Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times
  10. The Witchcraft Sourcebook
  11. Organizing Knowledge : an Introduction to Managing Knowledge
  12. Inequality in the 21st Century : a Reader
  13. The Origins of the Second World War in Europe
  14. Theories of Adolescent Development
  15. Cytomegalovirus : a Hospitalization Diary
  16. Cooperation under Anarchy
  17. Colloquial Yiddish : the Complete Course for Beginners
  18. Wiley Blackwell Companion to Impressionism
  19. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things : Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet.
  20. The English Civil War and Revolution : a Sourcebook.

Top 10 Books Read on EBSCO E-books in 2025

History of Spain book cover
  1. A History of Spain
  2. Buddhism : the Ebook, 4th edition
  3. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
  4. A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present
  5. Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian, Book One
  6. Power, Space, and Time: An Empirical Introduction to International Relations
  7. Poems (Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon)
  8. Nutrition Research: Concepts and Applications
  9. The Law of Contracts, 3rd edition
  10. Development Economics

Top 10 Books Read on ProQuest Ebook Central in 2025

  1. Calculus : Early Trancendentals
  2. Psychopathology : History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations
  3. Molecular Cell Biology
  4. The Jews : a History
  5. Development Economics
  6. Schaum’s Outline of Linear Algebra (4th Edition)
  7. Minaret : a Novel
  8. When the Pine Needles Fall : Indigenous Acts of Resistance
  9. Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook (8th Edition)
  10. Chronic Illness in Canada : Impact and Intervention

Databases A-Z list top 10 in 2025 by number of clicks

  1. PubMed (McGill)
  2. Méthodes de soins informatisées
  3. Scopus (Elsevier)
  4. MEDLINE (OVID) ALL, 1946-
  5. CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)
  6. UpToDate
  7. Web of Science Core Collection (All Indexes)
  8. PsycINFO 1806-present (Ovid)
  9. Library and Information Science Abstracts : LISA (ProQuest)
  10. PsycINFO 1987-present (Ovid)              

Top 20 LibGuides in 2025

  1. Learn R
  2. Getting Started with SPSS
  3. Nursing
  4. Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews, and Other Knowledge Syntheses
  5. Writing Lab Reports
  6. Citation Style Guide
  7. Newspapers
  8. Health Sciences Mobile Apps and Technology Guide
  9. Artificial Intelligence
  10. Theses & Dissertations
  11. WCOM 206 Communication in Engineering
  12. Evidence-Based Practice Resources – Interactive Guide
  13. Canadian Law
  14. Introducing Sofia: the Shared Library Search Tool
  15. Finance
  16. Legal Research Guides
  17. MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing
  18. AI and Text Mining for Searching and Screening the Literature
  19. Écriture inclusive
  20. Getting started with NVivo

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