Year-End Roundup: Looking Back at 2024’s Most Searched and Borrowed resources

Whether you’re settling in at home or adventuring afar, the Libraries are here to keep you connected, informed, and entertained throughout the holiday break. With 24/7 access to a vast collection of digital resources—articles, e-books, journals, newspapers, databases, and more—you’ll find something for every interest and need, no matter where you are.

For those looking to add a festive touch to their downtime, our video and film libguide and online audio and discographies libguide are loaded with streaming options to keep the holiday spirit alive. Whether it’s movies, music, or fascinating documentaries, there’s plenty to explore. Curious about what others are reading, or in need of some fresh inspiration? Our 2024 highlights below are packed with interesting content to help you discover new favourites for work or play.

A big thank you goes out to Andrew Senior, Coordinator of Electronic Resources and Serials; Louis Houle, Director of Collections; and Amanda Wheatley, Associate Librarian, for their help in pulling these resources together. Wishing you a joyful and restful holiday season!

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20 most borrowed e-books on McGill Overdrive / Libby*

1. Happy Place  
2. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed        
3. Book Lovers   
4. Fourth Wing   
5. Yellowface      
6. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution               
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
8. People We Meet on Vacation              
9. Before the Coffee Gets Cold               
10. I’m Glad My Mom Died            
11. It Ends With Us
12. Normal People: A Novel         
13. Dune   
14. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones               
15. It Starts With Us          
16. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes              
17. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present        
18. The Love Hypothesis
19. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel        
20. Love, Theoretically    

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20 most borrowed audiobooks on McGill Overdrive / Libby*

1. Iron Flame
2. Fourth Wing
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses
4. A Court of Mist and Fury
5. I’m Glad My Mom Died
6. A Court of Wings and Ruin
7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
8. Dune
9. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
10. Yellowface
11. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
12. 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
13. A Promised Land
14. Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
15. Spare
16. A Court of Silver Flames
17. 1984
18. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
19. Red Rising
20. A Court of Frost and Starlight

*McGill Library OverDrive collections can now be borrowed and viewed using the Libby app. Multiple libraries (for example, your local public library) can also be added.

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20 most watched films on McGill Kanopy (streaming video)

1. Vivre sa vie
2. Persona
3. Tampopo
4. Leviathan
5. Parasite
6. Altar of Fire
7. Sink or Swim
8. The Battle of Algiers
9. In the Mood for Love
10. Emotionally Focused Therapy in Action– Part 1
11. Close-Up
12. Protagonist
13. Embrace of the Serpent
14. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
15. Edward Said on Orientalism
16. Detective Montalbano: Season 1
17. The Worst Person in the World
18. Alone: Season 9
19. Donna Leon’s Brunetti Mysteries
20. 8 1/2

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Top 10 resources accessed from the Databases A-Z

1. PubMed (McGill)
2. UpToDate
3. Web of Science Core Collection (All Indexes)
4. MEDLINE (OVID) ALL, 1946-
5. Scopus (Elsevier)
6. CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)
7. JSTOR
8. PsycINFO 1806-present (Ovid)
9. Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
10. Factiva

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20 most accessed e-journals

1. Nature
2. Science
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society
4. New England Journal of Medicine
5. Nature Neuroscience
6. The Lancet
7. Angewandte Chemie International Edition
8. Nature Genetics
9. Nature Methods
10. Science of The Total Environment
11. Cell
12. JAMA
13. Environmental Science & Technology
14. Nature Medicine
15. Journal of Cleaner Production
16. Nature Biotechnology
17. Organic Letters
18. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
19. NeuroImage
20. The Journal of Organic Chemistry

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20 most accessed e-books (from the catalogue/Sofia discovery tool)

1. Development Economics
2. Natural Language Semantics
3. Calculus
4. Minaret
5. Molecular Cell Biology
6. The Jews
7. Oxford English Dictionary
8. Indigenous Writes
9. Medical-Surgical Nursing in Canada – E-Book
10. Oxford English Dictionary
11. A History of Modern Latin America
12. Modern Judaism
13. Grove Music Online
14. Robinson Crusoe
15. Singing and Communicating in English
16. Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice (Tenth Edition)
17. A Companion to World War I
18. Music Therapy Handbook
19. Fighting for a Hand to Hold
20. On Being a Teacher

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25 most viewed McGill Library Guides

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

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27 most borrowed print books (from the catalogue/Sofia discovery tool)

1. Ecology : the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance
2. Physical chemistry for the chemical and biological sciences
3. Ice ages : solving the mystery
4. Linear algebra
5. Mathematical statistics with applications
6. [The Supplementum Mesue of Franciscus de Pedemontium, Sectio I]
7. 外科收功
8. Abstract algebra
9. The works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. With memoirs of his life; to which is prefixed A view of the commencement and progress of romance
10. Gesammelte Schriften in 10 Bänden
11. الآثار الكاملة للإمام المهدي
12. Fathers and children
13. A shorte declaration of the meaning and use of a perpetuall calendare or almanack
14. The history of sexuality
15. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, comprehending an account of such facts as have been recorded on these subjects, with original observations
16. The anatomy of humane bodies : with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates, illustrated with large explications, containing many new anatomical discoveries, and chirurgical observations : to which is added an introduction explaining the animal oeconomy, with a copious index
17. Journal d’un voyage fait dans l’intérieur de l’Amérique Septentrionale : Ouvrage dans lequel on donne des détails précieux sur l’insurrection des Anglo-Américains, et sur la chut désastreuse de leur papier-monnoie
18. The Northern Renaissance
19. Orientalism
20. Still life and trade in the Dutch golden age
21. Delineations of cutaneous diseases : exhibiting the characteristic appearances of the principal genera and species comprised in the classification of the late Dr. Willan, and completing the series of engravings begun by that author
22. Two essays : one upon single vision with two eyes; the other on dew; A letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd, Lord Kenyon; and An account of a female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembles that of a negro; with some observations on the causes of the differences in colour and form between the white and negro races of men
23. Mr. William Shakespeare : his comedies, histories, and tragedies : set out by himself in quarto, or by the players, his fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish’d from those editions in ten volumes octavo, with an introduction : whereunto will be added, some other volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a body of various readings entire
24. Exercitatio anatomica de motv cordis et sangvinis in animalibvs
25. Oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau de Geneve
26. Myotomia reformata : or, An anatomical treatise on the muscles of the human body
27. La garantie de qualité du vendeur en droit québécois