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Alt-HealthWatch
Professional publications and magazines focusing on alternative medicine.
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Ancestry Library
A series of databases including collections of U.S. federal and United Kingdom census and civil indexes.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Master index to biographical reference books.
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Biography Resource Center
Biographical information on more than one million people.
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Business Source Complete
Includes full text of business magazines, company profiles, country reports, market research reports and industry profiles.
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Business Source Complete - Enhanced Business Searching Interface
Includes full text of business magazines, company profiles, country reports, market research reports and industry profiles.
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Canadian Literary Centre
Book and reference content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press).
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Canadian Newsstand
Full-text articles of many Canadian newspapers, including the Ottawa Citizen from 1985 onward.
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Canadian Periodical Index
Citations and full-text articles from Canadian journals and magazines. Includes some sections of the Globe & Mail.
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Canadian Reference Centre
Full text of international and Canadian magazines, newspapers and reference books.
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Career Cruising
Interactive career guidance resource.
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CBCA: Canadian Business and Current Affairs
Citations and full text to Canadian journals and magazines.
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CHOIX
Annotated bibliography of French language books. In French only.
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Biographies for prominent Canadians who died between 1000 and 1930.
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EBSCO Animals
Easy to read information about all kinds of animals, developed for elementary school students.
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Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Coverage of conferences, government documents, theses, reports, journals, books in the field of education.
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Electric Library Canada
Full text of international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Includes the New York Times (1995- ).
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Electric Library Elementary
Content from books, magazines and newspapers designed to help kids in Grades 3-7 with their homework.
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Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Electronic version of the 2nd edition of this well-known encyclopedia.
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Encyclopédie Hachette Multimédia
General French encyclopedia.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
Full text of scholarly journals in a wide variety of academic disciplines.
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Funk Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
General encyclopedia for students and adults alike.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. The Library currently subscribes to: Nonfiction Classics for Students 5v, 2001 Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2v, 2002, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2v, 2002, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed., 5v, 2002 and Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health 5v, 2002.
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General Reference Center Gold
National news, magazines and encyclopedias. Indexes the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
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Globe and Mail - Canada’s Heritage From 1844
Digitized full-image version of The Globe and Mail from 1844 to 2001.
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Grolier New Book of Knowledge
Children's multi-volume encyclopedia.
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Grolier Lands and Peoples
Encyclopedia of countries, cultures and current events geared to student readers.
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Grolier New Book of Popular Science
Multi-volume science encyclopedia geared to student readers.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Full-text access to health information from magazines, journals, pamphlets and reference books.
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Health Reference Center Academic
Academic articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases and public health.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
Full-text articles from general health magazines and professional health-care publications.
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Kids Search
Service to help both children and their parents searching thousands of articles, an online general encyclopedia and information about animals from around the world.
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L'ÎLE
Biographical information on French Canadian writers. The first two sections (Biographies and Bibliographies) are free. The last section (Dossiers de presse) is a paid section. Use Ecrivains québécois -- dossiers (L'ÎLE) to access this last section. In French only.
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Learning Express Library
Help to prepare for scholastic and occupational exams like the GED, TOEFL, LSAT, SAT, GRE and GMAT. Includes some e-books.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA)
Indexes periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings in the field of librarianship.
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Literary Index
Index to literary books published by Gale Publishing Group, including some titles owned by the Library.
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Literature Resource Center
Literature reference database that includes biographical and critical content about literary works. It also includes: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
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Master FILE Premier
Indexing, abstracts and full text to a wide variety of general magazines and academic journals.
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Novelist
Fiction reviews and recommendations for readers. Includes resources for book clubs.
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Novelist K-8
Information about picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles for young readers.
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Full-text articles from popular magazines for elementary school research.
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Regional Business News
Full-text coverage for American regional business publications.
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Repère
Citations to articles written in magazines in French languages.
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Science Resource Center
Experiments, biographies, articles and pictures to help students research scientific topics.
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Statistics Canada -- E-STAT
Track trends in virtually every aspect of the lives of Canadians with articles and statistics you can download and manipulate.
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What Do I Read Next?
Find books similar to others that you've read and enjoyed. For all ages.
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