Online Databases
An excellent cross-curricular research database of more than 5,900+ magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. It also includes more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press Updated from 1930 to the present. Suitable for Grades 8+!
An excellent encyclopedia with areas devoted to Canadian content. Easy-to-understand results include not just text, but images, primary resources and multimedia files.
Britannica LaunchPacks offers teachers and students access to high-quality, diverse content sets. The content relates to a specific topic and offers curriculum-aligned instruction in a given grade range.
The Canadian Encyclopedia plays an essential role in providing Canadians and others with accurate, updated information about our people and country. The Encyclopedia contains more than 61,000 multimedia items including images, maps, games, audio and video.
Designed to assist in understanding a full scope of controversial subjects from a uniquely Canadian perspective. Students can use CPOV as a guide to debating, developing arguments, writing position papers, and developing critical thinking skills. Suitable for Grades 7+!
Specifically designed for school libraries in Canada, this database offers a full-text collection of regional and international periodicals, newspapers, and newswires. It also includes thousands of images from the Canadian Press. Suitable for Grades 7+!
Use this intuitive interface to cross-search EBSCOHost databases such as Academic Search Premier, Canadian Reference Centre, and Canadian Points of View Reference Centre. Please note that this interface doesn't include all the features of each database. If you require full functionality, please use the links to each individual database.
GreenFILE is an open source free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more
An excellent collection of consumer health information provides access to 70 + full-text consumer health magazines along with searchable full-text for current health pamphlets.
Use this simple interface to access a growing collection of open access journals, books, images, and media.
The readers' resource that helps you uncover your next great read! NoveList Plus is a comprehensive reader's advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction books. It uses an intuitive interface to help readers answer the question: What should I read next?
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full-text for 520+ national, international, and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
Provides up to date, nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular and self-help support. Database articles cover diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, green-living and more.
World News Digest serves as an archival record of domestic and international news and covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940. Suitable for Grades 8+!
This French database provides access to more than 38,000 articles, including current issues and trends, 25,000+ media items, a world atlas with over 1400 maps, an integrated dictionary with 122,000+ entries, and a guide to selected Web sites.