Learning Resources
Below you will find links to help you search and access materials from our physical and digital holdings as well as tools and resources to help you make use of what you find in your research. For more information on our policies, please click here.
Passwords for the databases can be found below. You must be logged in to your OCDSB account to see the login information.
Library Catalogues and General Reference Materials
Search our physical collection of books.
Our school collection of audiobooks and ebooks for borrowing.
(Login Required)
Search the city library catalogue.
An encyclopedia with a Canadian perspective and focus.
A collection of data onvarious countries and regions.
An English-language online encyclopedia. (Login Required)
A French-language online encyclopedia.
Academic Research Databases
An academic database for literature studies.
(Login Required)
A multidisciplinary academic research database.
(Login Required)
News and Multimedia Resources
A site consisting of several virtual museums and exhibits.
The National Film Board of Canada's website of documentaries and creative films.
A repository of TED talks.
Classroom resources from CBC.
(Login Required)
A major source of daily Canadian and international news
A collection of statistics on Canada.
Repository of news realeases and wire service stories.
Canada's national paper of record.
Style Guides
Tools to Support Research and Inquiry
A tool for visually and orally annotating texts, building vocabulary, and doing speach-to-text and text-to-speach
Upload any PDF and then ask the program questions and engage in a dialogue with the document to better understand some of its key points.
Drop in a PDF and JSTOR will analyze the article to identify connected research from their database. JSTOR login required.
A mind mapping tool to develop ideas alone or collaboratively
Perplexity AI is a chatbot that cultivates answers while providing citations from sources for its answers. Users can click the citations in the article to verify that the information is accurate.
A series of sonic experiments designed to help students learn music.
Talk to Books is a new platform from Google Books that allows users to curate a selection of texts based off of a batch of key words.
Tools for Content Creation
A great tool for quickly recording videos and podcasts with multiple track options.
You have access to additional features through your OCDSB account.
A user-friendly program for developing presentations, brochures, reports, presentations, short videos and other content.
A user-friendly program for developing presentations, brochures, reports, presentations, short videos and other content.
A user-friendly program for developing digital books, magazines, and multimedia flipbooks. Can also be downloaded for printing.
Tools for Programming and Prototyping
A Chrome pluggin to allow for quick digital expression of math equations.
A drag and drop coding environment that can be used to create games, programs, and short interactive videos.
Cloud based CAD software to design building, architecture and other products.
A 3D design program specifically made for use with 3D printers.
