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GEC Computers in the Classroom
online subscription databases

All Links Verified: April 9, 2009

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Your School Virtual Library available 24-7!


You’ll need logins and passwords for some of these databases at school and you’ll need logins and passwords for all for home use.
See your teacher-librarian or teacher.

Locksmall Knowledge Ontario


Infobits Kids InfoBits Infotrac Junior Edition - K12 
Discoverying Discovering Collection SRC Student Resource Centre
CPIQ CPI.Q Canadian Periodicals General General Reference Centre
InfotracS InfoTrac Student GVRL Gale Virtual Reference Library

Additional Databases - Power Search
Intermediate/Senior
Professional

EBSCO Databases

  • Auto Repair Reference Centre
  • Canadian Points of View
  • EBSCOhost Research Databases

Health Databases

eLibrary Curriculum Edition
Use this when you need authoritative resources for your projects. Just starting a project? Check out the Topic directory to help get ideas and to narrow your search. Newspapers, magazine and scholarly journal articles, videos, maps, pictures and transcripts of television and radio programs and editor’s-pick web sites can be found here. Also included two special collections:

  • History Study Center – use it for primary and secondary history sources. Includes historical documents, maps, pictures, multimedia and scholarly journals.
  • ProQuest Learning: Literature – use it for author searches, literary criticism, literature reference, literary works. Includes Study Pages, KnowledgeNotes, multimedia resources and references (dictionaries, citation guides)

eLibrary Elementary
Are you in Grade 3 to 8? Use this when you need information you can trust. You can find newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, videos and radio and T.V. transcripts (a transcript is what they said during the program). You can also find your Bookcarts, filled with great resources for all your school projects. No login and password needed when you use it at school. See your teacher or teacher-librarian for logins and passwords for use at your home computer.

Encyclopaedia Universalis
L’encyclopédie Universalis en ligne comporte un moteur de recherche puissant et intelligent donnant accès à plus de 33 000 articles, 17 000 documents multimédias, un atlas mondial avec plus de 700 cartes physiques, politiques et administratives sur lesquelles il est possible de faire des zooms, un dictionnaire intégré avec 120 000 entrées et un guide de sites Web sélectionnés.

Eureka.cc
The titles included in this collection of well-known francophone resources are available as text or PDF files. The resources are updated daily and contain 20 years of archives. The collection includes national and international newspapers, news wires, audio capsules and radio/television transcripts. The French-language titles are bundled with 20 English-language daily newspapers from across Ontario

Grolier Online
Need an encyclopedia? Look no further – there are 5 different ones in this database.

  • Grolier Multimedia
  • Encyclopedia Americana
  • New Book of Knowledge
  • Lands and People
  • New Book of Popular Science

The Canadian Encyclopedia
A great place to start when your project is on Canada.

Career Cruising
Use this database when you need career-based information. There are job descriptions for hundreds of careers, education paths, an on-line inventory to help with career selection and a space to create your own career portfolio.

E-Stat
Use this site if you need to create tables and graphs using Canadian Statistics. E-Stat will create the graph for you! Using statistics helps to provide evidence and examples for supporting hypotheses and thesis statements.

Ask Ontario
Need help with your secondary research project? Real time, real people, real help 24 – 7! Assistance provided by qualified librarians and subject specialists. It’s just an e-mail away.

Our Ontario
An interactive digital space to Ontario’s history, heritage and culture.