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.
Knowledge
Ontario
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Includes historical documents, maps, pictures, multimedia and scholarly journals.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
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help
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Assistance
provided by qualified librarians and subject specialists. It’s just an
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An interactive digital space to Ontario’s history, heritage and culture.