Online Databases

 

 

Get books, full-text articles and research materials 24/7. Our databases are a great place to find trustworthy information.

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Books & Authors

EBSCOhost: eBooks and eAudiobooks
Access a rapidly growing collection of over 300,000 eBooks and eAudiobooks, from classic works to current bestsellers. Books in different subjects are also available including politics, business, science, philosophy and psychology.

Literature Resource Centre
Provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. It includes more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

One Click Digital
Enjoy eAudiobooks by popular Canadian authors.  

Novelist 
Try books by similar authors and titles to ones you like and learn more about books and authors through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guide and Book Talks.

Ontario Library Service – powered by Overdrive
Download digital ebooks and eAudiobooks anytime and then transfer to your portable device. This collection has over 2600 fiction and non-fiction titles, including juvenile and young adult titles. This is a project made possible by the Ontario Ministry of Culture’s $15 Million Investment in Public Libraries. Most Audiobooks are iPod® and Zune® compatible.

Tumblebooks
Animated picture books online. Download free books and the free TumbleReader to enjoy e-books offline too. Includes some materials for high school students and adults.

TumbleBookCloud
An online collection of ebooks, read-along chapter books, graphic novels, educational videos, and audio books for grades 8 and up.

TumbleBookCloudJunior 
For grades 3 to 8, this is a collection of ebooks, read-along chapter books, audio books, and graphic novels.

Tumble AudioBookCloud
Online audio books for all ages that can be downloaded to a PC or MAC and listened to online.


Business Resources

Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA)
This collection provides in depth access to a broad range of Canadian business periodicals.

Canada Info Desk
In Library Use or  At Home Use
Provides users with access to over 100,000 Canadian organizations, contacts, facts and figures in one easy-to-use online resource. Directories include Associations Canada, Canadian Almanac & Directory, Canadian Environmental Directory, Financial Services Canada, Governments Canada, and Directory of Libraries in Canada.

Career Information

Career Cruising
Career Cruising is a career resource designed for people of all ages.


Children & Teens

Canadian Points of View
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.

CultureGrams
Concise, reliable, and up-to-date reports on more than 200 countries, each U.S. state, and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories.

Discovering Collection
Access award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more.

Early Peoples – World Book
Explore the history of such ancient cultures as the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Australian Aborigines, Maori, and Chinese, among others.

Early World of Learning – World Book
An online resource designed for preschoolers and early elementary students. It has three interactive learning modules:Trek’s Travels (teaching numbers, shapes, colors, opposites), Welcome to Reading (to develop phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension) and Know It (an interactive encyclopedia).

eLibrary
In Library Use or At Home Use
This is a general interest database which allows you to search full-text magazines, newspapers, books, radio and television transcripts, as well as picture and map archives. Great for homework help!

eLibrary Elementary
In Library Use or At Home Use
Junior Library users will find eLibrary Elementary incredibly useful for any area of research.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
In Library Use or At Home Use
Explore the updated online Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. Also includes Britannica for Kids.

Gale Power Search
(General One File, Infotrac, Virtual Reference databases, etc.) Full-text articles from a wide range of popular interest magazines and journals. Topics include health, science, literature, and biographies. Resources are suitable for students from elementary school to university. 

Inventions and Discoveries
Examination of advances in agriculture, engineering, communications, economics, manufacturing, the arts, astronomy, transportation, warfare, medicine, mathematics, and everyday items.

Kids Infobits
Includes more than 100 full-text, age-appropriate magazines and more than 2,500 searchable, indexed images.

Literature Resource Centre
Provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. It includes more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

Living Green - World Book
Learn about environmental issues and green living practices; examine the environmental impact of every aspect of modern life, from the water bottles we purchase, to the cars we drive, to the food we buy.

Novelist K-8
Try books by similar authors and titles to ones you like and learn more about books and authors through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guide and Book Talks.

PebbleGo
The award winning PreK-3 database for reading and research, offers two specific databases for early readers. With hundreds of topics and content areas, PebbleGo animals and PebbleGo Earth and Space will entice the youngest.

Teen Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers
Provides students with curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases & conditions; drugs & alcohol; nutrition & fitness; mental and emotional health; sexuality & sexual health; bullying and internet safety; green living; family life, and more. Content in this database is aligned to Ontario curriculum standards.

Tumblebooks
Animated picture books online. Download free books and the free TumbleReader to enjoy e-books offline too. Includes some materials for high school students and adults.

TumbleBookCloud

An online collection of ebooks, read-along chapter books, graphic novels, educational videos, and audio books for grades 8 and up.

TumbleBookCloudJunior 
For grades 3 to 8, this is a collection of ebooks, read-along chapter books, audio books, and graphic novels.

Tumble AudioBookCloud
Online audio books for all ages that can be downloaded to a PC or MAC and listened to online.

World Almanac for Kids Online 

A natural complement to the curriculum, the online site provides resources for homework, reports, and projects. Kids can explore grade-appropriate topics in a fun format while developing online research skills with a trusted source.


Do-it-yourself & Fix-it-yourself

Chilton Library
This resource provides authoritative automotive repair information and it is based on the popular Chilton Auto Repair Manuals. Find specifications on the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus specialty models.

Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
Explore comprehensive full text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. It includes full text from the leading hobby and craft magazines.

Home Improvement Reference Center
A useful online tool for home improvement assistance, including: maintenance, remodelling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc. Additionally, the database contains nearly 100 videos of popular home repair projects, and full-text magazines.

Small Engine Repair Reference Centre
The definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other small engines.


French Language Resources

Career Cruising
Career Cruising is a career resource designed for people of all ages. Includes French language interface.

Consumer Health Information - French
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content


Genealogy

Ancestry® Library Edition
Ancestry.ca has one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as record collections from Canada. NOTE: Ancestry Library Edition can only be accessed from the Library's public internet workstations.


General Reference

Canada in CONTEXT
Canada in Context integrates the finest Gale references — like Worldmark Encyclopedia of Canadian Provinces, with current articles from The Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, and Maclean’s.

Canada Info Desk
In Library Use or  At Home Use
Provides users with access to over 100,000 Canadian organizations, contacts, facts and figures in one easy-to-use online resource. Directories include Associations Canada, Canadian Almanac & Directory, Canadian Environmental Directory, Financial Services Canada, Governments Canada, and Directory of Libraries in Canada.

Canadian Points of View
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.

CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals Index)
Use this database to find articles from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, and Canadian biographies.

eLibrary
In Library Use or At Home Use
This is a general interest database which allows you to search full-text magazines, newspapers, books, radio and television transcripts, as well as picture and map archives. Great for homework help!

Encyclopaedia Britannica
In Library Use or At Home Use
Explore the updated online Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. Also includes Britannica for Kids.

Gale Power Search
(General One File, Infotrac, Virtual Reference databases, etc.) Full-text articles from a wide range of popular interest magazines and journals. Topics include health, science, literature, and biographies. Resources are suitable for students from elementary school to university.


Health & Wellness

Consumer Health Complete and Multilingual Health
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content

Teen Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers
Provides students with curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases & conditions; drugs & alcohol; nutrition & fitness; mental and emotional health; sexuality & sexual health; bullying and internet safety; green living; family life, and more. Content in this database is aligned to Ontario curriculum standards.


History

Early Peoples – World Book
Explore the history of such ancient cultures as the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Australian Aborigines, Maori, and Chinese, among others.

Toronto Star - Pages of the Past
Full page reproductions of the complete newspaper. Fully searchable. From 1894 to 2009.


Language Instruction & ESL

Mango Languages
A language learning program teaching practical conversation and cultural awareness for the world’s most popular languages. It’s the fun, easy and incredibly effective way for travelers of all kinds to learn to speak a foreign language.


Product Reviews & Reports

Consumer Reports 

Get ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in many categories including vehicles.

A to Z

Ancestry® Library Edition
Ancestry.ca has one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as record collections from Canada. NOTE: Ancestry Library Edition can only be accessed from the Library's public internet workstations.

Canada in CONTEXT
Canada in Context integrates the finest Gale references — like Worldmark Encyclopedia of Canadian Provinces, with current articles from The Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, and Maclean’s.

Canada Info Desk
In Library Use or  At Home Use
Provides users with access to over 100,000 Canadian organizations, contacts, facts and figures in one easy-to-use online resource. Directories include Associations Canada, Canadian Almanac & Directory, Canadian Environmental Directory, Financial Services Canada, Governments Canada, and Directory of Libraries in Canada.

Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA)
This collection provides in depth access to a broad range of Canadian business periodicals.

Canadian Points of View
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Career Cruising
Career Cruising is a career resource designed for people of all ages. Includes French language interface.

Chilton Library
This resource provides authoritative automotive repair information and it is based on the popular Chilton Auto Repair Manuals. Find specifications on the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus specialty models.

Consumer Health Complete and Consumer Health Information - French 
Comprehensive resources for consumer-oriented health content in both English and French

Consumer Reports
Get ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in many categories including vehicles.

CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals Index)
Use this database to find articles from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, and Canadian biographies.

CultureGrams
Concise, reliable, and up-to-date reports on more than 200 countries, each U.S. state, and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories.

Discovering Collection
Access award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more.

EBSCOhost: eBooks and eAudiobooks
Access a rapidly growing collection of over 300,000 eBooks and eAudiobooks, from classic works to current bestsellers. Books in different subjects are also available including politics, business, science, philosophy and psychology.

Early Peoples – World Book
Explore the history of such ancient cultures as the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Australian Aborigines, Maori, and Chinese, among others.

Early World of Learning – World Book
An online resource designed for preschoolers and early elementary students. It has three interactive learning modules:Trek’s Travels (teaching numbers, shapes, colors, opposites), Welcome to Reading (to develop phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension) and Know It (an interactive encyclopedia).

eLibrary
In Library Use or At Home Use
This is a general interest database which allows you to search full-text magazines, newspapers, books, radio and television transcripts, as well as picture and map archives. Great for homework help!

eLibrary Elementary
In Library Use or At Home Use
Junior Library users will find eLibrary Elementary incredibly useful for any area of research.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
In Library Use or At Home Use
Explore the updated online Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. Also includes Britannica for Kids.

Gale Power Search
(General One File, Infotrac, Virtual Reference databases, etc.) Full-text articles from a wide range of popular interest magazines and journals. Topics include health, science, literature, and biographies. Resources are suitable for students from elementary school to university.

Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
Explore comprehensive full text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. It includes full text from the leading hobby and craft magazines.

Home Improvement Reference Center
A useful online tool for home improvement assistance, including: maintenance, remodelling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc. Additionally, the database contains nearly 100 videos of popular home repair projects, and full-text magazines.

Inventions and Discoveries
Examination of advances in agriculture, engineering, communications, economics, manufacturing, the arts, astronomy, transportation, warfare, medicine, mathematics, and everyday items.

Kids Infobits
Includes more than 100 full-text, age-appropriate magazines and more than 2,500 searchable, indexed images.

Literature Resource Centre
Provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. It includes more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

Living Green - World Book
Learn about environmental issues and green living practices; examine the environmental impact of every aspect of modern life, from the water bottles we purchase, to the cars we drive, to the food we buy.

Mango Languages
A language learning program teaching practical conversation and cultural awareness for the world’s most popular languages. It’s the fun, easy and incredibly effective way for travelers of all kinds to learn to speak a foreign language.

Novelist  and Novelist K-8
Try books by similar authors and titles to ones you like and learn more about books and authors through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guide and Book Talks.

One Click Digital
Enjoy eAudiobooks by popular Canadian authors.

Ontario Library Service – powered by Overdrive
Download digital ebooks and eAudiobooks anytime and then transfer to your portable device. This collection has over 2600 fiction and non-fiction titles, including juvenile and young adult titles. This is a project made possible by the Ontario Ministry of Culture’s $15 Million Investment in Public Libraries. Most Audiobooks are iPod® and Zune® compatible

PebbleGo
The award winning PreK-3 database for reading and research, offers two specific databases for early readers. With hundreds of topics and content areas, PebbleGo animals and PebbleGo Earth and Space will entice the youngest.

Small Engine Repair Reference Centre 

The definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other small engines.

Teen Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers
Provides students with curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases & conditions; drugs & alcohol; nutrition & fitness; mental and emotional health; sexuality & sexual health; bullying and internet safety; green living; family life, and more. Content in this database is aligned to Ontario curriculum standards.

Toronto Star - Pages of the Past 

Full page reproductions of the complete newspaper. Fully searchable. From 1894 to 2009.

Tumblebooks

Animated picture books online. Download free books and the free TumbleReader to enjoy e-books offline too. Includes some materials for high school students and adults.

TumbleBookCloud
An online collection of ebooks, read-along chapter books, graphic novels, educational videos, and audio books for grades 8 and up.

TumbleBookCloudJunior 
For grades 3 to 8, this is a collection of ebooks, read-along chapter books, audio books, and graphic novels.

Tumble AudioBookCloud
Online audio books for all ages that can be downloaded to a PC or MAC and listened to online.

World Almanac for Kids Online 

A natural complement to the curriculum, the online site provides resources for homework, reports, and projects. Kids can explore grade-appropriate topics in a fun format while developing online research skills with a trusted source.