Databases

GENERAL RESEARCH

• eLibrary - Canadian & international newspapers & magazines, photographs, maps, and special History and Literature collections
• InfoTrac - articles and ebooks for general, computer, legal, military and other research
• Canadian Reference Centre - Canadian, American & British newspaper, magazine & journal articles
• Stats Canada - articles and data related to Canada’s economy, people, land and resources; census data
• Philica - open-access, publicly-reviewed journal articles

LITERATURE

• Novelist Plus - criticism, themes, recommendations, companion novels
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction - author biographies, criticism, theme and genre essays
• Literary Reference Center Plus

WORLD CULTURES & COUNTRIES

• Culturegrams - country information, maps, pictures, recipes
• The World and Its Peoples - country data, history, geography, economy, cultures, etc.

FRENCH

• Encyclopaedia Universalis

MULTIMEDIA

• NY Public Library Digital Gallery - over 520,000 searchable images
• Naxos Music Library - over 75,000 music tracks from many genres
• National Film Board - hundreds of films free online (documentaries, animation, etc.)

ENCYCLOPEDIAS/DICTIONARIES

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
• Canadian Geographic Atlas
• Dictionary.com
• Grolier Online Encyclopedia
• Merriam-Webster - Dictionary & Thesaurus

SCIENCE

• Science Reference Center
• Encyclopedia of Family Health
• Growing Up with Science - illustrated science encyclopedia
• PLoS ONE - open-access science journals; publicly reviewed (click PLoS JOURNALS)

SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Global Issues in Context - international viewpoints on social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues
• EBSCO Professional Development Collection & ERIC - educational issues and research
• EBSCO Psychology & Behavioural Science Collection - psychology, sociology, anthropology and psychiatry (click Professional Development Centre)

CANADIAN HISTORY

• CBC Archives - Canadian historical records from the CBC
• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Historica - primary source Canadian historical documents & references

WORLD HISTORY

• History Reference Center
• Library of Congress - American Memory - American history and primary source documents
• History of World War I
• History of World War II