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Online Resources: Research & Reference

Research just got a lot easier at your local library!


Learn how to fix your car, find health information and more! Now you can access over 30 online research databases in the Library or anywhere you access the Internet.

Note: You will need to enter your 14-digit library card number to access the following databases.

Our Most Popular Databases!
Get quick access to our most popular databases.
» NEW! Consumer Health Complete/Multilingual Health
» NEW! Canada in Context
» NEW! Chilton Library (Automotive Repair)
» NEW! Grzimek's Animal Life
» NEW! Literature Resource Center - LRC

» Overdrive AudioBook Digital Library
» Career Cruising
» Teen Health & Wellness
Search by Subject (eCollection)
Use InfoTrac eCollections to search by subject - just click on your subject and only the relevant databases will be searched!



Cross-Search: Cross-search all the above ecollections at once! »

Search by Database

Ancestry Library Edition - (You must be inside the Library to access this database)
Ancestry Library Edition: Ancestry® Library Edition is one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas.


Canada in Context
Canada in Context: Designed for students needing help with homework, writing reports, and school projects, based on curriculum standards in all major subject areas : History, Science, Literature, Geography, Cultures, and more.


Canadian Magazines & Periodicals (CPI.Q.)
Canadian Periodicals (CPI.Q.): Useful to libraries, professionals, researchers, government institutions and organizations, it contains a wealth of Canadian and international periodicals — including Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Maclean's weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and encyclopedic reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmakers.


Canadian Points of View Reference Centre™
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre™ (EbscoHost): Canadian Points of View Reference Centre™ is designed to assist students and researchers in understanding the full scope of a wide range of controversial subjects and features a series of full-text essays representing opposing viewpoints on a variety of important issues.


Career Cruising
Career Cruising: Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training, you've come to the right place!


Chilton Library (Automotive Repair)
Chilton Library: Represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available. Includes housands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.


Computer Database
Computer Database: For researchers who need to keep pace with the fast changing world of high technology, Computer Database is their Internet- accessible reference solution. With Computer Database, library users can access today's most influential periodicals on computers, telecommunications and electronics industries -- all in one seamless search.


Consumer Health Complete | Multilingual Health
Consumer Health Complete: Designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. Provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Try MultiLingual Health for health information in French & other languages.


Discovering Collection
Discovering Collection: Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements comprise the Discovering Collection comprehensive online reference resource.


Gale LegalTrac™
Gale LegalTrac™: Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac™ provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.


Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.


General OneFile
General OneFile: This single electronic resource provides instant access to an unprecedented number of periodicals. Users rely on General OneFile for instant access to periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources -- from The New York Times to refereed academic journals.


General Reference Gold
General Reference Centre Gold: This comprehensive reference database quickly delivers the answers to a wide variety of reference questions both at the library or from remote sites.


Literature Resource Center - LRC
Literature Resource Center - LRC: Literature Resource Center is a current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database. Researchers will find the information they need on authors and their works, from all time periods and from around the world. This resource supports coursework and research in English, World Literatures, Film, Theater and across the Humanities.


Military & Intelligence Database
Military & Intelligence Database: Delivers answers for both the novice and the experienced researcher.


Our Ontario History, Heritage & Culture (Archived Collections)
Our Ontario: Find digital images, text, audio and videos about Ontario history, heritage and culture. Search the collections of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, heritage and community groups, government agencies, and private collections in Ontario and across Canada ... via a single search portal.


Overdrive AudioBook Digital Library
Overdrive AudioBook Digital Library: Download digital Audiobooks anytime and then transfer to your portable device!




Databases for Students & Youth

Grzimek's Animal Life
Grzimek's Animal Life: Grzimek's Animal Life is an image-rich, dynamic online resource featuring more than 4,000 species categorized by Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds, Fish, Insects, Mammals and Simple Aquatic Life, including information on evolution, habitat, behavior, range and more.


Junior Edition
Junior Edition: Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac® Junior Edition features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With Junior Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage, students will find the answers they need to all their general reference questions -- without lining up at your desk or waiting for titles out on loan.


Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits: Kids InfoBits targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine and reference content.


PebbleGo
PebbleGo: Designed specifically for K-3, the award-winning PebbleGo Animals database from Capstone Digital Publishers offers information on hundreds of animals! Now includes PebbleGo Earth and Space, too!


Student Edition
Student Edition: Designed for secondary school students, InfoTrac® Student Edition is the quick and easy way to do classroom assignments and get answers to general reference questions. Student Edition is comprised of a variety of full-text sources that include the leading magazines, newspapers and reference books that librarians prefer and students enjoy.


Teen Health & Wellness
Teen Health & Wellness: A database from Rosen Publishing Online that provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.




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