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Maclean's
- Effective on Nov.1, 2025, Maclean's will be available on Overdrive Magazines Platform and no longer available on Flipster eMagazine Platform
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MAURIL : Digital Platform for Learning French and English
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Medici.tv | EDU
The new Jazz music collection is available now. You can simply click the 'Jazz' tab at the top of the Medici.tv home page.
You can change the language setting to English, French, Spanish, and Russian
A new feature on Medici. tv: you can create your individual account. For more detailed info, please click the help guide link
Medici.tv|EDU iOS mobile app & Android mobile app are now available!
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MyHeritage Library Edition
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MyHeritage Library Edition, differs from the consumer version of My Heritage
Personal authentication and all personalization features, such as tree creation, have been expressly disabled in the Library Edition by design to protect the privacy of users.
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PressReader
- Please be advised that there will be no August 2 issue for The Economist as per the publisher's notice. Regular uploads/issues will resume on August 9.
- The PressReader App is not granting paid access to OPL customers at the moment. We hope to have the issue fixed as soon as possible. PressReader access via the website is still working normally.
- You don’t need to create a separate PressReader account, without a PressReader account, you can still access any of the titles offered by Ottawa Public Library on PressReader.
- All you need is a library card and a pin to sign in via a login page on the OPL website or PressReader App. That’s it!
- Customers logged in through App need to re-authenticate after 30 days while Customers logged in through EzProxy (via library website) need to re-authenticate after 2 days
- For the download storage, customers have the option to choose how long they wanted to keep the downloaded back issues.
- The Wall Street Journal is now available from PressReader.,
- Access to The Globe and Mail is limited to customers using PressReader in a library branch due to restrictions imposed by the publisher.
- Full-text remote access for Globe & Mail is available from the following three databases: Canadian Major Dailies_ProQuest, Gale Academic Onefile & Gale OneFiile: Business
- The Washington Post is no longer available from the PressReader platform as per the publisher's request. However, full-text access for The Washington Post is available from our other two databases: Academic OneFile and Gale OneFile: Business. (delayed 1 day).
- Los Angeles Times is no longer available from the PressReader platform as per the publisher's request.
- PressReader stopped the distribution of Russian content, due to the decision of its upper management.
Libraries generally have 90 days of back issues. (Such as Toronto Star). There are, however, restrictions that are set by specific publishers on how far back issues are available. In this case, the available back issue is different for each publication. Such as The Globe and Mail only allows a maximum of 7 days back issues, while Ottawa Citizen and National Post allow up to 30 days. Other popular titles that are similar are The Guardian which only allows 14-day back issues and The Wall Street Journal only allows 2 days back issues
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