Online Resources

Use our free online resources for consumer research, online classes, language learning, newspaper reading and more.

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  • Learn

    EduMedia

    Short animations in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, and Russian, amongst other languages, with complementary texts to learn about scientific concepts. 

     

    Content Language
    Bilingual
  • Research

    Eureka.cc

    The database allows searchable access to full articles, columns and features from the major French-Canadian newspapers and certain magazines such as Protégez-vous and L`Actualité. News sources include full-text articles from Le Droit, Le Devoir, La Presse, Le Soleil and SRC radio and television. About 20 small Ontario dailies are also included among other French and English language newspapers from across Canada.

    Content Language
    French
    Privacy and Terms of Use
    Politique de confidentialité
  • Learn

    Examine +

    Examine+ provides the latest research and scientific studies on nutrition and supplements, offering our clients easy access to evidence-based research analysis.

    Our clients have access to:

    • The Examine Supplement Guides
    • The Examine Database
    • The Research Feed-the latest studies summarized and categorized by experts
    Content Language
    English
    Help Guide(s)
    How to use Examine
  • Research

    OPL Mobile

    All catalogue features are available via OPL's free apps:

    • Search for items and use geo-locator to find the closest location
    • Manage your account, renew items, place holds and view what you have checked out
    • Browse recent arrivals and read what others are saying
    Content Language
    Bilingual
    Available Apps
    Apple
    Google
  • Read

    Ottawa Citizen

    A searchable archive of 30 days which is part of the database Library PressDisplay.  Articles can be translated into German, Greek, Spanish or French. The viewer can also listen to individual articles in any of these languages. To access articles published more than 30 days ago, search the Canadian Newsstand database.

    Content Language
    English
    Privacy and Terms of Use
    Privacy Policy
    Terms of Use
  • Research

    Ottawa Citizen - ProQuest Historical Newspapers (1845 - 2010)

    This digitized full-images archives of the Ottawa Citizen provides genealogists, researchers and general public with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

    This will allow Ottawans to digitally travel back through the centuries to become eyewitnesses to our local history.

    Coverage is from 1845 to 2010, but you can access more recent full text content from September 1985 until now from Canadian Major Dailies ProQuest (Formerly Canadian Newsstand).

    Content Language
    English
  • Read

    Overdrive Magazines (Formerly RBDigital Unlimited Magazines -Zinio)

    A package of over 3,000 popular titles (including Canadian Living, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and many more) with varieties of languages and up to three years of back issues are now available for unlimited simultaneous access with no circulation caps.

    Our online eMagazine provider OverDrive couldn’t make an agreement with The Economist. As a result, all editions of the Economist, as well as all back issues, are no longer available to clients effective February 1, 2023.

    We apologize for the inconvenience and invite you to check out the print edition of The Economist that is available at some of our OPL branches. Please search for “The Economist” from our online catalog for more information.

    Full-text remote access to The Economist is available from the following two databases:

    • Gale Academic OneFile, and
    • Gale OneFiile: Business
    Content Language
    English
    Help Guide(s)
    Visit Libby Help
    How to use Libby for Magazines
    Winding down the legacy OverDrive app on February 23, 2022 & FAQs
    Privacy and Terms of Use
    Privacy Policy
    Terms & Conditions
  • Research

    Oxford English Dictionary

    600,000 words … 3.5 million quotations … over 1000 years of English

    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English language in the world. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

    As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll not only find present-day meanings in the OED, but also you’ll find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3.5 million quotations, over 100 years of English.

    Every three months the OED Online database is updated.

    Content Language
    English
    Help Guide(s)
    How to use the OED
    Privacy and Terms of Use
    Privacy Policy
    Terms of Use
  • Research

    Universalis

    With more than 30,000 articles and 17,000 interactive medias, Universalis covers all domains of knowledge and is the most important general encyclopedia in French. There is also an integrated dictionary with 120,000 definitions. Also offered are weekly exclusive articles, monthly updates, and an atlas with more than 400 maps. Content is enriched with hundreds of animations, videos, musical extracts, and interviews.

     

    Content Language
    French
  • Research

    Universalis Junior

    An online encyclopedia in French created for children and young adults.

    Content Language
    French
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