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Britannica Library
(Click for more detail)Offers access to Encyclopedia articles, images, audio files and videos, biographies, a country comparison tool, and a world atlas. Includes Britannica Library Children, Britannica Library Young Adult and Britannica Library reference center.
Canada's Information Resource Centre
(Click for more detail)A virtual who's who and what's where in Canada. Canada’s Information Resource Centre now provides online access to four titles that we currently have in our collection:
Canadian Encyclopedia
(Click for more detail)This encyclopedia includes over 40,000 articles and 60,000 photographs, as well as maps, graphs, games, quizzes and videos. Updated regularly, it contains The Encylopedia of Canada, The Youth Encyclopedia of Canada.
Canadian Reference Centre
(Click for more detail)Offers access to full-text content from several major publications including Consumer Reports, Canadian Geographic, Maclean's, Time and many more. It also includes full text biographies and a collection of photos, maps and flags.
Consumer Reports
(Click for more detail)ConsumerReports.org provides unbiased ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice from expert Consumer Reports’ testers for thousands of products and services such as cars, electronics, appliances, and more.
Eureka.cc
(Click for more detail)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.
Gale Academic OneFile (Formerly Academic OneFile)
(Click for more detail)Nearly 15,000 journals with full-text and indexed articles on a wide range of academic subjects with strengths in the physical sciences, technology, social sciences, the arts, business, literature and more. A wide range of limiters provide options for peer-reviewed, full-text articles, many
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
(Click for more detail)Indexes periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings in the field of librarianship.
Ottawa Citizen - ProQuest Historical Newspapers (1845 - 2010)
(Click for more detail)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.
Universalis
(Click for more detail)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.