Research

Gale Virtual Reference Library

To find a secondary source (e.g. Novels for Students) for your selected English novel, type the title in the search box and click on the SEARCH.

Click on the black PowerSearch icon to access the Gale Virtual Reference Library, which includes the following ebooks collections: Real Life Math, Drama for Students, Literary Newsmakers for Students, Non Fiction Classics for students and Novels for Students.

Gale Group PowerSearch

Canadian Literary Centre

Canadian Literary Centre

Searching for secondary sources for Canadian titles? Canadian Literary Centre is a literary criticism, essay, and review collection of Canadian fiction, poetry and biographical sources. Click on the link below, enter the name of the book title and the author’s last name, and ‘Search’. If applicable, narrow your search by checking off the drop-down menu that contains the word ‘Criticism’ under “Subject’ in the left hand column.

Canadian Literary Centre

Gale Nelson Database

Gale Nelson eResources

Gale Nelson eResources offers over 70 databases of reference materials, covering academic and vocational subjects such as science, history, trades, business, arts, literature, Canadian topics, home improvement, careers, nursing, sports, mass media, communication, law, culinary, military, gardening, agriculture, environment, pop culture, religion, and more. It contains magazines, newspapers, journal articles, trade publications, reference books, images, video, and audio formats.

Gale Nelson eResources

Historica

Historica Canada

Historica Canada’s website includes Heritage Minutes a collection of dramatized historical vignettes of importance, accomplishment and bravery in our country’s history, and The Canadian Encyclopedia, offering the largest collection of authored, accurate and continuously updated articles focused on Canada and Canadiana

Historica Canada

Canadian Points of View

Canadian Points of View Reference Centre

A resource for critical analysis, to develop persuasive arguments, better understand controversial issues and augment analytical thinking skills. It contains more than 180 topics, each with an objective background, description, point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Formats include essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, primary source documents, reference books, titles from World Public Opinion and social, political, and cultural video encyclopedia of the 20th century.

Canadian Points of View Reference Centre

Churchill Archive for Schools

The Churchill Archive for Schools

The Churchill Archive for Schools provides a range of classroom-ready and student resources, specially written and developed by leading history educators to engage, excite, inform and challenge. Based around four broad themes in British and world history, the Churchill Archive for Schools also offers teachers and students an accessible entry-point to the complete Churchill Archive - 800,000 documents amassed by Winston S. Churchill throughout his life.

The Churchill Archive for Schools

eBook Collection

eBooks

Canadian Collection eBooks

The Canadian Collection eBooks database offers over 10,400 full text titles, providing a core collection of titles by Canadian publishers and authors, and covering topics pertaining to Canada, Canadian history and native culture, and politics and current events.

Canadian Collection eBooks

K-8 Collection eBooks

The K-8 Collection eBooks database offers full text titles, designed specifically to support a quality learning experience for K-8 learning equivalent students across all academic subjects from history to language and literature, to science and technology.

K-8 Collection eBooks

General Collection eBooks

The General Collection eBooks database offers scholarly and self-help eBooks such as textbooks; graphic novels; fiction; classical books and their study guides to maximize vocabulary development and comprehension skills as well as reproducible activities to reinforce basic reading and comprehension skills while teaching higher-order critical thinking. The search page includes a blue tab at the top of the webpage for searching the Oxford American College Dictionary.

General Collection eBooks

Gale

Gale eBooks

The Gale eBook Collection offers select texts and encyclopedia In the following subjects: biography, business, education, environment, nations of the world, science, LGBT history, social science, psychology and the College Blue Book which lists USA/Canadian post-secondary programs, financial aid, etc.

Gale eBooks

Loyal Books

Loyal Books

A great selection of 7000+ free, public domain audio-books & 35,000+ eBooks, available in 25+ languages. The free book app for Android, iPhone and iPad permits instant streaming, downloading for offline listening, uploading full text, reading along on screen, and has variable speed playback, font selection, night view and size controls.

Loyal Books

Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia

The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia is an annually updated database with over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record is easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies and information for a variety of subject areas.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Learn360

Learn 360

Learn360.ca is an interactive media-on-demand service for teachers and students. Content is correlated to provincial curriculum standards and includes 9,200+ digital educational videos, 28,500 video clips, speeches, images, audio books, research articles, activities, and songs. Search the website by title, subject, format, or grade level. For teachers, Learn360.ca encompasses the My Learn360 capabilities to develop lesson plans, create content, craft assignments, prepare and deliver quizzes/tests online.

Learn 360

Salem History

Salem History

Salem History is an online database with information about 17th century people and events. Topics range from women's rights to medicine and health.

To access, get the password from the library.

Salem History

SOS Magazine

SOS Magazine

SOS Children’s Safety Magazine is proud to be recognized as a viable resource for educating youth on social issues such as bullying, addiction, internet safety, eating disorders, self esteem, peer pressure, teen violence, suicide, teen pregnancy and mental health in Canada.

sossafetymagazine.com

CIA World Factbook

The World Factbook

The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world, and provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. It Includes regional and world maps and flags.

The World Factbook

Teen Health and Wellness

Teen Health and Wellness

Database and help hotline for teen health issues, providing students and teachers with research/report tools, a self-help resource, and provincial curricular support including lesson plans in the health, sciences, physical education, and language arts. Also includes a great video publishing opportunity for students.

Teen Hotlines

teenhealthandwellness.com

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