Secondary Level Online Resources
Research Databases
The following databases are available for use by SD48 students. To access the databases off school campus, ask your teacher-librarian for the password.
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Articles from scholarly journals in nearly every academic discipline. Excellent for student and researchers.
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With a deliberate focus on Canadian writers and their works, this database provides researchers with full text of poems and short fiction, literary criticism, interviews, and reviews from regional publishers such as University of Toronto Press.
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Contains a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Topics covered include: environment, health, human rights, crime, race, technology, substance abuse, and many more.
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Each topic category brings the user to a Topic Explorer page that lets them dig in and discover topics with ease. Clicking on the subtopic brings the user to the Topic Page, a unique, dynamic page that includes:
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Specifically designed for high school and undergraduate students, the database provides context and solutions-oriented points of view within a scholarly collection of content on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.
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Major database for LGBTQ+ studies. It includes both scholarly and popular publications covering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues, including journals, books, magazines, and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
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Rich full-text literary database covering all genres and time periods. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems.
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Find fiction by subject, or read reviews and summaries. Includes book discussion guides, author read-alikes.
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Full-text database containing thousands of classic and contemporary poems, short stories, biographies, essays, lesson plans and learning guides. It also includes high-quality videos and audio recordings from the Academy of American Poets.
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Science Reference Center provides full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, reference books and high-quality videos. The database also contains science experiments, curriculum-aligned lesson plans, and a vast image collection.
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Multimedia database with a Canadian focus. The articles, video, interactive maps, and websites in this database are useful to any student wanting to learn more about Canada’s people, geography, history, science and sports.
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Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. This database supports research in virtually every corner of the library and in a wide variety of subject areas, including sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, human rights, English composition and many more.
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Contains articles from science journals and reference books covering all the sciences, including biology, chemistry, geology, and physics and provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics.
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Know BC is the online edition of Encyclopedia of British Columbia, but there is much more on the site today including a number of major Pacific Northwest resources such as Harbour Publishing’s most significant publications and a series of field guides identifying trees, shells, and birds of the Pacific Northwest, wildlife of the Rocky Mountains and medicinal plants of Canada.
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The World Book Web is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.
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A comprehensive suite of e-learning resources designed for all ages and abilities with articles, videos, educator tools, eBooks, research guides and more.
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Timelines offers hundreds of pre-generated timelines or users can also create their own timelines from scratch, adding events, descriptions, and media.
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4Canoes is a Canadian publication that celebrates Indigenous voices, with each issue focusing on a distinct Indigenous culture. Publications include material suitable for all ages. 4Canoes is focused on authentic Indigenous voices discussing Cultural Rights, Human Rights, Environmental Rights and Equity.
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Fantastic student portfolios and career education resources.
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