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Online Resources
The library offers access to a wide variety of online research resources, including newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, and tools for language learning, genealogy, car repair, and e-books. Most resources can be accessed from home with your library card number. Where indicated, resources are only available for in-library use.
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Ancestry Online Genealogy
research tool gives access to more than 1 billion names, 3000
databases and primary resources. Covers Canada, the US,
UK, and some European countries. English and French
content. Access: Use in-library only |
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AudioBook Cloud A
collection of streaming audiobooks for adults, featuring popular
current titles as well as classics. These books don't
need to be checked out or transferred to a device - you
can listen right from your computer.
Access: Use inside or outside the library
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Canada in Context Designed for
students needing help with homework, writing reports,
and school projects, based on curriculum standards in
all major subject areas: history, science, literature,
geography, cultures, and more. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Canadian Points of View Reference
Centre™ Canadian Points of View
Reference Centre is a full-text database designed to
provide students with a series of essays that present
multiple sides of a current issue. Featuring essays
published specifically for Canadian Points of View.
Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Career Cruising Fully
bilingual database designed to help students and others
plan their future. Users are able to access hundreds of
detailed occupation profiles - everything from actuary
to zookeeper. Features a job search tool, resume
builder, skills assessment tools, Career Matchmaker,
portfolio development options, and more!
Access: Use inside or outside the library
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Chilton Library (Automotive
Repair) Represents the most authoritative
automotive repair information available. Includes
thousands of year, make and model combinations covering
the most popular vehicles of the past 30+ years, plus
additional coverage of specialty models.
Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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CPI.Q - (Canadian
Periodicals) Use this database to find articles
from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international
journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and
Mail, Canadian biographies, and other reference content
from Gale, all with a Canadian focus. CPI.Q also had an
extensive collection of Ontario newspapers.
Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Consumer Health
Complete/Multilingual Health Designed for the
everyday consumer of health care information. Provides
convenient access to easily understandable health and
medical information. Try MultiLingual Health for health
information in French & other
languages. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Consumer Reports Online version of the trusted magazine that reviews all sorts of consumer products. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Contact library staff for login information |
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Early Canadiana Resource for early Canadian documents, including 19th century journals, magazines and government documents. Access: Use in-library only |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost Formerly NetLibrary, this site lets you access eBooks, eJournals, and eAudiobooks. Please Note: From the link, choose EBSCOhost Research Databases. You have to visit the library to set up your initial account, then you can use it from home. NetLibrary users may have to set up new accounts Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card, then username and password you choose |
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Gale Virtual Reference
Library Search more than 100 electronic reference books
individually or as a group. Titles include subject
specific encyclopedias, subject dictionaries, handbooks,
and almanacs. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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General Business File
ASAP Analyze company performance and activity,
industry events and trends and read up on the latest in
management, economics and
politics. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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General Reference Centre
Gold Integrates a variety of sources, including
newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade
publications. Find articles on current events, popular
culture, business and industry trends, the arts and
sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Grzimek's Animal Life An
image-rich, dynamic online resource for children featuring more than
4,000 species,
including information on evolution, habitat, behavior,
range and more. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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InfoTrac Junior Edition Searchable e-books and magazine articles for middle school students, providing information on current
events, the arts, science, popular culture, health,
people, government, history, sports and more.
Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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InfoTrac Student
Edition For high school students, a quick and easy way to
do research for classroom assignments and get answers to general
reference questions. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Kids InfoBits Developed
especially for budding researchers in Kindergarten
through Grade 5. Features developmentally appropriate,
visually graphic interface, and subject-based topic
tree. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Literature Resource Center
Find information on authors and their works,
from all time periods and from around the world. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Mango Languages Online language learning covering more than 30 languages, as well as English as a Second Language. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card. Please note: For this database, you must add a P before your library card number to make it 7 digits long, e.g., P900000. |
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Newsstand Get the
scoop with an innovative Web-based newspaper database
that lets you electronically search articles by title,
headline, date, author, section and more. Choose from
more than 1,200 outstanding newspapers from around the
world. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Novelist Find your next read,
fiction and nonfiction, by author, title, subject,
genre. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Novelist K-8 Find your next
read for kids. Fiction and nonfiction reading
suggestions for children in kindergarten through grade 8. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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Our Ontario Find digital
images, text, audio and videos about Ontario history,
heritage and culture. Search the collections of
libraries, archives, museums, historical societies,
heritage and community groups, government agencies, and
private collections in Ontario and across Canada via a
single search portal. English and French
content. Access: Use inside or outside the library |
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Overdrive Digital
Library Download e-books and e-audiobooks anytime and
then transfer to your portable device. Browse the
library and add audiobooks to your cart. When you're
ready, you can check out your items using the simple
online process. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card |
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PebbleGo Designed specifically
for kids in kindergarten through grade 3, PebbleGo contains information, images, and video about science topics including animals, space, weather, and more. Access: Use inside or outside the library
Username: sopl468 | Password: school
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Perth Courier archives Access to the digitized edition of the Perth Courier from 1834-1984. The site, Paper of Record, also includes access to other digitized newspapers from around Ontario and around the world. Access: Use inside or outside the library | Contact library staff to request login information |
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Teen Health and
Wellness Self-help for teens and young adults on
topics including diseases and conditions; drugs and
alcohol; nutrition and fitness; mental and emotional
health; sexuality and sexual health; bullying; internet
safety; green living; family life, and more.
Access: Use inside or outside the library
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Tumblebooks Library An online
collection of animated, talking picture books.
TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture
books, adding animation, sound, music, and narration,
and producing an electronic picture books that you can
read or have read to you. Access: Use inside or outside the library
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Tumblebooks Readables An
online collection of read-along titles for elementary,
middle, and high school students, featuring adjustable
online text and complete audio narration. Sentences are
highlighted as they are being read, and the pages turn
automatically. The collection features chapter books,
early readers, teen novels, and classics of American and
English literature. Access: Use inside or outside the library
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Virtual Reference Library A Canadian collection of links to trustworthy websites with all sorts of resources, validated by librarians.
Access: Use inside or outside the library
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World Book Web This resource offers users
ease of use, accurate, up-to-date information, and, with
several encyclopedias to choose from, depth and range of information in French and English for all ages.
Access: Use inside or outside the library | Sign
in with library card
| | Perth & District Union Public Library gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Tourism for providing access to many of these databases through Knowledge Ontario.
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