Licensed Resources

AtoZ World Food is a food culture and traditional recipes database for 174 countries. AtoZ World Food will educate your patrons/students about cuisine around the world, the cultural norms and traditions surrounding it, and the unique ingredients used to prepare it.

"Ebrary pioneered the ebook subscription model over a decade ago with the advent of Academic Complete.

"The premier resource for peer-reviewed, full-text journals and reference sources, Academic OneFile is a 2009 and 2008 CODiE Award Finalist for Best Online General Reference Service.

"A popular resource found in many academic settings worldwide, [Academic Search Premier] was designed for the premier researcher, rich with the most valuable, comprehensive multidisciplinary content available.

"Welcome to McGraw-Hill's AccessScience 2.0 - a top-to-bottom redesign of the premiere online science platform, featuring fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition.

"ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of around 5,000 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. HEB is available to entire campus communities.

Active Reading is a comprehensive life skills software program which enables adult ESL students to develop and refine their reading skills using a variety of realistic texts.  Active Reading provides adult ESL students with a wide range of authentic and realistic texts and a variety of exercises.

AgBase specializes in agricultural and non-model organisms, providing tools to classify and organize a researcher’s genes of interest according to the standardized Gene Ontology (GO) classification system, even where no GO annotations previously exist.  

"With ALLDATA Repair, you have instant access to a single source of accurate, up-to-date OE-direct diagnosis, repair, and maintenance information. Available online 24/7 and automatically updated, our huge database offers you information covering more than 33,000 engine-specific vehicles.

"This alternative health research database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Alt HealthWatch provides the latest information and materials for the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies, with in-depth c

"Ancestry Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more.

"[Art Source was] developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO and H.W.

AtoZ World Travel consists of 202 city travel guides, featuring in-depth information on attractions, neighborhoods, excursions, dining tips, language, insider tips, transportation, and much more!

AtoZ World Travel will libraries to:

Streaming Video on demand for public libraries. 

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Providing an extensive collection of food content, Bloomsbury Food Library offers students, researchers, and scholars an unprecedented insight into this diverse field of study.

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"One subscription to Britannica Library gives your library three sites in one: Children, Young Adults, and the Reference Center for older students and adults.

"The critically lauded Business & Company Resource Center has been our cornerstone business resource for more than a decade. But a lot has changed since its initial release in 2000.

"Business Source Elite provides full-text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This rich collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more."  (From the vendor)

"Access thousands of records on Canadian organizations, her government, business, schools and financial and cultural institutions.

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Education™ focuses on Canadian information in the field of education. It’s the perfect source for those interested in teaching, educational research, and educational administration in Canada.

The Canadian Life Package includes the following EBSCO resources:

The premier collection of the leading national and regional newspapers, Canadian Newsstream offers the most recent news content and archives that stretch back into the 1970s.

"[Canadian Points of View Reference Center] is designed to provide students with resources that present multiple sides of a current issue–containing information on key topics of interest to Canadian researchers.

Published since 1910, this work captures the lives and achievements of over 10,000 of today's Canadian notable professionals, including artists, politicians, public servants, academics, writers, doctors, philanthropists, business moguls, athletes, and more – one of newest additions is Bianca Andr

"[Catholic Periodical and Literature Index] provides indexing of periodicals, essay collections, church documents, papal documents and electronic resources expressly addressing the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism.

"Child Development & Adolescent Studies™ is today's source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21.

“Clik-Clik™ Systems Inc. delivers a unique Canadian magnetic hanging system, that enables promotional signage,

decorations and posters to be hung level - quickly and easily without any ladders. Take advantage of any ceiling

"ebrary pioneered the ebook subscription model with the advent of Academic Complete™, which has been serving libraries around the globe for more than 10 years. Leveraging a decade of usage stats, we developed College Complete, a subscription tailored to the needs of college libraries."

TAL has cooperated with a comic book retailer, to provide graphic novels and comic books to its members at competitive prices.

"[Communication Abstracts] covers major journals in communication, mass media and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource that encompasses the breadth of the communication discipline.

"[Computers & Applied Science Complete] the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines.

These modules are now a part of Credo Learning Tools: Instruct.

"Credo's Core General Reference Collections enable libraries to build e-reference collections from highly regarded publishers around the world.

"The full-text counterpart of Criminal Justice Abstracts, this resource includes bibliographic records and full text of the essential journals related to criminal justice and criminology. This comprehensive database features hundreds of journals from around the world." (From the vendor)

Criterion Pictures offers non-theatrical public performance licenses for feature films on an annual subscription basis. The movies that are licensed through Criterion are dependent upon the Studio and/or Producer.

CSA OnDemand™ provides 24/7 access to your complete standards collection from CSA Group, in all available languages and with access to all historical editions.

Online, Offline, and Off-Campus – CSA OnDemand™ provides the ideal solution for academic access to CSA standards.

Cypress Resume is a resume building tool that allows users to quickly and easily create professional looking resumes.

Psychiatry Online (POL) Premium is a package that includes DSM5 current edition, 4 journals and a number of reference books

This database is now freely available online. "Early Canadiana Online contains over 80,000 rare books, magazines and government publications from the 1600s to the 1940s."

"EBSCOhost Integrated Search™ (EHIS) is a next-generation approach to federation, allowing users to search multiple resources within one familiar interface, take advantage of the unique features and functionality of EBSCOhost, and eliminate the frustration caused by slow search results." (From th

"Developed through the merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO and H.W. Wilson, and including many unique sources not previously available, this database covers scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers.

eHRAF World Cultures contains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the paragraph level. This allows detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords."

"This resource offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study.  This valuable database contains millions of records from over 2,500 domestic and international titles dating back over 100 years." (From the vendor)

"Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series."

"[Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text] provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more hundreds of journals and books.

""At Films On Demand, we know that content matters. Our video library has been assembled not just with a focus on volume, but also with a discerning eye for quality and relevance.

Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters Collection by Adam Matthew is a one-time purchase collection for academic institutions. It is not a subscription.

"This index and abstracted product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design & history. "

Geopoliticalmonitor is a Canadian intelligence publication and political risk consultancy.  Experts provide in-depth and predictive analysis on key geopolitical issues that will come into play on both domestic and international levels, such as:

Electoral Politics

Gold Rush® Decision Support (formerly Gold Rush® Reports) is developped by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Decision Support allows library staff to compare title lists from over 1,500 aggregators, publishers, and indexing/abstracting services that have been loaded into Gold Rush®.

"Grove Art Online is the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art. First published as the landmark 34-volume Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, the content of Grove Art encompasses all aspects of visual culture.

"Featuring full-text articles, indexing and abstracts from an international array of publications, [H. W. Wilson Art Full Text] is a comprehensive resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture and much more."

Providing full text, indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals, books and yearbooks, [H. W. Wilson Education Full Text] covers a broad range of subjects pertaining to education and is invaluable for education students, professionals and policy makers."

The Harvard Business Publishing Student Success Package includes foundational text essential to students’ business knowledge, case studies to prepare for their careers and tools to build lifelong soft skills.

"Newly updated and expanded, this revolutionary resource meets your library's needs for a fully integrated, ever-growing reference center for all levels of health research.

"HeritageQuest Online™ combines digital, searchable images of U.S.. federal census records with the digitised version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content.

"[Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center] offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.

"[Hospitality & Tourism Complete] contains more than one million records, with coverage dating back to 1930, with full text for nearly 560 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.

"Developed through a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO and H.W. Wilson, and including many unique sources that were never previously available, this database offers worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.

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"International Political Science Abstracts, produced since 1951 by the International Political Science Association, this database is the authoritative global standard in support of scholarly research in political science and proximate disciplines.

KOIOS Ads is a library marketing tool, helping libraries improve visibility by making them appear first in a Google search results.  

"Developed through a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO and H.W. Wilson, and including many unique sources not previously available, this database provides full-text coverage of the world's most respected scholarly law journals.

LexisNexis Academic Plus adds to LexisNexis Core with improved US, UK and Aus/NZ legal materials, JurisClasseur, HLOE, HLOC, 10 quantum services and over 50 Butterworths texts.

Quicklaw Plus contains all the content in Quicklaw Core and a set of premium supplementary content.

"[LGBT Life with Full Text] contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for hundreds of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers including The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian

"[Library & Information Science Source] was developed by librarians through a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO and H.W.

"This unique resource is essential for keeping pace with all of the latest trends in the evolving field of library studies.

Literary Package contains the following EBSCO products:

• Humanities International Complete
• Literary Reference Center
• MLA International Biography

"Every day, around the world, students and scholars turn to Literature Online for the texts and information they need to advance their literary studies.

LyndaLibrary is offered by Lynda.com for public libraries.

Mango is an online language learning system teaching practical conversation skills for the world’s most popular languages.

"Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps, and flags." (From the vendor)

"The Authoritative Bibliographic Database of Biomedical and Health Journals

"Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals & series, as well as book publishers.

Music Online Reference which includes access to Classical Music Reference Library, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, African American Music Reference, and Classical Scores Library. This is one package but individual products can be acquired upon request.

From the vendor: myBlueprint is an online career and life planning resource used by over 40 school districts within Alberta and more than 500,000 students across Canada.

"As the official journal of the nonprofit National Geographic Society, National Geographic magazine built its reputation delivering the highest-quality photojournalism and cartography in the world."

"This comprehensive, natural medicine database is designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher and clinician." (From the vendor)

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Niche Academy is a training tool with immediately accessible training. There are ready-to-use tutorials or libraries may create their own.  Tutorials may be embedded in the library website or stand-alone. Libraries may use their own branding for all tutorials.

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"For many libraries, over half their circulation comes from fiction readers and NoveList can help you provide the best possible service for these readers.

"NoveList K-8 Plus is a database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers." From the vendor.

Novelist Select is a book recommending resource that embeds directly into a library's OPAC allowing users to browse a library's collection directly using Novelist recommendations and lists.

Novelist Select features include:

"Providing a wide range of research resources, [OmniFile Full Text Mega] includes a wealth of essential material for learning, detailed research or casual reading across disciplines, including topical coverage on ethnic studies, women's studies, history and more."

OpenAthens is an authentication mechanism for remote access to electronic resources.  Developed by Eduserv, this is being offered through EBSCO.  This will be supported by EBSCO.

Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides.

"The Oxford English Dictionary, the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150, is now available online. For the first time since it was completed in 1928, the OED is being completely revised and updated.

"Oxford Reference Online Premium (OROP) combines rich and scholarly resources offered by acclaimed titles in the Oxford Companions series with authoritative quick-reference coverage of the full subject spectrum.

Produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center, this current and comprehensive bibliographic database covers scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy.

"This database provides extensive coverage of global political topics with a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalisation of contemporary political discourse.

PrepSTEP provides a comprehensive selection of academic and career-related resources for students.

"Professional Development Collection is a High-Quality, Valuable Collection of Education Journals that includes full text for more than 500 high-quality education journals including:"

"The Standard Collection is a subset of the Premium Collection. It is an interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities and social sciences.

"This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.

"The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.

"CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Calgary Herald—1883-2010

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Edmonton Journal—1903-2010

The Calgary Herald Archive has been purchased for all Albertans to access!

ProQuest Research Companion is ProQuest’s flagship information literacy product. It was built to help students do more effective scholarly research and to support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information.

"ProQuest Science Journals is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences."

RBdigital audiobooks offers unlimited simultaneous user access to over 30,000 audibook titles with many exclusive titles and many best sellers included.

RefWorks is a powerful online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers at all levels easily gather, organize, store and share all types of information and to instantly generate citations and bibliographies.

Religion Package contains the following EBSCO resources:

It’s so much easier for students to do well in an exam if they know exactly what to expect. The British Council’s Road to IELTS provides students with a unique advantage.

Rosetta Stone Library Solution offers 30 languages to meet a range of cultural interests, core lessons to build reading, writing, speaking and listening skills, focused activities to refine grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and more.

"This comprehensive research database provides easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content.

Scientific Style and Format Online is a bibiliographic citiation tool from University of Chicago Press.

"360 MARC Updates streamlines your workload and provides patrons the ability to effectively find e-serials and ebooks in your OPAC.

"360 Link quickly and easily connects users to full-text articles and chapters in your library's collections.

Slice Fractions is an educational game for children to assist in learning fractions.

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Kids between 5 and 12 slice through ice and lava to clear the mammoth’s path, unraveling the mystery of fractions!

The Scientific & Medical ART (SMART) Imagebase is a collection of 20,000+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.

"This is the most comprehensive, full-text database covering sports and sports medicine journals and providing full text for hundreds of journals indexed in SPORTDiscus.

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"Sustainalytics provides clients with comprehensive analysis on corporate ESG performance.

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is an online database of genetic and molecular biology data for Arabidopsis thaliana, a key reference plant. It is an indispensable resource for Arabidopsis researchers.

TumbleBook Library is an online collection of animated, talking picture ebooks for children in grades K-6.

Ulrich’s Web is a valuable addition to any library's electronic resources – providing staff and students an excellent serials resource.  Ulrich's™ is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,00 periodicals of all types, academic and scholarly journals,

A key component of the Licensing Program is the TAL Universal Core - a suite of electronic resources applicable to all Alberta libraries supporting barrier free access to quality information. All TAL member libraries currently subscribe to the Universal Core.

"Designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, this resource provides full-text, comprehensive coverage of the most relevant Associates program level content.

Web of Science is a website which provides subscription-based access to multiple databases that provide comprehensive citation data for many different academic disciplines.

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When you need fast, reliable information for homework, reports, or just a lingering question, World Book Online is the place to go. Using the same expert information found inThe World Book Encyclopedia, these easy-to-navigate websites feature: