Licensed Resources

ABI/Inform is a database of business content including: Scholarly Journals, Working Papers, Newspapers, Blogs, Podcasts, and Websites, Books, Conference Papers and Proceedings, Dissertations and Theses, Magazines, Newspapers, Other Sources, Reports, Standards and Practice Guidelines, Tables, Trad

"Academic Complete contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection.

"Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information.

Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers ~ 68,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

From the vendor:  With a vivid and appealing new design, Access Video On Demand’s fully responsive, mobile-friendly platform provides patrons with the content, tools, speed, and performance that today’s online experience demands.

"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:

"This database contains do-it-yourself repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures, TSBs and updates are added to the product on a regular basis. All of the content has been created by ASE certified technicians."

Beanstack is a reading challenge software and mobile app.  It allows libraries to facilitate reading challenges for patrons.

Zoobean helps educators, librarians, families, and teams read more by creating, promoting, participating in, and gaining insights from reading challenges.

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

From the vendor:

"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

"Education Research Complete covers the areas of curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,500 journals.

"eHRAF Archaeology is an online, full-text database with information on prehistory of the world.

"eLibrary Canada is an affordable and easy-to-use online general reference database for Canadian K-12 schools and public libraries.

"The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index." (From Vendor)

"[Family & Society Studies Worldwide] provides the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development and Social Welfare.

"Subscribe to Films On Demand and give faculty and students instant access to thousands of programs neatly grouped into convenient subject-specific categories.

Flipster: digital magazine subscriptions to popular magazines. Flipster is a next-generation digital magazine solution that makes it easy for you to read your favorite magazines on your computer or mobile device. With flexible magazine subscription options and seamless user authentication, Flipst

"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.

"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.

"[Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition] provides over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

"This resource provides full text access to the content of the Canadian newspaper, from 1844 up to four years ago. Pages are viewable as PDF images, but the text is also searchable.

"Home Improvement Reference Center features full-text content from leading home improvement magazines images not found anywhere else online, and videos of popular home repair projects.

"[Humanities International Complete] provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.

"The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world.

"International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance™ with Full Text (IBTD with Full Text) is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts.

Books at JSTOR offers more than 49,000 ebooks from renowned scholarly publishers, integrated with journals and primary sources on JSTOR's easy-to-use platform.
 

This is Canada's premier current-event series for the classroom. It's the only resource that gives your students the opportunity to delve into today's most important events as they unfold. Complex international, national and regional stories are broken down and given context.

"With this online academic research database, college faculty and students can find the critical news, legal and business information they need."

Features include:

Quicklaw Core includes Canadian case law, legislation, board and tribunals, Canadian and US law journals and the Canada Digest.

Total Patent

Full-text coverage of patents from more than 30 countries.  
See http://www.lexisnexis.ca/en-ca/products/totalpatent.page for details

Libchat / Libanswers is a  multi-Channel Communication Platform for Successful Libraries. Answer Users' Questions via LibChat, SMS, Email, Twitter, Facebook... and Provide a Self-service FAQ Portal, too.

"[Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts] indexes more than 580 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings.

"Build strong connections to your readers with LibraryAware.

"[Literary Reference Center] provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames—to give students, professors, and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs."

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)

This is Consortia Canada offering, for both academic and public libraries with separate subscription cycles and response deadlines.

According to the vendor, this is the largest catalogue of classical music, opera, and dance videos.

Miss Humblebee's Academy is an Early Literacy tool.

Music Online: Listening, which consists of 5 collections: Classical Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, Jazz Library, American Song, & Contemporary World Music.

Alexander Street Press now offers unlimited user subscriptions to all libraries.

The acclaimed MUZZY language learning courses created by the British Broadcasting Corporation target every child's "window of opportunity" years to learn a second or even a third language.

"Introducing CAMPUS, the National Film Board’s unique online streaming service for film and media, that is gaining momentum across Canada. Launched in January 2012, CAMPUS is the primary resource for credible and relevant Canadian film and media content across a wide range of subject areas.

National Geographic magazine brings the world to some 60 million readers each month. Now, thanks to digital technology, you can deliver unlimited online access to archived and recent issues alike.

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"[New Testament Abstracts Online] is the product of a partnership between ATLA and Boston College. The database is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu."

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.

From Niche Academy:

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

"If you are looking for ways to introduce both teachers and students to new books, and if you want to encourage independent reading and help students think more about why a particular story appeals to them -- you should look at NoveList K-8!

"Meeting your patrons’ pleasure reading needs is of critical importance.

"A product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association, Old Testament Abstracts features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.

This is a new TAL offering on an opt-in basis, as it is no longer included in LHCADL as of May 1, 2017.

"The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 19,000 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation.

"Explore the lives of over 55,000 people worldwide who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years – from the 4th-century BC Greek explorer Pytheas to Princess Diana, and from the founding fathers of America to the Nawabs of Bengal.

"The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languag

International in scope, this leading database provides full text of philosophy's most esteemed journals. Covering all major fields of philosophy and including full-text journals from more than 30 countries, it is an invaluable resource for philosophy students and researchers around the world.

Whether writing a descriptive essay for academic purposes or sending a letter to a landlord, Practical Writing helps users structure messages, select the right vocabulary and choose the most appropriate writing style.

PressReader is a place for people to find, share, and talk about great content from anywhere in the world. With it, libraries can bring newspapers and magazines to their patrons in a way that gets them talking and keeps them engaged.

"The Premium Collection is MUSE's foremost collection of high quality, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journals from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers and prestigious scholarly societies.

UPCC (University Press Content Consortium) Book Collections on Project MUSE offer thousands of books covering a variety of subjects from noted university presses and scholarly publishers. Books are available for purchase in collections to institutions.

"This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications."

"Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) is an international abstracting and indexing service designed for library professionals and other information specialists."

"Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences.

Formerly known as Literature Online/LION

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.

From the vendor:

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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Study Skills Success V9 was created for students in academic high school settings or for college and university students and candidates. Study Skills Success focuses on developing critical thinking, writing, research and presentations.

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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.

"U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today."

EBSCO Ultimates on offer include:

• Academic Search Ultimate
• Business Source Ultimate
• Applied Science and Technology Source Ultimate
• Humanities Source Ultimate
• Sociology Source Ultimate

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, [Vocational Studies Premier] provides full-text, comprehensive coverage of the most relevant Associates program level content.

"Offering a global perspective, [Wildlife & Ecologies Studies Worldwide] is the world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.

 World History in Context provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people.