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:

"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."

The BioCyc web portal from SRI International contains genome and metabolic-pathway information for over 14,000 microbes.  The BioCyc website provides a suite of software tools for database searching and visualization, for omics data analysis, and for comparative genomics and comparative pathway q

"[Book Index with Reviews is] for developing book lists and subject guides, BIR includes over five million book titles, with more being added constantly. BIR is indispensable for addressing daily challenges such as finding replacement copies and full-text reviews.

"Britannica Online delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information.

BrowZine is a revolutionary new service that presents e-journals in visually immersive way.

"… Business Source Complete offers comprehensive full-text coverage plus indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, dating back as far as 1886."

CAN-CORE is a streaming platform for post-secondary institutions, offering 100% Canadian content.

"All the facts and figures you will ever need about Canada. No other single source provides users with the quality and depth of up-to-date information for all types of research."

"Canadian Business & Current Affairs™ (CBCA) Complete is the nation's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic full-text reference and current events database.

"With a deliberate Canadian focus, this database consists of book and reference content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press). ECW Press also provides several individual monographs and biographies, essays and literary criticism.

"CPI.Q, the award-winning electronic version of the Canadian Periodical Index, provides the most-requested Canadian reference information available.

"This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international periodicals in full text, full-text reference books, thousands of full-text biographies, and an image collection containing thousands of photos, maps and flags.

"Capering is the foundation of Career Cruising. Designed with students and patrons of all ages in mind, it contains exceptional assessment tools, engaging and detailed career profiles, comprehensive post-secondary information, a resume builder, employment guide, and much more.

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ChiltonLibrary supplies a solution for the “do-it-yourselfer” that is easy to use no matter the skill level. Repair, maintenance and specification tables provide critical data on thousands of domestic and imported models of cars and light trucks from 1940 onward.

"[Collection HQ] Helps public libraries select, manage and promote their collections."

ColourBox is a digital media library with over 26 million images, vectors, and videos available to download which can be used for coursework, course materials, papers and assignments, presentations.

"[Communication & Mass Media Complete] provide[s] the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.

"Computer Database is a one-stop reference resource for up-to-date information on the world of technology.

"ConsumerReports.org® — the largest paid-publication subscription-based website in the world — enables consumers to make better purchasing decisions on the products they are shopping for.

Instruct (formerly known as InfoLit Modules)

"Criminal Justice Abstracts™, formerly produced by Sage Publications, includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology.

"Criterion Pictures has developed an on-line digital delivery feature film platform called Criterion-on-Demand. Our goal is to provide easy access to educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian Higher Education Institutions.

"Imagine video that is easy to browse and navigate. Video that lets you access the exact second of footage you want. Imagine video that is painstakingly, semantically indexed and powerfully searchable.

"We are very excited to let you know about the brand new version of Curio.ca! Our full site revamp includes a comprehensive suite of upgrades, thanks to feedback we've received from our many Curio.ca subscribers.

Psychiatry Online (POL) Core is a package that includes DSM5 current edition and 3 journals

DSM5  is composed of 3 DSM current edition textbooks

"EBSCO’s extensive collection of eBook and audiobook titles on EBSCOhost allows for a comprehensive and powerful search experience—with every search, relevant eBook and audiobook titles will appear directly alongside your other EBSCO databases, exposing users to the full depth of your library’s o

This is a new TAL offer for the Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald Recent Newspapers (2011-3 months from current) from ProQuest.

This is an annual subscription offer for the current newspapers.

"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

lyndaCampus provides academic institutions with unlimited, cost-effective, organization-wide access to the vast lynda.com library of instructional videos. Inspire students, faculty, and staff to learn the latest software, creative, and business skills at their own pace.

Maclean’s Magazine Archive, 1905-2015, the leading Canadian news and general interest magazine, provides a unique perspective on both national and international affairs.

"MasterFILE Complete offers the largest collection of the most popular full-text magazines, journals, and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading publishers, covering virtually every subject area of general interest. "

Mazaam is a the musical game that supports the cognitive development of children from 4 to 6 years old.

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Create a special moment for the child to develop his listening skills so that he discovers the beauty of classical music.

"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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Newspaper Archive subscription with a variety of subscription options for different newspapers based on geography available.

Subscription options are:

NISC + LGBT Full Text Package contains the following EBSCO resources:

Core Collections are impartial, authoritative guides that help librarians build and maintain well-rounded collections of highly recommended reference, nonfiction and fiction books.

"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!

Formerly known as ProQuest Psychology Journals

"ProQuest Education Journals give users access to over 1,020 top educational publications, including more than 640 of the titles in full text.

"Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database offers complete text and images from journals such as:

"[Psychological & Behavior Sciences Collection] provides extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of topics in the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences."

Designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata users, RDA:  Resource Description and Access is the new unified cataloguing standard.  The online RDA Toolkit subscription is the most effective way to interact with the new standard.

RDA Toolkit highlights:

"[Religion & Philosophy Collection] is a valuable full-text resource with information for theological and philosophical research."

Repbase is a comprehensive collection of representative repeat sequences in eukaryotic genomes, and has been an essential genetic sequencing companion since 1992.  Repbase is primarily used for Repeat Masking and Transposon Studies.

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.

SAGE Knowledge Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) program for ebooks is an opportunity for members to access over 5,000 SAGE ebooks for the year. At the end of the year program, the prepaid amount is then used to purchase ebooks.

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ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and 26,000 books.

"360 Core is an ideal solution for libraries seeking an affordable set of foundational access, management, and assessment services to improve workflows and reduce workloads.

"While many libraries are today looking at The Summon Service as a web-scale discovery solution built on unified index, 360 Search federated search also gives libraries the opportunity to use a single search box for finding the multiple resources and highly credible content that your lib

Readers can subscribe with Impelsys to get unlimited access to a library of more than 180 Sesame 
Street eBooks

"Through a collection of comprehensive full-text content, this database provides users with detailed, yet user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines. All of the content is organized in a powerful, easy-to-use manner so that users can quickly gain the information they need."

Many study solutions only address one or two subjects. SOLARO provides study help for Mathematics, English Language Arts, and Science for students in grades 3 through 12. Students get access to all of SOLARO's content at any time.

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Our mission is to help libraries provide great service to users and succeed in a digital-first world. We're quickly becoming the go-to cloud software vendor for libraries.

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

The popular Tense Buster programs is designed for ESL learners. The program helps students improve their reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary and grammar skills and focuses on 33 key grammar areas.

Transparent Languages, available from Recorded Books is an language learning service.  

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"Educators have long known that one of the most effective ways to teach math concepts, especially to reluctant learners, is by using stories and literature.

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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