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.

TAL is offering the upgrade to ATLASerials from the LHCADL subscription to ATLA for those members that wish to continue on with a paid subscription to all of the full text content available in ATLASerials.

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:

(formerly AutoMate)

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.

"[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.

"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.

Crabtree French eBooks offers a broad range of curriculum focused, general interest, and fictional titles to support K-8 French Immersion and French students with content support, as well as literacy skills

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

Global Road Warrior is the world’s most extensive country-by-country resource for learning about culture, customs, history, and language worldwide. Global Road Warrior consists of 174 Country Guides of 119 topics each.

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We connect you with funders who share your cause.

"Grove Music Online has been the leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001, a comprehensive compendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and Th

"A powerful working, learning and research tool, this database provides the full text of articles covering a broad array of science issues, with about 45 percent of the focus on agriculture."

"Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, [Social Sciences with Full Text provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals."

This is a an ebook subscription.

"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.

A new skill-building platform that engages learners through personalized content, an active community, and insights across all of your content sources. It’s more than a traditional LXP — it helps empower your employees to develop the right skills.

"[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."

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.

From the vendor:

Objectives

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

MLA Handbook Plus is a subscription-based digital product providing online access to the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook.  Relied on by generations of writers, the MLA Handbook is the only official, authorized book on MLA format.

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.

"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."

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.

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.

Springer Nature advances discovery by publishing trusted research, supporting the development of new ideas and championing open science. We are committed to playing our part in accelerating solutions to address the world’s urgent challenges.

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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.

This offer will be ending September 30 2022, no late joins will be accepted at this time.

"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.