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.

The ACM Digital Library (DL) is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records in existence today covering the fields of computing and information technology.

Aesthetic VideoSource offers a comprehensive, high quality video subscription providing unlimited access to curriculum-focused videos.

5 Streaming Video Collections are offered:

"Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, [Agricola] provides access to millions of citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, theses and much more, all relating to the field of agriculture....

The Allied Health Package is comprised of the following EBSCO resources:

• Natural & Alternative Treatments
• SportDISCUS with Full Text

The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection is the largest collection of North-American-focused historical periodicals available for purchase.

"Developed through the 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."

This is a an ebook subscription.

"[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."

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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."

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. "

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."

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

"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.

ProQuest Psychology Journals provides abstracting and indexing for more than 620 titles, with over 520 titles in full-text and over 4,600 full text dissertations.

"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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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.

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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"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.