Alphabetical list of resources:
Academic OneFile Select
Specifically created for research across all academic disciplines, Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration – from advertising and microbiology to history and women's studies. Although smaller than Academic OneFile, the scope and depth of coverage in Expanded Academic ASAP will satisfy the research needs of students, faculty and graduate researchers who depend on your library for answers. Balanced coverage is available through more than 5,200 indexed and more than 3,000 full-text titles, more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals, more than 25 years of backfile coverage.
Atlas of Alberta Railways
A fascinating graphic approach to the history of railroading in Alberta. Includes maps, photos, illustrations, charts, graphs, etc
Auto Repair Source
Information on repairing and maintaining your automobile for model years going back to 1946.
Bank of Canada Currency Converter
Allows you to convert from/to virtually any currency.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
A collection of 11,000 searchable quotations, passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.
Britannica Online
Access to 3 encyclopedias..
Business Source Elite (EBSCO)
This resource provides full-text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. The collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international.
Canada 411
A Canadian telephone number directory with 12 million listing, includes postal codes.
Canada Yearbook Historical Collection
The wealth of historical data in Statistics Canada's annual Canada Year Book available free on the Internet. It covers the first century of Canada's history, from 1867 to 1967, with historical text, tables, charts and maps, supplemented by interconnected learning resources for students and teachers.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete
One of the largest and most comprehensive bibliographic full-text reference and current events database. CBCA Complete combines full text and indexed content from all three CBCA databases: Business, Education, and Reference & Current Events.
Canadian Encyclopedia
A multimedia tool and encyclopedia on Canadian history and culture.
Canadian Geographic Online Atlas
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society proudly presents a groundbreaking Internet achievement, The Canadian Atlas Online, which brings cartography to life with exciting graphics and animation. This state-of-the-art interactive atlas allows you to explore Canada in a way youÙve never experienced before.
Canadian Major Dailies
Canadian Major Dailies offers unparalleled access to the full text of nearly 300 newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail.
This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Newsstand content is updated daily so researchers always have timely access to new information.
The core of the database is the Canadian Major Dailies collection which includes national and leading regional newspapers such as The Globe and Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Regina Leader Post, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times Colonist. The MDLP subscribes to the Canadian Newsstand Prairies package which also includes the Winnipeg Free Press.
Canadian Mental Health Association. Saskatchewan Division
Users can clickthrough to the library catalogue which has many resources; provides contact info for the regional offices of the Assoc., and provides links about many mental health issues. Library material can be borrowed by both individuals and organisations after they register and perhaps pay a fee.
Canadian Research Index
Canadian Research Index™ includes federal, provincial, and municipal documents such as depository publications of research value issued by the federal government, the ten provinces, and two of the three territories; hard to find non-depository publications issued by hundreds of Canadian government agencies and departments; scientific and technical report literature issued by research institutes and government laboratories; policy, social, economic, and political reports; Statistics Canada monographs, and serials. No other service provides this combination of all jurisdictions, along with publications from leading research centers in Canada, with standardized access points and the added value of being fully abstracted and indexed.
Canadiana Online
The Government Publications collection includes over 1.7 million pages of historical pre-1920 colonial, provincial and federal government documents.
CBC Gem
Watch popular shows like Schitt's Creek, Luther, Kim's Convenience, plus Films and Live TV on any device.
CBCA Business
Covers all aspects of Canadian Business, Finance and Economics. This collection features trade journals, general business publications, academic journals, topical journals and professional publications.
CBCA Education
Formerly known as Canadian Education Directory, part of CBCA Education, now is available at Canada Info Desk to provide access to Canadian educational organizations, contacts and resources.
CBCA Reference & Current Events
Covers topics related to Canadian Business, Culture, Current Events, Literature, Language, Agriculture, History, Government, and Politics. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Reference features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines.
Charity Central
A project of the Legal Resource Centre of Alberta, designed to help Canada's Registered Charities understand their responsibilities under the Income Tax Act. Provides information and resource materials (in English and French) to Registered Charities to help them comply with the requirements of the Act. It was launched in 2008 and will conclude in March 2010.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Provides authoritative biographical information on Canada's historical figures. The first phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.
eBooks on Ebscohost
An eBook collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Encyclopedia of SaskatchewanThe Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan is an educational resource for students, teachers, researchers and all who wish to learn about the people, places and events that have shaped Saskatchewan's legacy to Canada and the world. It is our hope that, as a permanent record of achievements, the Encyclopedia will increase awareness and understanding of the region's rich cultural and natural heritage and serve as a fitting and timely vehicle through which to encourage readers to reflect not only on the province's accomplishments, but on the wealth of opportunities and advantages afforded to Saskatchewan residents.
First Nations Periodical Index Contains journals of mainly Canadian Native content. This Index is a tool providing access to information about First Nations for students (high school or university), educators, instructors and researchers.
Flipster Flipster has been discontinued as of December 31, 2020.
Gale eBooks A collection of eBooks covering a number of topics. Can be searched individually or in groups.
Gale in Context: Elementary
Gale In Context: Elementary, formerly Kids InfoBits, gradually lets elementary school children gain comfort with research by delivering age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of subjects taught in the classroom like animals, arts and music, social studies, and more. Unlike other classroom databases, Elementary offers kids through grade 5 a platform with rich visuals that will encourage their natural curiosity and get them excited about learning.
Gale in Context: Middle School
Created specifically for middle school students, Gale In Context: Middle School combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more. This middle school database provides engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content supporting national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 12 in language arts, social studies, and science. Middle school students will benefit from an interface that delivers a combination of the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users as well as the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework
Covers biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of over 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other authors.
Gale OneFile High School EditionDesigned for middle- and high-school students and provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.
General OneFilePreviously named InfoTrac OneFile, General OneFile serves as the Public library's ultimate periodical resource, with more than 11,500 titles, and a great deal of full-text, 60% of which are recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries" publication. We've included the right reference, newspapers and audio content to complement the robust collection of magazines and journals. Greenfile A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
Health and Wellness
Search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information related to your health.
Héritage
The Héritage project is a 10-year initiative to digitize and make accessible online some of Canada’s most popular archival collections encompassing roughly 40 million pages of primary-source documents. Chronicling the country and its people from the 1600s to the mid-1900s, this collection represents a vast and unique resource for Canadian historians, students, and genealogists.
Hoopla Bringing you hundreds of thousands of movies, full music albums, audiobooks and more, hoopla is a revolutionary digital service made possible by your local library. Simple to access and use, without the hassle.
Find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers.
NoveList K-8 Plus
Allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in the classroom.
NoveList Plus
A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.
Peel's Prairie Provinces Dedicated to assisting researchers of all types in their exploration of the history and culture of the Canadian Prairies. Contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies and a fully searchable collection of the full texts of many of these items.
PressReader
PressReader delivers an endless stream of top news, stories to read, discuss and share. Get full issues of thousands of top newspapers and magazines just as they appear in print.
Repére
Full text of articles appearing in key Quebec periodicals, as well as citations to articles from French-language periodicals published since 1980.
Saskatchewan Executive and Legislative Directory
Provides a convenient and authoritative historical record of the people who have been connected with public affairs in Saskatchewan as members of the Executive Council and the Legislative Assembly, as permanent heads of the chief government departments, and as candidates in successive elections.
Saskatchewan Hansard
The Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, (Hansard) is a verbatim report of the debates which take place in the Assembly.
Saskatchewan News Index
Searchable index of stories published in Saskatchewan newspapers from 1884 - 2000. The Index was compiled from a number of print and electronic indexes of Saskatchewan newspapers.
Scribner Writers online
Scribner Writers Online, now in eBook format, provides your users with an unprecedented combination of functionality and features — giving them even greater access to the esteemed Scribner literature content.
Twayne's Authors Online
The acclaimed Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of more than 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges. Twayne's Author Series is an ideal starting point for research papers on literary works and figures, special projects and presentations. Students can quickly gain results by searching for a specific author, combining search criteria for a more complex search, or exploring thematic and chronological topics.