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PEER-REVIEWED

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ENCYCLOPEDIAS

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CANADIAN

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  • Canadian Encyclopedia
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  • Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
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RESSOURCES

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  • Office national du film du Canada
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EBSCO Mobile version: Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, Canadian Reference Centre, Academic Search Premier, Consumer Health Complete, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE, etc.

Canadian Points of View
"Provides 120 topics each with an overview, point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument)".
Global Issues in Context
"Issues and countries; uses multimedia to explain the historical and current conditions necessary to understand global issues, conflicts and events".
Canadian Periodical Index
Includes Canadian newspapers and magazines, including The Globe and Mail and Maclean's.
Canadian Reference Center
Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and ebooks; over 66,000 full-text biographies and over 502,000 photos, maps and flags".
Student Research Center
General reference resource for secondary students; includes multiple content types.
Academic Search Premier
Significant research resource; contains information and articles from over 13,000 journals and has "unmatched full-text coverage" in science.
World Book Advanced
Senior level resource; includes encyclopedia, multimedia and ebook content and primary sources.
Consumer Health Complete
"Provides content covering all areas of health, wellness" and medicine. Includes articles, images, videos and other content.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
"Offers World Book’s content, rich media, and engaging features in Spanish".
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Features secondary-level ebooks.
Business Source Premier
Features journals related to marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Includes market research, industry reports and company profiles".
NoveList
"provides access to information on 155,000 fiction titles" and author biographies, "read-alikes, discussion guides, reading lists and more".
MasterFILE
General reference resource; "covers business, health, education, science and more".
QP LegalEze
BC law resource; access is available from school only. Provides access to the current and archived laws of BC, the Hansard and more.
GreenFILE
"Covers the environment; topics include climate change, green building, pollution, renewable energy, recycling, and more".
Professional Development Collection
For educators; over 500 full-text educational journals are included and are searchable.
L'Encyclopédie Découverte
"propose les articles et les vastes possibilités du contenu médiatique de World Book en français canadien".
Encyclopedia of British Columbia
The definitive reference work on BC; includes five other ebooks on BC topics.
NFB-ONF Screening Room
Watch National Film Board-Office National Du Film Du Canada films online!
The West Beyond The West
"Images, text, audio and video from the collections of libraries, archives, museums, and more in BC and across Canada; via a single search portal".
eLibrary
"premium full-text and multimedia content" including BC newspapers; magazine, book, map, image, audio/video content and more.
History Study Center
Multimedia resource focussed on history; contains over 40,000 primary and secondary sources and more.
ProQuest Learning: Literature
"Provides more than 180,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama", multimedia, and "author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and more".

ENGLISH

  • NoveList Plus
  • Poets, writers, audio, notes

SOCIAL STUDIES / SCIENCES HUMAINES

  • Encyclopedia Smithsonian
  • Business & economics
  • Gale e-books
  • Global issues
  • History Study Centre
  • L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora
  • Philosophy
  • QP LegalEze
  • Statistics Canada
  • World stats

SCIENCE & MATH

  • Computational search engine
  • Encyclopedia of earth
  • Encylopedia of Math
  • Smithsonian

HEALTH

  • Ebsco Consumer Health
  • Merck Manuals
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