Cornwall Public Library

  ||   Home   ||   Catalogue   ||   Hours   ||   Contacts   ||   Français   ||   Help   ||   Print   ||  


       

Online Databases

Jump directly to: Ebsco - Gale - In-house only
Career Cruising
Career Cruising
This is a fully bilingual database which has been designed to help students and others plan their future.  With exceptional assessment tools, detailed occupation profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary education information, users move seamlessly through the career exploration and planning process.
Teen Health & Wellness Teen Health & Wellness
This database was developed for teens with their unique concerns in mind.  It is award-winning and critically acclaimed, providing curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases, drugs & alcohol, nutrition, mental and emotional health, cyber-literacy, family life, sexuality and more.
Top
Ebsco resources
Auto Repair Reference Center
This database includes automotive repair information on most manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles and includes:
  • more than 31,000 vehicles from 1945 to the present
  • over 250,000 drawing and step-by-step photographs
  • approximately 75,000 technical service bulletins and recalls
  • over 130,000 enhanced wiring diagrams
  • specifications and maintenance schedules
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre
This full-text database is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.  It provides information on 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, including the environment, hman rights, substance abuse and many more.  The database also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers.
Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.  Contents include:
  • More than 31,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
  • Nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
  • More than 156,000 author biographies
  • More than 620,000 book reviews
  • More than 5,500 author interviews
Novelist
NoveList is a readers' advisory service that provides access to detailed descriptions of over 155,000 fiction titles.  It also offers a wide range of feature content to serve fiction readers of all ages, including author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more.
Novelist K-8
Designed especially with elementary and middle schools in mind, Novelist K-8 contains enhanced subject access for over 60,000 fiction titles.  Full-text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many titles.  The “Working with Kids” section provides a single location for parents and teachers to access curricular materials such as our Grab and Go Book Lists, BookTalks, Picture Book Extenders and more.
Schools and other institutions that already have Ebsco subscriptions for other products will need to use the following link:   Ebsco Direct
Top
Gale Resources
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.  With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.  With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.
CPI.Q
CPI.Q
Use this database to find articles from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, Canadian biographies, and other reference content from Gale, all with a Canadian focus.
General Reference Center Gold
General Reference Center Gold
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications.  Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials.  Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.  Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
InfoTrac Junior
InfoTrac Junior
Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5.  Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree.  The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines.  This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Student Resource Center - Canadian Edition
Student Resource Center - Canadian Edition
Student Resource Centre Canadian Edition includes reference, periodicals, primary sources, and multimedia resources geared toward Canadian students and educators.  The database includes Canadian curriculum standards with correlated content, a popular topics picklist on the home page that features one-click access to Canadian topics, and new and updated essays on Canadian topics.
To access more Gale collections and to search multiple databases, please use the following link: Gale Infotrac
Top
In-house Use Only (available only from within the library)
Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition
One of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas.
Canadian Directory to Foundations and Corporations
Canadian Directory to Foundations and Corporations
An online database containing updated information on over 2,200 Canadian grant-making foundations.  Together these foundations hold assets of almost $12 billion and award grants with a total value of over $1 billion.  In addition, we include over 150 American foundations with a history of granting in Canada, and over 500 partial records (for which we print only the Purpose statement): most of these are either dissolved foundations or foundations that restrict their giving to a few specified charities.
Eureka.cc
Eureka.cc
A collection of well-known francophone resources, including l'Actualité, le Devoir, SRC Télévision - le Téléjournal / le Point.  The resources are updated daily and contain 20 years of archives.  The collection includes national and international newspapers, news wires, audio capsules and radio/television transcripts.  Also includes 20 English-language daily newspapers from across Ontario, including the Cornwall Standard Freeholder.
Top