Which Database Do I Use?

Academic Search Premier: An excellent cross-curricular research database of more than 5,900+ magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. It also includes more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press Updated from 1930 to the present. Suitable for Grades 7-12! 

Archives Numériques de l'Ontario: This French database lets users explore all digitized items held by Toronto Public Library, including over 100,000 historical photos, maps, postcards, and more from Ontario. 

Britannica School: An excellent encyclopedia with areas devoted to Canadian content. Easy-to-understand results include not just text, but images, primary resources and multimedia files. Suitable for all Grades! 

Canadian Points of View: Designed to assist in understanding a full scope of controversial subjects from a uniquely Canadian perspective. Students can use CPOV as a guide to debating, developing arguments, writing position papers, and developing critical thinking skills. Suitable for Grades 7-12! 

Canadian Reference Centre: Specifically designed for school libraries in Canada, this database offers a full-text collection of regional and international periodicals, newspapers, and newswires. It also includes thousands of images from the Canadian Press. Suitable for Grades7-12! 

Digital Archive Ontario: Explore all the digitized items held by Toronto Public Library, including over 100,000 historical photos, maps, postcards and more from Ontario. 

Explora Canada: Use this intuitive interface to cross-search EBSCOHost databases such as Academic Search Premier, Canadian Reference Source, and Canadian Points of View. Please note that this interface doesn't include all the features of each database. Suitable for Grades7-12! 

Health Source:​ An excellent collection of consumer health information provides access to​ 70 + full-text consumer health magazines​ along with searchable full​-text for current health pamphlets. Suitable for Grades 7-12 and Educators! 

JSTOR: Use this simple interface to access a growing collection of open access journals, books, images, and media.  (Open Access version)

Newspaper Source: ​This collection provides cover-to-cover full text for ​520+ national, international, and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks​. Suitable for Grades 7-12 and Educators! 

NoveList Plus: NoveList Plus is a comprehensive reader's advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction books. It uses an intuitive interface to help readers answer the question: What should I read next? Suitable for all Grades and Educators! 

OurOntario.ca: Search & Discover millions of items from collections across Ontario, including people, places, events, and artifacts from libraries, archives, museums, and historical and genealogical societies, and other community heritage collections. View and Interact with photographs and postcards, maps and charts, videos and oral histories, research collections, digital directories and newspapers, vital statistics. and more. 

Teen Health & Wellness: With thorough curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health and much more, Teen Health & Wellness is an instant, online support network students and teachers can always turn to. Suitable for Grades 7-12 and Educators! 

Universalis: This French database provides access to more than 38,000 articles, including current issues and trends, 25,000+ media items, a world atlas with over 1400 maps, an integrated dictionary with 122,000+ entries, and a guide to selected Web sites. Suitable for Grades 9-12! 

World News Digest: World News Digest serves as an archival record of domestic and international news and covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940. Suitable for Grades 4-10!