Middle & High School Resources

Access to over 3,000,000 rights cleared images. Access Britannica's Image Quest »

Britannica Online Reference Centre is the go-to site for research—the core of any inquiry learning model—offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases. Access Britannica »

A powerful and intelligent search engine provides access to all subjects, with 38,000 articles written and signed by more than 6,400 renowned authors, historians, professors, and Nobel Prize winners. 25,000 multimedia elements engage users and enhance learning. A world atlas with more than 1,400 physical and political maps, timelines, an integrated dictionary with 120,000 entries, 100,000 bibliographies, original source documents, and a guide to select Web sites are helpful resources in the research process. The latest news up-to-date information from a daily calendar with topical background information, new and exclusive weekly articles, and monthly dossiers covering the issues of our times provide relevant information for today’s world. A science center explains 11 scientific topics and uses more than 60 multimedia elements to demonstrate important subjects. Access Britannica Universalis Senior French Online Reference Centre »

KnowBC is a growing resource for history and information regarding British Columbia. It has over a dozen books that cover a substantial number of topics including Indigenous history, marine life, British Columbia's role in World War I, and much more. Access KnowBC »

Find information on virtually any subject fast via a simultaneous search of a series of multidisciplinary databases. Access EBSCO »

Find high quality citable images, graphs, and charts to supplement your presentations.
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Gale In Context: Canada is an engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places, and events. Featuring Gale's authoritative reference material and focused on a Canadian perspective, this user-friendly portal organizes full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Access Gale Virtual Reference Library »

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source, and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search, or Advanced Search to explore the database.
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History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. Access History Reference Center »

JSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources. Access JSTOR »

Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive literary reference database which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. It is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 11,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, images, audios, videos, study guides, and other unique literary content and sources not available anywhere else. It contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic, and high school libraries. Access Literary Reference Center »

Poetry & Short Story Reference Center is a rich full-text database containing thousands of classic and contemporary poems, short stories, biographies, essays, lesson plans and learning guides. It also includes high-quality videos and audio recordings from the Academy of American Poets. Access Poetry & Short Story Reference Center »

Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science and society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology, and wildlife. Access Science Reference Center »

Engaging learning games, animated movies, and activities. Designed with relevance, depth, and humor to encourage kids on their unique learning paths. Access BrainPop »

Historica Canada is the largest independent organization devoted to enhancing awareness of Canadian history and citizenship. Access Historica Canada »

This magazine is an international weekly newspaper printed in magazine-format and published digitally that focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology. Access the Economist here »

World Book's mission is to enhance learning and reading for children around the world by developing trustworthy, engaging content to create products that will engage children of all ages at home, on the go, in the classroom or in libraries worldwide. Access World Book »

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. It lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for popular books, music and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks. You may also find article citations with links to their full text; authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public. Because WorldCat libraries serve diverse communities in dozens of countries, resources are available in many languages. Access World Catalogue »