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Vendor	Database	Scope
CareerCruising	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. Users are able to access hundreds of detailed occupation profiles – everything from Actuary to Zookeeper. Profiles include: job descriptions, working conditions, education and training, earnings, and links to related occupations and other resources. It provides a national database of post-secondary schools which includes detailed information on colleges, universities and other training opportunities.
Cedrom SNi	Eureka.cc for public and academic libraries Actualite Francophone Plus (Current Affairs - Francophone Plus) Titles: L'Actualité Le Devoir Le Droit Écrivains québécois - dossiers (L'Île) La Presse Protegéz-vous Le Soleil SRC Radio - Bulletin National et International SRC Télévision - Le Téléjournal / Le Point SRC Télévision - Découverte Voir Dailies from Across Ontario: Barrie Examiner Belleville Intelligencer Brantford Expositor Chatham Daily News Cobourg Daily Star Cornwall Standard-Freeholder Kingston Whig-Standard Niagara Falls Review North Bay Nugget Orillia Packet and Times Owen Sound Sun Times Pembroke Daily Observer Peterborough Examiner Port Hope Evening Guide Sarnia Observer Sault Star St. Catharines Standard Sudbury Star Timmins Daily Press Welland Tribune	The content in Eureka.cc for public and academic libraries corresponds directly to the French-language titles identified by the French Advisory Committee as being of primary importance to their community. The titles included in this collection of well-known francophone resources are available a. text or PDF files. 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. The French-language titles are bundled with 20 English-language daily newspapers from across Ontario. An Added bonus: The French-language titles are bundled with 20 English-language daily newspapers from across Ontario. Now available to library clients: Barrie Examiner, Belleville Intelligencer, Brantford Expositor, Chatham Daily News, Cobourg Daily Star, Cornwarll Standard-Freeholder, Kingston Whig-Standard, Lindsay Daily Post, Niagara Falls Review, North Bay Nugget, Orillia Packet & Times, Owen Sound Sun Times, Pembroke Daily Observer, Peterborough Examiner, Port Hope Evening Guide, Sarnia Observer, Sault Star, St. Catharines Standard, Sudbury Star, Timmins Daily Press and Welland Tribune.
EBSCO	Auto Repair Reference Center Canadian Points of View Reference Centre	No longer a need to line your shelves with those heavy, expensive Auto Repair manuals. This database includes automotive repair information on most manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles and includes: more than 31,600 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 for easy viewing and printing specifications and maintenance schedules Quick Tips – a complete guide to vehicle ownership and maintenance This full-text database is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides information on 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics include the environment, human rights, race, substance abuse and many more. The database contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 400 main essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. It also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. It provides the basis from which students can better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
The Gale Group, Inc., a part of Cengage Learning ("Gale")	Periodical Databases: General OneFile Academic OneFile Expanded Academic ASAP InfoTrac Collections Computer Database General Business File General Reference Center General Reference Center Gold InfoTrac Communications & Mass Media Collection InfoTrac Criminal Justice Collection InfoTrac Diversity Studies Collection InfoTrac Environmental Issues & Policy Collection InfoTrac Gardening, Landscape & Horticulture Collection InfoTrac Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Issues Collection InfoTrac General Science Collection InfoTrac Information Science & Library Issues Collection InfoTrac Insurance & Liabililty Collection InfoTrac Pop Culture Collection InfoTrac Psychology Collection InfoTrac Small Business Collection InfoTrac Tourism, Hospitality & Leisure Collection InfoTrac Vocations, Careers & Technical Education Collection InfoTrac War & Terrorism Collection InfoTrac World History Collection InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy Collection LegalTrac Military and Intelligence Database K-12: Discovering Collection Educator's Reference Complete Kids InfoBits InfoTrac - K-12 Student InfoTrac Junior Edition K-12 Graphic Interface
	Canadian Focus: CPI.Q Student Resource Centre - Canadian Edition Newspapers: InfoTrac Custom Newspapers National Newspaper Index Health: Health & Wellness Resource Center Health Reference Center Academic Gale Virtual Reference Library Titles - e-books: Business Leader Profiles for Students, 2v Cities of the World 6th ed. College Blue Books, 33rd ed. Countries and Their Cultures Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed. Encyclopedia of Communication and Information Encyclopedia of Crime and justice, 2nd ed. Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Encyclopedia of management, 5th ed. Encyclopedia of Public Health, 4v Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. Enfermedades y Trastornos de la Salud Environmental Encyclopedia, 3rd ed. Gale E-Commerce Sourcebook Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2nd ed. Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 3rd ed. Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia, 3rd ed. International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physcial Geography Junior Worlmark Encyclopedia of World Cities Lucent Library of Science and Technology: Virtual Reality Natrition and Well-Being A to Z Pollution A to Z Psychologists and Their Theories for Students Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans, 22nd ed. Science and Its Times Science of Everyday Things UXL Encyclopedia of Science 2nd ed. Water: Science and Issues World of Earth Science, vol. 1 World Press Encyclopedia, 2nd ed.	This unique online resource places the emphasis on Canada, its people, and its history. Aligned to Provincial learning standards, the database includes reference, periodicals, primary source, and multimedia resources geared toward Canadian students and educators. It contains more than 525 full-text magazines including 200 Canadian periodicals, nearly one thousand biographies on famous Canadian individuals, 400 new essays written by Canadian writers and comprehensive coverage of nearly 300 Canadian authors. New reference content is added on an ongoing basis. New full-text periodical and newspaper articles are added every day.
Rosen Publishing	Teen Health and 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, cy-ber-literacy, family life, sexuality and more. Teen Health and Wellness was selected as one of Library Journal’s Best Reference Sources of 2007 and listed in the Top Ten Digital Product and Must Have Purchases in the Fall ’08 issue of School Library Journal. All content is reviewed by leading professionals across fields including medicine, mental health, nutrition, substances abuse prevention, guidance and career counseling.