Knowledge Ontario Resource Ontario Databases

What Resource Ontario is about: it provides equity of access to information and learning resources. It provides greater support for rural, urban, francophone and native populations by delivering free, licensed access to an extensive collection of materials and information.

The following is a link to each database and a brief information of each database. (Please click on the title of the database for access).

THOMSON GALE DATABASES

The Thomson Gale databases include hundreds of full text magazines, journals, encyclopedias and other reference materials of interest to elementary and secondary schools, public libraries, and academic institutions. 

If you are experiencing difficulty in accessing the database please call our Thomson Gale Technical Support staff. We are available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Just call us toll-free at 1-800-877-4253 option #4 or e-mail gale.technicalsupport@thomson.com  for product and system documentation. Or you can read a .pdf file about enabling cookies. Please click here.

EBSCO Database
Once at the website please use your personal library barcode on the reverse of your library card.

Canadian Reference Center combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K.) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; 84,774 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 276,132 photos, maps and flags.

Full text Canadian newspapers include: The Toronto Star, La Presse Canadianne, The Record. Reference books include: Canadian Global Almanac, Gage Canadian Dictionary, and Gage Canadian Thesaurus.

Knowledge Ontario Resource Ontario Databases