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Health and Wellness
ALT HealthWatch
Alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
Health Source - Consumer
Full text database covering topics such as aging, AIDs, cancer, children's health, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition, sports medicine, women's health and other topics. Features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals and is updated on a daily basis. Includes Lexi-PALS drug content, which covers over 1,000 generic medications, 100 natural products and 19 vaccines.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic
More than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database includes Lexi-PALS drug content, which covers over 1,000 generic medications, 100 natural products and 19 vaccines. Updated on a daily basis.
MEDLINE
U.S. National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the preclinical sciences. Includes some full text.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
Provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Updated daily.
Well-Being Essentials - Books 24/7
Well-BeingEssentials delivers insightful best practices, tools and advice on health and wellness issues most important for students and patrons. This supportive tool covers issues pertaining to daily living, working/ studying smarter, family and care giving.
• Career Development • Emotional Well-Being • Healthy Living • Personal Finance • Relationships • Stress Management
Maps and Travel
A to Z Maps Online
AtoZMapsOnline.com GETS MAP LOVERS’ ATTENTION 146,000+ Maps for the World, Continents, Countries, States, Provinces, Climate, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Geology, Animals & Plants, and MORE.
Global Road Warrior
PUBLIC LIBRARY PUTS WORLD AT PATRONS’ FINGERTIPS Database packed with photos, maps and information on culture, customs and more lets users roam the globe from the comfort of home Using this database is like getting a boarding pass for a trip around the world. That’s because Global Road Warrior offers world-class e-content, including more than 8 million words of editorial, over 6,500 color photos and 1,575 country maps, all presented in a consistent 92-category framework for each country.
Newspapers and Magazines
Academic Search Elite
Offers full text for more than 2,000 serials, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985. Updated on a daily basis.
Business Source Elite
Business database provides full text for nearly 1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. Updated on a daily basis.
Canadian Newsstand
Canadian Newsstand provides full text access to articles from major Canadian newspapers. Photos, illustrations, graphs, classified ads, advertisements, and stock market reports are excluded. Articles are added to the database 7 days after publication.
Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly (CPI-Q)
Use this database to search a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, newspapers, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, Canadian biographies, and other references. Much of the content is full text.
Canadian Reference Centre
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; full text biographies and an Image Collection. Updated on a daily basis.
Expanded Academic ASAP
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
General Reference Center GOLD
A general interest database to find articles from general interest magazines, newspapers, and reference books, many with full text. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Lethbridge Herald Newspaper Archive
Through NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the world's largest archive of online newspapers, you can access 2,893 newspaper titles online including The Lethbridge Herald and The Lethbridge Daily Herald. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world. Content on Access NewspaperARCHIVE is a unique primary resource, as newspapers provide information as news happened and not necessarily the way it was remembered. This resource is available exclusively to Lethbridge Public Library patrons.
MasterFILE Premier
A multidisciplinary database which provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, including general reference, business, health, education and general science topics. Includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily.
PressDisplay
Save A Tree! Read Online!
800 newspapers 80 countries 40 languages
Lethbridge Public Library is proud to offer free online access for all patrons to daily issues of newspapers from around the world.
Visit our periodicals department for details.
Regional Business News
Provides full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas in the U. S. Updated daily.
Consumer Information
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports offers:
- Scientific tests and ratings of thousands of products every year.
- More than 100 experts working in 7 major areas:
- Appliances, Cars, Baby and Kids, Electronics, Foods, Health and Family, Recreation and Home Improvement
- Information that empowers consumers to make the best purchasing decision.
Car Repair
Auto Repair Reference Center
EBSCO Publishing has partnered with Point 5 Technologies to create Auto Repair Reference Center™. Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945. Database content includes approximately 26,000 vehicles covered from 1945 to present; over 150,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs; approximately 70,000 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; over 100,000 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications & maintenance schedules; Labor Time Guide & Estimator; AutoIQ; Quick Tips, a complete guide to vehicle ownership & maintenance; and much more. New repair procedures and updates will also be added continuously. All of the content in Auto Repair Reference Center has been created by ASE certified technicians.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Reference
Associations Unlimited
Use this database to locate approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. The database is also used to monitor association trends; identify related associations; networking and making professional contacts; marketing to associations, their members and markets.
Canadian Encyclopedia
With the aid of its partners and the generous support of Heritage Canada, Historica presents this site free of charge to all Canadians and to interested users around the world. The site contains the complete text of the acclaimed Canadian Encyclopedia in English and French, the text of the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (in English only), numerous interactivities, feature articles, games, the Canucklehead Quiz, and an extensive timeline of Canadian and world events. The entire text can be searched via the simple search or advanced search and the user can switch languages at any time.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopaedia and the Britannica Book of the year. Features of this resource include: * An Internet directory with links to Web sites, selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors * Articles and illustrations, including photos, drawings, maps, and flags * Definitions with pronunciation guides and word histories * Advanced search and navigation capabilities Britannica Online for Kids includes Compton’s Encyclopedia for middle school students, Compton's Elementary Encyclopedia for elementary students, Merriam-Webster’s Student Dictionary and Thesaurus. Features of the Kids' interface include: * Important People - learn about notable people born on today’s date * Big Events - bring the past to the present with key dates in world history * Featured Spotlights - go in-depth with encyclopedia articles, images, videos, maps, and interactivities covering topics such as Black History, Women’s History and D-Day * Student Center A-Z Browse * World Atlas - examine maps of continents, countries, states, and oceans and find related articles * Timeline - trace the history of different subjects through time * How To… - step-by-step instructions to help students with their schoolwork * Video Browse - browse video clips by subject * Learning Materials - explore interactive lessons, exercises, and activities * Biographies - browse thousands of articles profiling world leaders, artists, scientists, authors and more All information is updated daily by Encyclopaedia Britannica editors and contributors, making this database a valuable reference and research tool for its users.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Includes: Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America (2001); Biology (2002); Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (2000); St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (2000); and World of Earth Science (2003)
Oxford English Dictionary
An online dictionary useful in finding the definitions of a word or phrase. The full-text of all available definitions, etymologies, and quotations may also be searched. Subscribe to OED's RSS feed to get a 'word of the day' sent to your Inbox. The OED is also a historical dictionary, providing the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both past and present.
World Book Online
Since 1917, World Book, Inc., has published reference materials for both children and adults that can be depended upon for accuracy, objectivity, and reliability in research. This online reference centre lets you search a variety of reference sources at once and includes the following: * Atlas – containing approximately 750 maps * Back in Time - 14,000 historic articles * Behind the Headlines feature * Dictionary - 250,000 entries * Educators’ Tools – includes topic enrichment resources, classroom activities, and links to lesson plans * Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos - World Book's intermediate Spanish-language encyclopedia * Encyclopedia- more than 26,000 encyclopedia articles, for grades 4 through 12 and adults * Explore Alberta - provides links to resources in World Book Online Reference Center. It also provides assignment topics that lead to in-depth research and links to study-skills information * Features of the Month - special online features filled with articles, multimedia, and interactive quizzes * Magazine Articles - lists of relevant magazine articles for many World Book articles * Media Showcase Feature * Pictures and Illustrations - photographs, animal illustrations, reproductions of great works of art, and more * Sounds - audio clips of bird songs, popular and classical music, national anthems, and more * Special Reports - nearly 400 in-depth feature articles focus on issues surrounding timely topics, important current events, and obituaries of famous people * Student Resources - collection of tools and information to aid you in finding topics for study, conducting research, and reporting in writing or by speech * Surf the Ages – use this special feature to dip into imaginary news sites from Ancient Times, The Middle Ages, or Modern Times * Tables - approximately 2,000 tables cover a huge range from facts about countries to important dates * Today in History - each day of the year important persons or events are showcased * Videos and Animations - more than 100 videos and animations. (Requires Adobe Flash plug-in) * Web Sites - editor selected Web sites, which are linked to relevant World Book articles * What's New - explore some of the highlights of World Book's many new and revised articles
Computers and Technology
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,470 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 660 periodicals.
ITPro - Books 24/7
ITPro provides a vast library of best in class, recent and authoritative content spanning hundreds of technology topics. Patrons can search, browse and view every word, graphic, code example and table from thousands of titles.
• Databases • Hardware • Operating Systems • Programming Languages • Software Engineering • Telecommunications
Office Essentials - Books 24/7
OfficeEssentials offers practical, ‘how-to’ information on the most commonly used desktop programs employed in today’s environments.
• Graphics & Design • Handheld Devices • Macintosh® OS • Microsoft® Office 2003, 2007 • Microsoft Windows® XP, Vista
Sciences
Access Science
Access Science is the online McGraw- Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, and includes research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations and the latest in science news. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students. Readers may be assured that the authors are the top experts in the field, including a number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medals winners.
AGRICultural Online Access (AGRICOLA)
Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. Citation content only.
Education Research Complete
Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals, and includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.
Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC)
The Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. Includes full text of more than 2200 digests and citation information for an additional 1000 educational journals.
Environment Complete
Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. It contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,660 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 600 journals.
Fiction, Poetry, Literature and the Arts
Booklist Online
Booklist is a 100-year-old journal, published by the American Library Association, whose core mission is to provide public and school librarians with reviews that help them decide what to buy, and can also be used to make reading recommendations. Booklist Online is both a free Web site and a subscription database. The free site offers a generous selection of Booklist content—plus some Web-only features—and is updated daily or weekly, depending on the portion of the site. All the content on the home page can be accessed without a subscription, including any links on the homepage. The content of other main pages on the site is also free - Adult Books, Books for Youth, Media, and Reference. The subscription database contains archived reviews and features that are dynamically linked. The database contains over 100,000 reviews and thousands of features dating back to 1992. Much of the older material is searchable but not linked in the way newer content is.
Books in Print
Global books in print is an indispensible tool for librarians, booksellers, educators, students, and patrons -- anyone researching English-language books, videos, audio cassettes, and publishers all over the world. Access over 6 million English-language titles published in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other countries. BIP includes tables of contents, full text reviews, and annotations. Sub-search areas include: the Children's Room, Fiction Room, and Forthcoming Books Room. Includes an author biography database.
Canadian Literary Centre
Consists of book and reference content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press). ECW Press also provides several individual monographs and biographies, essays and literary criticism. The database includes book reviews, essays, author biographies, and much more. Updated on a daily basis.
Contemporary Authors
Provides complete and up-to-date biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 100,000 modern authors.
Fiction Connection
Looking for that next good read? A complimentary resource for Global Books in Print subscribers, Fiction Connection is Bowker’s new readers' advisory product. Use Fiction Connection to discover titles similar to those you already enjoy. Or feel free to browse titles by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database will provide cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals.
Int'l Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
This database was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. It contains full text for more than 100 periodicals and more than 100 books & monographs.
Novelist
A fiction database for over 135,000 fiction titles. Content includes: subject headings, reviews, summaries, author read-alikes, 'what we're reading', book discussion guides, booktalks, and annotated book lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are picture book extenders and articles on teaching with fiction.
Pop Culture Universe
From the 1920s to the dawn of the 21st century, Greenwood’s Pop Culture Universe covers everything that has ever been popular – from the world-changing historical events to trivia and trends. Learn about history, music, movies, politics, art and more by browsing the decades, or search the database for specific people, places and events.
Not only is this resource useful – it’s fun!
For Kids
Novelist K-8
Provides a student-focused interface and a database of young adult, children's and easy titles designed for children in pre-K, elementary or middle schools. A subset of the Novelist database Novelist K-8 uses different colors and fewer tabs and excludes adult content.
Student Research Center
EBSCO's Student Research Center (SRC) makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type (magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.).
TumbleBook Library
"E-books for E-kids". TumbleBook Library is an online collection of TumbleBooks - animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. This online resource includes picture storybooks, chapter books/YA novels, life learning books, language learning, audio books, and storybook related games and puzzles. The 'TumbleMailer' also lets you send TumbleCards and select TumbleBooks by e-mail, and even lets you record your own narration!
Mega Searches
Online Training
Tell Me More Language Learning Software
By providing language learning, libraries assist patrons in reaching their economic and community goals. Small businesses start in libraries, people find jobs in libraries, and communities are formed in libraries. These are opportunities only libraries can create.
Fast easy to use program
• 9 levels to choose from
• 16 different interface
Languages
Tell Me More Language Learning Software
Other Resources - available free online
Alberta Heritage Digitization Project
Our Future, Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project (AHDP) is an ongoing, not-for-profit endeavor to provide all those interested in Alberta's history free, online access to cultural and heritage materials. Browse newspapers from 1885, read entire books about local communities, research legal documents, view historic photographs, and more. Collections include: art, local histories, Calgary Stampede history, medical history, early Alberta newspapers, multicultural Alberta, educational modules, municipal by-laws, Grande Prairie photographs, Nitsitapiisinni: Kainai plants and culture, historical air photos, Southern Alberta folklore, and legal history.
Canadian Encyclopedia
With the aid of its partners and the generous support of Heritage Canada, Historica presents this site free of charge to all Canadians and to interested users around the world. The site contains the complete text of the acclaimed Canadian Encyclopedia in English and French, the text of the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (in English only), numerous interactivities, feature articles, games, the Canucklehead Quiz, and an extensive timeline of Canadian and world events. The entire text can be searched via the simple search or advanced search and the user can switch languages at any time.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Explore the history of Canada's inhabitants and their culture, through this online database of people who played an important role in the formation of what is now Canada.
A major research and publishing project launched by the University of Toronto and the Université Laval in 1959, this first phase of the project provides access to the published biographies of persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years. Integrated into the country's largest archival repository, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online even paves the way to more extensive research.
Early Canadiana OnlineEarly Canadiana Online
A digital library providing access to more than 2 million pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century. Collections included are: Canadian Women's History, Colonial Government Journals, The Early Governors General of Canada, Early Official Publications, English Canadian Literature, History of French Canada, History of the Hudson's Bay Company, Jesuit Relations, Native Studies, and Reconstituted Debates.