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Alt HealthWatch
Alt HealthWatch focuses on alternative, complementary, and holistic approaches to health care and wellness; it includes full-text for articles from hundreds of journals, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, and other sources.

AccessScience
AccessScience delivers the latest content of McGraw-Hill titles such as Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms as well as the full-text articles, biographies, and more.

Ancestry Library Edition
This resource includes over 8 billion searchable names, and from hundreds of reliable sources. NOTE: Ancestry Library Edition can only be accessed from one of Aurora Public Library's public computer workstations.

Biography In Context
Over a million biographies from the world of business, science, literature, history, etc., using resources such as Gale’s Contemporary Authors; Encyclopedia of World Biography, Notable Scientists, Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television and Contemporary Musicians. Also available are full-text articles from Time, < Newsweek as well as other publications.

Britannica Online
Britannica Online delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. This included a rich combination of the insightful Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.

Canada's Heritage From 1844 (The Globe and Mail)
Canada's Heritage From 1844 is a digitized version of The Globe and Mail newspaper from 1844. It is searchable by keyword and date.
 
Canada In Context
Canada in Context integrates Gale electronic reference material including Worldmark Encyclopedia of Canadian Provinces, Discovering Authors Canadian Edition and Native North American Almanac with the Web-like media-rich Audio, video and podcasts.

Canadian Reference Centre
This database contains full text articles from over 190 popular Canadian magazines, and 97 newspapers including the Toronto Star and the Ottawa Citizen.
 
Career Cruising
Career Cruising is a career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training, try Career Cruising.

CBCA Complete
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA Complete) is a general reference database with a primary focus on Canadian content. CBCA Complete includes subject index references and some full text articles and reports from journals, magazines, and newspapers, media transcripts, and newswires.

CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals)
Use this database to find articles from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, and Canadian biographies.

ChiltonLibrary.com
This resource provides authoritative automotive repair information and it is based on the popular Chilton Auto Repair Manuals. This resource contains thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.

Canadian Points of View Centre
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides information on more than 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.

Consumer Health Information - French
Consumer Health Information French provides easy to read reports with scientifically based information on health and wellness. These reports covering various diseases, conditions and treatments are checked by doctors and reflect the most recent data.

ConsumerReports.org
ConsumerReports.org features Ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel.

Discovering Collection
Discovering Collection includes thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources and creative works. This database focuses on five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.

EBSCOHost Super Search
A cross-search multidisciplinary EBSCOHost databases, offering more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information.

eLibrary
eLibrary retrieves full-text and multimedia reference material, accessing more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts - plus thousands of maps, pictures, web links, and audio/video files.

Freegal
Download and enjoy free mp3 music from Sony Entertainment's music catalogue: thousands of titles are available. All the songs are free and you can keep them forever (DRM-free).

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library offers 200 APL selected eBooks covering topics such as the arts, business, environment, history, literature, science and
multicultural studies.

Gale PowerSearch
PowerSearch allows you to cross-search all our Gale databases simultaneously or select from a list of over 20 individual databases to find the one with the most appropriate content.

General OneFile
General Onefile provides full text access to over 3500 journals and newspapers some dating back 25 years.

Health Reference Center Academic
Integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.
 
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Health and Wellness Resource Center provides medical reference materials. It includes health/medical journals, pamphlets and general interest publications in addition to Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Literature Resource Center
Provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. It includes more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

LitFinder
LitFinder contains more than 140,000 full-text poems, 840,000 poem citations and excerpts, as well as thousands of short stories, essays, speeches, and plays.

eBooks & Audiobooks on EBSCOhost
Registration at the Adult Information Desk is required to access this database but, with a username and password, you can access thousands of e Books including literary classics and criticisms, computer science, business and history.
 
NoveList
NoveList allows fiction readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles they will likely be interested in.

Ontario Library Service Download Centre
[Powered by OverDrive Digital Library Reserve]
Download digital Audiobooks anytime and then transfer them to your portable device! Access 2,300-plus digital Audiobooks remotely or in the Library, download titles to your computer/laptop or the Library's Download Station, then transfer them to your iPOD, MP3 player or other audio device to enjoy hearing them at your leisure; requires a valid APL card barcode and PIN. (Brought to you by the Ontario Ministry of Culture through the Southern Ontario Library Service and Ontario Library Service-North).

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints covers the hottest current events topics such as capital punishment, narcotics control, bioethics, etc.: the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors.

ReferenceCanada & ReferenceUSA
Now, with ReferenceCanada and ReferenceUSA, you can search virtually every Canadian or American business, compile marketing or supplier lists and locate potential employers. A search by type of business, location, number of employees, or sales volume takes seconds and supplies you with reliable information on virtually every company in Canada and includes names of owners and senior executives. You can also access a comprehensive directory of Canadian and American households.

Scott's Business Directories Online
Information about Canadian agencies and companies in manufacturing, government, financial and educational sectors. Search by product, type, location etc. NOTE: Scott's Business Directories Online can only be accessed from one of Aurora Public Library's public computer workstations.


Teen Health & Wellness Resource Center
Teen Health & Wellness is an award winning database that deals with "Real Life" issues and provides "Real Answers" for students with curricular support and self- help on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, and family life.

The Toronto Star’s Pages of the Past
The Toronto Star’s Pages of the Past is a digitized version of the Toronto Star from 1894, searchable by keyword or date.
 
WorldBook Online
Provides access to a general encyclopedia. Includes Today in History and Behind
the Headlines sections.

Ancestry Library Edition
This resource includes over 8 billion searchable names, and from hundreds of reliable sources. NOTE: Ancestry Library Edition can only be accessed from one of Aurora Public Library's public computer workstations.

Britannica Online
Britannica Online delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. This included a rich combination of the insightful Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.

Gale Biography In Context
Over a million biographies from the world of business, science, literature, history, etc., using resources such as Gale’s Contemporary Authors;
Encyclopedia of World Biography, Notable Scientists, Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television and Contemporary Musicians. Also available are full-text articles from Time, Newsweek as well as other publications.

EBSCOHost Super Search
A cross-search multidisciplinary EBSCOHost databases, offering more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information.

eLibrary
eLibrary retrieves full-text and multimedia reference material, accessing more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts - plus thousands of maps, pictures, web links, and audio/video files.

Gale PowerSearch
PowerSearch allows you to cross-search all our Gale databases simultaneously or select from a list of over 20 individual databases to find the one with the most appropriate content.

Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints covers the hottest current events topics such as capital punishment, narcotics control, bioethics, etc.: the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors.

WorldBook Online
Provides access to a general encyclopedia. Includes Today in History and Behind
the Headlines sections.

Websites

Babel Fish Translator

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Canada 411 - Canadian Telephone Directory

International Telephone Directories

Maps

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Postal Code Search

Reverse Telephone Directory

Citation Guides
MLA pdf
APA pdf

CBCA Complete
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) is a general reference database
with a primary focus on Canadian content. CBCA Complete includes subject index references and some full text articles and reports from journals, magazines, and newspapers, media transcripts, and newswires.

Career Cruising
Career Cruising is a career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training, try Career Cruising.

ReferenceCanada & ReferenceUSA
Now, with ReferenceCanada and ReferenceUSA, you can search virtually every Canadian or American business, compile marketing or supplier lists and
locate potential employers. A search by type of business, location, number of employees, or sales volume takes seconds and supplies you with reliable information on virtually every company in Canada and includes names of owners and senior executives. You can also access a comprehensive directory of Canadian and American households.

Scott's Business Directories Online
Information about Canadian agencies and companies in manufacturing, government, financial and educational sectors. Search by product, type, location etc. NOTE: Scott's Business Directories Online can only be accessed from one of Aurora Public Library's public computer workstations.

Business Websites

BizPaL - Business Permits and Licences Information

Canada-Ontario Business Services Centre

SEDAR Public Corporate Documents

ServiceOntario - Services for Business

TPL Small Business Resource

Industry Canada

Toronto Stock Exchange

York Region Business Directory

Career Websites

Government of Ontario Jobs

Human Resources & Skills Development Canada

Interprovincial Skilled Worker & Apprenticeship Standards

JobsETC

Ontario Job Futures

The Learning Enrichment Foundation

Work Local Job Site

Workopolis

York Region Employment Resource Centres

Related APL Research Guides

Business Startup & Business Management Resources.pdf

Looking for Work Resources.pdf

Employee Excellence and Empowerment Resources.pdf

Investing & Money Management Resources.pdf

Alt HealthWatch
Alt HealthWatch focuses on alternative, complementary, and holistic approaches to health care and wellness; it includes full-text for articles from hundreds of journals, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, and other sources.

Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.

Consumer Health Information - French
Consumer Health Information French provides easy to read reports with scientifically based information on health and wellness. These reports covering various diseases, conditions and treatments are checked by doctors and reflect the most recent data.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Health and Wellness Resource Center provides medical reference materials, including health/medical journals, general interest publications and Gale reference titles.

Teen Health & Wellness Resource Center
Teen Health & Wellness is an award winning database that deals with "Real Life" issues and provides "Real Answers" for students with curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, and family life.

Health & wellness Websites

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Cochrane Public Health Review Group

Dietitians of Canada

Health Canada

Healthy Ontario

Merck Manual Online

National Library of Medicine

SafeMedication.com

Telehealth Ontario - Free Access to a Registered Nurse

Related APL Resource Guide

APL Health & Medicine Resources.pdf

AccessScience
AccessScience delivers the latest content of McGraw-Hill titles such as Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms as well as the full-text articles, biographies, and more.

Science Websites

Scirus: a Search Engine for Science Queries

Canadian Biodiversity Web Site (Canada's Ecozones)

Environment Canada

Hinterland Who's Who

Natural Resources Canada

NRC Canadian Research Journals

American Chemical Society

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research

FearofPhysics

MIT News

NASA: National Aeronautics & Space Administration
 

Literature Resource Center
Provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. It includes more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

LitFinder
LitFinder contains more than 140,000 full-text poems, 840,000 poem citations and excerpts, as well as thousands of short stories, essays, speeches, and plays.

eBooks & Audiobooks on EBSCOhost
You can access thousands of eBooks including literary classics and criticisms, computer science, business and history.

NoveList
NoveList allows fiction readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles they will likely be interested in.
 
Websites

Fantastic Fiction

 

Canada in Context
Canada in Context integrates Gale electronic reference material including Worldmark Encyclopedia of Canadian Provinces, Discovering Authors Canadian Edition and Native North American Almanac with the Web-like media-rich Audio, video and podcasts. 

Canadian Points of View Centre    
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides information on more than 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. 

Canadian Reference Centre  
This database contains full text articles from over 190 popular Canadian magazines, and 97 newspapers including the Toronto Star and the Ottawa Citizen.
   
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals)   
Use this database to find articles from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, and Canadian biographies.
 
Websites

The Canadian Encyclopedia Online

 

ChiltonLibrary.com
This resource provides authoritative automotive repair information and it is based on the popular Chilton Auto Repair Manuals. This resource contains thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
 
ConsumerReports.org    
ConsumerReports.org features Ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel.  

Websites

Better Business Bureau

Canada’s Office of Consumer Affairs

Canadian Consumer Information Gateway

Canadian Standards Association

Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services
 

LegalTrac 1980 - Nov 2010
Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac® provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac® is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac® also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

InfoTrac Insurance & Liability eCollection
This collection, comprised of nearly 40 journals, takes a broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.

InfoTrac War & Terrorism eCollection
A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events, providing insight into conflicts and their multiple causes. References include 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

Government Websites

Elections Canada

Elections Ontario

Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime

Government of Canada

Government of Ontario

Justice Canada - Statutes of Canada

Municipal Property Assessment Corporation MPAC

Ontario Government Statutes and Regulations

Statistics Canada

York Region

Legal Websites

Canadian Association of Law Libraries Research Links

Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime

Canadian Human Rights Commission

Law & Technology Resources for Legal Professionals - Doing Legal Research

Find a Lawyer

Going to Court?

Justice Ontario

Ontario Court System
 

Canada's Heritage From 1844 (The Globe and Mail)
Canada's Heritage From 1844 is a digitized version of The Globe and Mail newspaper from 1844 to 2002. It is searchable by keyword and date.
 
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals)
Use this database to find articles from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, and Canadian biographies.

eLibrary
eLibrary retrieves full-text and multimedia reference material, accessing more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts - plus thousands of maps, pictures, web links, and audio/video files.

The Toronto Star’s Pages of the Past
The Toronto Star’s Pages of the Past is a digitized version of the Toronto Star
from 1894-2004, searchable by keyword or date.