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You can access the full-text of magazines and other electronic information through databases listed below. When accessing these resources, you’ll be prompted for your Salt Spring Island library card number.

General Resources
Business Information
Medical / Health Information
Children's Resources
Legal / Law Resources
Local History

General Resources

	Gale Virtual Reference Library - A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files. Updated regularly.
	Academic Search Premier [EBSCO] Full-text articles from over 1,000 journals, covering a range of topics, including business, social sciences, general science, and multiculturalism.
	MasterFile Premiere [EBSCO] General reference full-text articles from hundreds of books, encyclopedias, and magazines. Includes popular magazines such as Maclean's, New Yorker.
	A to Z Service[EBSCO] EBSCO's comprehensive online list of titles. Users can quickly find and link to journals, searching by keyword or browsing an alphabetical list by title or subject.
	Canadian Reference Centre[EBSCO] 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.
	Green File[EBSCO] A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
	LISTA [EBSCO] Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, a resource to anyone interested in libraries and information management. This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
	Professional Development Collection [EBSCO] A collection of electronic information for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.
	NoveList [EBSCO] Looking for a good book? Want to find book reviews? Desperate to find other authors that are similar to your favourite? Check out NoveList, a database of books and authors, recommended reading lists, book discussion ideas, and reviews.
	EBSCO Host Contains the following databases: Academic Search Premier Business Source Premier, Canadian Reference Centre, Consumer Health Complete, GreenFile, LISTA with Full Text, MasterFile Premier, MiddleSearch, Professional Development Collection.
	Auto Repair Reference Centre [EBSCO] Online auto repair for vehicles dated 1951 to today.
	World Book: Online Reference Centre Full-text articles from the print encyclopedia plus additional articles, a dictionary, web links, videos, animation, and sound.
	Canadian Newsstand [ProQuest] Full-text access to hundreds of Canadian newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, and The Vancouver Sun, and many local papers. Updated daily.
	KnowBC: Encyclopedia of British Columbia Online (In-Library use only) Online edition of Harbour Publishing’s Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Also included is: Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia Far West: The Story of British Columbia Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia Where Mountains Meet the Sea: A History of Coastal BC

BC Codes (In-Library use only)

VSIS (In-Library use only)
Vehicle Safety and Inspection Standards

BC Stats

Local Government in British Columbia, 4th ed.
A complete primer on all levels of local government, from cities and regional districts, to towns, villages and school districts, this volume examines how each government works and its role in our society.

Census Information

Business Information

	Business Source Premiere [EBSCO] Full-text business and management articles from thousands of magazines and journals. Includes country economic reports, company profiles, and images.
	Business Plan Handbooks - A compilation of business plans developed by small businesses throughout North America. Access is made possible by the Small Business Accelerator at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC with financial support from the Sutherland Foundation.

Medical / Health Information

Consumer Health Complete [EBSCO]
Medical and health expertise from authoritative databases, encyclopedias, journals, and books.

Children's / Young Adult's Resources

	Primary Search[EBSCO] Full-text from dozens of children's magazines appropriate for elementary school-aged kids.
	Kids Search[EBSCO] Designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases.
	Searchasaurus [EBSCO] Seachasaurus makes it easy for students to search the EBSCO database by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.
	NoveList K-8 [EBSCO] NoveList K-8 contains information on fiction books for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles.
	Student Research Center [EBSCO] Designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases.
	World Book Kids Based on World Book's award-winning Student Discovery Encyclopedia, World Book Kids includes thousands of easy-to-read articles, engaging images and illustrations, interactive games and activities, and teacher resources.
	World Book Info Finder Tailored for the needs and skills of older students, World Book Advanced integrates primary and secondary source databases in a single search. Resources include encyclopedic content, e-books, multimedia, primary source documents, and research tools.
	World Book L'Encyclopédie Découverte L'Encyclopédie Découverte is written at a reading level appropriate for younger users who are native speakers and readers of French, as well as older students and adults for whom French is a second language.
	World Book Discover The English version.

Legal / Law Resources

Click Law
General legal information provided by the Legal Services Society of BC.

QP LegalEze (In-Library use only)
Provides the current laws of BC.

Local History

Times Colonist Online Edition 1858-1910
Free and fully searchable database of the first 100,000 pages published by the Times Colonist, covering every issue from Dec. 11, 1858 to 1910 including advertisements and announcements.

Salt Spring Archives
An on-line collection of historical photos of Salt Spring Island.

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