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Consumer Health Complete
Full text content for more than 1000 health related magazines covering mainstream medicine as well as complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.(To log in: please enter, without spaces, the barcode number on your library card.)

Contemporary Authors
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica Book of the Year and an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. (To log in: please enter, without spaces, the barcode number on your library card.)

Global Issues in Context
This database brings together a variety of resources to present a rich analysis of international issues and current world events.

Grove Art Online ( Oxford Art)
Grove Art covers all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day, from art and architecture to ceramics and photography. (To log in: please enter, without spaces, the barcode number on your library card.)

Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center is a full-text electronic database that provides online access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline. (To log in: please enter, without spaces, the barcode number on your library card.)

Novelist
A reader’s advisory resource which helps readers of fiction find authors, titles, book reviews, book discussion guides. (To log in: please enter, without spaces, the barcode number on your library card.)

Discovery : Over 2,000 full text magazines covering general topics.

Canadian Newsstand, CBCA current events : Full-text articles from the major Canadian dailies including the Montreal Gazette, Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, etc.

CBCA Reference: This collection provides in depth-access to a variety of Canadian periodicals, ranging from academic titles to special interest publications to general magazines.
Globe & Mail Historical (Canadian Heritage from 1844): The digitized full-image version of the complete contents of The Globe and Mail newspaper since its inception as The Globe in 1844. To access this database, please click on "Databases selected" on the Proquest search page. Then click on the link for "Canada's Heritage from 1844-Globe and Mail"

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Salem Press Health
The Salem Press Health database covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page to enter your library barcode for remote access.)

World Book Complete Suite
World Book Web Complete Suite includes all articles from the 22-volume World Book Encyclopedia print set, the World Book Dictionary and Atlas and the new French encyclopedia L’Encyclopédie Découverte. Search thousands of articles and more than 20,000 pictures, maps, videos and sounds(To login : please enter, without spaces, the barcode number on your library card.)

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