Databases

A database is a collection of searchable information gathered from a variety of reliable sources.
The databases below are organized into their subject areas.
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For home access password, contact your teacher librarian.

Gale Power Search
A Gale Power Search will search across all available Gale Databases for your topic. Target your search to a specific type of source using the blue menu bar at top.  Filter your search results using the categories on the right hand side of the page.

Academic Search Premier 
Superior journals covering the major academic disciplines.
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Literature

Gale Power Search
To search for literary references on Gale, search by author or book title. Then filter your search by document type and select “article” or “review” to access reviews from Horn Book, Library Journal, Booklist etc. For journals select “academic journal” from the blue menu at the top

Literary Reference Centre   
A broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames, includes access to Magill’s Survey of World Literature and Masterplots literary analyses.

Canadian Literary Centre
With a deliberate focus on Canadian writers and their works, this full-text database provides researchers with reference book content, author biographies, essays, literary criticism and reviews from ECW Press and other regional publishers.

NoveList Plus 
A vast database of fiction and non-fiction books. Search by title, author, subject, genre or reading level to find a book.  Includes access to professional reviews books, and suggestions for read alikes.   NoveList Plus Video Tutorial 

Poetry and Short Story Reference Centre
​​A historically rich collection of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques.  Poetry and Short story Reference Centre video Tutorial 

Science

Science in Context 
Provides access to millions of full-text articles. It covers subject areas including biology, chemistry, earth and environmental science, physics, and more.

Science Reference Centre
​​Provides full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, reference books and high-quality videos. The database also contains science experiments, curriculum-aligned lesson plans, and a vast image collection. 

GreenFILE 
Environmental database that provides thousands of open access full-text records from
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Environmental Studies in Context 
Environmental database that provides thousands articles, case studies, statistics, images, and more. Users can search the information to learn about diverse subjects such as climate change, food security, soil ecology, and tourism.

Social Studies

Canada in Context
Information on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places and events written from a Canadian perspective. 

Canadian Points of View Reference Centre
​ A series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Topics covered include:   environment, health, human rights, crime, race, technology, substance abuse, and many more.  Canadian Points of View Video Tutorial 

Global Issues in Context 
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. 

History Reference Center
Offers a variety of information resources such as full-text historical reference books, primary source documents and biographies, as well as full text and selective content from more than 140 leading history journals.

World History in Context
Access centuries worth of rare primary sources, reliable reference and multimedia content. Students can dive deeper into a variety of topics ranging from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Holocaust to modern Human Rights Movements.

Points to the Past 
Use Gale Primary Sources to access a collection of primary sources accessed through 28 databases. Made up of nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content — maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, and much more. To access the different databases, click on “Resources” in the upper right corner. 

Other Databases

West Vancouver Memorial Library 
Select the research and learn tab to access a list of their databases and online resources.

eBooks

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. 

Rockridge Shelf    WVSS Shelf