Find books and magazine articles

Catalogue - The 'card catalogue' listing over 100,000 books and magazines available in South Shore Public Libraries' branches.

Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly - Use this database to find articles from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, Canadian biographies, and other reference content from Gale, all with a Canadian focus.

General Reference Centre Gold - A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

Gardening Magazines - Gardening Magazines with 270,018 articles updated as recently as today.

What Do I Read Next? - What Do I Read Next? includes over 134,300 recommended titles, more than 74,500 plot summaries, and awards information from 568 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.

General reference sources

Chilton Auto Repair - The most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners with thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years.

Canadian Encyclopedia - The authority on all things Canadian for more than 20 years.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online - Explore the history of Canada's inhabitants and their culture.

Worldbook Encyclopedia Online - The online version of the classic, with multimedia enhancements and more.

Environmental Encyclopedia - Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. Each article is written in a nontechnical style and provides current status, analysis, and suggested solutions whenever possible.

E-Stat - With E-STAT you can generate dynamic tables, customize graphs and maps using Statistics Canada's Census of Population and socioeconomic data. Accessible from library computers only.

Background information on books

What Do I Read Next? - What Do I Read Next? includes over 134,300 recommended titles, more than 74,500 plot summaries, and awards information from 568 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.

Contemporary Authors - Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.

Health information

Health Reference Centre Academic - Provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in a single, easy-to-use database. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

Health and Wellness Resource Centre and Alternative Health - Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos, and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of reference titles. Material is intended for informational purposes only.

Cochrane Library - The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including reliable evidence. It brings you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and is recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.

Travel and maps

Global Road Warrior - Deep content coverage in major topic areas of society and culture, travel, communications, business, trade, marketing, and security for 175 countries.

AtoZ Maps Online - a collection of political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps, with new maps added each month.

Cross-reference search

Cross-reference search - A multi-discipline collection of online magazine and other articles providing comprehensive coverage of current issues and health matters.