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Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.
Ancestry.com
Link: Login from the Library
Instructions
Ancestry.com can only be accessed from within a library branch or the PEC Archives. Clicking the Ancestry.com link above will take you directly to the search page.
Description - Genealogical Research
Ancestry.com is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy learning materials. Search family trees, census and voters lists, birth, marriage and death records, immigration, emigration and military records, periodicals and more.
Auto Repair Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
Instructions
If you are connecting from a library branch click the link above and you will be taken directly to the search page. If connecting from outside of the library, you will need to enter your 14-digit library card number.
Description
The Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on the repair and maintenance of many automobiles - imagine the Chilton's Guides online. Print out the section you need, and don't worry about getting grease on a library book!
Canadian Points of View
Instructions
If you are connecting from a library branch click the link above and you will be taken directly to Canadian Points of View. If connecting from outside of the library, you will need to enter your 14-digit library card number.
Description - Candian Essay Help
Canadian Points of View is a database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world's top political and societal publications. This database has a deliberate Canadian focus that highlights the issues in the country of Canada.
Communication and Mass Media Collection
Description
This comprehensive database helps researchers get the word out about the communications and mass media fields. Powered by InfoTrac, Communications and Mass Media Collection brings together information found in more than 250 journals. Nearly 3 million articles on all aspects of the communications field meet the
needs of researchers.
Computer Database
Description
For researchers who need to keep pace with the fast changing world of high technology, Computer Database is their Internet- accessible reference solution. With Computer Database, library users can access today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries -- all in one seamless search.
CPI.Q - Canadian Periodicals Index
Description
This award-winning, full-text Canadian electronic reference combines reliable information with the convenience, comprehensiveness and speed of an electronic database. CPI.Q, the electronic version of the Canadian Periodical Index, provides the most-requested Canadian reference information available.
Criminal Justice Collection
Description
Criminal Justice Collection reforms the research process for researchers who are: Studying law or law enforcement, Training for paralegal service, Preparing for a career in Homeland Security, Delving into forensic science, Investigating crime scenes, Developing policy, Going to court, Writing sociological reports, and much more. Criminal Justice Collection makes research easy by bringing together information from more than 700 journals. Criminal Justice Collection takes users straight to the answers they need from nearly 4.3 million articles - helping them bypass the errors and irrelevant results that often accompany Internet searches. Updated daily, the database yields current, relevant results.
Description
Meet the needs of today's students with Gale's Discovering Collection. With its comprehensive coverage of core classroom subject areas accessible through an, intuitive graphic interface, the Discovering Collection will become a sure-fire hit among students from middle school to high school.
Educators's Reference Complete
Description
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Educator's Reference Complete is the perfect complement for any library that utilizes the ERIC database, because it provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC. This database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty -- such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. Educator's Reference Complete also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
Description
Provides environmentalists, policy makers, corporate researchers, educators, students, geologists, engineers and more with a comprehensive, easy-to-access, online resource that answers all their environmentally related inquires.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Description
Expanded Academic ASAP is comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles - of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed - in all disciplines with more than 20 years of backfile coverage and an intuitive interface that expedites successful searches. Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced coverage on a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description
Gale Virtual Reference Library takes research to the next level by delivering great reference print titles in a database format. Gale Virtual Reference Library combines the convenience of an online search engine with the accuracy and authority of our 50-year publishing legacy. Electronic references covering a wide variety of topics and subjects - ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities to small business.
Garden, Landcape and Horticulture Collection
Description
Gardening hobbyists, master gardeners and biotechnologists alike will find practical applications as well as the scientific theories of horticulture studies in one convenient collection with the Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection.
General Business File ASAP
Description
A controlled vocabulary in General Business File ASAP enables precise retrieval of periodicals, newspapers, newswires, company profiles and investment reports in a single search. General BusinessFile ASAP is a fully international database designed to provide users with unparalleled access to over 50,129,138 articles containing: 200,000 company profiles; Thousands of investment reports; Late-breaking news and event coverage on companies, industries, products and executives; The latest in business theory, economics and favored practices.
Description
General OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 60 million articles at your fingertips with a single search query. More than 11,000 titles and backfile coverage from 1980 - from mainstream to specialized sources - and an intuitive search interface make this an unequaled source for virtually every popular, business and professional topic.
General Refence Center Gold
Description
This resource center integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles to fully answer your reference questions -- all in a single database. From national news magazines and encyclopedias to core business journals, General Reference Center Gold has the full-text and image resources students and researchers need. This comprehensive reference database quickly delivers the answers to a wide variety of reference questions.
Health Reference Center Academic
Description
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
Description
Health & Wellness Resource Center is a comprehensive resource that provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and related information. The Health & Wellness Resource Center features a fully updated, intuitive interface -- providing multiple pathways to key information. Its browser style format lets you browse the latest news, review a set of subject areas, review and select a particular resource, or search across the entire database.
Hospitality Tourism and Leisure Collection
Description
The Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection provides unparalleled coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field. It is comprised of close to 400 industry journals from Gale's award-winning InfoTrac product line as well as current and relevant reference content from noted publisher Delmar, part of Cengage Learning.
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
Description
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers features more than 33.5 million full-text articles from more than 1,000 newspapers from around the world. Selected articles from more than 300 additional sources of news and business information supplement the collection. Users can customize their collection by selecting from a growing list of important publications including regional, national and international sources.
InfoTrac Junior - Graphic Interface
Description
Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac Junior Edition features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With Junior Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage, students will find the answers they need to all their general reference questions.
InfoTrac Junior - InfoTrac Interface
Description
Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac Junior Edition features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With Junior Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage, students will find the answers they need to all their general reference questions.
InforTrac Religion and Philosophy
Description
Why do some people believe in Heaven? Is it fear, hope, upbringing or blind faith? Users of this collection can research different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. The Religion & Philosophy eCollection is perfect to fill gaps in coverage of this under-served area. Two hundred and fifty subject-appropriate full-text periodicals are included as well as featured titles.
Description
InfoTrac Student Edition is specifically designed for secondary school students, providing instant access to screened, age-appropriate content from magazines, newspapers and reference books. The ideal alternative to random Web searching, InfoTrac Student Edition covers a wide range of subjects, from science, history and literature to political science, sports and environmental studies, offering reliable, authoritative content for classroom assignments and general reference research.
Description
Kids InfoBits is Gale's exciting new database designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging, developmentally appropriate graphic interface, premier reference content and the best magazines for elementary students, Kids InfoBits addresses the way kids learn and conduct research - and makes it fun!
Knowledge Ontario: Thompson-Gale Databases
14-digit library card number required when connecting from home.
Description - Periodicals, Reference and Much More
The Thompson-Gale databases include full-text newspapers, magazines, reference books and Canadian newswires. These databases are the product of Knowledge Ontario which is focused on providing online resources, to Ontarians. The Thompson-Gale databases provide electronic resources and materials that go far beyond what is available on the Internet, including access to accurate, authoritative information resources that are age appropriate for every citizen in Ontario.
Description
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 approximately 875 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. Subscribe to LegalTrac through InfoTrac Web and your library gains 24-hour remote access to top-notch legal sources through your preferred interface.
Military and Intelligence Database
Description
The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet the content needs of libraries serving military personnel. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions.
Description
National Newspaper Index gives you quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times (Late and National Editions); The Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western Editions); The Christian Science Monitor (National Edition); The Washington Post (Final Edition); and The Los Angeles Times (Home Edition).
NetLibrary
Link: NetLibrary
Instructions
If you have not signed up for a NetLibrary account, you will need to do so from within a library branch. New accounts can not be created from home. From a library computer visit the NetLibrary link above and choose Create a Free Account in the top-right of the screen. Fill out the form and click "Create Account". After creating your account you will be able to use NetLibrary from ANY internet connected computer.
Description - Ebooks and Audiobooks
A growing collection of online accessible books (ebooks) and downloadable audio books covering a wide variety of topics. While you are in the library, sign up for an account and use that username and password to log in from any internet connected computer. 
OverdriveLink: Overdrive
Download
digital Audiobooks anytime and then transfer to your portable device,
including iPods and other MP3 players. Made possible through funding
from the Ontario Ministry of Culture�s $15 Million Investment in Public
Libraries.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Note: A username and password is required if connecting from home. Please contact any library branch for this information.
Instructions
The Oxford English Dictionary Online can only be accessed from within a library branch. Clicking the link above will take you directly to the search page.
Description - Online Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Psychology Collection
Description
Minds will meet when researchers in the field of psychology connect with the vast database of information found in Psychology Collection. Students, psychologists, counselors, counselees, behavioral scientists, and other researchers will glean relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in over 3.1 million articles. Psychology Collection brings together information found in nearly 500 journals, with a strong emphasis on fulltext titles cited in PsycINFO.
ServiceOntario.ca Link: Login from the Library or Home
Instructions
After clicking the link above you will be taken directly to ServiceOntario.ca. All services and resources are listed along the left and right sides of the page. If you need assistance, library staff will be happy to help.
Description - Provincial Government Information and Forms
ServiceOntario is now making it easy for you to access the government information, services and resources you need, when and how you need them. Whether youre getting married, starting a business or want to learn more about your workplace or industry, it's all here.
Student Resource Center - Canadian Edition
Description
students are continually looking for a better way to do homework, we are developing ways to make their research easier and more comprehensive. Gale's Student Resource Center now offers even more resources, a new look, new search paths and cross-curriculum coverage to excite teachers and make students eager to learn.
VDX - Interlibrary Loan Search
Instructions
Click here for detailed instructions.
Description - Search and Borrow Library Holdings in Southern Ontario
Interested in reading a book or watching a video that the County of Prince Edward Public Library does not own? If you'd like to confirm that a book is available before we request it from another library, search "VDX". This tool allows you to search many libraries in Southern Ontario. If you find a title or titles that you'd like to request, you can do this yourself in a few, easy steps or send an email to illodept@peclibrary.org and include your name, phone number, library card number, and the title and author(s) of the materials you'd like. VDX can also be used to place your own interlibrary loan requests. Ask a librarian for more information.
World Book Online
Description - Online Encyclopedia
World Book Online Reference Centre contains EVERY article used in the 22 volume print set - but that's not all! It also uses state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, website links, and much more. This is a great resource for children's school projects as there is a World Book Kids' section just for them.
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