To access these databases at home, ask your Teacher Librarian or teacher for the SD42 login credentials.
SD42 Staff: The login credentials are available on Spark.
Multimedia Resources
Ebsco Databases
Gale Databases
Encyclopedias
Ebooks
Career Resources.
Multimedia Resources
Learn 360
Access over 130,000 curriculum-based multimedia resources.
Includes high-quality full-length videos, video segments, interactives, images, audio files, articles, activities, worksheets, and more.
SD42 Staff: Get home login credentials on Spark.
Curio.ca and News in Review/L’actualité en revue
Access the best in educational video and audio from CBC and Radio-Canada, in English and French. Features thousands of programs and hundreds of teacher resource guides carefully curated to support provincial K-12 curricula.
Includes CBC News in Review and L’actualité en revue .
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Ebsco Databases
Ebscohost
A multi-database interface containing general and academic resources.
Includes Canadian content.
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Explora Canada
A multi-database interface containing general and academic resources, and topic overviews.
Focus on Canadian content with one click.
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Consumer Health Complete
Articles and reference sources dealing with health and disease.
Teen Health and Wellness: Teen Talk
Over 70 articles geared specifically to teens on a variety of health topics.
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Gale Databases
Global Issues in Context
Context and global viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.
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Canada in Context
Canadian and international journals, magazines, newspapers and reference sources.
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Science in Context
Science reference and news sources.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Eighteen reference ebooks.
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Gale Power Search
Search all Gale databases at once.
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Encyclopedias
World Book Advanced
Encyclopedia articles and primary resources.
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L’Encyclopédie Découverte
En Français.
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The Encyclopedia of British Columbia – KnowBC
Your source for a wide variety of British Columbia reference information from KnowBC.
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The Canadian Encyclopedia
Your source for a wide variety of Canadian reference information.
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The prime reference work of Canadian biography.
World Book Super Home Page
Access all World Book Online products.
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Ebooks
World Book eBooks
Access outstanding non-fiction from World Book in eBook format.
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eBooks and Audiobooks (via FVRL)
eBooks and Audiobooks are available through TumbleBookCloud, rbDigital and Overdrive.
Access this resource through the Fraser Valley Regional Library.
Note: Students must choose the appropriate link, and login with their FVRL library card and PIN.