ABC Clio
ABC-CLIO is a publisher of reference works for the study of history and social studies in academic, secondary school, and public library settings
Aboriginal peoples. Statistics Canada
Contains information on adult and child Aboriginal identity population for selected communities in Canada according to the 2001 Census.
Academic Film Archive of North America
Contains documents and promotes academic films in the Humanities and Sciences by providing an archive, resource, and forum for continuing scholarly advancement and public exhibition.
Academic Search Complete
Accesses nearly 4,650 scholarly journals covering most areas of academic study. Updated on a daily basis.
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Academic Writer
Designed to help users develop their writing and professional research skills, Academic Writer has learning and teaching tools, advanced writing and content management technology, and full integration of APA's Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association®.
Alberta Research Portal
A world-class collection of primary sources available to all Albertans. This portal lets you access the Gale Primary Sources collection, a resource with 69 unique primary source collections.
All Ebsco Databases
Searches all Ebsco databases licensed by NorQuest. (Publication Search not available when using this cross-search.)
All Gale Databases
Gale's PowerSearch searches 3 databases: CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals), Gale Virtual Reference Library, and World History in Context.
All ProQuest Databases
Searches Canadian Newstand, and Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) and the Ebrary ebook collection.
Alt HealthWatch
Alternative medicine database (full text).
ATLA Religion with ATLA Serials
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.
NorQuest College Library thanks the Government of Alberta for its generosity in funding the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL). Visit the LHCADL website for more info.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Covers all aspects of Native North American culture, history, and life including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. (Includes some full text articles.)
NorQuest College Library thanks the Government of Alberta for its generosity in funding the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL). Visit the LHCADL website for more info.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central publishes 265 peer-reviewed open access journals spanning all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine.
Business Source Complete
Business coverage including 2,000 peer-reviewed business publications and more than 1,150,000 company profiles. Updated daily.
NorQuest College Library thanks the Government of Alberta for its generosity in funding the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL). Visit the LHCADL website for more info.
Canadian Encyclopedia
Canadian Encyclopedia is Canada's premier encyclopedia on Canadian history, issues, and geography.
Canadian Newsstream
Access to 348 newspapers from across Canada, including the Edmonton Journal (full text).
Canadian Reference Centre
Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books and an image collection. Updated daily. Also contains the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
CBC Curio
Educational video content from CBC and Radio-Canada. Documentaries from television and radio, news reports, archival material, stock shots and more. Versions of Internet Explorer older than IE9 are not supported. Please note: we do not subscribe to the News in Brief channel.
CBCA Complete
Access to Canadian business magazines, journals and government publications.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Nursing and allied health literature. Extensive coverage.
NorQuest College Library thanks the Government of Alberta for its generosity in funding the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL). Visit the LHCADL website for more info.
Clinical Simulation in Nursing Journal
Clinical Simulation in Nursing is the official journal of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL). It is international in scope and peer reviewed.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of health and medical databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA), NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED)
CPA Standards & Guidance Collection
CPA Canada’s comprehensive reference source providing up-to-date information on accounting and assurance.
CPI-Q Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly
Canadian and international magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals and reference books [coverage 1980 - present].
Criterion on Demand
A collection of online feature films from studios including 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Miramax, Dreamworks, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate. Microsoft Silverlight is required to view the films. Not available on tablets. Download the User guide (pdf) for more info.
DesLibris Documents Collection
Formerly called the Canadian Public Policy Collection. Allows full downloads of the documents. Primary research and opinion publications in all subjects from leading Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Updated regularly. Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary)
Ebooks on a wide range of topics including health, business, policing, social sciences, science. Most titles are downloadable.
Ebsco Ebooks
E-Books covering all subjects. Many books in this collection are limited to one user at a time per book. Titles are downloadable and might allow access to only one user at a time.
Education Research Complete
Covers all areas of education including: early childhood to secondary education, higher education, multilingual education, health education, testing, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
eHRAF World Cultures
eHRAF World Cultures is an online, full-text database that contains information on all
aspects of cultural and social life.
Environment Complete
Covers all subjects related to the environment such as agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management.
ERIC
Education Resource Information Center. Access to an extensive collection of educational literature and resources.
Films on Demand Master Academic Collection
Educational videos covering a broad range of subject areas. Closed Captioning is available for some titles when viewed with the Windows Media player. The videos on this site are licensed for home use and classroom use at NorQuest.
First Nations Periodical Index
The First Nations Periodical Index contains citations from 20 Canadian First Nations journals, magazines, and community newspapers.
Frontier Life
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters examines
settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Anglophone world
from 1650-1920. These digitised primary source documents cover the frontiers
of North America, Africa and Australasia. Materials are from archives around the world including the Glenbow Museum and the Hudson's Bay Company Archives.
Gale Primary Sources
Provides access to millions of pages of content spanning many centuries and geographic regions. Users can explore a wide range of content including monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more. Includes access to an extensive First Nations and Indigenous Peoples studies collection with rare and valuable primary sources.
Gale Virtual Reference Center
Contains articles from reputable encyclopedias on topics ranging from counties of the world, medicine, environment, history, law, multicultural studies, sciences to social sciences. Includes Novels for Students and Short Stories for Students.
Health Source Consumer Edition
Articles from journals on medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. (Full-text)
Hoopla
Digital media service that provides access to audiobooks, ebooks and ecomics! Use your library barcode to register for the service and use it on your computer. Download the app app from your Apple or Google Play store to access Hoopla on your mobile device.
Interactive English 1
Interactive English - Volume 1 will help you learn English (ESL). Contains video stories and activities to teach reading, listening, vocabulary, and cultural literacy skills.
Interactive English 2
Interactive English - Volume 2 will help you learn English (ESL). The stories it contains are designed to develop reading, listening, vocabulary, and cultural literacy skills for ESL and literacy students from diverse cultural backgrounds.
IPortal - Indigenous Studies
The "vision of the Indigenous Studies Portal is to provide one place to look to find resources for Indigenous studies". The focus is on electronic resources: books, articles, theses, documents, photographs, archival resources, maps, etc.
JSTOR Essentials Collection
Contains JSTOR Arts and Sciences I - IV and VII collections
Literature Resource Center
Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on thousands of writers from all time periods and from around the world.
Lynda.com (Pilot available till March 2019)
Lynda.com is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Access the Lynda.com video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. This pilot is available to NorQuest students and staff until March 2019.
MasterFILE Premier
Covers subject areas of general interest. Includes full-text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags. (Full-text)
NASA
A video gallery of films on all subjects related to space exploration and aeronautics made available by NASA.
National Film Board Campus
Large collection of films, clips and trailers from the NFB collection. Described Video and Closed Captioning available.
Online Reference Centre - LearnAlberta.ca
Provides access to a wide range of K-12 resources including World Book Encyclopedia, Grolier Online, CBC News in Review, Culturegrams, and Science in Context. Some resources are only available for K-12 and require a password.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine
Regional Business News
Coverage of business journals, newspapers and newswires from cities and rural areas within the United States. Updated on a daily basis. (Full-text)
RxTx (includes CPS)
RxTx3 includes the following products:
CPS: Compendium of Pharmaceuticals & Specialties;
CTC 7: Compendium of Therapeutic Choices;
CPMA: Compendium of Products For Minor Ailments;
CTMA: Compendium of Therapeutics For Minor Ailments;
Lexi Interact;
Patient hand-outs;
RxTx Mobile App
Science Reference Center
Contains science encyclopedias, reference books, magazines, and other sources in all scientific subjects. (Full-text)
Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase
The Scientific & Medical ART (SMART) Imagebase is a collection of 20,000+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.
Shakespeare Collection
Includes the Arden Shakespeare editions of Shakespeare’s complete works, reviews, images, and adaptations and other works published during Shakespeare's time.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Covers a wide variety of topics including anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, economic development, ethnic studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, social issues, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, and welfare.
NorQuest College Library thanks the Government of Alberta for its generosity in funding the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL). Visit the LHCADL website for more info.
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada produces statistics that help Canadians better understand their country—its population, resources, economy, society and culture.
TED
ED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started as a conference in 1984, bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
Therapeutic Recreation Journal
Individual online Therapeutic Recreation journal.
World History in Context
Includes reference books and full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, images, maps and charts.
NorQuest College Library thanks the Government of Alberta for its generosity in funding the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL). Visit the LHCADL website for more info.