Getting Started with Online Services & Databases

Getting Started with Gale OneFile: News

February 18, 2025 | Information Services Team | Comments (0)

Full-text articles from International and Canadian newspapers. How to access: 1. Start from the Digital Newspapers section on the Toronto Public Library website.2. Under Article Databases click on Gale OneFile: News 3. Click the Access Online button.4. Sign in with your library card number and PIN.5. Gale OneFile: News can be accessed in library or […]

Getting Started with Gale eBooks

February 18, 2025 | Information Services Team | Comments (0)

Gale eBooks is a collection of resource and reference books covering a wide-range of subjects. This includes arts, business, medicine, science and social issues. On this easy-to-use site books can be searched at the title or text level, highlighted and marked with notes, downloaded or printed by chapter, and even directly exported to your Google […]

Getting Started with Directory of Open Access Journals

February 18, 2025 | Information Services Team | Comments (0)

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) searches full-text scientific and scholarly articles from Open Access journals within its directory.  It is also a directory for researchers to find the most appropriate Open Access journal to contribute to.  To be included in the DOAJ, the journal must abide by the Budapest Open Access Initiative's definition […]

Getting Started with Zoom-Staff

  What is Zoom Log In / Profile / Settings / Scheduler Setting up a Meeting, Webinar, Event & Session Joining a Meeting, Webinar Hosting and Host Controls Roles: Panelist, Participants Practice Sessions Recordings & Transcripts / Clips Reports Troubleshooting Resources What is Zoom Zoom is an online communications platform that allows staff to connect […]

Getting Started with Britannica Library

Britannica Library is an encyclopedia of articles, images and videos, biographies, as well as a country comparison tool, and a world atlas. The resource  includes Britannica Library Children, Britannica Library Young Adult. and a link to Encyclopaedia Universalis. How to access Britannica Library Go to tpl.ca and enter ‘Britannica Library’ in the search box Click […]

Getting Started with Encyclopædia Universalis

Encyclopædia Universalis is a comprehensive French-language resource featuring 38,000 articles authored by over 6,400 respected individuals, including authors, historians, professors, and Nobel Prize winners. The content covers a wide range of subjects and includes 25,000 multimedia elements to aid in learning and engagement. The resource has an atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia and a country data comparison […]

Getting Started with Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA)

Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) is a daily-updated Canadian periodical collection covering current events, business, science and technology, medicine, humanities and the arts. It includes millions of full-text articles and records from 1933 to current, in a mix of formats (or “source types”) including: scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedia & reference works, dissertations […]

Getting Started with Zoom

November 18, 2024 | Information Services Team | Comments (0)

What is Zoom Joining a Zoom Meeting Dial-In Participating Recording / Replay Troubleshooting Resources   What is Zoom Zoom is an online communications platform that allows you to connect with video, audio, phone, and chat. Using Zoom requires an internet connection and a supported device.  There is a test Zoom meeting you can join to […]

Getting Started with Mergent Intellect

November 18, 2024 | Information Services Team | Comments (0)

Mergent Intellect is a directory of U.S., Canadian and international companies, both private (about 250,000,000 active companies) and public (about 29,000 active companies). A company listing (or profile) includes not only contact information (official name, address, etc.) but also information on operations, finances, executives, the family tree and links to industry reports. Additional company and […]

Getting Started with Toronto Public Library

September 13, 2024 | Information Services Team | Comments (0)

Your Library Card Books, DVDs & Music eResources & Research eLearning Programs and Events Library Services Toronto Public Library (TPL) is the biggest and busiest public library system in North America, with more than 46 million annual visits to our branches and online. TPL has 100 branches and two bookmobiles that serve neighourhoods across the city; […]