EasyBusiness (formerly Kompass Business Directories) includes information on international companies, products and services, trade names and executives with access to over 44 million companies in 70 countries. How to access EasyBusiness Go to tpl.ca and enter 'EasyBusiness' in the search box Click on Access Online under EasyBusiness Enter your library card number and PIN New […]
JSTOR is a full-text digital archive of scholarly books, journals and research reports. Subjects include area studies, arts, business and economics, history, humanities, law, medicine, science and mathematics and social sciences. JSTOR also includes access to many primary source and image collections. Sign into JSTOR Go to tpl.ca/jstor Click on Access Online Enter your library […]
Medici.tv is a streaming video collection of live and on-demand classical and jazz music concerts, operas and ballets. Medici.tv also includes access to master classes by leading musicians and music documentaries. Medici.tv is available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. What you need A valid Toronto Public Library card A computer, tablet or smartphone An […]
MIT Press Direct offers a selection of MIT Press scholarly eBooks covering topics such as economics, philosophy, science, technology, and society. MIT Press Direct eBooks titles have been added to the TPL catalogue and will be included in catalogue search results. How to Access MIT Press Direct: Go to http://www.tpl.ca, the Toronto Public Library website. […]
Financial empowerment is an approach to poverty reduction that focuses on improving the financial security of low-income people. It does this by introducing a set of interventions that together help low-income Canadians to grow their incomes, improve their credit scores, savings and debt levels, and build wealth through education, money management, and setting financial goals. Topics […]
Webex Events are webinars with either an interactive and engaging experience, or a webcast view with attendee interactions, as well as many of the advanced features from Webex Meetings. The platform helps plan the event, engage the audience, follow up, and measure event success. Webex Events allows for registration report, post-webinar survey, attendance report, […]
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a historical dictionary, providing not only the current meaning of over half a million words, but the history of individual words in chronological order by first use as well as pronunciation keys (British, U.S.). It is also a historical thesaurus. The OED is updated every three months. How to […]
Academic OneFile is a periodicals database for mainly an academic audience, as compared to Gale OneFile: News, a periodicals database for mainly a general one. In Academic OneFile, about 80% of the active, full-text magazines and journals are academic whereas, in Gale OneFile, only about 25% of them are. Though journals and magazines are the […]
The Wall Street Journal provides full, unlimited and free access to the latest in-depth business and finance news from wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal online is available in English, Chinese and Japanese. The digital version of the print edition (e-replica) is also available. The Toronto Public Library's The Wall Street Journal online subscription also provides […]
LinkedIn Learning is an an eLearning platform that contains over 16,000 video tutorial courses led by experts in their fields on web design, software development, photography, project management, graphic design, audio and video editing, and more. All the courses on LinkedIn fall into four categories: Business, Creative, Technology, and Certifications. Tutorials are available in select […]