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Confluence Campus Library

Information about Confluence Campus Library in Rocky Mountain House.

 

General Resources

Google Scholar

Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines 

Google Books

Search the world's most comprehensive index of books, sections of books can be read by clicking preview.

Google Advanced Search

 A more detailed method of finding information on Google. It uses a variety of Google search operators that goes beyond a normal Google search.

Rocky mountain House Public Library

Conflunce Campus Library

Alberta Research Portal

Sora E-books

Directory of Open Access Journals

this independent database contains over 16 500 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. 

Encyclopedia Britannica

A general knowledge Encyclopedia with over 12,000 pages. You can access a limited number or articles for free.

HathiTrust

A large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive 

Khan Academy

A set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators.

Paperity

A collection of open access journals and papers

Project Gutenberg 

a library of over 60,000 free eBooks

Project Muse

A leading provider of digital humanities and social science content

Shmoop study guides

Free Study Guides for various subjects.

Smithsonian Institution

The world's largest museum.

 

ELA

Academy of American Poets

Collection of Poet biographies & poems

Open Source Shakespeare 

Digital versions of the complete works of William Shakespeare. 

Poetry Archive

A collection of English language poets reading their own work.

Thug Notes

Get the low-down on 100+ iconic literary works! You'll be one well-read balla.

French

ACCENT on Heritage

An interactive bilingual platform centred on cultural and historical aspects of Alberta's Francophone heritage.

AudioFrench

An on-line French audio dictionary with thousands of sound files, accompanying text, and video clips to help you learn, practice, and enjoy the French language.

Mauril

Free platform to learn English and French through a wide range of stimulating and entertaining content from CBC/Radio-Canada

Quizlet's French Flashcards

Learn French with free interactive flashcards.

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit

700 Languages 

A non-profit that helps Indigenous communities around the world teach, learn and sustain their languages through technology.

Gord Downie's The Secret Path

A multimedia storytelling project about Canada residential schools

Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada

Information about indigenous lands, languages, communities, treaties, and cultures, and topics such as the Canadian Indian residential school system, racism, and cultural appropriation.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Reports

Contains information on the profound injustices inflicted on First Nations, Inuit and the Métis Nation by the forced removal of children to attend residential schools and the widespread abuse suffered in those schools.

Paths to Reconciliation

Hundreds of Indian residential schools were never recognized in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement because they were operated outside the timelines of the agreement or by provinces or other organizations. Here are some of those schools

Health & Wellness

Kids Health

Physician-reviewed information and advice on children & teen's health

Kids Help Phone

Canada’s only 24/7 national service offering bilingual (English and French) professional counselling, information and referrals and volunteer-led, text-based support to young people.

Math

Crash Course - Math/Logic

high quality educational videos on math & logic

The Grand Math Connection

Information and instruction is offered for individual math skills or concepts. There are 80 free lessons, including 23 hours of video instruction. 

Study hall - Algebra 

James Tanton guides us through solving equations and understanding how math works with our very human brains.

Sciences

Alberta Parks

Alberta Parks education portal

Crash Course - Physical Sciences

high quality educational videos on Geography, Physics, Chemistry Organic Chemistry & Astronomy.

Crash Course - Life Sciences 

high quality educational videos on Ecology, Biology, Anatomy & Physiology.

Nasa

Information on Space and Space exploration.

Study Hall - Chemistry

Dr. Will Comar walks you through some of the more challenging areas of Chemistry.

The Encyclopedia of Earth

Electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. 

The Nobel Prize

Information on Nobel prize winners

PhEt Interactive Simulations

Free interactive math and science simulations.

Social Studies

8-bit philosophy

Shiny little pixels answer humanity's most important questions

Academy of Achievement

Biographies of famous Americans

Alpha History

Online History Encyclopedia

BBC World War at Home

Collection of stories that show how WW1 affected the people and places of the UK and Ireland.

BBC Historic Figures

Biographies of Historical figures.

BBC World Wars

Contains resources on WW1 & WW2

Biography

Biographies of the rich & famous, from the ancient world to modern times.

Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources

searchable database of digitized versions of parliamentary publications from the 1st Session of the 1st Parliament (1867) until coverage at ourcommons.ca and sencanada.ca begins. 

CIA World Factbook

Provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

Crash Course - History

High quality videos that cover world history & mythology.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Biographies of famous Canadians

Early Canadiana Online

A collection of digitized historical publications from Canada's past.

Geography Now

Youtube Channel that actively covers profiles on every single country recognised by the UN. Countries are covered in alphabetical order so some countries have not been covered yet.

History

Free history articles on numerous topics.

The Canadian Encyclopedia 

Encyclopedia with an emphasis on Canadian content

The Great War

High quality video series, that does a week by week coverage of WWI as well as several videos on important topics, event and figures of the war.

The Atlas of Canada

A selection of interactive and historical maps of Canada and geographical data available for reference.

Peel's Prairie Provinces

A resource dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies.

Provincial Archives of Alberta

The Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA) acquires, preserves and publicly makes available records from government, individual people and organizations for researchers of all ages.

World History Encyclopedia

A historical database.

 

Other

Crash Course - Media studies 

High quality videos on media literacy & film studies

Crash Course - Business 

High quality videos on Business and Economics

Top Documentary Films

A collection of free documentary films

National Film Board of Canada

A collection of Canadian films and documentaries.

CanLii: Canadian Legal Information Institute

This website provides access to court judgments from all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, federal courts, and the courts in all Canada’s provinces and territories