An index with full text for books and articles on language, literature, folklore, and linguistics.
Reference works, books, study guides, literary journals and videos, and more.
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
Journals, books and other sources from around the world pertaining to literary, scholarly, and creative thought.
This database contains full-text scholarly journals and Open Access academic books in the areas of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
A digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
Access 9,795 full-text journals and magazines in every academic discipline.
This database indexes and provides full-text access to major Canadian newspapers. Graphical material (illustrations, photographs, etc.) is excluded.
Access to educationally relevant feature films, including classics, documentaries, animated titles, independent films, and foreign films.
The authoritative guide to the meaning, history, usage, and pronunciation of words.
This collection of online encyclopedias covers multiple topics. An alternative to Wikipedia.
A Glossary of Literary Terms
A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
Includes book reviews, essays, author biographies, and more.
Reviews of English language and Canadian-authored scholarly, reference, trade, children’s and teen books published in Canada from 1978 to 2012.
Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Provides access to a rich body of literary content, including criticism, ebooks, e-journals, bibliographical entries, and more, including content from the Shakespeare Collection.
Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1945-2000
Shakespeare Studies (series)
This video collection of documentaries, films, demonstrations and more, spans subject areas like anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, etc.
Access to educationally relevant feature films, including classics, documentaries, animated titles, independent films, and foreign films.
This streaming video collection features programs and teacher resource guides supporting K-12 and post-secondary courses. Includes News in Review, a current-events series. Contains English and French primary sources.
Instructional and educational streaming videos in a wide range of subject areas. Includes performance rights for classroom use.
A film collection which includes documentaries, indie and foreign films, classics, and blockbuster movies. A small selection has been purchased for use by RDP students, faculty, and staff. Faculty can request films by contacting their Subject Librarian.
This collection includes documentaries, animations, experimental films, and alternative dramas. Public performance rights for classroom use included.
This streaming video collection includes text and video clips demonstrating children in action by capturing the details of what children know and how teachers can build from children's knowledge.
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