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Student Resource Centre: Canadian Edition’s content places the focus where it belongs — on Canada. It combines premier content from Student Resource Center — Gold, CPI Q, Gale references and uniquely Canadian content — written by Canadians and adhering to Canadian Provincial Standards — that makes it the perfect resource for students in every province.
Premier reference titles include:
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces
- Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces
- Native North American Almanac
- Discovering Authors Canadian Edition
- Contemporary Canadian Artists
- Contemporary Canadian Authors
- Contemporary Canadian Biographies
- Contemporary Canadian Musicians
- Canadian Parliamentary Guide/Parlementaire Canadien
- And more
Student Resource Centre: Canadian Edition also includes nearly 530 full-text magazines, academic journals and newspapers including:
- The Globe and Mail
- Maclean's
- Alberta History
- Beaver: Exploring Canada’s History
- Canada and the World Backgrounder
- Essays on Canadian Writing
- CineAction
- Sports Illustrated Canada
- Teacher Librarian
- Etc. Montreal
- Time (Canada)
- Toronto Life
- Queen’s Quarterly
- Canadian Geographer
- Canadian Parliamentary Review/Revue parlementaire Canadienne
- And more
With an emphasis on Canadian content, people and events, Student Resource Centre: Canadian Edition provides one-click access to such topics as:
- Alberta
- Margaret Atwood
- Canadian history
- Canadian native peoples
- Canadian writers
- French-speaking Canada
- Inuit
- Stephen Harper
- Rohinton Mistry
- Quebec Independence Movement
- World War II
- And more
Among the nearly 700 biographies on key Canadian figures — many created exclusively for Student Resource Centre: Canadian Edition — students will find:
- David Thompson
- Sir John A MacDonald
- Nellie McClung
- Rene Levesque
- David Suzuki
- Peter Easton
- Roberta Bondar
- Marshall McLuhan
- John Molson
- And more
In addition to the exclusive biographies, Student Resource Centre: Canadian Edition is home to original essays on topics such as:
- Canadian Industry
- Science and Technology in Canada
- Health Canada
- Sports in Canada
- Canada at War
- The Alberta Oil Sands
- The Film industry in British Colombia
- Canada ’s International Trade Relations
- Environmentalism in Canada
- The Arts in Canada
- And more
In summary, Student Resource Centre: Canadian Edition includes:
- More than 540 volumes of reference works
- More than 60,000 biographies, criticisms, essays and overviews
- Thousands of primary source documents including diary entries, letters, recordings and more
- Hundreds of plays and poems widely studied by students
- More than 20,500 photographs, maps and graphics (and access to more than 880 million images via Google Image Search capabilities)
- Hundreds of audio and video clips
- Podcasts from the CBC, National Public Radio and more
- Nearly 530 full-text magazines, academic journals and newspapers (updated daily and with back files from 1980)
- Document translator that allows students to translate any document into French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese, simplified Chinese and Korean
- An interface that can be displayed in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese (with more languages to be added)
View the entire Student Resource Centre: Canadian Edition title list.
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