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About Algonquin Library Catalogue

This Algonquin Library Catalogue searches for books, periodical titles, AV and e-book titles at all Algonquin College Campuses. Includes the “Reserve Desk” search tool, which enables you to search for items on reserve or items in our textbook collection.

About Sm@rtlibrary Catalogue

The Sm@rtlibrary Catalogue offers users the ability to search all Sm@rtlibrary library holdings in one search. Sm@rtlibrary is a collaboration of National Capital area libraries that permit direct borrowing among its members. Libraries include: Algonquin College, University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Ottawa Public Library, CHMC. Ask at your campus library for more details or visit our Inter-library loan page for more information on how Algonquin library members can participate.

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You can also borrow books and articles from other local libraries

Search Databases by Name

Find journals, magazines, newspapers and other materials. These lists will contain databases not included in the ONE Search.

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Canadian Electroninc Library Contains French/English ebook titles

Go to the Canadian Electronic Library

Contains French/English ebook titles from leading Canadian publishers including the Irwin Law series, as well as public policy and public health documents.

To view an item you must first download the ebrary reader.

A library account is required to access this product off campus.

EBSCO Audio Books Audio Books - Contains educational and leisure-reading audio books

Go to EBSCO Audio Books

To download from EBSCO Audio Books you must have an EBSCO Myaccount, enabled DRM and have installed a version of (free) Adobe Digital Edition of 1.71. http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/
A library account is required to access this product off campus.

EBSCO eBooks ebooks - Contains educational and leisure-reading ebooks

Go to EBSCO eBooks

Contains e-books from the technology industry from such experts like O'Reilly Network and IBM developerWorks as well as Business materials This collection is limited to 5 simultaneous users.

To download from EBSCO ebooks you must have an EBSCO Myaccount, enabled DRM and have installed a version of (free) Adobe Digital Edition of 1.71. http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/
A library account is required to access this product off campus.

Safari e-books from the technology industry as well as Business materials

Go to Safari eBooks

Contains e-books from the technology industry from such experts like O'Reilly Network and IBM developerWorks as well as Business materials This collection is limited to 7 simultaneous users.

A library account is required to access this product off campus.

CBC Player Access TV, Radio, News, Sports and digital broadcasts from many shows including Dragon's Den, Rick Mercer's Report, the Passionate Eye and more!

Go to CBC Player

Available to both students, faculty and staff .

A library account is not required for this product.

Note for Students:

Note for Faculty:

A login is not required for this product.

Materials available through the CBC player site are available for classroom use (and linking) for educational purposes at Algonquin College via a paid subscription.

Canadian Electroninc Library Collection of videos which includes academic, vocational and life-skills content

Go to Flims on Demand

Available to both students, faculty and staff .

A library account is required to access this product off campus.

Note for Students:

Note for Faculty:

Students must have an Algonquin library account to search within this product or to access embedded links within Blackboard

Instruction for embedding links to Blackboard:

  1. Search and find the video or video segment you require.
  2. Highlight the “Title URL” as displayed under the video window.
  3. Paste the Title URL into the Database Link Creator to add the authentication prefix to the URL.
  4. Highlight the created URL with prefix and embed the link as a URL into BB as an external link. Ensure that you have selected “Open link in new window” within the template.

For further information on embedding links a detailed tip sheet is available.

EBSCO Audio Books Searchable database of academic video clips

Go to Intelecom

Available to faculty and staff.

A library account is required to access this product off campus.

Note for Students:

Note for Faculty:

Students can’t search within Intelecom, but will have access to any links a faculty member places in their blackboard course

Note for Faculty:

Once a link is generated URLs may be directly embedded into BB for student use. No prefix or additional login is required for students to access this material within BB.

  1. Search and find the video you require.
  2. Click on the URL button as displayed under the video thumbnail.
  3. As directed cut and paste the Title URL into BB as an external link. Ensure that you have selected “Open link in new window” within the template.

EBSCO eBooks EBSCO Business Source Complete - includes video from Harvard Faculty Seminars.

Go to EBSO Business Source Complete

To search the videos choose Business Videos from the BROWSE section of your search page.

Available to faculty/staff and students.

A library account is required to access this product off campus.

Note for Students:

Note for Faculty:

Students must have an Algonquin library account to search within this product or to access embedded links within Blackboard

Instruction for embedding links to Blackboard:

  1. Search and find the video or video segment you require.
  2. Highlight the “Title URL” as displayed under the video window.
  3. Paste the Title URL into the Database Link Creator to add the authentication prefix to the URL.
  4. Highlight the created URL with prefix and embed the link as a URL into BB as an external link. Ensure that you have selected “Open link in new window” within the template.

For further information on embedding links a detailed tip sheet is available.

Safari is a library of thousands of up-to-date video tutorials designed to keep you current in various software packages.

Go to lynda.com login page

Available to both students, faculty and staff .

A library account is required to access this product off campus.

Note for Students:

Note for Faculty:

Students must have an Algonquin library account to search within this product

A library account is required to access this product off campus

Note: At this time it is not possible to place links from Lynda.com within Blackboard.

Gale A Searchable collection documentaries, animation, drama and interactive productions with additional "subscription only" content.

Go to NBF page

On campus access is available without a login. Off campus access requires an NFB account. Algonquin users can create their own account while on campus by accessing http://www.nfb.ca/campus/go/. (You will not be charged for the account this is included with Algonquin’s subscription) An account permits the creation of video playlists as well as the ability to access subscription content. Subscription only content can be viewed at http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-films/

Note for Students:

Note for Faculty:

On campus access is available without a login. Off campus access requires an NFB account. You may also need an account to access subscribed content within Blackboard.

Once a link is generated, URLs may be directly embedded into BB for student use. A prefix is not required for links generated from the NFB site.

*Students may be required to sign up for their own NFB account to access subscribed educational materials chosen from NFB.com.
  1. Search and find the video you require. Start with http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-films/
  2. Highlight the URL displayed in the status bar within NFB.com
  3. Cut and paste the URL into BB as an external link. Ensure that you have selected “Open link in new window” within the template.

Proquest Proquest Nursing and Allied Health

Go to the ProQuest page.

Content focused on Nursing and Allied Health professionals. To view streaming video content use Advanced or Publication search and choose the appropriate category.

A library account is required to access this product off campus.

Note for Students:

Note for Faculty:

Students must have an Algonquin library account to search within this product or to access embedded links within Blackboard

Instruction for embedding links to Blackboard:

  1. Search and find the video or video segment you require.
  2. Highlight the “Title URL” as displayed under the video window.
  3. Paste the Title URL into the Database Link Creator to add the authentication prefix to the URL.
  4. Highlight the created URL with prefix and embed the link as a URL into BB as an external link. Ensure that you have selected “Open link in new window” within the template.

For further information on embedding links a detailed tip sheet is available.

Gale This collection contains public media content and produced specifically for Pre K-16 teachers.

Go to PBS page

No login is required.

Note for Students:

Note for Faculty:

No login is required.

Links may be directly embedded into BB for student use. No prefix or additional login is required for students to access this material within BB.

Go to the Open Educational Resources Website

OERs are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property licence that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge". ~ The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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