Database By Title

Below are the King Township Public Library's collection of electronic databases sorted by title. If you are accessing these databases from outside one of our four branches you may need your library card to access them. If you have any issues connecting please contact our Electronic Services Librarian via email at m.cornell@kinglibrary.ca or by calling 905-833-5101.

NEW - Press Reader - Thousands of newspapers and magazines, including many Canadian publications. Access from home by signing in using your King Township Public Library Card and PIN.

Access Ancestry.ca Library Edition from home for a limited time due to the Library closure. Click the link below and login with your Library Card number and PIN.
Ancestry Library Edition

Lynda.com - Learn a new skill, upgrade your current ones. Click on the link and create a free account using your King Township Public Library card.

FYI :If you have used Zinio Magazines, LawDepot, RB Digital Comics you can use the same login information to access Qello Concerts.

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Ancestry - Library Edition
Search census, birth, marriage and death record, directories, passenger lists, immigration records, maps and more. In Library Use Only. See above for information on temporary in home access.

Axis360
Our new eBook collection for King Township Public Library card holders

A-Z World Travel
A-Z World Travel is the most detailed travel resource for business and leisure travelers for more than 200 world cities. Includes travel essentials, city views, maps, culture, shopping and cuisine.

BrainFuse - Help Now
Get expert study help, online tutoring, or schedule virtual study groups through BrainFuse Help Now.

BrainFuse - Job Now
Get help crafting resumes, interview skills, job coaching and more.

Britannica Library
Encyclopedia Britannica provides three sites in one. With age appropriate material from the child-friendly collection through to the adult general reference collection.
If accessing inside our library branches please click here

Britannica Image Quest
Access to approximately 3 million rights cleared images from the best collections in the world. Image Quest provides safe and fast access to high quality images on all topics for all ages. If accessing inside our library branches please click here.

Canadian Points of View
Provides multiple sides of a current issue. Content comes from political magazines, newspapers, news transcripts, primary sources and reference books as well as essays published specifically for this resource.

Canadian Reference Centre
This database includes full text for leading Canadian periodicals and international periodicals. It includes an image collection and access to biographies and reference information.

Consumer Health Complete
This resource offers easily understood information from medical encyclopedias, reference books, magazine articles, evidence-based reports, fact sheets and pamphlets. It also includes drug and herb information, alternative sources, images and diagrams, and videos and animations.

Consumer Reports & Cars Best Deals Plus
Product reviews and ratings on cars, appliances, electronics and more from Consumer Reports.

CultureGrams
CultureGrams provides concise, reliable and up-to-date reports on more than 200 countries,each US state and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories. If accessing inside our library branches please click here.

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EbscoHost eBooks and audiobooks
EbscoHost offers thousands of high quality eBook and audiobook titles from leading publishers including best selling, frontlist, and award-winning titles across a wide range of subject matter - including academic titles, popular fiction and more.

Explora Canada
Find information on a wide variety of topics with Explora Canada. Great for students grades 7 and up.

Explora Primary
Explora's database for students in junior and intermediate grades. Animals, Geography, Science and more!

Frontier Life
This online collection captures the lives of people living on the edge of European settlement across the frontier of the North America.

Globe and Mail - Historical Newspaper
Search the archives of the Globe and Mail newspaper from 1844-2012

Hobbies and Crafts
This database offers 'how-to' instructions and creative ideas for every hobby enthusiast. Access full text articles form leading hobby and craft magazines.

Indeed One Search
Search millions of jobs from thousands of job boards, newspapers, classifieds and company websites across Canada

LawDepot
LawDepot for Libraries empowers each patron to create their own legal forms specific to their province and personal situation.

Literature Resource Centre
Find information on authors and their works, from all time periods and from around the world. Includes biographical and contextual material.

Lynda.com
An online learning database. Watch videos on over a hundred topics to learn a new skill or upgrade your current talents. Create a free account using your KTPL card.

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Mango Languages
An online language learning system that teaches practical conversation skills for a variety of popular languages.

MasterFile Premier
MasterFile Premier provides magazines, reference books and documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps and flags.

Novelist & Novelist Plus
Find your next great read. With information on more than 180,000 fiction titles for all ages. Includes book reviews.

Ontario Newspaper Index - Our Ontario
Search Ontario Newspaper Index for news articles, birth, marriage and death notices by name.

Our Ontario
Discover people, places, events and objects about Ontario by searching across hundreds of digital collections of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, community groups, government agencies and content organizations. Find photographs, maps, video, audio recordings, government documents and other media.

Overdrive eBooks
Download eBooks and eAudiobooks for adults, teens and children to your eReader or mobile devices. Fiction and Non-Fiction titles.

Press Reader
Access thousands of Newspaper and Magazine titles. Extensive Canadian content. Login using your Library Card and PIN if accessing outside our library branches.

Primary Search
An easy to use database that searches primary age level sources. Great for students in junior and intermediate grades.

Qello Concerts
Watch over 1700 of the most amazing live moments in music. Concerts of over 30 musical genres including classical, country, rock and pop.

Signing Savvy
A sign language dictionary containing several thousand high resolution videos of American Sign Language signs, finger spelled words and other common signs used within Canada and the USA.

Tumblebooks - Kids eBooks
eBooks for kids in grades K to 6 including an online collection of animated and talking picture books, chapter books, language learning, puzzles and videos.

Universal Class
This database contains individual lessons on topics including Accounting, Health and Medicine, DIY, Science, Web Development and much more!

WorldBook Encyclopedia Online
Includes access to Early World of Learning, World Book for Kids, World Book Reference Centre and L'Encyclopedia Decouverte (French version).