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Here is your portal to a wealth of high-quality resources that the Library has subscribed to on your behalf, and the top open access journal indexes. Use the barcode on your library card to login if prompted.

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Featured Database

Find reliable reviews and ratings for common household appliances, electronics, automobiles and other products.

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Academic Search Elite

Find articles from scholarly journals in nearly every academic discipline. Excellent for students and researchers.

Academic Articles & Encyclopedias

Ancestry Library Edition

Your first stop for all your genealogy searches. This is a made-for-libraries version of the popular Ancestry.com database.

Access Information: Temporarily available offsite for West Vancouver residents only.

Click here if you are using Ancestry Library Edition at the library: https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/ 

 

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Auto Repair Source

Consult the library’s do-it-yourself repair manual for cars, trucks, vans and SUVs. This resource includes information on thousands of vehicles from 1974 to present. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (EOM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labour estimates, service bulletins, recalls, and more

BC Codes (Free Access)

Full text of the BC Building Code, Fire Code and Plumbing Code. Also includes the City of Vancouver Building By-law and Plumbing By-law.

BC Codes: Vehicle Safety & Inspection Standards Manual

Full text of the Vehicle Safety & Inspection Standards Manual, plus volumes available in the Free Access version of BC Codes.

Access Information: In-Library use only

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Canadian Encyclopedia

Search a comprehensive and credible source of information for students, readers, and scholars. This encyclopedia includes articles, biographies, timelines and more on Canadian people, places and events.

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Canadian Newsstream

Consult the complete electronic back issues for most major Canadian newspapers, including The Vancouver Sun, The Province and The Globe & Mail. You can aslo find local papers such as the North Shore News.

Access Information: Licensed for West Vancouver residents only

Newspapers & Magazines

Classical Music Library

Listen online to over 300,000 tracks of classical music. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. You can also create your own playlists.

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Consumer Reports

Find reliable reviews and ratings for common household appliances, electronics, automobiles, and other products.

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Creativebug

Creativebug is your go-to resource for high-quality, on-trend arts and crafts instructional videos. Enjoy HD instructional videos on drawing, painting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, quilting, baking and more!

Download the app for Apple or Android, but make sure to set up an account on the website first!

Access Information: Licensed for West Vancouver residents only.

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Digital.westvanlibrary.ca

The Library’s special collection of historical photos and digital artifacts dating from 1900 to the late 1980s. Colour and black & white photographs, audio visual materials and History-onics, the newsletter of the West Vancouver Historical Society are included. An excellent resource.

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Digitized Newspapers: The Vancouver Sun

Updated quarterly, a digitized version of the microfilm version of The Vancouver Sun, starting with issues from January 2011 on.

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Newspapers & Magazines

Directory of Open Access Journals

Read full-text research papers and reviews from open source peer-reviewed journals all subject areas. 

Encyclopedia of British Columbia

Know BC is home to the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, an authoritative resource on BC past and present that features more than 4,000 articles and 1,500 accompanying photographs, maps, charts and tables, as well as sound and video clips.

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Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples

An online version of the 1999 reference work that covers over 115 different peoples/ethnic groups that make up Canada’s population.

Explora

Find information on almost any topic. Explora brings together content from Ebsco’s well-known databases: Academic Search Elite, MasterFile and Kids Search.

Explora Kids

Ebsco’s Explora Kids search features age-appropriate articles from trusted magazines and encyclopedias designed especially for students in the primary and middle grades. Categories include: Animals, Arts & Music, Biographies, Geography, Language Arts, Math, Science & Health, and Social Studies.

FamilySearch

The new super-site for the genealogy services from the LDS (Mormon) church. Massive digitization projects are underway as their extensive microfilm collection is digitized.

Sometimes when you are looking at records at FamilySearch.org you’ll see an icon that means you needed to visit a Family History Centre to view the image. Now you can come West Vancouver Memorial Library and use any of our public computers to view the image. You will be able to save the image on a USB stick or email it to yourself. Note that some digital images may still have privacy, copyright, contractual, or other restrictions which limit access even at the library.

New to FamilySearch? View a tutorial.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

Search a library of reference books online – business, history, literature and political geography.

Access Information: Licensed for West Vancouver residents only

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Search B.C. public and academic libraries and request items through interlibrary loan. 

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