King's Virtual Library

Welcome to King's Virtual Library

• Reference
• Search Engines
• Courses
• Library Collections

 

Reference

Dictionaries

General Dictionaries

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• xrefer
• OneLook Dictionary Search
  Searches several dictionary web sites simultaneously for words and phrases.
• iTools Language Tools

Foreign Language Translation

• iTools Language Tools
  Translation tools at bottom of web page.
• OneLook Dictionary Search
  Searches several dictionary web sites simultaneously for words and phrases.
• AllWords.com
  Offers a multi-lingual word search.

Thesauri

• Rogets II: The New Thesaurus
• iTools Language Tools

Science & Technical Dictionaries

• Webopedia
  Computer and internet technology
• A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
• Biotech Life Science Dictionary

Other Dictionaries

• Online Etymology Dictionary
  A dictionary of word origins
• Acronym Dictionary
• ArtLex Art Dictionary
  A dictionary of art terminology.

Directories of Dictionaries

• Dictionaries (from Librarian's Index to the Internet)
  A vast listing of dictionaries covering a multitude of subject areas, all available on the internet.
  

Biography and Quotations

Biography & Quotations

* Biography
* Quotations

Biography

• Biography.com
  Over 25,000 biographies of persons past and present.
• Biographical Dictionary
  " More than 28,000 men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day."
• Canadian Who's Who 1997
• All Classical.com
  Biographies of classical music composers.
• Literature Resource Center
  Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Have your OPL card number ready.

Quotations

• Bartleby.com Quotations
  This data base of quotations searches Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Columbia World of Quotations, and Simpson's Authoritive Quotations simultaneously.

Encyclopedias

• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Britannica
  Have your OPL card number ready.
• Access Science
  The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology features 7,100 articles, definitions, biographies and current news in the world of science. Have your OPL card number ready.

Magazine/Journal Articles

• EbscoHost
  Provides full text for over 1,200 periodicals covering nearly all subjects. Have your OPL card number ready.
• Canadian Business & Current Affairs
  Offers references and/or full text access to magazine articles on Canadian topics. Have your OPL card number ready.
• Canadian Periodical Index
  Includes magazine and selected newspaper articles from Canadian sources, many of which are full text. Have your OPL card number ready.

Phone numbers, maps etc.

 

Search Engines

Search Engines

• Google
• AlltheWeb

Metasearch Engines (Search several search engines simultaneously)

• Vivisimo
• SurfWax

Image Search

• Google Image Search
• Alltheweb - Find It All
  Specify search for pictures, video, audio
• Altavista
  Specify search for image, video, audio
• Picsearch
  

Courses

Geography

Country Information
* Atlases
* Magazine/Journal Articles
* Search Engines In Other Countries

Country Information

• CountryReports.org
• The World Factbook 2002 (CIA)
• Infoplease.com Countries of the World
• Portals to the World (United States. Library of Congress)
• Flags From Around the World

Atlases

• The Atlas of Canada
• The National Atlas of the United States of America
• Infoplease Atlas

Magazine / Journal Articles

• EbscoHost
  Provides full text for over 1,200 periodicals covering nearly all subjects. Have your OPL card number ready.
• Canadian Business & Current Affairs
  Offers references and/or full text access to magazine articles on Canadian topics. Have your OPL card number ready.
• Canadian Periodical Index
  Includes magazine and selected newspaper articles from Canadian sources, many of which are full text. Have your OPL card number ready.

Search Engines in Other Countries

• Country Based Search Engines

Business and Economics

Journal / Magazine / Newspaper Articles

• EbscoHost
  Provides full text for over 1,200 periodicals covering nearly all subjects. Have your OPL card number ready.
• Canadian Business & Current Affairs
  Offers references and/or full text access to magazine articles on Canadian topics. Have your OPL card number ready.
• Canadian Periodical Index
  Includes magazine and selected newspaper articles from Canadian sources, many of which are full text. Have your OPL card number ready.

Information on Companies and Industry Sectors

• SEDAR - Canadian Securities
  Includes company and mutual fund profiles as well as public securities filings.
• EDGAR - U.S. Securities
  Includes company and mutual fund profiles as well as public securities filings.
• Canada Newswire - Search for a Company Snapshot
• Yahoo! Finance
  Provides company profiles, financial information (including stock quotes and graphing), news and industry information.
• BigCharts
  Provides company profiles, financial information (including stock quotes and graphing), news and industry information.
• Fraser's Canadian Trade Directory
  Provides contact information for Canadian companies. Searchable by company name, product, service or brand. Free to search, but registration required.
• Thomas Register
  An up-to-date directory of U.S. and Canadian manufacturers and other businesses.
• Strategis (Industry Canada)
  " Canada's business and consumer site.

Social Sciences

• EbscoHost
  Provides full text for over 1,200 periodicals covering nearly all subjects. Have your OPL card number ready.

English

* Literary Criticism and Plot Summaries
* Shakespeare
* Guides for Writing and Citing Sources
* Dictionaries
* Thesauri

Literary Criticism and Plot Summaries

• Literature Resource Center
  Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Have your OPL card number ready.
• What Do I Read Next?
  Includes nearly 100,000 recommended titles, and more than 53,000 plot summaries. Have your OPL card number ready.

Shakespeare

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
  An annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources on the internet.

Guides for Writing and Citing Sources

• Citation and Style Guides (Concordia Univerity Libraries)
• A+ Research and Writing
  

Dictionaries

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• xrefer
• OneLook Dictionary Search
  Allows you to search several dictionaries at once.
• iTools Language Tools

Thesauri

• Rogets II: The New Thesaurus
• iTools Language Tools
• History Canadian Museum of Civilisation
• Canadian Confederation
  Historical essays showcase document, articles and photographs of the people, places and events that have shaped Canada.
• Canadian Info.
  More than 300 pages of information about Canada - its government, history, facts, people, security, geography, provinces, symbols and more...
• Historica
  A collection of one minute movies about Canadian history.

Science Health & Phys Ed. Health & Physical Education

• Health Source : Comsumer Edition
  Provides access to nearly 300 full text consumer health periodicals, nearly 1,200 health related pamphlets, 20 health reference books, and Steadman's Medical Dictionary. Have your OPL card number ready.
• WebMD
• Canadian Health Network
  Information provided by Health Canada and major health organizations across the country.

French Language Translation

• iTools Language Tools
  Translation tools at bottom of web page.
• AllWords.com
  Offers a multi-lingual word search.
• OneLook Dictionary Search
  Searches several dictionary web sites simultaneously for words and phrases.

Drama

Music

• The Classical Score
  Composer biographies, music history and hymnology.
• All Classical.com
  Biographies of classical music composers, and listings of their compositions.
• Naxos.com Composers
  Composer biographies
• Naxos.com A-Z Glossary
  A glossary of music terms
• Christian Guitar Resources
  Over 7,000 guitar tabs available.
  

Art

* Art Galleries / Image Collections
* Art History in Canada
* Art Dictionary

Art Galleries / Image Collections

• Artcyclopedia
• Art Gallery of Ontario
• McMichael.com Canadian Art Collection
• National Gallery of Canada
• Louvre
• Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
• National Gallery, London
• The British Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Guggenheim Museum
• National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
  

Art History in Canada

• Art2LIFE
  Interactive timeline brings 100 years of art, people and events in Canada to life.

Art Dictionary

• ArtLex Art Dictionary

Mathematics

• The Math Forum (Drexel Post secondary)
• Trigonometry
  

Civics Civics / Government

* Canada
* Foreign Governments

Canada

• Government of Canada, Official Site
  The main government of Canada gateway.
• Government of Canada, Official Site
  Gateway to federal departments & agencies
• Statistics Canada
  Includes also Canada Census
• Strategis (Industry Canada)
  Canada's business and consumer site
• "How Canadians Govern Themselves" (4th edition)
• Government of Ontario
• MuniSource.org
  " The largest collection of links to municipal government-related information on the web"
• Town of Oakville
• Halton Region

Foreign Governments

• Foreign Government Resources on the Web
• Governments on the WWW

Christian Sites

• Bible Gateway
  Includes passage lookup and word search for several Bible versions.
• CrossSearch.com Directory
  An online directory of Christian websites.
• Christian Guitar Resource
• VirtualChurch.org
  A Christian resource compendium.

Library Collections

Halton Public Library
Includes Oakville, Burlington Milton library collections. Users can also specify searches at Toronto Public Library as well as several area Post secondary libraries from this site. http://zola.haltonbe.on.ca/web2/tramp2.exe/log_in

Oakville Public Library
Users can search the catalog, and place holds on library materials from this site. Have your OPL card number ready. http://www.opl.on.ca/

Hamilton Public Library
Search the catalog.

Mississauga Public Library
Search the catalog.

Toronto Public Library
Search the catalog.

University of Toronto Libraries
Search the catalog; includes the holdings of several U of T libraries.

National Library of Canada AMICUS Database
Search the holdings of the National Library as well as 1,300 libraries across Canada.

LIBDEX - The Library Index
An index to 1,800 libraries worldwide.