Library Services
Library Services has a wide selection of electronic resources to meet your educational needs. The advantages of using these resources include:
- large selection of resources, including videos, eBooks, articles and image databases
- up-to-date resources
- 24/7 access for students
- most streaming videos are captioned
- minimizes copyright concerns (read more about using Library Service resources below)
Articles and eBooks
Using the Library's electronic resources will provide your students with a wealth of information. Did you know that we have:
- access to over 550,000 eBooks
- millions of academic and trade journals, including JAMA and the Harvard Business Review
- newspapers, such as the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star
- Magazines, such as Popular Mechanics and Maclean's
- and much more
Providing Access to Students
Licensing agreements between the College and the database vendors do not allow PDFs originating from article databases to be posted directly online or sent as an email attachment.
Instead, link to the article/eBook record in one of the Library's article databases for distribution to current Conestoga students, faculty, and staff. Permanent URLs are normally provided by the database and instructors are permitted to post these links on password-protected course sites, such as eConestoga, allowing their students to easily link to the articles.
Use these tutorials to learn the process of finding and inserting permanent links.
Library Streamed Videos
The Library offers access to over 177,000 streamed videos, which can be shown in the classroom or linked in eConestoga. Most of the videos are closed-captioned. A partial list of Library film databases are below. For a more extensive list, click on Library's Video Streaming Resources.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowContains educational streamed videos on a variety of academic, professional and technical topics.
Learn to use Films on Demand - Kanopy This link opens in a new windowIncludes films and documentaries from Criterion, California Newsreel, HBO, Psychotherapy.net, Learning Seed, Symptom Media and much more.
Learn to use Kanopy / Terms of Use (Kanopy) - SafetyHub Videos This link opens in a new window
Canadian workplace safety training videos for all types of work environments.
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Library Image Databases
The Library offers access to several image databases. Images from these databases can be used in PowerPoint Presentations or uploaded in eConestoga. Click on the links below to explore the databases:
- Britannica ImageQuest This link opens in a new window
Contains millions of rights-cleared photos, graphics and images for educational use.
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- SMART Image Base - Scientific and Medical Art This link opens in a new window
Thousands of medical images, illustrations and animations.
- Red Book Online (From Committee on Infectious Diseases) This link opens in a new windowClinically relevant content on more than 200 childhood infectious diseases.
