Getting Started with Mergent Market Atlas

May 13, 2025 | Information Services Team

Mergent Market Atlas provides information for investors on more than 50,000 U.S., Canadian and international public companies, including access to a multitude of company, industry, country, index, ESG and economic data displays and reports. Access Mergent Market Atlas to create custom reports for individual companies or compare multiple companies at...

Getting Started with Biography in Context

March 17, 2025 | Information Services Team

Biography in Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information covering people from around the world, throughout history, and across all disciplines and professions and subject areas. It includes over 700,000 biographical entries, videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and articles from major periodicals and newspapers. The database includes full-text...

Getting Started with Canadian Newsstream

February 20, 2025 | Information Services Team

Canadian Newsstream provides current full text articles from major Canadian newspapers and several Toronto community newspapers. Canadian news content are from over 400 news sources. Content is updated daily and contains older issues with some newspapers going back to the late 1970s. Access to full-text newspaper include The Globe and...

Getting Started with Gale OneFile: News

February 18, 2025 | Information Services Team

Full-text articles from International and Canadian newspapers. How to access: 1. Start from the Digital Newspapers section on the Toronto Public Library website. 2. Under Article Databases click on Gale OneFile: News 3. Click the Access Online button. 4. Sign in with your library card number and PIN. 5. Gale...

Getting Started with Gale eBooks

February 18, 2025 | Information Services Team

Gale eBooks is a collection of resource and reference books covering a wide-range of subjects. This includes arts, business, medicine, science and social issues. On this easy-to-use site books can be searched at the title or text level, highlighted and marked with notes, downloaded or printed by chapter, and even...

Getting Started with Directory of Open Access Journals

February 18, 2025 | Information Services Team

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) searches full-text scientific and scholarly articles from Open Access journals within its directory. It is also a directory for researchers to find the most appropriate Open Access journal to contribute to. To be included in the DOAJ, the journal must abide by the...

Getting Started with Britannica Library

December 7, 2024 | Information Services Team

Britannica Library is an encyclopedia of articles, images and videos, biographies, as well as a country comparison tool, and a world atlas. The resource includes Britannica Library Children, Britannica Library Young Adult. and a link to Encyclopaedia Universalis. How to access Britannica Library Go to tpl.ca and enter 'Britannica Library'...

Getting Started with Encyclopædia Universalis

December 7, 2024 | Information Services Team

Encyclopædia Universalis is a comprehensive French-language resource featuring 38,000 articles authored by over 6,400 respected individuals, including authors, historians, professors, and Nobel Prize winners. The content covers a wide range of subjects and includes 25,000 multimedia elements to aid in learning and engagement. The resource has an atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia...

Getting Started with Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA)

December 4, 2024 | Information Services Team

Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) is a daily-updated Canadian periodical collection covering current events, business, science and technology, medicine, humanities and the arts. It includes millions of full-text articles and records from 1933 to current, in a mix of formats (or “source types”) including: scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines,...

Getting Started with Mergent Intellect

November 18, 2024 | Information Services Team

Mergent Intellect is a directory of U.S., Canadian and international companies, both private (about 250,000,000 active companies) and public (about 29,000 active companies). A company listing (or profile) includes not only contact information (official name, address, etc.) but also information on operations, finances, executives, the family tree and links to...