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Reference Resources
Open Access Information open access databases of scholarly materials: o Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ Database containing open access journals spanning all scientific and scholarly subjects o Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/ o Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/ Catalogue of crowd-sources research papers o Google Scholar http://scholar.google.ca remember, you can use the settings to link Google Scholar to an academic library system that you have access to o Bartleby Reference http://www.bartleby.com/reference/ depository of full-text searchable reference works o BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/ Publishes 250 peer-reviewed open access journals o CanLII http://www.canlii.org/en/ Canadian law documents including court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations o Free Medical Journals http://freemedicaljournals.com/ o PubMed.gov http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?holding=nlmlib select free full text after performing a search o Canadian Federation of Sexual Health (Planned Parenthood) http://www.cfsh.ca/Members/ in addition to comprehensive Your Sexual Health information, under Members, the public can find local or provincial CFSH clinics that provide wide-range of reproductive & sexual health services o Whatever city youre in, check the citys public health websites, other government departments websites for services/information (eg. Department of Justice, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Continuing & Long-Term Care (health), Ministry of the Attorney General). The following

are examples for Toronto although Peel, etc. will have their own government/public health sites Toronto Public Health Nutrition website (many city/government agencies offer free workshops on parenting, nutrition, etc.) http://www.toronto.ca/health/nutrition/index.htm / nm_index.htm Best Start http://www.beststart.org/resources/index.html City of Toronto Living in Toronto Immigration Portal about city services, health services, work, etc http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/toronto/landing?vgnextoid=d4 851b3cf98d1310VgnVCM1000003dd60f89RCRD&vgnextfmt=defaul t Community Legal Education Ontario http://www.cleo.on.ca/en Legal Aid Ontario http://www.legalaid.on.ca Law Society of Upper Canada list of access to pro bono & legal aid services http://www.lsuc.on.ca/faq.aspx?id=1034 o Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org o Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html Open access GIS & data resources o Canada Geography Network (http://www.geographynetwork.ca/) o Toronto Open (www.toronto.ca/open) o Ontario Open Data (http://www.ontario.ca/government/government- ontario-open-data) o Data.gc.ca (http://www.data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F9B7A1E3-1) o GeoBase (http://www.geobase.ca/) o GeoGratis (http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html) o Don Valley Historical Mapping Project (http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/dvhmp/) SparkNotes o http://www.sparknotes.com/ local public library databases - for example, the TPL provides access to some scholarly databases. o They also provide access to non-scholarly databases and programs: Early Canadiana Online Canadian Newsstand (for older issues of Canadian newspapers) Ancestry Library Edition Career Cruising Mango Languages (a language learning app) NoveList GLBT Gender Studies Naxos Music Library (where you can listen as well as learn about music from many genres), etc.