Services: E-Resource Services
E-Resource News
The Alberta Library (TAL) licenses a group of e-resources on behalf of its members in a service called Subscriptions Alberta. The 19 comprehensive e-resources included in Subscriptions Alberta Core offer a wealth of reliable, credible information to library users across Alberta. A valid library card from a YRL member public library is required. Click here to get started.
Yellowhead Regional Library (YRL) has participated in Subscriptions Alberta on behalf of our member municipalities and their public libraries since its inception in 2002. YRL has also taken advantage of the opportunity to subscribe to additional e-resources offered by TAL, ones that are not part of the Subscriptions Alberta Core.
In 2007 YRL also subscribed to Novelist, a reader’s advisory e-resource. Although, not part of the Core, APLEN has subsidized Novelist to the same level as the e-resources in the Core. YRL will continue to subscribe to Novelist on your behalf in 2008.
In 2008 the Subscription’s Alberta Core will have the following e-resources added to it:
- Computers and Applied Science Complete (Ebsco)
- Education Research Complete (Ebsco)
- Environment Complete
- Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text (Ebsco)
- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text (Ebsco)
- World Book Online Reference Center
- World Book Kid’s
Yellowhead Regional Library will subscribe to the following two e-resources for the first time in 2008. APLEN is subsidizing these e-resources at the same rate that is provided for the Core e-resources.
HeritageQuest Online (ProQuest)
HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more.
Auto Repair Reference Center (Ebsco)
Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. Content includes more than 31,660 vehicles covered from 1945 to present; over 205,000 drawings and step-by-step photographs; approximately 75,000 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; over 130,000 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications & maintenance schedules.
What is an e-resource?
An e-resource is information placed in an electronic filing system, or database, that can be searched using a computer. It consists of articles or references from numerous magazines, journals, newspapers or reference books which have been digitally scanned and stored.
You can look for information that has been stored in a database by typing the author, title, subject, keyword, or other search term into a search box.
How do I use an e-resource?
- Go to the YRL homepage at www.yrl.ab.ca
- Click “Search”
- Then click on “E-resources”
- A screen will ask you to type in:
- your library barcode number (your TAL/TRAC card number) and
- PIN number (the last 4 digits of your telephone number)
- This takes you to a list of e-resources on many different topics listed in alphabetical order.
What are the advantages of e-resources?
- E-resources consist of information that has been organized, categorized and stored to give easy access to copyright reliable information, not usually found free on the Internet through a search engine such as Google.
- Information has been written by experts in the field or by writers who have conducted research to enable them to write authoritative, accurate articles.
- Information is current and accurate, since new journal and magazines are added to the databases soon after being published.
E-resource Glossary
Full text
The whole article has been stored within the database, and you can retrieve it and print or e-mail the whole article.
Bibliographic reference
Rather than a whole article, you are provided with the title, author, magazine / journal /book title, magazine volume and page number, publisher and publishing date. If you wish to read the whole article, email an interlibrary loan request to yrlquery@yrl.ab.ca
Abstract
An abstract is a brief summary of a magazine/journal article.
Scholarly
This is articles authored by academics for a target audience that is mainly academic.
Peer reviewed
An article is said to be peer reviewed if it goes through an official editorial process that involves review and approval by the author’s peers (people who are experts in the same subject area as the author). Most scholarly publications are peer reviewed.