Culinary Arts Resources: Databases

DuPont's safety training collection provides streaming video tutorials designed to improve employees' core, job-specific, and industry-specific competencies. Areas covered include accident investigation, asbestos handling, chemicals handling, evacuations, hazmat and PPE, and more.

Montie SafetyHub is a streaming video library of workplace health & safety and skills training videos.
Categories are:
Behavioral Safety
COVID-19 Management
Falls and Heights
Fire Awareness
First Aid and Welfare
Forklifts and Cranes
Hand and Power Tools
Hazardous Environments
Hazardous Substances
Manual Handling
Office Safety
Personal Protection
Safety Basics
Safety Shorts
Vehicles and Plant Safety
Welding Safety

The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) is a news and communications society dedicated to serving the news and information needs of Indigenous people across Canada. The AMMSA website provides access to the archives of: Buffalo Spirit, Alberta Sweetgrass, Ontario Birchbark, Saskatchewan Sage, Raven's Eye, and Windspeaker.

Aimed at practitioners, the Cultural Safety Collection is a selective repository of resources related to addressing barriers in accessing health and social services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples due to their experiences with racism, discrimination and marginalization. It includes resources focused on creating a culturally competent workforce, promoting cultural safety in service settings, practicing cultural humility, responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and addressing anti-Indigenous racism.

The online database was largely completed in the late 1990s and now contains 44,691 items. This version added foods, drugs, dyes, fibers and other uses of plants. This represents uses by 291 Native American groups of 4,029 species from 243 different plant families. About half of them are medicinal. This expansion of the database was supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Audio Cine Films Inc. offers streaming access to thousands of movies from studios such as: Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Universal Studios and more. ACF also manages copyright related to the public presentation of films produced by the studios they represent in Canada and issue copyright licenses that allow organizations to present films within a public performance environment without infringing upon the Canadian Copyright Act.

Criterion-on-Demand is a streaming video collection which represents a large number of feature film producers, including: 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Mongrel Media, Sony Pictures, Alliance Films, Miramax Films, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate Films, as well as a smaller number of independent producers. The title selection includes classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features.

Curio gives teachers and students streaming access to selected educational content from CBC and Radio-Canada, including documentaries from television and radio, news reports, archival material, stock shots and more.

NOTE: To login to the new Curio, enter your UCN email address and click 'Continue'. A verification code will be sent to your email. Enter the code and click 'Continue' again to gain access.

Films on Demand offers an extensive online educational video streaming library with thousands of high quality educational videos. Participating producers include Films for the Humanities & Sciences, BBC, PBS, TED, CBC Television, NFB, Cambridge Educational, The Open University, and many more.
Closed captioning is available on many titles.

Business Source Complete provides the leading collection of bibliographic and full text business content. The database contains full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more .Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals go back as far as 1886.

hoopla partners with libraries across the United States and Canada to provide online and mobile access to eBooks, audiobooks, comics, music, movies, and TV. With hoopla and a valid library card, patrons can borrow, instantly stream, and download dynamic content via hoopla’s mobile app or www.hoopladigital.com. All you need to get started is your library card and a web browser, smart phone, or tablet.

LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) is an online training service with over 16,000 streaming video courses on a wide range of subjects. It includes content for software products such as Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and more.

NOTE: You must sign in with your UCN email.

OverDrive is a free service offered by the UCN Libraries that lets you borrow digital content (like ebooks and audiobooks) anytime, anywhere.

NOTE: you will need to sign in with your UCN library card number.

Project Gutenberg is the world’s oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of the world’s great literature, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. There are over 62,108 items in its collection. The ebooks are available for downloading or reading online. Project Gutenberg requires no special apps to read eBooks, just the regular Web browsers or ebook readers that are included with computers and mobile devices. Most books are in the English language, but many non-English works are also available.

Looking for citation help? The Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides detailed information on how to do citations in APA, MLA, Chicago and other styles as well as general citation information and research assistance. It also offers help with many different writing topics and subjects, from punctuation to technical writing.

Statistics Canada is the national statistical office. The agency ensures Canadians have the key information on Canada's economy, society and environment that they require to function effectively as citizens and decision makers. In addition to conducting a Census every five years, there are about 350 active surveys on virtually all aspects of Canadian life.

Universal Class is an online learning platform offering continuing education courses on many topics, such as: office skills, algebra, baking, self-help, spiritual studies and painting. The classes are geared to high school-age patrons as well as adults.
NOTE: Find 'University College of the North (UCN)' under 'Find your institution' to access

Canada Commons is used by all kinds of libraries - academic, corporate, government, legal and public. It brings rare, hard-to-find content from Canada that’s relevant to a wide range of studies including sociology, anthropology, business and economics.

NNELS is an online public library of books for people with a print disabilities in audiobook, DAISY, PDF, EPUB, e-text, electronic Braille, and other formats.
Eligible users include individuals with print disabilities or people acting on their behalf. Print disabilities include vision, mobility, and comprehension impairments that prevent individuals from being able to read a print book. Approximately 10% of Canadians qualify for access to NNELS.

NOTE: After registering at the library, eligible users or friends and family members can access the NNELS catalogue and download material directly, or request assistance from library staff.