The Brighton College Library is located in the MetroPointe Campus: #101-4603 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC. Visit the library for:
If you have any questions, please contact our librarian:
library@brightoncollege.com
Tel: 604-416-0496
We have an agreement with our sister school Alexander College for Brighton College students to use their library resources. They are located down the street at 4805 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC.
To access databases, students must select a database link (eg. “Academic Search Complete”) and enter the following user information:
Note that family name information is case sensitive and must not contain any capitalization. Students with family names containing multiple words must enter a single space between words.
We provide one-on-one and small group tutoring to current Brighton College students for all courses offered at the college. Our goal is to help students develop their core academic skills to be able to apply them across all disciplines. We help students get better grades by helping them to build their skills in math, academic writing, accounting and more!
For help with
Contact the library at library@brightoncollege.com. Please note that the Librarian does not offer subject specific tutoring (for example, Accounting or Engineering).
Available to enrolled students as preparatory resources before and during your studies. Grammar Lab can help advance your English proficiency. Use Software Skills to learn computer basics such as file management, Zoom video conferencing and the Microsoft Office Suite. These are self-paced, not for credit, reference tools.
To request access please send an e-mail to library@brightoncollege.com
Learn about sentences, verb tenses, punctuation, reported speech, subject-verb agreement, word forms and articles.
Learn computer basics such as file management, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Zoom (video conferencing).
All Brighton College students are provided with textbooks for their classes. Students can also take advantage of the following supplemental open-access online resources:
EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable.
ArXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for millions of scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
CORE is the world’s largest aggregator of open access research papers from repositories and journals.
DOAJ is an extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, freely available online for everyone.
Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats. Search by subject and download them to your computer.
OpenStax is one of the world’s largest nonprofit digital learning platforms and publisher of free, open education resources.
Links to Free Computer, Mathematics, Technical Books all over the World.
This site lists free eBooks and online books related to programming, computer science, software engineering, web design, mobile app development, networking, databases, information technology, AI, graphics and computer hardware which are provided by publishers or authors on their websites legally.
Provides open textbooks, including several titles published through Saylor Academy’s Open Textbook Challenge.
The Open Textbook Library is a comprehensive resource for openly licensed academic textbooks. All textbooks are free, and the majority are peer reviewed.
Start, switch, or advance your career with more than 5,400 courses, Professional Certificates, and degrees from world-class universities and companies.
Distance learning from 160 member universities.
Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
Free courses with interactive content from Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare and MITx courses.
Canadian Construction Association
The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) is the only national association representing contractors (general, trade, civil) and manufacturers, service providers and suppliers in Canada. The CCA gives voice to the public policy, legal and standards development goals of contractors, suppliers and allied business professionals working in, or with, Canada’s institutional, commercial and industrial construction industry.
Canadian Home Builder's Association
The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) is the only national association representing contractors (general, trade, civil) and manufacturers, service providers and suppliers in Canada. The CCA gives voice to the public policy, legal and standards development goals of contractors, suppliers and allied business professionals working in, or with, Canada’s institutional, commercial and industrial construction industry.
Cement Association of Canada
The Expertise Center offers a broad range of technical resources to foster greater awareness and understanding of our innovations for sustainable, circular-economy construction and best design practices using concrete.
Construction Innovation
Gov. of Canada website. Construction Innovation provides news of new initiatives, recent research results, product evaluations and code developments for Canada's construction industry. All issues are available free online.
Construction Research Centre
Gov. of Canada website. The Construction Research Center’s Research & Development expertise supports industry to develop new products and services, while providing impartial information needed by governments and standards organizations, in the areas of building, civil engineering and fire safety.
OSTI
U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Free public access to unclassified scholarly publications and digital data resulting from federal research and development funding, and final accepted manuscripts/journal articles. Access is provided through both OSTI.GOV and the DOE Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (DOE PAGES®).
Canadian Center for Occupational Health & Safety
CCOHS promotes the total well-being – physical, psychosocial and mental health – of working Canadians by providing information, training, education, management systems and solutions that support health, safety and wellness programs.
BuildForce Canada
BuildForce leads programs and initiatives that support workforce upskilling, workforce productivity improvements, improvements to training modalities, human resource tools to support the adoption of industry best practices, as well as other value-added initiatives focused on supporting the construction and maintenance industry’s labour force development needs.
British Columbia Construction Association
The BCCA ensures that the skilled workforce, resources, and regulatory environment exceeds the needs and expectations of all industrial, commercial, and institutional construction employers. The BCCA and its partner Regional Construction Associations (RCA’s) advocate to government on behalf of the construction industry.
British Columbia Codes
Building, fire and plumbing codes.
Codes Canada Publications
Access the current and historical National Building Code of Canada, the National Fire Code of Canada, the National Plumbing Code of Canada, and the National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings.
Vancouver Building By-law (Chief Building Official)
The Vancouver Building By-law regulates the design and construction of buildings, as well as the administrative provisions related to permitting, inspections, and the enforcement of these requirements.
Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute: CPCI
CCOHS promotes the total well-being – physical, psychosocial and mental health – of working Canadians by providing information, training, education, management systems and solutions that support health, safety and wellness programs.
Canadian Institute of Steel Construction
The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) is Canada’s voice for the steel construction industry. The CISC promotes dialogue, collaboration and commerce between industry stakeholders – advancing the benefits of steel to the consulting community, builders and buyers, academia and government.
SafetyLit
SafetyLit includes summaries of doctoral theses, scholarly reports, and journal articles about injury occurrence and risk factors. Items are considered relevant if they concern any of the pre-event or event elements of the Haddon Matrix; the epidemiology of injury; or the financial, personal, or societal costs or consequences of any injury or risk factor.
Jabacus Calculator
Civil engineering calculators for determining loads (snow, wind, seismic) and material strengths (structural steel, reinforced concrete and wood).
Q:
Science
T:
Technology
Entrepreneur Magazine
CCOHS promotes the total well-being – physical, psychosocial and mental health – of working Canadians by providing information, training, education, management systems and solutions that support health, safety and wellness programs.
Global Business Magazine
Articles cover a wide range of topics that are relevant to different industries, management functions, and geographic locations.
Mercury Magazines
Free business resources. Take your career & business to the next level with free access to top research, white papers, reports, magazines, eBooks, and more valuable resources.
EconBiz
Scholarly articles, working papers, e-books and more in economics and business studies. Includes tools such as the Standard Thesaurus for Economics (STW) that helps to find suitable search terms and corresponding publications.
Ivey Business Journal
Ivey Business Journal is a resource for business professionals and students it was created to “serve as a source of excellent reading material for the alert business executive.”
National Bureau of Economic Research
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, (American), nonpartisan organization that facilitates cutting-edge investigation and analysis of major economic issues.
Freebizmag
The top resource for free Management research, white papers, reports, case studies, magazines, and eBooks.
North American Industry Classification System
23:
Construction
31-33:
Manufacturing
Standard Industry Classification
1520 – 1700:
Office of Real Estate & Construction
H:
Social Sciences
K:
Law
