Thanks to a partnership between Educational Resource Acquisition Consortium (ERAC) and LearnNowBC, students in districts that have subscribed to ERAC's Online Resource Database Bundle Toolkits will have access to some of the most reputable and invaluable electronic resources available anywhere online — all through LearnNowBC.
Students and Educators who login to LearnNowBC will be able to access ERAC's Toolkits to carry out project research and get homework help and ideas for assignments, at school or at home.
Toolkit Resources include the World Book Online Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, and EBSCOhost, which is a collection of databases that contain magazine and journal articles in electronic format. New additions include the Canadian Periodical Index (CPIQ), LegalEze, and 12 Gale Virtual Reference Library Books.
About ERAC
The Educational Resource Acquisition Consortium (ERAC) provides school districts, including Distributed Learning programs, with a range of services focused on the evaluation and acquisition of software, video and print resources.
The consortium's goal is to reduce the amount of time school and school district staff spend evaluating, selecting, negotiating and purchasing software, textbooks, videos and learning resources, and to help bring down purchase prices. Every BC public school district and a number of independent schools are members of ERAC.
ERAC Contacts for School Districts and Independent Schools act as a liaison between their district or school and ERAC.