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 GENERAL REFERENCE
 
Britannica Online Library Edition We also have Britannica Junior for Junior users and Britannica Student for Upper Primary and High School users. - Instructions

ERGO A resource for Australian secondary school students developed by the State Library of Victoria.

Facts on File: Ancient and Medieval History Online

From Egypt in 5000 BCE (Before Christian era) to Europe in the Middle Ages this resource is made up of comprehensive overview essays plus images, maps and chronologies designed to assist history students and delight history lovers.

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Facts on File: Modern World History Online From 1450 to the present this resource can be searched by time period, geographic region or theme. The entries have been designed to provide a broad, inclusive look at an era. Suitable for seconadary students and above. - Instructions

Lands and Peoples An encyclopedia of countries, cultures and current events. - Instructions

Library Webs A library of internet resources for Australian secondary school students.


 HEALTH
 
Better Health Channel

Consumer Health Complete Full-text articles from medical encyclopedias and reference book, - Instructions

Gale Health & Wellness Resource Centre Collection of reference tools and full text journal articles covering health and related fields. Includes Alternative Health module. - Instructions

PubMed Central PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. PMC is an electronic archive of full-text journal articles, offering free access to its contents. It contains over half a million articles. All research articles are peer reviewed. - Instructions

Real Time Health Australian consumer health resource featuring short video clips explaining major ailments from both the medical and patient perspective. - Instructions


 LITERATURE
 
AustLit AustLit indexes and describes Australian literature published in a range of print and electronic information sources. It also makes available selected critical articles and creative writing in full text. - Instructions

Fiction Connection Readers' advisory at its best.  Use Fiction Connection to locate fiction suggestions based on a title that you already enjoy.  Or, take advantage of the broad category search featuring topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe.

Global Books in Print The world's largest Web-based bibliographic resource for professionals. 
Find what you're looking for quickly and easily, using our unbiased, authoritative and comprehensive database of over 9 million book, audio book, and video titles.
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Literary Reference Centre A full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals. - Instructions

NoveList

The database for book lovers - you can search by title, author, plot, character and more. Also includes reading guides for Book Clubs.

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 ELECTRONIC BOOKS
 
Safari E-books Online

Online collection of information technology books in full text.
Configuring Norton Internet Security 2004 to work with Safari (pdf)

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 BUSINESS
 
Australian Securities Exchange Stock market information.


 NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
 
A-to-Z: Bayside Journal List

A searchable list of electronic journal titles contained in databases subscribed to by Bayside Library Service.


Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre

The Australia/NZ Reference Centre consists of mainly full text content from Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. Also included are leading Australia/NZ periodicals and international periodicals in full text; full text reference books; 84,774 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

Flash Tutorial on basic search,  Powerpoint Tutorial on basic search


Echo Subject guide to articles appearing in “The Age’, “Herald Sun”, “The Australian”, “Sydney Morning Herald” and “Koori Mail”. Also includes an Arts index of book, film and music reviews. - Instructions

General Onefile Covers current events, humanities, and general studies.
 
Choice - text only articles from Australia's Choice magazine are searchable through this database.
  You are not accessing the Choice website, which can be found at http://www.choice.com.au/
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MasterFILE Premier

MasterFILE Premier is a general interest database providing full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Also included are nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily.

Flash Tutorial on basic search, Powerpoint Tutorial on basic search



 SCIENCE
 
Science Resource Center Full text database of articles, book chapters and entries from encyclopedias all about science.

Help using Science Reference Center



 BIOGRAPHY
 
Biography Resource Centre Full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals and reference sources. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. - Instructions


 STATISTICS
 
CLIB 2001 Australian Bureau of Statistics census data. Adobe SVG Viewer must be installed on your computer to view ABS maps - it can be downloaded here. - Instructions

 
 
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