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Online Resources
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| ERGO |
A resource for Australian secondary school students developed by the State Library of Victoria. |
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| Library Webs |
A library of internet resources for Australian secondary school students. |
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| 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. |
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| Real Time Health |
Australian consumer health resource featuring short video clips explaining major ailments from both the medical and patient perspective. |
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LITERATURE |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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| 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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NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES |
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| A-to-Z: Bayside Journal List |
A searchable list of electronic journal titles contained in databases subscribed to by Bayside Library Service. |
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| 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. |
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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 |
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BIOGRAPHY |
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| 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. |
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