Research tools
- General reference
- Business
- Children
- Genealogy
- Health
- Languages
- Law
- Literature
- Music
- Newspapers and magazines
- Online learning
- Science
- Statistics
General reference |
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| Britannica Online Library Edition | We also have Britannica Junior for Junior users and Britannica Student for Upper Primary and High School users. | Instructions |
| The Conversation | An independent news and comment service dedicated to tackling issues currently concerning Australians. Content is provided by academics who are experts in their field and put together by professional editors. A free email service is also available. |
| ERGO | A resource for Australian secondary school students developed by the State Library of Victoria. |
| Informit Engineering Collection | Covers all broad engineering fields, including Civil engineering, Engineering of railroads & roads, Mining & related operations, and Sanitary & municipal engineering as well as specialist engineering areas. The Engineering Collection provides access to full content from a range of journal articles, conference papers, working papers and other grey literature sourced from the Engineers Australia library collection and is produced in collaboration with Engineers Australia. |
| Informit Families and Society Collection | Covers family, marriage, women; culture and institutions, private, civil and family law; social services and public welfare. Content includes peer-reviewed journals from government and specialist associations tackling modern debates on topics including non-traditional families, parenting, marriage, divorce, division of labour, working mothers, birth rates and ageing. |
| Maquarie Dictionary | Australia's national dictionary onine. |
| Australia/New Zealand Points of view reference centre (on EbscoHost) | Designed specifically for Australian secondary students the ANZ Points of View database provides opposing arguments on a number of topics supported by references from current journals in the relevant field. |
Children |
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| Busy Things | Busy Things is an amazing, colourful and quirky online subscription service hosting software dedicated to Early Years. The ever-growing number of activities intrigue and entertain early learners whatever their aptitudes and abilities. Full of quirky characters: parachuting pink men, dancing robots, a doughnut-eating monkey and many others. It's a fun place to be! With over 115 activities.. |
Genealogy |
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| Ancestry (Library Edition) | Ancestry (Library Edition) is an online research database providing a comprehensive collection of genealogical information including Census, Church,Court and Immigration records. Some resources from Australia and the UK are included.
Access is only available within the library on library PCs.
 Database Guide to Ancestry Library Edition (PDF)
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| Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954 | The Australian Newspapers service allows access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. |
| Find my Past Australia and New Zealand | Genealogical resources from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. |
| Find my Past UK | Genealogical resources from the United Kingdom and Ireland including births, deaths and marriages, census and parish records. Also includes migration records such as passenger lists for long haul voyages between 1890 and 1960, passport applications between 1851 and 1903 and military records. |
| Picture Victoria | Looking for images of local history in Victoria? PictureVictoria is a great place to begin! |
| Picture Australia | Picture Australia is a service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results. |
Health |
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| Better Health Channel | The Better Health Channel provides health and medical information to help individuals and their communities improve their health and wellbeing. |
| Gale Health & Wellness Resource Centre | Collection of reference tools and full text journal articles covering health and related fields. Includes Alternative Health module. | Instructions |
| Informit Health Collection | Content includes research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles. Many titles included in the Collection are unavailable elsewhere online, including journals dedicated to specialist and current topics of interest such as ageing and age care, child health and breastfeeding, indigenous health issues, mental health and rehabilitation. |
| 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 |
Languages |
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| Mango Languages | Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more. |
| Road to IELTS - Academic | Published by the British Council, provides the best possible preparation for the IELTS exam, covering the Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking modules. |
| Road to IELTS - General | Published by the British Council, provides the best possible preparation for the IELTS exam, covering the Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking modules. |
Literature |
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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. |
| Non-Fiction Connection | The non-fiction version of Fiction Connection. |
| 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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| Who else writes like | For everyone who has ever asked: I've read everything by my favourite author, I wonder who else writes like them? This resource lists nearly 2000 fiction authors and links them to other writers who have a similar style. |
Music |
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| Music Australia | Music Australia is an online service developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive and other cultural institutions across the nation. You can discover, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services, all from a single access point. |
Online learning |
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| computerschool.net | The Computer Skills Index link contains hundreds of comprehensive computer training tutorials, with more continually being added. Tutorials include full colour, easy-to-follow screen-shots with step-by-step instructions covering an extensive and varied range of "How do I ?" learning topics. Includes: Windows Vista, Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and more.The access password is brighton3186 (note you must click the Submit button to login) |
Business |
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| Australian Securities Exchange | Stock market information. |
Newspapers and magazines |
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| A-to-Z: Bayside Journal List (on EbscoHost) | A searchable list of electronic journal titles contained in databases subscribed to by Bayside Library Service. |
| Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (on EbscoHost) | 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. | Instructions |
| Leader Newspapers Online | There are 42 newspapers in the Leader Group for Melbourne. Many of these are already available and Leader Group plan to make all titles available. With The Leader Community ePaper, you can read The Leader online in its true printed format from anywhere in the world. The ePapers is enhanced with the latest digital tools, including RSS feeds, social networking, blogging and much more. |
| Library PressDisplay | Library PressDisplay.com is the most convenient and complete way to read all your favorite newspapers and magazines on one site. With Library PressDisplay.com users gain access to publications from within the library, from home and around the world on the day they are published. Library.PressDisplay.com enhances your reading experience with a simple user interface and easy-to-use navigation tools. |
Science |
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| Science in Context | Full text database of articles, book chapters and entries from encyclopedias all about science. |
Statistics |
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| ABS Census Data | Australian Bureau of Statistics census data from 2006, 2001, and 1996. |
Page last updated: 24 Apr 2013