Online Resources
Newspaper & Magazine Article Indexes
ANZ Reference Centre is a general database of Australian and international content with articles in health, current affairs, science, social science, business and literature. Includes newspapers.
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Choice Online (available from library branches only)
Trusted information for Australian consumers. Full access to premium content.
Designed specifically for public libraries, the MasterFILE Premier database provides full text for more than 2,100 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 650 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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Health & Medicine
Resources and information on a wide variety of health and health-related topics and alternative or complementary treatments.
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AusDI - available from library branches only
Australian drug information.
Reference
Australian Bureau of Statistics AusStats Online
All Ausstats subscription PDFs may be viewed at no charge. View a list of publications by number.
National Library of Australia eResources
Free content, but you need to register to access some of the resources
Australian Standards (available from library branches only)
An efficient, trouble-free way to access over 7,700 national Australian Standards.
Arts & Literature
Literary Reference Center provides full text information on authors and their works from a combination of sources including books, encyclopaedias and journals. Includes plot summaries, critical essays, reviews, poems and author biographies. Search by author, title, subject or literary genre, or browse publications and most read authors.
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Looking for a good book? Use NoveList to look for books by author, title, series, plot description or level of readership (children, young adults, adults etc). Use the Read-Alikes feature to find other authors who write like your favourite author. Includes plot summaries, genre and theme based lists, discussion guides for book clubs, book talks and details of awards.
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Science
Science Reference Center provies easy access to a multitude of full text science oriented content.
Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general interest titles includes the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimise these effects. GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.