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Austlit - the Australian Literature gateway
Publisher: Austlit
The Austlit database provides authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 75,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day.
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National Construction Code of Australia
Publisher: Australian Building Codes Board
The National Construction Code regulates building standards throughout all Australian states and territories. It contains technical provisions for the design and construction of buildings and other structures, covering such matters as structure, fire resistance, access and egress, services and equipment, and certain aspects of health and amenity.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
Publisher: Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics collects and publishes statistics on all aspects of Australian life
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Britannica Online Library Edition
Publisher: Britannica
Britannica Online Library Edition contains comprehensive content for all patrons—from age 8 to adult learners, from business professionals to curious seniors. Whether it’s frogs or physics, gardening or geography, Britannica Online Library Edition covers it all.
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Britannica Image Quest
Publisher: Britannica
Britannica Image Quest provides access to more than two million images from the best collections in the world - from leading museums like the National Portrait Gallery of London, the Chicago History Museum, and the National History Museum in London to trusted names like National Geographic, Getty Images and Britannica. Teachers can use the images in their classroom activities while students will turn to the site as they work on assignments and school or course projects. Free of advertising and from trustworthy sources, the Britannica Image Quest provides safe and fast access to the highest quality images on all topics and for all ages.
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Carter's Price Guide to Antiques
Publisher: Carters
This online valuation service includes over 75000 items from 1500BC to the present. All listed antiques and collectables include a professionally photographed image and are sourced from dealers in Australia and New Zealand. The database includes prices for antiques, antiquities, collectables, retro and vintage 20th century designs.
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Biology
Publisher: Cengage
A comprehensive collection of articles on all aspects of biological science, including its history and issues. Includes articles on biology-related careers and important individuals, as well as topics from active transport to zoology research. Amply illustrated with full-color photos and line drawings. Glossary illuminates scientific terms. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Animal Sciences
Publisher: Cengage
This interdisciplinary resource explores the wide-ranging diversity that exists within the animal kingdom. Entries examine how animals develop, animal ecology and behavior, and the connection between animals and humans. Also includes biographies of key scientists who have contributed to the study of animal life, as well as career opportunities within the field. Part of the Gale Reference Library
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Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
Publisher: Cengage
Presents 600 articles on food and its place in human culture and society, covering everything from agronomy to zucchini. Students, academics, and general researchers will find entries on everything from food preparation, distribution and storage to holidays and festivals, nutrition and health, and cultures and cuisines. Entries range from 250 to 10,000 words each and are supplemented by 400 photographs and illustrations, sidebars, recipes, menus, timelines, and a comprehensive index. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library
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History Resource Center: World
Publisher: Cengage
History Resource Center: Modern World has always featured extensive coverage of the 20th century. History Resource Center: World broadens this focus both geographically and chronologically, with the addition of new content on the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From antiquity to the present, world history curricula is reflected by content from over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and from 110 academic journals.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Publisher: Cengage
Our Gale Virtual Reference Library contains more e-books on a wide variety of subjects including arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science and social science. These e-books are easily accessible and searchable with no need to download software to view them.
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Road to IELTS - General Training
Publisher: Clarity English
Road to IELTS includes 120 hours of intensive work on vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and speaking, helping students to develop their skills to the level necessary to succeed in the IELTS exam. Crucially, the program simulates the exam itself.
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Study Skills Success
Publisher: Clarity English
Study Skills Success is for all students in High School and Higher Education who wish to improve their academic study skills. The eight units of study skills success are reading, writing, speaking, listening, research, visuals, grammar and vocabulary. There are over 100 activities including listening to a lecture and completing notes, planning and writing a discussion essay and going online to develop an evaluation checklist for websites.
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It's Your Job
Publisher: Clarity English
Designed for ESL job-seekers, It's Your Job takes a structured and analytical approach to the entire process of job seeking, from deciding on your career all the way to accepting a job offer.
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Road to IELTS - Academic
Publisher: Clarity English
Road to IELTS includes 120 hours of intensive work on vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and speaking, helping students to develop their skills to the level necessary to succeed in the IELTS exam. Crucially, the program simulates the exam itself.
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DOAJ - the Directory of Open Access Journals
Publisher: DOAJ
The DOAJ service is a guide to locating free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals online. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all subject areas and languages.
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History and Reference Library
Publisher: Dynamic Learning Online
The History & Reference Library contains over 60 reference titles covering Australian History, the World Wars and selected topics in Ancient and Modern History, including selected primary source documents.
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Computer Training Database
Publisher: Dynamic Learning Online
A series of self paced online tutorials covering Computer basics, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet and Email. Upon authentication to the database you will need to create a personal account to keep track of your progress through the training packages.
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NoveList Plus
Publisher: Ebscohost
NoveList Plus is a reader's guide to fiction and non-fiction. Find suggestions for books you might like based on authors or titles you like, genres or styles.
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Science Reference Center
Publisher: Ebscohost
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
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Points of View Reference Centre
Publisher: Ebscohost
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 270 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Providing the basis from which students can realise and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills; this database helps students judge Fact vs. Opinion and enhances their ability to read and think critically.
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GreenFILE
Publisher: Ebscohost
A research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.
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Academic Search Elite
Publisher: Ebscohost
Academic Search Eliteis a scholarly collection offering full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: animal science, anthropology, astronomy, biology, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. With full text for more than 2,100 journals, 1700 of which are peer-reviewed, this database will become the first point of call for all students seeking high quality information.
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Consumer Health Complete
Publisher: Ebscohost
Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides consumer-oriented health content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men and women's health, etc.
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Literary Reference Center
Publisher: Ebscohost
Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals. It includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, literary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, author interviews
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Australia/NZ Reference Centre
Publisher: Ebscohost
ANZRC provides full text access to a combination of Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to provide local perspectives on current events, business, sports, and many other subjects. ANZRC also contains international magazines, reference books, newspapers & newswires.
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MasterFile Premier
Publisher: Ebscohost
Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFile Premier provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.
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Ebscohost - All Databases
Publisher: Ebscohost
Search all Ebscohost databases that Sutherland Shire Libraries subscribe to simultaneously. Our current subscription includes Australia and NZ Resource Center, MasterFile Premier, Consumer Health Complete, Science reference Center, Literary Reference Center and Library & Information Science Abstracts. View individual databases for title lists.
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Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
Publisher: Ebscohost
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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Eighty20
Publisher: Eighty20
The Eighty20 web application allows you to view demographic statistics from the 2001 Census and related business information. It is highly useful for local businesses as a tool to analyse the potential market for their products.
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ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
Publisher: ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
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Sydney Morning Herald True-to-Print Library Edition
Publisher: Fairfax Press
A digital edition of the Sydney Morning Herald that contains every page, article, photo, table, advertisement, cartoon published in the the News, Business and Sport sections, can be viewed online from any branch library. Please ask staff for assistance.
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Sydney Morning Herald Archives
Publisher: Fairfax Press
Search every edition of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald between January 1955 - February 1995 in this uniue online archive. All articles, captions and advertisements are fully keyword searchable and full-text results are returned in an exact digital reproduction of the printed pages as they were originally published. Search birth, death and marriage notices. Explore Australia's history through the big stories of the day. The contents of all issues are fully text searchable and reflect the full context and layout of each page as it was originally published.
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Find Articles
Publisher: FindArticles
Search or browse millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications with archives dating back to 1984 in some cases.
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Google Scholar
Publisher: Google
From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
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InfoBase E-book Collection
Publisher: InfoBase Publishing
Read books online with this easy to use e-book database. Subjects covered include science, literature and religion.
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Australian Public Affairs - Full Text
Publisher: Informit Online
APAFT is an online collection of scanned images of the top 200 Australian journals indexed in APAIS, the Australian Public Affairs Information Service. Subjects covered include Arts and crafts, Cultural studies, Current affairs, Economics, Education, Health, Law and legal aid, Literature, Medicine, People, Politics/government, Public affairs and Sociology.
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Humanities and Social Science
Publisher: Informit Online
Humanities & Social Sciences Collection provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials. The broad subject coverage includes Aboriginal and indigenous studies, arts, history, law, literary studies, media, political science and sociology.
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Ingenta Connect
Publisher: Ingenta
Ingenta offers fee based access to millions of articles from the world's leading scholarly and professional publications. Once purchased, documents are delivered instantly in PDF or HTML format direct to your desktop.
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Internet History Resources
Publisher: Internet History Resources
Images of historical documents which contain information which can help you trace people who lived and worked in New South Wales during the period 1850 - 1920, including Sands directories and electoral rolls amongst other records. These records complement and build on information you can obtain from the NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages indexes and the Genealogical Research Kit.
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Who Else Writes Like ...?
Publisher: Loughborough University
This is the new online version of the book. It is designed to help fiction readers who have read all the books by their favourite author and are looking for similar books to try.
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The Source
Publisher: Magpies Magazine
The Source is a cumulative index to Magpies and The Literature Base magazines. It is a subject guide to Children's fiction, poetry and short stories from around the world with an emphasis on Australian books.
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Australian Research Online
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures. The Australian Research Online searches simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories. The ARROW Discovery Service searches simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories.
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Trove
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Find books and other materials in Australian Libraries. You can also find resources on Australia and Australians including pictures and photos, full-text articles from historical Australian newspapers, maps, music and sounds and biographical profiles
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Proquest Research Library
Publisher: Proquest
One of the most comprehensive academic resources available through the ProQuest online system. Proquest Research Library provides access to complete information from 2400+ core journals across a wide range of subject areas, including the arts, humanities, law, military, women's issues, and children's interest.
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ABI Inform Global
Publisher: Proquest
The database contains content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and industry-specific topics worldwide.
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Ancestry Library Edition
Publisher: Proquest
The library edition of the popular Ancestry.com provides instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4000 databases, Ancestry LE includes records from the United States Census, military records, court, land and probate records, vital and church records, directories, passenger lists and more.
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Proquest Australia and New Zealand Newsstand
Publisher: Proquest
A selection of 48 full-text newspapers and newswires from Australia and New Zealand including major daily newspapers from most metropolitan centres and transcripts from several ABC news and current affairs programs.
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Proquest - All Databases
Publisher: Proquest
Proquest is a suite of 4 separate databases that are searched simultaneously. The databases inlcude Australia and New Zealand Newsstand, Academic Research Library, ABI Inform global and Proquest Science Journals and together they cover all subject areas. Descriptions of these databases can be found on the Online Databases page. You can limit your search to a single database or any combination of databases once you have logged in. View individual databases for title lists.
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Proquest Science Journals
Publisher: Proquest
Search the full text of more than 350 leading science and technology journals which cover subjects such as computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation. Coverage for some titles goes as far back as 1992
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Salem History
Publisher: Salem Press
Salem History provides online access to the full text of our Salem Print Reference books, complete with full search and browse functionality. We currently hold: Great Events from History - the Ancient World, Great Lives from History - The Ancient World, The 20th Century, Notorious Lives, Inventors and Inventions and Milestone Documents of World Religions.
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Standards Australia Online Public Library Service
Publisher: Standards Australia
A comprehensive online collection of Australian Standards, most with full text coverage. Where copyright of a standard is not held by Standards Australia full text is not available, however, instructions on how it might be purchased are provided.
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Find Legal Answers
Publisher: State Library of NSW
The Find Legal Answers web guide provides access to current information about the law in NSW. The guide lists useful resources, organised by topic, that are available on the web and in print. Resources are selected and regularly reviewed by specialist librarians at LIAC, State Library of NSW. To assist your access, all resources are grouped in categories, starting with introductory or simple summaries of the topic followed by more detailed resources.
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INFOQUICK
Publisher: State Library of NSW
INFOQUICK is a selective index to the Sydney Morning Herald and its supplements (including the Sun Herald, Good Weekend, Eastern Herald, Northern Herald) from 1 January 1988 to 30 June 2005. INFOQUICK only indexes articles about Australia or Australians; articles by Australians; and overseas items that have direct importance for Australia
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Sutherland Shire Community Directory
Publisher: Sutherland Shire Council
The Community Directory contains information about hundreds of local groups and services in the Sutherland Shire. The Community Directory is maintained by the staff of the Sutherland Shire Libraries.
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Sutherland Shire Local Newspaper Index
Publisher: Sutherland Shire Council
Sutherland Shire Libraries maintains an index to newspaper articles with local content. Search this database to locate article citations from the Leader and other local newspapers. Copies of articles can be made from the microfilm versions of the local newspapers that are housed in the reference collection at Sutherland Library.
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PubMed Central
Publisher: U.S. National Institutes of Health
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free full text digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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Cosmos Digital
Publisher: Unknown
Cosmos is Australia's number 1 science media brand and covers a wide range of scientific issues. The magazine includes news, features and opinions. It is internationally respected for its literary writing.This popular magazine has been digitised and is available to view online.
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Mango Languages
Publisher: Unknown
Mango Languages is a language learning program teaching practical grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and cultural skills of some of the world's most popular languages. Mango Basic teaches skills for simple conversations in only a few hours while Mango Complete 2.0 teaches in-depth, comprehensive language skills. Mango also has a translation service.
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Gray's Anatomy
Publisher: Unknown
The electronic version of this seminal anatomy textbook. This site only available from within any Sutherland Shire Library, please ask staff for assistance
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Find My Past Australian Edition
Publisher: Unknown
Sutherland Shire Library now subscribes to this new genealogy website. Findmypast.com.au is one of the leading suppliers of online family history records. The site currently offers access to over 50 million historical records covering Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. It includes cemetery, death, land, migration and criminal records as well as criminal reports, electoral rolls, directories, almanacs and government gazettes. It also holds information on social and government history.
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Who's Who in Business
Publisher: Unknown
Who’s Who in Business in Australia is a reference guide to individuals and organisations within corporate Australia.
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Find My Past UK Edition
Publisher: Unknown
Find My Past Uk Edition is one of the leading suppliers of online family history, with an ever-growing collection of over 650 million family history records. It includes Census collections, birth, death and marriage records, parish records and passenger lists. Users can also build their family tree online using the free Family Tree Explorer.
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Independent Social Security Handbook
Publisher: Welfare Rights Centre
The Independent Social Security Handbook includes information about all Social Security payments, debts and appeals. The Handbook is an invaluable tool for welfare and community workers who deal with Centrelink and who help clients try and sort out their Social Security problems.
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World Book Online
Publisher: World Book
An online version of the popular World Book Encyclopedia. An excellent resource for school projects for children from primary school right through to senior secondary school.
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