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Austats - Australian Bureau of Statistics publications
Allows access to all electronic oublications in PDF and html format. Over 1000 titles back to 1998. Electronic tables in spreadsheet or data cube format which contain publication tables.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.

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ustralia/NZ Reference Centre & MasterFILE Premier
Australia/NZ Reference Centre combines Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to libraries in Oceania. This database includes leading Australia/NZ periodicals and international periodicals in full text; full text reference books; 84,074 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

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Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.  

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Echo Education Services
Echo produces school / education resources on contemporary media issues based on internet and newspaper material. Issue outlines comprise issue background, arguments for and against, as well as links to internet sources and a listing of newspaper items used in the compilation of the outline.

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Family History Document Service
Provides images of historical documents which contain information to help you trace people who lived and worked in New South Wales during the period 1850 - 1920. The service provides records in the following categories - Directories, Electoral Rolls, Miners and Mining Leases, Land Purchasers and Lessees, Farmers, Graziers, Shearers and Station Hands, Other Occupations Including Civil Servants, Teachers etc., Voters, Petitioners, Friendly Society Members etc.

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Fiction Connection - Discover titles similar to books you already enjoy. Search similar titles by entering the tile of a book you already enjoy, or browse by location, topic, character, genre, timeframe, or setting

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GreenFILE - A freely accessible database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the evnironment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. @library @home


Global Books in Print
- Bowker Dozens ofsearch and browse options -- including the ability to search by country -- can help you find any of the English- and Spanish-languages titles in the database with minimal information.

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Health & Wellness
An online collection of resources and information on a wide variety of health and health-related topics and alternative or complementary treatments.

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Infotrac One File
- The periodical databases of Gale provide instant access to a vast collection of indexed and full-text content from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources, updated daily.

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MusicAustralia
is an online service developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive (a division of the Australian Film Commission) and other cultural institutions across the nation.. You can find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services, all from a single access point. You can find music scores, sound recordings, websites and a range of other music-related material held by a large number of Australia's cultural institutions or described by specialist music services. MusicAustralia covers both heritage and contemporary music, and includes all formats, styles and genres.

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NoveList
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.

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Oxford Reference Online covers the following subjects in a single cross-searchable resource: language (dictionaries, grammar, abbreviations, proverbs); general reference (quotations, English place names, first names, world encyclopedia); art and architecture; classics; history; literature; military history; mythology and folklore; performing arts; politics and social sciences; religion and philosophy; economics and business; law; biological sciences; computing; earth and environmental sciences; food and drink; medicine; physical sciences and mathematics. Major reference works which are searchable in this collection include: The Australian Oxford Dictionary, The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford Dictionary of Art, Who's Who in the Classical World, Dictionary of Ecology, Dictionary of Computing, Dictionary of British History, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, Dictionary of World History, Oxford Companion to American Literature, Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Concise Medical Dictionary, Oxford Companion to Music and Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

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Picture Australia
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PictureAustralia provides access to images that cover all aspects of Australiana including Artworks, photographs of people, places, events and objects.

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Science Reference Centre
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. 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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Science Resource Center
Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.

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Standards Australia Online Public Library Service
A comprehensive online collection of International and Australian standards, many with full text coverage.

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Teacher Reference Center (TRC) -
(free database from Ebsco)
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.


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World Book Online Reference Centre Online Encyclopeadia with multimedia, maps, editor- reviewed Web sites, etc

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