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Many areas of study are covered in this database of academic journals via Ebsco.
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Melbourne newspaper via ProQuest from 1996.
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Explores the pre-modern world focussing on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia.
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Full-text Australian and international newspapers via ProQuest.
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Australia/NZ Points of View Reference Centre
A series of essays, overviews and arguments, on a range of topics for students.
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Australian/NZ Reference Centre
Online magazines and newspapers from Australia and New Zealand.
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Full-text newspaper online from January 1, 2001.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica online.
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The top 1,000 business books in the past 20 years are listed with new summaries added continuously. Audio versions are also available.
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Full-text titles include Time (N.Y. 1992+), Fortune (1992+), and more via ProQuest.
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Full-text journals covering all business disciplines including marketing, management, case studies, SWOT analyses and so on, via Ebsco. Harvard Business Review from 1922.
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Community information directory
Local Information Network for Community Services (LINCS) provides nearest matches to numerous community services in your local area.
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Introductory computer courses through to Microsoft Office 2007 products, Vista, Windows 7 and social networks.
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Health and medical information in plain language.
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Full-text Sydney newspaper online from 1 January 2001.
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Chinese language database with over 2,000 titles (e.g. Zhongguo xin wen zhou kan, Shang jie, Shou hou).
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Thousands of independent book reviews and Australian and international articles, author profiles, and stories.
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Information about global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and so on.
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Key business and management journal via Business Source Complete, full-text from 1922.
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Full-text Melbourne newspaper online from 2001.
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Search the NSW heritage inventory database with listings for more than 20,000 heritage buildings and items on statutory lists in Sydney and NSW.
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Articles via Ebsco from more than 760 magazines and books about arts and crafts, games and electronics, model building, needlework, outdoors and nature, paper crafts and so on.
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Local Information Network for Community Services (LINCS) provides nearest matches to numerous community services in your local area.
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US site via Ebsco includes biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors across every age and literary discipline.
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Learn a new language
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Covers many subject areas of general interest including almost 500 full-text references books via Ebsco.
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Full-text articles online from 2001 via ProQuest, covering several thousand projects and expeditions. Online articles are delayed 3 months from original publication date.
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Search for books by author, title, series, plot description or level of readership. Includes a read-a-likes feature to find authors who write like your favourite author.
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Find ancestors, relatives and notable figures via ProQuest with access to Australian newspaper obituaries and death notices.
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Points of View Reference Centre (Australia/NZ)
A series of essays, overviews and arguments, on a range of topics for students via Ebsco.
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Full-text Australian and international newspapers via ProQuest.
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A well-known medical reference encyclopedia.
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Thousands of science topics, experiments, biographies and images.
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The Sydney Morning Herald (1830-1989)
Free archive search engine includes photographs, obituaries and classifieds. Not all text is indexed.
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The Sydney Morning Herald (from 1996)
Text only archive. No photographs, obituaries or classifieds.
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Full-text online via ProQuest from 6 January 1992, Volume 139, Issue 1.
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Combined catalogue of Australian libraries.
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Online encyclopedia especially for younger users with simple navigation, easy-to-read articles, thousands of images and so on.
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Last updated: Tuesday, 21 May 2013