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	ABS - Library Extension Program Description Hide description
	Academic Search™ Premier Description Academic Search Premier contains full text for over 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, business, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health and medical sciences. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals and many journals are peer reviewed. Hide description
	ACT Public E-Book & E-Audio Library Description eBooks and eAudio can be used at home, at work, even when travelling. They can be read or listened to on portable players such as PDAs or MP3 players. A range of popular titles are available to download for loan. Hide description
	ACT Public Library Catalogue Description ACT Public Library Catalogue Hide description
	Ancestry® Library Edition Description The premier genealogy database (only available in ACT Public Library Branches) Hide description
	Australia New Zealand Newsstand™ Description A selection of major and regional full-text newspapers and newswires from Australia and New Zealand, covering both regional and international topics. Publications include: The Canberra Times, The Age, The Australian and The Waikato Times. Hide description
	Australia/NZ Reference Centre™ Description The 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; 84,774 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Hide description
	Biography Resource Centre Description This database integrates award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to hand-picked web sites. Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavour---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. Hide description
	Bookflix Description Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning. The engaging way to link fact and fiction, BookFlix reinforces early reading skills and introduces children to a world of knowledge and exploration Hide description
	Books & Authors Description Formerly "What Do I Read Next", Books and Authors is dynamic database of books and authors. Genres, authors, subjects and titles are highlighted. Be led through the world of books and authors by this great interactive resource. Hide description
	Consumer Health Complete Description Full text content for more than 1000 health related magazines covering mainstream medicine as well as complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. Included are high-quality consumer health encyclopedias & reference books and access to over 4000 evidence-based full text health reports written for the lay person covering disease, conditions, injuries and procedures. Hide description
	Encyclopaedia Britannica Online® Description Britannica Online offers unlimited access to full, updated content of the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica. It also contains thousands of images and videos, over 300 000 articles from respected journals and magazines, as well as a Britannica hand-picked guide to the web’s best sites. All information has been thoroughly checked and validated. Hide description
	Fiction Connection™ Description Don't know what to read next? Fiction Connection can find book suggestions based on books you have already read, authors you like, or topics of interest. You can easily create a personalized list of recommended titles based on characteristics you enjoy. Fiction and biography titles are included and suggestions can be printed or e-mailed for later review. Hide description
	Gale Virtual Reference Library Description Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopaedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Hide description
	General OneFile Description Formerly called InfoTrac Onefile. A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. Hide description
	Global Books in Print Description Featuring over 14.8 million English and Spanish-language titles from 43 markets, GlobalBooksInPrint.com is the ultimate title resource. With the ability to search by market, review source, vendor, price range and more, GlobalBooksInPrint.com offers price comparisons and availability information from international vendors. The database also contains valuable added content such as professional reviews, tables of contents, and previews of full-text. Hide description
	Global Reference Center Description The Global Reference Center is an extensive collection of Encyclopædia Britannica’s foreign language content, offering trustworthy information in Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, and French. Hide description
	Good Universities Guides Description Good Universities Guides Hide description
	Grove Art Online Description Grove Art Online contains the full-text of The Dictionary of Art (ed. Jane Turner, 1996) — the landmark encyclopedia of world art from prehistory to the present in over 45,000 articles. Grove Art Online also includes all 2,800 articles from The Oxford Companion to Western Art [OCWA] (ed. Hugh Brigstocke, 2001) and continues to offer new content and revisions on a quarterly basis. Grove Art Online offers over 1500 colour images and line drawings; links to the Art Resource searchable image database; and links to over 40,000 images on museum and gallery websites. Hide description
	Grove Music Online Description Grove Music Online contains over 47,000 articles from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. The database has articles on people and places, instruments and techniques, genres and styles. Hide description
	Health & Wellness Resource Centre Description Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Thomson Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Centre is intended for informational purposes only. Hide description
	History Reference Centre® Description History Reference Center® is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. Hide description
	ImagesACT Description The ACT Heritage Library provides this collection of over 8,000 digitised photographs of the ACT and region. New images are added every month. Most photographs are drawn from collections donated by The Canberra Times and created by the Commonwealth Department of Capital Territory from the 1950s to the 1990s. Hide description
	Libraries Australia Description Libraries Australia is a resource sharing service coordinated by the National Library of Australia for Australian libraries and their users. Libraries Australia provides access to major Australian databases, including the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD), which records the location details of over 40 million items held in most Australian academic, research, national, state, public and special libraries. You can search for any item and locate which library in Australia holds it. Gateways to other major library databases are also provided. Hide description
	Library Press Display Description Instant access to hundreds of newspapers from 70 countries in 37 languages. PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-colour, full-page format. Just like reading the familiar print edition, viewers can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. Hide description
	Literary Reference Centre Description Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopaedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works. Hide description
	Literature Resource Centre Description The ultimate literature resource with full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Hide description
	MacquarieNet Description Australia’s Online Reference Library. Searches a database containing encyclopaedias, articles, dictionaries, images, atlases, links and news items. A unique blend of Australian and international reference works, together with daily news feeds from Australia's leading news source providers, AAP and ABC. Hide description
	Naxos Music Library Description Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 150,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music . Hide description
	Naxos Music Library Jazz Description Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,900 albums. Over 500 jazz artists are represented. Hide description
	Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Description Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. Hide description
	Oxford English Dictionary Description The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Hide description
	Oxford Reference Online Description Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource. The Premium Collection offers all of the above, plus added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, to enhance the coverage already provided by the award-winning Core Collection. Hide description
	OZJAC Description Comprehensive Australian Courses and Careers Database. Hide description
	Price It! Antiques & Collectibles Description An electronic database antique/collectibles pricing tool, containing data from a variety of sources, including online auctions (eBay), online antique dealers (GoAntiques & TIAS) and land-based auction houses. The database currently has over 23 million prices realized for art, antiques and collectibles in more than 100 categories and subcategories with over 10 million images. Hide description
	Project Gutenberg Description A library of more than 17000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the USA. It contains book listings, a search engine, a newsletter, articles and information. Hide description
	Safari® Tech Books Online Description Safari Tech Books covers the technologies most essential to users including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Users can search over 50 simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need. Please Note: although you can search many ebooks in the Safari range the ACT Public Library subscribes to 50 of the most popular titles. However if there is a title that you might want to look at that the library doesn't subcribe to please tell us as we may be able to subscribe to that title. Hide description
	Science Reference Centre Description 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. Hide description
	SIRS Researcher® Description Thousands of editorially selected newspapers, magazines, maps, correlated graphics, literature and reference sources. Users can easily and effectively search, sort, print and e-mail general and graphical information from full-text articles. Articles are selected, by experts, from thousands of U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, government documents and wire services. Hide description
	Small Engine Repair Reference Center Description Small Engine Repair Reference Center™ is the definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other small engines. Hide description
	Statesman's Yearbook Online Description Statesman's Yearbook Online contains the full text of the current edition of The Statesman's Yearbook, Information available by country includes; politics, population, economics, education and culture. It also contains biographies, charts, tables and external links. It is regularly updated by our editorial team to reflect recent world events and has extensive search and browse facilities. Hide description
	The Source Description The Source is a subject guide to children's literature: books, short stories, traditional literature and poetry from around the world with an emphasis on Australian and New Zealand literature. Hide description
	Times Digital Archive Description Introducing The Times Digital Archive, the first of several online digitized newspapers from Gale's highly anticipated Historical Newspapers Archive initiative. Hide description
	TumbleBook Library Description Tumblebooks; fantastic eBooks for kids. The TumbleBook Library is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) TumblePuzzles, TumbleQuizzes and TumbleResources for parents, teachers and children. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which have been licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format. Hide description
	WebLinks Description The searchable online database with thousands of teacher-reviewed, approved and annotated web sites. The database can be easily searched by key word, learning area, subject heading, article identification number or 'What's new'. Hide description
	Wikipedia Description Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. Wikipedia’s articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on some 8,700,000 articles in more than 250 languages. Hide description

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