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Academic Search™ Premier
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.
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ACT Public E-Book & E-Audio Library
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.
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ACT Public Library Catalogue
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Ancestry Library Edition
Great resource for family history researchers. Please note only avialable from online catalogue and internet computers in ACT Library branches.
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Australia and New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre
This database offers up-to-date and diverse information about a range of current social issues in an Australian/New Zealand context. Each topic is supported by a subject overview, a range of viewpoints a nd research guides. Sources include: magazines, Aus/NZ newspapers and radio/TV news transcrips.
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Australia New Zealand Newsstand™
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.
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Australia/NZ Reference Centre™
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.
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Biography Resource Centre
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.
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Bookflix
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
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Books & Authors
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.
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Business Source® Premier
Business Source Premier aims specifically at business schools and libraries, containing 2,966 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and much more. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top business journals and is particularly strong in both management and marketing.
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Consumer Health Complete
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.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online®
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.
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Fiction Connection™
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.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopaedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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General OneFile
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.
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Global Books in Print
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.
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Global Reference Center
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.
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Grove Art Online
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.
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Grove Music Online
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.
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Learn all about the animal kingdom with this fully interactive resource.
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Health & Wellness Resource Centre
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.
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History Reference Centre®
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.
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Hobbies and Craft Reference Centre
Great resource for family history researchers. Please note only avialable from online catalogue and internet computers in ACT Library branches.
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ImagesACT
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.
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Informit Complete - Australian Databases
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Library Press Display
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.
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Literary Reference Centre
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.
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Literature Resource Centre
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.
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Naxos Music Library
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 .
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Naxos Music Library Jazz
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.
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Novelist Plus
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
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.
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Oxford English Dictionary
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.
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Oxford Reference Online
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.
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OZJAC
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Points of View Reference Center (XML)
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Price It! Antiques & Collectibles
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.
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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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Small Engine Repair Reference Center
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.
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The Source
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.
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Times Digital Archive
Introducing The Times Digital Archive, the first of several online digitized newspapers from Gale's highly anticipated Historical Newspapers Archive initiative.
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Trove (Libraries Australia)
Trove (Libraries Australia) is a resource sharing service coordinated by the National Library of Australia for Australian libraries and their users. Trove (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.
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TumbleBook Library
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.
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WebLinks
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'.
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