Online Databases

ABI/Inform (ProQuest)
Subjects: Business, Finance, Economics: journals, company profiles, Wall Street Journal
Description: A premier source of business information, this database includes content from nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals covering business and economic conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. Coverage from 1971 to present.
Note: Select ABI/Inform from drop down list of databases.
Academic Research Library (ProQuest)
Subjects: Arts, business, children, education, general interest, humanities, international, law, multicultural, psychology, science, social sciences, women's interests
Description: Provides access to complete information from journals across a wide range of subject areas. Coverage from 1971 to present.
Note: Select from drop down list of databases.
Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest)
Subjects: Genealogy
Description: Provides access to a number of genealogical and historical resources, including images of the decennial U.S census from 1790-1930. Other kinds of resources include: Census records; Military records; Court, land and probate records; Immigration records; Periodicals and Newsapapers; Birth, Death and Marriage records (including the Social Security Death Index); Reference aids and Directories and Memberships.
Australia & New Zealand NewsStand (ProQuest)
Subjects: News
Description: A full-text newspapers service that provides access to key national titles from Fairfax Australia, Fairfax New Zealand, News Ltd. and ABC, with regional and local sources from the region.
Note: Select from drop down list of databases.
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
Subjects: General
Description: Combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to create the largest collection of regional full text content. This database provides local perspectives on current events, business, sports, and many other subjects.
Austguide
Subjects: Education, Science and Natural History, Geography, Business and Economics, History and Current Affairs, Literature, Information Technology and Computing
Description: Austguide contains Guidelines and Education Guidelines. Austguide indexes and abstracts a wide range of general interest periodicals. Contains records from 1986 onwards.
AustLit - Australian Literature Gateway
Subjects: Literature
Description: Authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature and more than 67 000 Australian authors and literary organizations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day. Also includes selected critical articles and creative writing in full text.
Austrom
Subjects: Social Science, Law and Education Datatbases
Description: Austrom indexes a range of databases containing a variety of subjects. Databases contain references to journal articles, theses, research reports, newspaper articles, conference proceedings, and other sources.
Britannica Online
Description: A comprehensive research and reference site that includes the full Encyclopaedia Britannica database, other encyclopedias, thesaurus, world atlas and Britannica Book of the Year from 1994 to 2003. It features an integrated search palette that allows searching multiple or all databases at one time.
Note: To access this site, you must enter your membership number in the Card Number field. Your membership number is printed under the barcode on your library card, but it must be entered in the format A5/ 7 digit membership number A. So if you membership number is 1234567 then you will need to enter A5/1234567A in the ID field.
Business Who's Who On-line
Subjects: Business
Description: Business Who's Who of Australia provides information on Australian public and private companies. The database gives details on Australia's top companies, company directors and other executive personnel, company branches and subsidiaries, trade names and agencies. It also includes full address, contact details and company websites.
Consumer Health Complete
Subjects: Health
Description: CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health.
General Science Full Text
Subjects: Science
Description: A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from popular science magazines as well as professional journals. Also includes full text of selected periodicals. . Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Full text coverage from January 1995.
Good Reading Online
Subjects:
Description: An Australian resource with information on "Everything About Books" including thousands of easy to read independent book reviews and lots of interesting Australian and International articles, author profiles, stories on writer's houses, bookshops, short stories, book trivia and more.
Internet History Resources
Subjects: History
Description: New South Wales Family History Document Service. Over 15,000 pages of online records for family history research in New South Wales, Australia.
Literary Reference Center
Subjects: Literature
Description: Online collection of traditional literary reference works, contemporary literary criticism on authors and their works, current journal articles plus other resources.
Master File Premier
Description: A comprehensive online collection of International and Australian standards, many with full text coverage.
NoveList
Subjects: Fiction Database
Description: This database provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations as well as book discussion guides and feature articles.
Science Reference Center
Subjects: Science
Description: Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.
The Source
Subjects: Children's literature
Description: This database from the publishers of Magpies provides a subject guide to children's fiction, poetry and short stories from around the world with an emphasis on Australian books.
Note: Click on the Source icon and then click on enter the Source with IP
Standards Australia Online Public Library Service
Description: A comprehensive online collection of International and Australian standards, many with full text coverage.
U.S. National Newspaper Abstracts (3) (ProQuest)
Subjects: Newspapers
Description: Abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal.
Note: Select from drop down list of databases.
Webster eLearning
Subjects: Encyclopedias and computers
Description: Two premier databases. Websterworld is a multimedia reference site offering information with both Australian and world content. Webster eLearning offers training tutorials on a variety of popular software applications, including windows, the internet and Microsoft Office.
WebsterWorld
Subjects: Encyclopedias and computers
Description: Two premier databases. Websterworld is a multimedia reference site offering information with both Australian and world content. Webster eLearning offers training tutorials on a variety of popular software applications, including windows, the internet and Microsoft Office.
World Book Online Reference Center
Subjects: Reference, Encyclopedias
Description: A comprehensive reference resource containing every article from the 22-volume encyclopedia print set plus thousands more. Continually updated, this site also features state-of-the art multimedia including pictures, maps, videos, animations, sounds and panoramic 360° views as well as editor-reviewed simulated historic web sites.
DATABASES THAT REQUIRE A PASSWORD
The following databases are accessible only via a user name and password. Please see staff for assistance in accessing these resources
CHOICE Online
Subjects: Consumer rights and product information
Description: Through the Australian Consumers' Association, CHOICE Online contains content from CHOICE, Computer Choice and CHOICE Money & Rights magazines. It includes information on consumer rights, advocacy reports along with interactive data and special features.
Eureka Street
Subjects: Public Affairs, the Arts, Theology
Description: Articles and discussions are influenced by the social mission of the Australian Jesuits
Independent Social Security Handbook Check
Subjects: Welfare
Description: The Handbook covers all Social Security payments paid by Centrelink. The database includes information about Social Security rights and obligations, rules and the easiest way to solve Social Security problems.
Newscan
Subjects: Indexing Service
Description: Newscan provides indexing for: The Age; The Australian; The Herald Sun; The Sydney Morning Herald; Time and the Bulletin with Newsweek. Newscan also provides links to articles in other major Australian newspapers
OZJAC Online
Subjects: Careers
Description: Careers and courses database that brings together information on courses, course providers, occupational descriptions and other relevant information
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Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
Subjects: Law
Description: Publishes public legal information including legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals as well as secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access e.g. law reform and royal commission reports.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Subjects: Statistics
Description: The Statistics section of the ABS web site provides access to the full range of ABS statistical and reference information, searchable by catalogue number, release date, topic or title. Everything on the ABS web site is accessible free of charge.
drug info @ your library
Subjects: Drugs
Description: Managed by the Health Information Service of the State Library of NSW, this site provides quality-assessed drug information and acts as a gateway to other internet sites
Hansard and NSW State Parliament
Subjects: Government
Description: Hansard transcripts are the official record of the proceedings of the NSW State Parliament.
Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC)
Subjects: Law
Description: Provides free access to information about the law
Mental Health Rights Manual On-line
Subjects: Mental Health
Description: Up to date information on a wide range of issues relevant to people in contact with the mental health system. It details processes, resources and services to help people understand and better access the mental health system in NSW.
Oz Net Law
Subjects: Law
Description: Free legal information and advice about internet and e-commerce related law. Provides up to date legal information on 30 areas of Australian law as they apply to use of the internet and e-commerce. Topics range from privacy to anti-discrimination law to advertising and marketing on the internet.

September 2007