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Most of the following databases are paid subscriptions. You will need usernames and passwords to access these. Click on the image below to access the usernames and passwords.
You can search each database individually or you can go through the OneSearch option, see link below, to search all these at the one time.
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- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary research database. It provides full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources. - Britannica This link opens in a new window
Britannica offers thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate encyclopedias. - EBSCO eBook High School Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection provides full-text e-books that align with their school’s curricula. It includes a selection of classic literary works, important historical documents and general reference materials. - Ebsco eBooks This link opens in a new window
EBSCO offers more than one million high-quality e-book titles and 100,000 audiobooks from more than 1,500 major academic publishers and University Presses from around the world. - Global Issues in Context This link opens in a new window
Global Issues In Context supports awareness and provides perspective on global issues, while tying together a wealth of authoritative content: empowering learners to critically analyse and understand the most important issues of the modern world. - Informit This link opens in a new window
Informit is the leading single source of journal articles, periodicals, books and policy papers written by experts and specialists in Australia. For off-site access you will need a login: follow the link at the top of this page to access our Usernames and Passwords. - JStor This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources relevant to all subjects. - Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Access is provided via direct link. Click the Newsbank logo to be directed to our BYOD site, scoll down to Newsbank for direct link. "This fully searchable online resource offers the complete text of thousands of news articles, editorials, obituaries, classifieds and more from around the world. Coverage for most titles starts in the 1980s, 1990s or 2000s and continues through the present day. Includes influential news sources from every state and territory in Australia." - Science in Context This link opens in a new window
Science in Context is an online resource providing contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science delivers access to scholarly works across the Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. Access is limited to on site unless you register for roaming access. Registration remains current for 6 months after which you must reregister.
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- Science | National GeographicThe National Geographic Society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
- The Encyclopedia of EarthThe Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.
- Centers for Disease Control and PreventionSearch Diseases and Conditions, Healthy Living, Data and Statistics, Global Health and more.
- The Human BodyBodyMaps is an interactive visual search tool that allows users to explore the human body in 3-D. With easy-to-use navigation, users can search multiple layers of the human anatomy, view systems and organs down to their smallest parts, and understand in detail how the human body works.
- National Human Genome Research InstituteWith the human genome sequence complete since April 2003, scientists around the world have access to a database that greatly facilitates and accelerates the pace of biomedical research.
- BiointeractiveScience resources for both teachers and students. Browse topics which include; anatamoy, cell biology and stem cells and many more.
- Zygote BodyInvestigate 3D images of the body.
- eSkeletonsAn interactive website about the human and non-human skeletons.
- Animal Diversity WebOnline database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.
- National Library of Medicine"The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe."
- Catalogue of Life"The Catalogue of Life is the most comprehensive and authoritative global index of species currently available. It consists of a single integrated species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy. The Catalogue holds essential information on the names, relationships and distributions of over 1.5 million species. This figure continues to rise as information is compiled from diverse sources around the world." To search the index click on one of the checklist buttons.
- Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThe Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
- Atlas of Living AustraliaThe Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.