Databases

• ABI/Inform (Proquest) - the world's leading database of electronic business and management journals. Search 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies.
• ANZ Newsstand (Proquest) - Online access to leading Australian & New Zealand newspapers including the Australian, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury.
• ANZ Reference Centre & Master FILE Premier - Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, reference books, and company information. This database provides local perspectives on current events, business, sports, and many other subjects
• Australian Public Affairs - Full Text - An indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences
• Biography Resource Centre - A comprehensive database of biographical information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
• Consumer Health Complete - This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc
• Dynamic learning online - Online computer training includes introduction to computer technology, searching the Internet, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista and setting up email accounts
• GreenFILE - A research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
• History Reference Centre - full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias, non-fiction books and 130 leading historical magazines. Also includes historical documents, photos and maps
• Literary Reference Center
• MacquarieNet - By entering a word or phrase, MacquarieNet searches an entire database of encyclopedias, articles, dictionaries, images, atlases, links and news items, and calls up heaps of relevant information. It's that simple!
• NoveList - This database will help you find that fiction book that you always wanted to read!
• Oxford Reference Online Premium - Desktop access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works.
• Science Reference Center
• World book online - The premier online reference source--containing every article from the 22-volume encyclopedia print set plus thousands more

• ABI/Inform (Proquest) - the world's leading database of electronic business and management journals. Search 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies.
• Ancestry Library Edition - Genealogy, family trees and family history records online. Includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; church records; directories and passenger lists
• ANZ Newsstand (Proquest) - Online access to leading Australian & New Zealand newspapers including the Australian, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury
• ANZ Reference Centre & MasterFILE Premier - Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, reference books, and company information. This database provides local perspectives on current events, business, sports, and many other subjects
• AustLIT - a database of references to Australian literature, authors and related information.
  [ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]
• Australian Public Affairs - Full Text - An indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences
• Biography Resource Centre - A comprehensive database of biographical information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas
• Building Code of Australia Illustrated
  [ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]
• Choice Online - Contains all of the content in CHOICE magazine and Computer Choice magazine, plus a lot more interactive data and special features
  [ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]
• Consumer Health Complete - This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc
• Dynamic learning online - Online computer training includes introduction to computer technology, searching the Internet, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista and setting up email accounts
• Factiva - Connect to Factiva through our eResources page hosted by NSW.net
  [ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]
• GreenFILE - A research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
• History Reference Center - full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias, non-fiction books and 130 leading historical magazines. Also includes historical documents, photos and maps
• Keesings World News Archives - Access to Keesings articles online from 1988 to date
  [ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]
• Kompass Online - Information on over 1.7 million companies worldwide
  [ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]
• Law Handbook Online
  [ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]
• Literary Reference Center
• MacquarieNet - By entering a word or phrase, MacquarieNet searches an entire database of encyclopedias, articles, dictionaries, images, atlases, links and news items, and calls up heaps of relevant information. It's that simple!
• NoveList - The world's most popular reader's advisory tool!
• NSWnet Free Trial Offers
  [ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]
• Oxford Reference Online Premium - Desktop access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works
• Ozjac - find out about courses: where they are offered, what subjects you can study, how to get in, who to contact, what jobs they lead to. Also information about jobs: what duties are involved, what training is required, whether there are personal requirements, what the working conditions are like, what other jobs are in the same industry.
  [ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]
• Science Reference Center
• Social Security Handbook - All you need to know about the Social Security system (part of the LIAC collection)
  [ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]
• Standards Australia Online Public Library Service - Australian Standards - Standards Australia's online document collection of specifications and procedures designed to ensure quality and establish safety criteria
  [ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]
• Sydney Morning Herald Archives - The SMH archives contains 820,000 pages in almost 13,000 issues spanning January 1st, 1955 to December 31st, 1990. The contents of all issues are fully text searchable and reflect the full context and layout of each page as it was originally published
  [ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]
• Sydney Morning Herald digital editions 2006+ - Online replica of the SMH printed editions 2006+. It contains every page, article, photo, table, advertisement, cartoon published in the the News, Business and Sport sections
  [ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]
• The Source - Australia's online guide to children's literature including full-text of hundreds of poems.
  [ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]
• World book online - The premier online reference source--containing every article from the 22-volume encyclopedia print set plus thousands more