Internet Service Support
Verizon (MCI) Help Desk
Phone: 1300 368 811
Network Support
Hitech Support Help Desk
Phone: (02) 9686 7220
Optional Databases
All NSW public libraries are members of the NSW.net Consortium and may purchase subscriptions to selected online databases
on terms negotiated by NSW.net. There are around 80 products on the Consortium's list of databases. Subscriptions are possible
at any time throughout the year with payment on a pro-rata basis. For information about the cost of subscriptions please complete
the NSW.net Inquiry Form.
Some of the more popular databases offered by the NSW.net Consortium are:
ABI Inform / Global Image
ABI Inform contains content from thousands of journals about business, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. For more information about ABI Inform / Global Imagehttp://www.il.proquest.com/products/pt-product-ABI.shtml
In addition to ABI Inform, ProQuest have included access to the Academic Research Library database. This online general reference database provides access to a total of 2,300 periodicals, covering the arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international law and social sciences.
Ancestry Library Edition™ is a new genealogy research tool created for the library market. It provides patrons with instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition™ includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more! These collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day.
Through this site, you can:
Cross-search thousands of databases by single or multiple elements
Jump directly to specific collections or databases.
Browse collections by state, province or country.
Browse original, full-text digital images in the census, immigration and military collections.
Download digital images in JPEG and GIF formats for more extensive viewing and printing.
Download helpful census extraction forms, ancestral charts, family group sheets, and more.
Instantly retrieve a list of genealogy databases posted or updated recently.
Ancient and Medieval History Online (Facts On File)
Ancient and Medievel History Online (Facts On File) explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia. It contains full text articles from leading reference works as well as primary sources, maps, images and charts.
To subscribe contact:
Jonathan Fredman
Print Sales and Online Development Manager
Warner Books
Ph: (02) 9528 6748
email: Jonathan Fredman
Website:www.warnerbooks.com.au
APAIS Full Text (APAFT) is an online collection of authoritative Australasian journals, monographs, research papers and other reference materials; comprehensively indexed, many in full text. For more information about APAIS Full Texthttp://search.informit.com.au/
To subscribe contact:
Tina Argyros
Sales & Marketing Coordinator
RMIT Publishing
Ph: (03) 9925 8211
email: Tina Argyros
Website:www.informit.com.au
AustLit is the key resource for information about Australian writers and writing covering the 1780's to the present. The database contains over 90,000 records of which 10,000 are full text.
This ranges from novels, through poems, short stories, drama and plays and critical reviews. AustLit provides a combination of enhanced biographical and bibliographical information and the full text
of critical articles, creative writing and information resources about many aspects of Australia's literary heritage. AustLit also publishes specialist research and information subsets, including Black Words:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Story Tellers which contains bibliographical and full text material relating to Australian Indigenous cultures of literature and story. Other AustLit
subsets cover children's literature, drama and popular theatre, multicultural writers, Australian magazine history, and banned books.
Bloom's Literary Reference Online (Facts On File) Facts On File's literature database has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include the writings of renowned literary critic Harold Bloom.
To subscribe contact:
Jonathan Fredman
Print Sales and Online Development Manager
Warner Books
Ph: (02) 9528 6748
email: Jonathan Fredman
Website:www.warnerbooks.com.au
Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive biographical reference database that meets the needs of public, school and academic library users in the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current affairs, and the arts. By combining 120 of the most frequently consulted Thomson Gale™ biographical sources with more than 280 full-text periodicals, the Biography Resource Center delivers in-depth, full-text answers to a wide range of questions
To subscribe contact:
Marika Whitfield
Gale Australia
Ph:(02)9433 3684
Mobile: 0407 884 997
email:Marika Whitfield
Access information on Australian Business including
directors & key personnel; web addresses & e-mail; tradenames & agencies; full contact information; revenue & employee numbers & rankings; line of business & product ranges; who owns whom & SIC codes.
Extra features include the ability to sort a search result by name, state, postcode, revenue or employee numbers. You can view the full company details, browse through records by their relationship links, visit a company's website, save your favourite searches and much, much more....
Please log out by clicking the lock icon at the top of the page.
More Information
To subscribe contact:
Maya Kawashima
Publications Coordinator - Business Marketing Services
Dun & Bradstreet Australia
Ph: (03) 9828 3400
email:Maya Kawashima
Website:www.dnb.com.au
Procurement database B2NB, is a comprehensive source of company information in Australia for business to any business transactions.
More Information
To subscribe contact:
Maya Kawashima
Publications Coordinator - Business Marketing Services
Dun & Bradstreet Australia
Ph: (03) 9828 3400
email:Maya Kawashima
Website:www.dnb.com.au
Directory of companies listed on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges.
More Information
To subscribe contact:
Maya Kawashima
Publications Coordinator - Business Marketing Services
Dun & Bradstreet Australia
Ph: (03) 9828 3400
email:Maya Kawashima
Website:www.dnb.com.au
Electric Library provides information, updated daily from magazines, books, newspapers, images, maps and TV & radio transcripts. Search options include by source type, publication, date, title, and author. A "Go to Best Part" feature even takes you immediately to the most relevant section of each document.
Electric Library offers NSW.net members 14 months for the price of 12. This offer is also available on renewal of a subscription.
To subscribe contact:
Camille Davey
Director Institutional Sales
Encyclopaedia Britannica Australia
Ph: (02)9923 5605
email: Camille Davey
Website:http://edu.britannica.com.au
Factiva - Factiva is a powerful web-based service for researching and monitoring news and business information.
It offers access to the Fairfax newspapers from the mid 1980's, company information, and Australian and International full
text articles from Reuters and Dow Jones news agencies.
To subscribe contact:
Vicna Vinesh
Area Sales Manager, Australia
ProQuest
Ph: (02) 9911 6660
email: Vicna Vinesh
The new Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is universally acknowledged as the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music. This great work is widely used throughout the academic and professional community, and revered by music lovers worldwide.
The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
Health and Wellnes Resource Center contains full text articles on health, including alternative medicine, from general and academic journals and reference works.
To subscribe contact:
Marika Whitfield
Gale Australia
Ph: (02)9433 3684
Mobile: 0407 884 997
email:Marika Whitfield
Literature Resource Center is an online collection of traditional literary reference works, contemporary literary criticism,
author biographies, current journal articles plus other resources. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to literature, providing
users with multiple points of departure for the broadest possible research.
To subscribe contact:
Marika Whitfield
Gale Australia
Ph: (02)9433 3684
Mobile: 0407 884 997
email:Marika Whitfield
"MacquarieNet delivers to your desktop a unique blend of Australian and international reference works, together with daily news feeds from Australia's leading news source providers, AAP and ABC. By entering a word or phrase, MacquarieNet searches an entire database of encyclopaedias, articles, dictionaries, images, atlases, links and news items, and calls up heaps of relevant information."
"Designed by the team at Macquarie Dictionary, MacquarieNet is an essential tool for all school reference requirements. MacquarieNet is the only online encycopaedia, which combines such depth of content with a view of the world from an Australian perspective."
To subscribe contact:
Melissa Kemble
Online Sales and Marketing Executive
MacquarieOnline
Ph: (02)9285 9164
email:Melissa Kemble
Website:www.macquarieonline.com.au
Modern World History Online (Facts On File) covers the people, places and events of history from mid 15th century to the present. Contains full text articles from leading reference works as well as primary sources, maps, images and charts.
To subscribe contact:
Jonathan Fredman
Print Sales and Online Development Manager
Warner Books
Ph: (02) 9528 6748
email: Jonathan Fredman
Website:www.warnerbooks.com.au
NewsBank is a database of newspapers from around the world. In particular, it includes the content of most of the major Australian daily newspapers, as well as a good selection of metropolitan and regional titles.
To subscribe contact:
John Bell
DA Information Services Pty Ltd
Ph: (03)9210 7736
email: John Bell
Website:www.dadirect.com
Over 10,000 pages of online records for family history research in New South Wales, Australia.The NSW Internet History Resources utilises the following institutions' collections for material:
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Dixson Library, University of New England
NSW State Records and the University of New England & Regional Archives
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. It is seen as a useful resource in support of HSC students.
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.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford Reference Online is an expanding, regularly
updated resource and contains a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations.
OZJAC is the national courses and careers information system. It brings together information on
all accredited courses, occupational descriptions and other relevant information.
ProQuest ANZ NewsStand combines local, national, business, sport, political, technology and
entertainment news from key providers including News Ltd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)
and Fairfax. A growing two-year archive of articles for all titles is available with new material
being added daily.
With ProQuest Science Journals search full text and images for the leading periodicals in
science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications
and transportation.
Science Resource Center is a curriculum-oriented database intended for students and others requiring access to a general resource for science-related research.
It focuses on key concepts such as earth science, the history of science, life science, physical science, and many others. Content
includes over fifty reference titles, 270 full text science periodicals ranging from popular magazines to scholarly academic
journals, and over 14,800 multimedia records.
To subscribe contact:
Marika Whitfield
Gale Australia
Ph: (02)9433 3684
Mobile: 0407 884 997
email:Marika Whitfield
The Times Digital Archive is the first of several online digitized newspapers from Gale's highly anticipated Historical Newspapers Archive initiative. By taking our microfilm collection of The Times (London) and turning it into a high-resolution digital format with searchable images, The Times Digital Archive presents online access to one of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 19th- and 20th-century history.
With The Times Digital Archive, researchers now have an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context. Every complete page of every issue of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985. Every headline, article and image. Every front page, editorial, birth and death notice, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within the pages of The Times (London) will be easily accessible from what promises to be a complete virtual chronicle of history for this period.
To subscribe contact:
Marika Whitfield
Gale Australia
Ph: (02)9433 3684
Mobile: 0407 884 997
email:Marika Whitfield
"Working closely with teachers for the past 12 years, we have developed the site to cater specifically for the needs of schools, teachers and students, from K-12, within the Australian curriculum. That's why you'll find not only extensive world coverage, but more Australian content here than anywhere else online, and that's why schools and homes are already benefiting from learning with WebsterWorld."
What is WebsterseLearning?
With many years of experience in computer based training and ICT eLearning, Webster Publishing has put together a set of unique training packages for use within Australian schools and homes. These products provide simple and easy online interactive learning for teaching Microsoft Office, Windows, the Internet, and Open Office software to the equivalent of the Certificate I in Information Technology level.
