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 |
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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 Image http://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. For more information about the Academic Research Library http://www.il.proquest.com/products/pt-product-InternAcadResLib.shtml
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Ancestry Library Edition |
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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:
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Ancient and Medieval History Online (Facts On File) |
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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.
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APAIS Full Text |
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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 Text http://search.informit.com.au/
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AustLit |
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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.
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Bloom's Literary Reference Online (Facts On File) |
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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.
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Biography Resource Center |
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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
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Dun & Bradstreet Business Who's Who of Australia |
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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 |
Dun & Bradstreet B2NB |
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Procurement database B2NB, is a comprehensive source of company information in Australia for business to any business transactions.
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Dun & Bradstreet Jobson's Online |
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Directory of companies listed on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges.
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Electric Library Australasia |
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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.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online |
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Factiva |
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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.
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Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online (Grove) |
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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.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center |
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Health and Wellnes Resource Center contains full text articles on health, including alternative medicine, from general and academic journals and reference works.
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General OneFile |
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Literature Resource Center |
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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.
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MacquarieNet |
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"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) |
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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.
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NewsBank |
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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: |
NSW Family History Document Service |
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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:
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center |
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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.
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Oxford English Dictionary |
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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.
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Oxford Reference Online Premium |
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Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford Reference Online is an expanding, regularly updated resource and contains a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations.
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OZJAC |
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OZJAC is the national courses and careers information system. It brings together information on all accredited courses, occupational descriptions and other relevant information.
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ProQuest ANZ NewsStand |
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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.
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ProQuest Science Journals |
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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.
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Science Resource Center |
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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.
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The Times Digital Archive |
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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.
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