Attorney General Information Service (AGIS) comprehensively indexes and abstracts articles from over 120 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals. Some articles are full text. Document supply available. Useful for HSC Legal Studies.
A substantial collection of LGBTQI+ publications including periodicals, personal papers, manuscripts, photographs and more drawn from countries across the world, including significant content from the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (AGLA), now known as the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA).
This collection of primary source material includes U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Broad topic clusters include: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBTQIA+ studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; and women’s studies.
Provides access to the Australian Literary Database which covers Australian creative writing and Australian writers. Subjects covered by the database include books, poems, short stories, articles and reviews and can be searched by author, title, genre or award. The database contains records from the 1880s to the current day, with comprehensive coverage from 1988. Document supply NOT available. Useful for HSC English.
This is an online streaming database of documentary and educational videos from many of Australasias video publishers. The collection contains more than 500 hours of content and includes video published from the mid-20th century to the present day, covering regional perspectives in a broad range of disciplines. Content has been sourced from several collections including: National Film & Sound Archive, SBS, George Andrews Productions, Beamafilms, and Electric Pictures.
Australian Public Affairs Full Text (APAFT) provides access to articles from humanities and social science journals, based on the database APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service).
Access the Library's collection of ebooks which are available for loan. Previously available through EBL, the collection includes several thousand titles covering fiction and non fiction, Australian and international material.
Factiva is a full-text news and financial information database of publications from Australian and international sources in 22 languages from 118 countries including newspapers, magazines, company and industry reports, newswires, pictures, and websites. Searches may be limited by keywords, subject, region, industry, company, language etc. but personal notices and advertising are not included. Document supply NOT available.
Covers contemporary global issues and encourages critical analysis relating to society, politics, gender, health, technology and the environment. Includes articles from academic journals, magazines, newspapers and multimedia formats.
Gale Research Complete is a unified platform for primary and secondary sources including over 28,000 journals, 2,000 ebooks, 300 primary source collections across 15 million digitised pages, and over two million literature works.
A broad list of general interest publications, supplementing knowledge gained from peer-reviewed journals with insights from mainstream press, trade and industry publications globally. Includes peer reviewed journals, hundreds of newspapers including current content from National Public Radio programs (from 1990 to present) and links videos from NY Times and Associated Press.
This complete database of Australasian content searches across all Informit subject databases. It covers the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.
Useful for HSC Society and Culture, HSC English and HSC History.
This multi-disciplinary Collection contains research reports on family well-being, the place of families in society, ageing, child development and psychology, family dynamics and social problems relating to families. Includes a broad range of titles not widely available elsewhere. Content from the Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners, Australian Council of Social Service, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Centre, Against Sexual Assault, CHILDforum, and other specialist institutions.
Contains over 103,000 records from 667 resources, starting from 1940. Subjects include business, education, humanities, Indigenous studies, law and social sciences. Useful for HSC English.
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary digital archive of scholarly material in the social sciences and humanities and the sciences. It includes the full text of non-current issues from over 1,000 leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials. The State Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collections Parts I IX and the Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets collection. Document supply available. Useful for HSC History, HSC Society & Culture and HSC English.
LGBTQ+ Source with full text, contains LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, monographs/books including classics in Lesbian Studies and Gay Science, such as The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, Handbook of Research with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Populations, Queer Theory & Social Change, etc. The database also includes indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus.
Literature Resource Center contains biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes full text articles from many of Gale's literature series. Useful for HSC English.
Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies (MAIS), produced by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Library, is a database that indexes and abstracts a wide range of media from published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues. Useful for HSC Society and Culture.
World News from Newsbank provides access to over 12,000 titles including over 200 titles as digital images from Australia and overseas. The digital image titles include: The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times (London), The Guardian, and the New York Post
Access Australia includes content from over 500 of the most popular Australian daily, weekly and Sunday newspapers, as well as hard-to-find community, regional and rural titles.
