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Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage Learning)
Academic OneFile is an up-to-date and easy-to-use database for serious academic
research. Home to nearly 13,000 indexed journals, Academic OneFile delivers
quality content for students. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences,
technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other
subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive... More
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AustLit: The Resource for Australian
Literature (AustLit)
Provides authoritative information on over 400,000 works of creative and
critical Australian literature - published in a range of print and electronic
sources - relating to more than 65,000 Australian authors and literary
organisations, from 1780 to the present day...
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Australia/New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre™ (EBSCO) is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue... More Info
Bloom's
Literary Reference Online (Facts on File)
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential
movements and events in world literature...
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Discovering Collection (Gale Cengage Learning)
Full Text and Indexing. Discovering Collection offers easy access to
award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core
curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and
more, DC provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative
works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the
database are popular topic pick lists and an integrated national and site
curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards...
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Echo Contemporary Issues
(Echo Education Services)
Full Text. Echo: Contemporary Issues looks at media issues and produces
outlines setting out arguments for and against, as well as background and
further implications... More
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Grammaticus (Digital Education
Services)
Ages 10-16. Reach your teenage patrons with the English game Grammatikus.
Accessible from the library or from home, the game is set in a fantasy world
and features customisable avatars, access to explanation videos, games,
interactive activities and tests. Levels adjust automatically to individual
skills (both grammar and gaming). Suits ESL learners...More info
Global Issues
in Context (Gale Cengage Learning)
Full Text. Offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and
current world events and topics in the news related to these issues... More
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Informit Indigenous
Collection (RMIT Publishing)
The Informit Indigenous Collection (IIC) offers both topical and historical
issues within Indigenous studies. Readily available, the multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary framework encompasses anthropology, community development,
cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law
and land rights, literature, politics and policy making, (post) colonial
studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts...
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Informit Literature
& Culture Collection (RMIT Publishing)
Created in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, the Informit
Literature & Culture Collection is an essential reference database for
academic, school and public libraries and for teachers and students of literary
studies, cultural studies and creative writing courses...
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The Johns
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (The Johns Hopkins
University Press)
Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Online Guide presents a
comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools,
and movements. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on
critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and
theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods...
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JSTOR
(JSTOR)
JSTOR is a database established to convert back issues of paper journals into
electronic format in core fields. The JSTOR archive of digitised full text
journals does not include current issues... More info
Literary
Reference Center Plus (EBSCO Publishing)
This comprehensive, full-text database provides the most relevant information
on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and
timeframes-to give students, professors and researchers a complete foundation
of literary reference works to meet any and all of their research needs.
Content includes more than 35, 700 plot summaries, synopses and overviews, more
than 92,000 articles/essays of literary criticism as well as more than 250,000
author biographies.... More
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Literature
Resource Center (Gale Cengage Learning)
Full Text. Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more
than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline... More
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LitFinder (Gale Cengage Learning)
Full Text. LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and
contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 125,000
full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts... More info
Meanjin Back
Files (RMIT Publishing)
An iconic literary journal with a deep archive of influential and prestigious
writing, Meanjin has come to represent Australia's cultural memory. The Meanjin
backfiles cover the commencement of the journal, in 1940, up to 1995...
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NoveList (EBSCO
Publishing)
If you are looking for ways to introduce both teachers and students to new
books, and if you want to encourage independent reading and help students think
more about why a particular story appeals to them -- you should look at
NoveList... More
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NoveList K-8 (EBSCO
Publishing)
If you are looking for ways to introduce both teachers and students to new
books, and if you want to encourage independent reading and help students think
more about why a particular story appeals to them -- you should look at
NoveList K-8! NoveList K-8 contains enhanced subject access for over 50,000
fiction titles aimed at the K-8 population... More
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Oxford English Dictionary Online
(Oxford University Press)
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 etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows
pronunciation using the International ...
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Poetry
& Short Story Reference Centre (EBSCO Publishing)
The database comprises of over 500 eBooks focussing on drama, poetry and short
stories. There are also over 680,000 full text contemporary and classic poems,
nearly 50,000 full text short stories and a whole lot more. The database also
has lesson plans and learning guides, perfect for teaching staff to get some
creative new ideas...More
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ReadPlus (Pledger
Consulting Pty Ltd)
ReadPlus is a collection of selected books and films arranged under themes.
This web site provides lists, reviews and resources for librarians, teachers
and parents about books for young people aged 5 to 18... More info
RequestTV
(RMIT Publishing)
RequestTV is a fully searchable and browsable program guide of all television
content from the free-to-air networks... More info
The Shakespeare Collection (Gale Cengage Learning)
Full Text. Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive
collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical,
and performance studies... More
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The
Source (Magpies Magazine Pty. Ltd.)
Index and some Full Text. Contains several databases which index literature for
children: picture books, poetry (including full text of many poems),
award-winning books, and, under preparation, indexes to short stories and
drama. Includes literature from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US, as
well as some biographical material... More info
Visual Thesaurus (Digital
Education Services)
The Visual Thesaurus is both a dictionary and a thesaurus, its interactive
display lets you explore and understand language in a new way...More
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Writer's
Reference Center (Facts on File)
Writer's Reference Center provides users with a convenient one-stop location
for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the
mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this indispensable
online resource... More
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