Online information is available to you 24 hours a day, seven 7 days a week. The following is a list of the library's online resources in alphabetical order.
Alternatively, you can search across a range of resources at the same time with a Federated Search
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A-Z Journal List
Electronic magazines we subscribe to. Check here to see if we have a title you are looking for.
Alexander Press Music Online
Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of your library's Alexander Street Press music databases.
Ancestry.com Library Edition – Available in MLS libraries only
Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history website. Start a family tree, browse census records and more online at Ancestry.com
ANZ Reference Centre
A comprehensive database of Australian and international reference titles, ANZ Reference Centre also includes over 20 titles from Australian Consolidated Press. An excellent database for research on any topic, including sports, current affairs, politics, technology, nature and much more.
Australian Public Affairs Full Text (APA - FT)
Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is 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.
Austlit
Provides authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 75,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
ABS: The Statistics section of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) web site gives you access to the full range of ABS statistical and reference information. It is updated weekdays at 11:30am, Canberra time. Everything on the ABS web site is accessible free of charge.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography which contains over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.
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Biography in Context
A comprehensive database of biographical information on almost 275,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Bookflix
Is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction from Children’s Press and other trusted Scholastic imprints. It is published by Scholastic Inc. BookFlix was developed in collaboration with Weston Woods Studios and engineered by Grolier Interactive.
Britannica Online
This has over 123 000 articles from Encyclopedia Britannica and various journals, 27 000 photo's and illustrations, 3,300 video and audio clips.
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Choice
Australian consumer affairs information including reviews of products.
Consumer Health Complete
Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, men’s & women's health, and children's health.
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Fiction Connection
Allows patrons to search similar titles by entering the title of a book they already know they enjoy, or browsing by location, topic, character, genre, timeframe, or setting.
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Gale Powersearch
Search 'General OneFile' and 'Gale Virtual Reference Library' all at Once.
Gale Science in Context [Guide to Science in Context (PDF 3mb)]
Reference material from 58 titles including the Gale Encyclopedia of Science and the UXL Encyclopedia of Science, over 200 full text magazines and academic journals, links to 500 websites and 8000 multimedia records.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Provides access to more than 1,000 electronic reference titles — eBooks — in virtually any subject area including health, medicine, science, art, history, business, biography and more.
General OneFile
Journals, magazines and overseas newspapers on a diverse range of topics: humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics.
Global Books in Print
A database of over 4 million titles that are available and over 165,000 publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents. Access over 450,000 full text Reviews.
Good Reading Magazine Online
An Australian resource with information on “Everything About Books” including thousands of easy to read independent book reviews and lots of interesting Australian and International articles, author profiles, stories on writers’ houses, bookshops, short stories, book trivia and more.
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Heath and Wellness Resource Centre
Covers areas of health, medicine and alternative medicine.
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Infoexchange Service Seeker
The Infoxchange Service Seeker contains details on over 110 000 government and non-government services and agencies in Victoria. The update cycle is weekly with the goal of all information being updated twice each year.
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Law Handbook
This new web-based legal resource is designed to help people have access to the law and contains the entire 1000 pages of the original Law Handbook. The website covers over 70 areas of the law including all the day to day matters which affect people’s lives such as buying a house, neighborhood disputes, fines, social security, family law, drugs, debt and many other areas of the law.
Leader Local Melbourne Newspapers
With The Leader Community ePaper, you can read The Leader online in its true printed format from anywhere in the world. The ePapers is enhanced with the latest digital tools, including RSS feeds, social networking, blogging and much more.
Library Press Display
Is a digital solution brought to you by NewspaperDirect, Inc. - the world leader in out-of-market newspaper and magazine distribution, enabling publishers to reach their readership through innovative digital and networking solutions.
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Macquarie Dictionary and Thesaurus
The online service gives you access to the Macquarie Dictionary and Thesaurus Fourth Edition with over 112,000 headwords covering English as it is used in Australia, from the colourfully colloquial to the highly technical.
Masterfile Premium
This database provides full text for many general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes over 300 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.
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National Library of Australia, Newspaper BETA Search
The BETA service is freely available to the public and currently contains 73,000 out of copyright newspaper pages (approx 730,000 individual articles) from 1803 onwards.
Naxos Jazz Library
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers close to 22,600 tracks of jazz from over 2,300 albums. Over 500 jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 34,330 CDs with more than 488,500 tracks. On average, 500 new CDs are added to the library every month.
In addition to allowing subscribers to listen to recordings, NML provides playing times of individual works or movements, detailed music notes, and opera libretti. Subscribers can also create personalized playlists.
The library can be searched by composer, work and label; by keyword search and by a sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 10 combined search criteria.
Naxos Spoken Word Library
Listen to streaming audio of adult and children's classic fiction, non-fiction, plays, and poetry. The library offers Naxos AudioBooks' full range of recordings, many of which can be followed using the texts on screen. To use this service requires an ongoing connection to the Internet.
Non-Fiction Connection
Features narrative nonfiction (titles with characters, storylines and drama that read much like a traditional novel). Find a title similar to one you already read and liked, or search by keyword, genre, topic, time frame, setting, and more.
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Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) in addition to links to many international museums and galleries.
Oxford Language Dictionaries
Are a fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries with unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using Chinese, French, Italian, German and Spanish.
Oxford Music Online
Provides the complete text to the Oxford Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Also provides links to images, digital sound and related sites.
Oxford Reference Online
Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This means 140,000 entries, including 50,000 longer, in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies.
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Picture Australia
Is a service hosted by the National Library of Australia to provide a single access point to the digitised pictorial collections held in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies, in Australia and abroad.
Picture Victoria
The primary focus of Picture Victoria is to provide a single portal for access to pictorial and photographic collections held in Victoria's public libraries.
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Safari E-Books Online
Management, e-business and professional development titles covering all aspects of information technology, e-business, multimedia, desktop publishing and applied sciences, over 200 books online.
Study Skills Success
This program is for students in upper secondary and higher education who wish to improve their academic study skills. It can also help you to prepare for IELTS and TOEFL. Each unit includes presentation and practice activities.
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Tense Buster Online
This program will help improve your grammar. It covers all grammar areas and includes practice exercises for beginner, intermediate and advanced students of English.
Trove
Search across Australian public and academic Library catalogues.
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VOCED
VOCED is a research database for technical and vocational education and training. It is an international database of research abstracts with a special focus on Australia and the Asia Pacific region. VOCED is a free database that contains over 30,000 English language records, many with links to full text documents.
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