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Read Magazines Online/User Guide (Basic, MS Word)/User Guide (Advanced, MS Word)
Content from international newspapers, magazines and reference books including many Australian and New Zealand titles, covering current events, business, sport, entertainment and much more. Logging in here also allows you to search Literary Reference Centre; Regional Business News and Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode. |
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Includes statistical information on Australia and Australian states, major cities and towns, and local government areas. Covers areas such as population, housing, income, economic and social conditions, health and welfare, education, finance, manufacturing and building. Free web resource.
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Contains over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history. Entries on individuals who died after 1980 will be added as successive volumes of the ADB are published. Free web resource.
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Contains 564 WA seniors' personal stories (2380 pages) and pictures about their lives in WA in the 1950s. It has been enhanced with photographs from the collections of the State Library of Western Australia. The Living Histories program is an initiative of the Department for Communities in partnership with Have A Go News, as a tribute to all Western Australia's seniors. Pls note that Adobe Flash Player is required to access this website. Free web resource.
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Galleries, archives, museums and libraries across Australia combine to provide access to over 1.8 million images.
Here you can:
- Search great cultural institutions for Australian images
- See pictures of Australia's past and present, including: photographs, objects, maps and works of art
- Request print quality copies
Free web resource
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Trove is an online search engine developed by the National Library of Australia. Trove enables you to search multiple Australian collections across millions of items at once. Explore a wealth of resources and digital content like never before, including full-text books, journal and newspaper articles, images, music, sound, video, maps, websites, diaries, letters, archives, people and organisations. Free web resource.
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Business
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Full text coverage from scholarly business management and economic journals, including peer-reviewed publications. Included in this database, are company profiles and industry reports from Datamonitor.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode.
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Free access with your City of Wanneroo Libraries membership card barcode number. Thecomputerschool.net is an online computer training organisation that specialises in easy-access online computer education. You can now instantly access (24/7), a powerful database that provides a direct, secure link, to hundreds of computer skills' Tutorials, offering - immediate, quick-lesson education.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode.
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Choice Online gives you instant access to over 200 tests and reports on food and health, white goods and home entertainment, essential services, everyday supermarket items and much more. With ratings on products tested, get best advice from Choice experts to help you save money and make confident buying decisions.
The following resource is subscribed by the City of Wanneroo Library Services. Limited access is available at library branches only. Please see library staff for assistance to access the database.
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| Encyclopedias |
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Specifically developed for libraries, Britannnica has four different interfaces serving age appropriate content for library staff and patrons. Users will still have the option to view any one or all of the homepages from both within the library and remotely.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode.
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The Geoscience Australia Online Mapping and Databases index provides links to National/International scale datasets and applications that are available online. Free web resource.
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Genealogy and Family History Records
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The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000 databases and primarily focuses on European (including the UK) and North American content sources. The Australian databases that are available mainly provide access to immigration or convict records. Many of Ancestry Library Edition's databases include digitised original sources which are essential in undertaking thorough and successful genealogical research.
Access is available from City of Wanneroo Library branches only.
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The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.
Access is available from home and library branches.
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Easy to use medical reference for all ages and levels. The database includes full text journals, an Alternative Health Module, and a Disease Profiler Module which compiles health statistics, charting prevalence rates, costs for treatment and drugs for various common diseases.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode.
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SuperClubsPLUS Australia
SuperClubsPLUS is a safe social learning network where children experience first-hand how to keep themselves safe online. The SuperClubsPLUS community provides young children with an environment where they meet friends and create their own personalised content, web pages and clubs. They connect with other children in forums, win awards and badges and participate in challenges and competitions. Most importantly, they do all these things knowing that they are safe with support from highly trained mediators.
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Is an online resource for the early years that includes 115+ fun learning activities that help children learn important skills in the key learning areas of creative development, problem solving, reasoning, numeracy, communication, language and literacy and knowledge and understanding of the world. This subscription service has been provided through Better Beginnings (http://www.better-beginnings.com.au) supporting families in sharing a love of reading.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode.
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Introduce young children to the joys of reading with this delightful collection of animated, talking picture books. This subscription service has been provided through Better Beginnings (http://www.better-beginnings.com.au) supporting families in sharing a love of reading.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode.
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A high-quality play-based literacy resource with more than 10,000 activities online for children of all ages and ability. Children and parents can select from activities focusing on pre-reading skills, phonics, reading, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and comprehension in a fun, exciting and safe online environment.
Note for Parents: The first time you access Intrepica, you will be asked to register and to also register your child/children so that they can access the database. Free web resource with user registration at website.
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Literature
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A great guide for fiction readers. Find your favourite author, look for similar titles to the one you have just read, look for the next book in a series or find books for your young reader.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode.
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Whichbook gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood. Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, whichbook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define.
This is an external website and free access is available from home and in the library branches.
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Each month, the THE BIG THRILL webzine features dozens of original interviews with ITW members discussing their new releases.
This is an external website and free access is available from home and in the library branches.
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Newspapers, Journals and Magazines
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Gale's Popular Magazine Collection has full text content with a focus on current events, sports, science and health from thousands of popular magazines, including the Australian version of Choice Magazine.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode.
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Gale's Popular Magazines Plus has a strong focus on current events, sports,science and health. Access full text News Limited news including The Australian plus other Australian titles such as Choice, Australian Women's Weekly, Australian Geographic, Australian Gourmet Traveler, Inside Cricket and Inside Rugby.
Access is available from home and library branches with your City of Wanneroo library membership barcode.
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| Study Resources |
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Past WACE Examinations
WACE examinations papers for Stage 2 and Stage 3 may be accessed through the Past WACE Examinations link.
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