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Arts
- Gale OneFile: Fine Arts
Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.
- Smithsonian Collections Online
Search rare nineteenth and twentieth-century archives on topics like the evolving modes of flight, World's Fairs, and more.
Biography
- Gale In Context: Biography
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine and multimedia content. .Over 650,000 biographical entries that cover a range of historically significant figures and present-day newsmakers.
Books and Literature
- Gale Literature: Books and Authors
A readers’ advisory database for discovery of books by author, genre and topic. Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
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Gale in Context: Literature
Gain a deeper understanding of literary texts through a wide variety of contextual resources like videos, images, infographics, eBooks and more.
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Gale Literature Resource Centre
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras. The Gale Literature Resource Centre offers the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a large collection of full-text critical and literary analysis
Business
Career
- Smart and Skilled
Smart and Skilled is a reform of the NSW Vocational Education and Training (VET) system. It's helping people in NSW get the skills they need to find a job and advance their careers.
Demographics
- Arabic Collection Online
Free online collection of titles for anyone interested in Arabic language works. Major contributors to this site include New York University, American University of Beirut, United Arab Emirates and Qatar National Library.
- Cultural Atlas
Free online resource that provides comprehensive information on the cultural backgrounds of Australia’s biggest migrant populations. Content includes explanations of common cultural attitudes, practices, norms, behaviours, social structures, etiquettes and communication styles. The public resource is funded and supported by SBS, IES and Multicultural NSW.
- Fairfield City Community Profile
Demographic analysis based on results from the Census for suburb-based community profiles. Results include population, age structure, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, income, qualifications, occupations, employment, unemployment, disability, disadvantage, volunteering, childcare, family structure, household structure, housing tenure, mortgage and rental payments, and the size and type of the dwellings people live in.
- Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies
Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.
Education
- Tech Savvy Seniors
The Tech Savvy Seniors YouTube channel gives people easy access to training videos on smartphones, Zoom, apps, and how to transfer files from your phone to your computer. Videos are also available in Arabic, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin, and Vietnamese.
Environment
- Gale in Context: Environmental Studies
Interdisciplinary study of sustainability and the environment, Gale in Context Environmental Studies provides authoritative reference content in the areas of the environment, energy and natural resources. The database covers environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
General
- Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand *NEW*
Access comprehensive periodical content with a focus on Australia and New Zealand, complemented by global news, reference, and multimedia coverage.
- Gale General OneFile
Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.
Health
- Gale Health and Wellness
Health & Wellness Resource Centre offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, and multimedia. This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices for researchers of all levels.
History
- Gale In Context: World History
A database designed to provide an overview of world history covering the most-studied events, cultures, civilizations, religions, people, and more. Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in world history from a variety of sources.
Information Management
Law
News
- Gale OneFile: News
Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers (493 Australian Newspapers), and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, and many other fields. Includes Australian News Limited and Fairfax newspapers
Psychology
Religion
- World Religion Online
Explores religion and spirituality in an unbiased manner, from the ceremonies of the first practitioners to the rituals of today
Science
- Gale Interactive: Science
Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science. Interactive options include zooming in, rotating, and pulling them apart.
- Gale In Context: Science
A database offering hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more
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National Geographic Virtual Library
Browse this cross-searchable platform for research insight from journalism's most trusted name in exploration and discovery. Access the complete archive of National Geographic magazine — every page of every issue — along with a collection of books, maps, images, and videos.
Social Issues
- Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
This database is designed to support science, social studies, current events, and language arts presenting each side of important issues and empowering learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills. Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues
World
- Gale In Context: Global Issues
A database designed to support global awareness. Think critically, analyse and understand the most important issues of the modern world. This database offers topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content