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The Library Service provides students and staff with a variety of resources to assist with study, research and assignments. Please refer to your unit/course outlines, available in Blackboard, for your lecturer-specified resources.
Books/Standards/Video : Items on this page are related to your course. You can also search Supersearch (our catalogue) for books, ebooks, video and more. Supersearch does NOT catalogue Australian Standards, so see this page for Standards related to your course.
Journals : We subscribe to print journals and magazines but provide access to thousands of online journals and newspapers. Relevant journals and magazines will be highlighted here. Titles can also be found using Supersearch. For the most thorough search of articles and papers, we suggest using the database collections directly.
Databases : Our databases are collections of mostly full-text journal articles, newspaper articles, conference papers, dissertations, theses, images, video, even ebooks. The most relevant collections are linked on this page. All our database collections can be found on the Find Information page of our Library website.
Web links : Access current and reliable information from various Government and non-government websites that are related to your subject.
Dictionaries, handbooks and encyclopedias are good starting points when searching for information.
Oxford Reference Online is a dictionary and can tell you what a word means (definition).
World Book Online is an encyclopedia and can help you find information on a topic.
The links to World Book Online and Oxford Reference Online are below. If at any time you are asked to sign or log in to an online resource, enter your student ID and current password.
We have other dictionaries and reference materials that you can borrow from the libraries or read online. You can find these by searching the library catalogue (Supersearch). Some examples of these dictionaries such as, Australian Oxford Dictionary and English for Everyone Illustrated English Dictionary, are highlighted below. Click on a title you are interested in and you will be taken to the library catalogue to find which of our campus libraries hold the item. If the book is an online resource, you will be taken directly to the title.
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