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A collection of poetry and fiction works from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Containing over 480 titles, published from the 1930s to today and including a strong focus on Indigenous and female voices. 

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Cambridge Companions Online is a fully searchable, full text collection of over 360 titles from the renowned Cambridge Companion series. It's regularly updated with new titles in the Companion series.

The subject areas covered are literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies.

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A searchable online collection of more than 260 volumes published in various history series by Cambridge University Press since 1960.

This collection provides unique authoritative content covering history in 15 different subject areas including world history, ancient and medieval history, economics, science, literature, philosophy and religion.

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Access the Library's collection of ebooks which are available for loan. The collection includes over 7000 titles covering fiction and non-fiction, Australian and international material.

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Gale published eBooks include the imprints of Gale, St.JamesPress, U.X.L, Charles Scribner’s and Son’s and MacMillan Reference USA.

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The indyreads e-content platform provides free access to ebooks and eaudio via a browser or Android & Apple Apps. 

Through indyreads, State Library members can access a diverse collection, including Australian and international independent titles, award-winning literature, classic fiction and non-fiction imprints, and the best examples of self-published content.

Collections are also available in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.

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1.    download the indyreads app (Android, Apple) or go to the indyreads browser version
2.    select your library service
3.    enter your State Library card number
4.    enter your password
5.    start browsing!
 

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Contains over 15,700 full text records from 111 resources, starting from 1977.

Full text to journals, conference papers, reports, magazines, ebooks, and grey literature.

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Taylor & Francis ebooks provides a collection of over 30,000 titles from 2021 onward across eight broad subject collections: applied psychology, criminology & criminal justice, economics, educational foundations & education studies, literature, history, gender studies, theatre & performance studies.

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Documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the fifteenth century to the end of WWII. 

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  • Correspondence
  • Political pamphlets and broadsides
  • Government publications
  • Proclamations
  • Speeches
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The platform hosts the online 21st edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture which covers 5,500 years of architecture from pre-history to the present day. Also included are 42 ebooks on architecture, architectural history, theory, design, urbanism, landscape, and interiors. 

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Cambridge Companions Online is a fully searchable, full text collection of over 360 titles from the renowned Cambridge Companion series. It's regularly updated with new titles in the Companion series.

The subject areas covered are literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies.

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  • Useful for HSC English
  • Ebooks
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A searchable online collection of more than 260 volumes published in various history series by Cambridge University Press since 1960.

This collection provides unique authoritative content covering history in 15 different subject areas including world history, ancient and medieval history, economics, science, literature, philosophy and religion.

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  • Useful for HSC History.
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EEBO is an ongoing project providing full text access to publications in the English language produced by printing presses in England and its colonies between 1473 and 1700.

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Access the Library's collection of ebooks which are available for loan. The collection includes over 7000 titles covering fiction and non-fiction, Australian and international material.

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Gale published eBooks include the imprints of Gale, St.JamesPress, U.X.L, Charles Scribner’s and Son’s and MacMillan Reference USA.

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Designed for high school students, this resource provides context for literary classics and a range of contemporary texts with a multi-media collection that includes articles, videos, infographics and ebooks.
 

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Gale Research Complete is a unified platform for primary and secondary sources including over 28,000 journals, 2,000 ebooks, 300 primary source collections across 13 million digitised pages, and over two million literature works.

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The indyreads e-content platform provides free access to ebooks and eaudio via a browser or Android & Apple Apps. 

Through indyreads, State Library members can access a diverse collection, including Australian and international independent titles, award-winning literature, classic fiction and non-fiction imprints, and the best examples of self-published content.

Collections are also available in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.

To log in: 

1.    download the indyreads app (Android, Apple) or go to the indyreads browser version
2.    select your library service
3.    enter your State Library card number
4.    enter your password
5.    start browsing!
 

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Contains over 15,700 full text records from 111 resources, starting from 1977.

Full text to journals, conference papers, reports, magazines, ebooks, and grey literature.

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Contains hundreds of specialist encyclopaedias, dictionaries, language resources, and other reference works published by Oxford University Press as ebooks. Covers all subject areas.

It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.

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Taylor & Francis ebooks provides a collection of over 30,000 titles from 2021 onward across eight broad subject collections: applied psychology, criminology & criminal justice, economics, educational foundations & education studies, literature, history, gender studies, theatre & performance studies.

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Documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the fifteenth century to the end of WWII. 

  • Monographs (ebooks)
  • Serials
  • Reports
  • Correspondence
  • Political pamphlets and broadsides
  • Government publications
  • Proclamations
  • Speeches
  • Surveys
  • Ephemera
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AIATSIS is a research, collections and publishing organisation with a priceless collection of print, photographs, video and audio. It promotes knowledge and research on all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, languages and stories. You can explore their online collections, research guides, publications, and many digitised collections including The Koori Mail, Dawn and New Dawn, notebooks and diaries.

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The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable ebooks and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

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This points to all ebook collections that the State Library provides access to including content from Gale ebooks, indyreads, ProQuest Ebook Central, and Taylor & Francis ebooks.

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