Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopaedia online along with additional material. Also included are Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopaedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Document supply available.

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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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A virtual library of all Greek and Latin literature covering over 550 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts. Topics include: epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians. James Loeb founded the Loeb Classical Library in 1911.

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Archive of 1.2 million pages offers Nineteenth Century:

• maps
• travel diaries, gazetteers & travel guide books
• travel narrative manuscripts
• sketch maps
• European, Asian and African rail and canal routes
• atlases, maritime and nautical charts
• ordnance surveys and Admiralty charts.

Geographic areas covered in the Archive include Africa, Australia, India, North America, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Document supply available.
• Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online

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Includes the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and supplements, and new and revised entries. All volumes are fully searchable and provide historical information as well as the meanings of words.

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Eight online language dictionaries from Oxford University Press for English/Arabic, English/Chinese, English/French, English/German, English/Italian, English/Portuguese, English/Russian, English/Spanish. A virtual keyboard allows entry of characters in a range of scripts.

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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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Updated annually, this online Australian dictionary includes the Macquarie Thesaurus online. Document supply available.

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CHOICE, the magazine for consumers, produced by the Australian Consumers Association. Password access. Onsite use only.

Please ask staff at the desk to log you in.

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Signbank is an interactive dictionary of Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Auslan is the language of the deaf community of Australia. View record page

An encyclopedia of all the languages currently in use throughout the world. Searchable by country or language name, and browsable through maps. For each language, there are details on where spoken, by how many speakers, language family and how the language is used today. Produced by linguistics organisation, SIL International. View record page

An online collection featuring a small number of the Library of Congress's 4.5 million-item maps collection. Images include maps of Antarctica, Australasia and the world. View record page

MAPCO's aim is to provide genealogists, students and historians with free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful maps. Featuring digital images of maps of London and Adelaide. Maps currently online include London 1767 and 1850 and Adelaide 1880. More maps will be added over the next few months. View record page

Scanned images of complete nineteenth century atlases and maps, such as Bromme's, Alison's and Cornwell's atlases. View record page

Allows you to find digitised geological heritage maps from the 19th and 20th centuries. Also includes a small selection of NSW parish maps with geological data added. Produced by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment. View record page

Contains digitised maps of Sydney dating from 1833 to 21st century. View record page

A gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. Search by typing a place name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution. View record page

A joint project of the Ordnance Survey (the national mapping agency of Great Britain) and digital mapmakers Landmark Information Group. This site provides online access to an extensive archive of historic British maps. View record page

The Scanned Card Catalogue contains photographic images of the cards in the State Reference Library's Card Catalogue. 

It contains published material received by the Library before 1980.

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A critical survey and more than 400 definitions and essays on occult, paranormal and pseudoscientific ideas and practices as well as a survey of the philosophy of atheism and skepticism. View record page