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Library Thing Organise your own personal library
Library Elf Manage your library cards, receive emails before your items are due.

The World Factbook and World Leaders Provides information, maps and comparison tables.


Premier's Reading Challenge and Premier's Reading Challenge Books on the Library's Catalogue
My Language Provides access to resources on the Internet in more than 60 languages
Ergo, State Library of Victoria A practical guide to research, essay writing and studying
Australian Research Online Searches across the contents of Australian university and government libraries

Australasian Legal Information Institute 
Law For You 
Fitzroy Law Handbook
Rural Law Online

 

Databases

Subject Database Home Access Description
Biographies

Biography Resource Centre
Biography Resource Centre

 

Home Access Biographical information for over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
 

Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian Dictionary of Biography

 

Home Access Biographies of 10,000 significant Australians who died before 1980.
Books

Global Books in Print
Global Books in Print

 

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The most comprehensive database of world-wide English language titles.

 

 

Fiction Connection
Fiction Connection

 

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Helps you find your next great read.

 

 

General Research 
& Newspapers
ANZ Reference Centre
ANZ Reference Centre
Home Access

Combines Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to libraries on Oceania.

 

New!

19th Century British Newspapers
British Newspapers 1600-1900

 

Home Access

This database combines the Burney Collection of 17th-18th Century English Newspapers and the 19th Century British Library Newspapers

 

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17th & 18th Century Newspapers
Burney Collection Newspapers

 

Home Access

17th-18th Century English Newspapers

 

   Ebsco Master File
EBSCO Master File
Home Access

Contains full text for nearly 500 reference books, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 276,622 photos, maps & flags

 

  Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Home Access

With access to three encyclopedias—Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia—this is a site for all ages. In addition, Britannica Online also leads to additional information about topics through related articles, links to outside Web sites, and bibliographies.

 

  Power Search
Gale Power Search
Home Access

Search Gale and EBSCO databases in one go. 
Gale databases include: Biography Resource Centre, General Onefile, Health and Wellness Resource Centre, Price It and Science Resource Centre.
EBSCO databases include ANZ Reference Centre and EBSCO Master File

 

  General One File
General OneFile
Home Access

A comprehensive periodical and newspaper resource that puts more than 60 million articles at your fingertips with a single search. Includes "Choice" magazine

 

Family History Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition
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Family History at your fingertips.  Search for elusive ancestors.  Include: U.S. Federal Census 1790 - 1930, England & Wales Census Collection 1851 - 1901, England and Wales Civil Registration Index 1837 - present , Immigration Collection and many more resources.

 

  Genealogy & Family History Resources
 

Links to Internet sites that may help you in your research: Victorian, Australian and International sites.

 

Health Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Home Access

 Excellent for basic medical information as well as more specialised information. Includes genetic diseases, cloning, biological warfare, medical encyclopedia, drug & herb finder, health assessment tools, medical dictionary, health news and more.

 

 

Better Health Channel
Better Health Channel

 

Home Access

 Victorian Government health website. Includes fact sheets with healthy living tips and health conditions. Questions and answers from a range of health experts, and recipes.

 

  Salem Press Health

Home Access

 

For at home access once you are at Salem Press Health click on the Remote Access Login tab and enter you Goldfields Library card number. 

The online version of Magill's Medical Guide.

 

Consumner Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete

 

Home Access  Medical pamphlets and journal articles.
History                  New! Ancient & Medeival History Online
Ancient & Medieval History Online
Home Access

Provides coverage of eight civilizations: ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, and ancient and medieval Asia.

 

Images Picture Australia Home Access

Search for people, places and events in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies, in Australia and abroad - all at the same time. View the originals on the member agency web sites and order quality prints at your leisure.

 

  A Vision Splendid No Photographic collection featuring early images of Bendigo. 
Science Science Resource Centre
Science Resource Centre
Home Access

Designed to meet every student’s science research needs, contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and more.

 

  Australian Museum Online Home Access Australian Museum Online contains information about Australian culture and natural history for all ages. Click on the Research & Collections page to find information at an academic level. Click on the Explore page to find fact sheets and weblinks aimed at Primary school students.

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