Databases

The State Library of Queensland provides free access to numerous databases for all members of Queensland's Public Librares. Included below is a selection of those available but additional databases are available here . All of these databases may be searched from home or in Queensland public libraries.

For free access -

Register for a QPL account. All you need is your Hinchinbrook Shire Libaray card and an email address - don't forget when you are registering to select Hinchinbrook Library as your library!
Once you have successfully set up your QPL account login -

* select a database that suits your information needs

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* log on to you QPL account and

* begin searching.

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AccessScience AccessScience features over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and over 110,000 definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.
Art Full Text Full text articles from 160 journals, and abstracts and indexing from more than 480 periodicals published throughout the world. Subject areas include archaeology, architecture, art history, contemporary art, costume, decorative arts, graphic arts and design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, etc
AustLit Premier resource for research on Australian literature. Provides authoritative information on thousands of creative and critical Australian literary works relating to more than 67 000 Australian authors and organisations.
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Australia/NZ Reference Centre is a large collection of regional full text including magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. In addition to the leading Australia/NZ periodicals and international periodicals, it also includes full text biographies, image collection of photos, maps etc
Australian Public Affairs Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Since the Encyclopaedia Britannica's founding in 1768, Britannica editors have gathered and organised information on thousands of topics for easy retrieval.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music The online version of Colin Larkin's critically acclaimed 10-volume The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition is available through Oxford Music Online. Featuring a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, etc
ENDANGER - Threatened Species in Australia Bibliographic database that indexes published and unpublished material on Australian threatened flora and fauna and related topics.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - ebooks Gale Virtual Reference Library's powerful delivery platform puts your reference content into circulation. Researchers will have the power to Search and share results, Create mark lists, Track research through search history, Share articles using InfoTrac InfoMarks® and more.
Good Reading An online, monthly magazine helping general readers, library staff and students find exactly what they like to read.
Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module The Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module contains medical reference and periodical materials for health care consumers. Content is drawn from health/medical journals, newsletters and pamphlets; Gale reference titles.
Health collection Developed in response to the growing demand for Australasian health information, this Collection provides cover-to-cover full text access to core content from the region. Content includes research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, ...
Humanities & Social Sciences Collection Humanities & Social Sciences is a full text database and covers agriculture, arts, Asian studies, business, cultural studies, education, history, indigenous studies, law, media, political science, reference, social sciences, science and technology.
Humanities International Complete Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full text content.
Informit databases Suite of databases offered by RMIT (Melbourne), covering a wide range of subjects devoted to Australia and Asia. It includes full text access to Meditext, APA-FT and AGIS, as well as numerous other indexing databases.
JSTOR A multidisciplinary archive of high resolution scanned scholarly journals. Subject areas covered include economics, law, history, Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, language, literature, music, film studies, performing arts, religion, visual arts and the sciences.
Library PressDisplay PressDisplay provides a full-colour, full-page collection of today's newspapers from around the world. Hundreds of titles are available from 70 countries in 37 languages. Newspapers can be located by country, title and language.
Literature & Culture Collection The Literature & culture collection offers a number of Australia’s best known literary magazines that help define Australia’s literary and cultural heritage. This collection is useful for academic, school and public libraries and for researchers, teachers and students of literary studies, ...
Literature Resource Center A comprehensive online literary site, Literature Resource Center addresses all facets of literary study in one highly searchable interface. Its extensive reference material includes: biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on authors and their works.
Macquarie Dictionary The Macquarie Dictionary is regarded as the standard reference on Australian English, providing access to the Macquarie Dictionary Fifth Edition and the latest edition of the Macquarie Thesaurus. It provides comprehensive and interactive searching of over 121,000 headwords and phrases etc
MasterFILE Premier Gain access to information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health and multi-cultural with MasterFILE Premier™. This vast database includes: Searchable full text for over 1,860 journals, including Consumer Reports and Business Week.
MyLanguage MyLanguage provides access to search engines, web directories and news in over sixty languages. MyLanguage is a partnership between the State Libraries of NSW, QLD, SA, VIC, and WA and the NT and ACT Library and Information Services.
Oxford Art Online Grove Art Online provides access to the Dictionary of Art (Grove Art Online), the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Benezit Dictionary of Artists and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of more than 57,000 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond from the 4th century BC to the 21st century.
Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, providing the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words from across the English speaking world.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Oxford Language Dictionaries Online offers high-quality bilingual language reference content in the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Oxford Music Online Grove Music Online offers a dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection Oxford Reference Online consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
ProQuest Science Journals Impressive collection of scientific journals in full text and image formats. Publications included in the database cover a wide range of topics from both the physical and life science disciplines.
PubMed PubMed was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It was developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers.
Trove digitised newspapers Trove Digitised Newspapers offers free access to over 200 historic Australian newspapers dating from 1803 to 1954 (some later).
Times Digital Archive Complete digital edition of The Times (London), searchable by keyword, and including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos, divided into categories to facilitate searching.
TumbleBooks A database specially for children. Listen and watch ebooks online, read a review, write a book report and play games.
Vogue Archive The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
Who's Who in Australia Who's who of Australia contains over 13,000 biographical entries and includes prominent Australians from a range of fields, including business, politics, the arts, sport, law, entertainment and academia. Content is restricted to persons currently living.

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