Online Databases

 

Students and Staff have access to the following databases of journal articles and other information sources.

Please see the LRC staff for passwords and if you require assistance with your search.

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Click here to access Library.PressDisplay Database

 

ON TRIAL UNTIL AUGUST 2009


Library.PressDisplay

On trial until August 2009

All the newspapers without all the paper!

800+ newspapers from 80 countries in 40 languages. You can instantly access daily news published in its original format and layout, including full text and images. You can read your favourite newspaper in any language without leaving the Learning Resource Centre.

Ask for the user name and the password at the LRC front desk.

Available on campus only

 See LRC staff for login details

User Guide  click here to see user guide

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New SafetyCare video titles and updates March 2009


Montie consists of all 76 of Safetycare’s safety training video programs.
These videos are stored on our Library server and can be accessed across the entire William Angliss Institute campus network.

Please note!

If you are a WAI Staff member and displaying a "DRM" error when playing the videos in Windows Media Player, click to run the “Active-X control”.
Montie will only work on Internet Explorer,
Mozilla Firefox or Apple Mac’s Safari is not supported.

If you require further assistance, please email LRC-Technical-support@angliss.edu.auor phone 9 6062237
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Bullseye consists of all 45 of Videotrain’s staff development training video programs.
These videos are stored on our Library server and can be accessed across the entire William Angliss Institute campus network.

Please note!
If you are a WAI Staff member and displaying a "DRM" error when playing the videos in Windows Media Player, click to run the “Active-X control”.

Montie will only work on Internet Explorer,
Mozilla Firefox or Apple Mac’s Safari is not supported.

If you require further assistance, please email LRC-Technical-support@angliss.edu.auor phone 9 6062237

Australia New Zealand Food Authority

Standards for manufacture of foods and beverages. Includes detailed definitions and allowable levels of contaminants

No login required

Academic Search Premier

Provides full text for more than 4500 journals, including full text for more than 3700 peer reviewed titles.

Available on campus and off campus

 

The Australia/NZ Reference Centre

Combines Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.

Business Source Premier

Areas include business, marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Education Research Complete

Areas include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

Environment Complete

Areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

GreenFILE

Covers all aspects of human impact on the environment.

Hospitality and Tourism Complete

Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.

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Regional Business Review

Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States

Click here to search LISTA

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

EBSCO Publishing is proud to provide the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database as a free resource to anyone interested in libraries and information management.

Click here to search RSB

Research Starters - Business

Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.

Click here to search RSE

Research Starters - Education

Research Starters - Education provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies.

Click here to search TRC

Teacher Reference Center (TRC)

This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books.

Click here to search BSI

Business Searching Interface (BSI)

Through the use of the BSI, the full text business content of Business Source® Premier and Business Source® Complete can be located and retrieved more quickly and with greater precision than ever before.

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Provides access to 160 full text journals and reviews from the top 300 management journals.

Available on campus and off campus

 See LRC staff for login details


User Guide 
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IbisWorld

IbisWorld is a business Information provider offering a wealth of powerful and comprehensive information on every industry, top 2000 companies and the business environment. The LRC has purchased reports about key players in the hospitality business. Industry market research - Global industry research - Industry risk rating - Business environment - Company research.

Available on campus and off campus

 See LRC staff for login details

User Guide 

 

InfoTrac OneFile

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology and many general interest topics. 

Available on campus only

No username or password is applicable

User Guide 

InfoTrac Health Reference Center Academic

It is a multi-source database that provides access to the  nursing and allied health journals (full text), plus a wide variety of personal health information sources  The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

InfoTrac Health & Wellness Resource Center

Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Thomson Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

On-line

OZJAC

OZJAC provides information about accredited courses, their providers and jobs. OZJAC's aim is to provide information to assist you to make informed career decisions. (this icon will not be displayed on the desktop).

 

Available on campus and off campus

 See LRC staff for login details

Proquest ABI/INFORM Global

A comprehensive business database. It includes in-depth coverage for over 2,690 publications, with more than 1,750 available in full-text.

 

Available on campus and off campus

 See LRC staff for login details

User Guide 

WACSearch

An archived database that holds an extensive range of article abstracts from 1998 to 2008 on subjects relevant to the tourism & hospitality industries.

The database will lead you to the full-text article held within the journal collection in the WAI LRC.

No login required

WorkplaceInfo

Workplace relations news and analysis. Reference material and human resource tools. Legal links.

Available on campus and off campus

 See LRC staff for login details
User Guide

WorkplaceOHS

Occupational health and safety in the workplace.

Available on campus and off campus

 See LRC staff for login details
User Guide 

World Book Student

The The articles of the World Book Encyclopedia form the foundation of this expansive reference database that includes the World Book Dictionary, the World Book Atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to state and provincial curriculum standards, and much more.

 

No login required

User Guide 

  World Book Advanced

Designed for high school and college students. a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.

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20/07/2009