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Category Archives: reference sources
Summer Reading Club 2011 – ideas, activities and reading lists for teachers.
Run by ALIA, the Summer Reading Club program encourages literacy in more than 41,000 children Australian wide. Summer Reading programs are traditionally run in public libraries during the summer school holiday period. They encourage young people of all ages in … Continue reading
AustLit News – keep up to date with Australian literature news!
AustLit’s aim is to be the definitive virtual research environment and information resource for Australian literary, print, and narrative culture scholars, students, and the public. AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between a network of researchers from Australian universities and the … Continue reading
What is the RMIT Research Repository?
RMIT Research Repository provides free, searchable access to RMIT University research publications. Its aim is to increase the exposure and impact of the research output of RMIT University staff by gathering it together, and making it available to the world. … Continue reading
Free February Access to Visual Arts via Art Access
Taylor & Francis are providing free access to their Visual Arts collection via Art Access until February 28th. Users can explore 19 visual arts journals. Subjects covered include art history, photography, art therapy and visual culture. Three of the journals … Continue reading
ERIC – Feature database for Education
ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added multiple times per week. If available, links to full text are included. Within the ERIC Collection, … Continue reading
New APA Manual
The Library now has copies of the new 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA style). APA do advise that there were some typographical errors in the first printing and have provided a list of … Continue reading
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Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2008
Macquarie Dictionary is looking for its 2008 Word of the Year. Words are nominated by committee in various categories ranging from entertainment to fashion, environment to technology. You can vote online for your favourite in each category until Jan 31 and … Continue reading
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The Australian National Dictionary
Oxford University Press has been publishing in Australia since 1908 and, in recognition of this milestone and as a symbol of gratitude to the Australian people, The Australian National Dictionary has been made available online, free.
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Wish you had an Australian spellchecker?
Macquarie Dictionary is attempting to get the attention of Micrsoft and Apple, asking them to insert the Macquarie wordlist into their systems and applications. They have an online form that allows you to lend your voice to the campaign. Remember also … Continue reading
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes — Gasp! — Wiki
One of the questions I ask in the Q&A to staff on this blog is: Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica? Apparently Britannica has itself decided that the answer to this question is … From the Chronicle of Higher Education: Long a … Continue reading
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