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Landscape design
Subject guide
This NSI Libraries online subject guide provides links to information available on the web. Some resources require a DET username and password. Don’t know your DET username and password? Contact your College Student Administration or your teacher.
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Associations
Australian Institute of Horticulture
An association that promotes horticulture across every industry.
Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
Professional information, links etc.
Australian Institute of Landscape Designers & Managers
Professional advice to help you design and build a garden. Students can also enter the National student design competition.
Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia
Guidance on the use of concrete.
Concrete Masonry Association of Australia
Links & portals
Australian national botanic gardens
This website has a comprehensive display of living Australian plants.
Gardening Australia
ABC TV site. Use "landscaping" in the search box.
Garden and landscape guide
Green roof resource manual
The City of Sydney Council is a member of Green Roofs Australia and the website provides valuable information on green roofs and walls.
Healing landscapes
Japanese gardens
Landscaping and turf management
Information regarding: the basics of landscaping, insects, pests, pesticides, plant diseases.
Landscape designer jobs (SEEK)
The Braes heritage
The Braes is appropriately named as the original Sorensen garden.
The landscape design site
Virtual landscape gallery
Directories
Foundation for landscape studies
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
A scientific institution holding basic and applied information about plant-and fungal-related topics.
Landscaping ideas and materials
Nurseries online products
Outdoor design source
Essential outdoor directory/design source.
Sapling.info
Architecture, planning, landscape information gateway.
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Landscape designers
American landscape architect in the modernist style.
Birth of landscape design in Australia.
American landscape architect in the modernist style.
Contemporary Australian designer.
One of the most influential garden designers in Australia during the early twentieth century. The classic garden Everglades and Paul Sorensen's nursery garden are primary examples.
Contemporary Australian designer.
Naturalistic designer and writer.
Traditional Japanese landscape designer and Zen master.
Government information
Australian Government - Fair Work Online
Workplace awards information
Gardening and Landscaping Services Award 2010
Heritage branch, Department of Planning, NSW
Heritage Council of New South Wales
The Heritage Council makes decisions about the care and protection of heritage places and items that have been identified as being significant to the people of NSW.
Office of Environment & Heritage (NSW)
Information designed to help landscapers understand the environmental issues
associated with their industry.
WorkCover authority of NSW
Provides OH&S guidelines e.g. Greens, gardens and grounds: guide
Legislation and standards
This subscription service gives TAFE NSW students access to over 6,500 full-text Australian standards. Search for relevant Australian standards by visiting Australian Standards Online. Full-text access only available in your NSI Library (For downloads USB drive required) - contact your librarian.
Relevant standard included are:
AS 4419-2003 Soils for landscaping and garden use
HB 294:2006 National post-border weed risk management protocol
Work health and safety Act 2011 (NSW)
Related subject guides
Arboriculture
Environmental studies
Horticulture |
eJournals, eBooks & online videos |
eJournals
Freely available journals
EBSCOhost
Click the link of one of the selected journals or databases. Log in using your DET username and password.
Art & Architecture Complete
Gale databases
Click on Gale databases or of one of the eJournals. Log in using your DET username and password.
Gale databases
eReference
Oxford Reference Online
From home, log into Oxford Reference Online using your DET username and password with @edu at the end of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Subjects & Books and go to art & architecture:
- Dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture
- Oxford companion to the garden
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eBooks
Gale databases
Log on to Gale databases or of one of the eBooks. Log in using your DET username and password.
eBooks in EBSCOhost
Click the link to eBooks on EBSCOhost or one of the examples and log in using your DET username and password.
Online videos
TVNews
Log in to TVNews via Equella or the following current affair videos using your DET username and password.
vLearn
Login to vLearn via Equella or the listed videos using your DEC username and password.
YouTube
These and other TAFE NSW videos are available on YouTube.
Training toolbox
Amenity Horticulture (Jirrahlee Botanic Garden)
Log in with your DEC username and password to access these training packages which contain tutorials, quizzes and resources for your course. CD-ROMs of the packages may be available at your TAFE library.
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Databases covering landscape design subjects
Here is a selection of subject specific databases provided. For the full list of general databases and instructions go to the eResources Portal.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website. Includes statistics and some analysis of information from the National Census and other sources. Allows for the creation of local area profiles. http://www.abs.gov.au |
Freely available |
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Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.The database is updated daily. |
DET username and password required. |
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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered, including business and retail. |
DET username and password required. |
Australian Standards Online |
This subscription service gives TAFE NSW students access to over 6,500 full-text Australian Standards. Search for relevant Australian Standards by visiting
http://infostore.saiglobal.com/store/ |
Full-text access only in library (For downloads USB drive required) - contact your librarian |
Business Source Complete |
Business Source Complete (BSC) is a business research database, providing full text a large number of journals. Coverage is provided in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. |
Student username and password required. |
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This collection provides almost 100 eBooks covering a range of topics including agriculture, horticulture, landscaping, plant & animal sciences and environmental management & sustainability. |
Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DET username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DET username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
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Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable 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. The database contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs. |
DET username and password required. |
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The Facts on File is a set of online reference databases. The Science Online database contains articles, definitions, illustrations and videos relating to a broad range of scientific disciplines e.g. environmental science, earth science, marine science, weather and climate. |
Students: use your DET username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DET username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
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Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription is the 'General Reference Centre Gold'. |
DET username and password required. |
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GreenFILE by EBSCO Publishing gives access to scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports on environmental topics. The database contains full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well. |
Freely available |
PlantFile Online
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PlantFile Online is a database of commonly used ornamental and native plants including their cultivars. It covers over 8,000 plants with detailed information on over 3,000 species each with up to 5 photographs and is upgraded regularly. Images of related insects and diseases are also included.
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DET username and password required.
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ProQuest Central provides access to a set of databases containing more than 125 billion digital pages covering arts, literature, social science, general reference, business, science, technology, and medicine. ProQuest includes the world's largest digital newspaper archive including ANZ Newsstand and periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles. |
DET username and password required. |
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TVNews indexes and abstracts Australian news items, current affairs and documentaries from free-to-air networks since 2007. You can download video content straight to your desktop or flash drive. Most programs are available the next working day. Coverage includes: Australian story, Behind the news, 60 minutes, Four corners, Lateline and all the major news broadcasts. |
DET username and password required. |
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Library catalogue
The NSW TAFE Library catalogue lists all the resources held in NSW TAFE libraries. You can search by keyword, author, title and subject and also limit searches to specific types of materials and specific college libraries. The catalogue has links to, and the addresses and contact details of, all individual NSW TAFE Libraries.
Subject headings
Catalogue links to some landscape design subjects and availability through NSI Libraries are listed below. Please note: the search results are limited to items available in NSI Libraries. Do a new search if you want to find items held by your local library or to get results for all TAFE NSW Libraries.
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Last updated: 02.05.2013
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