The eResources Portal gives you access to full-text online resources purchased by your NSI Libraries and free internet databases highly relevant to students and staff at colleges of the Northern Sydney Institute. A full list of our subscription databases is available in the printable eResources overview [PDF, 985 KB]. Use your DET username and password to logon to listed databases if not otherwise specified.
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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/
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Freely available
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Understanding statistics - online video tutorials
Flash Player required. |
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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCOhost's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered.
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DET username and password required.
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ANZRC guide
[PDF, 589 KB] |
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Art & Architecture Complete - BETA is a comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 630 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 240 periodicals and 140 books, as well as selective coverage for over 50 publications. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers, college students, and general viewers. |
DET username and password required. |
EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 406 KB] |
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Australian journal of botany |
The Australian Journal of Botany is an international journal for publication of original research in plant science. Work on all plant groups, including fossil plants, is published. |
Only for NSI students attending at Ryde College.
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
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Australian Standards Online
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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/
Please note: no full text access via this link. |
Full-text access only in library (For downloads USB drive required) - contact your librarian
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BCA Illustrated is an online version of the Building Code of Australia (BCA), with over 3000 illustrations and 15,000 knowledge base links. It contains both Volumes 1 and 2, and is updated frequently including the most current Building Code of Australia data from the ABCB (May of each year).
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Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). Hard copies of the BCA are available at Hornsby, Meadowbank, North Sydney, Northern Beaches & Ryde. |
Tutorial
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Business Source Premier (BSP) is one of the industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals. Full text coverage is provided in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
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DET username and password required.
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BSP guide
[PDF, 556 KB] |
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
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DET username and password required.
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CINAHL guide
[PDF, 596 KB]
Basic & advanced search [PPT, 538 KB]
Basic tutorial &
Advanced tutorial
Flash Player required. |
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Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (CASC) covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 730 periodicals.
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DET username and password required.
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CASC guide
[PDF, 585 KB]
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EBSCOhost combines following databases:
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DET username and password required.
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EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 406 KB]
Create email alerts in EBSCOhost and Gale databases
[PDF, 340 KB]
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Entrez is the integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) for the major biomedical databases, including PubMed (biomedical literature citations & abstracts), PubMed Central (full-text journal articles), NCBI bookshelf with biomedical online books, and others.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery
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Freely available
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Entrez tutorial
[PDF, 75 KB] |
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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. |
EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 406 KB] |
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Our collection of FA Davis eBooks (currently 84 eBooks) provides 24/7 online access to medical, nursing, and
health profession texts and reference resources for students, nurses, and health professionals. Our collection also includes eBooks on anatomy & physiology, athletics, physical and occupational therapy.
Please note: The access will time out if you are not actively using the collection but latest after 60 min. To access the collection again close the window and click the link to
FA Davis in the eResources Portal. |
Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith).
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FA DAvis title list
[PDF, 248 KB] |
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The Facts on File is a set of online reference databases designed to suit the reference requirements of secondary schools, TAFE colleges and undergraduate research libraries. Each database offers hyperlinked full-text records, images, maps, time lines, citation information and more. Titles include:
- Ancient and Medieval History Online (incl. videos)
- Modern World History Online (incl. videos)
- Health Reference Centre (incl. videos)
- Science Online (incl. videos)
- Bloom’s Literary Reference Online
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Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
Science Online Tour
Flash Player required.
More demos and info sheets are available after logging on to the databases. |
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Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. Gale databases include the following sub-collections:
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DET username and password required.
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Gale databases guide
[PDF, 495 KB]
Create email alerts in EBSCOhost and Gale databases
[PDF, 340 KB] |
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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.
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Freely available
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Hospitality & Tourism Complete (HTC) covers research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 749,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. Full text is available for more than 440 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.
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DET username and password required.
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HTC guide
[PDF, 606 KB]
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INFOMINE is a comprehensive virtual library and reference tool for academic and scholarly internet resources, including websites,
databases, electronic journals, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and other types of information.
http://infomine.ucr.edu/ |
Freely available
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The Internet Archive (Nonprofit organisation) is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
The collection includes Moving Images, a Live Music Archive, Audio and Text (incl. Project Gutenberg). The Wayback Machine provides links to older versions of a webpage. http://www.archive.org/index.php
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Freely available
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Kompass worldwide contains 2.3M companies in 66 countries referenced by 57.000 product & service keywords
860.000 trade names and 4.6M executive name.This freely available version does not include advanced search features and only provides brief company profiles.
http://www.kompass.com |
Freely available
(Register to get access to the full list of companies) |
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MarketLine
Business database |
MarketLine offers a comprehensive collection of company, industry and country information. MarketLine products include:
- Industry profiles for 50,000 public and private companies
- Country profiles presenting easy-to-digest summaries and standardized data
- Key macro-economic, social, demographic and industry statistics for 215 countries
- News, comment and analysis on the latest business developments
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Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
MarketLine guide
[PDF, 691 KB] |
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This multi-disciplinary database provides more than
1,750
general reference publications with full text information. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, it also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 86,017 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
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DET username and password required.
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EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 406 KB]
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National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides current online books at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=books |
Freely available
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Using the books
Online help
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NetLibrary provides full-text access to a wide range of online books, including business and management. Currently more than 800 eBooks are available in this collection as well as 3400 publicly-accessible eBooks of Project Gutenberg.
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DET username and password required.
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NetLibrary guide
[PDF, 418 KB]
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This innovative new gateway into art research and access point for Oxford art reference subscriptions and publications includes:
- Grove Art Online
- Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
- The Oxford Companion to Western Art
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
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Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
Oxford Art Online guide
[PDF, 418 KB]
Guided tour
MS PowerPoint required.
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A searchable collection of 175+ key Oxford reference publications covering 25 subject areas. Includes bilingual dictionaries, encyclopaedias, subject reference, quotations, maps & illustrations and 42 x 20th century timelines.
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Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
ORO Premium
Online tour
ORO-Brochure
[PDF, 1,026 KB] |
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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. |
PlantFile tutorial |
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POPLINE
Reproductive health |
POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE), the world's largest database on reproductive health, provides nearly 360,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. It has numerous special features including links to free, full text documents.
http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/ |
Freely available
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Searching tutorial
Flash Player required. |
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Provides free access to over 27,000 public domain books in digital format.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
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Freely available
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The Australian Gutenberg website provides books in electronic form which are 'public domain'. This site covers books with an 'Australian flavour' and with material out of copyright under Commonwealth law.
http://gutenberg.net.au/
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Freely available
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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. Now also included in Nursing & Allied Health Source about 400 MedCom nursing videos. |
DET username and password required. |
ProQuest guide [PDF 606]
Online tutorials
Flash Player required |
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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed
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Freely available
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PubMed tutorials
Flash Player required. |
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PubMed Central (PMC), the digital archive of U.S. National Library of Medicine provides full-text access to biomedical and life sciences journal literature. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pmc
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Freely available
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PubMed Central tutorial
Flash Player required. |
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The Sustainability Reference Center is a comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Offering content from more than 800 publications including journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications. |
DET username and password required. |
EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 406 KB] |
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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.
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DET username and password required. |
TVNews guide
[PDF, 631 KB]
TVNews FAQs
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The following eJournals are only available for Ryde students and staff:
- Austral ecology
- Australian journal of grape and wine research
- Ecological management & restoration
- Restoration ecology
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Only for NSI students attending at Ryde College.
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
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