The eResources Portal gives you 24/7 access to full-text online resources purchased by your NSI Libraries and free internet databases highly relevant to students and staff at campuses of the Northern Sydney Institute. A full list of our subscription databases is available in the printable eResources overview [PDF, 908 KB]. Use your DEC username and password to logon to listed databases if not otherwise specified.
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Provides an A to Z listing, and the ability to search, for eJournal titles that are available from our eJournal database providers
To view the entire list of databases included, see the Databases A-Z tab within the eJournal A-Z product. eJournal titles can be accessed by clicking the link of the available database provider listed under the title.
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No authentication is required to access the index.
You will need your DEC username and password when accessing journal titles. |
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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 |
Understanding statistics - online video tutorials
Flash Player required. |
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Academic Search Complete
(EBSCOhost) |
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. |
DEC username and password required. |
EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 KB] |
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Academic World Book is a comprehensive reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia and primary source databases. It also includes thousands of non-fiction and fiction e-books, with selections in nine languages. It is tailored to the needs of college- and university-level students. Research tools include a citation builder, a dictionary, an atlas, timelines and Research and Writing guides. Individual research accounts can be used to save your own customised timelines or searches.
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Only for NSI students attending at St Leonards Campus.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det).
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Online tutorial
Training guide |
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Ancient and Medieval History Online provides the full scope of ancient history from prehistory through the mid-15th century. It offers thorough coverage of eight civilizations
* Ancient Egypt * Ancient Mesopotamia * Ancient Greece * Ancient Rome * Ancient and Medieval Africa
* Medieval Europe * The Americas * Ancient and Medieval Asia
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Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - searchable database providing full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered. |
DEC username and password required.
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EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 KB] |
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Art & Architecture Complete is a comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 380 periodicals and 220 books, as well as selective coverage for over 70 publications. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers, college students, and general viewers. |
DEC username and password required. |
EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 KB] |
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Australian Standards Online
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This subscription service provides NSI students and staff with access to over 6,500 full-text Australian Standards for the purpose of course-related research and private study (conditions apply). Search for Australian Standards by visiting http://infostore.saiglobal.com/store/
Please note: information about the Standard but not full text access via this link. |
Online access is provided in each NSI library (USB drive required to save electronic copies). Please note that this service is provided strictly for course-related research and private study by current NSI students and staff and that, by use of the service, users agree to adhere to the Conditions Of Use SAI Global Limited. |
The interactive house helps you to understand which standards apply to residential dwellings. |
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BCA Illustrated is an online version of the Building Code of Australia (BCA) including explanations and over 3000 illustrations. 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 DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det).
Hard copies of the BCA are available at Hornsby, Meadowbank, St Leonards & Northern Beaches. |
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Bloom’s Literary Reference Online
(Facts on File) |
This resource includes the writings of renowned literary critic Harold Bloom, as well as an archive of tens of thousands of characters, a timeline of world literature, a special feature on Harold Bloom’s Western Canon, videos on authors and works, and extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, genres, biographies and much more. |
Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
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Premium content of peer-reviewed, business related journals, with coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Full-text includes: nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed journals, more than 1,700 trade journals and general business magazines, nearly 1,000 books/monographs, nearly 20,000 industry reports, 17,000 company profiles, over 50 faculty seminar videos. |
DEC username and password required.
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EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 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 760 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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DEC username and password required.
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CINAHL guide
[PDF, 377 KB]
CINAHL basic & advanced search [PPT]
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 2,000 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 950 periodicals. |
DEC username and password required.
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EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 KB] |
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CultureVision addresses cultural differences in patient care. Its current content covers reports on over 30 ethnicities and 11 religions. |
DEC username and password required. |
ProQuest guide [PDF, 556 KB] |
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This collection currently provides 80+ CSIRO eBooks covering a range of topics including agriculture, horticulture, floristry, landscaping, plant & animal sciences and environmental management & sustainability.
The eBooks can be downloaded to an eReader for up to 30 days. Requires the software Adobe Digital Editions (PC) or BlueFire Reader (Mac and ipad) which are freely available. Please note: the download function is not currently available on campus.
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Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
CSIRO user guide [PDF, 1.12 MB]
CSIRO eBooks
condition of use
[PDF, 51 KB] |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost
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eBooks on EBSCOhost provides full-text access to a wide range of online books, including business and management. Click the eBooks link in the top bar to access titles by subject category.
This collection includes 30 up-to-date Issues in Society on a range of contemporary topics. Each book provides a compilation of the latest news, facts, opinions and statistics from a range of sources.
The eBooks can be downloaded to an eReader for up to 7 days. Requires a My EBSCOhost account and the software Adobe Digital Editions (PC) or BlueFire Reader (Mac and iPad) which is freely available. Please note: the download function is not currently available on campus. |
DEC username and password required. |
Searching, reading and downloading eBooks on EBSCOhost (help text).
Searching eBooks (Video tutorial - Flash Player required)
eBook transfer to eReader help sheet
Downloading eBooks on EBSCOhost
(Video tutorial - Flash Player required) |
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EBSCOhost combines following databases:
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DEC username and password required.
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EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 KB]
Create email alerts
[PDF, 658 KB]
EBSCO Publishing Youtube channel provides video tutorials |
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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 |
Freely available
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Entrez tutorial
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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. |
DEC username and password required. |
EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 KB] |
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EQUELLA |
EQUELLA is a digital repository that enables the storage, management, discovery and access of digital learning content and resources, including collaborative lesson planning. Provides access to past TAFE exams, flexible toolboxes and vLearn videos. |
DEC username and password required. |
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Our collection of FA Davis eBooks (currently 141 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.
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Only for NSI students & staff.
DEC username and password required.
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FA Davis title list
[PDF, 289 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 campuses and undergraduate research libraries. Each database offers hyperlinked full-text records, images, maps, timelines, citation information and more. Titles include:
Please report any problems e.g.videos not playing here. |
Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
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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DEC username and password required.
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Gale databases guide
[PDF, 495 KB]
Create email alerts
[PDF, 658 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. |
Freely available
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Health Reference Center
(Facts on File) |
The Health Reference Center provides clear and reliable information on today’s most pressing health topics and key social concerns through articles, definitions, images and nearly 600 videos. Subjects included are
* Body Systems * Diseases & Disorders * Drug Abuse & Addiction * Mental Health & Development Disorders * Nutrition & Wellness
It also offers group specific health topics such as
Children’s Health * Teens’ Health * Women’s Health * Men’s Health * Seniors’ Health
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Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
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Past HSC exam papers provided by the Board of Studies NSW.
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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 490 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.
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DEC username and password required.
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EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 KB]
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IBISWorld
Coming soon! |
IBISWorld is an online research provider of Australian Industry, Risk and Company data that saves
you time by presenting facts and forecasts in an easy-to-digest report format. The following reports can be downloaded directly from the website or viewed online:
- Australia industry reports (ANZSIC)
- Global industry reports
- Australia risk ratings reports
- Australia risk scores listing
- Australia business environment profiles
- Australia company reports
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DEC username and password required. |
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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 |
Freely available
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Joanna Briggs Institute - Evidence-based resources
(ProQuest)
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The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) evidence-based nursing information opens a new world of education resources, with critical appraisal and meta-analysis that is highly respected and unquestioned in the field. These resources include
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DEC username and password required. |
ProQuest guide [PDF, 556 KB]
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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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lynda.com
via
Student Portal
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Staff Portal |
Contains over 1,500 high quality online courses teaching creative and business skills on about 1,600 subject areas such as MS Office, Adobe programs, digital media, social media, web development, programming, design, smart phones, tablets and computers. These comprehensive courses are available in all levels from beginners to advanced. |
Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: log in to the Student Portal with their DEC username and password. Then go to the My Learning tab and click the More option.
Staff: log in to the Staff Portal with their DEC username and password and click the My training tab.
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MarketLine Advantage
Business database
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MarketLine Advantage offers a comprehensive collection of business profiles such as:
- 33,000+ company profiles incl. 2,500+ SWOT
- 3,500+ industry profiles incl. Porters Five Forces scorecards
- 110+ country profiles
- 150+ up-to-date case studies
It also gives you access to country statistics, market data analytics, financial deals (monthly) and company financials & top ten industry players guide as well as news and opinions (live feed). |
Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
MarketLine guide [PDF, 513 KB]
Video tutorial |
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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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DEC username and password required.
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EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 KB]
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MedCom Video Training Programs Collection
(ProQuest) |
MedCom Video Training Programs Collection is a resource of video clips covering assessment, procedure, prevention, and other nursing topics. |
DEC username and password required. |
ProQuest guide [PDF, 556 KB]
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Modern World History Online
(Facts on File) |
Modern World History Online covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the resent.
Thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, primary sources and timeline entries combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history.
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Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
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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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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 DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
Oxford Art Online guide [PDF, 844 KB]
Guided tour MS PowerPoint required.
Access timelines and thematic guides [PDF, 346 KB]
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A searchable collection of 215+ 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 DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
Take a tour (video)
Short introduction [PDF]
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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. |
DEC 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 almost 400,000 records 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://www.popline.org/ |
Freely available
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Searching tutorial
Flash Player required. |
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Provides free access to over 33,000 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/ |
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. |
DEC username and password required. |
ProQuest guide [PDF, 556 KB]
Create email alerts
[PDF, 658 KB]
ProQuest tutorials are available at the ProQuest video channel via YouTube |
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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 20 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 |
Freely available
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PubMed tutorial
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 user guides
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Science Online
(Facts on File) |
Science Online presents a broad range of scientific disciplines including
* Chemistry * Computer Science * Earth Science * Environmental Science * Marine Science * Mathematics
* Physics * Space & Astronomy * Weather & Climate
through extensive essays, diagrams, biographies, experiments, definitions, images, and videos and animations. |
Only for NSI students & staff.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
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SkillsOne TV |
Hundred of videos about getting a trade or a skill. Subject areas included are:
Automotive * Building & construction * Business * Community services * Electrical * Film * Health care * Hospitality * IT * Metals & engineering * Tourism
and more. |
Freely available |
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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. |
DEC username and password required. |
EBSCOhost guide
[PDF, 379 KB] |
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Past TAFE NSW exam papers are available from the Learning Content Management System - Equella. Please note: These are questions only. Answers and solutions are not provided.
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DEC 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.
Please report any problems with accessing TVNews via our feedback form. This will help us to improve the access to the database. Thank you! |
Only for NSI students & staff.
DEC username and password required. |
TVNews guide
[PDF, 592 KB]
TVNews FAQs
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vLearn via Equella
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200+ vLearn videos are now available via Equella.
Subject areas covered are aboriginal studies, anatomy, beauty services, business, career development, child studies, community services, customer service, food services, English language, health & safety, history, hospitality, HRM, nursing, nutrition, sport & recreation, tourism and more.
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Only for NSI students & staff.
DEC username and password required. |
Program support notes are available on www.vea.com.au
Click the Support Notes tab and then search for the videos. The notes can be downloaded. |
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Free research database for tertiary education, especially as it relates to workforce needs, skills development, and social inclusion provided by the NCVER. It is international in scope and contains over 44,000 English language records, many with links to full text documents.
http://www.voced.edu.au/ |
Freely available |
Basic user guides are available in Word or PDF format |
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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
Type the name of the journal you wish to access into the search box and make sure you have publication titles ticked. Then submit your search. |
Only for NSI students attending at Ryde Campus.
Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of username (e.g. john.smith@edu).
Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@det). |
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