eResources for teachers and students

The State Library of Western Australia subscribes to many eResources on behalf of its members and clients. Many of these are useful for school teachers and students, providing free access to websites which would otherwise require a paid subscription.

Atlas of Living Australia

Freely accessible to all
The Atlas of Living Australia is an online database of Australian biodiversity. It includes education resources, interactive maps and citizen science projects.
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Busy Things Online

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With a Public Library card
Busythings helps children learn important skills in the key learning areas of creative development, problem solving, reasoning, numeracy, communication, language and literacy.
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Historical Panoramas

Freely accessible to all

Historical Panoramas features panoramic photographs of Perth and Fremantle. These panoramas show how Perth has developed over a period of more than 150 years.

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Khan Academy

Freely accessible to all
Khan Academy produces short video lessons, and includes practice exercises and materials for educators. All resources are free.
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Atlas of Living Australia

Freely accessible to all
The Atlas of Living Australia is an online database of Australian biodiversity. It includes education resources, interactive maps and citizen science projects.
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Busy Things Online

With a State Library card
With a Public Library card
Busythings helps children learn important skills in the key learning areas of creative development, problem solving, reasoning, numeracy, communication, language and literacy.
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Historical Panoramas

Freely accessible to all

Historical Panoramas features panoramic photographs of Perth and Fremantle. These panoramas show how Perth has developed over a period of more than 150 years.

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Khan Academy

Freely accessible to all
Khan Academy produces short video lessons, and includes practice exercises and materials for educators. All resources are free.
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LibraryCraft

Freely accessible to all
LibraryCraft allow for various styles of gameplay as single or multiplayer. 
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OldPerth

Freely accessible to all

Navigate through space and time with the OldPerth project created in cooperation with Curtin University HIVE.  Explore thousands of State Library images that are geotagged with an interactive map. This resource includes lesson plans for teachers and classroom activities.

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Year 7 to Year 12

Age of Exploration

With a State Library card
Age of Exploration Archive covers five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes, and decades-long search and rescue attempts in this multi-archive dedicated to the history of exploration.
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Atlas of Living Australia

Freely accessible to all
The Atlas of Living Australia is an online database of Australian biodiversity. It includes education resources, interactive maps and citizen science projects.
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Aussie Driver

Freely accessible to all
Aussie Driver provides practice learner driving tests. It also contains comprehensive information on Western Australian road rules.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography

Freely accessible to all
The Australian Dictionary of Biography contains biographical information on over 13,000 people. It is a useful source of historical information on notable Australians.
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Design and Art Australia Online

Freely accessible to all
Design & Art Australia Online contains data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators. The site is a space for people to share and analyse data about Australian art and design history.
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Duolingo

Freely accessible to all

Duolingo is a language-learning website and mobile app. Through bit-size lessons, it makes learning a language fun.

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EPA Climate Change

Freely accessible to all
The EPA Climate Change site contains a wealth of information on climate change, iIncluding facts, research and resources. It also suggests ways to reduce emissions, from the national to individual level.
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First World War Portal

With a State Library card
The First World War Portal contains personal and printed material, military files, ephemera and artwork highlighting the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of the conflict coverings an array of perspectives, wartime propaganda and recruitment material.
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Frontier Life

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Frontier Life collection captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the English Empire from 1650-1920. Experience settlements across the various frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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Historical Panoramas

Freely accessible to all

Historical Panoramas features panoramic photographs of Perth and Fremantle. These panoramas show how Perth has developed over a period of more than 150 years.

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Khan Academy

Freely accessible to all
Khan Academy produces short video lessons, and includes practice exercises and materials for educators. All resources are free.
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LibraryCraft

Freely accessible to all
LibraryCraft allow for various styles of gameplay as single or multiplayer. 
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LitFinder

With a State Library card
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
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Map Search

Freely accessible to all
Map Search allows layering of various historical Australian maps over current maps. It provides an interactive way of exploring how places have changed over time.
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Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature Archive

With a State Library card
Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature Archive presents unique insight into the age of cartography and the rise of leisure travel during the nineteenth century, including a myriad of sketch maps created during colonial exploration and expansion.
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Margaret Gee's Media Guide

With a State Library card

Margaret Gee's Australian Media Guide is a resource for anyone who deals with or operates within any facet of Australian media industry with information for over 25,000 media contacts and 3,000 media outlets.

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Meanjin Journal backfiles 1940-2004

Within the SLWA Building

Meanjin literary journal represent Australia's cultural memory through contemporary Australasian literature, the arts and modern culture itself, exploring subjects as diverse as migration, suburbia, popular music and television.

Medical Services and Warfare collection

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Medical Services and Warfare archive provides primary source material on medicine during conflict across the globe from 1850-1949 including research medical developments including x-rays, plastic surgery and artificial limbs for example.
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Migration to New Worlds

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Migration to New Worlds collection provides a wide-ranging and in depth look at the emigration of peoples from Great Britain, mainland Europe and Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through personal accounts, shipping logs, convict records, and printed literature and papers.
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National Archives of Australia

Freely accessible to all
The National Archives of Australia collects, preserves and provides access to Government records. Many records are available online for professional research or personal interest.
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NationalMap

Freely accessible to all
NationalMap is an online map-based tool. It allows easy access to spatial data from Australian government agencies. Various datasets can be overlaid and explored on the map.
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OldPerth

Freely accessible to all

Navigate through space and time with the OldPerth project created in cooperation with Curtin University HIVE.  Explore thousands of State Library images that are geotagged with an interactive map. This resource includes lesson plans for teachers and classroom activities.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

With a State Library card

Dictionary of National Biography explores the lives of over 57,000 people who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years - from the Greek explorer Pytheas to Princess Diana, and from the founding fathers of America to the Nawabs of Bengal containing articles and portrait illustrations

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Oxford Encyclopedia of Popular Music

With a State Library card

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music covers popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music with entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals.

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