Nonfiction and research

Discover nonfiction eResources for FREE with your State Library of Western Australia membership. Start your journey by either searching the catalogue to find individual eBooks, or by accessing the eResource platforms listed below.

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Taylor and Francis

Access a collection of over 32 000 eBooks through Taylor and Francis.

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Cambridge Core

Full access to Cambridge’s Histories & Companions titles.

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JSTOR

Access academic content from over 200 scholarly publishers, including university presses like Princeton, Yale and California.
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Gale Research Complete

Gale Research Complete combines multiple databases and archives in one platform.

Cambridge Core

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Full access to Cambridge’s Histories & Companions titles. Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering an accessible introduction to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.

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CSIRO Publishing

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Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, CSIRO publishes eBooks on a wide range of scientific disciplines including agriculture, the plant and animal sciences, chemistry, health and the environment published since 2003 with new titles released annually.

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Ebook Central

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Ebook Central provides access to over 120,000 non fiction ebook titles on a wide range of subjects from a number of major publishers that you can read online or downloaded for a short period to your own device to read later.

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EBSCO eBook Collection

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Access to nearly 10,000 eBooks by leading independent publishers and University presses.  

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

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A collection of encyclopedias, almanacs and specialised reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

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JSTOR

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Access academic content from over 200 scholarly publishers, including university presses like Princeton, Yale and California.
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Oxford Reference Collection

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Oxford Reference Collection is of a core set of Encyclopedias and Dictionaries and other recognised reference material for 25 subject areas, including Social Sciences, Science and Technology, Religion, Music, Art and Architecture and language dictionaries with information and language suitable fo

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Taylor and Francis

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Access a collection of over 32 000 eBooks through Taylor and Francis. Subject areas covered include behavioural science & education, humanities & media arts, and social science.  

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AustLit

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Austlit indexes and describes Australian literature published in a range of print and electronic sources.

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Consumer Health Complete

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Consumer Health Complete covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as nutrition, dietetics, men's health; women's health, and children's health.

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Gale Academic OneFile

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Gale Academic OneFile gives full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines.

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Gale Research Complete

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Gale Research Complete combines multiple databases and archives in one platform. It includes over 48,000 periodicals, 13 million pages of historical primary sources, 3,200 eBooks and 2.5 million literature works. 

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IBISworld

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Ibisworld provides access to Australian business information and reports for independent and up to date research on over 500 industries and reports on Australia's top 2000 companies.

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IBISWorld AU & NZ Enterprise Profiles

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IBISWorld's AU & NZ Enterprise Profiles analyse thousands of leading enterprises across Australia and New Zealand, including: ASX and NZX listed companies; public, private and foreign-owned companies; local, state and federal government departments.

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Lexis Advance Pacific

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Lexis Advance Pacific is the legal research platform that provides online access to significant Australian legal resources including Australian Law Reports, LawNow Legislation and Halsbury's Laws of Australia, Family Law, Immigration Law, WA Criminal Law, WA Civil Procedure, WA Workers' Compensat

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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text

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Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, most with available full text and books, research reports and proceedings for librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management.

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Science Reference Center

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Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images from National Geographic, UPI, Getty, NASA and Nature Picture Library.

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TROVE

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Trove is a new discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians. It supplements what search engines provide with reliable information from Australia's memory institutions.

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