Dictionary of Literary Biography provides information on authors and their works in an easy-to-understand way while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.
Gale Literature Resource Center provides current, biographical and contextual materials on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Source of curated content from Australian, New Zealand and International sources covering important issues relating to Australia and New Zealand. Featuring authoritative and continuously updated reference material and focused on an Australian and New Zealand perspective, this user-friendly
The Gale Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines including thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
The Gale OneFile Fine Arts collection provides access to magazines and journals to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
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.
Gale OneFile: News provides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. News also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.
Gale Research Complete searches Academic OneFile, General OneFile, Infotrac, NewsStand, Literature Resource Center, and OneFile: Australia and New Zealand.
If you're interested in renovating, building and decorating and want information from a team of industry experts in lighting, heating, flooring, interiors, colour, sustainable design and so much more, you must subscribe to Grand Designs Australia magazine.
Oxford Music Online is derived from the Grove Music Encyclopaedia and provides detailed information about musicians, specific works, music instruments and musical styles.
Hoopla is a digital media service that allows library members to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on their computer or mobile device with no holds or waiting.
The Illustrated London News provides marked a revolution in journalism and presented a vivid picture of British and world events from 1842 onwards with more than a 150 years searchable content of the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper.
The Irish Newspaper Archive contains over 6 million pages in over 500,000 issues of Irish Newspaper publications spanning back as far as 1763. The contents of all issues are fully text searchable and reflect the full context and layout of each page.
Kanopy provides the State Library and WA Public Libraries members access to a collection of films - including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases.
Kanopy Kids provides access TV series, learning languages, animated storybooks, Anime favourites, classic films and family movies to suitable for children.
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.
Naxos Music Library is a collection of music tracks you can listen to, including the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues including classical music, historical recordings, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music with notes on the works played, composers or artists.
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.