Australian Book Review Online Edition is an enhanced version of the magazine Australian Book Review. Created in 1961, it publishes reviews, essays, commentaries and creative writing. ABR Online Edition provides a full range of critical and creative writing from around Australia.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library contains many books and archives on global biodiversity. Full text of rare and early publications relating to Western Australia is available.
Busythings helps children learn important skills in the key learning areas of creative development, problem solving, reasoning, numeracy, communication, language and literacy.
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.
The Directory of Open Access Journals provides free peer-reviewed journals. There are over 15,000 journals available with high quality full research articles. The articles are available in a variety of languages and cover a number of subjects.
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.
Gale General OneFile provides access to periodical and news information on topics, including humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues and general interest topics.
Gale Research Complete searches Academic OneFile, General OneFile, Infotrac, NewsStand, Literature Resource Center, and OneFile: Australia and New Zealand.
The Goodwill Community Foundation offers free online courses on technical and creative topics. These aim to improve skills and knowledge using videos, games and interactive lessons.
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.
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.
LOTE4Kids is a digital collection of picture books (ebooks and audiobooks) in a diverse range of World Languages. It allows kids to enjoy the magic of books and other activities in LOTE (Languages Other Than English), both in State Library and at home.
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.