To log on to any of the following databases you are required to be a member of a West Australian Public Library. Your membership number is located on your library card. If you are not currently a member of Geraldton-Greenough Regional Library but would like to join to gain access to any of these databases click here. To access, click on the title of the database you wish to view. YourTutor is a free Online Tutoring Service. Get help with your homework from trained, professional tutors! YourTutor is available for students from Years 4 through to 12, Monday to Friday from 4pm to 8pm. Subject areas covered include: Maths, English, Science, Assignment Research and Study Skills. Students first select their subject and year level, they then enter the Online Classroom where they are connected to a live tutor. The student asks their question and the tutor works through it with them. EBSCO Host Databases: A database provider that offers several databases and indexes that may be searched at once. Full text articles are offered in both HTML and PDF format on thousands of titles. Access is provided to the following databases.
Please note: these databases MUST be accessed through EBSCOhost.Australia/NZ Reference Centre: combines Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to libraries in Oceania. This database includes leading Australia/NZ periodicals and international periodicals in full text; full text reference books; 84,774 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts: indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. Business Source Elite: This business database provides full text for nearly 1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. Regional Business News: This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. Consumer Health Complete: is EBSCO's interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles. NoveList: is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: The full Encyclopaedia Britannica database, plus Britannica Student Encyclopaedia and Britannica Elementary Encyclopaedia.
Health and Wellness Online Database: is a comprehensive resource for libraries, schools, and hospitals that provides integrated access to medical, statistical, fitness, health, and wellness information through an intuitive Web interface.
Access to the following databases is available to all members of the public, you do not require a library membership number to search them. To access, click on the title of the database you wish to view. Australian Newspapers Online: links to Australian national, state and regional newspapers. Libraries Australia: Libraries Australia is a vast catalogue containing more than 40 million books, journals, newspapers, pictures, maps and much more, located in over 800 Australian libraries many of which we can access via our free Inter-Library Loans service. Music Australia: Music made and played by Australians. Here, you can: discover historical and contemporary Australian music. View and print Australian sheet music and find full scores. Listen to sound recordings or purchase digital downloads. Find information about music, people and organisations. Explore related materials such as pictures, books, archived websites. Source items to borrow, copy or buy. MyLanguage : A national portal enhancing access to multilingual online information for all Australians. TumbleBooks : Introduce young children to the joys of reading with TumbleBooks, a delightful collection of animated, talking picture books. To access the free collection simply click here , then click on the TumbleBooks icon. Community Newspapers online : A searchable database of metroploitan community newspapers. Dates available are from the last two years.
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