Loreto Library: Databases

Designed specifically for secondary schools and public libraries, Informit Explore contains Australian-centric authoritative research and learning content from a broad range of Australian journals and other publications. Users can search the database or use a topic-based starting point to explore issues affecting Australia and Australians. The database has a strong First Nations focus.

Provides encyclopedic articles, images, videos and links to relevant websites covering all aspects of history, science and human endeavour.

A guide to books and films for young people aged 5 to 18, searchable by author, title, theme, genre and age-range. Includes reviews and links to teacher resources and author websites.

A guide to children’s literature: books, short stories, traditional literature and poetry from around the world with an emphasis on Australian and New Zealand literature. It contains four separate databases: books & authors, poetry, short stories and awards.

World History chronicles the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilisations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements and people from the ancient world to today. It includes a vast array of content including journal articles, newspapers and news items, primary source items, reference source entries and biographies, video and audio, images, maps and atlases.

A library of over 300 eBooks, predominantly young adult fiction, with some general adult popular non-fiction as well.

This platform provides access to hundreds of eBook editions of Gale publications including encyclopedias, handbooks, critical analyses and other non-fictions texts.

Independent advice for Australian consumers, with product test reviews and consumer investigations, health, beauty and lifestyle tips with a consumer focus, and expert tips on personal finance matters.

An online generator of Harvard author-date system citations for a comprehensive range of information sources, for copying/pasting into bibliographies.

Featuring more than 650 news sources from across Australia, this fully searchable online resource offers the complete text of thousands of news articles, editorials, obituaries, classifieds and more. Coverage for most titles starts in the 1980s, 1990s or 2000s and continues through the present day. Access Australia includes influential news sources from every state and territory.

Contains a searchable news sources database of preselected, high quality resources, and a media files section which provide a detailed analysis of contemporary issues aimed at helping students understand current issues and events and their background.