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APA-FT (Australian Public - Full Text)
  • AustralianPublic Affairs - Full Text is an online collection of scanned images of articles from more than 300 Australian journals indexed in APAIS, the Australian Public Affairs Information Service produced by the National Library of Australia

  • Of particular use to Community services, General studies, Nursing, Childcare, Youth studies etc.
  • For APAFT the User ID is , the password is
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Chemwatch Gold
  • Chemwatch supplies modules for computer-based chemical management, according to intended industry application. These are used throughout the world by Governments, Industry, Emergency Services, Military, Hospitals, Educational Institutions and Unions.

    Chemwatch can take control of your chemical management and design a system to ensure every details and risk - within your organisation - is assessed and covered.

    In order to provide full chemical management systems for all users of chemicals, Chemwatch is the world's largest supplier of independently researched material safety data sheets (MSDS) and other related documents.

  • Chemwatch Applications and Services
    • Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) - reference database of over 1 million
    • Storage and Manifesting - tracks movement and storage
    • Transport - automated documentation for land, sea and air
    • Labelling - customisable while compliant with international legislation
    • Risk Assessment - exposure data, evaluation and handling procedures
    • Emergency Response (ChInA) - world wide, 24 hour access to specialist team
    • Personnel - health monitoring and symptomology
    • Multi Language abilities - over 20 European and Asian languages
    • Secure Internet, Intranet, LAN or WAN environments - with full service and support
    • 500 regulatory and legislative databases
    • Bulletin Board - weekly legislation and scientific updates
    • World wide backup and customer service - including training
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Australian Standards Online (ask the library staff to login with password for you)

ERIC (Education Database)
  • The ERIC Database is updated monthly. ERIC Document (ED) citations go from 1966 - Aug 2002, and ERIC Journal (EJ) Citations from 1966 - August 2002. EJ documents are abstracts of Journal articles which the library can help you to source. 
     
  • ED documents are available through the Library Inter Library Loan system, it will take a week to 10 days, Curtin University holds all of these on Microfiche, and you will be given a microfiche copy. Access to the general ERIC site is below, note there is also a section for Lesson Plans as well. To access click on the icon below:
The Gateway
  • Created by the United States Department of Education, The Gateway to Educational Materials is a free, meta-search engine that lets educators (and parents) search for lesson plans from over 24,480 different Internet resources.

  • You can use The Gateway like any other search engine: The Gateway lets you search for lesson plans by grade level from K-12, Community College, Vocational Education, Adult Education & Higher Education.
Infotrac (Onefile) - Journals Database
  • Infotrac is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business to sports, technology and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. 4,409 full-text titles . Updated daily.


Oxford Reference On Line
  • Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

    The collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.
VOCED DATABASE
  • Covers the topics of vocational education and training research, policy, practice, training systems and published statistics. It has extensive coverage of Australian material and includes a wide range of key international information.

  • Each entry contains standard bibliographic information, an abstract, and key index terms. Entries are in English, but may refer to documents in other languages. Each entry also provides information about obtaining the full text of the document. Many entries are available in full text or have links to where the document can be found on the web. All documents listed on the database held by the State local clearinghouse.
 
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