Online databases
The library’s databases are available free of charge to library members. All can be accessed in the library and some are available from home.
Gale offers a variety of resources for education, lifelong learning and academic research. View user guide.
As well as being able to access all of Waverley Library’s online databases, your Waverley Library card gives you access to the State Library's online resources. Register your card here.
Business
Careers
Cooking & nutrition
Environment
Family history
General reference
Global & social issues
Health
Law
Literature
Science
- Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles and more. - Gale Business: Plan Builder
Grow, plan, and optimise a business or nonprofit. Utilise development tools and a step-by-step process to build a business plan. - Gale Business Insights: Global
Compare global economies, countries, and industries with in-depth analysis on over 400,000 companies.
- Gale One File: Careers and Vocations
Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning and get assistance with job searches and maintaining a career.
- Gale One File: Culinary Arts
Find a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as key reference titles.
- Gale in Context: Environmental Studies
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news and multimedia content. - Greenfile
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. Offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. - National Geographic Kids
Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology and space. - National Geographic Virtual Library
Explore over a century of iconic images and fascinating narratives that capture the wonder of our planet and beyond
- Ancestry Library (in-library access only)
World's largest online family history resource. Access on any computer or via the app (apple or android) through the library's free Wi-Fi.
- Australian/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus
Designed for libraries in Australia and New Zealand, this resource provides the largest collection of full text from leading regional and international periodicals, full-text reference books, full-text biographies and a collection of images containing photos, maps and flags. - Gale One File: Australia and New Zealand
Access comprehensive periodical content with a focus on Australia and New Zealand, complemented by global news, reference and multimedia coverage. - Gale One File: News
Access major newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date or other fields. Includes Australian News Limited and Fairfax newspapers. - Gale General One File
Provides periodical and news information through an intuitive, user-friendly search interface for researchers at all levels. - NewsBank's Access Australia
Comprehensive news coverage from all Australian states and territories and beyond. From local publications to nationwide news sources such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian, Access Australia includes content from the most popular daily, weekly and Sunday newspapers as well as community and regional news. - Proquest
Contains scholarly journals, books, videos and audio, dissertations and theses, newspapers and more.
- Gale in Context: Global Issues
Analyse important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news and multimedia content. - Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Find overviews, news and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues. - Gale One File: Diversity Studies
Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. - Gale One File: Pop Culture Studies
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyse and contribute to popular culture. Useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
- Gale: Health and Wellness
Access full text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia and much more. This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices for researchers of all levels. - Gale One File: Health and Medicine
Students, researchers, and health care professionals can find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. - Gale in Context: Biography
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine and multimedia content. - Gale in Context: World History
Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in world history from a variety of sources.
- Find Legal Answers (access through State Library of NSW eResources)
Free legal information for the community of New South Wales. Provides a subject pathway to plain language information about the law.
- AustLit (remote access only – login to Member Services required)
An authoritative database about Australian literature and storytelling. Login to Member Services to access AustLit in the top menu of your library account. - AustLit (in-library access)
An authoritative database about Australian literature and storytelling, with biographical and bibliographical information, full text, exhibitions and rich online content. - Gale: Books and Authors
Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics. - Gale: Literature Resource Center
Find up to date biographies, overviews, full text criticisms, audio interviews and reviews on writers from all eras. - NoveList Plus
Guides and advises readers on other fiction and non-fiction titles of interest either by subject or 'read alikes' – other authors who are similar to a favourite author.
- Gale in Context: Science
Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments and more. - Gale Interactive: Science
Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualise and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science.
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