Britannica School Encyclopedia
Britannica Online School Edition is a comprehensive reference and learning portal for students from Prep to Year 12. It Includes four encyclopedias and over 120,000 articles, as well as atlases, dictionaries, timelines and multimedia. The Encyclopedia supports students with an extensive collection of study guides and curriculum based learning activities. Students from Prep to Year 5 are encouraged to use the Primary School section, the Middle School section is suitable for Years 6 to 8, and the High section for Years 9 to 12. You can save your search results, use the Multimedia resources for oral presentations, and email search results to your iPad. Students can cite information by clicking on the 'tick in a box' button at the top of the page. Please note: Access is only available at school. For further information please see the Library staff.
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) subscribes to many wonderful databases. It is strongly advised that you become a SLQ member. It's free and only takes a minute! Click Here to become a member.
When using the SLQ databases remember the key is to work smarter not harder. Therefore, refine your results by using the limiters on the right hand side of the page. Once you locate a suitable resource, make sure you look at the suggested related items on the right hand side of the page as they can lead you to other resources. If an article or book has a list of references, be sure to scan the titles as this too can lead you to more resources.
Remember to use the 'Cite' button to create your reference (APA).
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
USFEFUL RESEARCH TIP: Use a research journal to document your key words and phrases and what search engines/databases/websites you've searched. This will save you time and ensure you're not going around in circles searching a topic. More suggested key words and phrases are provided on the research ready web page.