Online encyclopaedias are great for concise and correct overviews.
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ClickView offers a large selection of video content from free to air channels and selected Foxtel content. Search by keywords or browse through their subject collections e.g. Geography. Once you have found something you can stream it or save it to watch later on your Workspace (1G free online storage). You may also save to your local device.
Search the Forrest Library Catalogue using general search terms to find information books about your geography topic:
Alternatively you can browse the shelves using Dewey to guide you:
Dewey | Subject |
333.7 | Sustainability |
333.9 | Water |
577 | Biomes |
551 | Physical Geography |
551 | Weather and climate |
910 | Geography |
919 | Australian Geography |
Need some help in effectively using Britannica? Check out this overview:
Make sure you use Advanced Google or try out handy Google modifiers.
EBSCOhost online database: Offers a broad range of full text and bibliographic databases designed for research.
Hints:
eLibrary offers full-text documents in many media types including • Popular magazines and scholarly journals • Current newspapers and newswires • Television and radio transcripts • Audio and video clips • Photographs and pictures • Maps from more than a dozen sources • Reference books • Educator-reviewed editor's choice websites . This resource pool updates daily, ensuring access to the very latest information. Searches may be limited to Australian sources only.
It is important to show your teacher you used a variety of reliable resources. Use the online Reference Generator available through the Portal to create your citations. Make sure you alphabetically sort them afterwards.
A sample bibliography for 3 resources listed on this page would look like:
Google Search Operators & Commands n.d., Chart, SlideShare, accessed 14 September 2016, <http://image.slidesharecdn.com/googlesearchoperatorlix-ray-140923031955-phpapp02/95/google-search-operator-li-x-ray-2-638.jpg?cb=1411442897>.
Green, J 2013, World History CrashCourse, online video, 3 September 2013, accessed 14 September 2016, <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9>.
National Library of Australia n.d., TROVE, Australian Government, accessed 14 September 2016, <http://trove.nla.gov.au/>.