The Ebsco electronic database of magazines provides full text access to Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers, newswires, and reference books giving a local perspective on current events, business, sports and many other subjects. The database also includes many international magazines, newspapers and reference books as well as 96,600 full text biographies, covering many international figures. The extensive Image Collection provides access to 116,000 photos, maps and flags. Your will need your current City of Nedlands Library Service membership card number to login to this service.

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Search Engines 

AltaVista, an accurate search engine with a very large database, accessing over 30 million pages. AltaVista offers a simple search or advanced query mode.

Google makes heavy use of link popularity as a way to rank web sites. This is helpful in finding sites in response to general searches such as "cars" and "travel", because users across the web have in effect voted for good sites by linking to them.

Hotbot is one of the most accurate and up-to-date search engines, rarely presenting non-existent pages.

Northern Light is part search engine, part full-text database service, Northern Light has powerful search capabilities. It ranks results by type e.g. commercial/non-profit and is fast becoming one of the most popular search engines.

Ask Jeeves for Kids is a search engine for kids and their questions. Type in a question and Jeeves will try to answer it for you.

Web Wombat is the leading Australian search engine. It has the largest online database of searchable information on Australia.

Yahoo! is a popular search engine with subject directory and links to news, weather and financial information.

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