eResearch

Our reference collection covers a huge range of subjects. It includes guides, directories, dictionaries, encyclopedias and a selection of online databases.

Access to Databases

The Library provides access to databases to enable research from your home or office as well as when you visit the library. When accessing databases from home you need to enter your Bathurst Library card number (including the 01/) as the patron ID. Bathurst Library staff are happy to assist.

Ancestry - in library only

Information on how to start your family tree and researching your family history. Only available for in-library use.

Ancestry Library Edition

Australia and New Zealand

Curated content from Australian, New Zealand and International sources covering important issues relating to Australia and New Zealand. Featuring authoritative and continuously updated reference material and focused on an Australian and New Zealand perspective, this user-friendly database organizes over 850 full-text publications including full-text ANZ periodicals, magazines, academic journals, ANZ news articles, images, videos and audio files.

Australia and New Zealand

Biography

Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.

Biography

Books and Authors

Answer the age-old question, “What do I read next?” Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.

Books and Authors

Business Insights: Global

Global provides thousands of global company, country and business topic overviews featuring detailed information as well as interactive rankings and statistics, with quick links to associated content. Information includes global Histories, SWOT Reports, Thomson Reuters Company Financials and Investment Reports, Market Share Reports, and Industry Research Essays, and well as periodical and journal articles

Business Insights: Global

Drug Info

This collection in the Bathurst Library provides information on specific drugs, guides for parents, effects of drugs and how to quit. Experts in this field have assessed the resources and the links available through the web site for quality.

Drug Info

Encyclopedia Britannica

Welcome to the NEW Britannica Library. The Award-Winning Resource for Children and Adults.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Environmental Studies

Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.

Environmental Studies

Find My Past - in library only

Access some of the world's most renowned historical databases and digitised records at Find My Past. Only available for in-library use.

Find My Past

Fine Arts

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.

Fine Arts

Gardening and Horticulture

Find millions of articles on the practical and scientific aspects of horticulture studies. For all horticultural enthusiasts.

Gale Gardening & Horticulture

General interest

Access general interest magazines and key serials with this powerful search tool. Browse by topic or use advanced search techniques.

Gale General Onefile

Global Issues

Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.

Global Issues

Good Reading Online

Welcome to the Good Reading's Hub for Book Lovers. You now have OPEN ACCESS to all areas of our Hub for Book Lovers.You can set up a profile where you can build your own wish list of books you want to read and recommend books to other readers.

Good Reading Online

Health and Wellness

Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.

Health & Wellness

Home Improvement

Search home improvement topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.

Gale Home Improvement

Interactive Science

Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science

Gale Interactive Science

Legal Info

Access to plain-language legal information through LIAC (the Legal Information Access Centre) is now available.

Legal Info

Gale In Context: Literature

Gain a deeper understanding of literary texts through a wide variety of contextual resources like videos, images, infographics, eBooks and more.

Gale In Context Literature

Literature Resource Centre

Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras

Gale Literature Resource Centre

National Geographic

Browse this cross-searchable platform for research insight from journalism's most trusted name in exploration and discovery.

National Geographic


National Geographic-Kids

Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Use this separate link children’s dedicated computers.

National Geographic Kids

News

Access major newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields. Includes Australian News Limited and Fairfax newspapers.

Gale News

Gale in Context: Opposing viewpoints

Find differing points of view on a wide range of current issues from subjects such as politics, business, health and society. Search for a topic or browse through featured issues to explore supporting information such as fulltext articles, videos and reference material.

Gale in Context: Opposing viewpoints

Science

Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.

Gale Science

Smithsonian Collections Online

Gale and the Smithsonian have collaborated to give libraries a unique opportunity to provide students, faculty, and researchers the chance to look behind the glass of the Smithsonian exhibits and collections.

The Smithsonian's content is vast and unmatched. The digitized documents within Smithsonian Collections Online are rich in their ability to be the source of new and exciting scholarship. The multi-year partnership between Gale and Smithsonian will result in a program of archives that span multidisciplinary topics for both research and education.

Smithsonian Collections Online

Vocations and Careers

Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches and maintaining a career

Vocations & Careers

World History

Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in world history from a variety of sources.

Gale World History