ANZ Reference Centre

About the Database

The ANZ Reference Centre is a core database subscribed to through the Gulliver consortium.

ANZ Reference Centre combines Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create a collection of regional full text content available to libraries Australia and New Zealand.
This database includes Australian and New Zealand periodicals and international periodicals in full text; full text reference books; 84,774 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

It contain the following Victorian newspapers in full text
-The Age
-The Australian
-Herald Sun

Information Guides

The following tutorials have been provided by EBSCO. The first link will take you to an online tutorial on basic searching.

Searching Tutorial - click here (4 minutes)

If you are feeling more adventurous after looking at this tutorial perhaps you may like to remind yourself what "Visual Searching" is all about and how it works. Again the good folk at EBSCO have put together an online tutorial that will help. This one only runs for 2 minutes and 20 seconds so get yourself a cup of tea and shift your mind into training mode.

Visual Search Tutorial - click here (2 minutes 20 seconds)

For those of you who really want to be known as "Power Users" have a look at the tutorial on how to create search and journal alerts.

Search and Alerts Tutorial - click here (4 minutes)

EBSCO have released an upgrade to the look of the database. For more information go to the following demonstration.

EBSCOhost 2.0 user interface


Explore

The database can be found on the Databes page of the Yarra Plenty website under "General Reference" and also under "Newspapers" . Go to this link and explore the database

http://www.yprl.vic.gov.au/computers/databases.html#newspaper_databases

Questions to test you

See if you can find information or answers to the following questions:

1. Find a review of "That Memory Book" - who wrote the book and who wrote the review?

2. Recommend 2 articles on the use of Stem Cell Technology to make Insulin. Name the articles and their authors.

3. Find a recipe for Chocolate Mud Cake and Mandarin Ice Cream. Which copy of the Australian