Remember. . . We have heaps of extra textbooks to borrow.

Different textbooks explain things in different ways.  This is useful for many students.

All Sciences

• Khan Academy – Free online courses about many scientific disciplines.
• Mednar.com – A ‘deep-web’ search engine about medical sciences.
• New Scientist – Magazine format, range of topics.
• Oxford Academic Open Access Journals – thousands of free, full text articles.
• ScienceResearch.com – A ‘deep-web’ search engine of 300+ science and technology collections.  Click on ‘Advanced Search’ to search by subject area.
• What if? – An interesting dive into odd and curious questions about the world.

Agriculture

• First Nations (Australian Museum) – An extensive collection of First Nations realia, information and cultural material. Writers from First Nations offer their interpretations on a number of subjects.  Useful for Aboriginal practices related to care of land.

Biology

• Biology Textbooks – 12 freely available.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library – All the literature for the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
• First Nations (Australian Museum) – An extensive collection of First Nations realia, information and cultural material. Writers from First Nations offer their interpretations on a number of subjects.
• National Centre for Biotechnology Information – Life science and health care.
• Open Textbook Library – A number of textbooks to support various aspects of Biology.
• PhET Interactive Simulations – Open in Internet Explorer with Flash Player or try HTML5 link at the top.

Chemistry

• Chemistry Textbooks – Six freely available.
• Open Textbook Library – A number of textbooks to support various aspects of Chemistry.
• PhET Interactive Simulations – Open in Internet Explorer with Flash Player or try HTML5 link at the top.

Earth & Environmental Science

• Atlas of Living Australia – About all known species in Australia.
• Earth Science Textbooks – Three freely available.
• Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) – About the natural environments on the Earth.
• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
• First Nations (Australian Museum) – An extensive collection of First Nations realia, information and cultural material. Writers from First Nations offer their interpretations on a number of subjects.
• PhET Interactive Simulations – Open in Internet Explorer with Flash Player or try HTML5 link at the top.

Electricity & Electronics

• Open Culture – 10+ textbooks about electrical engineering.

Exercise Science

• Sport Integrity: Secondary Schools Resource Kit – Covers supplement use/nutrition, doping, match-fixing and ethics in sport.

Flight

• Excellent flight textbooks for loan in the LTC Library Help Desk.
• Open Textbook Library – First three textbooks in this list are useful.

Food

• Chemistry of Cooking – Online textbook.
• Textbooks about food are for loan in the Multimedia Room.

PE

• Sport Integrity: Secondary Schools Resource Kit – Covers supplement use/nutrition, doping, match-fixing and ethics in sport.

Physics

• PhET Interactive Simulations – Open in Internet Explorer with Flash Player or try HTML5 link at the top.
• Physics Textbooks – 24 freely available.
• Open Textbook Library – A number freely available.

Psychology

• American Psychological Association Highlights – Summaries of research; You can look up the full article on a database.
• Educational Psychology Textbook
• Lumen Learning Intro to Psychology– Covers lots of psychological topics.
• Open Textbook Library – 13 freely available.
• OpenStax Psychology Textbook
• PsychCentral – About mental disorders and mental illness.
• Seriously Social: The podcast and video content feature Australia’s top social scientists: educators and economists, lawyers and linguists, psychologists and philosophers, historians, geographers and more, making the resources thought-provoking and evidence-based
• Simply Psychology – Easy to read, about theories and perspectives.

Senior Science: Animal

• Anatomy and Physiology of Animals – Online textbook.
• Atlas of Living Australia – About all known species in Australia.

Senior Science: Forensics

Sports Development & Sports Studies

• Australian Screen – Film clips about Sports and Health