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.
Sports Development & Sports Studies
- Australian Screen – Film clips about Sports and Health