Senior School/Middle School Research Centre
This database provides full text access to major Australian and overseas papers. It includes current articles and articles dating back to approximately twelve years. In addition these databases include information from a variety of magazines, books, pictures, maps, televisio and radio news services.
If you are a student in Years 8-9 choose the Middle School Research Centre option
and if you are in Years 11-12 choose the Senior School Research Centre option.
IMPORTANT : At school you do not need to put in the username and password BUT any access outside the school requires these.The username and password is available from the library circulation desk.
Fifteen new Issues in Society are purchased by the library every year and each contain up-to-date, diverse information about global social issues. They include previously published information sourced from newspapers, magazines, journals, government reports, surveys, websites and lobby group literature. They explore a range of facts and opinions which gives a concise overview of the topic.
If you want to check out the titles the library has, search the library catalogue using a series search and type in issues society. A list of over 190 titles come up. To find the most recent use Sort by and choose publication year and these will come to the top. Recent titles are available as both a print and digital edition. The digital edition is identifiable by this icon 
and to access it click on the title and in the bottom left hand side of the screen click on Download E-File to download it. You can save it and use it for your research OR you can borrow the print edition.
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you may have an issue in mind and using fast find (the default search is title, subject, keyword and author) a title may come up in your search results. Scan the list for any titles edited by Justin Healey which will be part of the Issues in Society series. Make sure you check the publication date to get the most up-to-date information from the library shelves.