VCE - Humanities

Subject Specialist

Josephine Mansour

Craigieburn Campus Librarian
Phone:	(03) 9308 4627
Email:	jmansour@kangan.edu.au

Highly Recommended Resources

Dictionary.com
Good university guide - education, training and career pathways
VCE help - VCE resources for students, parents and teachers

(For off-campus access, enter via the Student Portal or request a password by emailing LLC, quoting your student number.)

Websites

National Library of Australia - collection of Australia's culture and heritage
State Library of Victoria - Victoria's information repository
Bendigo Senior Secondary College - VCE Exam hints and tips
VCAA - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
Victoria Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Government information for young people - information and links to government initiatives aimed at young people
OH&S online videos - SafetyCare Montie has many safety programs which can be viewed, topics include fire awareness, personal protection, manual handling.

English and Literature

ABC - news and programmes from the ABC
Oxford Reference Online - specialist and bi-lingual dictionaries
(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)
Shmoop - VCE literature and history information
The Age - latest news and reviews of happenings in Melbourne
The Herald Sun - latest news from Melbourne

History

Trove - historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954
Australian History - Australian History Ancient to Modern
National Library of Australia - Selected Historical Websites

Legal Studies

The Law Handbook
Law Institute Victoria - Law Institute Journal
(For off-campus access, enter via the Student Portal or request a password by emailing LLC, quoting your student number.)
Law Internet Resources - Australian and International law compiled by the Parliamentary Library

Catalogue

Search Library Catalogue - enter specific topics (e.g. fork lift trucks, warehouses management, transportation) in the keyword search box or look directly on the shelves at these numbers:

Keywords	Shelf numbers
Australian history	994
Australia politics and government	320.994, 994.04092
Australia social conditions 20th century	305.0994
Citizenship Australia	323.60994
Civil and political rights	323
Ethics	170, 174
Philosophy	128, 190
France history	944
History, modern 20th century	909.82
Idealism	113, 141
Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921	947.0841
Political science	320.04
Sociology	301
Literature	808.042, 823.3

Online e.journals, Databases and Magazines

EBSCOhost Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre

Titles include: The Age, The Australian, AAP Australian National News Wire, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia, Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Infotrac: General OneFile

Titles include: Australian Journal of Politics and History, Youth Studies Australia, Australian Journal of Education, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Australian Journal of Social Issues

(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)

Contact your subject specialist to book an online database training session or click on EBSCOhost or click on Infotrac (Power Search)

Dictionaries

Oxford Reference