eResources
Penrith City Library provides access to a range of FREE online eResources to help with your research or informational needs 24 hours a day. These include online databases, newspapers, journal articles, magazines, e-books and a selection of public websites. All you need for access is an internet connection, your library card number and PIN (Date of birth). Connect either at the library or from your home computer or smart devices.
- Gale OneFile: Fine Arts
- Activity corner
- Australian Art Auction records (and New Zealand)
- Carter's price guide to antiques
- Britannica Image Quest
- Carter's price guide to antiques weblink@home
- Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
- Grove Art Online
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
- The Oxford Companion to Western Art
- Grove Music Online
- The Oxford Companion to Music
- The Oxford Dictionary of Music
- Beamafilm
- Gale in Context: World History
- American History Online
- Ancient and Medieval History
- Modern World History Online
- Ancestry - available @library only
- FindMyPast - available @library only
- The British Newspaper Archive: one place, millions of stories - available @library only
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
- Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian civilizations / by Charles F.W. Higham
- The Oxford Companion to World Exploration/ edited by David Buisseret. Oxford Digital Book.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History / edited by John B. Hattendorf
- Gale Literature: Literature Resource Centre
- Gale Literature: Books and Authors
- Novelist Plus
- AustLit: the resource for Australian Literature
- Blooms Literature
- Good Reading For Kids
- Good Reading Young Adults
- Magpies Online: The Source Magazine - weblink@library only
- Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus
- Good Reading: the hub for book lovers
- Trove - National Library of Australia
- Fox Tales
- Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus
- Gale General OneFile
- Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand
- Gale OneFile: News
- Good Reading For Kids
- Good Reading: the hub for book lovers
- Good Reading Young Adults
- NewsBank Newspapers: Australia and around the world
- The Sydney Morning Herald - 1842-1954
- The Sydney Morning Herald archives - 1955-1995
- The Sydney Morning Herald Library Edition 2006 - current
- Trove - National Library of Australia