National Science Week 2020

Proquest Central

One of the journals included in the Proquest Central database is Teaching Science - the flagship journal of the Australian Science Teachers Association. Also available is the (USA) National Science Teachers Association’s journal Science Scope that recently published some marine education resources and lesson plans that could be useful for educators. Read highlights from key conferences like the International symposium on the effects of climate change on the world's oceans, or OceanObs (International Conference on the Ocean Observing System for Climate); find out what the CSIRO is saying about climate and oceans; check the current status of wave energy technologies and the design of  other marine renewable energy systems. 

JStor

In addition to current journal literature, JStor content also stretches back into the 1800s. For example, The Scientific American archive in JStor dates from its first issue in 1845. You’ll also find key peer-reviewed journals like Oceanography which had a special issue devoted to ocean warming in the June 2018 issue.

PressReader

PressReader includes thousands of full-colour newspapers and magazines from around the world, including Science publications like Australian Geographic, Biology Today, Smithsonian and many more.

Australia and New Zealand Newsstream

Australia and New Zealand Newsstream is a media database of articles published in Australian and New Zealand newspapers and magazines. Read about National Science Week activities, politics, personalities, and issues in the news.

Britannica Library

The Britannica Library is another database that can be used to source trusted scholarly information on issues like plastic pollution in oceans and on land and climate and the oceans. Articles are arranged in 3 different reading levels, making its content accessible to children, students and adults alike.

National Geographic Virtual Library

You can also find interesting articles aimed at a general readership in the National Geographic Virtual Library. Renowned for its stunning photography, this database has over 80 articles relating to oceans, including the 2019 article ‘Our addiction to Plastic’.

An addition to the Virtual Library is National Geographic Kids which includes magazines, books and videos aimed at a young audience. See for example Oceans: Dolphins, Sharks, Penguins, and More! National Geographic Society, 2010 or the article The Secret Language of Dolphins.

Kanopy

State Library also subscribes to Kanopy – a streaming video service free to all State Library members. Apart from world movies and feature films, you’ll find documentaries like

• The ABC’s Can We Save the Reef?
• The multi-award winning Revolution: The Fight to Save Our Oceans about the grave dangers threatening the worlds’ oceans
• Ecocide, the film about the 2010 devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 
• Muddy Waters: Life and Death on the Great Barrier Reef, about the problem of sugarcane farm runoff.

These are just some of the 30,000+ films you will find on Kanopy.

Ebooks

State Library has a large range of ebooks, so regardless of where you live in Queensland, the excellent resources in the collection are always within reach. You’ll find Michiel Abbing’s beautifully illustrated investigation into the scourge of single-use plastics Plastic Soup : An Atlas of Ocean Pollution; The Handbook of Ocean Wave Energy – a reference-guide for engineers to the field of ocean wave energy; or books on Offshore Renewable Energy from waves, tides and wind; just to get you started.