
eResources
Your City of Perth Library membership provides free access to a growing number of eResources including eBooks, eMagazines, film streaming and music downloads.
Explore the categories below or view the entire range of eResources in the A to Z list.
Need help using our eResources?
eResource categories
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Biography
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Books and authors
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Business and law
- Lynda.com (video courses)
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Children
- Track reading and participate in challenges via Beanstack
- eAudiobooks, eBooks, comics and graphic novels via Axis360
- eAudiobooks via BorrowBox
- eBooks, comics and graphic novels via OverDrive
- eBooks via OverDrive for Kids
- OverDrive tutorial Note: OverDrive is not
compatible with Kindle eBook readers.
- Learning activities via Busythings.
- Research via Britannica Online.
- Storytelling via Story Box Library.
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Computers
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Courses
- LinkedIn Learning video courses (formerly Lynda.com)
LinkedIn Learning FAQs
- LinkedIn Learning video courses (formerly Lynda.com)
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Driving
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eBooks
- Axis 360
- Axis 360 app for iPad/iPhone or Android
- Axis 360 tutorial
- OverDrive
- Overdrive for kids
- Libby app for iPad/iPhone or Android (OverDrive product)
- OverDrive app for iPad/iPhone or Android
- OverDrive tutorial
Note: OverDrive is not compatible with Kindle eBook readers.
- Online book club
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eAudiobooks
- eAudiobooks via Axis 360
- eAudiobooks via Axis 360 app for iPad/iPhone or Android
- Axis 360 tutorial
- eAudiobooks via OverDrive
- eAudiobooks via OverDrive for kids
- Libby app for iPad/iPhone or Android
- eAudiobooks via BorrowBox
- eAudiobooks via BorrowBox app for iPad/iPhone or Android
- BorrowBox tutorial
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eMagazines and eNewspapers
- Libby app (formerly RB Digital)
- RB Digital transition to Libby FAQs
- PressReader See the tutorial below for login instructions.
- PressReader for iPad/iPhone or Android
- PressReader tutorial
- The Age Newspaper Archive Digital Editions
- The Australian Financial Review Newspaper Archive Digital Editions
- The New York Times (international edition)
- The Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper Archive Digital Editions
- The West Australian Newspaper Archive Digital Editions
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Encyclopaedias and reference
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Films
- Films from Beamafilm
- Films from Digital Theatre Plus
- Films from Kanopy (Tutorial)
Log in with your Library card number and PIN to access. You can view four films per month (resets on the first of the month).
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History
- Ancestry.com Library Edition. Available for use within Library only.
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Languages
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Library catalogues
- City of Perth Library
- City of Perth Library catalogue tutorial
- City of Perth Library app for iPad/iPhone or Android. Use the City of Perth Library app to access your Library account.
- National Library of Australia
- State Library of Western Australia
- Trove
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Music
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Tutorials
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Young Adults
- eAudiobooks via Axis 360.
- eAudiobooks via BorrowBox.
- eBooks, comics and graphic novels via Axis 360.
- eBooks comics and graphic novels via OverDrive.
- Films from Beamafilm.
- Films from Digital Theatre Plus.
- Films from Kanopy. (Tutorial)
- Music from Freegal. (Tutorial)
- Track reading and participate in challenges via Beanstack.
- Research via Britannica Online.
eResources A-Z
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Ancestry.com Library Edition – available for use within the Library only. (Tutorial)
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian Museum of Motion Picture & Television
Axis 360 Tutorial
Beamafilm
BorrowBox Tutorial
Business Source Elite
Clue Detective
Computerschool
Country profiles
Department of the Attorney General
Digital Theatre Plus
Encyclopaedia Britannica
FamilySearch
Freegal Tutorial
Heritage Perth -
I-QKanopy Tutorial Log in with your Library card number and PIN to access. You can view four films per month (resets on the first of the month).
Libraries Australia
Lynda.com
National Archives
National Library of Australia
National Trust
Oral History Association
OverDrive Tutorial
Oxford Dictionary
Popular Magazines Plus
PressReader Log in with your Library card number and PIN to access. (Tutorial)
Product safety recalls -
R-ZRivers of Motion
RB Digital Magazines Tutorial
Road to IELTS (Clarity English). Please select a learning module: The Royal Western Australian Historical Society
Scamwatch
State Heritage
State Library of Western Australia
State Records Office
The West Australian Newspaper Archive Digital Editions
Trove
Transparent Language Online Tutorial
WA TV History
Western Australian Genealogical Society
Western Australian Legislation
Whichbook
Who else writes like -
World factbook