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Databases

These databases are highly recommended and will give you access to current information about different aspects of child care that is not always freely available on the internet

• EBSCOhost - Academic Search Complete & PsycARTICLES
• Gale - Academic One File, Expanded Academic ASAP & Health Reference Center Academic
• Informit Search - really useful for Australian content. A+Education, Australian Public Affairs Full Text, Family & Society Plus, Health Collection

Ebooks

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• Child development and behaviour 0-8: a journey through the early years
• Development psychology
• Every nursery needs a garden: a step-by-step guide to creating and using a garden with young children
• Reading with babies, toddlers and twos: a guide to choosing, reading and loving books together
• 101 Music Games for Children Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song
• Play and learning in the early years from research to practice
• Vygotsky in action in the early years the 'key to learning' curriculum

Newsletters

Subscribe to these free online newsletters to keep up to date with hot topics in child care

• ECA WebWatch - fortnightly from Early Childhood Australia
• ExchangeEveryDay - daily from ChildCareExchange.com.
• Putting Children First - quarterly from the National Childcare Accreditation Council

Online Journals

Browse the latest issue or search within your favourite

• Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
• Child Development
• Childhood Education
• Children Australia
• Children and Youth Services Review
• Early Child Development & Care
• Infant Behavior and Development
• International Journal of Children's Rights
• YC Young Children

Key Organisations

• Association for Children with a Disability
  
• Child Care Centres Association of Victoria
• Early Childhood Australia
• NAEYC - National Association for the Education of Young Children (US)
• NOSHA - National Out of School Hours Services Association

Radio & TV

• LifeMatters on ABC Radio National - a unique daily interview program about social change and day-to-day life. Listen to an MP3 or subscribe to a podcast or listen in Monday to Friday 9am. Repeated Monday to Thursday 9pm.
• TVNews
  Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format.

Websites

Australian

• Australian Institute of Family Studies
• Early Childhood Intervention Australia
• Environmental Education in Early Childhood Vic. Inc.(EEEC)
• National Childcare Accreditation Council
• National Child Protection Clearinghouse

International

• Birth International
• The Convention of the Rights of the Child
• National Network for Child Care