Child care

Databases

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

Ebooks

• 101 Music Games for Children Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song
• A-Z of play in early childhood education
• Child development and behaviour 0-8: a journey through the early years
• Child-initiated learning: positive relationships in early years
• Enabling environments in early years: making for provision for high quality and challenging learning experiences in earky years settings
• Every nursery needs a garden: a step-by-step guide to creating and using a garden with young children
• Music for early learning songs and musical activities to support children's development
• Reading with babies, toddlers and twos: a guide to choosing, reading and loving books together
• Vygotsky in action in the early years the 'key to learning' curriculum

Online videos

• Beginnings of life: from conception to baby
• Child development theorist: Freud to Erikson to Spock and beyond
• Infants: physical development
• Toddlers: social and emotional development
• The wonder year: first year development and shaping the brain

Journals

• 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

Newsletters

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

• Australian Children's Education & Care Authority - fortnighly newsletter from ACECQA (formally the National Childcare Accreditation Council)
• ECA WebWatch - fortnightly from Early Childhood Australia
• ExchangeEveryDay - daily from ChildCareExchange.com.

Websites

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

Australian

• Australia Children's Education and Care Quality Authority(ACECQA)
• Australian Institute of Family Studies
• Child Australia
• Child Family Community Australia
• Early Childhood Intervention Australia
• Environmental Education in Early Childhood Vic. Inc.(EEEC)
• mychild.gov.au

International

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

Radio and 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.