Purchasing

Student Magazines
This site coordinates education-rate subscriptions on world class magazines for Australian students and academic staff. Available to school libraries.

University Co-operative Bookshop
http://www.coop-bookshop.com.au/

VICNET - Victoria Bookstores page
http://www.vicnet.net.au/business/bookstores/bookvic/

Software Suppliers

IQT Systems
Suppliers to school at exceptionally good prices. Useful for Catholic and Independant schools who don't receive discounts available to ministry schools.

S4E Software for Education
This is the old 'Software Rolling Fund'. The aim of the S4E Program is to make available software titles widely used in Victorian educational institutions at significantly reduced prices. A DE&T site for all institutions.

CD-Soft Educational Software - WA
http://www.cdsoft.com.au/

Videos

SA Tape Services Online
If you missed taping that TV program. Go online to these guys and arrange to buy it at a very reasonable price.

Vidz of Oz
Australian source of audio visual resources. Prompt supply.

CD Wow
British site for purchase of audio visual resources and games. Reliable and prompt supply.

Posters & Free Stuff

Environment Australia
Free posters available on various environmental topics, eg feral animals, grasses, wetlands.

Australian Dried Fruits Association
Posters and information sheets available for printing from the website or ordering on CD.

Anzac Day Publications
This site has loads of Anzac and Remembrance Day materials. Recruitment posters are a good size and very affordable.

Secondhand Textbooks

Textbook Exhange.com
This the largest second hand textbook site in Australia. It is a free service for university & TAFE students provided by Student Services Australia and a group of leading student clubs nationwide. Sell textbooks: turn last semester's textbooks into cash. Similar to eBay.

Free Resources Online

The Open Content Alliance
(OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo!

The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is opening its collections to researchers, historians, and scholars. The Archive has no vested interest in the discoveries of the users of its collections, nor is it a grant-making organization. It is collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian to prevent the Internet other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past by providing free access to them.

Project Gutenburg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

DMOZ - Open Directory Project
The largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors who help to keep the web up to date by cleaning up dead links and editing out the rubbish. The Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others.