The Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors (ATED) is a standardized vocabulary in the area of education. It reflects terminology used to describe research and practice in Australian education. The thesaurus is used to index both print and electronic documents as well as websites. It can be consulted when searching the Australian Education Index or in the library catalogue of Cunningham Library. An interesting feature is the rotated descriptor display providing an alphabetical index to all words that form thesaurus terms