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Reference and Research Tools
Listed below is a wide range of ready reference sources that are available
on the Internet.
Major Sites
- Australian Dictionary
of Biography
Google Web Directory: Reference
- Guide to Internet information
sources for Australian journalists - factual, background material
for journalists and researchers
- Internet Public Library -Ready
Reference Collection
- Librarian's Guide
to the Internet: Reference
- Library Spot
- Martindale's 'The Reference
Desk'
- Ready Reference
- from the Galaxy Directory
- Refdesk.com
- Reference Material
- Australian National University Library
- Spire Project - Has many useful
guides to research
- Acronym Finder - searchable
database containing common 95,000 acronyms and abbreviations; reverse
lookups are available
- Acronyms by subject -
Opaui Guide
- Journal
Abbreviation Sources
- The WorldWideWeb
Acronym and Abbreviation Server
- Australian
Dictionary of Biography "Australia's pre-eminent dictionary
of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of
significant Australians who died before 1980".
Biographical Dictionary - "... includes
more than 27,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from
ancient times to the present day"
Biography.com - "... puts over
20,000 of the greatest lives, past and present, at your fingertips"
- Dictionary
of Australian Biography - "The present volumes contain 1030 biographies
of Australians, or men who were closely connected with Australia, who
died before the end of 1942"
- World Biographical
Index - contains over 2 million short biographical entries for eminent
individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central
Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- Cambridge Dictionaries
online
- Dictionary.com
- Merriam-Webster Online - WWWebster
Dictionary and WWWebster Thesaurus
- Online Dictionaries -
more than 800 dictionaries of over 150 different languages.
- OneLook Dictionaries - allows
a "metasearch" as many as 454 online dictionaries to find the definition
or spelling of a particular word
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Whatis.com - definitions of IT and
other terms
- YourDictionary.com
- previously A web of Online Dictionaries
- Business Directories
- from the Internet Public Library
- Directories
- from the Google Web Directory
- Telephone Directories on
the Web - "... links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories,
Email Addresses and Fax Listings from all around the world"
- Encyclopedias
- Internet Public Library
- Encyclopedias
by subject - from the Google Web Directory
- Wikipedia
- Atlapedia Online - full colour
physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries
of the world.
- Historical Atlas
of the Twentieth Century - covers historical trends, systems of
government, events, cities, population and urban growth, wars, specific
events, world governments, disasters, Nobel prizes and Olympic Games
- Map & Atlas Page
- "... with links to topographical, street, geographic, seismic, and
other maps of all kinds"
- Maps
at Other Web Sites - from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map
Collection, University of Texas at Austin
- Oddens's Bookmarks:
the Fascinating World of Maps - comprehensive collection of links
to map resources from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands
- PlaceNames.com - worldwide index
of place names - "gazetteers, place name lists, town and city indexes
from all around the world (and beyond)"
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- Libraries
Outside Australia (via the Australian Libraries Gateway)
- webCATS: Library Catalogues on the
World Wide Web - an index to all the online library catalogs on
the Internet
See the Library's Media
Internet Resources page.
- Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
- Cool Quotes Collection
- Fagan Finder - Quotations
and Proverbs Search
Famous Quotations Network
- Google
Web Directory: Quotations - several hundred sites listed
- Phrase Finder - collection
of 5,000 English phrases and sayings
- Quotations Archive
- Quotation
Ring - over 300 quotation sites
- Quotations Page
- Quote Search
- from a range of sources
- Quoteland - categorised lists
of quotations, searchable
- Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality
Art on the Internet - "... an index of online museums and image
archives: find out where the works of over 5,000 different fine artists
can be viewed online"
- Calculators
On-Line
- Convert It!
- Historical Atlas
of the Twentieth Century - covers historical trends, systems of
government, events, cities, population and urban growth, wars, specific
events, world governments, disasters, Nobel prizes and Olympic Games
- How Far is it? - uses
data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the
world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates
the distance between them (as the crow flies)
- Internet Clocks,
Counters, and Countdowns - an inclusive index for various online
clocks... from abortion and AIDS counters to ones for alternative time
systems, doomsday clocks, National Debt clocks and various Countdown
clocks, such as those for the Millennium, various Shuttle launch clocks
and various Olympic clocks
- Nobel Prize
- Online Conversion -
converts over 8,000 units to another
- SYMBOLS.com - encyclopaedia
of graphic symbols
- World Climate: Weather rainfall
and temperature data - "... a worldwide range of climate data in
an easy-to-use form. Climate data are historical weather averages, showing
what the weather was typically like each month, averaged over a range
of years." "85,000 climate records are online for tens of thousands
of places around the world"
Australian
- About Australia
- Australia - Fact Sheet
Series - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Australian Government Guide
to Visiting Australia
- Electronic Australiana - A
list of Australian resources on the Internet from the National Library
of Australia
- Guide to Australia
- from Charles Sturt University
- Guide to Internet information
sources for Australian journalists - factual, background material
for journalists and researchers
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- Australia's Cultural Network
- Business / Community / Service
Directories - National Library of Australia
- Finding and Contacting Australians
- National Library of Australia
- Government On-Line Directory
- "the official guide to the Australian Federal Government"
- Nationwide business directory
White pages - Telstra telephone directories
- Yellow Pages
- Telstra telephone directories
- Maps of Australia
- Australian Government Information
- Federal, State and Local government links
- Government On-Line
Directory - "the official guide to the Australian Federal Government"
- Australian Libraries Gateway
- find and link to thousands of Australian libraries
- See the Library's Media
Internet Resources
- Australian
Bureau of Statistics
- Monthly Economic
and Social Indicators - Parliamentary Library
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