Wollongong City Library: Library WebLinks: Weblinks Categories

Arts

All About Jazz - A site produced by jazz fans for jazz fans. The mission is to provide information and opinion about jazz from the past, present, and future.

All But Forgotten Oldies - Lists over 4000 songs from 1960-1975

All Crafts - Your guide to all crafts - patterns, projects, books and kits

All Music Guide - Includes glossary of musical terms, music maps and information on different styles of music

Architecture - Information from Architectural Record

Architecture Media - Australia

architecture.com.au projects - Features the latest in award-winning Australian built designs. A range of buildings - residential, public buildings, commercial as well as urban design - are showcased.

Art History: resources on the web

ArtLex - dictionary of visual art

AusStage : Gateway to the Australian performing Arts - AusStage provides an accessible research facility for investigating live performance in Australia.

Australian Composers - Includes biographical information on Australian Composers

Australian Dance Collection

Australian Film Commission

Australian Film Institute

Australian Music

Australian Music Centre - The aim of this site is to facilitate and encourage the creation, performance and understanding of music by Australian composers and sound artists

Australian Recording Industry Association - Details about the Australian recording industry. Includes ARIA Awards and ARIA Charts.

Australia's Cultural Network

Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music - Offers over 4,500 entries on music, musical instruments and musicians

balletcompanies.com - On this site you'll find over 3000 links to ballet and dance companies all over the world.

Cartoon research - Lots of information about cartoons, from a list of cartoon features that spans decades to leader cards of classic cartoon shorts to trailers of current/upcoming cartoons and cartoon trivia

Classical Music Pages - Everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies.

Classical.com - The world’s largest online classical music collection

Collections Australia Network - Allows the public to search collection records from libraries, galleries, museums and archives all across Australia through a single search.

Coomaditchie aboriginal artists - Authentic Australian Aborginal Artworks from the Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation

Craftzine - Sponsored by the magazine Craft, this site contains a weblog of compelling craft projects, excerpts from their print magazine,and community forums where visitors can share their diverse craft experiences

Crochet Pattern Central - An online directory of free crochet pattern links

Dance Resources, Ballet Resources

Digital Sheet Music Collection: University of Colorado - The sheet music digitized and presented here was originally published between 1890 and 1922

earlycinema.com - an introduction to the first decade of motion pictures. This site focuses on the early pioneers and the technology which helped shape film history.

Eurovision Song Contest - Features a history of this contest that dates back to 1956, historical contest results for each country, and details about the most recent contest.

Folk Australia - The best online Australian folk music source. Includes links to performers, festivals and clubs.

Glass Steel and Stone: Global architecture encyclopedia - descriptions, photographs and three-dimensional models of buildings, bridges, skyscrapers and other architectural constructions.

Great Buildings Online - This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famo

Harmony Central

Hollywood Online

International Archive of Women in Architecture

International Museums - A collection of museums of international importance and special topics.

Masters of Cinema - Quality information about foreign films and classics of various cinematic movements. Includes links to information about DVD releases and reviews, directors and online cinema writing

Musee - Links you to 37,000 museums around the world.

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.

Music Australia - The MusicAustralia pilot service includes digitised printed music, digitised sound recordings, 'born digital' music scores and multimedia presentations

Musicals101.com - The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film

musictheory.net - Musictheory.net contains over 30 interactive lessons on such topics as the triad inversion, major scales, key changes, and diatonic seventh chords.

Mutopia - All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute. There are now 274 pieces of classical music available!

Muze - Rock, pop, jazz, classical, opera and more. Searchable information on music.

National Music Museum - Information about more than 10,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods that are in the museums collections. Also includes a directory of instrument makers

New York Times: Movies - Browse or search more than 5,000 New York Times movie reviews. Member ID: weblinks1 Password: weblinks

Postcard & Greeting Card Museum - Enjoy your virtual tour while learning about the history of Postcards and Greeting Cards from Victorian times to the 20th century

Quilt Index - An online research and reference tool designed to provide access to contextual information and images of quilts held in private and public collections.

Senses of cinema - An online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. As an Australian-based journal, we have a special commitment to the regular, wide-ranging analysis and critique of Australian cinema, past and present

Singer-songwriter Directory - find links to sites dedicated to singer/songwriters, to official home pages as well as fan sites, to well known artists and starting musicians.

Song Indexes

Songfacts - Song meanings, lyrics and trivia.

Sydney's Early Constructions and Heritage Properties - An overview of early building construction methods in Sydney, including heritage properties. Covers time periods 1840-1900 and 1900-1930.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Internet Movie Database

The Music Lists - Lists of the greatest rock guitar riffs, rock drummers, motown songs, rock songwriters etc

The Organ Historical Trust of Australia - Aims to preserve historic pipe organs and organ building records, and to stimulate public interest in pipe organs which are of national or local importance.Includes information on Wollongong organs.

The Oxford Dictionary of Art - One-volume guide to the art of the Western world.

The Pure Drop - An interactive online celebration of traditional and World Music

Theatre Australia - A forum for everyone with an interest in Australian theatre. Includes links to theatre companies and venues throughout Australia.

theatrecrafts.com - Provides practical information and advice about technical theatre techniques for theatre folk at any level.

TheatreHistory.com

Timeline of art history - A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection

UCLA Digital Library Sheet Music Project - Digital sheet music for popular American songs of the 20th century

Vintage Sewing - Offers free online access to public domain sewing books.

Visual arts - Links for Visual Arts students, teachers and anyone else interested in art

Web Gallery of Art - Contains over 11,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800

WebMuseum

Wollongong City Gallery

World Wide Arts Resources

Worldwide Internet Music Resources

Yahoo Music - search for bands, groups, composers, musical instruments etc.

Your Arts Prizes - Search for Australian art prizes, residencies, grants and scholarships

Australia

Aboriginal Languages of Australia - Annotated links to resources for about 60 languages.

AIATSIS - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Archaeology World - Information on Australian and Pacific archaeology.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Geographic Place Names (Gazetteer)

Australian Governments' Entry Point - Access to the information and services of Federal, State, Territory and Local Governments

Australian Population Clock - The estimated resident population of Australia at any given time.

Australian Towns Index

Australian Word Map - Word Map is mapping Australian regionalisms - words, phrases or expressions used by particular language groups.

Black Book Online - The portal to indigenous media and the arts. Lists more than 2,700 people and organisations in Australia's indigenous media, arts and cultural industries

C.W. Peck's Australian Aboriginal Legends. - Information pertaining to C.W. Peck's publication of various Aboriginal dreaming stories from south-eastern Australia during the period 1922-33

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Home Page - This site contains all the documents and history of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation for the ten-year period of their existence to December 2000.

Cultural protocol - This Indigenous Protocol site aims to assist journalists, filmmakers, producers and documentary makers to understand the importance of abiding by Indigenous Protocols

culture.gov.au - Connecting you with Australian culture and recreation online

G'Day Mate

Guide to Australia

Mickey Johnson - Aboriginal King of Illawarra. - A brief biography of Mickey Johnson, including images

National Native Title Tribunal - Includes fact sheets about Native Title in Australia

Norman B. Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes - Excellent site which is based on a work he published in 1974. Key sections include the tribal boundaries map.

NSW Council for Reconciliation - information on social issues related to cultural reconciliation.

Reconciliation and Social Justice Library

Reconciliation Australia - Reconciliation Australia is the body established to provide a continuing national focus for reconciliation following the end of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in December 2000.

Stories of the Dreaming

The Aboriginal Flag - History of the creation, use and official recognition of the Aboriginal flag.

Voices of Australia - An education module designed to help students increase their awareness about experiences of diversity, discrimination, race relations, friendship and respect

Banking & Finance

ANZ

ATM Locator - Locations of automated teller machines (ATMs) in more than 170 countries.

Australian Taxation Office - Tax information for individuals, Companies and organisations, from the Tax Department of the Australian Federal Government

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Credit Union Australia

Free tax help now available - Volunteers trained by the Tax Office are now available in your area to help low income earners prepare their tax returns

Greater Building Society

Horizon Credit Union

IMB Illawarra Mutual Building Society

Individuals superannuation essentials - This Tax Office site provides detailed information on superannuation for individuals.

National Australia Bank

RateCity - Lets you find,compare and purchase financial products from hundreds of Australian banks and institutions. Covers credit cards,home loans and more.

Reserve Bank of Australia - Includes statements on monetary policy, annual reports and data on cash rates, exchange rates, commodity prices and interest rates

Reserve Bank of Australia - Notes in Circulation - This site provides information and images of our notes, including design elements and biographical details of the Australians portrayed on our notes.

St.George

Superannuation Calculator - This calculator can help you estimate how much Super you will have when you retire, based on your current situation.

Understanding Money - Download the Understanding Money Handbook or find out how to prepare a budget, set financial goals or "get into the savings habit"

Westpac

Books & Journals

Abebooks.com - The world's largest online marketplace for books

AddALL Used and Out of Print book search

Alibris - Shop for rare, out-of-print or hard to find books - books you thought you'd never find

Amazon Bookshop - buy books, music, videos etc from this US site.

Angus & Robertson - buy books from this Australian bookseller.

Australian Booksellers - Independent site designed to promote Booksellers from Australia

Australian Journals - a listing of over 1,700 Australian electronic journals, magazines, webzines, newsletters and e-mail fanzines. It includes both local and overseas works with Australian content, authorship and/or emphasis.

Australian Periodical Publications 1840 - 1845 - A digital library of Australian journals that began publication between 1840-1845.

Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845

Australian Women's Weekly Bookclub

Bartleby.com - great books online.

Bibliofind - used

BibliOz.com - search this Australian database to locate out-of-print titles.

Book Reporter - Books into Movies - Lists of books which have been made into movies.

BookBrowse.com - Bookbrowse carefully selects from the most interesting current books and provides you with multiple reviews and a substantial excerpt of each

BookCrossing - Free your books! BookCrossing.com gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forever!

BookFinder.com - search for out of print and used books.

Children's Books Online - The largest collection of illustrated antique children's books on line

ClassicBookshelf.com - access to the large collection of public domain e-texts available for free over the Internet.Featuring Java TM Powered reading applet, words are presented in customizable sizes and colours to suit you.

Digital media locator - search a database of thousands of eBooks - includes reviews, excerpts and author biographies

Directory of Open Access Journals - This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals

Dymocks Booksellers - buy books in Australia.

FindArticles.com - magazine articles including full text. Search in this free online article-search service.

First Choice Books - Lists of reading suggestions. Choose the type of books you are interested in and then click on the list or on any of the images.

Gleebooks

Good Reading - Book reviews and star ratings, suggested titles, discussion notes and useful information for reading groups, first chapters,forums for discussion and more

HighWire Press - free on-line full text journal articles, mainly medical/health.

International Children’s Digital Library - Hundreds of books online with virtually every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children’s literature from the world community.

January Magazine - best of fiction, crime and many other categories of books

Just Free Books - Searches the content of more than 450 web sites to find public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more.

MagPortal.com - search for magazine articles.

Mathematical Fiction - Do you like fiction and mathematics? Are you looking for a book or story that might be useful for the students in your math class? Then you have come to the right place…

My favourite book - We're on the hunt for the book that Australians love best and we want to know WHAT'S YOURS?

New York Times Book Reviews

Online Books Page - Listing over 20,000 free books on the We

Open J-Gate - 3000 + open access journals

Ozebooks.com.au - The Australian eBook Library

Page by Page Books - Hundreds of classic books online for free

PANDORA Archive - Australian publications of national significance.

Project Gutenberg - Full text books in electronic format.

Reader's Refuge Online Bookstore - New books at secondhand prices

Record King Bookshop - Located in Wollongong, NSW Australia, we are dealers in rare and secondhand books and vinyl records

Science Fiction and Fantasy Book List Site - A comprehensive bibliography of science-fiction and fantasy authors and their books. The database also contains links to official and fan sites of various authors.

SciFan - Books and links for the Science Fiction Fan

SETIS - a selection of scholarly texts from the University of Sydney Library.

Shakespeare - The complete works of William Shakespeare online

The Booklist Center - The web's largest selection of booklists

The Coop BookShop - Australia's First Online Academic and General Bookshop.

The Internet Classics Archive - select from a list of 441 works, mainly Greco-Roman with some Chinese

Websites for Readers - Wollongong City Library's list of links for the avid reader - everything from reviews to mystery sites, literature links to kids & teens reading.

WH Smith (UK) - buy books, videos, cds, games.

Whichbook - this site gives readers an enjoyable and interesting way to find books to match their mood. Just choose from a variety of options and see what titles are suggested.

Wollongong UniShop

Womens Weekly Index - Australian Women's Weekly 1946 -71 Index

Business

ABI/Inform: ProQuest - The world's leading database of electronic business and management journals. (Use the barcode from your library card to log in)

ABN Lookup - search for an ABN, apply for an ABN, change your details.

Advertising Federation of Australia - Includes information on advertising codes and regulations

Annual reports unlimited - The only free site in Australia dedicated to annual reports.

ASIC Australian Securities & Investment Commission - search their databases. Find basic details about current and former companies, business names and other organisations

ASIC Australian Securities & Investments Commission - Company and company names information

AusIndustry - Commonwealth Government's agency for delivering products, services and information that support industry, research and innovation

Austrade

Australia and the OECD - A one-stop-shop for OECD reports and statistics on Australia.

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission - Includes the Mergers and Acquisitions Register

Australian Financial Review - business

Australian Stock Exchange - market statistics, company research, markets, shareholder information.

Australian Stock Exchange - market news.

Business Dictionary - Over 20,000 definitions

Business Review Weekly - full-text back copies from 1998 to the current issue.

business.gov.au - Simple and convenient access to all the government information, transactions and services you need

e-commerce-guide.com - Aim is to provide the single best source of independent, up-to-date information about electronic commerce.

Economist.com - Research tools - Includes a searchable dictionary of economics

European Business Directory

Franchise Council of Australia - The Franchise Directory plus information and advice on franchising

Glossary of business and financial terms - Glossary of more than 2,500 terms related to business and finance

Hoover's Online- USA

IP Australia Home Page - Intellectual Property information including patents, trademarks, designs and copyright

Kompass Online - Product, contact and other information for 1.8 million companies worldwide

NSW Dept of Fair Trading - The Department of Fair Trading provides information and assistance for consumer issues, motor vehicles, home building and renovation, credit, property and tenancy issues, plus co-operatives, licensing, associations and business name registration.

NSW Dept of State & Regional Development - The New South Wales Department of State and Regional Development (DSRD) is the first point of contact within government for companies wishing to do business in Sydney and regional New South Wales (NSW).

NSW Dept of State and Regional Development - Help for Business

NSW Small Business Web site - issues, resources, news

Property Council of Australia - Includes CyberStats - a free statistical resource providing up-to-date property and economic data

realestate.com.au - Includes listings of properties sold throughout Australia

Reuters Business News - International Business news from Wall Street City.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Computing

AlltheWeb - A World-wide Search Engine

Alta Vista Australia

Anzwers Australia and NZ

Ask for Kids - Kids Search Tool

Ask.com - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Aussie Bloggers - The goal of this site is to empower, encourage, support and promote Aussie Bloggers and the Australian blogosphere in general.

Australian Communications and Media Authority - Responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, radiocommunications, telecommunications and online content

cleepr - A music video search engine.

Clusty - the clustering search engine - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Cnet.com - CNET provides expert and unbiased advice on technology products and services

CompletePlanet - There are hundreds of thousands of databases that contain Deep Web content. CompletePlanet is the front door to these Deep Web databases on the Web.

Computer Science - Computer science links in a variety of categories

Computers and Technology - great sites, especially for kids

ComputerUser.com

Cuil - A search engine

Dogpile - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Domain Names

ecards.ac - Allows you to email free musical, animated eCards - includes birthday, anniversary and valentine's cards.

Excite - A World-wide Search Engine

Experts Exchange - the #1 Knowledge Sharing Community on the Web

Facebook 101: Ten Things You Need to Know About Facebook - Information about the social networking site, Facebook.

facesaerch - An image search engine for faces powered by Google

Fasteagle - Easy navigation across hundreds of the most popular and useful websites

Finding Information on the Internet - a tutorial

Flickr - Website for people to store, search, sort and share photos.

Getting started with Excel - Excel tutorial rounded out by several assignments that will make sure students have mastered some of the basic features of Excel

Google Australia

History of the Internet - Discusses the history of computers, the World Wide Web, search engines and more with some pictures and diagrams

Hotbot - A World-wide Search Engine

How to Digitize an LP - Converting music on a phonograph record to electronic files ready for upload

In Pictures - Free, easy-to follow illustrated tutorials for software and computer subjects

Internet country codes - This site provides a list of Internet country codes.

Kids' Search Tools

kids.net.au - A Kids Search Tool

KidsClick! - Kids Search Tool

KillerInfo - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Learn the Internet - A basic Internet tutorial for the beginner

Librarians Index to the Internet - Computers

Life Beyond Google: Some of the Best of the Rest - Google is still the behemoth of search engines, but there is a plethora of alternative search engines that provide features not readily available on Google.

Living Internet - An elegantly organized tour of the history of the Internet -- both fun and informative -- a rare combination

MetaCrawler - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Mouse Tutorial - Welcome to the City of Mesa Library's Computer Mouse and Keyboard Tutorial

NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary - This online dictionary contains definitions of hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet

New Launches - New technology and gadgetry.

ninemsn

PC World Online - PC World is a widely read computer magazine which includes reviews and rankings of software and new technologies.

Peer reviewed Internet training sites

Pipl - Search by first and last name, city, state, and country to obtain links to sites with information about individuals.

Remindr - A free service that sends you a reminder by email, telephone and other technical applications.

Science Podcasts - Science podcasts from ABC Science Online and Radio National

Search.com - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

SearchBoth - Search both Google & Yahoo at the same time side by side, and more.

TechWeb Technology Encyclopedia - Over 20,000 definitions of technology terms and concepts.

TechWeb: the IT network

The Newbie Guide to Blogging - Tips on how to blog and how blogging can help you.

Typing Exercise - This web page gives you quick, useful practice in developing your typing skills.

Virus encyclopedia - All about internet security

Virus Information Library

Web 2.0 News - Up to date news articles about Web 2.0 from Google News

Web 2.0 Resources - Access to sites that focus on Web 2.0 technologies and applications.

web wombat - The orginal Australian search engine

Webopedia - Online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology

whatis?com - A search engine

Wi Fi Hotspot Directory - Search over 200,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in 135 countries

Yahoo - Australia and New Zealand

Yahoo Kids

Your Guide to Podcasts - A basic introduction to Podcasts and Podcasting from the weblog MediaShift.

YouTube - Article from Wikipedia on YouTube, a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.

Databases

ABI/Inform (Proquest) - the world's leading database of electronic business and management journals. Search 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies.

Ancestry Library Edition - Genealogy, family trees and family history records online. Includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; church records; directories and passenger lists

ANZ Newsstand (Proquest) - Online access to leading Australian & New Zealand newspapers including the Australian, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury.

ANZ Newsstand (Proquest) - Online access to leading Australian & New Zealand newspapers including the Australian, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury

ANZ Reference Centre & Master FILE Premier - Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, reference books, and company information. This database provides local perspectives on current events, business, sports, and many other subjects

ANZ Reference Centre & MasterFILE Premier - Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, reference books, and company information. This database provides local perspectives on current events, business, sports, and many other subjects

AustLIT - a database of references to Australian literature, authors and related information.
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text - An indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences

Biography Resource Centre - A comprehensive database of biographical information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Biography Resource Centre - A comprehensive database of biographical information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas

Building Code of Australia Illustrated
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Business Source Elite - Provides full text coverage for 1,133 business periodicals ranging from general magazines to trade publications and top management journals

Choice Online - Contains all of the content in CHOICE magazine and Computer Choice magazine, plus a lot more interactive data and special features
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Computer School - Online computer education resource. Tutorials on how to use Word, Excel, Publisher, Powerpoint and more

Computer School - Use the barcode from your Library card to login - Online computer education resource. Tutorials on how to use Word, Excel, Publisher, Powerpoint and more

Computer Source - 300 full text periodicals covering topics such as computers,telecommunications, electronics and the Internet

Consumer Health Complete - This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc

Factiva - Connect to Factiva through our eResources page hosted by NSW.net
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

GreenFILE - A research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.

History Reference Center - full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias, non-fiction books and 130 leading historical magazines. Also includes historical documents, photos and maps

History Reference Centre - full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias, non-fiction books and 130 leading historical magazines. Also includes historical documents, photos and maps

Keesings World News Archives - Access to Keesings articles online from 1988 to date
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

Kompass Online - Information on over 1.7 million companies worldwide
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

Law Handbook Online
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Literary Reference Center

MacquarieNet - By entering a word or phrase, MacquarieNet searches an entire database of encyclopedias, articles, dictionaries, images, atlases, links and news items, and calls up heaps of relevant information. It's that simple!

NoveList - The world's most popular reader's advisory tool!

NoveList - This database will help you find that fiction book that you always wanted to read!

NSWnet Free Trial Offers
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Oxford Reference Online Premium - Desktop access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works.

Oxford Reference Online Premium - Desktop access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works

Ozjac - find out about courses: where they are offered, what subjects you can study, how to get in, who to contact, what jobs they lead to. Also information about jobs: what duties are involved, what training is required, whether there are personal requirements, what the working conditions are like, what other jobs are in the same industry.
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

Science Reference Center

Social Security Handbook - All you need to know about the Social Security system (part of the LIAC collection)
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

Standards Australia Online Public Library Service - Australian Standards - Standards Australia's online document collection of specifications and procedures designed to ensure quality and establish safety criteria
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

Sydney Morning Herald Archives - The SMH archives contains 820,000 pages in almost 13,000 issues spanning January 1st, 1955 to December 31st, 1990. The contents of all issues are fully text searchable and reflect the full context and layout of each page as it was originally published
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

Sydney Morning Herald digital editions 2006+ - Online replica of the SMH printed editions 2006+. It contains every page, article, photo, table, advertisement, cartoon published in the the News, Business and Sport sections
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

The Source - Australia's online guide to children's literature including full-text of hundreds of poems.
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Education

Aussie SchoolHouse - The Aussie SchoolHouse provides participants with opportunities for life-long learning. The Aussie SchoolHouse is a virtual meeting place where people of all ages and backgrounds can build communities, collaborate, interact, develop, publish, and discover resources.

Australian Schools Directory

Australian Technical Colleges

Australian Universities - A list of Australian Universities with links to their home pages

Board of Studies NSW - HSC

Board of Studies NSW - School Certificate Page - School Certificate external exam papers (English, Maths, Science), Syllabuses, Performance Descriptors etc

BRAINTRACK University Index - The world's most complete education index

EdNA Online - a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum.

Educator's Reference Desk - Includes a link to the ERIC database. ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice

ERIC - Education Resource Information Centre - The new ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.

Finding a public school - school locator

GoAbroad.com - study abroad, volunteer, teach

Higher Education - Higher education policy issues, resources and programmes from the Dept Education, Science and Training

Internet Schools Directory - A Directory of non-Government schools in Australia

K-6 Education Resources - Board of Studies - Education resources for Australian teachers and students - Kindergarten to Year 6

List of registered non-government schools in NSW

NSW Dept of Education & Training - Information about schools, TAFE, adult & higher education & training

NSW Dept of Education & Training - Public Schools NSW

Open Universities Australia - Open Universities Australia (formerly OLA) provides distance education to tertiary students

OZJAC - A database to help you find out about courses: where they are offered, what subjects you can study, how to get in, who to contact, what jobs they lead to.
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

Postgraduate Scholarships Database for Australia - JASON is a search engine that contains information about postgraduate scholarships. The scholarships in the database apply to Australian students wishing to study at home or abroad, and to international students wishing to study in Australia

Private schools directory - Welcome to the most respected and comprehensive online directory to Australian Private schools

TAFE - Information, locations, courses & the latest handbook

U3A Online - Universities of the Third Age, particularly those in Australia and New Zealand.

UAC - Universities Admissions Centre - Admissions information and UAC publications to download

University of Wollongong

WEA Illawarra - lots of local courses to attend during the day and after-hours. Enrol on-line.

E-Mail

Everything E-Mail - geared for the proficient e-mail user who wants to use their e-mail more productively. Includes e-mail software, locating e-mail addresses, anti-spam tools, and e-mail postcards to send.

Harness E-Mail - How email works and how to use it

Hotmail - very popular - Web based e-mail

Lycos Mail - Web based e-mail

Mail.com - Web-based email

net.Tutor:E-Mail Basics

Net@ddress - Web based e-mail

Types of Email service - How to choose the right type of email service

What's email?

World Email Directory.

Yahoo! Mail - Web based e-mail

Employment

artshub Australia - Australia's only comprehensive arts jobs information service, and authoritative and independent arts news outlet

Australian Apprenticeships - Information about finding and applying for apprenticeships

bluecollar.com.au - Australia's blue collar job search site

C3Job - Australia's specialist job board for Call Centre and Customer Contact Centre positions. C3Job provides job listing service and application site FREE for Job Seekers.

Career FAQs - Career FAQs is the home of quality, fact-filled career resources.

career.com.au - Find a job, post your resume online

careerjet.com.au - Careerjet is an employment search engine for Australia. It allows you to search a growing selection of jobsites in one go saving you the trouble of having to go to each site individually

Careers Online Australia - Career research, resume help, job hunting tips, positions vacant and more

Commonwealth Public Service Gazette - Australian Public Service employment opportunities

Hippo - An online service which helps young people find casual or part-time work.

JobGuide - DEETYA - an Australian site which gives an in-depth look at a range of occupations, and their education and training pathways. It also gives useful information about how to work out what occupations suit you best, based on your interests and abilities.

Job-Hunt.org - Your Guide to international On-Line Career and Job Hunting Resources

jobjuice - A website for young people looking for work. Provides vital information on career, training and job opportunities

jobs.nsw - Government jobs online

Jobsearch - lists jobs in government Australia wide with a special section for Librarians.

JobServe Australia - Search for jobs at JobServe Australia

jobsjobsjobs.com.au - Thousands of new jobs, careers and employment opportunities in Australia.

jobWise - A website for mature age people who are looking for work. Provides lots of information about jobs, careers and training

Letters for Job Hunters

Local Government Jobs Australia - LGJobs is a weekly email service which lists new middle and senior level positions available within the local government sector throughout Australia

Mind Tools - essential skills for an excellent career - Information to help you develop good communication, management and leadership skills as well as stress and time management skills.

Mission Australia - Mission Australia is one of the biggest employment service operators in the nation

monster.co.uk - The world's leading career network

MyCareer - search for a job in the employment advertisements from Fairfax newspapers. Lists over 20,000 jobs.

myfuture - Australia's career information service - Comprehensive career information website

Office of industrial relations - Awards, pay rates, workplace safety, rights and responsibilities, conditions of employment etc

Ozjac - the Australian courses and careers database.
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Part Time Online - A specialist website for part time jobs, flexible work, contract work, temporary positions and casual job employment.Includes jobs in the Wollongong area.

Seek - lists over 29,000 jobs, offers selection by industry/profession, excellent sample resumes.

State Awards (NSW) - This database contains consolidated NSW private sector awards. The awards in this database are as supplied by the NSW Department of Industrial Relations. Currently, awards are simply presented in plain text form.

WageNet - WageNet provides information about wages and conditions of employment in Australia for work that is covered by federal awards and agreements

WorkChoices - Information on the workplace relations system.

WorkCover NSW Homepage - WorkCover NSW manages the State's workplace safety, injury management, and workers compensation systems.

Geography

Australian Mines Atlas - National maps and information on mines and minerals.

Amnesty International Reports - Reports from 1993 to date

Australia Geography 2000 - brief geographical summary

Australia: Geography - Key Facts, geographic landmarks, points of interest , major industries, historical highlights, population and culture.

Australian Antarctic Division - Experience Antarctica - this site contains detailed information about Antarctica and Australia's work in the icy continent

Australian Cartographic Resources

Cartoscope maps and guides

Dept of Environment and Heritage - The environmental themes section of the site links to information on biodiversity, atmosphere, coasts and oceans and inland waters

Earth Impact Database - Impact cratering on earth

Flags of the World

Geographic Names Search - An online tool to help you find the geographic location of a place name

Geographical Names Board - Click on Name Search to search the Geographical Names Register of New South Wales

Geography topics - from the "Librarians Index to the Internet", this list links to many topics of interest to geography students.

GeoScience Australia - Landforms - Facts about deserts, waterfalls, river and mountains as well as the history of Australian landforms

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Find out the latitude and longitude of named places.

International Polar Year - Runs from March 2007 through to March 2009, during which time a team of thousands of scientists from 60 nations will be examining a wide range of physical, biological, and social research topics that deal with the Arctic and the Antarctic. Special educators’ links.

Maporama.com - street-level directional maps for 15 European nations, all of the USA, and most of Canada.

Mapquest - The most highly-rated and popular interactive mapping service on the World Wide Web

Maps - All The Worlds Maps - A compilation of each Nation's maps including cities

Maps and Geography - A National Geographic site

NationalGeographic.com - explore and enjoy "the world and all that is in it"

NSW Natural Resource Atlas - The Natural Resource Atlas is the New South Wales portal to maps and data for environmental management, planning, research and education

Parish and Historical Maps - Lands has more than 35,000 parish and historic maps of NSW available online

Place Names Search - this gazetteer gives you the location for over 210,000 geographic names in Australia. It also gives a topographic map reference number. Topographic Maps are held in the Reference Library.

Quick Maps of the World - This site is a comprehensive alphabetical listing of detailed maps of the world. There are also links to flags of the world, as well as international facts and figures

ReefBase - An online information system on coral reefs designed to provide relevant data and information to reef managers, scientists, and the general public.

Volcano Live - Volcano news, information & travel. Produced by Australian Volcanologist John Seach

Whereis Street Atlas (Sydney,Brisbane etc) - search for a place

World Development Reports - Online access to the World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR)- an invaluable guide to the economic, social and environmental state of the world today

World Fact Book - all countries - from the CIA, this is an excellent profile of all countries and includes data on geography, people, economy, government, transport, and military.

World monument watch - World Monuments Fund 100 most endangered sites, year-by-year

World Populations to 2300 - This 2004 report provides human population projections to 2300 for the world, its nations, and its major areas

Government

Arts NSW - Cultural grants, fellowships, scholarships and awards

Australia Council for the Arts

Australian Bureau Statistics

Australian Capital Territory

Australian Citizenship - Contains information about applying for Australian citizenship, including links to the new Citizenship Test.

Australian Electoral Commission - Find out which electorate you are in and who represents you. Plus anything to do with elections.

Australian Government Online Directory - Structure, organisations and key people

Australian Government Publications Register - This Register has been developed to improve access to government publication information by assisting users to find out what publications are available and how and where they can be sourced

Australian Governments' Entry Point - Access to the information and services of Federal, State, Territory and Local Governments

Australian Local Government Association

Australian Local Government Training (ALGT) - Provides Councils and the Local Government sector with a range of services to assist in addressing the training and professional development needs of the local government workforce

Australian of the Year Awards - History of the Awards since their inception in 1960.Includes information about nominating candidates.

communitybuilders.nsw - a comprehensive listing of sources of funding in NSW plus advice on writing submissions

Consumers Online - the Commonwealth Government's Consumer Protection site

Councils on the web

Dept Immigration & Citizenship - Publications, Research & Statistics - Publications on migration and population-related issues. Many are available free from this website and can be downloaded

Diplomatic and Consular Corps - Includes the Consular List, Diplomatic List and List of Representatives of International Organisations, Heads of Mission List and Chargés d'Affaires ad interim List

Directgov - Website of the UK Government

Dont Fall for it. Falls can be Prevented - A Guide to Preventing Falls for Older People

Easy Grants - Australia's most comprehensive monthly grants newsletter. A subscription to the Easy Grants newsletter and database is $45 per year

Environment & Heritage Grants and Funding - A list of the grants available through the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage

FedWorld - Makes it easy to find US Government information

First Corporate Pty Ltd - First Corporate Pty Ltd is a specialist corporate adviser/funding facilitator for small to medium enterprises (SME's) seeking to raise equity capital in Australia

Government information & services for Australians

Governments on the WWW

GovPubs: the Australian Government Publications Guide - A guide to selected types of Australian government publications, such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers. Includes an historical description of each publication

GrantsLINK - Your Commonwealth community grants site

Hansard - House of Representatives and Senate Hansard online from 1981

Historical Parliamentary information - Federal Parliament since 1901.

ICAC - Independent Commission Against Corruption

IMB Community Foundation - The Foundation supports projects that reflect its objectives, which include enhancing the economic self-sufficiency of communities, as well as generating economic, social, cultural, environmental, tourism and educational benefits for those communities

It’s an Honour - The latest news on honours, a complete A-Z guide to awards, fact sheets and statistics, and a search facility for the Australian Honours Database.

Local Government and Shires Associations - NSW

Local Government Managers Australia

Local Government procurement - Local Government Procurement (LGP) has been established to provide a fully integrated procurement service to councils and associated organisations in NSW

Managing the border: immigration compliance 2004-05 - Information and statistics on immigration compliance, enforcement and investigations

Members of the Parliament of NSW

Myer Foundation - The Foundation will consider support of any activity that furthers our objectives, meets our requirements and addresses our areas of focus

National Governments

National symbols

New South Wales Government

New South Wales Govt Directory

New South Wales Parliament

Northern Territory

NSW Department of Local Government

NSW Government - Click on the Funding & Grants link

NSW Govt Gazette - The Government Gazette is available from 2 p.m. every Friday

NSW Local Government Directory

OpenAustralia.org - A non-partisan website run by a group of volunteers which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their representatives in Parliament.

Parliament of Australia - Access Hansard, Bills and information about the Parliament including a list of current members

Parliament of Australia Who's Who - List of members

Parliament of NSW - Hansard and House Papers - Hansard and House Papers are available online from 1991

Parliamentary Handbook - Provides information on on the current Australian Commonwealth Parliament, together with historical information on the Parliament since Federation. The Handbook also provides comprehensive statistics for the November 2001 election, and details of all referendums held since 1901

Philanthropy Australia - The national membership organisation for grantmaking trusts and foundations

Product Recalls Australia - Enhances consumer safety by providing current product recall information based on notifications provided to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer.

Queensland

Register of Penalty Notices - NSW Food Authority names and shames restaurants that have been prosecuted for breaching its food hygiene standards.

Residential Care Manual (Dept of Health and Ageing) - A comprehensive source document for management and staff of residential care facilities It explains the Commonwealth's policy provisions and operational requirements for facilities

Roads Users Handbook (Roads and Traffic Authority NSW) - The Road Users Handbook explains the main rules which apply to all road users and must be read and understood if you want to hold a driver licence in NSW

Seniors information service - A NSW Government service funded by the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care which provides information for seniors on a range of topics

South Australia

Tasmania

The American Presidency Project - Contains over 75,000 documents relating to each American President. Includes speeches, election data , radio broadcasts and video clips.

The Australian Constitution

United Kingdom Parliament - Includes access to Bills and Hansard

United Nations

United Nations Treaty Collection

UTS Centre for Local Government - Professional development programs for local government personnel and associated professionals

Victoria

Western Australia

World Fact Book - select a country to view details of their government including head of state, political parties and leaders.

Health and Medicine

Secrets of Yoga - Bringing together all the yogic technologies in one web site with love, spirituality, and personal style

ABC Health & Wellbeing - The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's award-winning online health gateway.

ACE Exercise Library - This site lets you "create your own workout depending on the amount of time you have and the equipment available to you." Choose from exercises from the categories for agility and balance, arms, back, chest, core, legs, and shoulders

AllPsych Online: The Virtual Psychology Classroom - One of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites on the Internet

Alzheimer's Australia - Alzheimer's Australia is the peak body providing support and advocacy for the 500,000 Australians living with dementia.

Andrology Australia - Quality information on male reproductive health

Andrology Australia - Andrology Australia is a community and professional education programme providing information on male reproductive health.

Antibiotic Resistance - Links that offer reliable information on the problem of antibiotic resistance. From the US Food and Drug Administration

Australian Drug Information Network - links to information resources on alcohol and other drugs.

Australian Safety and Compensation Council - Includes information on hazardous substances and dangerous goods, national standards and codes of practice and safety alerts

Australian Stem Cell Centre - Information about stem cells, FAQs, a glossary, links to other sites and a news and events list

Australian Traditional-Medicine Society - Australia's largest professional association of complementary medicine practitioners, representing about 65% of the total complementary medicine profession.

BioMed Central - Over 100 Open Access journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine

Black Dog Institute - A clinical, research and educational body dedicated to improving understanding, diagnosis and treatment of depression and bipolar disorder

Black Dog Institute - The Black Dog Institute is an educational, research, clinical and community-oriented facility dedicated to improving the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders.

Bladder and bowel health - Information on bladder and bowel health to people with bladder control and bowel problems, their family and friends, carers, health professionals, service providers and researchers

Bladder and Bowel Website - Information & advice on the prevention & management of bladder control & bowel problems

Calorie King - Allows you to look up nutritional information for virtually any food sold in Australian supermarkets.

Clinical Pharmacology - world-class drug information FREE

depressioNet - Help and support for people living with depression

Diets A–Z - Which diet is right for you? Get the facts on popular diet plans to help you decide.

Disease Database - Cross-referenced index of human disease, medications, symptoms, signs, abnormal investigation findings etc

Drug info @ Your Local Library - Provides up to date information about alcohol and drugs on this website and through local public libraries in New South Wales

Drug Info Clearinghouse - Drug Prevention Network - Free resources and fact sheets to download

DrugDigest - Consumer health information about drugs, herbs and supplements

Dual diagnosis support kit - Dual diagnosis is a term used to describe when a person is affected by both mental illness and substance misuse. This Dual Diagnosis Support Kit provides positive strategies for coping with dual diagnosis, as well as contacts for help and support

eMedicine - Medical Reference

Facts for Families - Concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families

Floss.com - Learn about dental procedures, new products, cosmetic dentistry, dental hygiene, leave a question or visit the children's corner.

Free Medical journals - free access to over 750 journals on the Web.

Guide to a healthy heart - In this dynamic and visually arresting website, visitors can learn about the functioning of a healthy heart and read about the way in which it works

Hazardous Substances Information System - An internet resource that allows you to find information on substances that have been classified in accordance with the Approved Criteria for Classifying Hazardous Substances

Health Links - State Library of NSW - Quality assured health information on the Internet. Many Australian sites.

Health Matters - Everything you need to know to improve your diet, fitness, relationships and mental wellbeing

Health when you need it - Issues, life and study from Dr Michael Carr-Gregg an adolescent psychologist. Dr Carr-Gregg specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health

HealthInsite - A world class internet gateway designed to provide you with easy access to reliable, high quality health information online

HEALTHmap - Global disease alert mapping system

Healthopedia - A medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and

HealthWorld Online - if it's health you're interested in, this is a good place to start

Healthy kids - Good food habits and daily physical activity – if your child has these, they're well on the way to a healthy life. This website shows you how to do it

Healthy Weight website - A new Australian government website that gives advice on maintaining a healthy weight, eating well, weight loss and physical activity. It also includes tools to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) and a calorie counter

HighWire Press - HighWire Press is one of the largest archives of free full-text science on Earth! They are assisting in the online publication of 140,300 free full-text articles and 636,913 total articles, mainly medical.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

IDEAS - Up to date information for people with disabilities on services, equipment, travel, accessible accommodation and recreation

Immunise Australia Program - Provides information about immunisation and Australian immunisation standards.

Inside Cancer - A remarkable exploration of the nature of cancer in the human body

Internet Mental Health - attempting to improve understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness throughout the world

Lancet Interactive - articles from the current issue

Leukaemia Foundation - Dedicated to the care and cure of patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders.

Lost For Words - An author is compiling a picture dictionary for adults with Alzheimer's and is calling for contributions to make carers' lives a little more manageable.

MedExplorer - Health/Medical search engine

Medical Reference - Medical Reference for non-medical librarians

Medical Sites Info Service - a portal for medical sites

Medicine OnLine - offers medical information and education in oncology and HIV/AIDS, Medline literature searches, Daily Medical News, Cancer Forums discussion groups, and reports from medical meetings for health care professionals, patients, and other interested consumers.

Medline plus - Drug information - Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications

Medline Plus: Women's Health Topics - A collection of high-quality information resources on women's health issues, from AIDS to vaginal diseases. From the MEDLINE database, National Library of Medicine.

MedlinePlus Health Information - Includes drug information, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary

MedlinePlus: Mental Health - This site is devoted to providing high quality material about mental health. It includes information on Alternative therapy, nutrition, specific conditions and provides links to a number of other sources.

Medscape - Includes Medline (user name: weblinks password: wollongong)

Mental Health Resources - mainly USA sites from the WWW Virtual Library

Merck Manual - search the world's most widely used medical text

MERCK MANUAL--Home Edition - search the world's most widely used medical text

Mindzone - A Mental Health resource for teens. Offers personal stories and suggests strategies for coping with mental health disorders

myDr - Australia's comprehensive health site

myDr Men’s Health Centre - A comprehensive list of articles on men's health issues, categorised into easy-to-follow topics.

National Asthma Council of Australia - An extensive array of resources on asthma and its management.

National Cancer Institute - The NCI is one of the pre-eminent cancer research centres in the world.

National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke

NIDA for teens - This site has been developed by scientists at the US National Institute on Drug Abuse especially for teens

NSW Health - a-z of common health topics, local health services. NSW Health publishes a wide range of materials that are available to the community. Publications may be in the form of a pamphlet, brochure, report or fact sheet.

OmniMedicalSearch.com - A metasearch engine for the Medical Search Engines (for professionals and layman)

On-line Medical Dictionary - contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology.

Oxford Reference Online - Enter you library barcode and select medicine to search the Concise Medical Dictionary, an A-Z of Medicinal Drugs, a Dictionary of Nursing and a Dictionary of Psychology

Pregnancy Center - This very nice site is dedicated to providing the web-browsing public with comprehensive and highly readable information about pregnancy

PrivateHealth.gov.au - Contains a database of all policies offered by private health insurance companies in Australia.

PubMed - a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources

Raising Children Network - Offers a range of independent content to assist parents.

The Funky Stork - A website for expectant fathers and hip new dads.

The Official Website of the Glycemic Index and GI Database - The glycemic index or GI ranks carbohydrates according to their effect on our blood glucose levels.

The Rosenthal Center - alternative medicine

Travel Health Information Page - from the National Center for Infectious Diseases. Check this site before travelling overseas.

US Drug Enforcement Administration - Includes drug descriptions

weightloss.com.au - A free online weight-loss magazine containing articles on diet, exercise and weight loss.

World Health Organization - lots of health topics from the World Health Organization

World Life Expectancy - Health and longevity details by country.

World's Healthiest Foods - Information and recipes

Yahoo's Health portal site - Yahoo's Health portal site

History

4000 Years of Women in Science

500 Most Important People of the 20th Century - Includes a short biography and a photo of each person and is an excellent starting point for researching a person.

Adelaide Proformat - Adelaide Proformat was established in June 1994 to help Australians with their family history research and presentation and to help people beyond Australia research within Australia

AIATSIS Family History Unit - The Unit specifically assists Link-Up caseworkers in the family tracing and reunion for Indigenous people who were removed. We can also assist anyone of Indigenous heritage with their family history research

Ancestry Public Library` - Genealogy, family trees and family history records online. Includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories and passenger lists

Ancestry.co.uk - UK & Ireland - Genealogical records from the British Isles and Island. Includes fee-based access to 1871, 1891 and 1901 British censuses

Ancestry.com.au - Genealogy, family trees and family history records

Archaeology - A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America

Archives Office of Tasmania - Searchable databases for genealogical research

Argus Index - The Argus, published in Melbourne from 1846-1957, was the quality newspaper of record in the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century. This index to the Argus covers the decade 1870-1879

atmitchell.com - Free online access to the State Library's collection of treasures relating to Australia's heritage and culture. Includes a comprehensive record of life in NSW from early exploration to the present day

Australasian Passenger Lists - This site is designed to help family historians locate passenger lists for migrant ships to Australia/New Zealand. It includes a list of other relevant links.

Australian Army War Diaries - Excerpts of digitised diaries from those who served Australia during the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War,and in the South East Asian conflicts.

Australian Athlete Profiles

Australian Dictionary of Biography - Online edition - Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980

Australian History on the Internet - An annotated directory of websites relating to Australian history compiled by the National Library of Australia

Australian National Maritime Museum - Articles on shipping and an index to photographs of ships

Australian national shipwreck database - A database of all known shipwrecks in Australian waters.

Australian War Memorial - A must see site for information about Australians at War. Includes access to the Memorial's biographical and collection databases

Australians at War

Australia's Maritime World - Maritime history and today's sea, ship and shore achievements, attractions, activities and adventures

Australia's Prime Ministers

Australia's War 1939-1945 - WW2 site established by the Department of Veteran's Affairs

BBC History - Includes in-depth articles, timelines and short biographies of historic figures. Covers a broad range of topics from ancient history to wars and conflict

Belongings: Post-WW2 migration memories & journeys - Belongings tells the stories of migrants who arrived in the decades after the Second World War through personal mementos, photographs and memories

Best of History Web Sites - An anthology of online history resources.

Biographical Dictionary

Biography.com

Bissonnette on Costume - a visual dictionary of fashion

Bright Sparcs - A register of people involved in the development of science, technology, engineering and medicine in Australia.

British History Online - The digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, built by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust

British Monarchy

Burke & Wills Web - Historical resources relevant to the study of the Burke & Wills expedition across Australia in the 1860’s

Celebrity Link - Celebrity Link contains a huge directory of links to sites dedicated to celebrities. The links are checked regularly.

Cemeteries of Australia (Interment.Net) - A free online library of burial records from selected cemeteries in Australia. Includes links to thousands of cemeteries across the world.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - Contains information on over six million soldiers and sailors from 44 states and territories who were involved in the Civil War.

Commonwalth War Graves Commission - Has Debt of Honour Register for all British & Commonwealth war dead in World War I & II

Convicts to Australia - A guide to researching your convict ancestors

Cook, James, 1728-1779.. Journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771 [manuscript]. - The National Library of Australia has digitized the Endeavour Journal and made it available online. It's a ship's diary from Captain James Cook.

Costume History

Dead or Alive? - This site tracks whether famous people are still alive or whether they have passed away.

Dead Persons Society - A self help society of like minded people interested in advancing genealogical and family history research through the use of electronic mediums

Decisions of the Superior Courts of NSW 1788-1899

Digger History - An unofficial history of the Australian Armed Services

Directory of Archives in Australia

Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Includes writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others.

Domesday Book - Domesday Book is one of our earliest surviving public records. You can now search and download images of Domesday online

EncycloComedia - The Comedian's Who's Who - from Abbott & Costello to Zacherley

Encyclopedia of World History - Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns and thirty prominent historians have developed this comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millennia from prehistoric times to the year 2000

Encyclopedia Titanica - A unique resource for anyone interested in the Titanic

Family History: Immigrants - Records in the National Archives. Details over 125,000 non-British European migrants who came to Australia between 1951 and 1965

Familyrecords.gov (UK) - Easy access to information and links to the main UK family history sites on the web

FamilySearch - from The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. Includes 35 million names from their Ancestral file as well as 285 million names in the International Genealogical Index.

First Fleet Online - Consists of information about the convicts who were transported to Australia in 1787.

First World War.Com

Genealogy Home Page - Contains over 4000 links to genealogy resources

Genealogy Learning Centre - How-to articles, genealogy classes and other resources that will help you dig deeper into your family's past.

Genealogy Quest - Select the glossaries link to go to lists of epidemics, occupations and diseases

Genealogy world

Genes reunited - Genes Reunited is Australia's largest family tree and genealogy website

GENUKI - UK & Ireland Family History

Global Information Centre Historical and Genealogical Resources - A comprehensive annotated A-Z directory of global online resources for family history researchers.

GoodBye! The Journal of Contemporary Obituaries - an opinionated magazine which chronicles the dead - famous, infamous and non-famous.

Historic government publications from World War II - Digital library of US government documents, and photographs, with links to other WWII history sites

Historic Houses Trust of NSW

Historic Scotland - In our web site you can find information on more than 300 properties in our care and Scotland's listed buildings and scheduled ancient monuments.

Historical Parliamentary Information

History Explorer - This is an interactive timeline of American history. It features collections, exhibitions and programs from the National Museum of American History including a world map from 1511 and Plymouth Rock.

History of Commercial Aviation

History of flight from around the world - Features country profiles for nearly two dozen countries and pioneer profiles for individuals such as Lawrence Hargrave, Amelia Earhart and the Wright brothers. Browse by maps or persons.

History of Mathematics archive - Features biographies of mathematicians

History of Women in Sports Timeline - A chronology of the history of female athletes around the world, beginning in 776 BC and continuing through the present

Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website - The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937

Hunter Valley Genealogy - Articles on the history of local towns & coalmines, cemetery lists plus Hunter Valley Families - contact details for other families being researched

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