Free web databases
- Canadian Heritage and Information Network (CHIN) - includes BMUSE, an index to current museology literature; more information on CHIN
- Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (external link)
- Australian War Memorial Collections databases (external link) - images and biographical data on Australia's military history
- Documents on Australian Foreign Policy (external link)
- EdResearch Online (external link) - from the Australian Council of Educational Research
- ERIC - research into education; more information on ERIC
- Image Collections - a range of Australian and international online image collections; more information on image collections
- INCHEM (external link) - international datasheets on chemical safety
- Missionary Periodicals Database (external link) - bibliographic database of British periodicals on foreign missions (C18 to 1960s)
- National Pollutant Inventory (external link) - from Environment Australia types and quantity of pollutants emitted in Australia
- OAIster Search Interface (external link) - freely available, academically-oriented, digital resources
- SciTech Resources (external link) - US government science and technology websites: search by subject or resource types e.g maps
- TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) (external link) - toxicology, hazardous chemicals and related areas
- ToxRefDB - Toxicity Reference Database (external link) - US Environmental Protection Agency, provides detailed chemical toxicity data in a publicly accessible and searchable format
Museums and libraries free online journals
- reCollections - Journal of the National Museum of Australia
- Cultivate Interactive - aimed at the European cultural heritage community including IT staff, information professionals, researchers, managers, policy makers, libraries, museums, archives, galleries and non-profit making organisations
- Conservation/preservation serials - Stanford University
- e-conservation magazine - news, events, reviews, conference announcements, scientific articles on the latest technology and research
- DigiCult - a newsletter on cultural content and digital heritage in Europe
- Global Museum - international webzine
- Journal of the Australian War Memorial
- Museum & Society - UK
- Museum Victoria Memoirs
- Openmuseum Journal - Australia's only peer-reviewed online museum journal
- Platform - published by AEA Consulting to promote discussion of the critical issues affecting cultural policy and the successful management of cultural organisations
- Provenance - Journal of the Public Records Office of Victoria
- Preservation Online - includes an online archive which allows visitors to search back issues from 1992 to 2006
Other free online journals
- Acarologia - a peer-reviewed journal: "research on all aspects of Acarology, including molecular biology, taxonomy, physiology, ecology, evolution, behaviour, biogeography, genetics, morphology and physiology"
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
- All Academic journal list - scholarly publications
- JURN - scholarly ejournals in the arts and humanities
- Medical journals
- Scholarly journals - University of Houston Library
Archaeology and anthropology
- Antiquity - recent full text, older issues summary text only
- Archaeology World - includes Archaeology Newsletter
- British Archaeology - full text
- AURA Newsletter - the newsletter of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA) Inc.
- Canadian Journal of Native Studies - free online access to back issues
Art
- Art Brief
- The Art Newspaper
- Australian Policy Online - news and research from leading Australian research centres and institutes
- CRISP - Current Research in Social Psychology
- Electronic Journal of Sociology
- National Geographic
Education and educational technology
- Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
- EdNA Online - Education Network Australia
- IE-ej - International Education Electronic Journal
- Issues In Educational Research
- Issues of Teaching and Learning - vol.1 1995 - vol.5 1999
- Synergy - produced by the Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney
- Newchalk
- Journal of Technology Education
History
- Public History Review
- Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History
- Journal of the Australian War Memorial
- The Sydney Line - website publishes recent articles and lectures by Sydney author and publisher, Keith Windschuttle, plus other works and links
- Living Heritage - Australia's National Heritage Magazine. Published by the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
- Heritage In Trust - National Trust of Australia (ACT)
Internet and Information technology
- Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society
- Electronic Frontiers
- First Monday - peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, about the Internet
- Internet Resources Newsletter - aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant to engineering, science, and social science
- Internet World Daily
- Journal of digital information - UK
- Journal of research and practice in information technology - Australian Computer Society
Sciences
- EOM - Earth Observation Magazine - geographic, earth and mapping information
- Fibreculture Journal - a peer-reviewed journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations
- National Information Standards Organization
- This Month's Papers - produced by the Institute of Physics Publishing
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Page last updated: 23 October 2012
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