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• Academic Info - gateway to academic information
• Australian Libraries' Gateway - reference enquiry services listing
• Bloomsbury Research Centre (link to be updated) - online database of reference books
• CREDOreference - reference engine containing encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations and a growing range of subject-specific titles
• Guide to Australian Literary Manuscript - database consists of electronic guides, or finding aids, for more than 80 collections of Australian literary manuscripts
• Oz Guide - Internet sources and information for ethical Australian journalists

Dictionaries

• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Dictionary of difficult words
• International Dictionary of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
• Internet Language Dictionary

Directories of organisations and people

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
• It's an honour - Federal Government site on the Australian honours system
• Bright Sparcs - A register of people involved in the development of science, technology, engineering and medicine in Australia, including references to their archival materials and bibliographic resources
• The Parliamentary Handbook - includes biographical entries for all senators and members of the House of Representatives
• Australasian Art Obituaries Index - lists obituaries for Australasian artists and art professionals noted by the NGA Research Library from 1990 to date
• The Collector - antique and collectable auction room
• Behind the name: first names etymology and history of first names
• Behind the name: surnames - etymology and history of surnames

Electronic scholarly papers

• Australian digital theses project
• Demetrius (link to be updated) - The institutional Repository of the ANU
• eScholarship Repository - stores and distributes academic research results and working papers from the California Digital Library.
• Index to Australian Federal Parliamentary Papers
• Gateway to search all Digital Commons repositories - access to scholarly papers repositories in a wide variety of American universities with a common search interface

Conversion tables

• Oanda.Com - currency converter
• Reserve Bank of Australia - daily exchange rates
• Metric Conversion - National Measurement Institute of Australia

Maps and gazetteers

Australia

• Google Maps
• Where is? - Australian on-line street directory
• Place names index - locations of places in Australia
• Historical Atlas of Sydney -digital images of detailed maps of Sydney (1865-1972)
• Sands Sydney Directory - complete Sands volumes for three sample years (1868, 1888, 1918)

International

• British History Online - ordnance surveys by county beginning in 1845
• David Rumsey Collection - directory of historical maps
• DIGMAP - discovering our past world with digitised maps
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - includes Australian locations
• Map Collections at the British Library
• National Geographic map machine
• Online map collections - University of Texas
• Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe - from AD 1 to AD 1700
• TimeMaps Atlas of World History - Map that can be navigated chronologically or geographically from 3500 BC
• Zoom Into Maps from the Library of Congress - historical maps from the American Memory collections.

Newspapers

• Art Gallery of New South Wales press clippings - collection of 20th century art related press clippings
• Historic Australian newspapers 1803 - 1954
• OnlineNewspapers.com - claims to index 10,000 online newspapers from around the world
• Sydney Morning Herald archive
• Sydney Morning Herald index - from the State Library of NSW

Quotations

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Famous Quotations Network
• Google Web Directory: Quotations (link to be updated) - several hundred sites listed
• Phrase Finder - collection of 5,000 English phrases and sayings
• Quotations Archive
• Quotation Ring - over 300 quotation sites
• Quoteland - categorised lists of quotations, searchable

Statistics and facts

• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Country Watch - basic facts and figures on 191 countries
• Global statistics - tables of population statistics useful for historical comparisons of population growth
• Guiness world records - longtime chronicler of all that is remarkable and strange (may be slow to load)
• Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• The world factbook - published by the CIA
• Statesman Yearbook

Glossaries

• Glossary of library and archives terminology (link to be updated

Style manuals

• Chicago Manual of Style

Telephone directories

• Australian White Pages
• Australian Yellow pages
• All nations telephone directory search engine - provides dialling codes and links to appropriate searchable phone directories

Thesauri

• APAIS thesaurus - Australian Public Affairs Information Service
• Object Name Thesaurus - Powerhouse Museum
• Roget's Thesaurus

OHS

• Safety at Work
• Standards Australia
• SAI Global - Power Search

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