Ready reference sites

Academic Info - gateway to academic information
Australian Libraries' Gateway - reference enquiry services listing
Bloomsbury Research Centre - 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

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

Australian digital theses project
Demetrius The institutional Repository of the ANU
eScholarship Repository - stores and distributes academic research results and working papers from the California Digital Library.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography - presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks from the University of Houston Libraries
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

Google Maps
Where is? - Australian on-line street directory
Maps of Australia - geospatial search of catalogue records for over 100 000 maps of Australia held in Australia's Libraries.
Place names index - locations of places in Australia
Map collections in Australia - directory
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)

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
Our Earth as Art - USGS and NASA present stunning images of the Earth taken by satellite
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 - Library of Congress - historical maps from the American Memory collections.

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

Please contact the Library if there are broken links.
Suggestions for new sites are always welcome.

Last updated 13 May 2011