Useful Reference Websites

Audio Books
Open Culture www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

Books Should Be Free www.booksshouldbefree.com

Librivox http://librivox.org/

Law
Austlii www.austlii.edu.au

Comlaw www.comlaw.gov.au

Australian Law Reform Commission www.alrc.gov.au

Federal Attorney General’s Department www.ag.gov.au

NSW Legislation www.legislation.nsw.gov.au

FindLaw www.findlaw.com

Hansard www.aph.gov.au/hansard

Catalogues
National Library of Australia http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/

Library of Congress http://catalog.loc.gov/

Riverina Regional Library http://203.38.125.66/libero/WebOpac.cls

State Library of NSW http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/using/search/

Charles Sturt University http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/

New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/digital/

WorldCat www.worldcat.org/

Communications and Media

Australian Communications and Media Authority www.acma.gov.au

Creative Commons www.creativecommons.org

Digital Preservation www.dpconline.org

Preservation 101 www.nedcc.org/education/online.php

Digital Media www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/training

Preserving Access to Digital Information www.nla.gov.au/padi

Education
ERIC www.eric.ed.gov

Research on International Education www.acer.edu.au/library/

Education Network Australia www.edna.edu.au

Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics www.abs.gov.au

Australian Business Statistics www.business.gov.au

UNESCO www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=2867_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

US Census Bureau www.census.gov

UK Central Statistics www.ons.gov.uk

UN Food and Agriculture www.fao.org

International Labour Organisation www.ilo.org

UN Economic and Social Affairs www.un.org/esa/desa.htm

World Bank www.worldbank.org

World Trade Organisation www.wto.org

Vocational Education Research www.ncver.edu.au/statistic/

Online Education Database www.oecd.org/statsportal/

Archives
National Archives of Australia www.naa.gov.au/
CSU Regional Archives www.csu.edu.au/research/archives/links.htm

State Records – NSW www.records.nsw.gov.au/

Public Record Office Victoria www.prov.vic.gov.au/

Queensland State Archives www.archives.qld.gov.au/

State Records of South Australia www.archives.sa.gov.au/

State Records Office Western Australia www.sro.wa.gov.au

International Council on Archives http://new.ica.org/2908/useful-links-collections/sla-

useful-links.html

Internet Archive www.archive.org

Lesson Plans
ABC Labnotes (science) www.abc.net.au/labnotes

Community Learning Network www.cln.org

Educational Wikis http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com

Educators Reference Desk www.eduref.org

Gateway to 21st Century www.thegateway.org

Thinkfinity www.macropolosearch.org

Merlot www.merlot.org

Science Networks www.sciencenetlinks.com

Great Sites www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html

Teen Hoopla www.ala.org/teenhoopla/main.html

Guide for Educators

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/index.html

Kids Click www.kidsclick.org

Genealogy
Unlock The Past www.unlockthepast.com.au
Australian Cemeteries www.australiancemeteries.com

Australian Family History http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/genelist.html

Irish Family History www.rootsireland.ie

Queensland Family History http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/coll/fh

Family Search http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

Australian Immigration http://www.coraweb.com.au/shipscheme.htm

Irish National Archive www.nationalarchives.ie

NSW Births Deaths Marriages

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/searchHistoricalRecords.htm

Australian Passenger Lists http://www.coraweb.com.au/shipscheme.htm

Ancestors On Board www.ancestorsonboard.com

Search Ireland http://www.genwed.com/UK/search-ireland.htm

National Archives of Australia http://www.naa.gov.au/services/family-

historians/index.aspx

Ships to Australia 1837 -1839 www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/au1838.htm

Convict Ships 1801 to 1849

http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/shipNSW2.html

Ryerson Index www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nswsdps/

Websites for Genealogists www.coraweb.com.au/

Archaic Medical terms www.antiquusmorbus.com/English/EnglishP.htm

Library/Reference
Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm

Dictionary for Library www.lu.com/odlis/about.cfm

Oxford English Dictionary www.oed.com/

Oxford Reference www.oxfordreference.com

Entymology Dictionary www.etymonline.com

Wordsmyth www.wordsmyth.net

Internet Public Library www.ipl.org

Community Learning Network www.cln.org

LibrarySpot www.libraryspot.com

RefDesk www.refdesk.com

Australian dictionary of Biographies http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm

S9 (Biographies) http://www.s9.com/

Virtual Reference Shelf www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html

Answers www.answers.com

Australian Libraries Gateway www.nla.gov.au/libraries

Reference and User Services Association http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/index.cfm

Encyclopaedia Brittanica www.britannica.com

Standards http://www.saiglobal.com/online/autologin.asp

Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Library Support Staff www.librarysupportstaff.com

Australian Research Online http://research.nla.gov.au/

Open Library http://openlibrary.org/

Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

Mnmenonic www.mnemonicdictionary.com

Digital Libraries
Calisphere www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu

Engineering and Technology www.dlnet.vt.edu

Exploratorium www.exploratorium.edu

National Science http://nsdl.org/

Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org

SMETE (sciences) www.smete.org

Visual Arts www.vads.ahds.ac.uk

American Association for the Advancement www.aaas.org/programs/education

ABC www.abc.net.au/learn/

BBC www.bbc.co.uk/learning

CSIRO www.csiro.au

Library of Congress for Teachers www.loc.gov/teacher

Smithsonian Institute www.smithsonianeducation.org

Awesome Library www.awesomelibrary.org

ALA Website for Kids www.ala.org/greatsites

Homework Spot www.homeworkspot.com

Skwirk Interactive Schooling www.skwirk.com/my-subjects

Yahoo Kids Study Zone http://kids.yahoo.com/learn/

Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html

Open Culture www.openculture.com

Alerting Services
FreePint www.freepint.com

ResearchBuzz www.researchbuzz.com

Scout Report www.scout.cs.wisc.edu

Search Engine Report www.searchenginewatch.com

ABC Health Updates www.abc.net.au/health

News Aggregators
Bloglines www.bloglines.com
FeedMarker www.feedmarker.com

Google Reader www.google.com/reader

Blog and RSS Search Engines

Feedbase www.feedbase.net

Feedster www.feedster.com

Findory findory.com

Sphere www.sphere.com

Syndic8 www.syndic8.com

Technorati www.technorati.com

Wikis
Alacra Wiki (business) www.alacrawiki.com

Encuclopadia Gamia (games) http://egamia.com

Military History wiki www.militaryhistorywiki.org

WikiBooks (open content books) http://en.wikibooks.org

World66 (travel) www.world66.com

Meatball Wiki (directory) www.usemod.com

Qwika (search engine) www.qwika.com

Wiki Index (directory) http://wikiindex.com

Wikia (directory) http://wikia.com

Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org

Wikipedia’s List of Wikis (directory) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis

WikiSeek (including Wikipedia content) www.wikiseek.com

WikiSpaces (wiki hosting) www.wikispaces.com

Literature
Audiobooks www.booksshouldbefree.com

Online www.online-literature.com

Shakespeare www.absoluteshakespeare.com

Shakespeare www.shakespeareswords.com

Shakespeare http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

Wikisummaries www.wikisummaries.org

Enotes www.enotes.com

Norton www.wwnorton.com

What Should I Read Next www.whatshouldireadnext.com

Which Book www.whichbook.net

Book Seer http://bookseer.com/

Library Thing www.librarything.com

Amazon www.amazon.com

Booko http://booko.com.au/

Booktopia www.booktopia.com.au

Directories

Directories list websites by category and subcategory and are often maintained by groups of editors or
subject experts who make decisions on what to include in each category. You can search directories by key
words or use the listed topics to browse to relevant websites.

A Research Guide www.aresearchguide.com

Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Beaucoup www.beaucoup.com
Virtual Library www.vlib.org

Beyond Bookmarks
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm

BUBL www.bubl.ac.uk

Galaxy www.galaxy.com

Intute www.intute.ac.uk

Internet Public Library www.ipl.org

Librarians’ Internet Index www.lii.org

WebLaw www.weblaw.edu.au

Open Directory www.dmoz.org

Genealogy www.coraweb.com.au

Oxford Reference
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html?authstatuscode=202

Big Search Engine Index www.search-engine-index.co.uk

SearchAbility www.searchability.com

Glossary http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/hyperref.html

Subject Gateways
EDNA (education) www.edna.edu.au

ELDIS (development information) www.eldis.org

WWW Virtual Library (Gardening) www.gardenweb.com/vl

News
RocketInfo ( current news) www.rocketinfo.com

InfoQuick (index to SMH) www.sl.nsw.gov.au/infoquick

World News www.wn.com

Business
ASX www.asx.com.au

New York Stock Exchange www.nyse.com

Australian Financial Review www.afr.com

ACCC www.accc.gov.au

ASIC www.asic.gov.au

Austrade www.austrade.gov.au

Office of Small Business www.industry.gov.au

Chambers of Commerce www.acci.asn.au

Trade Publications www.tradepub.com

Patents www.jpo.go.jp

Asia Pacific www.asia-pacific.com

Worldwide Newspapers www.onlinenewspapers.com

Government
Register of Legislative Proceedings from 1824
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/common.nsf/key/pre1991hansard

NSW Legislation www.legislation.nsw.gov.au

Australian government Publications www.nla.gov.au/govpubs

Index to Parliamentary Papers www.aph.gov.au/house/pubs/index.htm

Public Records Office (UK) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

US Government Printing Office www.access.gpo.gov

US Technical Information Service www.ntis.gov

Grey Literature
Australian Digital Theses Program adt.caul.edu.au/

GrayLIT Network www.osti.gov/graylit

GreySource Index www.greynet.org/greysourceindex.html

Virtual Technical reports Centre

www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html

Digital Archives
Science www.arXiv.org

Economics www.repec.org

Psychology http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk

Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition www.arl.org/sparc

D-Space www.dspace.org

Public Knowledge Project www.pkp.ubc.ca

Open Archives Initiative www.openarchives.org

Budapest Open Archives Initiative www.soros.org/openaccess

Melbourne Uni www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/eprints

Geography
Map History www.maphistory.info

Geographical Names Board www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search

Parish Maps http://parishmaps.lands.nsw.gov.au/pmap.html

LPMA Information www.baseline.nsw.gov.au/faq.html

History
American Memory www.memory.loc.gov

Eyewitness to History www.eyewitnesstohistory.com

BBC History www.bbc.co.uk/history/

British History Online www.british-history.ac.uk

Wagga Local History http://waggalocalhistory.wetpaint.com/

World History Database www.malc.eu/history

Middle Ages www.middle-ages.org.uk

Legal deposit

State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au

National Library of Australia www.nla.gov.au

British Library www.bl.uk

US Library of Congress www.loc.gov

NTIS www.ntis.gov

Medical
Archaic Medical Terms http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/English/EnglishP.htm

Doctors Reference Site www.drsref.com.au

Health Web www.healthweb.org

Intute(health and life) www.intute.ac.uk

Medic 8 www.medic8.com

Healthline www.healthline.com

Science

ABC Science www.abc.net.au/science

CSIRO www.csiro.au

Australian Antarctic Division www.antarctica.gov.au

Virtual Multimedia
Eternal Egypt www.eternalegypt.org

Human Anatomy Online www.innerbody.com

Traditions of the Sun www.traditionsofthesun.org

Xpeditions www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/

Hidden Web
(add the word databases to your web search)

Complete Planet www.completeplanet.com

Academic Info www.academicinfo.net/

Invisible Web www.invisible-web.net/

Pictures
Picture Australia www.pictureaustralia.org

Flickr www.flickr.com

Dating Photographs http://archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au/what-are-

your-tips-for-dating-photographs/

Library of Congress www.loc.gov/pictures/collections/

Indexes
Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_PageISI

Web of Science
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/web_of_science

Balay's Guide to Reference Books

Walford's Guide to Reference Materials

Ulrich's International Periodical Directory www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/

Libraries Australia http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss

New Journals http://old.library.georgetown.edu/newjour/

Worldcat www.worldcat.org/

Electronic Resources Australia http://era.nla.gov.au/

Australian Libraries Gateway http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/

Recent Australian Publications (RAP) www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/rap.html

Recent Australian Publications (GovRAP) www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/govrap.html

Ask Now www.asknow.gov.au

Grangers Index to Poetry www.columbiagrangers.org/

Index to The Australian Library Journal http://alia.org.au/publishing/alj/

Subject Headings/Thesauri
Library of Congress http://id.loc.gov/search/

Getty
www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/index.html

Libraries
National Library of Australia www.nla.gov.au/

Federal Parliamentary Library www.aph.gov.au/library

British Library www.bl.uk

Library of Congress www.loc.gov/index.html

Pandora www.pandora.nla.gov.au

Museums
British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/

Smithsonian Institute www.si.edu/

Professional Associations
Australian Library and Information Association www.alia.org.au

Archives Live http://archiveslive.ning.com/?

xg_source=msg_mes_network

Australian Society of Archivists www.archivists.org.au

American Library Association www.ala.org

Search Engines
Google www.google.com

Infotopia www.infotopia.info/

Intute www.intute.ac.uk/

Ask www.ask.com

Altovista www.altavista.com

Teoma www.teoma.com

Search Engine Showdown http://searchengineshowdown.com/

WebWombat www.webwombat.com.au

Aardvarksport (Sport) www.aardvarksport.net

CiteSeer (primarily computer science) www.citeseer.ist.psu.edu

FLMX (finance) www.fmlx.com

PerX (engineering) www.engineering.ac.uk

Scirus ( science) www.scirus.com

KidsClick (children) www.kidsclick.org

OneKey (children) www.onekey.com

Yahooligans (children) www.yahooligans.com

Technorati (blog content) www.technorati.com

Picsearch (images, animations) www.picsearch.com

Wikiseek (wiki content) www.wikiseek.com

Bing www.bing.com

Duck Duck Go http://duckduckgo.com

Dogpile www.dogpile.com
Meta Search Engines

Meta search engines combine two or more search engines and enable you to search them simultaneously.

Polycola www.polycola.com

PolyCola allows you to search any two major search engines at the same time, and see the results from each engine
in a split screen.

Dogpile www.dogpile.com

One of the first meta search engines, Dogpile searches four top search engines simultaneously and provides one set
of combined results that covers all engines.

Mamma www.mamma.com

Mamma searches a range of lesser known search engines and directories such as EntireWeb, Open Directory and
About.com to retrieve results that are not always found in the large search engines.

Bibliographies
Amazon WWW.amazon.com

Shared Bookmarks Search Services

Connotea (academic) www.connotea.org/

del.icio.us http://del.icio.us

Diigo www.diigo.com

Eurekster www.eurekster.com

Furl www.furl.net

Shadows www.shadows.com

Wink http://wink.com
Library Thing http://www.librarything.com/

Fire Engine Photos - www.fire-engine-photos.com

Planes and Choppers - www.planesandchoppers.com
Ships and Harbours - www.shipsandharbours.com
Train Photos - www.train-photos.com
Your Boat Photos - www.yourboatphotos.com
Bus and Coach Photos - www.bus-and-coach-photos.com
Ambulance Photos - www.ambulance-photos.com
Police Car Photos - www.police-car-photos.com
Military Vehicle Photos - www.military-vehicle-photos.com
Racing Car Photos - www.racing-car-photos.com
Transport Models Photos - www.transport-models.com
Classic and Vintage Cars - www.classic-and-vintage-cars.com
Traction Engines - www.traction-engines.net

Time Capsules - old photographs - www.time-capsules.co.uk

Photochroms - old colourised photos - www.photochroms.com

Hometown - www.theoldhometown.com Librapix - www.librapix.com

http://www.worldbirder.com/

http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/.

www.colorado.edu