General Info
Resources
Collections
Services
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Web links
Internet Reference Tools
Almanacs and Encyclopedias
Museum Associations
Biographies
- Biographical Dictionary
This dictionary includes more than 27,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
- Biographies of Leaders
Provides a brief background on how each leader came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, photo, and a short biography.
- Bright Sparcs Information on over 3,000 Australian scientists from the 18th century to the present!
- Inventors Hall of Fame
Hundreds of inventions and inventors, biographies, pictures, indexes of inventions and inventors. Searchable.
- Inventors Online Museum
Organized into categories, such as Women, and Colonial Inventors, this site features biographies of various inventors, and how their inventions changed society.
- Lives,the Biography Resource
The largest guide to biography sites on the web. Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more.
Book Sellers and Publishers
- Amazon.com Books
Searchable catalog of over one million book titles, all for sale.
- Barnes and Noble.Com
Online products from the bookstore
- Publishers' Catalogues Home Pages
International listing of on line publishers' catalogs.
- Bibliofind
Over 6 million old, used and rare books, offered by thousands of booksellers around the world.
- ALIBRIS
A database of over 4 million out-of-print titles from book and antiquarian dealers around the world.
- Bookfinder.com
Conducts simultaneous searches across of number of out-of-print and antiquarium book search tools
Census Data
Copyright
Dictionaries & Thesauri
Discussion groups
- E-Mail Discussion Groups/Lists - Resources
Basic guide to using discussion groups including commands, how to subscribe, etc.
- Lizst: Directory of E-mail Discussion Groups
Comprehensive, searchable list of discussion groups.
- Tile.Net
Extensive, searchable list of discussion groups.
- List of Lists
Searchable version of the List of Lists discussion group resource
Dissertations and Theses
Government & Legislation
Libraries
- Australian Libraries Gateway The Australian Libraries Gateway (ALG) is a free World Wide Web-based directory service which improves access to information about more than 5,100 Australian libraries.
- British Library Site includes details of their document delivery service, exhibitions, and online catalogue. Collections cover all subjects including anthropology, botany, mineralogy, palaeontology, zoology and other areas in natural history.
- National Library of Australia
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
- Library of Congress Catalog
- Libweb-Library WWW Servers
Most complete list of library Web sites (more than 3,000 from over 90 countries).Searchable.
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries Online catalogue available. Collections cover a variety of subjects including anthropology, botany, mineralogy, palaeontology, zoology and other areas in natural history.
- State Library of New South Wales - CATALOGUE
- State Library of New South Wales, SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
- Web-based catalogs (from the Library of Congress)
- WebCATS-Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web
Can be searched by name, geographically, by type of library, or by library catalog vendor.
- World Wide Web Library Directory
Besides library listing this has lists of library-related companies and organizations and another on resources of use to librarians.
Maps & Travel
- Australian Geographic Place Names (Gazetteer) Search for Australian Geographic Place Names.
- Defense Mapping Agency GEONet Names Server (Foreign names)
U.S. Board of Geographic Names Foreign Name Gazetteers
- MapQuest Interactive Atlas
Create detailed maps
- Getty Information Institute Thesaurus of Geographic Names
The TGN is the first automated source of hierarchically arranged geographic data that is global in scope. The TGN comprises records for approximately 900,000 places.
- How Far Is It?
Use this tool to calculate latitude, longitude and distance between any two points on the globe.
- U.S. Geological Survey GNIS (Domestic names) , U.S. Geological Survey Domestic Name Gazetteers
- Gazetteer
Locate latitude, longitude, population for any U.S. site; includes links to maps and U.S. Census data
- Where is? Street atlas. Areas currently covered: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide, More areas coming soon.
- Xerox PARC Map Viewer
Create maps for any area of the globe.
Money & Finance
Postal Codes
Science & Technology
- BioChemNet
Site has links to general biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular genetics, teaching science, science careers, and science clip art.
- BioMedNet Internet community for Biological and medical researchers. Site has links to general biology, and medical journals.
- SciCentral
This metadirectory aimed at researchers covers more than 120 specialties in science, engineering, and medicine, and constitutes a gateway to over 50,000 sites.
- Science Gems
Excellent annotated directory of more than 2,500 science resources sorted by categories.
- WebElements
The Periodic Table of Elements and more.
Telephones, Addresses & E-mails
Time
- 10,000-Year Calendar
Display day for any month or year in this time period.
- Calendar and Clock Page
This site has an overwhelming amount of information on all things relating to calendars, dates, holidays, and time. Find today's date on Hebrew, Chinese, Moslem, Hindu, Coptic, Indian, and many, many more calendars.
- Date and Time - Worldwide
- Calendar Zone
Annotated directory of all calendar related resources on the Internet.Great for finding holidays around the world.
- Calendar Conversions
A unique Internet service that allows users to convert a date from standard format to Julian day number, day of the week, Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, Jewish calendar, or French republican calendar.
- Virtual Calendars
Easy to use perpetual calendars for 1900-2099.
Weather
Weights and Measures
Writing Resources
- Animal Pictures Archive
More than 18,000 high quality animal photographs. Searchable.
- Amazing Picture Machine
Excellent collection of pictures, maps, and other graphic resources on the Internet. Searchable.
- APA and MLA Citation Styles Undergraduate Writing Center, University of Texas
- Books/Writing
Part of Suite 101 series with some 40 links on fiction, writing for journals, travel, short stories, free-lancing, resources for writers, and more.
- Corbis Pictures on the Internet
This archive is the most comprehensive digital collection of visual content available anywhere in the world. Bill Gates set up Corbis Corporation to collect and sell digital images, including art reproductions. Has more than 500,000 images (small) available for viewing. Searchable.
- Library of Congress: Citing Electronic Sources
Suggestions for the citation of multimedia electronic resources.
- The Picture Collection One of the most extraordinary collections of pictures in the world. Time, Inc. is putting online hundreds of thousands of photographs from its collection of more than 20 million photos taken since the 1930s for its publications.
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