Useful Links
Recommended Internet resources for finding brief factual information:
Abbreviations & Acronyms - also includes resources for journal abbreviations
Awards & Prizes - literary, scholarly, national and other awards (Australian and international)
Biography - a range
of sources for Australian and international biographies
Bookshops -
Australian bookshops
Calculators & Converters
- currency, time, measurements and more
Calendars, Time & Holidays - world times, national and school holidays, international holidays
Catalogues of Other Libraries
- search the catalogues of other Australian and international libraries
Citation & Style Guides - guides to referencing systems (APA, Harvard etc.)
Conference Alerts - Academic conferences worldwide
Copyright -
copyright information - Macquarie University, Australia and international
Country Profiles
- information and statistics about the geography, people, government,
and economics
Dictionaries
dictionaries, thesauri, phrase finders
Electronic Books - resources for viewing the whole book online
Electronic Journals - resources for locating journal articles, abstracts and contents pages
available on the Internet
Encyclopaedias & Fact
Finders - general, country and other encyclopaedias
Governments - sources
for official government sites around the world
Libraries, Museums & Archives - Australian and international directories
Maps & Atlases -
modern and historical maps, atlases, street directories, and gazetteers
News & Media - Australian
and international newspapers and broadcasters
Organisations -
directories for locating Australian and international organisations
Publishers
- directories, catalogues and publishing-related news
Quotations - a
wide variety of sources, including movies, science, literature ...
Search Engines - general and specialised tools for searching the Internet
Statistics - Australian
and international sources for statistics
Telephone, Fax & Email
Directories - Australian and international directories
Universities & Further Education - guides and directories related higher education worldwide