This is a General Reference Guide. For more specific subject areas, please go to the Research Gateway and select the Subject Guide most relevant to your study.

On this page:

• Art
• Awards
• Biographies
• Business
• Community Organizations
• Country Information
• Dictionaries/Thesauri & Encyclopaedia
• Directories & Maps
• Hospitals
• Historical Information
• Justices of the Peace
• Measurement (of time, weather, weight...)
• Newspapers
• Search Engines
• Travel (transport timetables and hotels)

Art

• Oxford Reference Online (Select Art & Architecture)

Awards:

• It's an Honour (Australian & Imperial Honours)
• Nobel Prize Award
• Pulitzer Prize
• Scientific Awards (Max Planck Society)
• The Walkley Award (for Australian Journalism)

Biographies:

• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Bright Sparcs (People involved in the development of Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine in Australia)

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Community Organizations:

• A.C.T. Down Syndrome Association
• A.C.T. Right to Life Association
• Adoptive Families of the A.C.T.
• Australian Charities
• Canberra Blind Society
• Citizens Advice Bureau A.C.T.
• Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
• GoVolunteer
• Guide Dogs N.S.W./A.C.T.
• Lions Australia
• National Trust of Australia
• Parentlink
• RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
• Rostrum Australia
• Rotary in Australia
• WSPA Australia & New Zealand (Wildlife Society for the Protection of Animals)

Country Information:

• EIU Economist Intelligence Unit (Information with focus on political and economic analysis and general background on the countries for this collection: Asia and the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, EU countries & UK,Canada, U.S. )
• Country Information (Cth Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade)
• CIA World Factbook
• Country Profiles (BBC)
• Countries of the World
• Infonation
• nationmaster.com
• OECD Countries Information - Consult SourceOECD from the Databases page as well.
• Portals to the World (Library of Congress)

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Dictionaries/Thesauri & Encyclopaedia:

• Oxford English Dictionary (UC database)
• Britannica Online (UC database)
• Oxford Reference Online Dictionaries & Reference, Maps, Illustrations (UC database)

Free Resources:

• Australian National Dictionary
• Answers.com
• APAIS Thesaurus
• Best Information on the Net
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Encyclopedia Mythica  
• howjsay (English Prounouncing Dictionary)
• Library Glossary
• LibrarySpot
• MSN Encarta (Dictionary with American Pronunciation)
• Mythology
• National Library Subject Guide
• Merriam-Webster Online 
• OneLook Dictionary (Define, translate, find words)
• Refdesk.com
• Religion Index
• Translate a Web Page (BabelFish Translation)
• Wikipedia

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Directories & Maps:

• AnyWho:Directory
• Australian Postcode Search (Australia Post)
• Canberra street index
• Canberra by Suburbs
• Diplomatic, Consular & other Representation in Australia
• Google Earth
• Placeopedia 
• White Pages.com

Historical Information:

• Asian History
• Australian Family History and Genealogy on the Internet
• Australian History (through National Library)
• ANU Division of Pacific and Asian History 
• Best of History Websites
• British History Online
• Gazeteers of Australia (some access from NLA only)
• Genealogy-Geneology Net
• National Archives of Australia - Historical documents
• Smithsonian Institution
• UNESCO World Heritage List
• U.S. History

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Hospitals

• Calvary Health Care A.C.T. Hospital
• Calvary John James Hospital
• Canberra Hospital

Justices of the Peace

• ACT Justices of the Peace Association Inc. 
• Locate a JP 

Measurement (of time, weather, weight...):

• Australian Bureau of Meteorology
• Calender Year
• Currency: Universal Currency Converter
• Ecclesiastical Calendar
• Periodic Table
• Universal Currency Converter
• World Clock and Time Zones
• World Climate   
• WSSN (World Standards Services Network)

Newspapers:

• Newspapers in the Library
• the Age
• the Australian
• Australian Financial Review
• Canberra Times
• Sydney Morning Herald 
• Internet Public Library (Newspapers around the world)

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Search Engines:

• A9.com
• AlltheWeb.com
• Anzwers (Australia & New Zealand)
• Clusty
• Dogpile.com
• Excite.com
• Google  
• Lycos
• Mamma Metasearch
• MetaCrawler.com
• Scirus (for Scientific information)
• TEOMA (Search with authority)
• Vivisimo.com
• WebCrawler
• Web Wombat
• Yahoo 

Travel (transport timetables and hotels):

• ACTION buses (A.C.T.)
• Bus Australia
• Greyhound Australia (Interstate Bus services)
• Murrays Travel (Coach service) 
• Rail Australia
• Sydney Transport System
• Travel warnings (DFAT)

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Content Responsibility: Edwina.Hyman@canberra.edu.au