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Australian Art Auction Records Pty Ltd: Australian Art Auction Records is a service that documents historical art auction results and makes them available via subscription. A print version of this database is available at N 338.4375994 CRA (1973/75+).
Australian Art Galleries.comAustralian Art Galleries.com is an art gallery and artist search engine. It lists different galleries around Australia and the artists that they represent.
Australian Art Obituaries IndexNational Gallery of Australia Research Library: A listing of obituaries for Australian artists and art professionals based on information received in the National Gallery of Australia Research Library since 1990. Warning: This database contains the names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.
John Furphy Pty. Ltd.: The Australian Art Sales Digest Internet Version lists thousands of artists who have lived and/or worked in Australia or New Zealand. To locate the artist whose works you want to view, you can enter the beginning letters of the artist's last name, and optionally the beginning letters of the artist's first name. Please note that artists are listed under their given first names, not their commonly used first name. For example, Pro Hart is listed as Kevin Charles (Pro) Hart. To facilitate your search, we suggest you enter only the first four or five letters of the artist's last name, and leave the 'Artist first name' box blank.
Australian Copyright CouncilAustralian Copyright Council: Provides access to a range of information sheets, books, news items, training programs and policy documents.
Australian Dictionary of Biography OnlineAustralian National University: This is the Internet version of the ADB's traditional print volumes. The biographical articles are those found in the printed ADB: Volumes 1 to 16 in the continuing series and the Supplementary Volume. The articles are concise, authoritative accounts of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history. Also available in print in the Main Reading Room at RF 920.094 AUS.
Australian Heritage DatabaseDepartment of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts: The Australian Heritage Database contains information about more than 20,000 natural, historic and Indigenous places.The database includes: places in the World Heritage List; National Heritage List; Commonwealth Heritage list;Register of the National Estate; List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia; and places under consideration, or that may have been considered for, any one of these lists. The information used to describe each place includes its values,legal status, significance, physical condition, history,location and boundaries, physical description, and bibliography Photographs of the place are included (if available) through links to the Australian Heritage Photographic Library Information about many Indigenous places in the Register of the National Estate is not available on the Internet. Search using latitude, longitude and map reference for places in New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and External Territories.
Australian Literary and Historical TextsA Collection of 18th, 19th and early 20th Century Australian Texts. The following institutions have provided texts and support for the advancement of this project: Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45, Macquarie Dictionary Ozcorp Database, Scholarly Editions Centre at the Australian Defence Forces Academy, Canberra, State Library of New South Wales, Vicnet Ozlit Web Site at the Victorian State Library Scholars Centre, University of Western Australia
Australian Defence Force Academy: CD-ROM version of the 1911 text of information relating to the Australian contingents in the Boer War by Lt Colonel P. Murray.
Australian National Shipwreck DatabaseCommonwealth, State and Territory Governments: The Australian National Shipwreck Database includes all known shipwrecks in Australian waters and allows users to search for those historic shipwrecks protected by Commonwealth or State/Territory legislation. This information has been collected by each of the State historic shipwreck agencies and the data are subject to ongoing editing and refining. State or Territory agencies can provide the most up-to-date information about a particular shipwreck and also maintain databases for their State or Territory.
The Library holds a large range of primary and secondary resources relating to the history of Australia. This guide contains selected print works only.
The Library holds a wide range of resources related to Australian literature. This guide contains selected print works only.
The Library holds a wide range of resources related to book reviews and literary criticism. This guide contains selected print works only.
These are selected sites for researching Australian history on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on Australian history resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.
These are general sites for researching Australian literature on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on Australian literature resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.
Mura Gadi is an online catalogue of the National Library of Australia's manuscript, pictorial and oral history resources relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Though it does not list the many books, periodicals and other publications in the Library relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, these materials can be found using the Library's online catalogue at http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/
Ship and passenger records are found throughout the National Library in books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, microform, pictures, maps and electronic media. Material includes information on ships, voyages, shipping companies, shipping and passenger lists and registers, shipwrecks, whaling, shipping arrivals and departures in Australian ports, logs, journals, diaries and voyage narratives, and ships' illustrations.