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Australian & New Zealand American Civil War VeteransPaul Camp, Steve Wolf and Jim Gray: This website is a dedication to the Australian Union and Confederate Veterans of the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865. It has been created from numerous sources, government documents, research libraries and hundreds of pieces of information emailed in, and donated, by individuals from all over Australia and the United States. It includes work by individuals in both the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Sons of Union Veterans, the American Civil War Round Table of Queensland, the American Civil War Round Table of Australia, the late Roy Parker and others.
Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845The Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 component of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project (ACDP) provides web access to digital copies of Australian serials first published between 1840 and 1845. Fiction published during the same period has also been digitised. These titles are available as searchable text from the University of Sydney's SETIS site at http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/oztexts/acdp.html
Australian Scholarly Editions CentreUNSW at ADFA , School of Humanities & Social Sciences: Centre for literary research at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Includes the full text of various Australian literary texts and information on the History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) project.
Australian War Memorial Collection and Biographical DatabasesA collection of databases covering rolls, manuscripts, the catalogue, photographs, sound recordings etc.
Australian Women's Weekly 1946-71 IndexWomen's Studies Department, Flinders University: A detailed index of the Australian Women's Weekly in the years 1946, 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966 and 1971.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990Thomson Gale: This biographical reference includes more than 550 entries focusing on artists active from 1990-2003. Individual artists and groups in all popular styles are covered, including those in rock, rhythm and blues, rap, country, electronica, jazz, vocal and crossover classical. Features include select discographies, bibliographies, a glossary of music terms, a table of best-selling music since 1990 and more. This online book is part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Also available in print (2001 edition) at RFq 780.922 B167-10 in the Main Reading Room Reference Collection.
Bowker-Saur: an international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, covering the period 1962-1997. Abstracts newspapers, magazines and academic journals in the fields of the arts, literature, cinema, economics, history, current affairs, popular science, religion, music, and architecture.
Book Review DigestH.W. Wilson: Book Review Digest, is a bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Periodical coverage includes leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. To be indexed in Book Review Digest, a book must have been published or distributed in the United States or Canada. A work of nonfiction must have received reviews in two or more of the periodicals on the Book Review Digest selection list. A work of fiction must have received reviews is at least three of the periodicals. An exception is made for books reviewed in the Reference Books Bulletin section of Booklist. For these books one review is sufficient. Reviews must have appeared within 18 months after a book was published, and at least one review must be from a periodical published in the United States or Canada. Reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in the law and sciences are excluded. Also available in print from 1906 at RF 015.73 B00.
British Library Images OnlineBritish Library Images Online is a growing collection of images on the web. It contains images from the Picture Library's existing collection of transparencies as well as new material from manuscripts, maps, music, philately and the Asia, Pacific and Africa collections.
British Pathe ArchiveThe British Pathe archive is one of the world's most famous newsreel collections. Spanning the period 1896-1970, the collection comprises 3,500 hours and contains some of the most iconic images ever caught on camera. The entire archive has been remastered and fully digitised. It is now possible to view every second of this collection online through this web site.
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.