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31. FreeBureau of Rural Science : Data and Tools

Bureau of Rural Science: Links to online data and mapping tools providing information on Australia's natural resources, agriculture, economy, land use and coastal environments, including the Australian Natural Resources Atlas and the Bioenergy Atlas of Australia. The Natural Resources Atlas allows you to create a custom map showing a range of environmental, agricultural and social information. The Bioenergy Atlas provides online mapping of existing and potential biomass energy resources in the agriculture and forestry fields, as well as existing industry locations, infrastructure and other key data.

32. FreeCanberra Deep Space Communication Complex

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Also known as the Tidbinbilla Tracking Station, this facility forms part of the NASA Deep Space Network - an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the Solar System. Site contains weblinks, images, multimedia and education resources.

33. OnsiteCHERUB - Chemical Engineering Reference User Bibliography

Informit: CHERUB is a complete bibliographic reference source to the chemical engineering literature, including general and specialist topics, taken from 49 of the most important journals in the field. Includes subjects such as design and operation of chemical plant and equipment, chemical process information, process control, environmental considerations and mineral processing.

34. FreeCiteSeer.IST

Penn State University: A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

35. OnsiteClinical Pharmacology

EBSCO publishing: Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Part of the EBSCO Masterfile Premier package.

36. FreeCochrane Library Online

The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases featuring over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases as well as a suite of professional and management resources.

37. OnsiteComputer Index Australasia - CIA

White Room Publishing and Informit: CIA indexes a range of popular journals and general interest computing and communications periodicals relevant to the home user and to secondary and tertiary students. Also included are relevant items from major Australian daily newspapers. CIA is a source of information about evaluation of software and hardware, product updates and testing, new products and applications. NB: CIA ceased to be updated in July 2001 but will remain on Informit Online as an archived database.

38. FreeCSIRO

CSIRO: CSIRO is Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Information is provided about the economic and social performance of a number of industry sectors through research and development. These sectors are: agribusiness; energy and transport; environment and natural resources; health; information, communication and services; manufacturing; and mineral resources.

39. FreeDarwin Online

Darwin Online: This site contains Darwin's complete publications, 20,000 private papers, the largest Darwin bibliography, manuscript catalogue and hundreds of supplementary works: specimens, biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more. Almost all is online: all editions of Origin of Species (1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th), Descent of Man, Voyage of the Beagle, Zoology of the Beagle, Beagle diary, Beagle notebooks, pocket Journal, evolution notebooks, Autobiography and more. Darwin's Galapagos notebook.

40. FreeDefence Science and Technology Organisation

Department of Defence: DSTO is part of the Department of Defence. Its role is to ensure the expert, impartial and innovative application of science and technology to the defence of Australia and its national interests. This site has latest news about research and development and online access to the "Australian Defence Science" magazine

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"Australian science and technology: selected websites"

These sites provide a starting place for researchers in the field. They lead to a diverse range of information on Australian science and technology resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.

"Ship and passenger records: print resources"

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.