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21. OnsiteAttorney-General's Information Service - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset (AGIS-ATSIS)

Informit: The records contained in this subset specifically relate to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and deal with legal issues such as land rights, native title, customary law, Aboriginal deaths in custody, aborigines in the criminal justice system, racial discrimination, indigenous intellectual property and Aboriginal youth and juvenile justice.

22. LicencedAusGeoRef

American Geological Institute: AusGeoRef is a subset of the GeoRef database published by the American Geological Institute. It contains more than 170,000 bibliographic references to Australian geoscience literature and is regularly updated. References are drawn from journal literature, meeting proceedings and abstracts, books, reports and maps. References contain complete bibliographic information and URLs for documents published on the web.

23. OnsiteAUSPORT - Australian Sport Database

Informit: AUSPORT contains information on Australian sport published in journals, monographs, conference proceedings, government reports or theses. Videotapes and audiocassettes are also indexed. Subject coverage includes sports administration, economics, coaching, history of sports, nutrition, physiology, sports medicine and sports for special groups such as the disabled, children and women.

24. OnsiteAusportMed (Australian Sport Database - Medical Subset)

Informit: AusportMed covers all aspects of medical and health issues in sport.

25. LicencedAustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature

AustLit is a key resource for information about Australian writers and writing covering the 1780s to the present. AustLit provides a combination of enhanced biographical and bibliographical information and the full text of critical articles, creative writing and information resources about many aspects of Australia's literary heritage. AustLit also provides specialist research and information subsets, including Black Words: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Story Tellers, which contains biographical, bibliographical and full text material relating to Australian Indigenous cultures of literature and story. Other AustLit subsets cover children's literature, drama and popular theatre, multicultural writers, Australian magazine history, and Banned Books.

26. FreeAustralian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Australian Bureau of Statistics: The ABS website provides statistics on the following themes: economy; environment and energy; industry; people; and regions. Included are statistical publications on agriculture, demography, census, finance, labour, manufacturing, national accounts, prices, service industries, social trends, trade and transport. Electronic copies of ABS publications and related statistical tables are free to any member of the public with Internet access. Also provides access to a growing collection of historical statistics.

27. OnsiteAustralian Criminology Database -- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset - CINCH-ATSIS

Informit: CINCH is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice. This subset includes information on the involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the justice system. Source documents include journal articles, monographs, monograph chapters, conference papers, government documents, book reviews and theses. Subject coverage includes all aspects of crime and criminal justice including corrections, crime, crime prevention, criminal law, criminology, juvenile justice, law enforcement, police and victims of crime. Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

28. FreeAustralian Digital Theses Program

A distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate research students at the participating institutions.

29. FreeAustralian Government Agriculture Portal

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry: The portal is a catalogue of Australian, State and Territory government information and services for the agricultural, fisheries, processed food and forestry industries. Categories to browse include resource management, products and resources, agricultural economics and agribusiness.

30. FreeAustralian Government Indigenous Portal

This portal provides links to resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders.

Our subject guides

"Theses: print resources"

The Library holds a selection of theses and has several indexes to assist in locating Australian and overseas theses in other libraries. This guide contains selected print works only.

"Statistics: print resources"

The Library holds many resources relating to both Australian and international statistics. These statistics cover all subject areas including demography, economics, industry and trade and represent both current and historical data. This guide contains selected print and microfilm works only.

"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: print resources"

The Library holds a large collection of material relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. This guide contains selected print works only.

"Pacific resources: selected websites"

These are general sites for researching the Pacific Ocean region on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on on the Pacific region as well as providing links to other useful sites.

"Statistics: selected websites"

These are general sites for researching statistics on the Internet and provide a good starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to statistical information on a diverse range of specific topics as well as providing links to other useful sites both in Australia and overseas.

"Mura Gadi : a guide to manuscript, pictorial and oral history materials relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the National Library of Australia"

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/