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Guide to Internet Information Sources for Australian JournalistsThis resource includes Internet sources of factual or background information, such as business information, cases, databases, directories, economic data, government departments and policies, industrial awards, legislation, reports, statistics, and trade figures and policy, as well as basic reference tools.
Japan Knowledge Plus NRJapan Knowledge: Consists of over 30 titles, including 5 encyclopedias, 8 dictionaries, 7 full text magazines, interactive maps, video, and the full text of the collection of Tokyo bunko. Titles that can be searched include Kaisha shikiho, Joho chishiki imdas, Gendai yogo no kiso chishiki, Nihon jinmei daijiten, the Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan, Dejitaru daijisen, Kagaku gijutsu ryakugo daijiten, Nihon rekishi chimei taikei.
Librarians' Internet IndexCalifornia and Washington State Libraries: A searchable, annotated subject directory of thousands of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness. Subjects include arts and humanities; business; computers; government; health; home and housing; law; media; people; recreation; reference; regional; science; and society and social science.
MacquarieNetMacquarie Dictionary Publishers: This resource contains a blend of Australian and international reference works: encyclopedias; dictionaries; and atlases. It also includes articles; images; links; and daily news feeds from the ABC (Australian Broadcoasting Corporation). Major reference works included on this site are: Macquarie Dictionary, Macquarie Online Student Dictionary, Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, The Macquarie Thesaurus.
EBSCO publishing: This resource provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,800 titles. It features full text Magill Book Reviews; hundreds of reference books including the World Almanac and Book of Facts; full text from thousands of biographies; thousands of full text primary source documents; American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition; and an Image Collection of over one hundred thousand photos, maps and flags. It offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal and National Review.
Online ConversionsAskNumbers.com: This website provides online conversions for different kind of metrics such as length and distance; weight and mass; volume; temperature; date and time; pressure; area; computer storage; energy and work; power; torque; circular and angle; frequency; force; electrical; radiation; speed; density; light; acceleration; viscosity; flow rate; sound; data transfer; currency; clothing and shoe sizes; and cooking.
Oxford English Dictionary OnlineOxford University Press: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through millions of quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Oxford Reference OnlineOxford University Press: Oxford Reference Online covers the following subjects in a single cross-searchable resource: language (dictionaries, grammar, abbreviations, proverbs); general reference (quotations, English place names, first names, world encyclopedia); art and architecture; classics; history; literature; military history; mythology and folklore; performing arts; politics and social sciences; religion and philosophy; economics and business; law; biological sciences; computing; earth and environmental sciences; food and drink; medicine; physical sciences and mathematics. Major reference works which are searchable in this collection include: The Australian Oxford Dictionary, The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford Dictionary of Art, Who's Who in the Classical World, Dictionary of Ecology, Dictionary of Computing, Dictionary of British History, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, Dictionary of World History, Oxford Companion to American Literature, Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Concise Medical Dictionary, Oxford Companion to Music and Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Quotations Home PageStephen L. Spanoudis: This website includes thousands of entries in 30 separate quotations databases which can be browsed separately or searched using a simple keyword search. The collections contain thousands of quotations, old and new, familiar and obscure, humorous and pompous, ironic and sometimes profound. This site is intended as a place for enjoyment, enlightenment, exploration and general reference.
refdesk.comThis website contains reference tools arranged under the following headings - almanacs, biographies, calculators and conversion tools, census data and demographics, dates and times, dictionaries and thesauri, encyclopedias, genealogy, geography and maps, health, people finder, quotations, and style and writing guides.
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