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1. LicencedGale Encyclopedia of Science

Gale Group: This encyclopedia covers major areas of science including: biology, genetics, microbiology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, engineering, technology, geology, weather, archaeology, psychology, mathematics, and medicine, and provides readers with a wide range of up-to-date, relevant, and accurate information.

2. FreeGale's Literary Index

Gale: Gale's Literary Index provides quick and easy access to the printed editions of our 43 literary series. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. Many of these series are held in the Library's Reference Collection in the Main Reading Room.

3. Onsite(CDROM)Gale's Quotations Who Said What

Gale Research Inc: 117,000 quotations. Quotes from speeches, poems, books, letters, plays. Many quotes in languages other than English. Coverage: All historical periods, ancient and modern. Quotations augmented with a short biographical sketch.

4. LicencedGale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Group: This resource is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs and specialised reference sources for multidisciplinary research. It contains the following Thomson Gale eBooks: Countries and Their Cultures; Encyclopedia of Bioethics; Encyclopedia of Buddhism; Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society; Encyclopedia of Communication and Information; Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World; Encyclopedia of Science and Religion; Gale Encyclopedia of Science; Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia; St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide: Major Events in Labor History and Their Impact; Water: Science and Issues; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians since 1990; Endangered Species/

5. FreeGazetteers of Australia, the World and Beyond : Selected Websites

National Library of Australia: A list of gazetteers and place name dictionaries prepared for both on-site and off-site users. It identifies material held in the National Library Map Section and provides links to gazetteers available on the internet.

6. Freegender Inn

Universitat zu Koln: gender Inn is a searchable database providing access to over 6000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.

7. FreeGenseek Genealogy

Genseek Genealogy is a website devoted to locating and promoting articles and information in relation to genealogy and history. It includes ship and passenger lists for Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada ; emigration schemes; convict genealogy; newspaper indexes/links; religious indexes; electoral rolls, etc.

8. FreeGENUKI: UK and Ireland Genealogy

GENUKI is a comprehensive virtual reference library of genealogical information that is of particular relevance to the UK & Ireland. It is organised so as to make it easy to find what information on what topics is available online related to given geographical localities (even down to parish level). It is a noncommercial service, provided by an ever-growing group of volunteers in cooperation with the Federation of Family History Societies and a number of its member societies. It is not just a list of links to information elsewhere but rather it also contains a large and ever-growing set of specially-produced information pages.

9. FreeGeographical Names Board of New South Wales : Name Search

Search the Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Searches are possible by placename, status, designation, LGA, topographic map, and parish.

10. FreeGeoscience Australia : Place Name Search

National gazetteer for Australia and offshore territories. Search over 300,000 geographical names for location and spelling as well as links to Geoscience Australia mapping products. The Gazetteer of Australia is compiled by Geoscience Australia and is part of the Geoscience Australia website.

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