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1. Onsite(CDROM)RAAF World War 2 Fatalities

: Contains summaries of RAAF fatalities in date of death order. Includes mission details, names, ranks and musterings of crew members, and the known circumstances of the failure of aircraft to return from missions.

2. FreeReason in Revolt

Melbourne University and Monash University Australian Research Council: The Reason in Revolt project aims to bring together primary source documents of Australian radicalism as a readily accessible digitised resource. By 'radical' we refer to those who aimed to make society more equal and to emancipate the exploited or oppressed. As it grows and develops, the project website will become an expanding record of the movements, institutions, venues and publications through which radicals sought to influence Australian society. Search under headings:Activists,Cultural Forms, Political Groups, Political Movements, Political Parties, Political Philosophies, Writers, Utopianism and Dystopia.

3. Freerefdesk.com

This 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.

4. FreeRegister of Postgraduate Music Dissertations

Musicological Society of Australia (MSA): This register is a database containing the bibliograhic information for postgraduate music and music-related theses completed since 1917 or currently in progress at universities in Australia and New Zealand. The register has been compiled from library catalogues and in conjunction with some authors, particularly those whose projects are in progress. The database can be browsed in its totality, within 39 subject categories, or in a combination of categories. Results can be sorted by Author, University, Degree or completion year. A keyword search is also available.

5. FreeRegistry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Queensland)

Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General: The Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages offers a free online historical index search of all births 1829 to 1914, deaths 1829-1964 and marriages 1829 to 1934, that occurred in Queensland.

6. LicencedRen min ri bao tu wen shu ju ku (People's Daily Database 1946-)

Oriprobe Information Services, Inc: Started in June 1946 and a current circulation of 3 million, People's Daily is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China. It is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China For the last over 60 years, the People's Daily has published daily issues that provide the single location where the central government and the Communist Party of China announce their respective policies and disseminate governmental, political, and economic messages to the public and the world. Most importantly, since its inception the newspaper has been the true barometer of the political climate of Chinese society on a daily basis. Available for document delivery to Australian libraries.

7. FreeReviews in Australian Studies

British Australian Studies Association: Reviews in Australian Studies is a journal of the British Australian Studies Association (BASA). BASA was established in 1982 to bring together individuals and institutions concerned with the study of Australia, and/or the teaching of Australian topics in secondary and tertiary education. Reviews in Australian Studies has an interdisciplinary focus, with an interest in reviewing all publications concerning aspects of Australian experience and endeavour. Reviews in Australian Studies also publishes reviews of films, exhibitions and performances, and occasionally extended review articles. There are 10 issues a year.

8. OnsiteRILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Ebsco: Nearly a quarter of a million abstracts are drawn from articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, festchriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings and videos, reviews, etc. Sponsored by the International Musicological Society, the International Association of Music Libraries, and the International Council on Traditional Music. RILM documents the music scholarship of some 60 countries from 1969 -.

9. Onsite(CDROM)Riverina Cemeteries: Monumental Inscriptions and Burial Records (to at least 1998)

Griffith Genealogical & Historical Society: Riverina Cemeteries monumental inscriptions and burial records. ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND MICROFORMS READING ROOM ON JUKE BOX PC.

10. Onsite(CDROM)Rookwood Cemetery Transcriptions

Society of Australian Genealogists: This database contains over 235,000 names transcribed from headstone inscriptions in Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery. Rookwood is the largest working cemetery in the southern hemisphere and this list was compiled by volunteers from the Society of Australian Genealogists between 1981 and 1992. Searches are possible by surname, forename, inscription or year of death and each entry shows the complete transcription and grave location. ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND MICROFORMS READING ROOM ON JUKE BOX PC.

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