Subject guides
Our guides contain key resources on selected subjects that will help get you started on your research. There are two main types of guide:
- Print resources guides which contain catalogue search tips and selected print works; and
- Selected websites guides which list freely available websites.
For enhanced subject access to all our electronic resources including full-text databases, indexes, e-journals and websites, go to eResources.
For a listing of guides and major bibliographies which are specific to the holdings of the National Library of Australia or which include significant reference to the Library's collections, see our Published guides page.
Aboriginal Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: print resources
Asia
Asian Accounts of Australia: Bibliographies
Bibliography of works on Timor Leste (East Timor)
Bibliography of Australiana collections in the Chinese language
Biography
Australian biography: print resources
Business and commerce
Australian companies: print resources
Family history and genealogy
Australian birth, marriage and death records
Australian censuses and musters: print resources
Australian electoral rolls: print resources
Australian family history and genealogy: selected websites
Cemetery records: print resources
Family history sources in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room
Ship and passenger records: print resources
History
Australian history: print resources
Australian history: selected websites
Law
Australian law: selected websites
Guide to overseas laws and statutes
Law reports and court records: print resources
Literature
Australian literature: print resources
Australian literature: selected websites
Book reviews and literary criticism: print resources
Pacific
Digitised Pacific resources: global collections
Pacific resources: selected websites
Politics and government
Australian electoral rolls: print resources
Australian government: selected websites
Australian politics and government: print resources
British parliamentary publications and information
League of Nations: print resources
United Nations: print resources
United States congressional publications and information
Science and technology
Australian science and technology: selected websites
Statistics
Australian censuses and musters: print resources
