Online resources

Our digitised collections

Explore the National Library's digitised Maps

Our onsite databases

Onsite  Antique Maps price guide includes the most up-to-date information on the antique maps market.

Onsite  Australian's national geosciences, minerals and petroleum reference database - AESIS.

Onsite  Science and Geography Education - SAGE Covers Science and General topics, including agriculture, archaeology, biology, chemistry, environmental science, ethics, geography, natural history, physics, sustainability.

Our offsite databases

Licenced  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.

Our eBooks

Changing Coastlines: Putting Australia on the World Map, 1493–1993

 Putting Australia on the Map cover image

Changing Coastlines examines Australia’s cartographic history. 

[PDF] Download Changing Coastlines 3.6Mb pdf