The Archive is a fully digitized version of the National Geographic magazine, cover to cover, published between 1884 to current. National Geographic magazine is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. The magazine has in-depth coverage of cultures, nature, science, technology and the environment.
Collection comprises the C series records relating to the early history of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia (C/NZ), along with selected volumes from the series of copies of letters sent and received (CLR & CLS), consists of files relating to the establishment of the Society's activities in the province, and the development of a diocesan organisation to support them. Includes correspondence from the SPG sent to the Colonial Office, London. Document supply available.
Global News from Newsbank provides access to almost 7,000 titles including over 200 titles as digital images from Australia and overseas. The digital image titles include: The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, The Times (London), The Guardian, and the New York Post
Access Australia includes content from over 500 of the most popular Australian daily, weekly and Sunday newspapers, as well as hard-to-find community, regional and rural titles.
An integrated primary source collection of topic-based modules covering the vast array of nineteenth-century content in this period of industrialisation, technology, revolution, nationalism, colonialism, education and culture. Search the complete collection or choose from the following modules:
Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange (19th Century Collections)
British Politics and Society
Children’s Literature and Childhood
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest 1800-1914
This 19th century John Murray Publishing archive includes correspondence, financial papers, book drafts, and advertisements. It covers biographies of key figures, commissioned essays, and an exhibition of the life cycle of the book. Key authors include: Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Eastlake and Isabella Bird, William Gladstone, Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli, Austen Henry Layard and Charles Lyell. By Adam Matthew Digital.
Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. It has over 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.
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Includes the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and supplements, and new and revised entries. All volumes are fully searchable and provide historical information as well as the meanings of words.
Eight online language dictionaries from Oxford University Press for English/Arabic, English/Chinese, English/French, English/German, English/Italian, English/Portuguese, English/Russian, English/Spanish. A virtual keyboard allows entry of characters in a range of scripts.
Oxford Music Online contains; The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music with articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres, as well as biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists etc from 1900 to the present.
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Includes all Oxford Reference dictionaries and reference works relating to law published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database. Includes Dictionary of Law, Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law and the New Oxford Companion to Law.
Contains hundreds of specialist encyclopaedias, dictionaries, language resources, and other reference works published by Oxford University Press as ebooks. Covers all subject areas.
It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.
The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PMB | Pambu) copies archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands and the material provides the most extensive collection of non-government primary documentation on the Pacific Islands available to researchers on microfilm held by member libraries. The aim of the Bureau is to help with long-term preservation of the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands and to make it accessible. The full version of this catalogue – including access to digitised materials – is available for Member libraries such as the State Library of New South Wales. NSW residents can access Pambu’s full catalogue by clicking on Log in with a Library card below.
Periodicals Archive Online is a leading humanities and social sciences indexing service that provides access to bibliographic records of articles from more than 4,000 journals published from 1770 to 2005. It gives the full text of articles from over 700 journals indexed.
Collections of photographs, albums and photographically-illustrated books from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Topics include exploration, travel, Empire, colonization, life in colonized regions, topography, archaeology, science, medicine, criminology, photography as reproduction of art works, Key events and wars, etc. Document supply available.
Complete searchable archive of a popular British news magazine with extensive pictorial content and covering history, politics, the arts and popular culture.
Find literary criticism, reviews, and interviews with poets and short fiction writers, both historical and contemporary. Includes analyses of individual works, poetry showcases on contemporary American poets, and selected stories and poems in full text.
Politekhnik was a journal published in Sydney across the period 1969-2012 by Russian immigrants connected with the Harbin Polytechnic Institute in China. It was a NSW publication primarily focused on a mix of Russian and Chinese history, social and political.
[Content is in Russian only though can be copy and pasted into a translator]
PressReader (formerly Library PressDisplay) is a web-based portal which provides access to issues from the last 3 months of over 7,000 newspapers and magazines from more than 82 countries in 60 languages.
