A bibliographic archive of Australian and New Zealand Books in Print, covering the years 1958 to December 2003. Also includes a database of publishers for the same time period. Document supply available.
Australian Library & Information Science Abstracts (ALISA) aims to comprehensively cover all current Australian literature on library and information services and the library workforce, including education and training, information technology, networking, electronic publishing, and telecommunications.
There are also records relating to Australian children's literature and archives.
Australian Public Affairs Full Text (APAFT) provides access to articles from humanities and social science journals, based on the database APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service).
Hosted on the EBSCO platform, Book Review Digest Retrospective provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Document supply available.
An online readers advisory. Browse by genre or search by author or title to find overviews and reviews of your favourite books. Includes a Read-a-likes suggestion list for each book result as well as linking to other related subjects, time periods and location settings. New and updated book overviews appear on the front of the homepage regularly.
Global Books in Print Plus (Online) contains bibliographic information on publications from Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America. Subjects covered include Books in Print, Subject Guide to Books in Print and Children's Books in Print. Document supply available.
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EEBO is an ongoing project providing full text access to publications in the English language produced by printing presses in England and its colonies between 1473 and 1700.
Hosted on the EBSCO platform, this database cites more than 249,000 essays in collections back to 1900, published in Canada, Great Britain and the U.S. Subject coverage: humanities, social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film. Document supply available.
This complete database of Australasian content searches across all Informit subject databases. It covers the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.
Useful for HSC Society and Culture, HSC English and HSC History.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
tool to help users find short stories from among more than 150,000 published in the U.S., England, and Canada dating from the 1830s to the 1980s. The index provides access by author, title, and publication, as well as topics, themes, locales, genre, and people (individuals, ethnicities, or professions).
Contains the complete run of the TLS from 1902 to 2019 online. Access to over a century of insight, criticism, and commentary on literature and the arts.
Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.
This online database provides access to the holdings of over 850 Australian libraries. Supported by the National Library of Australia, the database contains information about the location of over 29 million books, journal titles and other items held in Australian library collections.
Access a list of valuers approved to participate in the Commonwealth's Cultural Gifts Program. The Program encourages gifts of significant cultural items to public institutions by offering donors a tax deduction.
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The Australian Libraries Gateway is a directory of Australian libraries. Entries include library contact details, information about services and online catalogues. Use this site to find libraries in a geographical area, libraries of a particular type (for example public, university, health), and cultural heritage via on-line exhibitions, events and image collections.
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A digital library of Australian journals that began publication between 1840-1845. Publications range from local newspapers, shipping and trade news, religious, colonial and political journals and are of relevance to research into 19th Century Australian colonial life.These journals began publication between 1840 and 1845 and are listed in John Alexander Ferguson's Bibliography of Australia.
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This catalogue combines the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue with content from Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 and Wings A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700, as well as newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801. Its scope extends from the earliest printing in England (ca. 1473) through to the end of December, 1800. The ESTC can be used to find references to the Eighteenth Century and Early English Books online collections.
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