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.
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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Hosted on the EBSCO platform, Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective Index (1905-1983) covers full text content from 69 years of the Wilson Library Bulletin, indexing from Library Work (1905-1911), as well as citations to book reviews, books, and library school theses. Document supply available.
The Rare Book Hub is a resource for information on rare, antiquarian, and collectible books and related ephemeral material – manuscripts, letters, maps, posters, broadsides, photographs, and prints (works on paper). It has over 11 million records of rare book transactions and 122 searchable upcoming auctions.
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).
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, ejournals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.
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 Copyright Council is an independent, not-for-profit Community Legal Service dedicated to promoting understanding of copyright law and its application. It was established in 1968, the same year as the enactment of the Australian Copyright Act 1968.
The ACC provides easily accessible and affordable practical, user-friendly information, legal advice, education and forums on Australian copyright law for content creators and consumers. See the Resources page for Fact Sheets and books about Copyright in Australia.
The Australian Library and Information Association is the national professional organisation for the Australian library and information services sector.
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. Contains Library Science and Librarianship journals.
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 Wing's 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.
The Trust is a partnership of major American research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible. A number of books and journals are available online in the digital library.
The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue is the international database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library. The database records nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501, but not material printed entirely from woodblocks or engraved plates.
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