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Online Reference Resources

Abbreviations and Acronyms	Higher Education
Atlases and Maps	Patents
Australian Census	Preprint sources
Biographies	Quotations
Conversions and calculations	Referencing and Style Guides
Copyright	Standards
Country Information	Statistics
Dictionaries - English & Other	Thesauri
Directories	Subject Resources
Encyclopedias

Sites marked by this key are only accessible by current staff and students of The University of Newcastle, Australia. For help in accessing these sites, click on the key.

 

Abbreviations and Acronyms

• Abbreviations.com - search for acronyms and abbreviations - includes reverse lookup, and much more.
• Wiley's Science and Technology Acronym finder - click on Acronym Finder when Wiley page loads.
• Acronym Finder - database of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.
• Acronym Search

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Atlases and Maps

• Atlapedia Online
• National Georgaphic - geography & maps
• Whereis - Australian
• World Relief Maps - 3D interactive relief maps of continents, mountain ranges, and specific peaks.

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Biographies

• Australian Dictionary of Biography - more than 10,000 entries featuring prominent Australians
• Biographical Dictionary
• Biography.com
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• Lives, the Biographical Resource - the largest guide to biography on the Web
• Whos Who In Australia - browser must be configured to use the university proxy server.
• Women in History - US only
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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Country Information

• Australian Dept of Foreign Affairs Country Fact Sheets
• CIA World Book of Facts
• Europa World Year Book (this requires a password first)
• SBS World Guide
• United Nations
• World Regional Geology - from SpingerLink Reference collection also includes European and Asian Regional Geology

Almanacs and Calendars

• The Star Almanac - Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office
• Earth Calendar : a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world

Australia

• Australian Government Information (National Library of Australia)
• Australian Subject Gateways (National Library of Australia)
• Guide to Australian Information (National Library Of Australia)
• Parliament of Australia - Access Hansards, Bills and other parliamentary publications.
• Government Online Directory - Structure, Organisations and key people

Government and Politics

• Governments by Country on Yahoo
• International Organisations on Yahoo
• Web Sites on National Parliaments

Time

• Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• The World Clock
• Time : Standards of Measurement
• A Walk Through Time
• World Time Zone Map

Weather

• Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

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Conversions and Calculations

• Conversion and Calculation Center - measurements, currency, calculators, time zones etc
• Universal Currency Converter

 

Copyright

• Copyscape  The free Copyscape service makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web. Simply type in the address of your original web page, and Copyscape does the rest. Allows you to find sites which have copied (with and without your permission) your online work.
  
• The University of Newcastle’s copyright statement
• Copyright Law – summary
• Copyright – copying for your students
• Copyright and Blackboard
  
  For students
• Policy on student academic integrity
• InfoSkills tutorial on Using information fairly
• Thesis candidate copyright guide
  

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Dictionaries - English

English Dictionaries

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary
• The Oxford English dictionary Online

American English Dictionaries

• The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English
• The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
• Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
• WWWebster Dictionary (this title is one section of the Literature Online database)

English Language

• Australian National Dictionary
• Australian Word Map - regionalism? a word, phrase or expression used by a particular community
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
• The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs - look for proverbs (sayings) and their meaning
• A Dictionary of British Place-names
• A New Dictionary of Eponyms - eponyms are things named after people or places eg robot, bikini and sandwich are all words named after a person or a place
• The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms - everyday English expressions explained
• The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English - meanings of commonly used foreign words and phrases

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Dictionaries - Other Languages

French

• The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary
  • English - French
  • French - English
• The Oxford Business French Dictionary

German

• The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary
  • English - German
  • German - English

Italian

• The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary
  • English - Italian
  • Italian - English

Latin

• The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary
  • English - Latin
  • Latin - English

Spanish

• The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary
  • English - Spanish
  • Spanish - English
    
• The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary
  • English - Spanish
  • Spanish - English

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Directories

• Australian Postcodes
• Australian White Pages
• Australian Yellow Pages
• People & Places - search local & international phone books, and email addresses
• Publishers' Catalogues Directory
• Street-directory.com.au - a map search engine covering all states and territories of Australia

Associations

• Associations on the Net (AON) - part of the Internet Public Library. To search, use the search box on the Internet Public Library Page.
• Directory of Australian Associations - contact the Information Desk for the password.
• Organisations Australia - The Australian Government Directory of Associations of all kinds.
• Union of International Associations - from the Yearbook of International Organizations.

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Encyclopedias

•  Encyclopaedia Britannica
• The World Encyclopedia

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Higher Education

• Australian Research Council
• AVCC Australia's Universities
• Good Universities Guide
• DEST - Dept of Education Science and Training home page (federal govt.)
• Higher Education Research - a DEST page.
• Research Finder
• TAFE NSW Technical and Further Education, Australia
• UAC - Universities Admission Centre (NSW&ACT)
• The World of Learning - international guide to the academic world - contact the Information Desk for the password.

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Quotations

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
• The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
• Quotations at Bartleby.com

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Thesauri

• The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus - search for other words with the same or an opposite meaning.
• Thesaurus.com - Roget's Interactive Thesaurus

 

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