Quick eReferences

Quick eReferences Tag Cloud

Page Index

Acronyms | Australia | Biography | Books | Dates & Times | Dictionaries & Thesauri | Directories
Encyclopedias | Geography | Internet | Law | Libraries | Maps | Measures | Medical & Health
News | Quotations | Reference Websites | Sciences | Standards | Statistics | Style Manuals
Universities | Weather | World

Acronyms

• Acronyma
• Acronym Finder
• MediLexicon (pharmaceutical/medical)

Australia

• Australia in Brief
  Series of short essays with "facts and figures" on many subjects
• Australian Government Entry Point
• Australian Made Information on Australian products and companies
• Australian Travel and Tourism Network
• Electronic Australiana
  Australiana resources available on the Internet. National Library of Australia page
• Guide to Australia Charles Sturt University website
• Picture Australia
  Cross-collection search tool for finding images from the National Library of Australia and a number of other institutions.
• Politics: ABC News Online

Biography

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
  Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography, with over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980
• Biographical Dictionary
• Biography.com 25,000 biographies of artists, writers, politicians, actors, historical personages, etc.
• Biographies: PolySearch Engine

Books

• AbeBooks - online bookstore for new, used and rare books.
• Amazon Bookstore (US)
• Australian Book Review Contents plus abridged text of selected reviews.
• BookFinder.com A search engine that scans bookseller databases to find new, used, rare, and out of print books.
• BookWire Access to reviews from a number of sources
• Google Books
• Needle in a CyberStack: Book Reviews & Recommendations
• Project Gutenberg A library of 17000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired
• Project Gutenberg Australia
• Publishers Catalogs Home Page

Dates and Times

• Calendar Zone | Virtual Perpetual Calendars
• Calendars through the Ages
• Local Times Around the World
• World Time Server
• World Time & Dialling Codes

Dictionaries and Thesauri

• Oxford English Dictionary  |  Remote access [JCU staff & students only]
• A - Z of Thesauri
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Dictionary.com
• Encarta World English Dictionary
  You can also hear the word spoken in this free dictionary
• FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• Glossarist: a searchable directory of glossaries and dictionaries
  Organised into categories
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and thesaurus
• OneLook Dictionaries
• Roget's Thesaurus | Roget's Internet Thesaurus
• Your.Dictionary.com Links to 1500+ specialised online dictionaries
• Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay Web Dictionary
• Language Dictionaries and Translators
• Netdictionary Reference guide to technical, cultural, and humorous terms related to the Internet.
• Nonverbal Dictionary
  Dictionary of Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues by David B. Givens, Center for Nonverbal Studies.
• On-line English Grammar
• RhymeZone Type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more
• Visual Dictionary Online New
• Webopedia Online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology
• X-Refer | Remote access [JCU staff & students only]

Directories

• Gateway to Associations A searchable database with links to over 6,500 associations located around the world.
• Associations on the Net A service of the Internet Public Library
• Union of International Associations: Links to more than 5000 international organizations
• Australian Directories
• Australian Government and Business Associations Directory
• People Search Australian people finder
• PubList Internet Directory of Publications
• Australia Post: includes link for post codes
• Big Yellow United States Yellow Pages
• Australian White Pages
• Australian Yellow Pages
• Telephone directories on the web
• UK Directory Enquiries (British Telecom)
• UK Postal Codes

Encyclopedias

• Answers.com
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online | Remote access
  Available only to James Cook University users.
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Columbia Encyclopedia The sixth edition on the Bartleby website
• Information Please: Your ultimate fact finder
• Wikipedia
• Symbols.com: Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
• Whatis?com Large online encyclopedia of information technology

Geography

• About.com: Geography
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Google Earth
• JCU Map Guide
• Map Machine (National Geographic)
• Wheris.com
• World Map Connection (World Press Review)

Internet

• CompletePlanet The Deep Web Directory
• InfoHelp's On Campus Computing Terms
• NetLingo The Internet Language Dictionary
• Scams
  • ScamWatch Australian government scam site
  • Internet ScamBusters
• Search Engine Colossus
  Links to a large number of country- or region-specific search engines and subject directories
• SearchEngineGuide
• Searching the Internet JCU's links to internet searching tools
  Lists specialist search tools for a particular subject or topic
• Smart Computing Information in non-technical language

Law

• AustLII Australasian Legal Information Institute. Comprehensive coverage of Australian legal material, and useful links to overseas resources.
• Australian Law on the Internet From the National Library of Australia. Includes useful guides to Australian law
• Australian Law Online This is the official gateway to the Commonwealth Attorney General's Department
• Hansard Parliament of Australia
• Internet Resources for Law from JCU's Law Librarian
• Internet Law Library

Measures

• Calculators On-Line
• How Many? Dictionary of Units of Measurement
• Interactive Currency Table
  Generates a list of current exchange rates for the A$ (or any other currency) but will produce a list for any specified date back to 1995.
• Oanda Currency Site Includes currency converter
• Online Conversion Conversions are organized by type (temperature, length, cooking, etc.), and each conversion page includes numerous options.

Medical & Health

• Australian Department of Health and Aged Care
  Provides a range of information for consumers, and links to a number of health programs and campaigns
• Health Communication Network
  Australian resource for medical and health information
• Health Network
  Independent consumer medical information website
• HealthFinder Extensive searchable database of reliable online health information
• HealthGate
• HealthWeb "Linking you to the best in health information". Recommended.
• Medical Online Information Site
• Merck Index Includes full text of the Marck Manual Home Edition
• On-Line Medical Dictionary

News Sources

• Australian News Network
• Australian Newspapers on the Internet List from the National Library of Australia
• ABC News Online from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• ABCNEWS.com American news site
• ABYZ News Links Links to over 15,000 newspapers and other news sources worldwide.
• JCU Newspaper and News Guide
• NewsDirectory.com | NewsLink
• NewsTrawler Search for news, magazine, and journal articles from worldwide archival sources
• Pandia Newsfinder Search for news using the Pandia metasearch engine
• The Paperboy Access to over 2500 online newspapers from around the world

Quotations

• Aphorisms Galore
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Creative Quotations
• Quotations Page
• Refdesk: Thesauri and Quotations Provides a number of other links.

Reference Websites

• Academic Info Reference Desk
• Best Information on the Net: Reference Desk
• Internet Public Library Reference Center
• Internet Resources National Library of Australia links to resources
• Intute
• Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder
• Ready Reference Web Sites Arranged by Dewey Decimal number
• Yahoo! Reference

Sciences

• BOWest (engineering theorums & formulae)
• ChemWeb.com
• Math Forum
• TechXtra
• WebElements Periodic Table Scholar Edition
• WWW Chemistry Guide

Standards

• Standards Australia On-line
  Full text access available to James Cook University users only.
• British Standards Online
  Non-subscribers can use this site to identify BSI publications
• Patents and Standards Information
  From the JCU Library Engineering Resources Guide

Statistics

• Australian statistics on the internet from the National Library of Australia. Links to Australian statistics departments & organisations, and statistics by State, Territory and subject.
• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
• Reserve Bank of Australia . More RBA data courtesy of Economagic
• Social Science Data Services (Dewey and Rotch Libraries)
• StatLib
• UNESCO Statistics

Style Manuals

• American Heritage Book of English Usage
• APA Style homepage
• Indispensable Writing Resources: A Guide to Writing Reference Sites
• JCU Reference Style Guides
• Online! Citation Styles
• Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgment
  How to cite sources in various styles, with citations for various kinds of sources.

Universities

• American University Web Sites
• Going to uni: Higher Education for students in Australia
• Postgraduate Scholarship Database for Australia
• UK Universities, Higher and Further Education Colleges
• UK university home pages
• University and College Web Sites - World Wide
  

Weather

• Australia. Bureau of Meteorology
• The Long Paddock Climate management information for rural Australia [Qld. government]
• NASA Space Weather Bureau
• National Tidal Centre | Tide Predictions for Australia, South Pacific & Antarctica
• The Weather Channel U.S. weather
• WorldWeather What the weather is normally like for places worldwide
• The Weather Underground

World

• BBC News: Country Profiles An "instant guide" to news, history, politics, event timelines, and economic background of world countries.
• CountryReports.org
  Basic country information from around the world
• Project Visa | Embassy World
• Guinness World Records
• InfoPlease Almanac
• International Affairs Resources WWW Virtual Library
• Lonely Planet On-Line
• Portals to the World Selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world
• United Nations
• World CIA Factbook
• World Directory of Think Tanks
• World History Links Page
• Worldwide Governments on the WWW
• Whatsonwhen.com
• World Airports Online

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