Useful Subject Sites for
Ready reference
for students, teachers and professionals

Presented by the LEARN Network of TAFE South Australia Libraries
Compiled by Barbara Staite

Last revised January 2009 

 

Alpha Dictionary
http://www.alphadictionary.com/langdir.html
Extensive list of language dictionaries

Atlas of South Australia
http://www.atlas.sa.gov.au/

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII)
http://www.austlii.edu.au/
A joint facility of the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of NSW Faculties of Law, AUSTLII provides free Internet access to Australian legal materials. AustLII is one of the largest sources of legal materials on the net, with over a million searchable documents

Australian Bureau of Statistics
http://www.abs.gov.au/
Australia's National Statistical Agency whose mission is to "assist and encourage informed decision-making, research and discussion within governments and the community, by providing a high quality, objective and responsive national statistical service."

Australian Government online
http://www.gov.au/

Australian white pages
http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/
Directory of address and phone listings in Australia. Main features include searching, postcodes and world time and dialling codes.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Easy to search English language dictionary, includes phrases and idioms.

Britannica Encyclopedia
http://www.britannica.com/

Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/index.shtml
The Bureau of Meteorology is the national meteorological authority for Australia. Their website allows you to search for the weather forecast for the following three days. There is also has a climate section where the user can see the climate averages for all areas of Australia.

CIA world factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, has information about various countries, indexed by country name.

Currency converter
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

Encarta Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com/

Encyclopedia
http://www.encyclopedia.com
Provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Familiar quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
A collection of passages, phrases and proverbs, traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.

GovPubs : the Australian Government Publication Guide
http://www.nla.gov.au/govpubs/

Guide to selected types of Australian government publications, such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers, located in Australia's National, State and Territory libraries or available on the Internet.

Law Handbook
http://www.lawhandbook.sa.gov.au/

Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary & thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/
Merriam-Webster delivers the most up-to-date dictionary on the Web.

Online Newspapers
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
List of online newspapers from around the world

Public transport timetables
http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/ttsearch.php

Adelaide Metro - timetables for South Australian public transport.

Thesaurus.com
http://thesaurus.reference.com/

Time and date converter
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Where is online
http://www.whereis.com.au/
Online street directory - covers metropolitan areas within Australia.

World gazetteer
http://www.world-gazetteer.com/

 

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