Web Links

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA
- Indigenous Australia (Australian Museum)
www.dreamtime.net.au/index.cfm - Reconciliation Australia
http://www.reconciliationaustralia.org/resource/index.html - Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
http://beta.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/car/pubs.html
AGRICULTURE
- Agfacts
http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/
Website of NSW Department of Primary Industries, includes useful fact sheets - Agnet
http://agnet.com.au/orgs.html
Australian Agricultural Organisations - Queensland Department of Primary Industries
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au - Victorian Department of Primary Industries
http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/
BUSINESS
- Australian Business Case Studies
http://www.afrbiz.com.au
A site for students with case studies, news etc. - Factiva
A news and business database, only available in the Library - Business gateway
http://www.business.gov.au
Includes lots of information and fact sheets for business owners or people thinking about starting their own business.
CENTRAL COAST INFORMATION
- A Brief History of Gosford
A Brief History of Gosford
Overview of the history of Gosford, including useful links and resources. - Central Coast Regional Profile and Social Atlas
Central Coast Profile & Social Atlas - Central Coast Tourism
http://www.centralcoasttourism.org
Web site promoting local business, accommodation, attractions etc. Links to sites on Terrigal, Gosford & The Entrance. - Community Directory
Central Coast Community Directory
Database of community groups and organisations on the Central Coast - Gosford City Community Profile
http://www.id.com.au/gosford/commprofile/Default.asp?bhcp=1 - Gosford City Cycleways
- History of Erina
- History of Kincumber
- History of Wyoming
- Placenames of the Gosford Region
- Population Growth
Population of the Gosford area from 1788 to 2001 - Some significant events in Gosford History
A list of important dates in the history of Gosford since 1788.
EDUCATION
- HSC Online
http://hsc.csu.edu.au/
A great resource for HSC students, provided by Charles Sturt University - HSC Past Papers
http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/exam-papers-2007/ - NSW Board of Studies
http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/ - Open Universities Australia
http://www.open.edu.au - TAFE Handbook
http://www.tafensw.edu.au/ - Universities Admissions Centre (UAC Guide)
http://www.uac.edu.au/
EMPLOYMENT
- Anti-discrimination Board of NSW
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/adb - Australian Government Workplace Authority
http://www.workplaceauthority.gov.au/ - NSW Department of Commerce, Office of Industrial Relations
(Previously the Department of Industrial Relations)
http://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/ - Equal Employment Opportunity
http://www.eeo.nsw.gov.au/ - Australian Safety and Compensation Council
Occupational Health and Safety information
http://www.ascc.gov.au/ - WorkCover
http://www.workcover.nsw.gov.au/ - WorkCover Publications
http://www.workcover.nsw.gov.au/Publications/default.htm
ENDANGERED SPECIES
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
http://www.iucnredlist.org
Searchable database of plants and animals, from the World Conservation Union - Threatened Species of NSW
http://www.threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au/index.aspx
Department of Environment and Conservation NSW
ENVIRONMENT
- Department of Climate Change
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/ - Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/ - NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/ - Australian Water Resources
http://www.water.gov.au/
FINANCE
- FIDO
http://www.fido.asic.gov.au/fido/fido.nsf
Australian Securities and Investment Commission's financial tips and safety checks - Unclaimed Money Search
http://www.edge.asic.gov.au/unclaimed/simplequery.html
FOOD SCIENCE
- Food safety
http://www.safefood.net.au/
Fact sheets on foodbourne illness, food storage and preparation - Food Standards Code
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand - USDA National Nutrient Database Nutrient Lists
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR16-1/wtrank/wt_rank.html
Food composition tables, arranged by nutrients (eg. calcium, potassium, sugar)
GEOGRAPHY
- Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/index.html
Includes information on trade with Australia for each country - CIA World Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
GOVERNMENT
- Australian Electoral Commission
http://www.aec.gov.au/ - Electoral Division Profiles
http://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/Electoral_DPM/Electorates_by_State.htm - Local Government Elections website
http://www.lg.elections.nsw.gov.au - Australian Federal Government
http://www.australia.gov.au/ - Governments on the WWW
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/
Links to government sites in Australia & around the world, political party web sites and government institutions. - Information Management Office
http://www.publications.gov.au
Find Australian Government publications online. - NSW Government Portal
http://www.nsw.gov.au/ - NSW Parliament
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/ - Australian Public Service Jobs
http://www.apsjobs.gov.au/
(Previously the Public Service Gazette)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
http://www.aihw.gov.au/
Statistics and Information on Australia's health - Annual Report of the NSW Chief Health Officer
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/chorep.html
Contains health statistics by region, including the Central Coast - The Cancer Council New South Wales
http://www.nswcc.org.au/
Contains useful fact sheets and statistics on cancer. - Health Insite
http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/index.cfm
Plain language health information for Australians - Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health in the US - Merck Manual of Medical Information
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html
Full text of the Merck Manual, the world's most widely used textbook of medical information written in everyday language
HISTORY
Australian History
- Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm
Over 10,000 biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980. - Australian History on the Internet
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html
A guide to authoritative web sites from the National Library of Australia - Australians at War
http://www.australiansatwar.gov.au/ - Casa Historia
Links and resources for world history students. - Digger History
An unofficial history of the Australian and New Zealand Armed Services - Documenting a Democracy
http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/default.asp
Founding documents in Australian history - Maritime Heritage New South Wales
http://www.maritime.heritage.nsw.gov.au/default.cfm
Aboriginal sites, shipwrecks, aircraft, ports and harbours. - National Archives of Australia
http://www.naa.gov.au/ - National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway
http://www.nla.gov.au/guides/federation/ - Visit Gallipoli
http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/
Family History
- Australian War Memorial databases
http://www.awm.gov.au/database/ - Family Search
http://www.familysearch.org/
International Family History website provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. - Parish and Historical Maps
http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au/survey_maps/maps_and_imagery/parish_maps - NSW State Records
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au - Research your Family History at Gosford City Library
Information and helpful tips on researching your family history at Gosford City Library - World War Two Nominal Roll
http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/
Information from the service records of one million individuals who served in Australia's defence forces and the merchant navy during World War Two.
International/General History Topics
- Medieval Life
http://www.medieval-life.net
Information on medieval history, food, health, literature and other topics. - Middle Ages
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages
IMAGE LIBRARIES
- ARKive - Images of life on earth
www.arkive.org - Art Image Collections
http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/images.html - ARTchive
http://www.artchive.com/
Information about hundreds of different artists and art styles. Links to many images of famous works of art. - Picman
http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/picman/
Pictures and manuscripts from the State Library of NSW - Picture Australia
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
LANGUAGES
- My Language
http://www.mylanguage.gov.au
Access to search engines, web directories and news in over sixty languages.
- Babelfish
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Text translator for 11 major languages - Google Language Tools
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
Translate text or search for web pages in specific languages - iTools - Language Tools
http://www.itools.com/lang/
Translates individual words, text or web pages. Also has dictionaries and a "crossword solver". - Yourdictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Links to hundreds of online foreign language dictionaries
LEGAL SITES
Legislation & Case Law
- AUSTLII
http://www.austlii.edu.au/ - Commonwealth of Australia Law
http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ - NSW Legislation
http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/ - Lawlink CaseLaw Database
http://caselaw.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/
Legal Information Access Centre Resources:
- LIAC web site - Find Legal Answers
http://legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au/ - HSC Legal Studies Research Guide
http://liac.sl.nsw.gov.au/students/hsc.cfm
Plain English Legal Information
- About Native Title
http://www.nntt.gov.au/Publications-And-Research/Publications/Documents/Introductory%20publications/About%20Native%20Title%20-%20Brochure%202008.pdf - Australian Copyright Council
http://www.copyright.org.au/ - Capacity Toolkit: information for government and community workers, professionals, families and carers in NSW
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/diversityservices/LL_DiversitySrvces.nsf/vwFiles/capacity%20toolkit%20final.pdf/$file/capacity%20toolkit%20final.pdf - Caring for Country: a guide to environmental law for Aboriginal communities
http://www.edo.org.au/edonsw/site/pdf/pubs/caring_for_country.pdf - Courtwise
http://www.courtwise.nsw.gov.au/
A pathway through the NSW court system for victims and other witnesses. - Discrimination toolkit: your guide to making a discrimination complaint
http://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/data/portal/00000005/public/87977001174956380265.pdf - Independent Social Security Handbook
http://www.welfarerights.org.au/pages/issh.aspx
See Library staff for password details. - Law Access
http://www.lawaccess.nsw.gov.au/ - Law for You
http://www.law4u.com.au/ - Law Stuff
http://www.lawstuff.org.au/ - Legal Aid
http://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/asp/index.asp - Mental Health Rights Manual
http://www.mhcc.org.au/manual/default.aspx - Mortgage Stress Handbook
http://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/mortgagestresshandbook/index.html - NSW Anti-discrimination Board
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/adb - Scam Watch
Information for consumers on a variety of scams - Share Housing Survival Guide
http://www.rlc.org.au/sharehousing/ - Tenants Union of NSW Fact Sheets
http://www.tenants.org.au/publish/factsheets/index.php - Turning the tide: Storms, floods, insurance and you
A guide to getting your insurance claim paid
http://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/data/portal/00000005/public/50670001184123293269.pdf
International Law
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
http://www.un.org/law/icc/ - WorldLII
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2500.html
International legal information - organisations, treaties, courts, etc
LIBRARIES
- Australian Libraries Gateway
http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/libraries
Search for any library in Australia - Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
http://www.alia.org.au/ - Libraries Australia Catalogue
http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au - State Library of NSW Catalogue
http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/search
LITERATURE
Award Winners
- Booker Prize
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/prizes/booker/booker.html - Children's Book Council of Australia Awards
http://www.cbc.org.au/awards.htm - Miles Franklin Award
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/prizes/milesfkn.html - Nebula Award for Science Fiction
http://www.sfwa.org/awards/ - Nobel Prize for Literature
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/
Online Bookstores:
- ABC Shop
http://www.abcshop.com.au/ - Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/ - Angus & Robertson
http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/ - Dymocks
http://www.dymocks.com.au/ - Gleebooks
http://www.gleebooks.com.au/
Reviews, Recommendations & Guides:
- Based on the book
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
Books, short stories and plays that have been made into films. - Books into film and TV
http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/BooksIntoFilm/
Find the book your favourite film or TV show is based on
Guide prepared by Christchurch City Library - If you like...
http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/iyl/
Database which links readers to books they might enjoy - Magpies Magazine
http://www.magpies.net.au/
Includes a subject guide to children's books
Only available at Library branches - see staff for password - New York Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html
MUSIC
- Music Australia
http://www.musicaustralia.org
Explore Australian music through time
NATURAL DISASTERS
- Cyclone Tracy
http://www.ntlib.nt.gov.au/tracy/ - Savage Earth
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/
Information on earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes - National Earthquake Information Center (USA)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
NEWS
- ABC Online
http://www.abc.net.au/ - Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
Online database of full text newspapers and magazines. Log on using your library card number. - Factiva
A database of news and business information. Over 1,500 international newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, Australian Financial Review and more. This database can only be used within the Library. - Online Newspapers
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
Links to thousands of international newspapers
READY REFERENCE
- Bartleby.com
http://bartleby.com/
Huge range of Reference titles, verse, fiction and non-fiction available in full text Includes Roget's Thesauri, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, World Factbook, Oxford Shakespeare, Harvard Classics, Gray's Anatomy and much more... - Converter
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
Convert weight, distance, temperature, volume and more! - Currency Converter
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic - Dictionary
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Search an online version of multiple dictionaries, including Websters and the American Heritage dictionaries. - Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/ - Symbols
http://www.symbols.com
An online encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms - Thesaurus
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Search an online version of the Roget's New Millenium Thesaurus - WhereIs
http://www.whereis.com.au/
Find maps, directions and distances all over Australia - White Pages Online
http://www.whitepages.com.au/
Australia-wide telephone books - Yellow Pages Online
http://www.yellowpages.com.au/
RELIGION
- Bible Gateway
http://bible.gospelcom.net/
Look up words/passages in the bible - World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity
http://www.ccel.org/php/wwec.php
Search the contents of the Catholic Encyclopedia, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Smith's Bible Dictionary, Torrey's Topical Textbook, Elwell's Dictionary of Christian Theology, and the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia with a single search.
SEARCH TOOLS
- Beaucoup
http://beaucoup.com/
Listing of worldwide search engines can be found in the Geographical section - Google
http://www.google.com/ - Metacrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html
Meta-search engine
Specialised Search Tools
- BUBL Link
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas - EdNA
http://www.edna.edu.au/
Australian Education resources - FindArticles
http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml
Free online magazine articles - GEM
http://www.thegateway.org/
Educational materials - Librarians Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org/ - MagPortal
http://www.magportal.com/
Searchable database of free online magazine articles - Subject Gateways on the Web
http://www.nla.gov.au/pathways/pthw_global.html
A listing from the National Library of Australia
STATISTICS
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
http://www.abs.gov.au/ - Australian Bureau of Statistics - Themes page
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.NSF/home/themes?OpenDocument - Australian Institute of Criminology - Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics
http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/index.html - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
http://www.aihw.gov.au/
Statistics and Information on Australia's health - Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research - NSW Crime Statistics
http://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au - Central Coast Regional Profile and Social Atlas
http://www.gosford.nsw.gov.au/customer/document_gallery/social_atlas/base_view - Gosford City Community Profile
http://www.id.com.au/gosford/commprofile/Default.asp?bhcp=1 - Official Statistics on the Web
http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/
Statistics by country, region and topic - Tourism Australia
http://www.tourism.australia.com/Research.asp
Tourism statistics for Australia (internal and external visitors) - Tourism NSW
http://corporate.tourism.nsw.gov.au/State_Tourism_Statistics_p572.aspx
Tourism Statistics - NSW State & Regional statistics
TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTIONS
- Ancient inventions
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm
Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions - How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com

