University of Tasmania, Australia

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Abbreviations Atlases, Maps Awards Biography Calculators/Conversion Calendars/Time zones Country Information Dictionaries/Thesauri

Directories Encyclopedias Government Images/Photographs Law /Legislation Maps News Patents

Publishers Quotations Referencing Styles Standards Statistical Information Theses Translation/Bilingual Dictionaries Universities

Abbreviations

• Acronym finder
• All that JAS - Journal title abbreviations
• Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations UTAS only

 

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Atlases, Maps

• IRIS Maps - Theme maps of Tasmania
• Metro Tasmania Bus Route Maps 
• National Library of Australia maps page
• Whereis OnLine Australia - Search for Australian street maps
• The Collins World Atlas Gazetteer UTAS only
• Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection - University of Texas site for current interest maps

 

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Awards

• Booker Prize - Browse winning authors, shortlists and titles
• Nobel Prizes - An international award for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace

 

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Biography

 

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Calculators and Conversion

 

 

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Calendars/ Time zones

 

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Country Information

• Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• BBC Country Profiles
• CIA World Factbook UTAS only
• Embassy World - World embassies and consulates
• Lonely Planet - Worldguide: Destinations
• Penguin Encyclopedia of Places UTAS only
• Philip’s World Geo-Factbook UTAS only
• Country Calling Codes (Telephone)
  
  

 

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Dictionaries and Thesauri

Dictionaries 

• Macquarie Dictionary Australian English dictionary UTAS only
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online UTAS only
  The OED online is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words across the English-speaking world
• American Heritage® Concise Dictionary UTAS only
• American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language UTAS only
• The Australian National Dictionary
• Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang UTAS only
• Bloomsbury Good Word Guide UTAS only
• Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable UTAS only
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable UTAS only
• Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases UTAS only
• Chambers 21st Century Dictionary UTAS only
• Collins English Dictionary UTAS only
• Devil's Dictionary UTAS only
• Dictionary.com
• Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations UTAS only
• Dictionary of Slang - Informal British language
• Penguin English Dictionary UTAS only
• Penguin Rhyming Dictionary UTAS only
• Rawson's Wicked Words UTAS only
• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy UTAS only
• CREDO reference - Search across a collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias UTAS only

Thesauri

• Bloomsbury Thesaurus UTAS only
• Thesaurus.com

 

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Directories

• Australian Postcodes
• Government & Business Associations Directory
• Whitepages online
• Yellowpages online

 

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Encyclopedias

• Columbia Encyclopedia UTAS only
• CREDO reference - Search across a collection of encyclopedias and dictionaries UTAS only
• Crystal Reference Encyclopedia UTAS only
• Encyclopedia Mythica - World mythology, folklore and religion
• Hutchinson Encyclopedia UTAS only
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences UTAS only
• Macmillan Encyclopedia UTAS only
• Philip's Encyclopedia UTAS only

 

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Government

• australia.gov.au
• Tasmania Online
• Yahoo Government Directory
  

 

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Images, Photographs

• ARTSTOR UTAS only
• British Library Images Online 
• Google Images
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
• Picture Australia
• State Library of Tasmania Images

 

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Law and Legislation

 

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News

• ABC News Online
• Asia News Network
• ANZ Reference Centre - Full text content from Australasian and International magazines, newspapers, news wires,
  reference books and company information as well as biographies and a fully searchable image collection. UTAS only
• BBC News
• SBS World News

 

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Patents

• SCOPUS database- finds patents from US, UK, Japanese, European Patent Offices; and WIPO UTAS only
• INSPEC database- go to Inspec, scroll for patents under All Document Types, or search by patent number or title. Can also search for prior art UTAS only
• FreePatentsOnline - Many US and European patents available in PDF or TIFF format -powerful search capabilities
• Google Patent Search- search over 7 million patents
• IP Australia - Australian Patents, Design and Trademarks Office
• Patent Office - Search for European patents for the current two years
• United States Patent and Trademark Office

 

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Publishers

• Association of American University Presses- AAUP
• Dictionary of Printing and Publishing, Peter Collin Publishing
• Global Books in Print - An international bibliographic database UTAS only
• Ulrich's Periodical Directory - A guide to serials published worldwide UTAS only

 

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Quotations

• Bartlett's Quotations
• Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations UTAS only
• Bloomsbury Biographical Dictionary of Quotations UTAS only
• Collins Concise Dictionary of Quotations UTAS only
• Rawson's Dictionary of American Quotations UTAS only
• Respectfully Quoted UTAS only
• Quotations via Bartleby.com
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations UTAS only
• The Quotations archive

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Referencing Styles

• Referencing Subject Guide  -Information about a range of referencing styles used at The University of Tasmania is available in the Referencing Subject Guide

 

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Standards

• Australian Standards Online UTAS only
• IEEE standards  UTAS only
• International Organization for Standardization  

 

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Statistical Information

• Australian Bureau of Statistics website

 

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Theses

• Dissertation Abstracts - Abstracts only. Useful for research staff and postgraduate students UTAS only
• Index to theses in Great Britain & Ireland - 1970 to present (Abstracts Only) UTAS only
• Trove - Australian theses
• UMI Digital Dissertations - Over 225,000 citations and abstracts, current 2 years only. (UTAS does not subscribe to the full text)
• UTAS ePrints
  

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Translation/Bilingual Dictionaries 

• Babel Fish Translation - Use to translate a block of text or a web page
• Collins French Dictionary UTAS only
• Collins German Dictionary UTAS only
• Collins Irish Dictionary UTAS only
• Collins Italian Dictionary UTAS only
• Collins Latin Dictionary UTAS only
• Collins Portuguese Dictionary UTAS only
• Collins Spanish Dictionary UTAS only
• Fonetiks Pronunciation Guide - Works best with Internet Explorer and requires a sound card
• OneLook  - 900 online dictionaries. Find words and translate words
• Lexicool - Directory of bilingual and multilingual dictionaries

 

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Universities

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• Study in Australia - for International Students
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