Use these links to general reference resources to find quick facts and definitions.   For further detailed subject resources, also try the Library Subject Guides.

Abbreviations

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

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

Awards

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

Biography

Calculators and Conversion

Calendars/ Time zones

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
  

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
• American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms   UTAS only
• 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 of Eponyms   UTAS only
• 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 Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk   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
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus    UTAS only

Directories

• Australian Postcodes
• Government & Business Associations Directory
• Telephone Directories on the web
• Whitepages online
• Yellowpages online

Encyclopedias

• Britannica Online   UTAS only
• 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

Government

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

Images, Photographs

• ARTSTOR    UTAS only
• British Library Images Online  
• Google Images
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
• Picture Australia
• Sourcing Images on the Web - Comprehensive Guide to Images by the University of Tasmania Art Library, some UTAS only
• State Library of Tasmania Images

Law and Legislation

• Legal Research on the Internet Subject Guide   - Comprehensive Guide by  the University of Tasmania Law Library. 

News

• ABC News Online
• Asia News Network
• ANZ Reference Centre - Australian and New Zealand newspapers, magazines and newswires in full text   UTAS only
• BBC News
• SBS World News
• ThePaperboy.com  - Online newspapers from around the world

Patents

• SCOPUS database- finds patents from US, UK, Japanese, European Patent Offices; and WIPO UTAS only
• INSPEC database- go to Inspec, choose patents under Document Type, 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
• Utas Innovation Ltd 

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

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

Referencing Styles

• How to acknowledge what you've read (Citing & Referencing)  - Monash University Library

• APA Citation System - Helpsheet, University of Tasmania Library
• Harvard System - Helpsheet, University of Tasmania Library
• Harvard Style- How to Use IT  - University of Queensland Library 
• MLA Referencing System - Helpsheet, University of Tasmania Library

Standards

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

Statistical Information

• AusStats: Australian Bureau of Statistics   UTAS only
• Australian Bureau of Statistics website
• Statistical Resources on the Web - University of Tasmania Library Subject Guide

Theses

• ADT: Australian Digital Theses Project  - Full text theses from some Australian Universities
• 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
• UMI Digital Dissertations  - Over 225,000 citations and abstracts, current 2 years only. (UTAS does not subscribe to the full text)

• 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

Universities

• AVCC Members' Universities
• Going to Uni - Australian Department of Education Science and Training
• Hobson's - UK courses or research degrees
• Hobson's Guides - Find Australian University courses: search by institution, course or career
• Peterson's  - Guide to US and Canadian Universities and courses
• Study in Australia - for International Students
• UK Active Map of Universities - UK Universities and Higher Education Institutions