Ready Reference
General Information - (000-099)
FactMonster - Facts and figures about everything. Easy to use.
Hotsheet.com - Links to information on news and sport.
InfoPlease Almanac - Almanacs for just about everything.
Kidport Reference Library - A reference library for beginners.
Newspapers Online - The world's newspapers online.
Refdesk.com - Links to the most wanted information on the net.
Virtual Learning Resource Centre - Links to Internet information sites. Subject categories are sorted using the Dewey system.
Philosophy and Psychology - (100-199)
Encyclopedia of Psychology - Links to theories, people and practices.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Search using an alphabetical index.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Links arranged alphabetically.
Religion and Mythology - (200 - 299)
Internet Sacred Texts Archive - Archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics.
Religions of the World - From the BBC World Service
World Religions - Includes Baha'i Buddhism Christianity Confucianism
Jainism Judaism Hinduism Islam Mormonism Paganism Shinto Sikhism Taoism Zoroastrianism
Social Sciences - (300 - 399)
Australian Bureau of Statistics - Facts and figures about Australia.
Australia's Population Clock - The Australian Bureau of Statistics population clock. Has information about world population.
Australian Yellow Pages - Search for a business or service.
Australian White Pages - Online telephone book.
Commonwealth Government of Australia - Contact details for government departments, statutory authorities and agencies.
Currencies of the World - Provides details of world currencies.
Cyber Schoolbus - A site for students about the United Nations.
Holidays on the Net - Search for specific holidays on the site or
on the WWW.
Infokoori - A comprehensive index to articles published in the Koori Mail newspaper and to information on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
International Population Database - Information and statistics about the population of most of the world's countries. Create graphs.
Royalty - Official titles in thirty five languages.
Universal Currency Converter - Convert currencies of different countries online.
United Nations - Information about the United Nations.
World Population Projections - Monthly projections of the world population according to the International Programs Centre.
Language - (400 - 499)
Jennifer's Language Page - Contains the greetings and common
phrases in many different languages.
The King's English - This is the standard resource of common sense
rules of style and grammar.
Roget's II Thesaurus, 3rd Edition - Online thesaurus.
Symbols.com - Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.
Thesaurus.com - Browse for similes, opposites and much more.
World Language Dictionaries - Links to dictionaries of different languages from around the world.
YourDictionary.com - Dictionaries and thesauri in a variety of languages and other topics about the English language.
Science and Mathematics - (500 - 599)
Atomic Weight Table - The Atomic Weight Table, including Symbol, Atomic Number and Atomic Weight.
Australian Bureau of Meteorology - Climate information for Australia.
Australian National Botanic Gardens - Lots of information about Australia's native flora.
Calendars - Create a calendar online.
Calendar Converter - Convert dates in a variety of calendars.
CSIRO Australia - Lot's of links to to information about science.
Questacon - Online resources for the Australian National Science and Technology Centre in Canberra.
Time and Date - World clock, world time search, calendar, calendar generator.
World Climate - WorldClimate.com contains over 85,000 records of world climate data from a wide range of sources.
World Time - Find the local time anywhere in the world.
World Time Server - World Time Server provides the most accurate current local times of any world clock on the Internet.
World Time Zones - Map of the world's time zones.
World Weather Forecasts - Find the current weather forecast for any place in the world.
Technology - (600 - 699)
Great Inventions - Great inventions of the 20th century
How Stuff Works - If it works, it's here.
Human Anatomy Online - Discover your body
Museum of Ancient Inventions - Online exhibition of annotated images depicting early inventions
National Aeronautics and Space Administration - The best online space site
Questacon - Australia's National Science and Technology Centre
Arts and Activities - (700 - 799)
Card Games - Rules and information about card and tile games from around the world
Classical Composers Database - Information for more than 800 composers
Cyberdance: ballet on the Net - Searchable collection of ballet and modern dance resources
National Gallery of Australia - Australia's own
PictureAustralia - Search for images from Australian collections
Van Gogh Museum - Everything you wanted to know and see about Vincent van Gogh
World Wide Arts Resources - Links to arts and culture information
Literature - (800 - 899)
Children's Literature Web Guide - Internet resources related to books for children and young adults
Great Books Online - The greatest reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction resource online
QuoteMachine - Database of quotations which can be searched
by keyword, subject, or author
Quoteland - Collection of quotations arranged alphabetically by topic.
Geography and History - (900 - 920)
Australian Street Directory - Find a street anywhere in Australia
Biography.com - Search over 25 000 of the greatest lives, past and present.
Flags of the World - Flags from over 200 countries
Maps of Australia and the Pacific - Set of maps produced by the CIA covering Australia, New Zealand, and all the independent countries and dependencies in the Pacific Ocean.
Nations Online - World Outline Map
Outline Maps - World Countries
PictureAustralia - Search for images of Australia through a database of the image collections of major Australian institutions
Travelmate - Plan a trip or calculate
the distances between places anywhere in Australia
WorldAtlas - Maps and activities from around the world perfect
for younger students
World Travel Guide - Basic reference information about every
country in the world, including area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government,
plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health
and public holidays
