Dive into Information Ref Room

List of Research Sources

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Print Reference
Located in reference section of SI Ultimo Library

Online Reference
Online encyclopaedias or dictionaries which can be accessed through a directory such as

Librarian's Internet Index http://lii.org

World Wide Web
You can use a search tool of your choice, for example:

Google www.google.com
Yahoo www.yahoo.com

Biography
Print sources in reference section and online sources:

Biography.com www.biography.com/
Who2 www.who2.com/
Infoplease.com www.infoplease.com/people.html

Directories

Australian Government Directory(AGD) www.agd.com.au
Commonwealth Government website www.australia.gov.au
NSW Government Directory www.directory.nsw.gov.au
Local Information Network for Community Services(Lincs)
www.datadiction.com.au/lincs/

Library Catalogues
Choose the most relevant and appropriate for your client.

Statistics
Print sources in reference section such as Yearbook Australia or online sites

Australian Bureau of Statistics www.abs.gov.au
Australian Immigration Statistics www.immi.gov.au/statistics/index.htm
Australian Institute of Criminology www.aic.gov.au/stats/index.html
Nationmaster www.nationmaster.com
CIA World Factbook www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Statistical Sited on the WWW www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm
GeoHive www.geohive.com
Infoplease www.infoplease.com/index.html

Periodical Indexes / Full Text Databases

AUSTROM
SAGE
NSW.net databases provided by your local public library(Membership number needed)

Infoquick

Infoquick www.sl.nsw.gov.au/infoquick

Invisible Web
Use Google and other search engines to locate searchable databases by searching a subject term and the work "database".

ProFusion www.profusion.com/index.htm
CompletePlanet www.completeplanet.com
IncyWincy www.incywincy.com

Abbreviations from Appendix B9, AACR2R

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Abbreviations for names of places

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AACR2R Appendix B14:Abbreviations for names of places
Please click the table, it is hard to read.

Web Resources for Reader's Advisory

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AllReaders.com
www.allreaders.com
"Choose from hundreds of plot, theme, character and setting options to find precisely what you're looking for!"

Book Reporter
www.bookreporter.com
Reviews, features and reader recommendations.

Book Sense
www.booksense.com
Essays, recommended reading and booklists from a group of independent booksellers.

Fiction_L Electronic Discussion List
www.webrary.org/RS/FLmenu.html
"Fiction_L is and electronic mailing list devoted to reader's advisory topics such as book discussions, booktalks, collection development issues, booklists and bibliographies and a wide variety of other topics of interest to librarians, book discussion leaders and others with an interest in reader's advisory."

Genre Flecting
www.genreflecting.org
Home base for the popular book series that is a "way of classifying books according to genre or type that align with reader preferences."

New York Times Best Seller List
www.nytimes.com/books/yr/mo/day/bsp/index.html
Compilation based on weekly sales surveys of major booksellers. Titles are linked to Times reviews and users can link to the print version of the New York Times Book Review and sign up for a free subsciption to access the list.

Over Booked
www.overbooked.org
Bills itself as a website for ravenous readers that specializes in literary and genre fiction.

Reader Robot Search Engine
www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/cgi-bin/rr-rearch-appeal.pl
Search database of over 5,000 books using "appeal factors."

Yahoo.com's Genre Lists
dir.yahoo.com/Arts/humanities/literature/genres
Links to hundreds of sites devoted to various genre of literature.

AUSTROM Databases Content

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AEI: Australian Education Index (Education)
indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material at all levels of education and related fields.

AFPD: Australian Federal Police Database (Federal Policing)
indeses and abstracts articles from selected Australian and overseas journals, conference papers, and shapters of some books... to support the information needs of personnel in Federal law enforcement and community policing...

AGIS: Attorney General's Information Services (Law)
indexes and abstracts articles from over 120 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals and selectively indexes and abstracts articles from major law journals from the US, Canada and the UK.

ALISA: Australian Library and Information Science Abstracts (Library & Info Science)
attempts to index and abstract comprehensively all current Australian literature on library and information services and the library workforce.

APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service (Public Affairs)
indexes a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books on Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs.

ARCH: Australian Architecture Database (Architecture)
indexes Australian and New Zealand architecture and building periodicals.

AUSPORT: Australian Sport Database (Sport)
indexes and abstracts articles on sport from journals, monographs, congerence papers, government reports, theses, videotapes and audiocassettes.

CINCH: Australian Criminology Database (Criminology)
is produced by the library of the Australian Institute of Criminology and indexes and abstracts articles from journals, monographs, monograph chapters, conference papaer...

CSI: Consumer Science Index (Consumer Science)
indexes articles from periodical material published in Australia and overseas. Subjects include clothing, consumer economics, consumer education, craft, textiles, home economics, nutrition, etc

DELTAA: Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia (ESL)
indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on English second language learning and teaching in Australasia.

FAMILY: Australian Family and Society Abstracts (Family and Society)
is an index to current Australian writing and research on the legal, sociological, economic and demographic situation of Australian children and adults.

MAIS: Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies (Multiculturalism)
indexes and abstracts a wid range of media from published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues

Australian Government Website

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The Australian Government Website http://www.australia.gov.au/

The Australian Government Directory ttp://www.agd.com.au

The NSW Government Directory http://www.directory.nsw.gov.au/

For Local Government http://www.datadiction.com.au/lincs

Citation Style Guide

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PRINT SOURCES

MONOGRAPHS

Single author
Walsh, Maureen. May Gibbs : mother of gumnuts, Pymble, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1991.
Jones, Bob. Personality and learning, 2nd ed., New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Two author
Hodge, Stephen & Boord, Martin. The illustrated Tibetan travel book, New York : Sterling, 1999.

Three author
Gillespie, Paula, Lerner, Neal & Palmer, Willian. Allergies in children, New York : Random, 1998.

More than three authors
Smythe, John, et al. Not in front of the grown ups, London : Sphere Books, 1990.

Works with editors
Follow the same principles as with authors, but add the qualifier (ed.) or (eds.) in parentheses beside the name(s), e.g.:
Butler, J.D. & Walbert, D.F.(eds.). Abortion, medicine and the law, New York : Facts on File, 1986.

Corporate author
CSIRO. Division of Entomology. The insects of Australia : a textbook for students and research workers, Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1991.

Works with no authors or editors
Aussie pack : facts and figures from down under, Canberra : AGPS, 1998.

Conference proceedings
Words that wound : proceedings of the Conference on Freedom of Expression and Racist Propaganda, Melbourne, November 1982, Canberra : AGPS, 1983.

ITEMS WHICH ARE PART OF A LARGER PUBLICATION

An article within a book
Blaxter, M. "Social class and health ineaualities", in Carter, C. & Peel, J. (eds.)
Equalities and inequalities in health, London : Sun Books, 1976 : 31-52.

An encyclopaedia entry
"Spiders." Australian encyclopedia, 4th ed., 1983, vol. 9 : 153-160.

A dictionary entry
"Lpquacity." The Macquarie dictionary, 2nd rev. ed., 1987 : 1023.

A yearbook entry
"Grapes. Viticultural statistics : area production and value." Year book Australia, 1990 : 416.

A journal article
Dewhirst, C. "Hot air over the Himalayas." World geographic, vol. 1, no. 4, 1986 : 38-49.
New South Wales. Higher Education Board. "Higher education and work." Seminars on education, no. 2, 24 June 1978 : 25-31.

A newspaper article
Brandis, G. "The Liberals : just who is forgetting whom?" Weekend Australian, 24-25 Jan., 1987 : 19.

NON PRINT SOURCES

An audio tape
Hepburn, Katherine. Me : Stories of my life, London : Storybooks, 1990. (2 sound cassettes)

A videorecording
Handling printed books, London : British Library Preservation Services, 1990. (1 VHS videocassettes)
McCullough, Chris. What is your coping style? : and what you can do about it!, New York : Video Dialog, c1991. (1 VHS videocassette)

A CD-ROM
Investigating Lake Iluka : a simulated lake environment designed to support the teach of ecology, Wollongong, N.S.W. : Interactive Multimedia, c1995. (1 CD-ROM, with notes)

Asegment of a multimedia product
"Terra nullius : land rights for hunter gatherers", in From Mungo to Makaratta : Australian pre-history, Sydney : ABC, c1983. (3 sound cassettes)

A kit
A history of costume, London : Pitman, 2000. (1 kit)

ELECTRONIC SOURCES
Note that the conventions relating to authors which were illustrated above, also apply to electronic sources.
The following includes examples of citations for information retrieved from the World Wide Web and from electronic databases.

A Web site – no author
Cheat planet : the planet’s source for cheats. Retrieved December 4, 2001 from http://cheatplanet.com/index2.html

A Web site – with author
Costa, Tony. Etravelphotos.com. Retrieved February 8, 2004 from http://www.etravelphotos.com

Western Australia. Dept. of Conservation and Land Management. Naturebase. Retrieved December 10, 2003 from http://www.calm.wa.org.au
An article retrieved from a Web site

Poland, Dave. “The hot button.” Roughcut. Turner Network Television. Retrieved October 26, 2002 from http://www.roughcut.com

Barry, P. L., & Phillips, T. “Water on the space station.” Science@NASA. Office of Biological & Physical Research, U.S. National Atmospheric & Space Administration. Retrieved April 24, 2002 from http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast02nov_1.htm

An online journal
Thompson, Bill. (ed.) Birdwatcher’s digest. Retrieved January 23, 2004 from http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com

Fishing world. Yarra Publishing Group. Retrieved January 25, 2004 from http://www.yaffa.com.au/fw/

An article retrieved from an online journal
Primeau, Liz. “Roman holiday.” Canadian gardening. Retrieved December 4, 2001 from www.canadiangardening.com

Walker, Paul. “Australian War Memorial.” Architecture Australia. September/October 2003. Retrieved February 8, 2004 from http://www.archaust.com/aa/

An article from a Web reference source
“Tigers.” Microsoft Encarta online encyclopedia 2001. Retrieved March 25, 2001 from http://encarta.msn.com

O’Keefe, Tim. “Epicurus.” The Internet encyclopedia of philosophy. Retrieved February 8, 2004 from http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/epicur.htm

A reference to an article retrieved from an electronic periodical index
Borman, Willian. "The wine industry in the Barossa Valley." Australian wine journal, vol. 23, no. 6, 1990 : 33-50. Retrieved February 8, 2003 from APAIS CD-ROM database

Fox, Justin & Roche, Mary. "The impact of video games on pre-teen boys." Society issues, vol. 6, no. 10, 2001 : 45-56. Retrieved from November 22, 2003 from Family CD-ROM database

Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating disease outbreakes after biological and toxic weapon use." Emerging infectious diseases, vol. 6, no. 3, 2000 : 33-40. Retrieved December 5, 2002 from SAGE Online database heep://www.publish.sciro.au/sage/

Biographycal Sources

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Online Sources
Biography.com
Who2?
Lives, the biography resource
Informationplease.comPeople

Directory type
Who's who. London, 1849-
Who's who in Australia. 1906-
Who's who in America. 1900?-
International who's who. 1935-

Universal or general dictionaries of biography
Chambers biographical dictionary. 1990
Macmillan dictionary of biography. 1994

Detailed essay type sources
Current biography. New York : Wilson, 1940-
- Monthly magazine, with cumulative indexes.