Electronic resources beginning with ‘E’

Produced by the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies in 2003 and 2006 respectively, the 2 CDROMs are the nearest Australian database to a census at the start of the twentieth century.

Each volume combines almost 900,000 men and women voters from the various states, from the earliest complete, surviving, post-Federation, electoral rolls that have been microfilmed.

Both volumes provides names, addresses and occupations and allow advanced searching on all fields. Each also has maps showing electoral districts for the states covered.

Research possibilities suggested include:

* Search on name and find that missing ancestor who may have followed the 'Gold Rush';

* Search on address to find out who were neighbours and who else lived in the same street;

* Search by name and occupation if a female's married name is not known;

* Social historians can see a 'snapshot' of any electoral area.

An additional floppy disc, containing a database update to Volume 1 (for NSW, Tas. and WA), is on order. It contains approximately 30,000 names in 45 subdivisions which were omitted from the original CDROM.

Produced by Lesley Uebel in 2003, this CDROM has some 160,000 entries and provides a descriptive indices of:

(1) Historical Records of Australia Series I, II and IV -- 1788 to early 1848 (33 volumes)

(2) The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 1803 to 1811 (9 volumes)

(3) The Hobart Town Gazette 1818--1819

It contains material relating to: convicts, early settlers, places of residence,land grants, exploration, stores, military and civil service, shipping and immigration,births, deaths, marriages, government orders and regulations, administration of the out settlements, clergy, manufacturing and agriculture, trials and court hearings, ships, sailors,captains and all aspects of life in early New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, West Australia and Northern Territory.

EEBO is an ongoing project of full texts of publications in the English language produced by printing presses in England and its colonies between 1473-1700.

The collection currently comprises 20 books (23 volumes) including the majority of those published in the first half of the 19th century. The books are keyword searchable, individually or as a collection.

This site lists holidays and celebrations around the world. It can be searched by date, by country or by religion.

These briefing papers are prepared by the Parliamentary Library of the Australian Parliament to provide background, commentary and web links on current topics.

EconLit, the American Economic Association’s database, is a leading source of references to economic literature dating back to 1969. There are over 825,000 records on EconLit covering accounting, econometrics, economic forecasting, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and many other branches of economic research. Citations in EconLit are linked to the full text of articles from nearly 280 journals in Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier.

This site, produced by the Economist magazine in partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit, provides news, profiles, forecasts, and statistics on countries worldwide.

This site, produced by the Economist magazine in partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit, provides news, profiles, forecasts, and statistics on countries worldwide.

Funded by Australian state education ministers, EdNA Online consists of a directory about education and training in Australia and a database of web-based resources useful for teaching and learning.

This database contains full text articles from over 350 journals dated back to 1996, and indexing of more than 600 periodicals dated back to 1983. Search this database by individuals, schools, institutions and educational tests. Coverage of special education also included.

Educational resources including access to ERIC, a searchable database of abstracts of research literature relating to education from 1966 to the present.

Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

This site provides contact details of a number of foreign embassies in Australia.

This site provides contact details of a number of foreign embassies in Australia.

This site allows you to find embassies around the world. You can search by host country or by country of origin

From the Attorney-Generals Australia and includes community information on preparing for and recovering from emergencies. Also includes Tsunami Warning information.

State government website for Emergency NSW. It details all types of emergency information such as: What to do in an emergency and the Sydney CBD evacuation plan. It also has a very comprehensive section describing historic emergencies in NSW. All notable floods, fires, transport accidents etc are listed and described.

An online version of the 1922 edition of the classic manual of etiquette.

Contains case summaries of Employment cases 1993+

Covers employment law in Australia. Published by CCH.

This site provides access to the Encarta encyclopedia, Encarta dictionary and Encarta atlas.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopaedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Provides definitions to legal words and phrases, including references to legislation and cases.

An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore and legends, including gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, and legendary creatures and monsters.

Official energy statistics from the statistical agency of the US Department of Energy. Data can be accessed by categories such as country, fuel type (petrol, gas, electricity, coal, and renewable), and sector (residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation). Also includes forecasts, analyses and energy-related environmental data.

The CD-ROM contains all the census data for Berkshire 1851 and a few adjoining places.

Produced by S & N Genealogy Supplies in 2005, this Index to wills granted in the Court of the Archdeacon of Berkshire for the period 1508 to 1652 can give details of family members, place of residence and burial as well as revealing details about possessions.

It provides digitally enhanced images of the original text which is searchable and is bookmarked by major headings.

A hardcopy version was originally issued by the British Record Society in 1893, edited by W. P. W. Phillimore.

database of 118,000 records from the 1851 census of Cornwall

This database contains the 1851 census for Norfolk, Devon and Warwick counties. Information provided includes the name, age, gender, relationship to the head of household, marital status, occupation and place of birth of individuals within each household.

A co-operative project between Archive CD Books and the Society of Genealogists (Great Britain), this 2005 CDROM contains the 2 volumes of Phillimore's marriage transcripts for the county of Kent from the first available preserved register (usually in the 1500s and as early as 1538) up to either 1812 or in many cases, 1837. The later parish registers contain a lot more information than the earlier ones.

William Phillimore did not have access to the registers in all parishes when making the transcripts. Following is a list of Kent parishes covered: Charlton in Dover, 1565-1837; Eynsford, 1538-1812; Halstead, 1561-1836; Lamberhurst, 1564-1837; Newington, 1559-1837; Penshurst, 1647-1812; Staplehurst, 1538-1812; West Farleigh, 1558-1812; Westerham, 1559-1837; Wichling, 1577-1837; and Willesborough, 1538-1837.

A hardcopy of W. P. W. Phillimore's Kent Parish Marriage Registers (volume 2) is located in SRL's Family History Service at REF 10/DS929.3/18 SET v. 2. This volume only covers the parishes of Halstead, West Farleigh, Willesborough, Newington, Staplehurst and Wichling.

This 2003 CDROM is a fascimile of an 1887 1,500-page publication by Joseph Foster which gives details of London marriages for the period 1521 to 1868.

The original 1887 book 'London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869' is held in SRL stack at DS929.3/54

Originally written by Sir William Musgrave and compiled from his extensive library, this enormous work is an alphabetical list of peoples names in England, their date of death and reference to the source of the information.

For the most part the people mentioned belong to the middle to upper classes of society, although there are quite frequent mentions such as:

ACTON, Vincent, a swineherd near Worcester. 9 Aug. 1764. (LM 485; GM 398). LM 485 refers to The London Magazine and GM refers to The Gentlemans Magazine.

BATEMAN, Mathew, wheelright, Whitechapel. 17 Sept 1761 (LM 506; GM 430).

BROWN, William, farmer, at Skeffington in Leicestershire. April 1791 (GM 385).

The whole set of twenty three original volumes was transcribed by the Harleian Society and published between 1899 and 1901 in six volumes. This CD is a facsimile of these six volumes.

Fascimile of 4 volume set published between 1866 and 1875 entitled 'Local records; or historical register of remarkable events which have occured in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and Berwick-Upon-Tweed from the earliest period to the present time; with biographical notices of deceased persons of talent, eccentricity and longevity'.

The original authors were John Sykes (Vol 1 & 2) and T. Fordyce (vol 3 & 4).

The set covers the period from the earliest records to 1875 and provides a chronology by year, month, and day, from 1833 to 1875.

Accidents,crimes,floods,fires and other historical events are recorded, as well as biographical items about locals.

A digital and searchable version of volume 3, listing a chronology of local events from 1833 to 1867, is freely available on the Internet Archives website at Digital Copy of Volume 3.

Compiled by the Sussex Family Hstory Group in 2004, the Sussex Marriage Index covers all the parishes in the whole of Sussex from 1538 up to the beginning of general registration in England in 1837,plus some records up to 1850.

Also included are licence allegations and bonds, Quaker and Catholic marriages, and marriages of many Sussex people in other counties. Altogether, there are over 300,000 entries.

For further information at Sussex Marriage Index 1538-1837.

Produced by S&N Genealogy Supplies in 2000, this CDROM covers marriage registers for the period 1812 to 1837 for the Wiltshire parishes of Laverstock, Hankerton, Brinkworth, Christian Malford, Cliffe Pypard, Heytesbury, Knook, Eisey and West Knoyle.

Volumes 1 to 9 and volume 11 of the Wiltshire Parish Registers for marriages, edited by WPW. Phillimore and John Sadler as part of Phillimore's Parish Register series,v.61, are held in hardcopy in SRL at REF 10/DS929.3/40 SET. This CDROM substitutes for the missing hardcopy volume 10.

This database gives information on 2,476 names.744 were tried at Assizes, the remainder being tried at Quarter Sessions at Beverley, Bradford, Doncaster, Hull, Knaresborough, Leeds, Northallerton, Otley, Pontefract, Richmond, Ripon, Rotherham,Scarborough, Sheffield, Skipton, Wakefield, Wetherby and York City.

All the information is taken from records at the National Archives and the Archives Offices in NSW and Tasmania. Compiler, Jill Chambers, has not looked at any records in the Yorkshire Record offices. Also, compiler did not have access to the Conduct Records for females sent to Tasmania but has included the reference numbers for these, and the Description Books, where known.

The amount of information for each record varies. In some cases only name,date and place of trial and sentence are given.Place names, particularly those of Native Place, have been spelt as they appear in the records.

You can now search the complete series of wills provided in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. This court covered the South of England and Wales. Charges apply to view the wills online. Produced by the UK National Archives.

The 1901 Census Online.com database provides fee based access to the UK National Archives records of the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 & 1901 census for England & Wales and birth, death & marriage records from July 1st, 1837 to 2004.

The census is a survey taken by the British Government every 10 years to collect information on the population of the United Kingdom.

The first time any kind of census was taken in Britain was the Domesday Book of 1086. However, this was really to collect information on land rather than on people. No further official attempts to count the population were made until the late 1700s. At that time, there was general worry about the rise in population and a fear that the country would not be able to feed itself. Since no one had any accurate information on the number of people living in the country, the government ordered that a census take place. As a result, the first modern census in this country took place in 1801.

From 1801 to 1831 the censuses were simply head counts with no personal information on individuals recorded (except in exceptional cases) and thus contained only general information relating to the population . From 1841 personal information on each person living in a household was recorded.

Since 1966, the British Government has had a policy that census records are subject to a one hundred year closure period because they contain personal information. This means that the only census returns that can be seen at the moment are those for 1841 to 1901. The 1901 Census was released to the public on 2 January 2002.

For each individual the census gives: name, age, marital status, relationship to the head of household, occupation, birthplace and location on census night. You can search the data for a person (by surname or forename) or a place, vessel (if the person was on a ship at the time of the Census) or institution if the person was in a hospital, orphanage, prison etc..

Regarding birth, death & marriage records, four times a year a copy of all the district birth, death & marriage registers were gathered into one index covering the whole of England and Wales. The registers were arranged alphabetically by surname(and then alphabetically by forename within each surname). The registers are grouped by quarters – January – March, April – June, July – September and October – December.

For birth, death & marriage records from July 1st, 1837 to 1983 you will just find a first name, middle initial and surname with a place and reference number for your ancestor. So to locate a marriage you will need to search for both bride and groom.

For records after 1984, all births will show the maiden name of the mother and a month of birth, rather than quarter. For marriages after 1984, records will show partner’s surname and deaths will show a year of birth for the individual as well as month of death.

There is a glossary of census terms at Understanding Census Terms.

The UK National Archives has entered into a licensing agreement with brightsolid (formerly Scotland Online) to provide online access to the 1911 Census records.

The 1911 census for England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April, 1911. The count included all individual households, plus institutions such as prisons, workhouses, naval vessels and merchant vessels, and it also attempted to make an approximate count of the homeless.

This web page, created by James Dixon and maintained by John & Barbara Dixon, aims to help people tracing their family history by explaining the usage of the different entries on birth, marriage, and death certificates throughout the 150-year history of civil registration in England and Wales.

The birth registrations of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Southern Ireland are different from those of England and Wales and are not covered here.

Compiled by Stuart Tamblin and published by Family History Indexes in 2001, this CDROM is a surname master index to Home Office 27 (Series 2) county criminal register indexes of persons charged in England and Wales with indictable offences for the period 1805 to 1816. In effect, it is an index to an index.

This surname master index shows which of the county criminal registers for England and Wales a particular surname is listed in. The index gives surname, surname frequency and title of full volume only. There are some 55,000 entries.

Use this index to determine which of the 53 counties a surname occurs in and then look at the relevant county criminal register indexes. These HO 27 Criminal Register Indexes, also compiled by Stuart Tamblin and published in 1996 (see Criminal Registers), are held on microfiche in the Mitchell Library at REF 1/ MAV/ FM6/ 775

The fiche provide an alphabetical list of surnames within each county for the specified period and provides registry details such as names, aliases, court, offence and sentence/acquittal.There are 77,000 entries. Also, a variety of statistics showing numbers of (alleged) offenders and ratios within the population are provided. Around 35% of those recorded were not actually found guilty and these indexes give an insight into the social conditions of the time.

Following is a list of volumes & county periods covered by these fiche:

v. 1. Somerset & Dorset (1805-1816); v. 2. Devon & Cornwall (1805-1816); v. 3. Wiltshire (1805-1806); v. 4. Gloucestershire & Bristol (1805-1816); v. 5. Wales & Monmouthshire (1805-1816); v. 5A Anglesey (1805-1840); v. 6. Oxfordshire & Berkshire (1805-1816); v. 7. Northamptonshire, Leicestershire & Rutland (1805-1816); v. 8. Buckinghamshire & Hertfordshire (1805-1816); v. 9. Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire (1805-1816); v. 10. Cumberland, Westermorland, Northumberland & Durham (1805-1816); v. 11. Middlesex (1805-1816) & (Clerkenwell & Westminster, 1807-1812); v. 12. Hampshire (1805-1816); v. 13. Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire & Lincolnshire (1805-1816); v. 14. Chesire (1805-1816); v. 15. Shropshire & Staffordshire (1805-1816); v. 16. Herefordshire & Worcestershire (1805-1816); v. 17. Warwickshire (1805-1816); v. 18. Norfolk & Suffolk (1805-1816); v. 19. Essex (1805-1816); v. 20. Surrey (1805-1816); v. 21. Kent (1805-1816); v. 22. Sussex (1805-1816); v. 23. Lancashire (1805-1816); v. 24. Yorkshire (1805-1816); v. 25. Cornwall (1817-1828); v. 26. Dorset (1817-1828); v. 27. Bedfordshire (1817-1828); v. 34. Devon (1817-1828); v. 38. Bristol; v. 45. Leicestershire (1817-1828); v. 66. Cornwall (1829-1940); v. 67. Dorset (1829-1840).

Also available on fiche are: Supplement D. Death sentences (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement H. Highway robbery (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement K. Killing (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement M. Monetary crime (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement S. Sexual crime (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement T. Transportation (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement U. Unrest (England and Wales, 1805-1816).

The actual HO 27 Criminal Registers (Series 2) cover the period 1805 to 1868 and are now in the custody of the UK Public Record Office. These registers record the person's name, description, birthplace, the alleged crime, the sentence - whether death, transportation or a term of imprisonment -and when the sentence was executed. Acquittals are also noted, and in the case of transportation, the date and to whom the prisoner was delivered. Most of this detail is on the fiche indexes listed above but it is also worth looking at the original record.

The actual HO 27 Criminal Registers were copied onto microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project and are also held in the Mitchell Library as reels 2772 to 2860. A guide to these reels can be found on page 26 of the AJCP Handbook: Part 3 Home Office, which is kept at the Mitchell Library Information Desk.

Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. The website is produced and owned by the University of Leicester.

Initially, the project is focussed on providing at least one directory for each county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. The reasons for this are : (1) in the 1850s directories began to be published more widely, also providing information at parish level; (2) the final decade of the nineteenth century, the 1890s, is fascinating in itself. It also leads up to the 1901 census, which has been published online by the Public Record Office; and (3) immediately after the 1901 census, the 1910s also provide for potentially large audiences due to the current and intense interest in World War I. However, the project is also committed to publishing sample county directories from a wider range of dates, including a small selection of directories published between 1750 up to 1849.

Directories include lists of names, addresses and occupations of the inhabitants of the counties and towns they describe. There are drop down search menus to allow you to search by county location (also by using a county map of England & Wales); decade; and a keyword combination of location, decade, key name and any keyword. The key name menu refers to the publisher, owner or printer associated with a directory at the time of its original compilation. Kelly's Directories, for example, have the key name ‘Kelly’.

Search results initially give you the title, location, decade, key name and a ' Fact File ' option (that gives bibliographic information and linked contents/chapter headings) to a list of selected directories. The browse option allows you to 'read' the digitised directory.

The Historical Directories project came to the end of its funding on 31st October 2004. No new material has been added after this date.

Produced by the UK Federation of Family History Societies in 2004, this second edition of the National Burial Index (NBI) is a set of 4 CDROMs containing more than 13.2 million burial records (including 5.4 million records from the First Edition) and covering over 8,000 burial registers. Although many more counties and parishes are represented on the new edition, clearly, not all burials are included.

Records come from Anglican parish, nonconformist and cemetery burial registers, bishops' transcripts, memorandum books, etc. throughout England and Wales. No memorial or monumental inscriptions or death registrations are included.The records timescale ranges from 1538 to 2003.

The information contained includes (where given in the original record): forename(s) and surnames of the deceased; date of burial; age; details of parish or cemetery where the event was recorded; pre-1832 county; and the recording society, group or individual.

Burial records were transcribed and computerised mainly by family history societies although a few individuals have contributed records. Some information, such as relationships, abode and occupation, was not included on the NBI at the request of certain family history societies.

The 4 discs each contain:

Disc 1. Burials 1538-1760 & initial Installation program

Disc 2. Burials 1761-1825

Disc 3. Burials 1826-1860

Disc 4. Burials 1861-2003

Clicking on the name of a county in the following England & Wales County Table will give you details of the spans of years that the entries cover for each church, chapel or cemetery included for that county.

Number of Records Per County (rounded to the nearest 1,000) are, as follows:Bedfordshire 356,000; Berkshire 356,000; Breconshire 5,000; Buckinghamshire 83,000; Cambridgeshire 205,000; Cardiganshire 108,000; Cheshire 399,000; City of London 134,000; Cornwall 111,000; Co.Durham 416,000; Cumberland 56,000; Derbyshire 82,000; Devon 4,000; Dorset 286,000; Essex 508,000; Glamorgan 361,000; Gloucestershire 170,000; Hampshire 12,000; Herefordshire 68,000; Hertfordshire 137,000; Huntingdonshire 210,000; Isle of Man 7,000; Kent 205,000; Lancashire 169,000; Leicestershire 329,000; Lincolnshire 711,000; Middlesex 15,000; Monmouthshire 9,000; Montgomeryshire <1,000; Norfolk 105,000; Northamptonshire 197,000; Northumberland 188,000; Nottinghamshire 281,000; Oxfordshire 223,000; Radnorshire 11,000; Rutland 19,000; Shropshire 168,000; Somerset 755,000; Staffordshire 791,000; Suffolk 836,000; Surrey 370,000; Sussex 315,000; Warwickshire 504,000; Westmorland 6,000; Wiltshire 224,000; Worcestershire 542,000; Yorkshire [City & Ainsty] 34,000; Yorkshire [East Riding] 40,000; Yorkshire [North Riding] 386,000; Yorkshire [West Riding] 1,706,000; Total 13,215,000.

English Bibliography 1901-1945 contains over a million records of books and serials published in English throughout the world between 1901 and the end of World War II. Works covered include classical and modern literature, academic works, conference papers, legal literature, text books and periodicals. MARC data format is used for all entries.

This database contains the English Reports (1220-1873) and is based on data provided by Justis. It consists of nearly 125,000 English decisions.

This catalogue combines the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue with content from Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 and Wing’s A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700, as well as newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801. Its scope extends from the earliest printing in England (ca. 1473) through to the end of December, 1800.

The ESTC can be used to find references to reel numbers in the Eighteenth Century and Early English Books microfilm collections.

Environment Index offers coverage in areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. It contains records from U.S. and international titles going back to the 1940s.

Previously known as Environmental Issues and Policy Index.

This site provides information about the Australian environment and the Environment Program. It includes information about the Natural Heritage Trust and the State of the Environment.

Includes over 19,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet and has several additional features.

Contains Equal Opportunity Cases from 1998+

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.

esp@cenet is a free service provided by the European Patent Office. It is possible to search all the patent applications published in the past two years (or more in some cases) by any national office in the European Patent Office. Besides European patents, this database also provides search options for American, Japanese and worldwide patents.

This database contains approximately 86,000 essays in over 7,000 anthologies and collections published in Canada, Great Britain and the U.S. Find articles by keyword, subject, title, author, date of publication, or any combination. Search literary criticism by names of fictional characters and titles of literary works.

This database cites more than 249,000 essays in collections back to 1900, published in Canada, Great Britain and the U.S. Subject coverage: humanities, social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film. Search this database by keyword, subject, title, author, date of publication, or any combination.

Collection of ethics-related websites covering areas including health, media, professional, public service/government, science and technology and environmental. Includes organisations, topics and issues and publications.

An encyclopedia of all the languages currently in use throughout the world. Searchable by country or language name, and browsable through maps. For each language, there are details on where spoken, by how many speakers, language family and how the language is used today. Produced by linguistics organisation, SIL International.

This site provides information on the history of the Eureka flag.

An online science news service, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It features health, science and technology news from leading research institutes.

The State Library of New South Wales is a European Depository Library, receiving a wide range of European Union (EU) publications. Europa is the gateway to EU information. It provides links to EU legislation, policies, official documents, publications and databases. Included are the legal portal EUR-Lex, Summaries of Legislation and the statistical database Eurostat.

This site provides a searchable product and company name database of 500 000 European suppliers.

Australian Government Culture & Recreation Portal detailing the European discovery and the colonisation of Australia.

'a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.' The search results tell you which libraries have materials on your topic and link you to each catalog's list of retrieved items.

ENIAR aims to promote awareness on Indigenous issues and to provide information for Indigenous Australians about Europe and international organisations.

ENIAR aims to promote awareness on Indigenous issues and to provide information for Indigenous Australians about Europe and international organisations.

The European Space Agency portal features the latest news in space science exploration, human spaceflight and the International Space Station, launchers, telecommunications and navigation.

The main source of European Union statistics, now available free online. Contains social, demographic, economic and environmental statistics for the European Union as a whole and for its member countries individually.

Australian government portal to websites listing events around Australia.

Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory (EVRI) is a database dealing with environmental economics. It contains over 1,900 international studies providing values, methodologies, techniques and theories on environmental valuation and the benefits transfer approach. Subjects include water use, drought and climate change, often in relation to economics and to government policy. EVRI indexes journals, books and conference proceedings, and provides links to full text where available online. Funding by the NSW Dept. of Environment and Climate Change contributes to making EVRI available free online, but registration (i.e. obtaining a username and password) is required.

This site provides a search engine which searches recent news stories including sports, technology and entertainment.

A resource provided by the European Commission to facilitate access for developing countries to markets within the European Union. Includes information relevant to Australia. Provides regulations, tariffs, customs documents and trade statistics. Can be searched by country of origin and by product codes. Trade statistics (2000 to date) provide volume and Euro value of exports and imports between a non-EU country (e.g. Australia) and either the entire EU or particular countries within the EU.

Full texts of classic books on exploration, discovery, and travel, by authors like Thoreau, Dickens, Richard F. Burton, Richard Hakluyt, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Lewis and Clark, etc.

World history from ancient to modern times using primary sources.