Electronic resources beginning with ‘F’

Factiva is a full-text news and financial information database of publications from Australian and international sources in 22 languages from 118 countries including newspapers, magazines, company and industry reports, newswires, pictures, and websites. Searches may be limited by keywords, subject, region, industry, company, language etc. but personal notices and advertising are not included.

Compiled by the New South Wales Parliamentary Library to provide answers to frequently asked questions about the parliament, its history and its members. Includes lists of Premiers, Leaders of the Opposition and state referenda.

Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST) is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The database contains information from research institutes around the world in areas such as international relations and security, armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.

Order archival quality prints of the Age, Sydney Morning Herald or Sun Herald newspaper front pages. Call 1300 136 466 to order pages before 1945.

Familia is a web-based directory of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK and Ireland and is the on-line starting-place to find information about materials in public libraries which will help you trace your family history.

From a Familia record you can expect to gain the following information:

Contact details (including URL) for the library service

Information on the library's family history holdings, including points to note about whether you have to book an appointment/equipment

Information on whether research can be carried out for you

Further pointers on where to go for information on that area

The top of each Familia record gives you a set of links to the different types of sources listed in each Familia record so you can jump straight to the one you require. For instance you can jump straight to Census Returns or to Other Information.

Within each entry you will find listed the resources held by that library authority. You will not find digitised family history holdings - this database serves as a tool for locating information, not providing it over the Web.

The information is provided by the library authority involved. It is always a good idea to contact the library and check details before you set out for a visit.

A site for researching family of British or Anglo-Indian descent who lived and / or served within the Indian Sub-continent from 1600 to 1947

This online database, formerly known as Family Studies Database, is a core resource on family and gender related topics. It covers journals, books, conference and working papers, government reports, and websites in the social sciences. It contains the highly respected Australian Family and Society Abstracts from the Australian Institute of Family Studies, as well as all the records of the discontinued print version of Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature. Subjects covered include family violence, family therapy, parenting, sexual attitudes and behaviour, family counselling and education, adolescence and marriage and divorce. You can email search results to your email address.

This site provides information and links to sites for people tracing their British, European and Anglo-Indian family history in India, Burma, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Produced by Informit, RMIT Publishing, in 1998, this CD-ROM is a compilation of Australian family history databases which provide information about family histories, cemetery records, memorial records, historical records, military ancestry, Who's Who, and other genealogical resources.

Databases included are, as follows:

(1) Australian Historic Records Registry (AHRR) - a list of paper-based records held in private hands in Australia. Source documents include letters, diaries, photographs, financial records, posters, sketches, recipe books, catalogues, minute books, registers and other material.

(2) The Australian Chronicles : an Index to Sources of Australian Biography (CHRONICLES) - this database is designed to assist genealogists and researchers locate biographical information on a wide range of Australians as possible. Information includes details such as name, birth date and location, death date and location.

(3) Australasian Military History Database (MIHILIST) - this database provides information on military biographies on significant people; and information on military units, wars, places, global conflicts, battles and campaigns.

(4) A chronology of Australian Historic and Current Events (AUSCHRON) - this database contains a listing of significant events in Australian history.

(5) Museums Studies Bibliography (MUSEUMS) - this database provides information on museology, conservation, museum exhibitions, museum architecture and museums of Australia.

(6) Memorials Database (MEMLS) - the memorials database includes details of memorials to persons and events in South Eastern Australia.

Once you have clicked onto the OK button to close the introduction screen, you can keyword search text and click the SEARCH button. You can also refine a search by combining terms using the operators AND, NOT, OR, WITH, NEAR or IN.

Alternatively, you can type your keyword in the INDEX BOX which will list terms and indicate how often each term appears in the database. Highlight a term using the mouse and click on the SHOW button. There is also a HELP menu which gives many examples of searches as well as Getting Started training exercises.

An online Informit database collection, accessed via the internet, also provides access to AHRR (Settlement - 1988), CHRONICLES (1879 - present), MIHILIST (Archive: 1987 - August 1999) and AUSCHRON (1992 to present).The State Library provides both on and off site access to the online Informit.

Produced by the Federation of Family History Scieties (UK), this site allows you to search over 5 million records including parish registers, monumental inscriptions, censuses, poor law documents and others. A fee is charged to view the records.

Australian Family Law Cases 1976+

A suite of family law resources from CCH - Australian Family Law and Practice, child support looseleaf services, and Australian De Facto Relationships Law.

(Family Planning NSW, Australia)

Fact sheets on contraception, menstruation, puberty, sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases for men, women and young people.

This site aims to help in finding government records and other sources for family history research. Includes information on births, marriages & deaths, census, and migration. Also includes information about archival institutions in the FamilyRecords.gov.uk consortium.

This site from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) provides a searchable database of more than 300 million names. The database includes the Ancestral File indexes and the International Genealogical Index. It also provides access to the Family History Library Catalogue as well as thousands of indexed web sites.

Fashion-era contains hundreds of content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History.There is an extensive site map/index and an online forum.This costume history site is owned, designed, written and developed by Pauline Weston Thomas and Guy Thomas.

FaunaNet is an online gateway to resources and expertise in biodiversity and conservation. The Australian Museum's Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Research (CBCR) has coordinated the resources of FaunaNet into five modules.

The National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway has been created to assist locating a wide variety of materials like books, web sites, pictures and manuscripts relating to the Federation of Australia.

This is the official site of soccer's international governing body, the Federation International de Football Association. It contains information on soccer history and FIFA competitions, including the World Cup.

The Federation of Australian Historical Societies Inc. is the peak body representing the interests of historical societies throughout Australia. The organisation encourages the study and publication of Australian history, the preservation, interpretation and promotion of moveable and built heritage, and public access to historical information and heritage collections. It promotes communication and mutual assistance within the historical society movement and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on historical matters. Where appropriate, it lobbies federal, state and local governments on issues of concern to historical societies and assists their work in a variety of other ways.

FITA website includes links to 8,000 international trade (export import) related annotated and indexed websites.

Film Indexes Online brings together Film Index International and the AFI Catalog. Film Index International gives full international coverage of films and film personalities from over 170 countries. All eras of film-making are included, from the early silent movies onwards. It is based on the British Film Institute’s Summary of Information on Film and Television (SIFT) database. The AFI Catalog, from the American Film Institute, offers a detailed view of American feature films from 1893-1955 and 1961-1970. Full production and cast information as well as extensive plot summaries and notes are included.

This site contains news stories, key numbers from the world's financial markets and an archive of more than four million articles. Access is free but users must subscribe.

This site provides information on 'where everybody who was anybody is buried' although the emphasis is on American individuals. Categories include architects and artists, criminals, eccentrics and oddities, explorers and adventurers, musicians and composers.

The website contains information for over 200,000 cemeteries, most with maps.

A searchable database of articles from more than 300 magazines on a wide range of subjects.

A guide to employing conservators in Australia, produced by the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material

This site provides a searchable database of images of more than 82 000 objects from the collections of the fine arts museums of San Francisco.

A joint project of the State Library of NSW and Sydney University, this site provides digitised and transcribed documents relating to the First Fleet and early settlement of Australia. Many of the documents are from the Mitchell Library's manuscript collection.

An online gallery of 629 drawings and watercolours by artists of the First Fleet in the collections of Library of the Natural History Museum, London. The works are attributed to George Raper, Thomas Watling, and the artist known as the Port Jackson Painter.

This site provides a database of First Fleet convicts, diary extracts, stories and letters of the time and links to other information about Australia's past.

The University of Wollongong has created a database of First Fleet convicts, diary extracts, stories and letters of the time and links to other information about Australia's past.

Full text information including primary documents, articles, a timeline, posters, songs and photos.

FirstPoint is a case law research tool that integrates content from the Australian Digest and the Australian Case Citator.

This site provides images of flags from most countries.

Website for people to store, search, sort and share photos. Individuals can now contribute to PictureAustralia - a web service which provides a single point of access to digitised images from many of Australia's leading cultural institutions. You may now load photos into PictureAustralia's two groups on FlickR: PictureAustralia: Australia Day and PictureAustralia: People, places and Events.

The aim of Flora for Fauna is to encourage the planting of native flora, to help preserve the habitat of birds and other native fauna such as butterflies, frogs and lizards. Includes an interactive garden planner to find flora and fauna suited to your growing zone.

Australian floral emblems with botanical information and images at the Australian National Botanic Gardens website.

This site provides a database offering more than 10 000 pictures of flowers, plants and garden plants.

West Australian Department of Education database about fiction for children.

This is the official site of the FAO. It contains information about agriculture, fisheries and forestry. It also provides a searchable Information finder which provides access to FAO's data and information.

The governing body of football (soccer) in Australia.

Provides access to online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, Forced migration online aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users.

This site provides the facility to select the language you speak and the language you want to learn from, with numerous options including Bengali, French, Russian and Swahili. The site includes basic vocabulary terms, pronunciation guides, translating dictionaries and slang guides.

From the Royal Australian Navy this database provides detailed histories of HMA ships. Entries for each ship include statistics, photographs, war service details and voyage dates.

Fortune magazine with the ranking of the largest companies in USA and the world.

Includes environmental ethics of the major world religions. From the Forum on Religion and Ecology , a body which arose out of a series of ten conferences on the world's religions and ecology held at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR)

A gateway to digital libraries that feature the full text of complete books. There are separate lists for Australian digital libraries, New Zealand digital libraries and world digital libraries.

(Amedeo Group, Germany)

Provides links to a collection of international medical journals that are available online in full text for free. Browse by title, subject area or language.

Free searchable database of US and European patents and patent applications.

This database contains information about those who lived in Newcastle, Hunter Valley, Liverpool Plains and Brisbane Water districts of New South Wales before 1850.

This site provides links to a number of online encyclopedias and includes search facilities for each of them.

The FreeBMD Project aims to provide free Internet access to Civil Registration (St. Catherine's House) indexes for England and Wales. The index is compiled progressively by volunteers, but is not verified by the Public Record Office. It covers the period 1837-1983 but the whole index has not been transcribed yet.

A free online searchable database of the UK census returns from 1841 to 1891. This database is not complete and the focus is on 1891.

This site allows you to obtain the historical exchange rate for any currency pair, select the language, the range of dates and the currencies for which you would like to obtain exchange rates.