WWW Virtual Library Economic and Business History: Web Resources: Australia

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Australia

Associations and Societies

Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Newsletter, journal, links, reviews.

Australian Mining History Association Directory, Newsletter, Bibliography.

Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) Bulletin, resource center.

Australian Society of Archivists Home Page Membership information, and a directory of archives in Australia.

Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Directory, journal.

Light Railway Research Society of Australia Journal, links.

Archives and Libraries

Archives of Australia Gateway A collaboration between the National Archives of Australia, the State and Territory archives, and a number of other Australian archive organisations.

Australian Libraries Gateway.

Australian Society of Archivists Home Page Membership information, and a directory of archives in Australia.

Directory of Archives in Australia at the University of Melbourne.

Guide to Australian Business Records at the Australian Society of Archivists.

Libraries Australia Libraries Australia is a modern Internet-based service for Australian libraries and their users. It provides access to the national database of material held in Australian libraries, known as the Australian National Bibliographic Database. You can search for any item and locate which library in Australia holds it. Gateways to other major library databases are also provided.

Melbourne University Archives List of its extensive holdings of business and labour archives, finding aids.

Noel Butlin Archives Centre at Australian National University, formerly the Archives of Business and Labour. List of the holdings.

Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts (RAAM). National Library of Australia.

University of Wollongong - Archives and Manuscripts Collections Overview of the substantial labour and business history holdings.

Where Have All the [Business] Archives Gone? at the Australian Society of Archivists. An article on business archives in Australia, by Kathryn Dan and Bruce Smith (1999).

Museums

Banking and Currency Museum (Kadina, SA). Some collections information.

Guide to Australian Museums and Galleries

Powerhouse Museum (Sydney). Brief overview of the collections of Australia's largest science and technology museum.

Reference

Australian Company Information at the National Library of Australia.

Australian Digital Theses Program The aim of the ADT project is to create a national collaborative distributed database of digitised theses produced at Australian Universities. The ADT database provides access to PhD and Masters by Research theses only.

Australian History: Selected Websites

Electronic Australiana The National Library of Australia.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: History Australia

Data Archives

Australian Historical Census Data, 1966- At this point in time, the data that can be distributed under the agreement covers the data tables from the 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986 and 1991 censuses.

Australian Social Science Data Archive at Australian National University.

Pandora Australia's Web Archive Maintained by the National Library of Australia and Partners.

Web Resources

Australian Historical Census Data, 1966- At this point in time, the data that can be distributed under the agreement covers the data tables from the 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986 and 1991 censuses.

Australian Mining History Bibliography compiled on behalf of the AMHA by Mel Davies University of Western Australia, 1997.

David Cameron's Australian History Homepage Several articles on business history in Queensland, among other things.

History of Refractories in Australia A history of Newbold General Refractories in Sydney, by Michelle Watson (1996).

Pandora Australia's Web Archive Maintained by the National Library of Australia and Partners.

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Last updated 9 November 2009