The National Archives of Australia collects, preserves and provides access to Government records. Many records are available online for professional research or personal interest.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library contains many books and archives on global biodiversity. Full text of rare and early publications relating to Western Australia is available.
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. It largely contains books that are in the public domain. These have been digitised by volunteers.
Open Library collects details of published books. It also holds loanable copies of ebooks including some about or from Australia. It makes audiobooks available to print for disabled people.
The National Library of Scotland Maps site contains many high-resolution, colour, zoomable maps. The maps are mainly of Scotland and date from 1560 to 1970.
NationalMap is an online map-based tool. It allows easy access to spatial data from Australian government agencies. Various datasets can be overlaid and explored on the map.
There are currently over 21,000 newspaper pages and over one million gazette pages digitised and available to view in this system.
BBC History Magazine is a British publication devoted to both British and world history and aimed at all levels of knowledge and interest.
The Historical Aerial Photography collection tracks the use and development of land. It is a helpful way of locating places in Australia from 1928 to the present.
Oxford History of Western Music online offers an account of the evolution of Western classical music.
Full access to Cambridge’s Histories & Companions titles.
Historical Records of Australian Science published by the CSIRO records the history of science, pure and applied, in Australia, New Zealand and the southwest Pacific.