Libraries Australia

Libraries Australia web site
The interface to this site is now known as Libraries Australia

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Holdings of resources in Australian Libraries, which allows identification of locations for titles. Also useful for verifying references

Australia

Several databases including the National Bibliographic Database, which allows searching of approximately 12 million bibliographic records with 28 million holdings from Australian libraries.
Other databases allow access to publication details for books in Asian languages and for publication details fo books, serials and other non-book items published and held in overseas libraries, not necessarily held in Australia.

• NBD (National Bibliographic Database)- Australia
• British Library catalogue- United Kingdom
• Te Puna - New Zealand (NZ national bibliographic database)
• Library of Congress catalogue - USA
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Singapore National Union Catalogue
• Consortium of [British] University Research Libraries
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• University of Hong Kong

In addition there are two other databases with a different emphasis:

PictureAustralia (Pictures from Australian cultural agencies)

ARROW - Australian Research Repositories Online to the World - (Australian academic research)

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IP authentication using EZproxy

The link provided defaults to advanced search but it is possible to use basic or command searching.

Access is set to default to Australian Library Collections, to search for Australian held resources. To search other databases use "select databases" at the bottom of the screen and choose the databases you require.

users can set up profiles that let them set up alerts, choose default collections to search and save searches

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National Library of Australia

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