Research Databases

A nice site to browse for lots and lots of material is the National Archives of Australia. You can search or browse through the many collections, including government, military and other historical Australia records. For example, the records for Hugh Mckay Gordon, my grandfather, enlisting in the army for World War I in 1915 are available.

Specialist engineering and technology journals

Allows search of INSPEC and COMPENDEX databases of engineering and science publications.

Access to full text of many Wiley journals. Subscription required.

Access full text of many Elsevier Science journals. Subscription required for full text access.

Access to online books from publishers such as O'Reilly, Cisco Press, Sams, Que and Academic Publishing. Subscription required.

Online access to many of Springers (including Kluwer Academic Publishers) journals and books. Requires subscription for full text access.

Online versions of many CRC Press handbooks. Requires subscription to view full text of the handbooks.

Online access to ACM journal and conference publications. Requires individual or University subscription.

PDF download of most IEEE journal, standard and conference publications. Requires individual or University subscription.