Useful links

These links are taken from various sources, including of course Maureen Wright's Internet column in our newsletter. It is intended to develop cooperatively - see the note at the end.

You are probably already using AltaVista, Yahoo and similar search engines. The Canberra Times has just come up with a selection of local (Australia-based) search engines that you might like to try: AltaVista Australian Mirror, Anzwers, HotBot, Yahoo! Australia and New Zealand, Britannica Internet Guide, LookSmart, Matilda.

The cheekily-named Dogpile is a 'meta-search engine', working through many individual search engines and posting results from them all separately. It finds sites that many of the individual engines might miss. Ixquick is another, which I personally use all the time and now prefer.

The online telephone directory is at http://www.whitepages.com.au/ .

Societies

The Institute of Professional Editors, IPEd, has its website at <www.iped-editors.org>, with links to the eight Australian editors' societies. You may also be interested in the Web addresses of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers and the Australian Society for Technical Communication (ASTC). Note that members and friends of the ASTC who live in Canberra can now join in members' activities.

Other editors societies that may be of interest are Editors' Association of Canada (they also have a very comprehensive 'Web resources' page), the Electric Editors page, which includes three discussion groups and links to some useful resources(UK), and the European Association of Science Editors.

The Board of Editors in the Life Sciences in the United States has an accreditation process for life science editors, centred on a 3-hour written examination. For more information see their web site, or contact Rhana Pike.

Dictionaries and similar tools

The third edition of the Macquarie dictionary is on the Internet at www.macnet.mq.edu.au . It is free, but the rest of this site is available by subscription only.

Try 'A Web of online dictionaries'. It has a quick look-up facility and is now linked to more than 400 dictionaries of over 130 different languages, and to about 50 grammars. English Grammar Online may be helpful, too. Now there's Onelook Dictionaries as well.

A reader has just brought the suite of sites with its home page at www.allrefer.com/ to our attention. This has a whole raft of encyclopaedic articles covering a vast range of subjects. This seems to have replaced our older link at www.1upinfo.com/, because clicking on this one now brings up 'allrefer'.

What about Fast Facts 2001? Almanacs, calendars, dictionaries, people and places, etc. etc. The same site offers thesauruses and quotations, and is generally billed as My reference desk.

Interested in style guides? The entire text of the highly respected The elements of style by Strunk and White is available online, as the style guide of the Modern Language Association of America used to be. The latter is no longer available on the Web, but you can find information about the published version (USD25.00) and other publications of the association..

The Gazetteer of Australia is a compilation of geographic names of Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australia. A search will give you Australian place names, with their geographic location details, and a map.

Books and libraries

If you ever need information about libraries, almost anywhere in the world, go no further than the Australian Library and Information Association's links page .

If you love books you may like the web site at http://www. bibliomania. com/ . It offers classic works in HTML. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is one worth bookmarking. For checking references (or even buying books) don't overlook Amazon.com, which is much more than an online bookshop. Get a listing of online Australian booksellers at the Australian Book Web.

Australian Government Sites

Try the National Library first: Australian Governments' Entry Point

There's another Government entry point at http://www.fed.gov.au .

Australian Parliament has its own home page.

Parliamentary Library Home Page has links to a lot of useful material, including Hansard from 1995.

The Federal Government has just opened a new ($8.5 million!) Business Entry Point, an information site for small business, including items on tax, registration, OH&S and so on. At that price it just HAS to be good.

JOBS

http://www.seek.com.au/ is a brand new Australian jobs search database.

Another (free) employment service to try on the web is The Daily Email: Employment.

And, most recently, we have received a message from CareerOne and Australian IT asking us to provide links to their sites http://www.careerone.com.au/ and http://www.australianit.com.au. They tell us that these are two of Australia's leading online recruitment sites, produced by News Interactive, the Internet Unit of News Ltd. May we ask any members who try them successfully to please let your web minder know.

Computers, the Internet and suchlike...

Excited about the Internet? Join the Internet Society http://www.isoc-au.org.au .

Worried about viruses? Go to http://www.av.ibm.com/AlertFrame/alertframe.html for reassurance that it's only 'hype' - or to get the gruesome details of your infection.

Australian PC User Magazine Online http://www.pcuser.com.au is a magazine for the home and small office. PC User's web site offers tips, tutorials, shareware and more for PC users of all levels.

Add to (or subtract from) this site

Which are the sites you find most useful? Email their details to Peter Judge, and share them with other members of the society - let us develop this page together. But, alas, Web sites come and go with alarming (ir)regularity - if you find links that don't work, please tell Peter immediately.

Last modified 5/3/09