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- AcronymFinder
- Medi lexicon - medicial, pharmaceutical, biomedical and health care abbreviations
- Wiley InterScience - scientific and technical acronyms, symbols and abbreviations
Awards
- Links to Australian and international awards - State Library of NSW
Bookshops
- UOW UniShop Bookshop
- ABC Shop
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- Angus & Robertson
- BiblioQuest - out-of-print books
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- BBC News country profiles
- CIA World Factbook
- Country studies - Library of Congress
- Documenting A Democracy: Australia's story - National Archives of Australia
- Economist.com country briefings
- Electronic Australiana - Australian National Library
- Related: Yearbooks
Dictionaries
- Oxford English Dictionary - UOW staff and students only [login required]
- Oxford Reference Online - UOW staff and students only [login required]
- Aboriginal languages of Australia - WWW Virtual Library
- Cambridge dictionaries
- Merriam-Webster OnLine - dictionary and thesaurus
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- thesaurus.com
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- Columbia Encyclopedia
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- Exchange rates - Reserve Bank of Australia
- oanda.com - historical currency exchange rates
- xe.com - currency converter and table
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- Illawarra images - local history pictures
- PictureAustralia
- Google Image Search
- British Pathe Film Archive
- Symbols.com
Journals
- Search for journals held by UOW
- Directory of open access journals
- Directory of Scholarly Journals on the Web
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- Related: Journal abbreviations
Journal abbreviations
- All That JAS: Journal Abbreviations Sources - a registry of full title journal abbreviations
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- Australian maps from Geoscience Australia
- Australian place name search from Geoscience Australia
- NSW Natural Resource Atlas - environmental data
- Atlapedia
- MapMachine (National Geographic)
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Telephone directories
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- International White and Yellow Pages
- UOW Directory Services
Trademarks
- IP Australia - Australian patents, trademarks, designs and intellectual property
- US Patent & Trademark Office
- World Intellectual Property Organization
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Universities
- World of Learning - UOW staff and students only [login required]
- Australian Universities
- Universities worldwide
Weather and climate
- Bureau of Meteorology - Australia
- World Weather
Yearbooks
- Year Book Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
- Europa World - UOW staff and students only [login required]
- CIA World Factbook
- Information Please Almanac
- World Statesmen
- Related: Country profiles
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Last reviewed: 2 September, 2009
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Everyone hates to queue. With this in mind, we have introduced Follow Me Printing. You can choose any free printer/copier in the Library or a printer in the Student Central labs to release your print job.
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