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Here you will find a listing, compiled from various sources, of some of the new sites and tools available on the Web. The listings for each month are divided into categories.

• Asian Thesis Database
  A database of theses with Asian content, copies of which are housed at the University of Melbourne.

• ExLibris
  A directory of special digital library collections that include manuscripts, art images, and electronic texts.

• Global 500
  Listing of the world's largest corporations.

• Indigenous Australia Internet Portal
  An initiative of the National Indigenous Media Association of Australia to help users to find indigenous information.

• Inomics
  Includes a search engine and a directory of sites of use to economists.

• 100 Fastest Growing Companies
  From Fortune magazine.

• Lexicool
  A directory of more than 500 translation dictionaries.

• OzDirectory
  New Australian content directory.

• Playwrights on the Web
  An international directory of emerging playwrights' Web sites or email addresses.

• Private School Locator
  A database for approximately 29,000 US private schools.

• Scientific Search Engines
  Links to a range of search tools, not only in the sciences but also in humanities, media studies, online reference, regional tools and more.

• Southeast Asian Serials Index
  A co-operative project to provide access to major academic and current affairs journals published in countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, and The Netherlands.

• UNESCO Windows to Culture
  Online directory of more than 400 cultural resources and organisations. Listings provide the title, address, URL, email address, country/region and description.

Social Sciences and Humanities

• Center for the Public Domain
  A non-profit US foundation that supports the growth of a healthy and robust public domain.

• EducationGuardian.co.uk University Guide
  An interactive ranking guide for UK university and college teaching published by The Guardian (UK).

• The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Public Universities in Australia
  This paper traces the organisational changes associated with the growth of self-earned income by Australian public universities since the mid-1980s.

• Facts about Newspapers
  A statistical summary of the US and Canadian newspaper industries.

• Family and Work - the Family's Perspective
  Preliminary results from new qualitative research undertaken by the Australian Institute of Family Studies with 69 parents and 71 children from 47 families in Melbourne.

• Figures of Speech
  Definitions of various figures of speech along with examples.

• Global Policy Forum
  A body which monitors the United Nations' global policy making.

• Global Reporting Initiative
  Aims to develop globally applicable guidelines for reporting on the economic, environmental, and social performance of businesses, organisations and government.

• History and Politics Out Loud
  A searchable archive of "politically significant" audio materials.

• The Literary Gothic
  Guide to literary Gothicism, such as ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and fiction and supernaturalist literature.

• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
  Designed for tertiary students who want to improve their writing skills.

• Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
  Declassified documentation and information about the development of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

• Sunday School Books
  A Library of Congress digital collection of Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865.

• United States Weapons Systems
  Information on US ships, aircraft, missiles, and other weapons systems.

• War Stories
  Traces the history of war reporting from the American Civil War to Bosnia and Kosovo.

• Whose Millennium?
  Conference Papers from the 13th biennial conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia held at Melbourne University in 2000.

• Cancer411.org
  Information on clinical trials for all types of cancer, as well as other cancer information.

• The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
  A browsable and searchable visual resource on the fantastic and supernatural in fiction and art.

• Folk Medicine
  A collection of data from scientific journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and historical sources from the past two centuries.

• Food Navigator
  A searchable subject index related to food science and technology.

• Free Medical Journals.com
  A directory of online medical journals that are free, that offer free trials, or that are free after a certain period.

• globalhealth.gov
  A searchable directory that promotes health as a global concern.

• Inchem
  Provides access to documents on chemical safety from organisations worldwide.

• Lab Tests Online
  To assist patients to interpret and understand a wide range of laboratory tests and test results.

• National Headache Foundation
  Facts and guidance about headaches, including migraines.

• Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database
  Information on the active ingredients of more than 5400 pesticides.

• Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning
  Presentations from an August 7, 2001 workshop (at the US National Academies) on the implications of human cloning.

• The Stem Cell Debate
  CNN special on the issue.

• Urologic Diseases
  Information on causes, treatments, and tests.

Physical Sciences and Engineering

• CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
  Fields of expertise cover a range of research in information tehnology, biotechnology, marine science, food technology, and others.

• Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
  The Federation represents the interests of around 60,000 scientists and technologists in Australia.

• Sci-Math World: An interactive Internet Workshop
  Annotated Web links to science and mathematics subjects.

• Spectroscopy Now
  Includes news, features, conferences, book releases, jobs, and directories in subdisciplines of spectroscopy.

• The 2001 Report Card for America's Infrastructure
  Fact sheets and letter grades for America and its states in twelve physical infrastructure categories such as transport and waste water.

• AlterNet.org
  This online magazine covers technology, the environment, sexual politics, globalisation, human rights, and other social and political issues.

• Asialine
  Online monthly publication of the Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

• Free Medical Journals.com
  A directory of online medical journals that are free, that offer free trials, or that are free after a certain period.

• Gramophone
  Online version which includes access to GramoFile, a searchable archive of 25,000 classical record reviews.

• Online Magazine
  A monthly for information professionals about selecting, using, and managing electronic information products.

• BoardReader
  Search engine for Internet message board postings.

• HandyBits Voice Mail
  A freeware program that lets you record .wav files to create voice email.

• Web Frequency Indexer
  A tool for counting word occurrences in a text.

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