Guide to databases and indexes

The Northern Territory Library provides free access to a quality collection of electronic resources from many different sources, covering a wide range of topics.

• Many contain the full text of journal articles, newspapers, books, conference proceedings, etc. while others consist of references and brief summaries of the contents.
• The library pays an annual subscription fee for many of these resources and offers them free to our clients. Some of these resources may also be available at your nearest NT public or community library.
• Resources marked* are available outside the library to anyone with internet access.
• Some subscription databases are accessible from outside the library to members of eligible client groups. For further information contact the library on Freecall 1800 019 155 or 08 8999 7410.

Alphabetical Index

Arts and Architecture, Building & Design
AEM - Arts & Entertainment Management Database | more information
APA-FT - Australian Public Affairs - Full Text | more information
APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service | more information
ARCH - Australian Architecture Database | more information
BUILD - Australian Building Construction and Engineering Database | more information
e-Library | more information
Informit Online | more information
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
*Music Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
Online Building Code of Australia (BCA) | more information
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E

Engineering & Technology
ATRI - Australian Transport Index | more information
CHERUB - CHemical Engineering Reference User Bibliography | more information
ENGINE - Australian Engineering Database | more information
Informit Online | more information
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
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Environment & Natural Resources
*AANRO - Agriculture and Natural Resources Online | more information
*AGRICOLA | more information
*AHB - Australian Heritage Bibliography | more information
AHB-ATSIS - Australian Heritage Bibliography - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset | more information
AHB-ATSIS - Australian Heritage Bibliography - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset | more information
Botanica on CD-ROM
EDGE | more information
ELIXIR - DPI's Electronic LIbrary eXchange for Information Resources | more information
e-Library | more information
ENDANGER - Threatened Species in Australia: A Select Bibliography | more information
EVA - Environmental Abstracts | more information
Informit Online | more information
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
MEDGE - Management and Environment Information | more information
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
Safari Tech Books Online | more information
REEF - Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Province Database | more information
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History (inc. Family History and Genealogy), and Geography
*Aerial Photography Archive [NT] | more information
*AHB - Australian Heritage Bibliography | more information
AHB-ATSIS - Australian Heritage Bibliography - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset | more information
AHRR - Australian Historic Records Register | more information
ANCESTRY Library Edition | more information
APA-FT - Australian Public Affairs - Full Text | more information
APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service | more information
Archived Aerial Indices - pre 1979
AUSCHRON - A Chronology of Australian Historic & Current Events | more information
Australian Contingent
Australasian Genealogical Computer Index AGCI
Australasian Medical Directories Compendium 1
Australian Dictionary of Dates & Men of the Time
Australian Family Histories: a bibliography and index, 2nd ed.
Bailliere's Victorian Gazetteer and Road Guide 1879
Ballarat Cemeteries Index [Vic]
Baptisms September 1840 to May 1999 [WA]
Births, Deaths and Marriages Historical Index 1870-1913 [NT]
Bound for South Australia: Passenger Lists 1836-1851
Bounty Immigration. New South Wales 1828 to 1842
British Army in Australia 1788-1870
British Census 1851
British Isles Vital Records Index
Cemetery Transcriptions V 3.0: index to selected M.I. Transcriptions held at AIGS
Census of England Cornwall 1841
CHRONICLES - The Australian Chronicles: An Index to Sources of Australian Biography | more information
Chronicles of Early Melbourne
Compendium Set of Pigot's 1825 Scotland Directories
Convictions: Australian Shipping - arrivals and departures 1788-1968
Convicts & Employers (NSW) Index 1828,1832-1833, Jan 1838-Jan 1844
Convicts to New South Wales 1788-1812
Crown Land Licenses Victoria 1853, 1856
Cyclopedia of N.S.W.
Cyclopedia of Tasmania
Dawn and New Dawn 1962-1975
Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840: Settlers, Military, Convicts, etc.
Death Index Victoria 1921-1942
Early Australian Electoral Rolls Vol 1 [NSW, Tas, WA]
Early Australian Electoral Rolls Vol 2 [Vic, QLD, SA]
Edwardian Index Victoria 1902-1913
Family Tree Magazine
Federation Index Victoria 1889-1901
First Title Holders of Land in the Counties of Camden, Cook, Hunter, Durham, Gloucester [NSW]
Free Railway Passes (NSW) Index 1880-1892
Free Settlers of Australia 1788-1828
Frith's Photographic Directory
Genealogical Research Directory 2005
Geodata Raster Maps - CD-ROM
Geographical Encyclopaedia of New South Wales
Government Gazette Queensland 1861
Great War Index 1914-1920
Hawkesbury and Shoalhaven Calender, Directory, Guide and Historical Record [NSW]
Historical Records Index for the Settlement of: Tasmania, Victoria, Northern Territory & West Australia
Hobart Town Gazette
Immigration Deposit Indexes
Immigration to Victoria 1852-79
Index to Colonial Convict Movements 1827-1853
Informit Online | more information
Inquest Index, Victoria 1840-1985
Keesing's Record of World Events 1983-1992
Land Muster, Stock Returns and Lists: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1822
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
Marine Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria 1853-1920
Marriage Index, Victoria 1921-1942
MIHILIST - The Australasian Military History Database | more information
National Geographic Maps
New South Wales between the Wars Index
New South Wales Government Gazettes [various from 1832]
New South Wales Pioneers Index 1788-1888
New South Wales Pioneers Index 1889-1918
New South Wales Post Office Directory 1904
New Zealand Marriages 1836-1956
New Zealand Electoral Roll 1881
New Zealand Electoral Roll 1893
Nomenclature of South Australia
Northern Territory Australia Deaths 1824 to 2004. Part 1.
Northern Territory Census, Electoral Rolls & Directories 1881-1940
Northern Territory Government Gazettes 1997 - 2003
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
*NT Historic Map Index | more information
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | more information
Official Post Office Directory Queensland 1874
Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa
Paracensus of Australia 1788-1828
Parish Finder for England
Parish Registers in Australia 1787-1990
Passenger arrivals in Western Australia, 1839-1890
Passenger arrivals in Western Australia, 1898-1925
Pastkeys Miscellaneous Indexes
Pastoral Possessions of New South Wales
Pastures New: An Account of the Pastoral Occupation of Port Phillip
*PictureNT | PictureNT at NTL | more information
Pigot & Co.: compendium set of Pigot's 1825/6 Scotland directories
Police Gazette New South Wales [1890, 1892-1893, 1895-1910]
Post Office London Directory 1856
Post Office London Directory 1902
Queensland Federation Index 1890-1914
Queensland Government Gazette [1861, 1865, 1868, 1869, 1872, 1880, 1890]
Queensland Pioneers Index 1829-1889
Queensland PO and Official Directory (Wise's) 1903
Queensland School Pupils Index
Queensland School Pupils Index Part 2
Queenslanders who Fought in the Great War
Return of Owners of Land 1873, Wales (all counties) Vol II
Rookwood Cemetery Transcriptions [NSW]
Sands & Kenny's Melbourne Directories 1857-1861
Sands, Kenny and Co's. Melbourne Directory 1861
Scottish Parish Records: Scotland (General)
South Australia 1841 Census [and biographies]
South Australia Post Office Directory (Wise's) for 1903
South Australian Births, Registrations 1842-1906
South Australian Births, Registrations 1907-1926
South Australian Deaths. Registrations 1842-1915
South Australian Marriages. Registrations 1842-1916
South Australian Marriages. Registrations 1917-1937
Sydney Morning Herald Birth, Marriage, Death & Funeral Notices 1831-1853
Tasmania Post Office Directory (Wise's) for 1904
Tasmanian Federation Index: births 1900-1919; deaths and marriages 1900-1930
Tasmanian Pioneers Index 1803-1899
Tenth General Report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners 1850
Times Digital Archive | more information
Tracing Your Family History in New South Wales, 5th ed., 2006
Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-1856 and Ships && Masters to Sydney Index 1842-1856
Victoria Mining Accident Index, 2nd edition
Victoria Post Office Directory (Wise's) for 1904
Victorian Government Gazette [1859-1861, 1863, 1874, 1888]
Victorian Pioneers Index 1837-1888
Wales (all counties) 1873 Returns of Owners of Land
WA Inquests 1876-1903: an index of inquests as published in the Western Australian Police Gazettes
WA Pioneers Index 1841-1905
Wellbank's Australian Nautical Almanac and Coasters' Guide
Western Australia Post Office Directory (Wise's) for 1904
William Smith O'Brien Petition
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Hospitality & Tourism
ATI - Australian Tourism Index | more information
Informit Online | more information
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
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L

Literature
AustLit: the resource for Australian Literature | more information
Colombia Granger's Poetry Database | more information
e-Library | more information
Fiction Connection | more information
Global Books in Print | more information
Good Reading Online | more information
Informit Online | more information
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
Literature Resource Centre | more information
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
TumbleBook Library | more information
Oxford Reference online | more information
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N

Northern Territory
*ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics | more information
*Aerial Photography Archive [NT] | more information
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre | more information
Archived Aerial Indices - pre 1979
Births, Deaths and Marriages Historical Index 1870-1913 [NT]
Historical Records Index for the Settlement of: Tasmania, Victoria, Northern Territory & West Australia
Informit Online | more information
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
Northern Territory Australia Deaths 1824 to 2004. Part 1.
Northern Territory Census, Electoral Rolls & Directories 1881-1940
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
*NT Historic Map Index | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
*NT Online: Northern Territory Community Profile | more information
*PictureNT | PictureNT at NTL | more information
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Social Sciences & Humanities
*ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics | more information
APA-FT - Australian Public Affairs - Full Text | more information
APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service | more information
APAIS-ATSIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset | more information
CHRONICLES - The Australian Chronicles: An Index to Sources of Australian Biography | more information
CSI - Consumer Sciences Index | more information
e-Library | more information
FAMILY - Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database | more information
FAMILY-ATSIS - Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database - Aboriginal and Torres Strait | more information
Informit Online | more information
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
National Geographic
MAIS - Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies | more information
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
*PictureNT | more information
Statesman's Yearbook Online | more information
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South East Asia
APECLIT - APEC Literature Database | more information
ASIANRES - ASIAN Resources: A Select Directory of Databases | more information
BERITA - Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei/ASEAN Database | more information
BIPE - Bibliography of Indonesian Politics and the Economy | more information
e-Library | more information
Informit Online | more information
INDBIO - Indian Biography Database | more information
INTAN MAS | more information
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
PDIP - Indonesian Learned Periodicals Database | more information
PDIR - Indonesian Research Report Database | more information
PERIND - Periodicals Index | more information
SMC - Singapore/Malaysia Collection | more information
THESES - NUS Theses Collection | more information
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Sports
AUSPORT - Australian Sport Database | more information
AusportMed | more information
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre | more information
Informit Online | more information
*Libraries Australia | Libraries Australia at NTL | more information
*Northern Territory Library Catalogue | more information
NTL Online Journals/Magazines, Newspapers & Books | more information
*PictureNT | PictureNT at NTL | more information
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