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Annual Report 2007
 

Appendix 6: Selected new Library resources

Major electronic backfiles purchased included:

  • Nature Archives
  • L’annee-philologique online
  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae – online version
  • International federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
  • Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
  • Wiley journal backsets
  • House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) - 20th Century papers
  • New JSTOR collections

Substantial new electronic resources made accessible in 2007 included:

  • Karger journals
  • SPIE digital library
  • Macquarie dictionary online
  • Blackwell Reference online
  • Newsbank
  • Scopus
  • MSDS Australia
  • Chicago Manual of Style online
  • Indiastat.com
  • New Scientist online
  • Transportation Research record online
  • ResearchNow
  • Sage Premier journal collection
  • eTG Complete - Therapeutic Guidelines online
  • China academic journals full-text database
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete
  • BEDP Environment Design Guide
  • Pidgeon digital
  • Hein online
  • Artstor
  • Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
  • Brill reference works online
  • CiNii:  scholarly and academic information navigator
  • Faculty 1000 Medicine
  • Annual Egyptological Bibliography Online

New e-book collections included:

  • Springer e-books
  • Oxford Scolarship Online
  • Ovid e-books
  • Royal Society of Chemistry e-book collection
  • IGI Global e-book and journal collections
  • Elsevier e-books
  • SIAM e-book collection

Major rare books acquisitions

La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de 1741-1788. A voyage round the world : performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe, under the command of J.F.G. de La Perouse, published by order of the National Assembly, under the superintendence of L.A. Milet-Mureau.  London: Printed by A. Hamilton, for G.G. and J. Robinson ... [etc], 1799.  2 vols.  plus Atlas.
La Billardiere, Jacques-Julien Houtou de, 1755-1834. Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Perouse : fait par ordre de l'Assemble de Constituante pendant les annees 1791, 1792 et pendant la 1ere. et la 2de. annee de la Republique francoise par le Cen.  Labillardiere. Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, Imprimeur-Libraire, [1800] Description: 2 v. 21 cm. + Accompanied by: 1 atlas.
Miller, John, 1715-1790? An illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus.  London: Printed for Robert Faulder, New Bond Street, 1794.  [botanical colour plate book]
Barclay, Alexander, 1785-1864. A practical view of the present state of slavery in the West Indies, or, An examination of Mr.  Stephen's "Slavery of the British West India colonies”: containing more particularly an account of the actual conditions of the Negroes in Jamaica, with observations on the decrease of the slaves since the abolition of the slave trade, the probable effects of legislative emancipation, also, strictures on the Edinburgh Review, and on the pamphlets of Mr. Cooper and Mr. Bickell.  3rd ed.  London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1828.
Curr, Edward M.  (Edward Micklethwaite), 1820-1889. Des Betises = Frivolities.  Melbourne: H. T. Dwight, 1868.  [Author's marked proof of his scarcest work, with hand-written corrections.]
Dillon, Peter, 1785-1847. Narrative and successful result of a voyage in the South Seas performed by order of the government of British India, to ascertain the actual fate of La Perouse's expedition interspersed with accounts of the religion, manners, customs and cannibal practices of the South Sea islanders / by the Chevalier Capt. P. Dillon.  Publisher: London: Hurst, Chance and Co., 1829.  Description: 2 v.
Australasian Sketcher, nos.  1 - 187.  (Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, April 1873 - December 1884).
Specimen volume of 23 children's board games from the National Games Co., Melbourne, 1929.
The Cause of the war.  (Melbourne, Director-General of Recruiting, Victoria Barracks, [1918]).  A Norman Lindsay World War I recruitment propaganda item.

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