Academic Information

Australian Academic Information


Australian Vice Chancellor's Committee Website
Comprehensive source of information for Australian Universities
* url: http://www.avcc.edu.au/

Higher Education and Communications News in the Press
Australia Higher Education and Communications News in the Press from CAUL : Council of Australian University Librarians.
* url: http://online.anu.edu.au/caul/pr.htm

DEST Higher Education Research Data Collection
Includes About Higher Education Research Data Collection, Specifications, Submission Tables, Register of Refereed Journals,Register of Commercial Publishers, Australian Competitive Grants Register
* url: http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/online_forms_services/higher_education_research_data_collection.htm

Universities Admission Centre-UAC Online
UAC's online guide provides information about Australian undergraduate courses offered by the participating universities, how to apply, study costs and key dates.
* url: http://www.uac.edu.au

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World Wide/Overseas Academic Information


World of Learning
Key directory of academic and research organisations worldwide. Access for University of Sydney staff and students only.
* url: Access World of Learning

Braintrack: University Index.
Directory of University websites covering Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
* url: http://www.braintrack.com/index.htm

Peterson's Education & Career Center
United States accredited educational institutions offering graduate & Undergraduate studies, work in the United States and abroad, Open Learning, Testing & Assessment. U.S K-12 also included in this collection.
* url: http://www.petersons.com/

College and University Home Pages - World Wide : Alphabetical Listing
* url: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html

College and University Home Pages - World Wide : Geographical Listing.
* url: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/geog.html

College and Universities Home page : American Universities Listing
Compiled and maintained by Mike Conlon, University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts & and Sciences.
* url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html

Community College Web
Searchable index of 732 community college web sites, compiled by Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction.
* url: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/

UniGuide: Guide to U.S. Universities
* url: http://www.aldea.com/guides/gu/attframes3.html

Association of Commonwealth Universities Homepage.
Association of 482 universities drawn from the Commonwealth countries of Africa and Asia, Australasia and the South Pacific, Canada and the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Malta.
* url: http://www.acu.ac.uk/index.html

College and University Rankings
Produced by Education and Social Science Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This is an excellent site for locating information on Rankings for courses at Universities and Colleges in the United States and in other parts of the World. There are links to critical reviews of ranking methodology and a bibliography of both print and web resources for ranking.
* url: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm

United Kingdom - Academic map.
Developed by the University of Wolverhampton Academic map links websites of academic and higher education institutes in the United Kingdom. A search can be limited to a specific type of information eg. Homepage, prospectus, library, research profile or student union etc... Links to other UK academic directories are also included on this Website.
* url: http://http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/

Scottish Search Maestro.
Search Engine for Scottish Academic Website hosted by the University of Dundee.
* url: http://somis2.ais.dundee.ac.uk/scotland/www-gtw

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Academic Employment


H-Net: Job Guide for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and hosted by the Michigan State University "The H-Net Job Guide covers positions in History and other fields in the Humanities and social sciences. The H-Rhetor Job Guide covers positions in rhetoric, composition and other related fields. A weekly index is posted to many of H-Net's E-mail lists. We particularly encourage listings of replacement or temporary jobs.
* url: http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/

Chronicle of Higher Education
Guide to current issue of Chronicle of Higher Education, links to notable internet resources for academics (changes weekly), job openings (international) and meetings, events and deadlines in academe. Some information is only available to subscribers.
* url: http://chronicle.com/

Current vacancies listed by the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Allows searching limited by academic research area and country.
* url: http://www.acu.ac.uk/adverts/jobs/


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Copyright


Australian Copyright Council
The Australian Copyright Council's Online Information Centre has an excellent collection of fact sheets covering various aspects of Australian copyright. Fact sheests include Copying for Research and Study; Historians and Copyright; Quotes and Extracts: copyright obligation & Fair dealing in the digital age. These publications are available for downloading in PDF format.
* url: http://www.copyright.org.au/

Australian Copyright Legislation.
Links to Australian and International legislation from the Australian Intellectual Law Locus.
* url: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pxc/iplocus/copyright.html#legislation

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