Key Resources
Here is a selection of key resources produced by the eScholarship Research Centre in collaboration with other people. These publications have been produced using the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM) and are ordered by their year of publication, starting with the most current:
- Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition - The online publication of the Australian Dictionary of Biography uses the OHRM to manage the entries and relationships to archival and published resources. It has customised display templates and search functionality.
- eGold A Nation's Heritage - Telling the story of gold through images, stories and multimedia interactives, eGold connects individual stories to the wider historical themes of global gold rushes, global migration flows, building the Australian nation and democratic change during the gold rushes.
- Post Office Mauritius - A research companion with biographical and bibliographical information about the Post Office Mauritius stamps and subjects related to them. It is based on Helen Morgan's research for the book Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps.
- Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia - A catalogue of historical images of Chinese, Chinese immigrants and their descendants held in Australia. It primarily draws on the photographic holdings of the Chinese Museum but also includes photographs from other online archives, publications and private family collections. Built into the database is the beginnings of an encyclopaedia of Chinese-Australian history, complete with bibliography, which provides contextual information about the images in the database.
- Reason in Revolt: Source Documents of Australian Radicalism - A collaborative project with scholars at Monash University and the University of Melbourne using the OHRM to map, register and digitise key documentary resources relating to the history of Australian radicalism.
- A Guide to Australian Business Records - A gateway to Australia's business heritage which draws together historical information on Australian businesses and business people (business entities). It links business entities with information on extant archival records created by the entities and held in archives and libraries, together with citations of published works about the entities. Where business entities are known to be related these relationships have been included as hypertext links.
- Australian Venom Research Unit Compendium - A resource for the general public, students, research scientists and clinicians which describes Australia’s most venomous creatures, envenomation treatment regimes (current and historical), symptoms and causes of envenomation, published resources, a glossary of terms and more.
- Gateways to the History of Medicine at the University of Melbourne - Gateways to the history and archives of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Includes Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences - A Historical Compendium; Johnstone-Need Medical History Unit; Online Medical and Dental History Museum Catalogues; Australian Nursing History Project and Witmess to the History of Australian Medicine.
- Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne: A Historic Compendium - A historic register of the people, departments, scholarships, prizes and bequests, research centres and affiliated organisations that make up the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, with references to archival materials and a bibliography of historical published literature.
- Australian Trade Union Archives - A gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, designed to link together historical detail, archival resources, published material and current information about Australian industrial organisations, mainly including trade unions and also employer bodies.
- Lost Lives - A website commemorating the Second World War in the islands of New Guinea. Uses the OHRM data structures for managing the data but presents the information in a customised template.
- Victorian Patents and Patentees 1854 to 1904 - A digital database and website containing 21,500 patent applications lodged in Victoria from 1854 to 1904.
- Federation and Meteorology - A Centenary of Federation publication on the emergence of Australian meteorology as a science and the formation of the Bureau of Meteorology in 1908, paralleling the story of Australian Federation.
- Science and the Making of Victoria - The online publication of the inaugural speeches of the Royal Society of Victoria's first presidents, visionaries who in their public life set the foundations for the Society and for the broad and deep scientific infrastructure that supports modern Victoria. R. T. M. Pescott’s history of the Society reviewing the years 1854 to 1959 has been republished from the Proceedings, while the rich resources held within the Society’s records have revealed further writings of past presidents, such as Hills, Leeper and Garran, as they reflect on the role of the Society and science in Victoria.
- Technology in Australia 1788-1988 - The online edition of this bicentenary study by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering of the men, women and organisations involved in the development of technology in Australia.
- Australian Women's Archive Project - An on-line register containing biographical data about Australian women and their organisations, with links to the archival repositories where their records are held and to other sources of information. Since the establishment of the register, a number of exhibitions have been developed that further enrich this fascinating resource.