Librarians decided over 100 years ago to outsource the indexing of articles in journals, so entries for journal articles usually don't appear in library catalogues, but the indexes - the ones we need and can afford - are listed in our catalogue. In the last 30 years many of these indexes have been transformed into online databases. In the last 10 years these online indexes have begun to provide clickable links to the actual text of the indexed articles, but they're not all online yet.

Normally, the library provides access through its catalogue via clickable links to the databases it buys, but when the catalogue is not available this page provides access - click on their italicised names below.

EBSCO Business Source is a large business database from the United States, covering over 8000 journals, about 2000 of them with complete full text.

Australia/New Zealand reference centre is another EBSCO business database, covering Australian newspapers and magazines, most of them with full text, but not including the Fairfax publications.

Emerald fulltext is a collection of over 40,000 articles from over 100 management journals, full text archives back to 1994 and abstracts back to 1989. It covers major management disciplines and marketing, human resources management, information management, quality control and operations management.

ScienceDirect contains the full text of 1700+ journals published by Elsevier Science in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences, including a number of relevance to business: a list of the latter can be found on ScienceDirect itself. It includes 'Journal of product innovation management' and 'Columbia journal of world business'...

All major Australian newspapers are covered by Factiva which provides "facts and numbers from nearly 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and newswires. Streamlines the way users analyze a company with access to historical market data, interactive charting, financial statements, and company reports from D&B, Investext..."
Introduction to Factiva

Electric Library covers a large selection of newspapers, including the Murdoch press, which publishes the Advertiser, delivering full text on line.

Business Australia is a collection of Australian databases including AIMMAT from the Australian Institute of Management, IREL and WORKLIT for industrial relations topics, AATD and VALISE for accounting and auditing, and TAXABS and TAXINDEX for taxation.

Annual report collection gives the annual reports of 500+ companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Ausstats is the Australian Bureau of Statistics site; University students and staff have free access to statistics for educational purposes. Special access arrangements apply to the confidentialised unit record files (CURFs).

World development indicators also delivers statistics directly; it and Ausstats are not journal indexes like the others.

Econlit is the major indexing database for economics journals.

The Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) is a most useful index for finding out about Australian economic and business matters, and some of the indexed articles have links to full text.

Expanded Academic Index is a large general purpose academic journal index which covers many areas related to business, and Academic search elite covers a similar range.

Commerce is providing access within the school to two more databases -

Thomson Datastream's Futures and Options Service provides outstanding, comprehensive market data sourced directly from exchanges and OTC brokers worldwide. Services cover traded options, convertibles, warrants and swaps, financial and commodity futures.

Some databases went through a stage of being published on CDrom; some of these are networked on local servers, others are available for use only on a single machine in one of the libraries.

Some databases went through a stage of being published on CDrom; some of these are networked on local servers, others are available for use only on a single machine in one of the libraries.

Most of the university's licences for databases include a limit on the number of simultaneous users, ranging from 1-8 in the cases mentioned above. So be prepared to have a try at another time if you find that you can't get on when attempting to use them.

The first time you begin to use an internet source - such as a database through the library website -  in a session on a catalogue terminal or a 'Student computer' in the library, or one in an Adelaide University departmental computer laboratory, you will be asked to give your university username and password toauthenticate your access.

In some cases your id leads you to a page on our website which gives you a username and password which the database homepage will expect; mostly we have buried these in the system, and do not divulge them.

Your university id are required in a similar way when you are using our system through your own Internet Service Provider (ISP) from home, or from a workplace. If you use the University of Adelaide as your service provider, your student number and password are requested to enter that system too.

In all cases, you will need always to approach the databases we are paying for by using our website - there is no point in bookmarking the database site once you have arrived there, since in nearly all cases your access privilege depends on coming through our website.

Last update: 5 October 2005 by Les Howard