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.

The library provides access through its catalogue via the clickable links below...
Click HERE if the catalogue is down.

If you know about the databases already, here are quick links to them; if not, scroll down for advice...

EBSCO Business Source	Australia/New Zealand Reference centre	Factiva	Daily Earth
Elibrary	Business Australia	Kompass Australia
Business Australia	Annual report collection	Ausstats	Mergers & Acquisitions
Australian Public Affairs Information Service	Jobson's online	Economist Intelligence Unit's Asia	Expanded Academic Index
Academic search elite	ScienceDirect	Wiley Interscience

to databases such as EBSCO Business Source is a large business database from the United States, covering over 8000 journals, and Ebsco has an Australia/New Zealand Reference centre which indexes many newspapers, but not those from Fairfax.

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."
Introduction to Factiva
Podcasts of newspapers are available at Daily Earth; this is not paid for by the library.

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

A list of major Australian newspapers from which online text of articles they own is available, along with a similar list of business newspapers and magazines.

Kompass Australia gives some details of about half of the registered companies in Australia.

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.

Mergers & Acquisitions is useful for facts about past and current takeovers.

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.

Jobson's online gives data on firms whose shares are publicly traded in Australia.

Economist Intelligence Unit's Asia provides data for the Asian economies.

Expanded Academic Index is a large general purpose academic journal index which covers many areas related to business.

Academic search elite is similar and covers another range of journals; so do ScienceDirect and Wiley Interscience.

A list of the Library electronic databases for finance is provided here. Besides the above, it includes specialist databases such as CFIX and Bibliography of Asian Studies, and generalist ones like Article 1st and Web of science which have been used by finance students.

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 to authenticate 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: 10 August 2006 by Les Howard