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Politics Databases

The Library gives staff and students of the University access to a wide range of databases providing citations to journal and newspaper literature (some containing full-text articles),reports,conference papers and other sources of information.Follow this link < Remote Access > for information about access to electronic resources from outside the University.

Database List

Academic OneFile *
APA-FT APAIS Full-text *

APAIS Australian Public Affairs Information Service
ASIANRES : Asian Resources
AUSCHRON Chronology: Aust. Historic/Current Events
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre* 
CELEX
Current Contents
Digital Dissertations
EBSCOhost *
Expanded Academic ASAP
*
Historical Abstracts
Index toTheses
International Political Science Abstracts
JSTOR
MAIS Multicultural Australia & Immigration Studies
MIHILIST Military History Listing
Periodicals Index Online *
Philosopher's Index
Politique & Société:La France des Années Mittérand
Project Muse
Scopus
Social Sciences Citation Index
Sociological Abstracts Sociofile

Newspaper Sources

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre *
British Newspaper Index
eLibrary *
Factiva  *
The Guardian *
* Full-text content

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ACADEMIC ONEFILE

A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML and PDF format from more than 8000 journals with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects; intended primarily for academic researchers.

Coverage : 1980 - 

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AUSTRALIA / NZ REFERENCE CENTRE

Electronic bibliographic database, available via EBSCOhost. 

Contents: This database covers current events, business and popular culture with access to the full-text of Australasian and international magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information.

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APA-FT

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT) includes citations (from 1978 onwards) and some full text (from 1995 onwards) for journal articles, selected newspaper articles, conference papers and books in Australian business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. Its companion database, APAIS : Australian Public Affairs Information Service, gives citations from 1978 onwards without full text and may be useful whenever APA-FT is not accessible
Range of years and proportion of full text articles available for this title are subject to change.

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ASIANRES : ASIAN RESOURCES

Contents:Eight databases of varying types including bibliographic indexes, research directories and biographical directories. Covers economics, politics, demography, government, science and culture of the Asia-Pacific region. Databases included are:

APECLIT (APEC Literature database)
ASIANRES (Asian Resources: a select directory of 
databases)
BERITA (Malaysian/Singapore/Brunei/ASEAN database)
BIPE (Bibliography of Indonesian politics and the economy)
INDBIO (Indian biography)
INTAN MAS (Literature on East Timor and Eastern Indonesia,etc.)
PDIP (Indonesian Learned Periodicals Database)
PDIR (Indonesian Research Report Database)

An Informit Online service 
Coverage : 1996 - 

AUSCHRON

Chronology of Australian Historic & Current Events

Contents: Australian historical events from the earliest Dutch discoveries to the present day (end of 1994) with particular reference to significant happenings in 1993 onwards. Contains over 6000 records.

Time span: Early discoveries to current
Updated: Annual?
Included in  Heritage & environment 

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BRITISH NEWSPAPER INDEX

Contents: Indexes for The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Times Educational Supplement,Times Higher Educational Supplement, and The Independent newspapers and any other supplements for this group of newspapers.

Time span: 1990+
Updated: Quarterly

Access: BSL Machine 331 behind the Information Desk

CELEX

Publisher: European Communities.
Summary: The four principal groups of documents loaded in CELEX are legislation, case law, preparatory documents and parliamentary questions. It is updated once a week.
Subjects: Law : European Union countries : Databases.
Note: Electronic database: Available in HTML, PDF adn TIFF formats. 

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CURRENT CONTENTS

Current Contents is a bibliographic service produced in the United  
States by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) which indexes a 
large number of research journals and some books, and covers all 
disciplines. 

Published: Philadelphia, PA : Institute for Scientific Information, [1998?]- 

Summary: Current Contents Connect is a weekly table-of-contents 
database which presents the contents pages of current issues of the 
world's scholarly and technical journals, books, and proceedings literature. 

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DIGITAL DISSERTATIONS

Contents: Citations and abstracts to doctoral dissertations submitted to accredited North American institutions and some other international institutions.

Time span: 1861+ 
Updated: Quarterly

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EBSCOhost

[Ipswich,MA] : EBSCO Publishing, [1997]-

The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
Includes Academic Search Premier.

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EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP

Expanded Academic Index is an interdisciplinary index to scholarly and general-interest journals and magazines. Coverage is very broad, from the Journal of Biological Chemistry to Popular Mechanics, and includes most areas of academic enquiry, as well as many areas of popular culture. The full text of articles is available for many of the journals indexed.

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eLIBRARY

Frequency: Daily 

Summary: A database of full-text newspapers including Australian
newspapers, full-text magazines, newswires, classic books,maps, and photographs, as well as major works of literature and art.

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FACTIVA

Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including full text coverage of Australian newspapers, same-day news wires, and company reports. Investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, and historical market data are also provided. Coverage of individual publications varies widely.

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THE GUARDIAN

Contents: Full text of selected sections of The Guardian newspaper of Great Britain, covering various topics including business, politics, science, current affairs, film and the arts.

Time span: 1991+
Updated: Quarterly

Access: BSL Machine 331 (non-networked database). 

HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS

Contents: Modern history abstracts 1450-1914 and Twentieth Century abstracts 1914-91, including 365 000 citations and abstracts to 2 000 journals* and books on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural and intellectual history and related areas of the social sciences and humanities. Includes the history of the world from 1450 excluding the United States of America and Canada.
* List of Periodicals

Time span: 1967+
Updated: Three times per year

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INDEX TO THESES

Contents: Bibliographic information on theses accepted by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards. It does not include any record of higher degrees awarded solely in respect of published work or dissertations submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of a higher degree in conjunction with an examination.

Time span: 1716+
Updated: Annually
 
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE ABSTRACTS

Since 1951, the International Political Science Abstracts has provided non-evaluative abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in journals (and yearbooks) all over the world. The scope of the discipline is that of the major political science journals.
Full text available from SAGE Premier 2008: 01/02/2007 to present

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JSTOR

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies for each title.

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MAIS

Multicultural Australia & Immigration Studies

Contents: Indexes and abstracts material on Australian immigration and  multicultural issues and related areas including ethnicity, refugees, racism, population, multicultural education, migrant health, welfare and social services.

Timespan: 1988+
Frequency: Quarterly
Included in  AUSTROM

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MIHILIST

Military History Listing

Contents: Contains over 18 000 citations with abstracts to literature on the military history of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea, including involvement in World War II, Vietnam and other wars and campaigns, as well as significant people, places, and military units.

Time span: 1991+
Updated: Annual
Included in  Heritage & environment

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PERIODICALS INDEX ONLINE

PCI full text  : Periodicals contents index. 

Database coverage: 1665- 

Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences and offers vast variety within these subject areas. Periodicals Index Online currently indexes over 15 million articles going as far back as 1665 and every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Over three centuries of scholarly publication in 40 languages and dialects are indexed, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Includes a link to Periodicals Archive Online which has full text articles from 1802-.

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PHILOSOPHER'S INDEX

Time span: 1940-2003 [September]

Contents: Citations with abstracts to journals and books published in the U.S. and the Western World on philosophy and related subjects such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and philosophical anthropology.

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POLITIQUE ET SOCIETE

Contents: Textes et références sur la vie politique et les faits de société en France, de janvier 1981 a mai1995. Il regroupe:

          les textes complets des déclarations du Président de la
          République
          les communiqués officiels des conseils des ministres, de 
          l'Elysée, de Matignon et du Quai d'Orsay
          les références, analyses et déclarations des ministres et des
          dirigeants politiques, syndicaux et patroneaux
          les signalements d'ouvrages, de rapports, d'articles de 
          périodiques produits par les administrations et les services 
          rattachés
          les signalements d'une sélection d'articles issus de la presse
          d'information générale, de la presse politique et syndicale
          une chronologie des événements de cette période
          une liste complète des 12 gouvernements français de janvier 
          1981 à mai 1995
          les listes des principaux partis politiques et des grandes 
          organisations syndicales et patronales françaises

Access:  BSL Machine 334 (non-networked database) 
N.B. This item is entirely in French.

PROJECT MUSE

Project Muse gives access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social sciences, humanities and mathematics.

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SCOPUS

Scopus offers :

    * 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers
          over 1000 Open Access journals
          500 conference proceedings
          over 600 trade publications
    * 33 million abstracts
    * Results from 386 million scientific web pages
    * 21 million patent records from 5 patent offices
    * Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources
    * Innovative tools that give an at-a-glance overview of search results and refine them
       to the most relevant hits
    * Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles matching your search query, or by
       favorite author

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SOCIAL SCIENCES CITATION INDEX

Contents: Citations to major social science articles in the most important international journals covering anthropology,economics and business, politics, education psychology, management, history, geography, information and library science,urban planning, nursing, marketing.

Time span: 1990+
Updated: Quarterly

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SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS

Sociofile

Contents:Indexes and provides abstracts for the world's journal literature in sociology, social policy and related disciplines. The database contains non-analytical abstracts of journal articles published in Sociological Abstracts since 1974 and enhanced bibliographic citations for dissertations since 1986. Subjects covered are sociology, psychology, virtually all social science topics particularly those dealing with culture and society.

Time span:1974+
Updated:Quarterly

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