Australian topics |
Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT
If your topic is Australian, use this database first.
Includes citations (from 1978 onwards) and some full text (from 1995 onwards) |
AGIS Plus Full text (Attorney-Generals Information System) 1999-
Great for Australian legal issues, including delinquency, domestic violence etc. |
| AEI: Australian Education Index 1978- |
AUSTLIT
The resource for Australian literature |
FAMILY (Australian Family & Society Abstracts) 1980-
Citations to Australian books, journal articles, published and unpublished reports, government documents and conference papers on children, demography, divorce, family relations, marriage and parenthood, sociology, economics and the family, sexual behaviour, fertility, counselling and family law |
IREL (Australian Industrial Relations Database) 1993-2000
Indexes books, journals, trade union and employer group newsletters, working papers, reports, parliamentary papers and conference proceedings on Australian industrial relations. |
| MAIS (Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies) 1990- |
Men’s bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities, gender, and sexualities.
Compiled by Michael Flood (19th edition, 2008, Canberra, Australia) |
Mura
AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) online catalogue. Allows searching of electronic resources |
TVNews August 2007-
Indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. |
WORKLIT (Commonwealth Dept of Industrial Relations Database) 1907 - December 2002
Covers employment, industrial relations and related topics, including labour economics, policy and legislation, workplace reform, employment policy and trends, recruitment and job searching, employment programs, enterprise bargaining, agreements, small business, work and family, and organisational management |
Gender, Women/Feminism
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| African women's bibliographic database |
Studies on women & gender abstracts 1997-
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| ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals |
General/Interdisciplinary Databases |
Academic OneFile
Contains more than 12,000 academic journals, the majority peer-reviewed and in full text
Coverage 1980- |
Academic Search Premier
Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. |
| Project Muse is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. |
Scopus
The largest abstract and citation database. It has the broadest coverage available of scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature. Cross-searches Sociological Abstracts dating back to 1952. |
Web of Science
Much more than science!
Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index, and can be searched by author, keyword or citation. |
Non-current Material |
JSTOR and Periodicals index online
Neither of these databases index current journal literature. Date coverage varies depending on individual journal titles - some go back as far back as the late 18th century. |
Specific Topics |
Art & Architecture Complete
A broad range of art topics, including advertising, fashion photography, East/West art influences |
Bibliography of Asian studies 1971-
The most important databases for research and scholarly literature on Asia - principally in western-languages |
Business Source Complete 1965-
Covers all aspects of business including advertising, marketing, brands etc. |
ERIC 1966-
A U.S. Department of Education database covering the journal and research literature in the field of education research and practice |
Ethnographic video online
Contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Thematic areas include: male and female roles, social organization, kinship and families, sex, gender and family roles. |
| Historical Abstracts 1967- |
| LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) 1973- |
MLA International Bibliography 1925-
Subject index to journal articles and books on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics |
| PubMed - for medical |
Sociological Abstracts 1952-
International sociological literature. Can cross-search in Scopus |
SourceOECD: the OECD’s online library of books, periodicals and statistics
Provides many reports and statistics related to work and social issues. |
| PsycINFO - for psychology |
