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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, and the library buys access to many of these. 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. If you are at a workstation within the University of Adelaide network, one way to search for
academic and other journal articles is to use
Google Scholar;
when online access is available to the text through the University of Adelaide
library subscriptions, a clickable link
The library provides access via the clickable links below through its
catalogue (click
HERE if
the catalogue is not working) to the databases it buys.
Many of the databases provide links from the article citations to the online text of the articles themselves;
where they do not do so, the library's Article Linker program enables you to
Business Australia which is a collection of Australian databases including IREL and WORKLIT for industrial relations topics, AIMMAT from the Australian Institute of Management, and several others. AUSTROM is a collection of Australian databases and includes the Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), a most useful index for finding out about Australian labour relations and economic and business matters. AUSTROM includes AGIS, the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Information Service, and FAMILY, Australian Family and Society Abstracts and MAIS, Multicultural Australia and immigration studies and several others. ABS website 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 the ABS website are not journal indexes like the others. SourceOECD delivers many reports and statistics related to work and social issues. Sociological abstracts is the large American database for sociology and related disciplines. Ebsco has an Australia/New Zealand Reference centre which indexes many newspapers, but not those from Fairfax. Factiva covers all major Australian newspapers except the Fairfax
ones - Australian Financial Review, SMH and BRW - and provides "facts and numbers from nearly
9,000 sources in 22 languages, including local, national and international newspapers,
business magazines, trade publications, and newswires."
Elibrary covers a large selection of newspapers, including the Murdoch press, which publishes the Advertiser, delivering full text on line, but not graphics. A list of major newspapers from which online text of articles they own is available, along with a similar list of business newspapers and magazines. EBSCO Business Source is a large business database from the United States, covering over 8000 journals. Academic Onefile is a large general purpose academic journal index which covers many areas related to work and social inquiry, and Academic search premier covers a similar range. Econlit is the major indexing database for economics journals. A list of the Library electronic databases for work & social inquiry is provided here. Besides the above, it includes specialist databases such as Film, video and multimedia finder and NOSI-NOHSC online statistics interactive, the National Workers' Compensation Statistics database, and generalist ones like Article 1st and Web of science citation database which have been used by labour studies 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: 13 March 2007 by Les Howard |
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