Databases List

Published by: RMIT Publishing
Description: Based on the Australian Education Index (AEI), this indexing and full text database provides access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on all aspects of education. Source documents include journal articles, monographs, research reports, theses, conference papers, legislation, parliamentary debates, newspaper articles, tests and web. Subjects include curriculum, educational research, information science, librarianship, management, policy administration, psychology, sociology, teaching and training.
Coverage: Index: 1978- ; Full text: 2000- ; updated monthly
Concurrent Users: 2
Content: Some full text

Published by: ProQuest Information and Learning
Description: Search 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies, including company profiles.
Coverage: indexing 1971+, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: significant full text

Published by: ProQuest Information and Learning
Description: Academic Research Library provides access to complete information from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including the arts, humanities, law, military, women's issues, and children's interest.
Coverage: indexing 1971+, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: significant full text

Published by: EBSCO Information Services
Description: The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more.
Content: significant full text
Concurrent Users: Unlimited

Published by: ProQuest Information and Learning
Description: The Accounting & Tax database is the quintessential research tool not only for financial professionals but also for many business students and executives at leading companies. The database combines abstracts of articles published in nearly 300 accounting and tax publications with official releases from the AICPA and FASB and selective indexing of tax-related information in thousands of business journals.
Coverage: indexing 1971+, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: some full text

Published by: The Association for Computing Machinery
Description: Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947 are available in the ACM Digital Library together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.
Coverage: 1947+ updated continuously
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Significant full text

The Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) Program is a collaborative distributed database of digitised PhD and Masters by Research theses produced by postgraduate research students at Australasian universities. These theses are available worldwide via the web.

Background information on ADT is available at http://adt.caul.edu.au/about/aimsoverview/.

Concurrent Users: Unlimited

Published by: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Description: The ALPSP Journals Collection includes more than 250 titles from 25 publishers, including many of the most respected, peer-reviewed journals in their discipline.
Coverage: Varies by title, earliest 1996+; updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full text

Published by: The British Library Health Care Information Service
Description: AMED is a literature database in the field of allied and alternative medicine. The database contains bibliographic data, keywords, and abstracts. Subjects covered include: acupuncture, homeopathy, hypnosis, chiropractic, osteopathy, rehabilitation, herbalism, holistic treatments, chinese medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry.
Coverage: 1985+ updated monthly
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Index only

Published by: American Chemical Society
Description: AUT has access to the full text of 26 of the 36 ACS journals. The content of all journals is fully searchable.
Coverage: 2000+ updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full text

Published by: Annual Reviews
Description: Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews are published each year in 29 focused disciplines in the Biomedical, Physical and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in each discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI).
Coverage: volume 1, issue 1 onwards
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text

Published by: CSA
Description: ANTE is an abstracting and indexing service monitoring approximately 350 academic and trade publications from the U.K. and the U.S. Coverage includes new technologies such as information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering (including construction, electrical and chemical engineering) and allied subject areas.
Coverage: 1981+, updated monthly
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: index only

Published by: American Anthropological Association
Description: AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online.
Coverage: Varies by title
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: Full text

Published by: RMIT Publishing
Description: Australian Public Affairs - Full Text is an online collection of scanned images of the top 200 Australian journals indexed in APAIS, the Australian Public Affairs Information Service.
Coverage: 1995+ updated monthly
Concurrent users: 2
Content: Some full text

Description: American Physiological Society publishes 14 scholarly journals covering all aspects of physiology as well as the Society's newsletter. APS journals are among the best in the world in their specialized fields of research. Also, provides the legacy content of its journals going back to 1898.

Published by: CSA
Description: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) is an internationally known bibliographic database for citations and abstracts of the world's literature dealing with the science, technology and management of marine, freshwater and brackish water environments and organisms. This source combines three major files that cover the biological sciences and living resources; ocean technology, policy and non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental quality. Two specialized files are also included, which are aquaculture and marine biotechnology.
Coverage: 1971+, updated monthly
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: index and abstracts only

Published by: National Library of Australia
Description: The ARROW Discovery Service searches simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures. Each record found through this service will link back to a record in the original repository. A range of search options are available, and contents can also be located using a tag cloud.
Coverage: Varies by institution continuously
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Significant full text

Published by: HW Wilson
Description: Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. Subjects Covered: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.
Coverage: 111 journals full text 1997+, 378 journals index only 1984+, updated 4 times per week
Concurrent users: 5
Content: Some full text

Published by: HW Wilson
Description: Art Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Coverage: 1929-1984
Concurrent users: 5
Content: Index only

Published by: CSA
Description: ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, and including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
Coverage: 1974+, updated six times a year
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: index and abstracts only

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Published by: ARTstor Inc.
Description: ARTstor is a continually expanding image database. Images are derived from a variety of media including art, design, architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, fashion/costume and from various periods and cultures throughout history. ARTstor is a collaborative project with museums, libraries, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. ARTstor database contains images, their related data, and software tools which support viewing images. Features include zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering both online and offline presentations.
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: copyright cleared images

Published by: American Society for Microbiology
Description: The Society's 11 journals cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology.
Coverage: varies by title, earliest 1916, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full text

Published by: CSA
Description: Avery Index is lauded as the single most important bibliographical research tool available worldwide for research in architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history. The only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design, the Avery Index now surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals. 75% of these are not indexed in any other source. Avery covers the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, including the publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Nearly 13,000 citation records for architects' obituaries are also included—an excellent source of biographical information, and often the only one for less-published architects. Subject coverage: Archaeology, Architecture, Architectural design, City planning, Furniture and decoration, Historic preservation, History of architecture, Interior design, Landscape architecture, Urban planning.
Coverage: 1934+ (some 1860+), updated weekly
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: Index only