A-Z Databases

Produced by the Cunningham Library at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), and published by RMIT Publishing.
Access to journal articles, conference papers, theses, government reports, discussion papers and book chapters on learning from early childhood through to tertiary, adult learning, assessment, distance learning, international education, indigenous education and literacy.

Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,000 full-text periodicals, plus indexing and abstracts for more than 12,000 publications including books, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Covers many areas of academic study including: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. Some content goes back as far as 1887.

Coverage: 1982 – Mar 2014
ACCOUNT, formerly called Australian Accounting & Taxation Database (AATD), is prepared by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia’s Knowledge Centre.
It contains abstracts of published material sourced from leading journals and magazines, in addition to the Institute’s own publications and conference papers, plus the Taxation Institute of Australia conference papers.
Subject coverage includes accounting, auditing, taxation, insolvency, corporations law, superannuation, retirement planning, financial planning, practice management and human resources.

Extensive collection of citations and full text from Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. Consists of more than a quarter-million citations of core works in computing.

Most titles have been published as a free eBook (pdf format), with some additionally available for print purchase.

Bibliographic database all levels of education and related fields. Source documents include journal articles, monographs, research reports, theses, conference papers, legislation, parliamentary debates, newspaper articles, tests and web. Articles and reports by Australian authors or about Australian education published in overseas sources are also included.Subject coverage includes curriculum, educational research, information science, librarianship, management, policy administration, psychology

Coverage: 1982 - December 2000 (no longer updated)

Australian Federal Police Digest (AFPD), produced by the AFP Library, Canberra, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on policing, criminology, law enforcement and related fields.

Source documents include selected Australian and overseas journals, conference papers and chapters of some books. Subject coverage includes policing, criminology, law enforcement, law, management, occupational health.

The digital edition of The Age newspaper is an interactive and searchable replica of the current and archive issues (6 months) of the printed edition.

Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published material on all aspects of law. Source documents include over 120 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals, and selected articles from major law journals from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Coverage: 1975-

Comprehensively indexes and abstracts articles from over 100 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals. Selectively indexes and abstracts articles from major law journals from United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Full text coverage begins from 1999.

Coverage: 1987 - Oct 2012
Australian Heritage Bibliography (AHB), formerly HERA, produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment. Source documents include journal articles, unpublished reports, books, videos and conference proceedings from many different sources around Australia.

The AIATSIS Indigenous Studies Bibliography is complied at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Library. This is the premier database that indexes published and unpublished material on Australian Indigenous studies.

AIMMAT covers all aspects of management, training and human resources, including organisational change, workplace relations, business ethics, customer service marketing and leadership. Journals indexed are predominantly Australian, with some New Zealand and Southeast Asian titles included.

Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on library and information science.
Coverage: 1982-2005

Has evaluation criteria to identify the books that are suitable for use in traditional university courses from open mathematics texts. The Editorial Board maintains a list of Approved Textbooks which have been judged to meet these criteria.

Coverage: 1968 - December 2009
Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from over 160 Australian health and medical serials, most of which are not indexed for MEDLINE, on all aspects of health and medicine.

Anatomy & physiology modules featuring rotating 3D models, integrated lab activities, vodcasts, narrated animations and illustrations.

Coverage: 1975 - June 2007
Bibliographic database with informative abstracts and links to full text for agriculture and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources. (formerly ABOA and STREAMLINE)

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Information contains bibliographical references to the Australian scientific and technical literature covering the broad spectrum of nuclear science research and development, with special emphasis on its peaceful applications. ANSTI is a subset of the INIS Database, produced by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Titles range across a wide variety of academic disciplines and include monographs, eBooks, journals and conference proceedings, as well as biographies of key scholarly figures.

Australian Public Affairs Full Text. Subject coverage includes arts and crafts, cultural studies, current affairs, economics, education, health, law and legal aid, Literature, Medicine, People, politics/government, public affairs and sociology

Coverage: 1992 - October 2003 (no longer updated)
The APEC Literature Database (APECLIT), produced by the Australian APEC Study Centre (a consortium of Monash University and the University of New South Wales), is a bibliographic database that indexes published and unpublished items dealing with Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and related topics.

The Analysis & Policy Observatory (previously Australian Policy Online) is an award-winning research collection and information service curating key resources to support evidence-informed policy and practice. APO hosts and provides free access to a wide range of grey literature, data, journal articles and books, audio and video and online resources and the tools to publish, search, manage and track content, people and organisations.

Coverage: 1980 - 2015
ARCH database subject coverage includes architects, architecture, building, interior design and landscape architecture.

Archives and Records Management Literature in Australia and New Zealand (ARLIT).
1940-2000

Art and Architecture in Video deliver over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses, the works within this collection offer a dynamic tool to enhance understanding of visual media.

Arts Hub is the online home for Australian arts workers. It has employment and grant opportunities, and arts industry news.

arXiv is an open access repository for e-Prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, astrophysics, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics. It is supported and hosted by Cornell University Library.

St. Paul, Minn.: American Society of Brewing Chemists, c2011.

Australian material on transport, incorporating the catalogue of the M.G. Lay Library at ARRB Transport Research, and other library catalogues.
Subject coverage includes road safety, transport economics, transport administration, intelligent transport systems, transport and the environment, public transport, road and airfield pavements, road design and engineering, traffic engineering and control, vehicle

This database provides access to publications about Australia and includes references to the Australian literature published since 1933. The database contains more than 65,000 references. The information is extracted from GeoRef and published in AusGeoRef.
AusGeoRef will contain references to geoscience journals, books, maps, theses, conference proceedings and reports.
Publications that exist in electronic form can be displayed by clicking on the 'Text Online' button.

Online access to statistical information produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).Access to these statistics is now free via http://www.abs.gov.au

Contains all the GUIDELINES and EDUCATION GUIDELINES data from January 1986 - November 2006, giving access to the contents of more than 120 periodicals, of both general and educational interest. The majority of these periodicals are Australian, but there are a considerable number of overseas publications indexed, such as 'Scientific American', 'History Today', 'Far Eastern Economic Review' and 'Unesco Courier'.

Full text searching of Australian Commonwealth and state consolidated acts and regulations, treaties and decisions of federal and state courts and tribunals and secondary legal materials such as law reform and royal commission reports etc. Includes extensive links to other Australasian and international legal resources on the Internet. Also includes treaties from the Australian Treaty Series.

A multidisciplinary collection of videos from top regional publishers. Covering a broad range of topics with special emphasis on indigenous issues, cultural studies, environmental studies, anthropology, immigration studies, and Asian studies, content is specifically designed for integration into today’s undergraduate curriculum.

National Library of Australia's Trove is a free repository of Australian material, including almost a million Australian theses. This link focuses Trove on its digital theses. To search also within print theses, just remove (x) the 'online' filter. Trove offers more tips on finding relevant theses at http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/theses

The digital edition of The Australian Financial Review newspaper is an interactive and searchable replica of the current and archive issues (3 years) of the printed edition.

All Australian Standards in full text. Also indexes ISO and IEC standards, but full-text only available for specifically ordered standards.

*Note:It is HIGHLY recommended that you download Standards rather than view online as usage is limited to a 2 user concurrent licenses (i.e. only two simultaneous users). Automatic log-out occurs after 8 minutes of inactivity.

Accessing Australian standards requires Acrobat Reader (available in the Software Center for ITS-maintained computers) the default Global Object Security Policy for Adobe Acrobat Reader will also have to be disabled to view downloaded standards. Further information about downloading Standards and disabling GOSP can be found via Intertek Digital Rights Management (DRM) - Vitrium.

For dowload instructions see the Library subject guide on Australian Standards and Building Code of Australia.

The BBC’s mission is to enrich people's lives with programs that inform, educate, and entertain. Alexander Street’s BBC Video Collection combines 700 of our most-viewed BBC films. Viewers can explore relevant, timely documentaries on topics that span multiple subjects, such as history, anthropology, science, religion, health sciences, art, and more.

British Columbia Open Textbook Collection contains hundreds of high quality resources selected for post-secondary curricula

The Bibliography of Indonesian Politics and the Economy (BIPE), produced by the School of Asian Studies, University of Sydney, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts items on Indonesian politics, government, economy, political culture and demography.

Bloomsbury Video Library brings together award-winning, international film and videos across a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects in the Arts and Humanities.

Collection of e-journals covering a broad range of medical specialities; currently includes BMJ Journal titles with archive access back to 1999.

Coverage: 1989 - February 2002
BUILD is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on worldwide information in the building, construction and engineering fields including fire technology

The Building Code of Australia (BCA) provides essential technical regulations for the design and construction of buildings, and as a national performance-based document it establishes a uniform approach to building regulation in every State and Territory in the country. The BCA covers such topics as structure, fire resistance, health and amenity, building access and egress, & building services and equipment. Access provided by SAIGlobal i2i platform.

Full Text. Covers issues affecting the business community in Australia and Asia Pacific, broad range of research from leading Australian and Asia Pacific universities and professional associations. It covers broad business fields, including: accounting, career development, commercial law, commodities, corporate governance, e-business, economics, employment, human resources, labour, management, marketing occupational health, taxation and unions.

Focused user interface for browsing and searching for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research.

Full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and companies. Provides full text back to 1965 (or the first issue published for that journal) and searchable cited references back as far as 1998.

Provides full text journals in the fields of sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Subject coverage includes American Studies, Architecture, Asian Studies, Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Business, Computer Science, Cultural Studies, Earth and Atmospheric Science, Economics, European Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Law and Literary Studies, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Molecular Biology, Physical Sciences, Politics and International Relations.

Open Access textbooks from Charles Darwin University

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a non-profit consortium of law schools, law libraries, and related organizations. CALI hosts and facilitates the creation of CALI Lessons, a library of over 1,000 interactive legal tutorials written by law professors and geared towards law students.

The ChemWatch database is a searchable database of current Safety Data Sheets to assist staff and students in the preparation of their workplace chemical registers, chemical risk assessments, etc.

Find it. Write it. Cite it. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is the indispensable reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice.

CINAHL Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.

Australian Criminology Database (CINCH), produced by the JV Barry Library, Australian Institute of Criminology, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice. Source documents include journal articles, monographs, monograph chapters, conference papers, government documents, book reviews and theses.

CiteSeer is a public search engine and digital library and repository for scientific and academic papers primarily with a focus on computer and information science. Recently CiteSeer has been expanding into other scholarly domains such as economics, physics and others.source infrastructure,

ClickView is a video streaming database hosting over 2,000 Australian educational videos that cover a wide selection of subject areas including Business, Arts, Health, Education, Engineering and Science and is designed for student-centric learning. ClickView also contains thousands of broadcasted videos from free to air digital channels.

ClinicalKey Occupational Therapy provides limited subscription access to a ebooks, including textbooks, relating to Occupational Therapy.

When logging in you will be prompted to select an organisation. Please choose the option that best reflects your workspace.
On-campus: Federation University Australia, IP
Off-campus (working from home, off site): Federation University Australia, Remote Access

If you are a new user you will also need to register with your federation university email.

ClinicalKey Student Physiotherapy is a online platform hosting key educational resources to assist in the development of medical knowledge and clinical skills.

When logging in you will be prompted to select an organisation. Please choose the option that best reflects your workspace.
On-campus: Federation University Australia, IP
Off-campus (working from home, off site): Federation University Australia, Remote Access

If you are a new user you will also need to register with your federation university email.

Material on the effects of interventions in health care. Hosted on the Wiley InterScience platform. The Library comprises the following databases: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness; The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register. The NHS Economic Evaluation database. The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews. Health Technology Assessment Database.

Includes articles on popular computing, software, hardware, communications and computer applications from a range of journals such as Australian & New Zealand LAN Magazine, Australia PC User, PC Week, Australian Macworld and other general interest computing journals. 1994 - July 2001; no longer updated.

Free and open online materials

Provides an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. This series contains more than 2,400 hours of footage from actual therapy sessions, training videos, workshops, and re-enactments conducted by renowned counseling professionals.

Coverage: 1988 - Jun 2001
Consumer Sciences Index (CSI), produced by Deakin University Library, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published material on consumer economics and related fields. Subject coverage includes children, clothing, consumer economics, consumer education, craft, family, fashion, food, health, home economics teaching, housing, marriage, nutrition and textiles.

Full text access of CSIRO journals, produced by Australian and New Zealand scientific societies. Areas covered include: agriculture, biology, botany, chemistry, environmental science, bushfires, sexual health, soil research and zoology. All journals are peer reviewed

An entry point to access the wealth of mineral processing and metal production expertise across all of CSIRO.

US database, includes Australian and NZ awards.

Coverage: 1985 - January 2008 (no longer updated)
The Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia (DELTAA), produced by the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR), Macquarie University, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on English second language learning and teaching in Australasia.

The Directory of Open Access Journals provides access to quality-controlled scientific and scholarly Open Access Journals and their articles.

Full text collection of dissertations and theses, includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.

DOAB contains peer reviewed, academic eBooks published on a range of subjects and available under an Open Access license.

Drama Online offers expert guidance in the form of scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis and contextual information. Critical interpretations, theatre history surveys and major reference works on authors, movements, practitioners, periods and genres are included alongside performance and practitioner texts, acting and backstage guides.

Early Experiences in Australasia ... provides a unique and personal view of events in the region from the arrival of the first settlers through to Australian Federation at the close of the nineteenth century. Through first-person accounts, including letters and diaries, narratives, and other primary source materials, we are able to hear the voices of the time and understand the experiences of those who took the great challenge in new lands. From the earliest settlers to convicts and free settlers and those who later answered the call of the Gold Rush, these letters and diaries tell us about life on ships and in settlements in a particularly intimate way.

EconLit is the American Economic Association’s electronic database and is the world’s leading source of references to economic literature. The database contains over a million reliable citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886.

Coverage: 1985 - May 2007
Edge covers: management issues for business and government, including the Australian and international economies, strategic and financial planning, human resources, quality, marketing, materials handling and innovation; and environmental issues such as recycling, ISO 14000 and litter control.

Over 47,200 articles from more than 300 Australian education journals. These records are from the Australian Education Index

Provides both new and experienced teachers tools to increase their knowledge and skills and for education faculty to link abstract theories of education to real-world students and classrooms.

Comprised of 126 hours and 450 videos, this collection offers a practical view into a full range of teaching settings and situations, from early years to educational leadership, to support students needing to understand theory or how to apply it in practice. Contributors include leading authors Peter Smith on Bullying, Wendy W. Murawski on Co-Teaching, Julia Link Roberts on Gifted and Talented Education, and many more.

Informit EduTV makes it easy for lecturers and students to find and watch relevant television content instantly. The database includes over 10,000 programs including documentaries, drama and series. Informit EduTV is an essential resource for teaching and learning and allows institutions to derive maximum benefit from their Screenrights broadcast licence. The streaming technology combined with powerful search, sharing and storage functionality make this the perfect tool for integrating multimedia in the education sector.

Emcare, produced by Elsevier, covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions. Emcare includes international coverage of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine.

Over 35,000 full text articles from Emerald's international management portfolio, complete with full text archives back to 1994. Subject coverage spans a spectrum of management disciplines including: strategy; leadership; library and information management; marketing and human resource management; plus a substantial number of engineering, applied science and technology titles.

Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on Australian engineering information, particularly information published by the Institution of Engineers. Source documents include conference papers, journal articles, technical papers, books, discussions, news articles and unpublished papers. Subject coverage: all branches of engineering including agricultural, aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, coastal, computer, earthquake, education, electrical, electronic, geotechnical, management, materials, mechanical, military, ocean, railway, structural, transport, tunnelling and water.

Provides access to full text resources across all engineering disciplines. The largest online database of Australian Engineering research.

Covering all realms of environmental studies, particularly ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology, planning, and environmental science. The collection addresses specific topics including alternative energy, pollution control, eco-design, sustainability, farming and agriculture, the food industry, LEED certification, waste issues, and climate change.

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.

ERIC indexes education research found in journal articles, books, and grey literature. ERIC obtains content from selected journal publishers, grey literature and book sources under agreement, and grantees and individuals submitting materials through ERIC's Online Submission System.

Coverage: 1987 - Oct 2011
EVA (formerly EPIC), produced by the EPA Victoria Library, indexes and abstracts articles on the environment and related fields. Source documents are selected journal articles from approximately 600 journals published in Australia and overseas. Subject coverage includes air pollution and quality, sustainable development, salinity, environmental protection and management, hazardous wastes, recycling, waste management and disposal, water pollution, environmental assessment, and pollution control. Pre-February 1998 data includes planning, heritage etc

Families and Society Collection provides up-to-date and comprehensive research on family wellbeing and the place of Australian families in society, including child development, parenting, family dynamics, ageing, psychology and social policy.
Content from peak bodies, government agencies and specialist institutions that actively analyse, regulate and report on societal issues affecting Australian families today.

Australian Family & Society Abstracts (FAMILY), produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families.

Provides open access to the research and scholarly output of Federation University Australia's staff, students and affiliates.

Gartner is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company delivering technology-related insight.
myGartner gives Federation students and staff access to research topics, special reports, articles and industry connections.

Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.2 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates.

Coverage: 1990 - Oct 2006
This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts working papers on economics and economics-related topics. Source documents are working papers, also known as research papers or discussion papers. Most papers emanate from major universities and research institutes in Australia, Europe (including the UK) and the USA.

Covers all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. **Selected full text

Australasian health information, providing cover-to-cover full text access to core content from the region. Includes research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles. Subjects covered: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' health; Incidence & prevention of disease; Medical informatics; Medicine; Mental illness; Nursing; Pediatrics & geriatrics; Personal health & safety; Substance abuse

HeinOnline includes more than 100 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image based format. Its Law Journal Library database alone has a coverage of over 2000 journals, all as searchable PDFs back to the first volume. HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing not only law and law-related periodicals, but also includes famous world trials dating back to the early 1700’s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, United Nations and League Nations Treaty Series and much more. HeinOnline is in more than 3,200 locations in over 150 counties and is the world’s largest image-based legal research collection and contains more than 9 centuries of legal history.

Informit e-Library is an e-press for Australian and Asia-Pacific information developed by RMIT Publishing. Informit e-Library provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials. This database contains the journals that were previously found in the Family and Society Plus collection.

IBISWorld provides valuable insights on Australian and global industries, companies and key business indicators. Included are Australian and global industry reports that cover key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance. Company reports are also included that analyse the 2000 largest Australian and New Zealand companies detailing personnel, balance sheet data, ownership structures and more.

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Streaming video collection of real patients and therapists, created to inspire clinical excellence for faculty, students and clinicians in occupational therapy and physical therapy programs.

Full text access to quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

IET.tv is one of the world’s largest collection of engineering and technology video resources. Video content is sourced globally and includes content from leading academics and research institutions worldwide.

A bibliographic database of the collections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Library. Includes abstracts for all videos, and some monographs and articles.

Major Australian database host produced by RMIT publishing, Australian material focus covers all major subject areas.

Includes paths to Informits' small Australian databases specialising in agriculture, food, forestry, fisheries, nuclear science, marine science, water, threatened species and more. Search across all of the databases, or select specific ones.

Covers literature on East Timor and Eastern Indonesia, and on Australia's relations with ASEAN nations. Produced by Northern Territory University Library. 1989 - May 2002

This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on taxation aspects of international profit shifting and related taxation topics. Coverage: 1990 - Jul 2003

Intertek Inform, (formerly SAI Global) provides access to Standards, legislative and property publications; auditing; product and management system certification; supply chain management; compliance, ethics and governance solutions; training and improvement solutions through the i2i platform.

*Note: It is HIGHLY recommended that you download Standards rather than view online as usage is limited to a 2 user concurrent licenses (i.e. only two simultaneous users). Automatic log-out occurs after 8 minutes of inactivity.

See the Library subject guide on Australian Standards and the Building Code of Australia.
Accessing Australian standards requires Acrobat Reader (available in the Software Center for ITS-maintained computers) the default Global Object Security Policy for Adobe Acrobat Reader will also have to be disabled to view downloaded standards. Further information about downloading Standards and disabling GOSP can be found via Intertek Digital Rights Management (DRM) - Vitrium.
All Australian Standards are available in full text. Also indexes ISO and IEC standards, but only provides full-text of specifically ordered standards.

Australian Industrial Relations Database covers topics in industrial relations including wages and conditions, labour market economics, labour law, occupational health and safety, enterprise bargaining, and trade unions. Archive only: 1983 - Oct 2000 coverage

The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences runs research programmes on selected themes in mathematics and the mathematical sciences with applications over a wide range of science and technology.

Links to case law reports from Australian commonwealth and state, and international courts and tribunals; and Australian legislation from the official government websites. The site allows the user to search, annotate and share Australian legal judgments and decisions.

Resources for evidence-based research including Best Practice information sheets, systematic reviews and electronic journals and conference papers.
(Formerly known as Joanna Briggs Institute.)
This version, via the Ovid interface, should be faster for most users.

Is the journal of the Division of Chemical Education, Inc. of the American Chemical Society. Published continuously since 1924.

The JSTOR project is a digital archive of fully searchable back issues of scholarly journals in anthropology, Asian Afro American studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, general science, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and statistics.

Kanopy provides educational institutions a selection of online video streaming films - including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases on a wide range of subjects including Australian Studies.

Unique in its scope, depth of coverage, and functionality, the Leisure Tourism Database is the leading database on leisure, tourism, hospitality, and recreation information. Each abstract record includes a detailed and informative summary along with the full bibliographic data.

LGBT Studies in Video provides students and researchers across disciplines a multi-content perspective on the LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.

Library & Information Science Source was developed to meet the needs of librarians, information professional and students. Content includes full text for more than 460 publications and indexing for hundreds of high-quality journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage encompasses librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. In addition, Library & Information Science Source provides comprehensive coverage of the history of library studies.

The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.

The best of Australian literature, commentaries and debates. A reference database for academic, school and public libraries and for teachers and students of literary studies, cultural studies and creative writing courses. A source of fiction, poetry, cultural politics and the ideas that have helped define the unique Australian identity.

E-Books. More than 200 publications covering health, pharmacy, nursing, allied health and sciences. Content is updated regularly.

Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies covers immigration and multi-cultural issues in the Australian context including ethnicity, racism, multicultural education, migrant health and welfare, and refugees.

Covers the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years, providing access to articles, reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Review and Current Mathematical Publications.

Coverage: 1985 - Jul 2006
Indexes articles on management issues for business and government; including international economies, the Australian economy, strategic and financial management, TQM, human resources, marketing, materials handling, innovation; and environmental management, such as recycling and litter control.

Bibliographic archive database covering articles indexed from Australia’s major daily newspapers
Coverage: 1991 - 30 June 2009 (no longer updated)

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.

Coverage: 1987 - August 1999
Australasian Military History Database, covers pre-1980 Australian, New Zealand and Papua-New Guinean military history and related topics. Produced by the University College Library, Australian Defence Force Academy.

A catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY (State University of New York) faculty and staff.

eMIMSelite (previously MIMS) is designed to meet the unique demands of contemporary healthcare professionals. It features a dynamic platform that offers seamless access to the latest and most relevant medicine-related information. The platform has an intuitive user interface, making navigation and information access easy. Medicines information is presented in a standardized and easy-to-use format. Patient care information and clinical tools are placed at your fingertips, helping you make more confident and safer clinical decisions. The library has a license for 5 users so if you can’t access MIMS try again later.

Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

International weekly journal of science. Full text access from 2011 to current.

The largest collection of Australian news featuring full-text newspapers from more than 700 sources. A fully searchable online resource offers thousands of news articles, editorials, obituaries, classifieds, and more. Access Australia includes influential news sources from every state and territory in text and/or image format.

A unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board.

"The O'Reilly Books Online objective is to take the best IT books from the best authors and publishers. Put them into an online, searchable database. Offer it to IT professionals as a means of addressing their never-ending need to quickly pinpoint reliable code examples and technical information."
Please note:- user limit of 4 concurrent users.

An in-progress (open creation) that lists a broad range of open educational resources organized by disciplines at McMaster University.

A public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum

This website hosts a collection of questions and answers intended as a basis for Socratic discussions on the subject of electronics

Collection of OERS from Australia and Internationally brought together by Southern Cross University.

Peer-reviewed. Openly licensed. 100% free and backed by additional learning resources. Simple to adopt, free to use.

Intention is to establish a university culture in the use and adoption of open educational textbooks as an alternative

Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. Most trials have been critically appraised for their validity and interpretability.

E-Books. More than 200 publications covering health, pharmacy, nursing, allied health and sciences. Content is updated regularly.

Provides full text access to all Oxford University Press journals published in the fields of science, law, engineering, medicine and health sciences, humanities, arts and social science, business and economics.

"135+ core Dictionaries with short-entry answers; 200+ in-depth Encyclopedias and Companions; Historic Timelines; Essential Quotations; Subject Overviews". Covers the widest possible range of subjects from mythology, business and the sciences to languages, the arts and history.

"ParlInfo search enables everyone to search and obtain Australian Parliamentary information resources including Hansards, Bills, Senate Journals, Votes and Proceedings, Notice Papers, Committee reports, Parliamentary Handbook, newspaper clippings, media, publications and much more. It will also search for information located on the Australian Parliament website." --Home page.

Coverage: 1980 - September 2002
Covers pure and applied sciences, physical sciences, humanities and social sciences. Produced by the Center for Scientific Documentation and Information - Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PDII-LIPI).

Coverage: 1980 - April 2000
Covers Indonesian science research reports and survey reports. Produced by the Center for Scientific Documentation and Information - Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PDII-LIPI).

A free database of over 45,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality.

NOTE: Federation University of Australia staff and students will be required to individually register to access Playmeo for the first time from the above link. The registration will create a unique username and password for each user.
Playmeo features the world’s largest online database of group games and activities specifically designed to help teachers and outdoor educators create remarkably fun and meaningful programs and events. The database contains 250+ including ice-breakers to strengthen new (and old) relationships, activities to innovate problems-solving and teamwork exercises and fun large group activities.

Pressbooks is an online publishing platform used by universities and individuals around the world. The directory lists public works on the PressbooksEDU networks.

Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 40 journals published by the APA and 9 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present.

The Psychiatry Online database from American Psychiatric Association Publishing includes access to a range of online journals, books and study guides and includes the DSM-5 library. The content covers various subject areas including psychology, psychiatry, cognitive behaviour, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and more.

Contains 1 million+ citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals.

Covers biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers.

Regional Business News provides full text of more than 80 regional (metropolitan and rural) United States business publications.

The collection allows students and faculty to easily find, cite, and share footage of top clinicians and academics explaining the underlying anatomical and neurological issues in specific patient populations, while demonstrating effective techniques and methods for their treatment.

Coverage: 1966 - Dec 2017
Covers rural and remote area health issues and care, and the practice and educational needs of health providers, in particular medical practitioners and nurses. The information is relevant to health providers, health planners, researchers and members of rural and remote area communities.

Safetycare provides a comprehensive video streaming library of current and relevant safety training programs via the Safetyhub platform

Over 540 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Full text.

Coverage: 1990 - June 2019
(Science and Geography Education) Indexes popular journals across a broad range of subjects, but most heavily in science. Subjects include: Agriculture, Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Ethics, Geography, Natural History, Physics, Sustainability and Zoology. Most journals indexed are Australian but several overseas titles are also included.

SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.

SAGE Research Methods Cases are stories of how real research projects were conducted. The collection provides more than 500 case studies, showing the challenges and successes of doing research, written by the researchers themselves. They explain why the researchers chose the methods they did, how they overcame problems in their research and what they might have done differently with hindsight: the realities of research that are missing from journal articles and textbooks. Cases are peer-reviewed and come with pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussions questions. They can be used as a teaching tool to demonstrate a particular method and how it is applied in real research, or as inspiration to students who are preparing for their own research project.

Coverage: 1978 - June 2009
Covers science and technology policy, R&D management, social and economic issues of R&D, human resources management, and commercialisation of innovation -- produced by the CSIRO Corporate Library and Information Service

Scientific, technical, and medical research, searched using Scirus search engine. Humanities, Psychology and Social Sciences, General, Environmental Science, Multi-disciplinary, Humanities, Psychology, Occupational Health and Safety, Science, Food Science

Database providing links to more than 73,000 historical and critical citations about science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including both scholarly and fan writing.

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS (American Chemical Society. Chemical Abstracts Service) databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!

To register for this database go to the registration page.

If registered please use your details to login here.

A multidisciplinary navigational tool that contains records going back to 1966, offering newly-linked citations across the widest body of scientific abstracts available in one place. Coverage includes scientific, technical, medical and social science literature.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics journals

Searchable Networked Intellectual Property Electronic Resource covers intellectual property, patents, trademarks and designs.

Launched in 2008, speechBITE is a database of intervention studies across the scope of speech pathology practice.

Bibliographic and full-text database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology. **8 concurrent users

Extensive video collection ever assembled in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more.

Journal titles and e-books. Coverage across international sciences, including computer science, economics, engineering,environmental sciences, geosciences, law, life sciences, mathematics and physical sciences.

To login to Story Box using SSO, navigate to the Story Box login page, click the "SSO" option, if Federation University doesn't immediately appear, use the drop down box to choose Federation University.
Story Book Library showcases Australian children’s books online, read by a diverse range of local story tellers. The collection includes CBCA award winners, Indigenous Story Time series, Australian Laureate series and many more. Curriculum-linked resources are also available with creative activity ideas.

The digital edition of The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper is an interactive and searchable replica of the current and archive issues (6 months) of the printed edition.

Sydney Open Library (SOL) hosts academic monographs and textbooks published by Sydney University Press in open access, covering subjects across the humanities and social sciences.

eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science. Users can search ebook content at both the book and chapter level, filter search results by subject area, publication date and year published, and create citations in APA format.

Hosts journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare. Specific collections include: Behavioural Science, Business, Management and Economics ,Education, Geography, Media, Cultural and Communication Studies ,Politics, International Relations, Social Science, Strategic defence and security studies.

This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks, and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.

Contains hundreds of videos, including documentaries and definitive performances of the world’s most important plays. From celebrated productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage of the work of Samuel Beckett, the collection covers a wide range of 20th-century theatre history. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances deliver an authentic, behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of productions.

Therapeutic Guidelines is a leading source of independent, evidence-based, practical treatment advice to assist practitioners with decision making at the point-of-care. Therapeutic Guidelines are regularly updated, based on the latest international literature, interpreted by Australia’s most respected experts, with input from an extensive network of general practitioners, pharmacists and other users.

Times Higher Education (THE) is the global voice for higher education. THE is an invaluable daily resource for all staff and students covering news, analyses, commentary from international academia. THE World University Rankings are also provided and are one of the most influential indicators of excellence in global higher education.

Note: You will be required to register for an account on the website using your Federation University email address (staff or student) to access all areas of THE. To access the individual Digital Edition issues of the publication click on the Professional tab and select digital editions.

Tourism Australia is a statutory authority of the Australian Government which promotes Australia as a tourism destination internationally and domestically and delivers research and forecasts for the sector. Tourism Australia brings together the collective skills and knowledge of four separate organisations.

Online since 1997, Trip (formerly Turning Research Into Practice) is a search engine for quickly finding high-quality health research evidence to support and inform clinical practice.

Find and get over 332,161,204 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.

An index of television news and current affairs stories from the Australian free-to-air networks providing access to video content. Updated daily.

Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory™ is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world.

University of Queensland open access textbooks

The digital, open access scholarly publishing arm of the University of Technology Sydney. It publishes scholarly eJournals and eBooks across a range of academic disciplines, with particular strengths in the humanities, arts and social sciences.

Carefully cultivated to deliver high-caliber content relevant to veterinarians, vet techs, assistants, and other team members, and features demonstrations from many of the field’s most respected experts.

VOCEDplus is a free international research database for tertiary education, especially as it relates to workforce needs, skills development, and social inclusion. It encompasses vocational education and training (VET), higher education, adult and community education, informal learning, and VET in Schools. It is international in scope and contains over 70,000 English language records, many with links to full text documents. VOCEDplus covers the outcomes of tertiary education in the shape of research, policy, practice, and published statistics. It has extensive coverage of Australian material and includes a wide range of international information. Each database entry contains standard bibliographic information and an abstract. Entries are predominantly in English and some refer to publications in other languages. We strive to provide full text access via the publisher's website or a digitised copy.

Data, books, journals, proceedings & patents, Web of Science provides a single destination to access reliable, integrated, multidisciplinary research. Quality, curated content delivered alongside information on emerging trends, subject specific content and analysis tools make it easy for students, faculty, researchers, analysts, and program managers to pinpoint relevant research to inform their work.

The Westlaw Australia platform brings together Australian business and law titles subscribed to at Federation University Australia. Titles include - Australian Law Journal, Law and Tax Reports and Reviews, Federal and Commonwealth Reports and more

Extensive multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Coverage: 1907 - Dec 2002
Covers employment, industrial relations, labour economics, policy and legislation, recruitment and job searching, enterprise bargaining, small business, and organisational management

89 international peer-reviewed journals. Subject coverage includes chemistry, computer science, Economics, finance and management, engineering, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medical and Life Sciences, Non-Linear science and Physics.