Division of Library Services

A+ Education is an indexing and full text database that provides access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on all aspects of education. A+ Education is based on the Australian Education Index (AEI), which is an indexing and abstracting database produced by the Cunningham Library at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

Of the 700+ journals indexed in AEI, there are 200+ comprehensively indexed journals and it is from these that the full-text articles in A+ Education are mainly sourced.

Other source documents include monographs, research reports, theses, conference papers, legislation, parliamentary debates, newspaper articles, and Internet material. 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, sociology, teaching and training.

Coverage: Indexed 1978-; Full text 2000 - .

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography (ATSIhealth), compiled by Neil Thomson and John Sutherland at the School of Health Studies, Edith Cowan University, is a bibliographic database that indexes published and unpublished material on Australian indigenous health.

Subject coverage: All records relate to Australian indigenous health and are in English. The records provided are not exhaustive and relate generally to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status rather than the social, historical, political or monetary aspects.

Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

Academic Search Premier is a huge multi-disciplinary database that covers just about all the disciplines and subject taught and studied at Charles Sturt University. It is often a good place to start when looking for material.

It contains indexing and abstracts of more than 8,100 journals, and of these, it included the full text from nearly 4,500 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Full text titles are available in HTML full-text and/or (searchable) PDF format.

Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles.

Coverage varies.

CSU Library provides easy access to various "packages" of EBSCOhost databases, in the areas of Business, Education, Health, and Psychology, and Academic Search Premier is included in all four packages.

The ACCOUNT database, formerly the Australian Accounting & Taxation Database (AATD), is produced by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on accounting and related business topics.

Source documents are Australian journal articles, conference papers and academic research papers.

Subject coverage includes accounting, auditing, taxation, insolvency, financial management, corporation law, banking, electronic data processing, management and superannuation.

Coverage 1982 - .

ACM Library is a large collection of citations and full-text items from the Association of Computing Machinery.

The resource has two components

• The ACM Digital Library, a repository of papers published or co-published by the ACM
• The Guide to Computing Literature, a collection more than 750,000 citations from 3000+ publishers, including the ACM.

It is the ACM Digital Library that is the full-text resource. CSU’s subscription includes access to more than 320 publications, including journals, magazines, newsletters, transactions, proceedings, and publications by affiliated organisations.

ACM Library offers a number of database features, including searching and browsing, and personalised services including saving results and queries, and setting up Table-Of- Contents (TOC) alerts.

Coverage is from 1947 -. Updated weekly.

Note: ACM journals which CSU previously subscribed to in print have been converted to online access and are available in this collection.

afr.com is the exclusive source of full-text articles from Fairfax Business Media publications including The Australian Financial Review and Business Review Weekly, but also over twenty other Fairfax news and information sources including the major Fairfax dailies and even The New York Times.

Content from sources such as The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The New York Times includes all (not just Business-related) material.

afr.com also includes a range of financial charts and investment tools.

Archival coverage extends as far back as 20 years. Publications and dates of coverage include:

This online resource from the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, consists of two databases: the NAL Online Public Access Catalog, and their Article Citation Database.

AGRICOLA serves as the document locator and bibliographic control system for the National Agricultural Library (NAL) collection. It includes bibliographic records of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture from 1979 to the present.

AGRICOLA provides comprehensive coverage of newly acquired worldwide publications in agriculture and related fields, covering the field of agriculture in the broadest sense. Records are catalogued using the controlled vocabulary of Library of Congress Subject Headings and, since 1985, of the CAB Thesaurus.

Agriculture and Natural Resources Index (ANR-Index), an Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan, is a bibliographic database with informative abstracts and links to full text [where available] 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. Coverage 2000 - .

ANR-Index Archive, an Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan, is a bibliographic database with informative abstracts and links to full text [where available] 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. Coverage 1975-2000.

ANR-Research (formerly known as ARRIP), an Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan, is a research-in-progress database that describes current and recently completed research projects across the agriculture and natural resources areas, 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.

ANR-Research Archive (formerly known as CARRP), an Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan, is a database that contains completed research projects from the ANR-Research database across the agriculture and natural resources areas, 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.

Note: Research projects on the ANR-Research Archive are not updated. This means that the contact details for researchers and organisations may be out of date. Coverage 1984 - .

AIM Management & Training (AIMMAT), produced by the Library of the Australian Institute of Management NSW Training Centre Limited, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles on management, training and related fields.

Source documents are Australian (plus some New Zealand and South-East Asian) journal articles. Coverage 1991 - .

Subject coverage includes management, training, human resources, communication and marketing. Specific examples include organisational change, competency-based training, total quality, workplace relations and enterprise bargaining, customer service, export, employee communication, leadership, business ethics, and work family. Many case studies are also included in the database.

This collection from The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society provides the full-text of more than 30 journals, plus “the premier weekly newsmagazine of the chemical enterprise, Chemical & Engineering News.”

The archive provides searchable access to over 130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000 articles dating back to the inaugural volume of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.

ANZ Newsstand is an online newspaper service provided by ProQuest and covering the full-text of Australian and New Zealand newspapers.

Titles from Fairfax (including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald) and News Ltd (including The Australian, The Adelaide Advertiser, and The Herald Sun) are included, together with transcripts and wire feeds from ABC programs, and with leading regional and local newspaper titles from Australia and New Zealand.

Coverage varies, but most newspaper content is available from the mid- to late-nineties.

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.

Source documents include monographs, journal articles, working papers, reports, and conference proceedings and conference papers, with an emphasis on Australian material.

Subject coverage includes economic cooperation, international trade, trade liberalisation, trade in particular products, trade law, industrial science and technology, human resource development, labour standards, energy resources, environment, telecommunications, transportation, and tourism.

Users interested in document supply are advised to consult an academic or research library in the first instance. Advice about harder to obtain materials may be gained from Moninfo on (03) 9905 2690 or from the Australian APEC Study Centre.

APEC members are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), and the United States of America.

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) [CSA] provides citations and abstracts from more than 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature, in the aquatic sciences.

Subject areas include:

• Aquaculture
• Aquatic organisms
• Aquatic pollution
• Brackish water environments
• Conservation
• Environmental quality
• Fisheries
• Freshwater environments
• Limnology
• Marine biotechnology
• Marine environments
• Meteorology
• Oceanography
• Policy and legislation
• Wildlife management

Coverage from 1971 - , updated monthly.

Archives and Records Management Literature in Australia and New Zealand (ARLIT), produced by the RMIT School of Business Information Technology, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published material on archives administration and records management in Australia and New Zealand. It includes materials about Australian and New Zealand professional associations, institutions and organisations in the field. The database also contains published material written by Australian and New Zealand professionals on the theory and practice of archives and records management.

Source documents are selected from Australian, New Zealand and overseas journals, conference papers, and books.

Subject coverage includes recordkeeping systems, electronic recordkeeping, disposal, user service, arrangement and description, and collection management and access.

Coverage -December 2000. NOTE: ARLIT ceased to be updated in December 2000 but will remain on Informit Online as an archived database.

Please note: this database is password protected. CSU users should follow the links to find out the required username and password and then proceed to log on to the database.

ARI is an index covering more than 80 religious and theological serials published in Australia or New Zealand and representing all religious traditions. Related areas of study such as history and sociology are also covered.

ARI indexes articles, notes, and book reviews and these can be searched by title, author, and/or subject. Records include bibliographic information plus details of library holdings.

ARI is provided by the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association (ANZTLA); indexing and editing is done by ANZTLA members.

Once logged in to ARI, users also have access to AULOTS (Australasian Union List of Serials in Theological Collections).

The ARROW Discovery Service, provided by the National Library of Australia, allows for searching Australia’s research repositories. Records are harvested from the the hosting repositories via the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Each record found through this service will link back to a record in the original repository. The contents of the ARROW Discovery Service are also indexed by Google.

The service also searches several other collections of Australian research, including Australian Policy Online, and Australasian Digital Theses Program.

 Find all of the works by a researcher (even if they have moved universities), or a topic of research (from its beginnings to the current day), or the combined output of a consortium of universities. Search by region or campus, or type of content.

The research itself may be in any form - published or unpublished; text, image or dataset; historical or current. The ARROW project is keen to include as many sources of Australian research as possible. Guidelines for the contribution of records are available in the ARROW Discovery Service Harvesting Guide. Please contact ARROW Project Manager for further information.

The Arts & Entertainment Management Database (AEM), produced by the Faculty of Management, Deakin University, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published and unpublished material on arts and entertainment management.

Source documents include journals, books, reports and surveys. Over 30 journal titles are indexed including Artwork Magazine, International Arts Manager, Journal of Cultural Economics, and Museum News. These journals are indexed selectively for relevant arts and entertainment information.

Subject coverage includes the arts and entertainment environment, cultural planning, finance, funding, law, marketing, project/venue management, research, and technology related to the arts and entertainment industry.

Coverage is from 1982 - 31 December 2000.

Asian Resources: A Select Directory of Databases (ASIANRES), contains information on selected Asia/Pacific related databases and services. Some services can be accessed free on the Internet, while others require a subscription, and/or payment for online connect time.

Since numerous commercial databases on science, technology, business, commerce and economics are already well documented in existing directories; the primary focus here is research, the social sciences and humanities, and smaller, less commercial, databases that are being developed in the Asia/Pacific region.

Major online service providers covering significant Asia-related information sources are included, although the individual commercial databases they offer may not have a separate entry.

Coverage is wide, given the size and complexity of the Asian continent. For the purposes of this directory, Asia is defined as the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and South-East Asia. Coverage - September 2001.

The online resource known as ATLA Religion Database and ATLAS, produced by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), is now available as an Ovid database, utilising all the database features of the Ovid interface.

The ATLA Religion Database is a citation database which includes citations from 650 journals, essay citations from 14,000 multi-author works, and book review citations.

ATLAS Full Text Plus is produced by the ATLA’s Center for Electronic Resources in Theology and Religion. The ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials) project provides online versions of the entire runs of a core collection of more than 50 significant scholarly periodicals in the field of religion, most of which go back to 1949.

Subject coverage includes biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues, and incorporates a wide selection of Christian traditions (including Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal), plus Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Taoism, Confucianism, and other religious traditions.

This combined product  includes all the records in the ATLA Religion Database with all ATLAS links to the PDFs. The full file covers data from 1949 to the present, and is update quarterly.

The Attorney-General's Information Service - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset (AGIS-ATSIS), produced by the AGIS Section of the Lionel Murphy Library, Attorney-General's Department, Canberra, is a subset of the AGIS database. AGIS is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published material on all aspects of law. The AGIS-ATSIS subset contains records that specifically relate to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Subject Coverage: The majority of records contained in the subset deal with legal issues such as land rights, native title, customary law, Aboriginal deaths in custody, Aborigines in the criminal justice system, racial discrimination, indigenous intellectual property, and Aboriginal youth and juvenile justice. There are also records dealing with reconciliation and social policy and welfare issues related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Coverage: 1975 - .

Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

AGIS Plus Text is an indexing and full text database on all aspects of law. AGIS Plus Text is based on AGIS, the Attorney-General's Information Service, which is a journal indexing and abstracting database produced by the AGIS Section of the Lionel Murphy Library, Attorney-General's Department..

AGIS Plus Text includes indexing and abstracts from 400+ journals, of which 120+ are comprehensively indexed. The full-text articles are drawn largely from these comprehensively indexed journals.

Subject coverage includes all aspects of law including administrative law, banking, companies and securities, constitutional law, copyright law, criminal law, environmental law, family law, human rights, international law, legal aid, and trade practices.

Indexing from 1975- ; Full text from 1999- .

AULOTS is a freely available database of the serials holdings of theological and religious libraries in Australia and New Zealand.It is available on the website of the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association (ANZTLA).

AULOTS can be searched by serial title. Entries provide links to both library holding statements and library contact details.

At the time of its loading onto the ANZTLA website, the database contained existing holdings for 5256 serial titles held in 96 libraries.

Meta-search facility on all open access (OAI) repositories in Australian and New Zealand universities containing refereed articles and PhD theses. Compiled and maintained by Arthur Sale, University of Tasmania, using 'Google custom search'. Coverage varies.

AusportMed includes material on all aspects of medical and health issues in Australian sport. Produced by the National Sport Information Centre, Australian Sports Commission.

Coverage from 1989 - .

AUSTGUIDE contains all the GUIDELINES and EDUCATION GUIDELINES data from January 1986 onwards.

GUIDELINES and EDUCATION GUIDELINES give complete subject 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'.

Subject coverage: General and educational. Coverage 1986 - .

AustLII – the Australasian Legal Information Institute - is a joint facility of the UTS and the UNSW Faculties of Law. It provides free internet access to Australasian legal materials, and claims to be one of the largest sources of legal materials on the net, with over 2 million searchable documents.

AustLII publishes public legal information, including primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals, and case law); and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access (for example, law reform and royal commission reports). There is also a substantial collection of law journals.

It includes extensive links to other Australasian and international legal resources on the Internet.

AustLit – The Australian Literature Resource - is a not-for-profit collaboration between the National Library of Australia and 12 Australian universities, which indexes and describes Australian literature published in a range of print and electronic information sources.

While most AustLit records provide only citations and library holdings information for published works, there is a range of selected critical and creative works available in full-text. (As at June 2008, there are 12,153 items available in full-text, including poems, short stories, novels, criticisms, and reviews.)

Coverage is from 1780 to the present day.

Australasian Education Directory (AED), produced by the Australian Council of Education Research (ACER), is a concise accurate guide to educational institutions and related organisations, listing over 700 organisations. AED covers organisations in Australia and New Zealand and includes a Subject Index for Associations. Entries include full addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers, email addresses, homepage addresses, regional information where applicable, and names and position titles of key personnel.

Currency: Entries are updated each year, so every entry is current and up-to-date.

This database, produced by the University College Library, Australian Defence Force Academy includes pre-1980 Australian, New Zealand and Papua-New Guinean military history and related topics.

Subjects include wars, campaigns, and battles; defence policy and strategy; defence organisation and force structure; issues relating to individual military services or units; political, social, and economic aspects of military history; biographies; weapons and equipment; anti-war movements, anti-conscription movements, and anti-base movements; civil military relations; alliances, foreign bases, and military relations generally with foreign powers; military involvement in domestic or overseas peace-keeping operations; military involvement in domestic or overseas disaster relief operations; military history of colonial forces in the Australasian region; and intelligence services and operations.

Coverage from 1987-August 1999.

Australian and New Zealand Books in Print – Books in Print (ANZBiP-Books in Print), produced by D.W. Thorpe, is a bibliographic database that provides booksellers and librarians with information about Australian and New Zealand books and series of books. Coverage 1958 - .

This resource is complemented by a second similar database, Australian and New Zealand Books in Print – Publishers (ANZBiP-Publishers), which gives information about Australian and New Zealand imprints and publishers, and which is also available via Informit.

Australian and New Zealand Books in Print – Publishers (ANZBiP-Publishers), produced by D.W. Thorpe and available via Informit, is a bibliographic database that provides booksellers and librarians with information about Australian and New Zealand imprints and publishers. Coverage 1958 - .

This resource is complemented by a second similar database, Australian and New Zealand Books in Print – Books in Print (ANZBiP-Books in Print), which gives information about Australian and New Zealand books and series of books, and which is also available via Informit.

The Australian Architecture Database (ARCH), produced by Stanton Library, North Sydney Council, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from material held by the Stanton Library, North Sydney Council. Subjects include architects, architecture, building, interior design, and landscape architecture. Coverage from 1980 - .

Australian Building Construction & Engineering Database (BUILD), produced by the Building Information Resource Centre of CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on worldwide information in the building, construction and engineering field including fire technology.

Source documents include conference papers, journal articles, standards, building regulations, technical papers, reports and books. Coverage 1989 - 2002.

Subject coverage includes all aspects of building, construction and engineering; building research; building materials; building services; structural engineering; building regulations; urban and regional planning; and fire technology. Also covered are aspects of economics; administration; and management and information technology as they relate to building and construction.

A web based information service providing you with Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) publications on-line. Allows you to conveniently access:

• All ABS publications from 1998 onwards in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)
• Over 2,000 spreadsheets containing economic and social time series data
• Data Cubes in the form of multidimensional datasets in SuperTABLE format and Excel spreadsheets
• 1996, 2001, and 2006 Census Data

Includes free summary information including Key national indicators, Consumer Price Index, Labour force, National accounts, Australian Social Trends, Australian Year Books, papers and articles, and extensive linking between related information.

A web based information service providing you with Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) publications on-line. Allows you to conveniently access:

• All ABS publications from 1998 onwards in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)
• Over 2,000 spreadsheets containing economic and social time series data
• Data Cubes in the form of multidimensional datasets in SuperTABLE format and Excel spreadsheets
• 1996, 2001, and 2006 Census Data

Includes free summary information including Key national indicators, Consumer Price Index, Labour force, National accounts, Australian Social Trends, Australian Year Books, papers and articles, and extensive linking between related information.

A web based information service providing you with Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) publications on-line. Allows you to conveniently access:

• All ABS publications from 1998 onwards in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)
• Over 2,000 spreadsheets containing economic and social time series data
• Data Cubes in the form of multidimensional datasets in SuperTABLE format and Excel spreadsheets
• 1996, 2001, and 2006 Census Data

Includes free summary information including Key national indicators, Consumer Price Index, Labour force, National accounts, Australian Social Trends, Australian Year Books, papers and articles, and extensive linking between related information.

The Australian Chronicles: An Index to Sources of Australian Biography (CHRONICLES), is a resource designed to assist genealogists, historians and researchers locate biographical information on as wide a range of Australians as possible.

Its entries point to biographical information in a wide variety of sources, including Who's Whos, biographical dictionaries, topical and local histories, and published family histories. Entries cover all periods of Australian history.

Each record contains, where available, the full name of the person in question, together with details of birth date and location, death date and location, the source of the entry, and whether or not a photograph or illustration of the person was included in that source. Each record contains only those details that were included in the particular source.

Coverage 1879 - .

CINCH-ATSIS, produced by the JV Barry Library, Australian Institute of Criminology, is a subset of the CINCH database.

CINCH is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice. CINCH-ATSIS includes information on the involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the justice system.

Source documents include journal articles; monographs; monograph chapters; conference papers; government documents; book reviews; and theses.

Subject coverage includes all aspects of crime and criminal justice including corrections, crime, crime prevention, criminal law, criminology, juvenile justice, law enforcement, police and victims of crime.

Coverage: 1968 – present.

Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

CINCH is a bibliographic database, produced by the JV Barry Library, Australian Institute of Criminology, 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. Statistical publications in serial form such as annual statistical reviews are also included.

Subject coverage includes all aspects of crime and criminal justice: corrections; crime; crime prevention; criminal law; criminology; juvenile justice; law enforcement; police; and victims of crime.

Coverage: 1968 – present.

AEI-ATSIS, produced by the Cunningham Library at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), is a subset of the AEI database.

It is a bibliographic database that provides access to the Australian literature in education and training relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Many records are accompanied by abstracts, and all records are indexed using the controlled vocabulary from the 'Australian thesaurus of education descriptors'.

Source documents include: journal articles; books; government reports; government papers; research reports; theses; and conference papers.

Subject coverage includes: education and training relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, including learning, psychology, social and cultural influences; language; literacy; teaching strategies; schools; teacher training; and professional development.

Coverage: 1975 – present.

Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

Australian Engineering Database (ENGINE), produced by the Institution of Engineers, Australia, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on Australian engineering information, particularly information published by the Institution since 1980.

Source documents include conference papers, journal articles, technical papers, books, discussions, news articles and unpublished papers.

Subject coverage includes all branches of engineering including: agricultural, aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, coastal, computer, earthquake, electrical, electronic, geotechnical,  mechanical, military, ocean, structural, and transport.

Coverage 1980 - .

Australian Family & Society Abstracts - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset (FAMILY- ATSIS), is produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies and is a subset of the FAMILY database. FAMILY 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. FAMILY is available to CSU users under the name of Family & Society Plus.

The FAMILY-ATSIS subset contains records that specifically relate to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Source documents include journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, government publications, research reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, annual reports, bibliographies and theses. Training and curriculum material and other media such as videos are also indexed.

Subject coverage includes demographic trends and social change, family law and customary law, social policy and services, family economics, Aboriginal culture and family relations, sexual behaviour, and counselling. Also covered are issues such as housing, health, employment and unemployment, Aboriginal children and child removal, child abuse, domestic violence, and child care.

Coverage is from 1980-.

Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

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

Subjects include policing, criminology, law enforcement, law, management, occupational health and safety, and social sciences.

Coverage is from 1991 - .

AHB-ATSIS, formerly HERA-ATSIS, produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, is a subset of the AHB database.

AHB is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment. The AHB-ATSIS subset contains records that specifically relate to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Source documents include: journal articles; unpublished reports; books; videos; and conference proceedings from many different sources around Australia. Emphasis is placed on reports written or commissioned by government and non-government heritage agencies throughout the country.

Subject coverage includes: aboriginal rock art sites, ceremonial grounds, and sacred sites; important historical and archaeological sites; historic buildings and structures; historic towns and precincts; coasts; forests; national parks; endangered species; wetlands; rivers; geological features; wilderness areas; and world heritage sites.

Coverage from 1975 - .

Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

Australian Heritage Bibliography (AHB), formerly HERA, is produced by the Australian Heritage Commission. It is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment.

Subjects include: national parks; endangered species; coasts; forests; wetlands; rivers; geological features; wilderness areas; world heritage sites; aboriginal rock art sites, ceremonial grounds and sacred sites; important historical and archaeological sites, and historic buildings and structures; and historic towns and precincts.

Coverage from 1975 - .

Australian Historic Records Register (AHRR) is produced by the Australian Bicentennial Authority with assistance from the National Library of Australia. It is a list of paper-based records held in private hands in Australia. Coverage -1988.

Australian Industrial Relations Database (IREL), produced by the Library of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on industrial relations and related topics.

Source documents are monographs, academic and current affairs journals; and less accessible publications, such as newsletters of trade union and employer groups, working papers, reports, annual reports, and conference proceedings.

Subject coverage includes industrial conflict, wages and conditions, labour market economics, equal employment opportunity, labour law, occupational health and safety, workplace reform, enterprise bargaining, and trade union restructuring.

Coverage 1983 - 31 October 2000.

Library Science- subjects include library science, information science, information technology, children's literature and archives. Coverage from 1982 - .

The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Information (ANSTI) database, compiled by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), 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).

Source documents include all relevant published and unpublished material (technical and scientific reports, conference proceedings, theses, and so on) authored by Australians or published in Australia. Source materials include Australian and some international journal articles, research and development reports, conference papers, books, patents, theses, laws, regulations, and standards.

Subject coverage: scientific and technical information related to the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology as well as the economic and environmental aspects of non-nuclear energy.

Coverage 1970 - .

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. It is based on the journal indexing of the database Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), which is produced by the National Library of Australia.

Of the more than 2000 journals indexed, full-text access is included to nearly 500 journals, though more than half of these are only selectively indexed (that is, not all the items in the original issue of the journal are included in the database).

Subject coverage includes Australian business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, leisure, literature, politics, and social sciences.

Coverage: indexing from 1978 - ; full-text articles from 1995 - .

APAIS-ATSIS, produced by the National Library of Australia, is a subset of the APAIS database.

APAIS is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities.  It is now included in Informit’s APA-FT database, with some material available in full-text.

The APAIS-ATSIS subset contains records that specifically relate to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Source documents: Several hundred scholarly Australian journals are indexed comprehensively for APAIS, and additional articles are selected from other periodicals, monographs, newspapers and conference proceedings received by the National Library. Limited numbers of articles from overseas publications are also included.

Subject coverage: APAIS is an index to the social sciences and humanities, and includes articles covering history, economics, politics, current affairs and culture. As far as possible, items are selected to represent various points of view on topics of importance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Coverage: 1978 – present.

Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

APAIS-Health, produced by the National Library of Australia, is a subset of the APAIS database.  It is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published material on  health and medicine in Australia, in particular the legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health.

APAIS-Health comprehensively indexes approximately 250 journals. Overseas sources are also scanned for material on Australian subject matter. APAIS-Health also indexes very selectively from many other Australian journals and conference proceedings, as well as from overseas journals carrying articles with an Australian content.

Source documents include a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers, and books. Clinical articles are not indexed.

Coverage: 1978 – present.

Australian Sport Database (AUSPORT), produced by the National Sport Information Centre, Australian Sports Commission, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australian sport. Links to full-text documents outside the database are included where available.

Includes all aspects of Australian sport including administration, children, coaching, disabled, economics, facilities, history, medicine, nutrition, physiology, psychology, women, and Olympic Games (Sydney 2000).

Coverage from 1989 - .

See Informit’s Australian Tourism Index (ATI) database for pre-1989 material.

TAXABS, produced by Information Services at the Australian Taxation Office, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journals primarily in the area of taxation law but also including other areas of interest such as child support, accounting, business, finance and superannuation from 1992 onwards.

Source documents include more than  20 journals. Some journals, such as The Bulletin and BRW,  were indexed selectively for taxation and related information, while others were indexed comprehensively with relevant cases and legislative references included.

Subject coverage focuses on technical information on taxation, and includes articles on accounting, auditing, business, capital gains tax, finance, fringe benefits tax, goods and services tax, international tax (with Australian content), law, superannuation, taxation rulings, and tax administration.

Coverage: 1992 – September 2003.

Australian Tourism Index (ATI), produced by the Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Marketing, Victoria University of Technology, is an Australian database of citations and article summaries covering tourism and related fields.

Source documents include books, conference proceedings, audiovisual material, newspapers, journals, reports, commercial publications, unpublished material and government documents. Since 1993 all Pacific Asia Travel Association publications relevant to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific have been included.

Subject coverage includes leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and travel.

Coverage is from 1982 - .

The Australian Transport Index (ATRI), produced by ARRB Transport Research Ltd, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished Australian material on transport, incorporating the catalogue of the M G Lay Library at ARRB Transport Research.

Documents indexed include all ARRB Transport Research and Austroads publications. Coverage of other Australian and New Zealand publications is comprehensive, and overseas publications are indexed more selectively. Records for journal articles and conference papers make up a large part of the Index. Coverage 1960 - .

The Australian Transport Index also includes selected catalogue records from the following libraries: Main Roads Western Australia, New Zealand Land Transport Safety Authority, Centre for Automotive and Safety Research, NRMA Ltd, Queensland Department of Main Roads, Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) Ltd, Tasmania State Offices, and VicRoads. The LASORS road safety database was incorporated into the Index in the mid-1990s.

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 design and safety, and soil and rock mechanics.

The latest edition of the Thesaurus for the Australian Transport Index can be consulted on the ARRB Transport Research web site at http://www.arrb.com.au/documents/libraryThesaurus.pdf.