Division of Library Services

CAB Abstracts is a bibliographic database produced by CAB International (CABI) which covers the following subject areas:

• Agriculture, including animal production and welfare, horticulture, crop science and protection, applied economics and rural studies

• Animal and Veterinary Sciences, including animal nutrition, entomology, aquaculture and equine science

• Environmental Sciences, including, ecology and climate change, forestry, soil science, and hydrology

• Human Health, Food and Nutrition, including food science and communicable diseases

• Leisure and Tourism

• Microbiology and parasitology, including mycology, bacteriology and virology

• Plant Sciences, including biotechnology, plant protection, and crop science

Originally a citation-only database, from January 2009 the database includes full-text content which was previously only available through a separate subscription. This includes more than 36,000 journal articles, reports, and conference papers.

Updating is monthly.

CAB Abstracts is also available to CSU users in a package covering 2000 – Present.

CAB Abstracts is a bibliographic database produced by CAB International (CABI) which covers the following subject areas:

• Agriculture, including animal production and welfare, horticulture, crop science and protection, applied economics and rural studies

• Animal and Veterinary Sciences, including animal nutrition, entomology, aquaculture and equine science

• Environmental Sciences, including ecology and climate change, forestry, soil science, and hydrology

• Human Health, Food and Nutrition, including food science and communicable diseases

• Leisure and Tourism

• Microbiology and parasitology, including mycology, bacteriology and virology

• Plant Sciences, including biotechnology, plant protection, and crop science

Originally a citation-only database, from January 2009 the database includes full-text content which was previously only available through a separate subscription. This includes more than 36,000 journal articles, reports, and conference papers.

Updating is monthly.

CAB Abstracts is also available to CSU users in a package covering 1990 – Present.

Cambridge Journals Online includes approximately 100 full text journals in a range of subject areas, published by Cambridge University Press.

Australian higher education and training news and analysis, published weekly online.

Canadian business, current affairs, education and reference. Subject coverage is comprehensive. Information is present from all areas including: current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, academia, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus. Full text is available within these areas. CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in Canada.

Source documents include academic, administrative, professional, topical journals, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters; over 540 periodicals and daily news sources ( over 480 of which are Canadian), plus indexing to an additional 1,100 other titles (over 95% Canadian).

Electronic access to full text CCH loose-leaf services & cases relating to a range of legal topics.

CSU Library does not subscribe to all of the CCH services listed in these Collections. If you encounter the message Access Denied! the title is not part of the CSU subscription.

CHemical Engineering Reference User Bibliography (CHERUB), compiled by Dr Martyn Ray, Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Curtin University, Western Australia, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from journals on all chemical engineering topics.

Source documents include journal articles taken from the 49 most important chemical engineering and related journals comprising approximately 6,500+ references per year.

Subject coverage includes all topics as found in the chemical engineering (and related) literature. In particular: design and operation of chemical plant and equipment, chemical process information, and technical and economic feasibility information. Specialist topics include: process control, environmental considerations, mineral processing, and so on, and a section of miscellaneous publications. Chemistry and chemical reaction information in relation to chemical processes is included.

Coverage 1956 - .

A Chronology of Australian Historic & Current Events (AUSCHRON), is an information database which provides a listing of significant events in Australian history with emphasis on current events, and covering topics from politics and law to the arts and sport.

Source documents for current events are the main daily state and territory papers, chiefly The Age and The Australian, and national news journals, reports and other publications where relevant. For historical events, source documents include contemporary records such as explorers' journals and newspapers, together with secondary sources such as books and journal articles.

Includes Australian historical events in all subject areas with particular reference to significant events from 1993 to the present.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is the well known index to literature in the fields of nursing and allied health.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is available as an EBSCOhost database and is actually a combination of 3 databases: CINAHL Plus with Full Text, CINAHL Select, and PreCINAHL. It provides the CINAHL index to journals in the areas of nursing and allied health, but also provides the full-text of more than 560 of these journals. Other resources that are indexed include: legal cases, drug records, clinical trials, professional publications, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and Evidence-Based Care Sheets.

While the traditional CINAHL includes material dating from 1982, CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes material going back to 1937. The database is updated weekly.

Clinical Reference Systems is a series of "Advisors" covering 9 major health areas. Each "Advisor" contains hundreds of short, plain language, consumer-level essays, many with images, on topics within that health area.

These 9 health areas are:

• adult health
• behavioral health
• cardiology
• eye
• medication information
• pediatric health
• senior health
• sports medicine
• women's health.

The Cochrane Library is the main product of the Cochrane Collaboration, which is "an international not-for-profit and independent organization, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care readily available". Its stated role is to make available systematic reviews of healthcare interventions, while promoting the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions.

Thus the Cochrane Library is one of the prime international and independent sources of evidence-based medicine information.

The major resource within the Cochrane Library is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: systematic reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which clinical decisions are based. But there actually 7 databases in the Cochrane Library, as follows:

For detailed descriptions of these databases, click here.

These databases are available for searching and browsing using the Wiley InterScience interface. Much of the material, including the Cochrane Reviews, is available in full-text. The Cochrane Library is updated quarterly.

Cochrane Library is a subscription resource, but under an arrangement between the Australian Government and the Cochrane Collaboration, the resource is available free to internet users anywhere in Australia.

In addition to this, CSU users can access the 6 main Cochrane Library databases via the Ovid interface, where they are listed under the titles of “EBM Reviews”.

Computer Index Australasia (CIA), produced by White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles 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. The database is relevant to the home user and to secondary and tertiary students.

Subject coverage includes articles on popular computing, software, hardware, communications, and computer applications.

Coverage 1994 - 31 July 2001.

Information and current trends in computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.

Contains the full text of more than 300 publications, and indexing and abstracts for approximately 450 publications. Full text titles are available in HTML full-text or (searchable) PDF format. Coverage varies, from 1985- .

The Annual Report Collection includes complete annual reports for all Companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The reports are stored as text and can be searched individually or collectively. The full-text of each report is available in MS Word format from 1992 -, and in PDF from 2003 - . Coverage is from 1992 - .

Each report contains the 'full printed narrative' and includes, Corporate Directory, Executive Officer Statements, Chairman's + Directors Reports, Corporate Governance Statement, Financial Statements & Notes to the Accounts.

Consumer Sciences Index (CSI). Subjects include children, clothing, consumer economics, consumer education, craft, family, fashion, food, health, home economics teaching, housing, marriage, nutrition and textiles. Coverage from 1988 - .

This database is a searchable collection containing full-text transcripts of actual therapy and counselling sessions. There are also personal narratives in the form of diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs.

In addition, the collection includes reference works to contextualise the primary material.

The collection can be searched, or browsed by various categories including All works, Session transcripts, Client narratives, Reference works, Subjects, Symptoms, and Therapies.

New material is added on a fortnightly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material.

This resource is a collection of 30 entirely full-text Australian journals published by CSIRO Publishing. The website has a tab for, and lists of, books and CDs, but it is the journals to which CSU Library subscribes, and which are available in full-text. These cover a broad range of scientific disciplines including mainly agriculture, the plant and animal sciences, and environmental management.

The collection can be searched or browsed. Searching can be limited to a journal or a number of journals. The searching functionality is not very sophisticated, and users are advised to check the “Search hints” link which is available on the Advanced Search screen. Some users prefer to use another index, such as Web of Science or Biosis Previews, as a searching tool, and then use SFX links to link to the full-text within CSIRO Electronic Journals.

Coverage varies with title, but in some cases extends back to the early 1900s. All articles are available in PDF format.

Current Contents includes tables of contents and citations from journals from all disciplines. Abstracts are available for approximately 75% of records. Covers more than 7,000 international journals for the last five years.

There is no full-text of the articles in Current Contents but the SFX linking software can be used to locate full-text either in another online database or in a print holding in the library catalogue. In this database SFX is activated by clicking on the "Links" icon located beneath each citation.