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The Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia (DELTAA), produced by the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on English second language learning and teaching in Australasia.

Subjects include adult basic education, adult immigrant education, Adult Migrant English Program, applied linguistics, cross cultural communication, English as a second language, English in the workplace, literacy, second language instruction and second language learning. Coverage from 1985 - .

The Dissertation Abstracts database includes information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities.

The database includes bibliographic citations ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980- also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988- include 150-word abstracts. Most titles published since 1997- include a 24 page preview.

ProQuest hold the full-text of more than one million titles in paper and microform formats. Titles published since 1997 are available in electronic (PDF) format. They can be purchased online from ProQuest.

Drug Database (DRUG), produced by the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published and unpublished material on the psychosocial aspects of substance abuse.

Coverage from 1974 - .