Division of Library Services

SAGE Journals Online is the platform providing online full-text access to the approximately 485 journals published by SAGE. These journals are in the subject areas of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology, and Medicine.

CSU staff and students have some full-text access to most of the journals in this database.

The platform allows for searching within individual journal titles or across the whole database, and for browsing journals by title, or articles by discipline. The My Tools feature allows for customising the product, including creating alerts, saving citations and searches, and setting up “My Favourite Journals”.

All SAGE journal content is peer-reviewed with 46% of journals ranked in the Thomson Scientific 2005 Journal Citation Reports®.

Coverage varies according to each journal, but extends as far back as 1879.

SCANfile, produced by the CSIRO Corporate Library and Information Service, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles on science/technology policy and R&D/general management.

Source documents are articles indexed from over 200 current Australian and international journal titles.

Subject coverage includes science and technology policy, R&D management, social and economic issues of R&D, human resources management, and commercialisation of innovation.

Coverage 1978 - .

ScienceDirect contains over 1700 Elsevier Science journals, most from 1996 forward and some from 1993 forward. New titles are added on a regular basis.

ScienceDirect also contains full-text journals from other participating publishers.

ScienceDirect currently currently offers the full text of journals from AIChE, CRC Press, and ASM International, and either host or link to the full text content of Cell Press titles. It is the goal of ScienceDirect to offer subscribers an electronic full text "library" on a scale greater than anything previously available, containing content from a variety of leading STM publishers. For a complete list of publishers on ScienceDirect, see Participating Publishers.

CSU does not subscribe to all the full text titles included in ScienceDirect.

Produced by the American Chemical Society, SciFinder is a “research discovery tool” which allows for exploring the journal and patent literature from a range of scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and related sciences.

It includes online access to databases of the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and to the MEDLINE database.

Sources include journals, patents, conference proceedings, dissertations, technical reports, and books.

In this resource you can:

• Explore scientific literature by research topic
• Identify the work of a specific author
• Find documents published by a specific company or organisation
• Draw a chemical structure, define its role, and find its reactions
• Locate substance information from a CAS Registry Number or a common name
• Locate a journal or patent when you can't remember the details
• Browse Table of Contents of journals to keep up-to-date with research
• Draw a chemical structure and find substructures that match
• Draw a chemical structure and find substances similar to your drawing

SciFinder Support & Training pages provide training materials such as tutorials, reference guides, strategies, and technical support.

The databases within SciFinder include:

CAS Databases:

CAplus (Scientific Literature and Patents)
More than 30 million patent and journal article references in the areas of biochemistry, organic chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, applied chemistry, and physical, inorganic, and analytical chemistry.

CAS REGISTRY    (Chemical Substances)
Collection of disclosed chemical substance information, with more than 45 million organic and inorganic substances and more than 60 million sequences.

CASREACT (Reactions)
Contains reaction information from the millions of published journal articles and patent documents selected for inclusion in Chemical Abstracts (CA).

CHEMCATS (Chemical Suppliers)
A catalogue database with information about commercially available chemicals and their worldwide suppliers.  Includes more than 34 million commercially available chemicals.

CHEMLIST (Regulated chemicals)
An electronic collection of thousands of chemical substances that are regulated in key markets across the globe.

MARPAT (Markush Structures)
A structure-searchable database of generic, hypothetical substances found in patent claims and disclosures.

Detailed information on the CAS databases available in SciFinder  is available at http://www.cas.org/expertise/cascontent/index.html

Other Database

MEDLINE
Index to biomedical and health care literature, produced by the United States National Library of Medicine.

SciQuest, developed by the New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA) and the NZVA Foundation for Continuing Education, is a searchable and browsable collection of New Zealand and Australian veterinary and animal science publications, and veterinary continuing-education publications, which includes journals, conference proceedings, newsletters, and lectures.

Key resources include The New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Australian Equine Veterinarian, and The Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production.

Important: Please note that, in this collection, publications can only be searched one at a time. This is because they contain unique indexes.

Coverage goes back as far as 1952.

SNIPER, produced by the Library at IP Australia, is a bibliographic database of journal articles, conference papers, and other documents about issues in intellectual property. It provides a knowledge base to support policy, awareness and research in intellectual property matters.

Source documents: Content is gathered from journals in IP Australia Library's collections, with further reference to other journals, conference papers, book chapters and electronic documents, as appropriate. URL links are supplied to freely available material. Approximately 100-150 new items are added to SNIPER each month.

Subject coverage: SNIPER provides information relating to IP Australia's core business areas, namely patents, trade marks and designs. SNIPER also includes other topics that impact on IP Australia's business, especially related intellectual property matters such as copyright, plant breeder's rights and domain names. These related matters are included if they relate to significant Australian or international trends and developments, or if they are significant to the field of intellectual property as a whole.

Coverage is 2000 - .

Search Aids: SNIPER Thesaurus (inhouse thesaurus): The thesaurus has two parts: Subject Thesaurus and Names. The Subject Thesaurus comprises approximately 800 terms and is structured on the model of the APAIS Thesaurus. The Names Thesaurus controls approximately 300 names of corporate bodies, treaties, etc.

The SNIPER Thesaurus can be accessed in two parts at the URL links:

• http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/pdfs/sniper/sniper-subjects.pdf
• http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/pdfs/sniper/sniper-names.pdf

This EBSCOhost database includes bibliographic information and current pricing structures for popular serials.

It contains: over 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; historical data for an additional 20,000 titles; data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.

The Singapore/Malaysia Collection (SMC), produced by the National University of Singapore Library, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts items from published and unpublished material relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN (as an entity).

Source documents: A good deal of the SMC source material consists of microfilmed items of public records, government documents, rare serials, newspapers and manuscripts. SMC also includes academic exercises and theses submitted to the National University of Singapore and its predecessor institutions as well as to universities abroad. Other valuable source items include company reports, current journals and directories. The items are mostly in English and bear imprint dates from as early as 1596. Coverage - September 2004.

Subject coverage: Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN (as an entity). SMC is particularly strong in source material tracing the various aspects of the development of the Malay States, Singapore and the Bornean regions (excluding Indonesian Borneo); from their founding through the period of colonial government, up to independence and after.

Excluded from this database are Chinese titles and titles published in Singapore or Malaysia but the contents of which do not relate to this region.

SocINDEX with Full Text is a sociology research database which features more than 2,035,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus. In addition to indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals, the database contains the full text for 746 journals dating back to 1908, for more than 800 books and monographs, and for 11,991 conference papers. Full text titles are available in HTML full-text or (searchable) PDF format.

Subject coverage includes: abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare.

Coverage varies.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a bibliographic and full text database covering both serial and monographic literature on all aspects of sports, sports science, physical education, sports medicine, and sports administration.

It includes more than 750,000 records dating back to1800, with content including references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and theses and dissertations.

The database also includes the full-text of more than 350 journals dating back to 1985.

Includes more than 1200 peer reviewed full text journals and a growing number of online books, including the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Subject areas include Education, Mathematics, Medicine, Science and Technology. Coverage varies.

Please note: CSU Library doesn't have full access to all SpringerLink articles. You can tell whether or not you can access an article by looking at the square next to the record:

= Full access
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Standards On-Line is a service that provides full text access to all Australian Standards, and abstracts and contents information for other international standards (eg. ISO, IEC).

The Standards are updated as soon as changes are made, and they appear on screen as PDF replicas of hardcopy versions. The Standards can be viewed online, printed out, or saved as a PDF file as required. The search facility allows users to search the collection by title, number, keyword, scope, or publication dates. The database includes details of, and links to, related standards.

International standards are included in Standards On-line but full text is not available as part of CSU's subscription. Users are presented with an online purchase option for the international standards.

This is an index to the archive of the Sydney Morning Herald spanning the years 1955 to 1990. The archive contains 820,000 pages from almost 13,000 issues. No new material is being added to the archive.

CSU does not have access to the full-text of the archive, so it is available here as an index only.

CSU staff and students would need to locate, or request, the full-text of articles in microfilm copies of the paper held at Bathurst, Thurgoona, and Wagga Campus Libraries.

More recent material from the Sydney Morning Herald is available online in full-text in the Factiva database (from September 1986) and the ANZ Newsstand database (from 1996).