Journal Databases - New Databases

ANZ Newsstand

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 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.

Return to top

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

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.

Return to top

Emerald Management Xtra Complete (EMX Complete)

This database gives full-text access to Emerald's complete collection of 175 journals, plus "reviews" (abstracts of articles) from 300 journals, in the area of international management research.

Specific areas covered include: business and management; library and information science; accounting; leadership; marketing; human resource management; industrial and organisational psychology; plus engineering, applied science, and technology.  Flagship titles include: Management Decision , European Journal of Marketing , Leadership & Organization Development Journal , Journal of Consumer Marketing , and Library Management .

Material includes journal articles, case studies, literature reviews, book reviews, conference information, interviews, and profiles.

There is also access to a range of online resources in the areas of research, management, writing, and teaching.

Coverage varies according to individual journals but full-text access includes from 1967 - current. The database is updated monthly.

Return to top

GreenFILE

Greenfile is a free EBSCOhost database covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. The collection of  scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on topics such as conservation, global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.

The initial release (March 2008) includes abstracting and indexing of more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage – from to volume 1, issue 1 to present – for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913), and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.

Please note that, as this is a free EBSCOhost product, it is not possible for CSU users to search it in combination with other EBSCOhost databases. Nor is it possible to use SFX to link directly from this database to other CSU-subscribed databases.

Return to top

International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA)

IIPA is a performing arts database covering film, theatre, and dance. A total of 258 journals are indexed and, of these, 95 are available in full-text.

Database features include: searching for articles or journals; browsing journals alphabetically, by subject, or by full-text availability; the capacity to search for peer-reviewed articles, and to sort results by relevance; a “My Archive” feature; and RSS feeds.

Coverage goes back to 1864! and the database is updated monthly.

There is no limit to the number of CSU users who can access this database at the same time.

Return to top

JBI COnNECT

JBI COnNECT – the Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics – is a subscription-only resource which is the main product of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

JBI COnNECT works as an online gateway to a collection of evidence-based resources and tools designed to assist in the clinical decision-making process and to support best practice. These resources and tools allow users to engage in the “six essential steps of evidence-based health care”: to search, appraise, summarise, embed, utilise, and evaluate evidence-based information.

JBI COnNECT comprises a series of sites on selected areas of health, referred to as ‘nodes’. All nodes contain the same resources and programs, but the information included in each node is specific to that area of health. Alternatively, users can search for information from all nodes.

The nodes in JBI COnNECT include:

The resources and programs available in JBI COnNECT include:

Return to top

Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI)

The Joanna Briggs Institue (JBI) is a not-for-profit initiative of the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, with headquarters in Adelaide, and twenty-eight Collaborating Centres across the world. Established in 1996, the Institute is now a major international agency for evidence-based health and aged care.

The Joanna Briggs Institute provides extensive, free-access information about evidence based health care on its website. But its main product is JBI COnNECT – the Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics.

JBI COnNECT is a subscription-only online gateway to a collection of evidence-based resources and tools designed to assist in the clinical decision-making process and to support best practice. These resources and tools allow users to engage in the “six essential steps of evidence-based health care”: to search, appraise, summarise, embed, utilise, and evaluate evidence-based information.

JBI COnNECT comprises a series of sites on selected areas of health, referred to as ‘nodes’. All nodes contain the same resources and programs, but the information included in each node is specific to that area of health. Alternatively, users can search for information from all nodes.

The nodes in JBI COnNECT include:

The resources and programs available in JBI COnNECT include:

CSU users should have access to all the material on the JBI website. It is recommended that, in order to gain a full understanding of the JBI and its resources, users check the information provided via the tabs at the top of the Joanna Briggs Institute's web page.  This will reveal not only the scope of the databases, but how to find links to useful web pages.

Return to top

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text is a database of citations and article summaries covering more than 500 journals plus books, research reports and conference proceedings.

The database contains full text for more than 240 journals, and includes nearly a dozen full-text monographs.

Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.

Coverage extends as far back as the mid-1960s.

Return to top

Margaret Gee's Australian Media Guide

Margaret Gee's Australian Media Guide is a directory of the major Australian media outlets, including: television and radio stations; internet media; newspapers, newsletters, and magazines; and press agencies. It includes profiles and contact listings as well as circulation figures, publication details and base advertising rates.

The directory has a relatively simple search functionality, but also provides lists of media outlets (by various categories), and of media contacts (by print and radio/tv). These lists are in spreadsheet format.

The directory is updated every 4 months.

Return to top

RequestTV

RequestTV is a fully searchable and browsable program guide of all television content from the free-to-air networks from October 2007 onwards.  Links within the records allow ordering of programs by academics for DVD delivery. Requests for DVD orders require a password. Academics are asked to contact their Faculty Liaison Librarian to receive the password. 

Return to top

SAGE Journals Online

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 access to all content on 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.

Return to top

Sydney Morning Herald Archives

The SMH Archives contains 820,000 pages from almost 13,000 issues spanning January 1st, 1955 to December 31st, 1990.

The contents of all issues are fully text searchable. Users can search for articles, pictures, and even advertisements. Material can be viewed in the full context and layout of each page as it was originally published. 

As well as searching for articles, users can also search for or browse issues and view them by thumbnail images. The “My Collection” feature allows users to save collections of articles and other items they might want to view again.

There is no new material being added to this archive.

To access the archive, CSU users should click on the “Access Archive” link once they have logged on. Please note: Searching of this resource is free, but access to the full-text is by subscription. CSU has only one licence. If that licence is already being used, CSU users will see an invitation-to-subscribe screen when they try to access an item in the archive.

Return to top

Feedback is appreciated. Please direct all comments, suggestions etc to Ask a Question.
Training on databases is available to all staff and research students. Sessions can be organised via Book a Librarian

NB Terms and Conditions of Use
These electronic resources are for non-commercial use in your personal research or study only.  Users do not have permission to systematically download or copy large amounts of these resources, thereby creating their own databases; or to distribute these resources to third parties.  For further information on the terms and conditions by which users can access these electronic resources, refer to the terms and conditions information on the electronic resource itself or contact the Library.

Speech bubble Website Feedback Form
Ask a Question Form
To speak to a Librarian call 1800 808 369
Page last modified: Thu 18 Sep 2008