Division of Library Services

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.

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Australian Sports Commission, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australian sport.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.

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 - .

Primal Pictures on Ovid is an interactive resource that provides a multimedia overview of human anatomy. It features three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. These animations and models include coverage of more than 6500 structures. They show different layers of anatomical regions, rotate those regions 360 degrees, and call up textual information about each structure. The models are supplemented by clinical videos, pathology slides, and MRI scans.

Primal Pictures, which claims to have created the world's first complete 3D model of human anatomy, is designed for students, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. The resource includes a study guide and a test bank for students.

Informaworld is a one-stop site hosting the full text of more than 1000 eJournals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press, Lawrence Erlbaum, Haworth Press, and Multilingual Matters, as well as citations from hundreds of other journals.

Prior to May 2009, CSU Library had access to only the full-text of the Routledge collection of education journals, but now has access to a much wider collection of journals covering a range of subject areas.

Subject strengths of the collection include:

One of the benefits of Informaworld to CSU users is that it closes the “embargo” gap for a large number of eJournals already available via EBSCOhost: that is, it provides the full-text of recent issues of journals which are not available (for the most recent 12 months) in EBSCOhost.

The collection works like a database and offers a range of browse, search, and saved search options.

A standard search will return results that are both citation-only and full-text. SFX links are NOT available in this database, but users can limit their searches to (predominantly) full-text results by ticking the “My subscriptions only” box.

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.

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 - .

Wiley InterScience is a database of journals published by Wiley-Blackwells Publishing.

CSU has access to the bulk of this collection in full-text – nearly 1300 journals. Users can search the collection using a simple or advanced search, and can browse by title or subject area.

Subjects covered range across all disciplines: Business, Education, Law, Medicine, Science, Social Sciences, and the Humanities.

Coverage dates vary with title.

Note: CSU previously had access to this material under the separate listings of Blackwell Synergy, and Wiley InterScience. On I July 2008 Blackwell Publishing merged with John Wiley & Sons, and all Wiley-Blackwell’s online products are now provided in a single online platform.

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 - .

Meditext is an Australian indexing and full text database with access to scanned images of journal articles on all aspects of health and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields.

Other source documents include conference proceedings, government reports, selected books, and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) session reports (to 1996).

Coverage: 1968 - . Full text coverage (from 90 comprehensively indexed journals): 1995 - .

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.

Ingenta is a database of current article summaries from more than 20,000 multidisciplinary journals with links to the full text of over 4,500 titles. The database can be searched for free.

CSU subscribes to a limited number of full-text journals via Ingenta.

For journals to which CSU does not subscribe, users can, for the majority of articles, choose a pay-per-view option, with electronic, fax, or Ariel delivery from Ingenta.

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.

MEDLINE is recognized as the premier index of biomedical literature, and includes allied health fields, plus the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to health care. It is produced by the United States National Library of Medicine and covers thousands of international journals from 1950 - .

It is primarily a database of citations, but the Ovid version includes links to some full text journal titles from the database CSU Full Text Journals@Ovid, listed in the CSU databases lists as Journals@Ovid CSU Full Text Subscribed.

MEDLINE is provided by Ovid in various date packages. The Ovid database MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations consists of In-Process records (records in preparation) from the National Library of Medicine and “PubMed-not-MEDLINE” records from NLM.

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.

Factiva is the successor to Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing, previously produced by Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive.

It is a global news and business information service. It covers the humanities, science, health, education and other subjects but has a focus on business, including business news, and company and industry research.

The database integrates content from newspapers (including The Age, and The SMH), Dow Jones newswires, business journals, market research reports, analyst reports, and websites. Much of the material is available in full-text.

Coverage varies, from 1980 - .

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.

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:

The TVNews database is a new (August 2007) Informit Media database, available via Informit Online.

It indexes Australian television news, current affairs, and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. All individual stories from a particular broadcast are indexed with a detailed synopsis. TVNews is updated daily, with stories appearing on an evening news broadcast generally being available for access the next morning.

The video for each story or documentary is available in WMV format as a progressive download, allowing viewing to begin before the total video file is transferred. Items range from under 30 seconds for short news stories, to over an hour for selected documentaries. Transcripts are NOT included.

Coverage is from August 2007- present.

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).