E-resources and databases
starting with "F"
- Factiva (incorporating Dow Jones and Reuters)
Factiva is a current international news database produced by Dow Jones. Users have access to news and business information in 28 languages from 200 countries. Source documents include newspapers, magazines, newswires, media programs, websites, company reports and images from Reuters and Knight Ridder. Exchange rates, market indices, stock, fund, and corporate bond prices are also included.
- Family : Australian Family & Society Abstracts
Produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Family is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts content on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families from 1980 onwards. Source documents include journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government publications, research reports, theses and more.
- Federal Budget
This free resource provides access to the Australian Federal Budget from 1901/02 onwards. Also included are budget speeches, overviews, appropriation bills, the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook, the final budget outcome, breakdowns by portfolio and ministerial statements.
- Federal Register of Legislation.
The Federal Register of Legislation (the Legislation Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them.
- FIAF
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing and preserving films. FIAF's editorial staff, along with its Affiliates, produces the International Index to Film Periodicals which offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. This database contains FIAF's “Treasures from Film Archives”; a detailed index of the silent-era film holdings of archives from around the world, a selection of Reference volumes and the linked full-text of over 60 journals.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Databases
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing and preserving films. FIAF's editorial staff, along with its Affiliates, produces the International Index to Film Periodicals which offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. This database contains FIAF's “Treasures from Film Archives”; a detailed index of the silent-era film holdings of archives from around the world, a selection of Reference volumes and the linked full-text of over 60 journals.
- FII
Film Index International is a major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters - Film Index International provides truly international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries.
Coverage: 1900 - current
- Film Index International
Film Index International is a major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters - Film Index International provides truly international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries.
Coverage: 1900 - current
- First World War
This resource showcases primary source material for the study of the First World War, from personal narratives and printed books to military files, propaganda pamphlets and strong visual documents. A range of contextual secondary material including scholarly essays, case studies, and interactive maps complements the material.
- Personal Experiences
- Propaganda and Recruitment
- Visual perspectives and Narratives
- A Global Conflict
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books, 1669-1990
Over 330 cookbooks range in publication date from Charles Carter’s The Complete Practical Cook, published in London in 1730, to Susan Anna Brown’s Mrs. Gilpin's frugalities: remnants, and 200 ways of using them, published New York in 1883, to Ruth Ellen Church’s Mary Meade's magic recipes for the electric blender, published in Indianapolis in 1952. This is a delectable collection comprising centuries of recipes for the kitchen, medicinal formulas for the home, advice for the housekeeper, practical ways to cook on a budget, tips on serving and table etiquette, guidance concerning household management, how to grow one’s own food, how to select and buy food, and much more. Food History shows the types of foods that were being eaten, different cultural cuisines, and the diversity of foodways.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily report
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) is a United States government agency that translates the text of daily radio and television broadcasts; newspapers and periodicals; government statements; books, and other sources of unrestricted information such as databases and gray literature from non-English sources around the world. FBIS covers such topics as military affairs; politics; the environment; societal issues; economics, and science and technology. Reports are available from 1941 to 1996. Daily reports with translations are issued for Africa; Asia; Australia/Oceania; Caribbean; Europe; Middle East/Near East; North and South America.
- Foreign Office files for China, 1919-1980
The collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980, including:
- 1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International
- 1930-1937: The Long March, civil war in China and the Manchurian Crisis
- 1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese war and the seeds of communist victory
- 1949-1956: The Communist revolution
- 1957-1966: The Great Leap Forward
- 1967-1980: The Cultural Revolution
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Foreign Office files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan,1947-1980 (I, II and III)
This collection of files from the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office focuse on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, covering events of independence and partition, war between India and Pakistan, tensions and war between India and China, the turbulent independence of Bangladesh, and more.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
This collection makes available extensive coverage of British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952. It includes three parts:
- Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific, 1931-1945
- Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952
- Japan and Great Power Status, 1919-1930
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Foreign Office Files for South East Asia, 1963-1980
Published in two parts, this extensive collection of Foreign Office Files explores South East Asia between 1963 and 1980 in a time of conflict, growth and change.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981
This collection addresses the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power. Utilising the significant collection of diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles, students and researchers can explore a decade characterised by conflict.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Fu yin bao kan zi liao on CDRom 2001- (Renmin University Article Reprint Collection)
Includes articles reprinted from current newspapers and journals published in the People's Republic of China.
Available in Menzies Library on the menzchinese PC only.