Electronic resources for ANU alumni
We are delighted to provide the ANU alumni network with access to a range of our world-class scholarly e-resources to support their research interest and career.
To access these electronic resources, select from the links below and enter your ANU Student ID and your Alumni Email Account password when prompted.
If you do not have an alumni email account or have forgotten your password for this account please contact ANU Information Technology Support to have one created for you.
- Adam Matthew Digital Collections
Adam Matthew publishes unique primary source collections from archives around the world.
- American statistical association publications
A small collection of journals published by the American Statistical Association.
- Annual Reviews current journal collection
A collection of journals in science and social sciences published by Annual Reviews.
- AustLit: Australian literature gateway
AustLit provides authoritative and comprehensive information on creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 100,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. The period spans from European settlement in Australia to the present. Some selected full text content is available.
- Cambridge Books Online
Cambridge University Press is one of the largest and most prestigious academic publishers in the world and are widely respected as a world leader in publishing for subjects as diverse as astronomy, Shakespeare studies, economics, mathematics and politics.
- Cambridge Histories Online
Historical reference compendium with instant access to the texts of the Cambridge Histories series. All the available volumes are grouped into topics such as British history, economic history, literary studies, music, philosophy, political and social theory, theatre studies and performing arts, and warfare.
- China, America and the Pacific
Covering the 18th and 19th centuries, China, America and the Pacific provides primary source materials for the study of the history of North American trade and cultural exchange with China. It also provides coverage of China’s economic dealings with the whole of East Asia and the Pacific. The main topics the databases cover are the Old China Trade, the Chinese American cultural exchange at the time of the 18th and 19th century, Chinese immigration, diplomacy and politics of America and the Far East, and other America trade related materials.
- China: Culture and Society
A collection of digitised, full colour pamphlets held in the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library of Cornell University. The collection, mostly in English and published between c.1750 and 1929, amount to around 1,200 items in 220 bound volumes. The pamphlets are full text searchable.
- China: Trade, Politics & Culture, 1793-1980
This English language database contains manuscripts; historic journal articles, and artwork and photographs covering events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People�s Republic.
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press journals
A small collection of biological sciences journals published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
- Confidential Print, Middle East, 1839-1969
This set of digitised document covers, among other topics, the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century; the Middle East Conference of 1921; the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine; post-Suez Western foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Confidential Print: Latin America
Issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, Confidential Print: Latin America is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. Documents cover the whole of South and Central America, plus the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from just after the final Spanish withdrawal from mainland America in the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s.
- CSIRO Publishing eBooks
E-books on agriculture, aquatic science, the plant and animal sciences, forestry, environmental science and natural history.
- CSIRO Publishing Journals
CSIRO Publishing operates as an independent science and technology publisher with a global reputation for quality products and services. Our internationally recognised publishing programme covers a wide range of scientific disciplines, including agriculture, the plant and animal sciences, and environmental management.
- De Gruyter eBooks
De Gruyter publishes books, journals and databases in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, and also offer a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books.
- De Gruyter Online
De Gruyter publishes books, journals and databases in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, and also offer a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books.
- Defining Gender
Access to a vast body of original source material from 1450 to 1910 in history, literature, sociology and education from a gender perspective. Source documents include ephemera, pamphlets, diaries, letters, and receipt books. Key topics covered include conduct and politeness; domesticity and the family; consumption and leisure; education and sensibility; and the body.
- East India Company
East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947.
- Ecological Society of America journals
Journals published by the Ecological Society of America.
- Eighteenth Century Journals I, c1685-1835 (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
This resource provides full text access to hundreds of rare journals and newspapers combining major publications with more ephemeral works to underline the broad variety of eighteenth century print journalism. The emphasis is on items from Britain, but material from Canada, the Caribbean, and India is also included.
- Eighteenth Century Journals II, c1685-1835 (Ransom Center, University of Texas)
This resource provides full text access to hundreds of rare journals and newspapers combining major publications with more ephemeral works to underline the broad variety of eighteenth century print journalism. The emphasis is on items from Britain, but material from Canada, the Caribbean, and India is also included.
- Eighteenth Century Journals III, c1685-1835 (B.L. Colindale and Cambridge U.)
This resource provides full text access to hundreds of rare journals and newspapers combining major publications with more ephemeral works to underline the broad variety of eighteenth century print journalism. The emphasis is on items from Britain, but material from Canada, the Caribbean, and India is also included.
- Eighteenth Century Journals IV, c1685-1835 (Chetham's & Botherton Libraries)
This resource provides full text access to hundreds of rare journals and newspapers combining major publications with more ephemeral works to underline the broad variety of eighteenth century print journalism. The emphasis is on items from Britain, but material from Canada, the Caribbean, and India is also included.
- Eighteenth Century Journals V, 1712-1835 (Birmingham, B.L., Cambridge, Moores)
This resource provides full text access to hundreds of rare journals and newspapers combining major publications with more ephemeral works to underline the broad variety of eighteenth century print journalism. The emphasis is on items from Britain, but material from Canada, the Caribbean, and India is also included.
- Emerald Business, Management and Economics Book Series
Full text access to 730 volumes from more than 85 eBooks series titles covering content in business, economics, accounting, finance and management research.
- Empire Online
A collection of full text original documents relating to empire studies from libraries around the world. Each section is accompanied by an essay which contextualises the material. Topics include cultural contacts 1492-1969, empire writing and the literature of empire, and imperialism and colonialism 1607-2007. Regions include Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania, South Asia and Middle East. The source material is mainly British and European.
- Empire Studies
Empire Studies offers a rich array of sources for the study of the British Empire. The collection includes material on British colonial policy and government; perspectives on life in British colonies; the relationship between gender and empire; race; and class. Sources include government and official records, personal papers and diaries, rare periodicals, and conference proceedings.
- Everyday Life & Women in America, c1800-1920
Reflects 19th - 20th century political, social and gender issues in the United States, including religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. The collection is rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering insights into the daily lives of women and men, and emphasising contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.
- 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
- Foreign Office files for China, 1919-1980
Drawing upon the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland this resource documents the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
- Foreign Office files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan,1947-1980 (I, II and III)
These databases consist of scanned facsimiles of UK Foreign Office original documents, including hand-written annotations.
- Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
Published in three parts, this collection makes available extensive coverage of British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952.
- Gale OneFile: Informe Academico
Provides full text access to a solid body of Spanish-language and bilingual publications in both the academic and lifestyle spheres. It offers unique content and an indexing scheme and interface specifically geared toward the Spanishâ€speaking researcher.
- Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
This resource brings together manuscript, and printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices.
- IET Digital Library
The world’s leading international scientific organisation and thought leader, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), produces this global repository of science, engineering, and technology-focused content. It comprises more than 100,000 technical papers and around 5,000 book chapters from 1994 onwards. Approximately 450 new documents are added to the IET Digital Library each month.
Also available is the IET Digital Library Journals Archive, which contains over 70,000 articles including the complete collection of research journals published by the IET between the years 1872 and 1993.
- India, Raj & Empire
Drawing upon the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland this resource documents the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
- Informe Academico
Provides full text access to a solid body of Spanish-language and bilingual publications in both the academic and lifestyle spheres. It offers unique content and an indexing scheme and interface specifically geared toward the Spanishâ€speaking researcher.
- JSTOR
A comprehensive electronic archive of scholarly journal literature in full text. JSTOR has a moving wall that excludes the last 3 to 5 years of journal issues. The database contains academic journals, images, letters and other primary sources in the social sciences, humanities and sciences.
- Knowledge Unlatched
Commercially published books are "unlatched" via crowdfunding. The books are then made available from freely accessible open access platforms - either Hathitrust or oapen.org. In oapen.org look for this button:
- Literary Manuscripts
Offers complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse. The database includes first lines, last lines, attribution, author, title, date, length, verse form, content and bibliographic references for over 6,600 poems within the collection.
- Literary Studies
Literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of a range of leading literary figures, as well as unique access to a goldmine of rare and obscure literary texts and genres. This collection provides student and scholars of British and American literature access to a rich seam of resources to support in-depth study in this field.
- London Low Life
Insight into the nineteenth century city of London. Source documents include 'swell's guides', children's chapbooks, street cries, full colour maps, cartoons, and song sheets. Of interest to scholars researching London architecture and commerce, working-class culture, street literature, popular music, 'slumming', prostitution, social reform, and police and criminality, and more.
- Mass Observation
British social history from 1939 to 1972. Source documents include books, diaries, directives, ephemera, essays, file reports, interactive maps, and surveys. Subjects included are the BBC, wartime sexual behaviour, shopping, and the future of Britain.
- Medieval and Early Modern Studies
A huge range of primary source covering social, cultural, political, scientific and religious perspectives, from the 15th to early 18th centuries. The breadth of sources provided within this collection is extraordinary, from sources concerning the Black Death to the Restoration of the English monarchy and the Glorious Revolution.
- Medieval Travel Writing
This collection presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia.
- Missionary Studies
A broad selection of missionary collections, representing a global range of Christian missions, churches and denominations. These primary sources are a hugely important resource for the study of missionary work, educational work, medical work, evangelism, political conflict and the emergence of indigenous churches. The collections are truly global in scope, with Africa, East and South Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, and the Americas all well-represented. The sources will be of interest to scholars in a range of fields, from missiology to colonial history and anthropology.
- MIT Press Journals
A multidisciplinary collection of journals published by MIT Press.
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century. It features full text content and images from numerous newspapers across the United States depicting American culture and daily life with an emphasis on the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, western migration and Antebellum era life.
- Nixon Years, The, 1969-1974
From a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, these files allows the researcher to assess Nixon's handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration's notable achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and his resignation.
- OECD iLibrary
This resource contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD, IEA, NEA, OECD Development Centre, PISA, and ITF since 1998. The collection contains over 1,200 journal issues, 3,300 working papers, 2,900 multi-lingual summaries and 7,700 eBook titles. A recent addition is the International Energy Agency (IEA) statistics package.
- Oxford English Dictionary
This full text resource presents the second and in-progress third editions of the largest and most authoritative resource regarding the English language. Full pronunciation, meanings and etymologies of over half a million words are presented, with their evolution traced through 2.5 million quotations.
- Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PAMBU)
A catalogue of microfilm copies of manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands.
- PAMBU (Pacific Manuscripts Bureau)
A catalogue of microfilm copies of manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands.
- Perdita Manuscripts
Produced in association with the Perdita Project, this database includes over 230 carefully selected manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Philosophy Documentation Centre Collection journals
A small collection of journals published by the Philosophy Documentation Center.
- Project Muse
Project Muse dates from 1995 to present and is an electronic journal collection of full text/full image scholarly journals in the humanities, the arts and the social sciences from Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses.
- Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
Provides access to literary sources relating to William Wordsworth and the Romantic period, as well as works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, and Sara Hutchinson. Source documents include full manuscripts, personal correspondence, diaries, and travel journals. Over 2,500 fine art pieces are also included from the Wordsworth Trust's fine art collection.
- Sage Journals Online
Sage Journals Online is a searchable database of abstracts and table of contents for all Sage published journals, and also provides full text access to the subscribed titles in science, social science, medical science, and humanities
- Sage Knowledge (Sage Reference Online)
Sage Reference Online provides the full text of selected eBooks and eReference titles from Sage Publishing. Subject areas covered in this collection include business and management; counselling; criminology; education; geography; health and social care; media and communication; politics and international relations; psychology, and sociology.
- Sage Open
SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
- Sage Open Medical Case Reports
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports is a peer reviewed, open access journal. It publishes short case reports providing key insights into real medical cases essential for physicians, and that ultimately help to improve patient outcomes. Case reports may span the full spectrum of medicine across the health sciences in the broadest sense, including all clinical medical specialties, nursing, allied health and dentistry.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
- Sage Open Medicine
SAGE Open Medicine is a peer reviewed, open access journal which covers all aspects of medicine and welcomes articles and reviews across the health sciences in the broadest sense, including all clinical medical specialties, nursing, allied health and epidemiology. Papers are subjected to rigorous peer review and are selected basis of whether the research is sound and deserves publication. By virtue of not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, SAGE Open Medicine facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers, whether within or between disciplines.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
- Sage Reference Online
Sage Reference Online provides the full text of selected eBooks and eReference titles from Sage Publishing. Subject areas covered in this collection include business and management; counselling; criminology; education; geography; health and social care; media and communication; politics and international relations; psychology, and sociology.
- Sage Research Methods
Sage Research Methods (SRM) contains over 700 full text SRM books; hundreds of research articles from Sage journals, and dozens of Sage reference works including handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias. It has peer reviewed instructional information on a range of research approaches including basic and advanced statistics, quantitative and qualitative methods, literature review, research design and writing about research. SRM supports research and the teaching of research methods not only in the social sciences, but also in scientific and medical disciplines.
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
This database includes topics such as the African coast, the Middle Passage, slaves experience, religion, revolts, the Underground Railroad, the abolition movement, legislation, education and the legacy of slavery. Included are full text manuscripts, rare books, pamphlets, periodicals, broadsides, ephemera, maps, manuscripts, pamphlets and paintings from 1490 to 2007.
- South Asia Open Archives
The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), a subset of the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP), creates and maintains a collection of open access materials for the study of South Asia. This major collaborative initiative is aimed at addressing the current scarcity of digital resources pertinent to South Asia studies and at making collections more widely accessible both to North American scholars and to researchers worldwide.
- Theologische Realenzyklopädie Online
The Theologische Realenzyklopädie is a modern specialist encyclopaedia comprising 36 volumes of text (1976–2004) representing the present state of theological research as a whole. More than a generation of scholars have collaborated in its production, to create a unique internationally-oriented reference work containing more than 2,500 articles (on over 28,000 pages of text) which stands as a document of the history of scholarship. The TRE is an indispensable tool for research, study and teaching, principally in theology, but also in its neighbouring disciplines such as history, philosophy, Jewish studies and religious studies.
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2019
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive provides the full text facsimile edition of the Supplement from 1902 to 2005. It offers reviews of major books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, as well as essays and criticism in the areas of art, architecture, economics, exploration, history, music, philosophy, politics, religion, sport, science and medicine.
- Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
This resource brings together hundreds of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Coverage includes architecture, art, the British Empire, climate, customs, exploration, family life, housing, industry, language, monuments, mountains, natural history, politics and diplomacy, race, religion, science, shopping and war. Unique manuscripts, diaries and correspondence to drawings, guidebooks and photographs are included.
- Walter De Gruyter eBooks
De Gruyter publishes books, journals and databases in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, and also offer a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books.
- Walter De Gruyter Online
De Gruyter publishes books, journals and databases in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, and also offer a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books.
- Wiley Online Library (incl. Blackwell journals)
Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1,500 journals, over 13,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. Included are the online journals and books previously published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd., which merged with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2007.
- Women in the National Archives
This resource is comprised of two distinct elements: Original Documents on the Suffrage Question in Britain, the Empire and Colonial Territories and A Finding Aid to Women's Studies Resources in The National Archives at Kew. It contains:The Campaign for Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and The granting of women's suffrage in Colonial territories, 1930-1962
- Women's studies
A breadth of printed and manuscript sources over four centuries, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history. This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women.
Highlights include:
- Papers and rare printed works of important female writers and thinkers
- Life writing and autobiographies of a range of 18th and 19th century women
- The papers of Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, political activist and campaigner
- Diaries and correspondence of aristocratic women, giving insights into the social, political and cultural history of rich and powerful women of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Women's travel writing - manuscript and printed accounts of women travellers, missionaries, tourists and women living across the British Empire.