E-resources and databases
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- ABI/INFORM Collection
The database features thousands of full text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country and industry focused reports and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
- Academic Video Online (AVON)
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. The titles span the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.)
- Accounting, tax & banking collection
Contains highly ranked global and scholarly publications, many with full text. Sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.
- Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection (ProQuest)
This database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.
- ACM digital library (Association for Computing Machinery)
This collection of full text articles and bibliographic records covers the fields of computing and information technology. It includes the complete collection of ACM's publications including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles. It is also integrated with the Guide to Computing Literature bibliography.
- Adam Matthew Digital Collections
The AM Digital Collections provides unique primary source collections from archives around the world. ANU has access to the following collections:
- Age of Exploration;
- Archives Direct;
- China, America and the Pacific;
- China: Culture and Society;
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture;
- Defining Gender;
- Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life, 1500-1700;
- East India Company;
- Eighteenth Century Journals;
- Empire Online;
- Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920;
- Ethnomusicology;
- First World War;
- Global Commodities;
- Frontier Life;
- Grand Tour;
- Gender : identity and social change;
- India, Raj and Empire;
- Literary Manuscripts Leeds;
- Literary Manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library;
- Literary Print Culture: The Stationer's Company Archive;
- London Low Life;
- Mass Observation Online;
- Medical Services and Warfare;
- Medieval Travel Writing;
- Perdita Manuscripts;
- Research Source;
- Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape;
- Sex & Sexuality;
- Shakespeare's Global Archive;
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice;
- Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Adam Matthew Research Methods
AM Research Methods is an exciting new platform that introduces humanities and social science students to the key approaches and methodologies of working with source material. Designed to be used in the classroom or for independent study, this resource will empower students to engage with primary sources and assess historical evidence with confidence.
At the heart of Research Methods, you will find nearly 200 hundred essays, videos, "How to" guides and case studies by subject specialists which answer all of your questions about working with primary sources. From guidance on where you can find historical documents, to the questions you might want to pose and how best to approach analysing the content they hold, this platform gathers together practical advice and instruction from experts working around the world.
includes the following modules
- Primary Sources
- Module II: Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives
- AEI (Australian Education Index)
AEI is an index to materials at all levels of education and related fields, including educational research, policy administration, teacher education, curriculum, educational psychology and library and information science.
- African American music reference
African-American Music Reference is a comprehensive reference database that chronicles the rich history of African-American music through 1970. The database offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression - and the only electronic access to this coverage. Resources include biographies, anthologies, encyclopedias, images, lyrics (digitized and fully searchable), song sheets, chronologies, critical textbooks, a comprehensive discography of the top African-American artists, and links to editorially selected Web resources. It contains reference materials that include rare and previously unpublished items.
- Age of Exploration
Explore five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes, and decades-long search and rescue attempts in this multi-archive collection dedicated to the history of exploration.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - AGIS: Attorney general's information service
Records cover various aspects of law - including content from major law journals published in UK, Canada and USA - from 1975 onwards. Subject coverage includes administrative law, banking, companies and securities, constitutional law, copyright law, criminal law, environmental law, family law, human rights, international law, legal aid, and trade practices.
- AGRICOLA: Agricultural and life sciences literature
Agricola is the US National Agricultural Library catalogue. It consists of two subsets of records: citations and bibliographic records. The database contains all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
- Al Manhal eLibrary
Al Manhal eLibrary provides access to full-text searchable publications (books, peer-reviewed journals, strategic studies, academic dissertations and educational videos) across a diverse range of topics from the Arab world’s leading publishers.
- Allied Propaganda in World War II and the British Political Warfare Executive
This collection presents the complete files of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) kept at the U.K. National Archives as FO 898 from its instigation to closure in 1946, along with the secret minutes of the special 1944 War Cabinet Committee "Breaking the German Will to Resist." Included in the archive is all the correspondence, minutes and agents' mission files along with a complete collection of all the airborne propaganda leaflets dropped over mainland Europe during the war by the British and American air forces. These leaflets, single sheets and miniature books are often highly illustrated, sometimes satirical and sometimes intended to boost morale with speeches or addresses from exiled leaders. They were produced in all nine languages of the recipient countries.
- AM Digital Collections
The AM Digital Collections provides unique primary source collections from archives around the world. ANU has access to the following collections:
- Age of Exploration;
- Archives Direct;
- China, America and the Pacific;
- China: Culture and Society;
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture;
- Defining Gender;
- Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life, 1500-1700;
- East India Company;
- Eighteenth Century Journals;
- Empire Online;
- Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920;
- Ethnomusicology;
- First World War;
- Global Commodities;
- Frontier Life;
- Grand Tour;
- Gender : identity and social change;
- India, Raj and Empire;
- Literary Manuscripts Leeds;
- Literary Manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library;
- Literary Print Culture: The Stationer's Company Archive;
- London Low Life;
- Mass Observation Online;
- Medical Services and Warfare;
- Medieval Travel Writing;
- Perdita Manuscripts;
- Research Source;
- Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape;
- Sex & Sexuality;
- Shakespeare's Global Archive;
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice;
- Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - AM Research Methods
AM Research Methods is an exciting new platform that introduces humanities and social science students to the key approaches and methodologies of working with source material. Designed to be used in the classroom or for independent study, this resource will empower students to engage with primary sources and assess historical evidence with confidence.
At the heart of Research Methods, you will find nearly 200 hundred essays, videos, "How to" guides and case studies by subject specialists which answer all of your questions about working with primary sources. From guidance on where you can find historical documents, to the questions you might want to pose and how best to approach analysing the content they hold, this platform gathers together practical advice and instruction from experts working around the world.
includes the following modules
- Primary Sources
- Module II: Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives
- American Film Institute (AFI) catalog
The AFI Catalog, the premier, authoritative resource of American film information, covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1993, with additional records covering selected major films from 1994 to 2015. Every film produced on American soil or by American production companies is indexed from the birth of cinema to the present day. New records are created by the AFI editorial team and added each year.
- American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings (Scitation)
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings reports the findings presented at scientific meetings from large international conferences to small specialist workshops. The proceedings span the physical sciences, including physics, math, chemistry, materials science and engineering.
- American proxy wars : Korea and Vietnam : global perspectives, 1946-1975
This collection of primary source documents was curated by a U.S. government organization that became part of the CIA as part of a program monitoring media from around the world. The collection contains translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books covering the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts.
- American race relations : global perspectives, 1941-1996
This database contains thousands of news articles, radio transcripts, and television transcripts from around the world. They were chosen by a U.S. government agency called the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)--which became part of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947--to be disseminated among government officials and decision makers. Where necessary, the materials were translated into English from their original language. No U.S. papers or broadcasts are included in this database
- American Statistical Association publications
Access to the American Statistical Association’s portfolio of journals, plus complimentary access to Math Horizons as well as selected statistics and mathematics journals from Taylor & Francis.
- America’s Historical Newspapers: Nineteenth Century Collection
This collection offers searchable digital facsimiles of thousands of titles from all 50 states. With eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, obituaries and much more, this collection uniquely chronicles the evolution of American culture and daily life through this period.
- AMH Online
Australian Medicines Handbook is a peer-reviewed medicines prescribing guide for Australian health professionals.
- Amnesty International Archive
Explore the growth of the human rights movement during the second half of the twentieth century through the International Secretariat records of Amnesty International. The material within this collection is vital for studying the history of key political events, global social change and the development of a global movement for human rights covering themes including state violence, political prisoners, minority rights and more.
- Année philologique
L’Année philologique, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. The bibliography is published in print and online. The online database includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.
L’Année philologique covers a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics—which includes early Christian texts and patristics—Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy.
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