E-resources and databases
starting with "A"
- Australian library & information science abstracts
Produced by ACHLIS (Australian Clearing House for Library and Information Science), is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on library science, information science, information technology, children's literature and archives. Source documents include monographs, research reports, conference papers, periodical articles and unpublished materials.
Coverage is from 1982 to April 2005.
- Australian literary and historical texts (via SETIS)
Produced by Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) at the University of Sydney Library, the collection contains more than 300 Australian literary and historical texts. Texts are listed in alphabetical order by author's name. Users can also search keywords or browse by category.
- Australian Medicines Handbook
Australian Medicines Handbook is a peer-reviewed medicines prescribing guide for Australian health professionals.
- Australian newspapers on Trove
Digitised newspapers is a part of the National Library of Australia’s TROVE database and is freely available. It includes digitised newspapers from every Australian State and Territory with over 11 million pages from over 600 Australian newspapers. Newly digitised articles are added daily.
- Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)
The Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) is an interoperable online network of marine and climate data resources. The AODN was formed through a collaboration between six Australian Commonwealth Agencies with primary responsibility for marine data. Since its inception, the AODN has grown to encompass organisations and individual members of the Australian, New Zealand and Pacific marine research community.
- Australian public affairs full text (APAFT)
This index and full text database provides access to scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities and is based on the journal indexing of APAIS (Australian public affairs information service). Coverage from 1995 onwards.
- Australian sport database
This bibliographic database, produced by the National Sport Information Centre, Australian Sports Commission, indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian sport. Source documents include journals, monographs, conference papers, government reports, theses, videotapes and audiocassettes.
- Australian standards
i2i Essentials Standards provides online access to the full text of all Australian standards; their international equivalents; withdrawn and superseded standards; document history; and referenced standards. Covers subject areas in the technical and business areas. Full text access is provided for one user at a time, but other users may be conducting a search while full text access is taking place. Users are required to register and authenticate when downloading a document.
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- Australian tourism index (ATI)
ATI contains bibliographic information on Australian documentation concerning sport, recreation and tourism from 1982 to 1988, tourism only from 1989, and on tourism and hospitality from 1996 to June 2000. Source documents include books, conference proceedings, audiovisual material, newspapers, journals, reports, commercial publications, unpublished material and government documents.
- AUSTROM
Austrom is an umbrella title given to a suite of databases dealing with a broad range of Australian topics.
Databases on AUSTROM include : AEI (Australian education index); AFPD (Australian Federal Police digest); AGIS (Attorney-General's information service); ALISA (Australian library & information science abstracts); APAIS (Australian public affairs information service); ARCH (Australian architecture database); ATI (Australian tourism index); AUSPORT (Australian sport database); CINCH (Australian criminology database); CSI (Consumer sciences index); DELTAA (Database on English language teaching for adults in Australasia); FAMILY (Australian family & society abstracts database); MAIS (Multicultural Australia and immigration studies)