E-resources and databases
starting with "P"
- PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas)
A reference resource providing access to full text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content. Subject coverage includes anthropology, business and economics, history, literature, political science, and sociology.
- 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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Propaganda and the Chinese Press: Global Perspectives, 1946–1996
Contains articles from Xinhua, the official news agency of the People's Republic of China, covering foreign and domestic affairs from 1946-1996, translated into English
- ProQuest
A multidisciplinary database which provides access to 22 ProQuest databases, with a variety of content across more than 160 subjects including business, science and technology, health and medical, social science, arts and humanities, and international news. Contents include abstract, index, and full text articles.
- ProQuest Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection
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.
- ProQuest Art & Architecture Archive (1860-2015)
The Art and Architecture Archive (1860-2015) is a valuable resource for scholars of 20th-century art, design, and architecture. It offers access to visually rich consumer and trade magazines that document key developments, industry news, and artworks, which are often absent from scholarly journals. This archive supports scholarship and inspires creativity by providing access to essential magazines from around the world. Additionally, it streamlines academic institutions' operations by reducing the need for print journal subscriptions, and saving on budget, shelving, and archiving costs. Moreover, it caters to various disciplines such as art history, studio art, social and economic history, cultural studies, design, photography, business, marketing, and restoration.
- ProQuest Asian & European Business Collection
This database provides business and financial information from over 600 academic journals, newspapers newswires, and magazine across Asia and Europe.
- ProQuest civil war era
Covers the period 1840-1865 through newspapers and pamphlets. Topics include the economic factors, the abolitionist movement, casualties, and slavery. Full text, abstract, index as well as images can be accessed.
- ProQuest dissertations & theses global
This digital multidisciplinary archive for the Library of Congress includes millions of citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations available for download in PDF format.
- Proquest Ebook Central
A multidisciplinary collection of ebooks.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: London Evening Standard (1827-current)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
- Proquest news & newspapers
This newspaper collection includes nine databases:
- Australia & New Zealand Newsstream - access to leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers;
- Canadian Newsstream - access to the full text of over 400 Canadian news sources from Canada's leading publishers;
- ProQuest Civil War Era - a vast range of topics including the formative economic factors and other forces that led to the abolitionist movement, the 600,000 battle casualties and the emancipation of nearly 4 million slaves;
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Scotsman
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India
- ProQuest One Academic
ProQuest One Academic brings together four core multi-disciplinary products - ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, providing access to the world’s largest curated collection of journals, ebooks, dissertations, news and video.
- ProQuest One Literature (Formerly Literature Online (LION))
ProQuest One Literature brings together the most comprehensive collection of primary texts, ebooks, reference sources, full-text journals, dissertations, video and more, for unparalleled access to historical and contemporary content by and about celebrated and lesser-known authors from around the world.
- Proquest Politics Collection
This database gives users access to literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. It provides abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more.
- ProQuest Prisma
A reference resource providing access to full text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content. Subject coverage includes anthropology, business and economics, history, literature, political science, and sociology.
- PsycBooks (see APA PsycBooks)
PsycBooks via Ovid is a full-text database that provides electronic access to thousands of scholarly and professional titles published by APA on psychological and behavioural science, plus substantial back files of classic and historic works from 1950 till the present. All volumes of the APA Handbooks in Psychology reference series have recently been added to this collection.
- Psychology database
This database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology, and psychometrics.
- PsycInfo (see APA PsycInfo)
Abstracting and indexing database of peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health including related disciplines such as medicine, law, social work, neuroscience, business, nursing, forensics and engineering.
- PubChem
PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.
- Public Petitions to Parliament 1833-1918
The Public Petitions to Parliament collection includes Records of the Select Committee on Public Petitions, allowing researchers to gain insight on the formative role of petitions to Parliament during the 19th century (1833-1918), an unparalleled period of political modernization and democratization in Britain. Public Petitions to Parliament are very important indicators of the views and priorities of both the populace and Parliament. How Parliament addresses the petition, or doesn’t address it, is a stark indicator of political and social priorities.
- PubMed
PubMed® comprises more than millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Click "Find it at ANU" for ANU subscribed full text.