E-resources and databases
starting with "S"
- Safari Books Online
This digital reference library provides access to over more than 36,700 titles and 4,800 videos in subject areas of IT, software, business and technology, Internet, workplace IT resources and other allied technology applications. The interface offers mobile access, downloading and personalization functionality.
First time users must Register by entering your ANU email. You will then be emailed a link from Safari to create your own password. Once registered, you can click on the link Already a user? Click here option on the screen. You can then Sign in with your ANU email and your Safari password. Off-campus access is via the use of an app. Please see her for more information on downloading the app. https://www.safaribooksonline.com/apps/
You can print using Ctrl+P or by copying and pasting sections into a text editor to print.
- 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 health sciences, social science and humanities, medical sciences and engineering, as well as life and biomedical sciences.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - 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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - 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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - 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).
Authorised for ANU alumni access - 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).
Authorised for ANU alumni access - 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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Sage Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods contains books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including a large collection of qualitative methods books available online. SAGE Research Methods Cases provides case studies written by the researchers to show the challenges and successes of doing research; SAGE Research Methods Datasets collects teaching datasets and instructional guides for users to learn data analysis; SAGE Research Methods Video contains tutorials, case study videos, expert interviews, and more on the entire research methods and statistics curriculum.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, Japan (CiNii)
CiNii from the Japan National Institute of Informatics is a multidisciplinary database of academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database; books and journals held by university libraries in Japan; and dissertations written for doctoral degrees in Japan conferred by Japanese Universities and the National Institute for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation.
- Science database
This database is a resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, it features over 1,000 titles, with more than 700 available in full text.
- ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
This database offers journal articles, book chapters, open access publications and articles on physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.
- ScienceDirect eBooks
ScienceDirect e-books provides access to over 17,000 e-books; 59,000 major reference works chapters; 8,100 time-stamped reference module articles, and 200,500 book and handbook series chapters. A number are accessible full text to ANU staff and students. ScienceDirect offers books in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences as well as social sciences and humanities, and many of the titles are published under the renowned Academic Press, Woodhead Publishing, and Gulf Professional Publishing imprints.
- SciFinder-n (see login procedure)
SciFinder-n, produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), is a comprehensive database featuring CAS Registry (source for chemical substance data), CAS Reference (collection of published scientific literature dating back to the early 1800s), CAS Patents (key invention details published by global patent authorities), CAS Reactions (collection of synthetic organic reaction data), CAS Commercial sources (supplier catalog listings for commercially available chemicals), CAS Formulations (collection of formulations details), plus integrated access to MethodsNow Synthesis, PatentPak, and other resources.
To use SciFinder-n, you must create your own username and password. - Scitation (American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings)
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.
- Scopus
Scopus is a curated abstract and citation database of scholarly literature across 240 disciplines, covering documents dating back to 1788, cited references from 1970 onward, author profiles, books, publishers and institutional profiles.
- Screen Studies
Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond – containing books, screenplays, overview articles and learning resources from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, the British Film Institute, Focal Press and Auteur (LUP). It comprises an exceptional collection of award-winning screenplays, critical and contextual books on film from the late nineteenth century to the present, and an interactive timeline of cinema history.
- Scripta sinica (漢籍電子文獻資料庫)
The database contains digitized materials essential to research in traditional Sinology, including almost all of the important Chinese classics, especially those related to Chinese history.
- SEGO
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online (SEG) is an annual publication collecting newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents. It covers the entire Greek world from the early Greek period until the 8th century A.D. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum presents complete Greek texts, and a critical apparatus, of new inscriptions; it summarizes new readings, interpretations, and studies of known inscriptions, and occasionally presents the Greek text of these documents
- SETIS: Australian Literary and Historical Texts
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.
- Sex & sexuality
This collection explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Investigating the breadth and complexity of human sexual understanding through the work of leading sexologists, sex researchers, organizations and personal accounts
- Shakespeare Records
A searchable database of over 1,100 entries: transcriptions of deeds; wills; estate inventories; indentures; lawsuits; letters; diary extracts and other material. A unique compilation of everything that can be documented about Shakespeare, his family, his theatrical associations and much more.
- Shakespeare Survey Online
Shakespeare Survey is a series of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.
- Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance
This collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment. It documents over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programmes, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Shen Bao (申报) 1872-1949 full-text
Full text of the former Shanghai News, founded by British businessman Ernest Major in 1872.
- SIAM eBooks
Published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), this resource provides access to SIAM ebooks on the IG publishing platform. These e-books are a very valuable resource for applied mathematicians and computational scientists.