E-resources and databases
starting with "S"
- Safari Online (see O'Reilly)
O’Reilly for Higher Education connects researchers, students, and faculty to essential business and technology resources in a modern digital learning ecosystem. More than 47,000 books, over 30,000 hours of video, and resources such as case studies, and expert playlists make O’Reilly a must-have resource for libraries striving to prepare today’s learners for the future. O’Reilly supports users at all levels with multiple learning styles through rich and varied formats, responsive design, and an intuitive user experience that works on any screen size. Information on the mobile app for off campus use can be found here.
First time users must Register by clicking on the link Institution not listed? and then entering your ANU email. You will then be emailed a link from O’Reilly to create your own password. Once registered, you can click on the link Already a user? And then Sign in with your ANU email and your O’Reilly password.
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 - SAGE research methods: Business [trial]
Evidence-based business decisions require robust, dependable analysis. This multimedia collection is focused on helping you deliver this. From identifying a testable question to collecting and analyzing data, it equips you with the tools to deliver data you can trust. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are covered, including psychological methods used to analyze consumer behavior.
- 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.
- SciVal
ANU has a subscription to SciVal, a tool for citation-based research evaluation using Elsevier’s Scopus database. SciVal supports the analysis and evaluation of research publications, and enables benchmarking of performance against global peers across a range of metrics. SciVal also allows a detailed view of topic areas and associations between people and organisations that can help identify potential collaborators.
- 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.
- Security Studies
Explore a wide range of journals, ebooks, and approximately 20,000 Open Access research reports in the field of security studies. This content looks at security studies through a broad lens, encompassing research on international security and peace and conflict studies from all corners of the globe.Authorised for ANU alumni access
- 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.