E-resources and databases
starting with "A"
- 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 Adam Matthew Digital collection provides unique primary source collections from archives around the world. ANU has access to these collections: Age of Exploration; Archives Direct; China, America and the Pacific; China: Culture and Society; China: Trade, Politics and Culture; Defining Gender; 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; India, Raj and Empire; Literary Manuscripts Leeds; London Low Life; Mass Observation Online; Medieval Travel Writing; Perdita Manuscripts; Research Source; Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape; Shakespeare's Global Archive; Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice; Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - 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.
- 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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - 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.
- 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.
- Annual Reviews current journal collection
A collection of journals in science and social sciences published by Annual Reviews.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Anthropological Fieldwork Online
Anthropological Fieldwork Online brings the fieldwork underpinning the great ethnographies of the early 20th century into the digital world. This fully indexed, primary source database unfolds the historical development of anthropology from a global perspective, bringing together the work of early scholars who shaped the theories and methods students learn about, critique and re-shape today. Content is focused around each scholar's prominent field experience, with comprehensive inclusion of fieldwork, contextualizing documents from the same time period, including correspondence, and subsequent writings that led to major publications such as draft manuscripts, lectures and articles. Scholars can trace the full scholarly process in all of its stages, from qualitative data gathering to analysis through publication, while cross-searching contemporaneous research from the most important scholars in the discipline. Includes the original fieldwork of anthropologists such as: Bronislaw Malinowski, Victor and Edith Turner, Max Gluckman, Raymond Firth, Ruth Benedict, Charles Seligman, Edith Durham and others
- Anthropology
The Anthropology collections offer comprehensive, multimedia resources for the study of anthropology, including the largest collection of ethnographic videos and previously unpublished archival field materials. Content is presented on a multimedia platform that reflects the integrated methods of field research, through linking and cross-searchability of text, audio-visual and archival primary sources. Our resources work in tandem to bring the fieldwork process to life by juxtaposing original fieldwork with subsequent published ethnographies, as well as follow up studies and visual ethnographies that span a century.
- Anthropology Resource Library
The Anthropology collections offer comprehensive, multimedia resources for the study of anthropology, including the largest collection of ethnographic videos and previously unpublished archival field materials. Content is presented on a multimedia platform that reflects the integrated methods of field research, through linking and cross-searchability of text, audio-visual and archival primary sources. Our resources work in tandem to bring the fieldwork process to life by juxtaposing original fieldwork with subsequent published ethnographies, as well as follow up studies and visual ethnographies that span a century.
- Anthrosource
An online service of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource is a portal offering access to current content from AAA's diverse portfolio of 32 anthropological publications including journals, books, monographs, bulletins, and newsletters spanning more than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge. Founded in 1902, the AAA is the world's largest organisation of individuals interested in anthropology.
- ANU digital theses
This online database of digital Australian and Australian National University theses. The Australasian Digital Thesis Program which previously housed these is now defunct however electronic theses are now accessible from the National Library’s Trove Service. [Insert hyperlink http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34788158?q=australian+digital+thesis&c=article&versionId=43117737 ]