E-resources and databases
starting with "A"
- 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. Updated weekly.
- APA PsycInfo
APA PsycInfo via Ovid Is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Updated weekly.
- APAIS (Australian public affairs information service) index
This social sciences and humanities bibliographic database covers Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs from 1978 onwards. It includes a wide range of materials including Australian journals and conference materials.Many articles are available in full text.
- Apartheid : global perspectives, 1946-1996
This database contains news reports about apartheid from South Africa and from around the world. The reports include transcripts of radio and television broadcasts as well as articles from newspapers. The reports 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. The reports were selected for their informational value to keep policy-makers informed of global concerns. When necessary, the reports were translated into English. No U.S. papers or broadcasts are included in this database.
- APECLIT - Asia Pacific economic cooperation
A bibliography of published materials about the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group (APEC).
- Applied social sciences index and abstracts:ASSIA
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) is designed to serve the information needs of the caring professions, including practitioners, researchers, and students in healthcare, social services, education, and related areas. It is focused on a core of around 500 of the most relevant English language scholarly journals covering aspects of health and social care from a broadly social scientific perspective.
Coverage: 1987 - current
- Arabic dictionary
The 'Oxford Arabic Dictionary' is based on real modern evidence and computational analysis of hundreds of millions of words of both English and modern standard Arabic. It holds more than 130,000 words and phrases and 200,000 translations. It is designed for native speakers of both English and Arabic and is fully searchable in either language.
- Archaeology data service
Bringing together material from the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB), archaeological publishers and reports, journals and documents from the ADS Archives, the database provides bibliographic information for books, journals and reports that have British and Irish archaeological content.
- Archive Finder
Archive Finder is a current directory of over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Designed as a research tool, Archive Finder is a central collection of archival information providing descriptions of primary sources held in various kinds of repositories. This product is updated annually.
Archive Finder draws from three major information sources: the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS), the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
- Archives of the Grand Secretariat (內閣大庫檔案)
The Archives contains over four thousand Ming (1368-1644) documents and more than three hundred thousand volumes of Ch’ing (1644-1911) archival materials, including imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute document, examination questions, examination papers, rosters of successful examination candidates, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden. Memorials make up the bulk these documents.
- Area Studies: Japan
A wide range of sources, by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, missionaries and others, documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan from 1400 to the 20th century.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - ARIBIB (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut BIBliographical Database for Astronomical References)
ARIBIB is a freely available online database for astronomical bibliography. The bibliographical information is given in a variety of formats including Image format, Index format, or Reference format. The ARIBIB contains references to the literature from all volumes of Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (literature of the year 1969 to literature of the first part of the year 2000) in the Reference format.
- Art full text
This comprehensive resource covers fine, decorative and commercial art-forms. It includes many artists and all genres of art through access to full text articles from 1995 and indexes/abstracts from 1984 along with 200,000 art reproductions. It is also useful for research into fields as diverse as women’s, media or cultural studies as well as history, anthropology and industrial design.
- Art index retrospective
Art Index Retrospective is an index to nearly 600 art periodicals published between 1929 and 1984.
Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in periodicals, and citations to over 25,000 book reviews.
- ARTbibliographies modern
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) indexes and provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, dissertations, and exhibition reviews published since the late 1960s.
ABM covers contemporary art and modern art from the late 19th century onwards. Subjects include: art history & theory, performance, installation, film & video, digital art, animation, body art, graffiti, textile design, jewellery, artist's books, theatre design, ceramics, glass, graphic design, fashion, photography, painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
- Arts & humanities citation index (web of science)
The index is part of the Web of Science Core Collection. It indexes every piece of content cover-to-cover of over 1800 journals across 28 arts and humanities disciplines, providing cited references dating back to 1975.
- Arts & humanities database
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.
- Asahi shinbun: Kikuzo II Visual
The Kikuzo II Visual from the Asahi Shimbun Company is an online article database that permits easy investigation of past events, and is available in many universities and libraries both in and outside Japan. It is the largest newspaper article database in Japan, permitting searches of 15 million articles and advertisements from more than 135 years of the newspaper, from its first edition in 1879 (Meiji 12) to today. Most of the articles that can be searched using keywords in the Asahi Shimbun Reduced-size Facsimile Edition are from the newspaper editions published in Tokyo, but pages from the editions published in Osaka are also stored, so it is possible to compare the two editions with different content by searching on publication date. Articles since 1985 are available for full-text searching, and can be read with the full-text displayed. The database also contains articles from the magazines 'AERA' and 'Shukan Asahi'. Furthermore, the Historical Photo Archive, a database of approximately 10 thousand photographic records mostly taken in Asia during the World War II period, is available as well. English-language News Database, Asahi Graph, Who's Who database, Image Database of Regional pages, Overseas Editions and contemporary Dictionary Chiezo are also available.
- Asia and the West
Asia and the West features primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the nineteenth century. These invaluable documents—many never before available—include government reports, diplomatic correspondences, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more. Documents are sourced from The National Archives, Kew; The National Archives, United States; and other collections.
This unmatched resource allows scholars to explore in great detail the history of British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and many other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, offering first-hand accounts and revealing the human side of international politics, as well as nautical charts, maps, shipping ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports for more than a century of world history.
- Asian & European business collection
Collection of citations, abstracts and selected full text articles from print and electronic journals and newspapers in business and financial information across Asia and Europe. This database also includes information on specific economic and market conditions in countries and regions throughout the regions.
- AsianLII (Asian legal information institute)
A free access website for legal information from all 28 countries and territories in Asia, which enables searching and browsing databases of legislation, case-law, law reform reports, law journals and other legal information, where available, from each country. Also contains APEC, ASEAN and SAARC agreements, declarations and conventions, and other international agreements and treaties.
- Astrophysics data service (ADS)
Instrumentation Abstract Service is part of Astrophysics Data System (ADS), and is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 10.1 million records including astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and arXiv e-prints. All abstracts and articles in the ADS are copyrighted by the publisher and their use is free for personal use only.
- ATNS: Agreements, treaties and negotiated settlements project
An online gateway to a wealth of information relating to agreements between indigenous people and others in Australia and overseas. It involves comparative research that draws on anthropology, geography, demography, law and public policy to identify and analyse impediments to indigenous socio-economic empowerment.p>
- AusAnthrop Australian aboriginal tribal database
This is an online reference database on Australian Aboriginal tribes, nations, languages and dialectal groups. It caters for alternative names and spellings of tribes, places and dialects with links to archival files at the South Australian Museum.
- AustLII (Australasian legal information institute)
A series of full-text databases containing most Australian Court and Tribunal decisions and legislation. AustLII also includes a number of subject specific databases; an extensive law reform collection; a growing law journal collection, and the most comprehensive online index to Australian law.