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Academic Search Premier [ User Guide ]

The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated daily .

Age Schools Archive [ User Guide ]

This site offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age Education Unit. These resources are designed to support the Victorian school curriculum and enable teachers and students to get the most out of The Age newspaper every single day.

AgeLine via Ebsco [ User Guide ]

AgeLine, produced by AARP, focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. AgeLine is the premier source for the literature of social gerontology and includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. This database indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos.

Annual Reports Collection [ User Guide ]

The Annual Report Collection provides a complete annual report for all companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with a comprehensive history of reports dating back to 1992. Each report contains the full printed narrative and includes: Corporate Directory, Executive Officer, Chairman's + Director's Reports, Corporate Governance Statement, Financial Statements and Notes to the Accounts.

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AMTIL - Australian Advanced Manufacturing Yearbook. Provides a comprehensive picture of the Australian manufacturing technology and advanced manufacturing industry. Includes information about the Australian economy, GDP, inflation, monetary policy, interest rates, unemployment, comoditiy prices, exchange rates etc.

Austlii [ User Guide ]

Web based database of the full text of Australian federal and state legal cases and legislation. Includes information about the Australian economy, GDP, inflation, monetary policy, interest rates, unemployment etc.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
Online version of the journal which has issues going back to 2002.Please contact us for login details.

Australia New Zealand Reference Centre [ User Guide ]

The Australia/NZ Reference Centre combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to schools, public libraries, and academic institutions.

Australian Bureau of Statistics [ User Guide ]

The ABS provides statistics on a wide range of economic and social matters, serving government, business and the general population. Statistics on the ABS website can be accessed free of charge.

Australian Family and Society Plus [ User Guide ]

Produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. Subject coverage includes children and child development; adolescence and youth; the aged and services to the aged; marriage and divorce; adoption and foster care; child abuse and domestic violence; child care; family economics; counselling and therapy; employment and unemployment; family law; health; housing; health policy and services; minority families; population studies; social change and social issues; social and community services; and sexual attitudes and behaviours.

Australian Newspapers Online

Free access to local and international newspapers.

Australian Public Affairs [ User Guide ]

This an online collection of scanned images of articles from more than 300 Australian journals indexed in APAIS, the Australian Public Affairs Information Service produced by the National Library of Australia. It focuses on a variety of subject areas including social science, education, current affairs, business economics, humanities, health and law.

Australian Standards [ User Guide ] [2 concurrent users]

Lists of all Australian and New Zealand Standards with full text of Building, Plumbing and Occupational Health and Safety standards.

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BCA Illustrated [User Guide]

BCA Illustrated contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the Building Code of Australia. This web based format provides over 3000 illustrations, allowing you to use the high powered searching facilities to locate clauses in the BCA and to view explanations and illustrations.

 

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Business Searching Interface via Ebsco
Includes Company Profiles,Country Reports, Industry Profiles, Market Research Reports, Product Reviews,SWOT analyses.

Business Source Premier [ User Guide ]

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily.

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CINAHL plus with full text [ User Guide ]

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL.

The Cochrane Library [ User Guide ]

This consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including nearly 3500 Cochrane reviews published in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. These reviews explore the evidence for and against the effectiveness and appropriateness of treatments (medications, surgery, education, etc) in specific circumstances.

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete [ User Guide ]

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 730 periodicals.  

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Directory of Open Access Journals [ User Guide ]

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Design 5 [ User Guide ]

Design 5 is a database developed and maintained by Holmesglen Learning Commons staff. It contains abstracts of journal articles in the fields of Architecture, Building, Interior Decoration, and Furnishings.

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Ebsco Databases [ User Guide ]

Magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage. Includes major databases: Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, World Magazine Bank, CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing & Academic, Ageline, Hospitality & Tourism Index, Vocational Career Collection, Communication & Mass Media Complete and EBSCO Animals

Echo Newspaper Index [ User Guide ]

Web based Australian newspaper index with a comprehensive list of media issue outlines.

Ecospecifier [ User Guide ] [5 users only]

Ecospecifier is a guide to eco-preferable products and materials for the construction industry. It's aim is to help architects, designers, builders and specifiers shortcut the materials sourcing process. It's broader aim is to help create a more sustainable physical environment by increasing the use of environmentally preferable and healthy products, materials and design processes.
Ecospecifier is
only available from the Chadstone and Waverley Campuses.

Eighty 20 [ User Guide ] [55 concurrent users]

Allows profiling of business and market potential within one or more geographic locations to a specified target market. The data is based on the 2001 and 1996 Census.

Emerald [User Guide]

This allows access to 175 management titles published by Emerald plus a further 300 of the world's best management and business journals taken from Emerald Management Reviews from the world's top 300 management journals. Further access to over 85,000 full text management articles.
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Emu - Austral Ornithology

Is the premier journal for ornithological research and reviews in the Southern Hemisphere. Includes high-quality papers in all branches of bird research, including conservation biology and applied ornithology.
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Environmental Health Australia Journal [User Guide]
Electronic version of the periodical. Issues go back to 2001 and includes the current issue.

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Family and Society Plus via Informit [ User Guide ]

A full text database that includes subject areas such as children and child development; adolescence and youth; the aged and services to the aged; marriage and divorce; adoption and foster care; child abuse and domestic violence; child care; family economics; counselling and therapy; employment and unemployment; family law; health; housing; health policy and services; minority families; population studies; social change and social issues; social and community services; and sexual attitudes and behaviours.
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Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text [ User Guide ]

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database will provide cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications (and selected coverage of 301), as well as full text for more than 90 journals.  

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Health Source via EBSCO [ User Guide ]

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated daily.

Hospitality & Tourism Complete [ User Guide ]

Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 749,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is full text for 440 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.  

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Ibisworld Industry Reports [ User Guide ]

Covers a wide range of Australian industries within their 3 databases, providing Industry and Company data and Business Environment statistics. Most suitable for business and marketing students.
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IDP Education database [ User Guide ]

This database was formerly known as AEI - Australian Education International.
Searchable web database of research relevant to Australian and international research on education. The database is updated monthly and currently contains details of over 4000 books, articles, conference papers and reports with up to date emerging trends.
Infopest & Infopest MSDS

InfoPest is a database of nationally registered agricultural and veterinary (Agvet) chemical products and their uses.
Infopest is only available on campus.

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JBI Connect [User Guide]

A collection of evidence-based resources designed to assist in the clinical decision-making process and to support best practice.

Job Guide [User Guide]

Provides an in-depth look at a range of occupations, and their education and training pathways. It also gives useful information about how to work out what occupations suit you best, based on your interests and abilities.

Jobs Guide [User Guide]

Includes information on over 600 occupations for school leavers and older people who are seeking a career change. It has links to education or training required for a particular occupation.

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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts [ User Guide ]

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

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Margaret Gee's Australian Media Guide

With extensive listings for over 25,000 media contacts and 3,000 media outlets, Margaret Gee's Australian Media Guide is the ideal reference for: identifying the best channel for your next PR or marketing campaign; maximising your access to free press and garnering a better understanding of this expansive industry.

Medline [User Guide]

The site contains health information including references and abstracts from over 4,300 biomedical journals and provides information on health topics and drug information. The site has links to medical dictionaries and directories.
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Mims Online [User Guide]

Incorporating data from MIMS abbreviated and full medicines information, product images and consumer medicines information, MIMS Online offers convenient access to essential information for prescription and non-prescription medicines.

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Newsbank [ User Guide ]

Complete full-text content of more than 100 local, regional, and national newspapers from around Australia.

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Oxford Reference Online [ User Guide ]

This general reference resource has over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, all in a single cross-searchable resource.

Ozjac [User Guide]

Provides information about accredited courses, their providers and jobs to assist you to make informed career decisions. The database allows searching on what training is linked to a particular job, or which jobs are linked to a particular course.

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Regional Business News [ User Guide ]

This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated daily.

Research Starters - Business
Research Starters are study and research guides for business students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts.

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Vocational Studies Complete [ User Guide ]

Vocational Studies Complete contains more than 1,700 full-text journals as well as more than 200 full-text books. This database is designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, and provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associates program level content. Vocational Studies Complete offers information from many sources that are unique to this database.  

VOCED [ User Guide ]

Contains information on vocational and adult education from Australian and New Zealand published and unpublished sources such as questionnaires, reports and journal articles.

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Wild Plants of Victoria [ User Guide ]

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to wild plants in Victoria including distribution information and concise descriptions of nearly 4500 plant species; full-colour photographs of over 2500 species; detailed local maps showing roads, rivers, towns, parks, public land, topography, vegetation, soils, climate and more; searching facilities to find all plant species recorded for any area on any map; filters on plant characteristics such as flower and general appearance.
Please contact Waverley campus for password to access online.