Databases by subject area

Administration and Management Studies

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Annual Reports Collection - provides a complete annual report for all companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Annual Reports Collection is only available on campus.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Business Source Premier - provides full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Eighty 20 - allows profiling of business and market potential within one or more geographic locations to a specified target market.
Ibisworld - provides industry and company data and business environment statistics for a wide range of Australian industries and companies.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank   - Australia's newspapers
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Applied Science

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Infopest & Infopest MSDS - a database of nationally registered agricultural and veterinary (Agvet) chemical products and their uses. Infopest is only available on campus.
Newsbank - Australia's newspapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Wild Plants of Victoria - includes distribution information and concise descriptions of nearly 4500 plant species, full-colour photographs of over 2500 species & detailed local maps.
Wild Plants is only available from the Chadstone and Waverley Campuses.
 

Arts & Communications

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles -
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Communication and Mass Media Complete - Includes full text for more than 285 journals related to communication and mass media.
Echo Newspaper Index - Australian newspaper index with a comprehensive list of media issue outlines.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Art, Design, Multimedia, Ceramics

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Communication and Mass Media Complete - Includes full text for more than 285 journals related to communication and mass media.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Business Studies

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Annual Reports Collection - provides a complete annual report for all companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Annual Reports Collection is only available on campus.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Business Source Premier - provides full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Eighty 20 - allows profiling of business and market potential within one or more geographic locations to a specified target market.
Ibisworld - provides industry and company data and business environment statistics for a wide range of Australian industries and companies.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Building Technology

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Australian Standards - includes full text Standards for Building, Plumbing and Occupational Health and Safety.
Building Code of Australia + Standards - access to both Volumes One and Two of the BCA with extensive hyperlinks between BCA clauses and referenced Australian Standards®.
BCA Illustrated - contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the Building Code of Australia with over 3000 illustrations.
Design 5 - contains abstracts of journal articles in the fields of Architecture, Building, Interior Decoration, and Furnishings held at the B5 Information Commons.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Ecospecifier - a guide to eco-preferable products and materials for the construction industry.Ecospecifier is only available on campus.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Carpentry, Joining, Glass & Glazing

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Australian Standards - includes full text Standards for Building, Plumbing and Occupational Health and Safety.
Building Code of Australia + Standards - access to both Volumes One and Two of the BCA with extensive hyperlinks between BCA clauses and referenced Australian Standards®.
BCA Illustrated - contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the Building Code of Australia with over 3000 illustrations.
Design 5 - contains abstracts of journal articles in the fields of Architecture, Building, Interior Decoration, and Furnishings held at the B5 Information Commons.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Ecospecifier - a guide to eco-preferable products and materials for the construction industry.Ecospecifier is only available on campus.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Electrical/Electronics/Engineering/Aviation

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Australian Standards - includes full text Standards for Building, Plumbing and Occupational Health and Safety.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Library, Information Science & Technology abstracts - indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings for library and IT industries.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
ProQuest Computing - includes subject areas such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, the Internet.
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Fitness & Recreation

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
AgeLine - focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
CINHAL Plus - comprehensive source of full text articles for nursing & allied health journals.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Healthsource - provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Furnishing/Interior Design

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Australian Standards - includes full text Standards for Building, Plumbing and Occupational Health and Safety.
Building Code of Australia + Standards - access to both Volumes One and Two of the BCA with extensive hyperlinks between BCA clauses and referenced Australian Standards®.
BCA Illustrated - contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the Building Code of Australia with over 3000 illustrations.
Design 5 - contains abstracts of journal articles in the fields of Architecture, Building, Interior Decoration, and Furnishings held at the B5 Information Commons.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Ecospecifier - a guide to eco-preferable products and materials for the construction industry.Ecospecifier is only available on campus.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Health Sciences

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
AgeLine - focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
CINHAL Plus - comprehensive source of full text articles for nursing & allied health journals.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Healthsource - provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Medline - including references and abstracts from over 4,300 biomedical journals and provides information on health topics and drug information.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Horticulture

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Infopest & Infopest MSDS - a database of nationally registered agricultural and veterinary (Agvet) chemical products and their uses. Infopest is only available on campus.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Wild Plants of Victoria - includes distribution information and concise descriptions of nearly 4500 plant species, full-colour photographs of over 2500 species & detailed local maps.
Wild Plants is only available from the Chadstone and Waverley Campuses.
 

Human and Community Services

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
AgeLine - focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging.
Austlii - includes full text of Australian federal and state legal cases and legislation Australasian Legal Information.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
CINHAL Plus - comprehensive source of full text articles for nursing & allied health journals.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Healthsource - provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Hospitality & Tourism

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Austlii - includes full text of Australian federal and state legal cases and legislation Australasian Legal Information
AgeLine - focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Hospitality & Tourism Index - covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Information Technology

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Library, Information Science & Technology abstracts - indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings for library and IT industries.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
ProQuest Computing - includes subject areas such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, the Internet.
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Language Programs

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Plumbing/Mechanical Services/Construction Finishing

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Australian Standards - includes full text Standards for Building, Plumbing and Occupational Health and Safety.
Building Code of Australia + Standards - access to both Volumes One and Two of the BCA with extensive hyperlinks between BCA clauses and referenced Australian Standards®.
BCA Illustrated - contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the Building Code of Australia with over 3000 illustrations.
Design 5 - contains abstracts of journal articles in the fields of Architecture, Building, Interior Decoration, and Furnishings held at the B5 Information Commons.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Ecospecifier - a guide to eco-preferable products and materials for the construction industry.Ecospecifier is only available on campus.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Trowel Trades/Industrial Skills

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Australian Standards - includes full text Standards for Building, Plumbing and Occupational Health and Safety.
Building Code of Australia + Standards - access to both Volumes One and Two of the BCA with extensive hyperlinks between BCA clauses and referenced Australian Standards®.
BCA Illustrated - contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the Building Code of Australia with over 3000 illustrations.
Design 5 - contains abstracts of journal articles in the fields of Architecture, Building, Interior Decoration, and Furnishings held at the B5 Information Commons.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Ecospecifier - a guide to eco-preferable products and materials for the construction industry. Ecospecifier is only available on campus.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
 

Vocational and Community Studies

Academic Research Library - subjects include arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
Age Schools Archive - offers information on current activities, research and other relevant materials provided by The Age newspaper.
Annual Reports Collection - provides a complete annual report for all companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre - includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides statistics on a broad range of subject areas including government, economy, education, population.
Australian Newspapers online - free access to local and international newspapers.
Business Source Premier - provides full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Ebsco Host - includes magazine and newspaper articles from local and international publishers with broad subject coverage.
Echo Newspaper Index - Australian newspaper index with a comprehensive list of media issue outlines.
Informit - eLibrary - provides full text, cover to cover, access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other research material.
Job Guide - an in-depth look at a range of occupations, and their education and training pathways.
Jobs Guide - includes information on education or training required for a particular occupation. - includes information on education or training required for a particular occupation.
Newsbank - Australia's newpapers 
Oxford Reference Online - over 100 Oxford dictionaries, plus the Oxford companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Vocational & Career Collection - provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.