Indexes Asian studies scholarly journals covering a range of subject areas, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Not a very effective database.
Academic coverage of world history from 1450 to present. Print index at SREF905/35 and SREF905/36 from 1955 onwards. Use America: History and Life for Amercian related items.
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature including peer-reviewed titles, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, patent records, scientific web pages, and seamless links to full text articles and other library resources. It is updated daily.
ISI indexes the top ranking journals in every discipline as well as having a Cited Reference Search. On entering the database, deselect the Science Citation Index.
For more subject specific databases, see the section "Databases by subject area" below, e.g Society and Communication, etc
Major database for material published in Australia.
Link MAIS (Multicultural Australia) with APAIS and search together by clicking the Change button and ticking the box next to both databases. Then click Start Searching.
Scholarly with many articles about Japan. Choose catagories from the Journal Subject for better results.
JSTOR full text early 1800 + with a moving wall 3/5 years from the present.
JSTOR now opens at the Advanced Search. Scroll down and tick relevant subject areas e.g. Language and Literature, Asian Studies etc. Then enter your search terms. N.B. Earlier articles do not have abstracts so full text searching might be necessary. TIP! To avoid book reviews, see under Narrow your search to, tick Articles e.g.
Index only. Note Select database link on interface. Click and scroll down to PAIS International 1915+. Tick both PAIS databases to search together.
Multidisciplinary databases with general and scholarly content
N.B. These are large databases and (except for Factiva) they allow researchers to limit their search to peer reviewed or scholarly journals via an option on the search page.
History Compass is an online resource from Blackwell Publishing which publishes original survey articles within 9 online journals, combined with a range of useful reference resources. Includes 'Original Articles and Expert Opinion'.
Use keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Huge range of English and foreign language neswpapers that can go back to the 1980s. Includes Le Monde and The Washington Post. Australian publications include Sydney Morning Herald (1986+), Australian Financial Review (1982+), The Age (1991+) and The Australian. To search only Australian content click Source, find My Source Lists in the drop down menu, then highlight Group: Australian Publications. Before searching check the date drop-down menu.
This is a link to the Sirius Thesis page which lists all the main resources for theses including Writing and presenting your thesis or dissertation. This can be generated independently by entering Sirius and clicking Find Resources, click Locate, using the Type dropdown menu select Theses.
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and masters theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Masters theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
Kinetica enables you to search the holdings of 850 libraries in Australia, including all the major university libraries. Postgraduates and Academic/General Staff can request the loan of items or material not held in UNSW Library via the Interlibrary Loans request form.
