Foresight

Databases

Academic Search Complete on EBSCOhost Provides full text for nearly 1,380 journals covering the social sciences
Business Source Complete on EBSCOhost Business database with over 1300 titles in full text
Emerald Provides access to MCB Press electronic journals
Factiva The definitive source for full text overseas and local newspapers, current (today) and archived but no future issues
Informit Online Includes a compilation of Australian business databases with a broad subject range including economics, management and industrial relations
Scopus is one of the world's largest abstract and indexing databases offering you access to around 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers
Web of Knowledge: includes Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index) and Current Contents Connect

Futures The major journal of the Futures Field
Foresight A more recent journal than Futures, with a more practitioner-oriented outlook and flavour of articles
World Future Review The practitioner-oriented refereed journal from the World Future Society. Available online from June 2003 onwards
The Futurist The popular-level magazine from the World Future Society
Long Range Planning

Journal of Futures Studies Published by Tamkang University in Taiwan . Some articles are available online as page-image graphics files. Swinburne has a paper-based subscription. Hawthorn Campus Library Call Number PR 303.49 JOU Holdings from: v.5:no.3 (2001:Feb)
Futuribles French-language futures journal, with abstracts of the current issue available in English.

Futures Wiki
Center for Future Consciousness A vast 'webliography' of many futures-related web sites. You can easily lose a weekend trawling through this, so be warned!
http://josephcoates.com/resources.html A vast collection of web links from Joseph Coates' web site.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Futures_Studies/ The subdirectory of Yahoo! devoted to Futures Studies.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Future/ The subcategory of Google's web directory devoted to the Future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_studies Here is the link to the Wikipedia entry on Futures Studies. This entry was the subject of a 24 hour 'raid' in late 2005 by WFSF members around the world.

Author: Jane O'Donnell (jodonnell@swin.edu.au) and Peter Hayward ( phayward@swin.edu.au)