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Finding Journal Articles

Quicksearch journal databases using Supersearch

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e.g., information literacy AND online (do not use quote marks)

  • This quicksearch option searches across a number of journal databases.
  • It is useful for conducting an introductory search on a topic.
  • To link to the full-text of articles (if available), click on the full text button :

Quicksearch will often retrieve a large number of hits. If you need to conduct a more sophisticated search, try searching one or more of the individual databases listed below :

Key database resources:

Key Journals

 

Key Web sites

Australian

ALG: Australian libraries gateway (National Library of Australia) information about more than 6,300 Australian libraries, their collections and services and also links to Australian Library Professional Associations and Australian Library Awards & Prizes)
Swinburne Library's 'Other libraries' page 
UNESCO Libraries Portal (gives access to websites of library institutions around the world)
ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association) 
Libraries Australia (formerly Kinetica)
EdNA Online – Library Conferences and Events
One Umbrella group (library recruitment agency)
Resource Options (library recruitment agency) 
Zenith Information Management Services (library recruitment agency) 

International

AACR2 (Anglo American Cataloguing Rules) 
Cataloguer’s desktop
Cataloger's Reference Shelf   
Library of Congress Librarians’ resources page  (includes Marc 21 documentation and LC Classification outline)
IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions    (includes  a directory of all known current National Union Catalogues in the world)
Librarian’s Internet Index
The Internet library for Librarians   
IPL: The Internet Public Library  

Author: Erika Dunstan (edunstan@swin.edu.au) updated November 2008