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Finding Journal Articles
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:
- Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
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
- A+
Education (Informit) Australian education and related fields
- educational research, policy administratation, teacher education,
curriculum, educational psychology and library and information
science.
- Academic
OneFile a major database of peer-reviewed, full-text articles
from the world's leading journals and reference sources
- Academic
Search Premier (EBSCOhost) multi-disciplinary database.
- ALISA
- Australian Library and Information Science Abstracts (Informit)
library and information science, education and training, electronic
publishing and telecommunications.
- Emerald
includes many library and information science journals.
- Expanded
Academic ASAP (Infotrac) multi-disciplinary database.
Other recommended databases:
- APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service (Informit) indexes current articles on Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs.
- APA-FT - Australian Public Affairs Full text (Informit) is based on APAIS and includes full text articles.
- AustLit
- Australian Literature Index (Informit) references to oems,
plays, novels, short stories, critiques of books, awards and
grants. This database only works on a computer on campus and
Swinburne's subscription has ceased so there are no entries
after April 1999.
- Web of Knowledge includes Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index) and Current Contents Connect. Coverage is available from 1997 onwards.
Newspaper database
- Factiva
full text news, business and company information and articles
from Australian and international newspapers.
Browse selected journals and ePrints: Library
& Information Science
Australian
International
Subject Gateways
Australian
International
Web sites
Australian
- ALG - Australian Library Legislation
- ALG - Australian Library-related discussion lists
- ALIA e-lists
- ALIA policies and guidelines
- Annual Survey of Public Libraries in Victoria
- ANZIL and CAUL (2004), Australian and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework: principles, standards and practice
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (enter catalogue number or keywords in search box) note especially
"Library Extension Program - Beattie's Best - Counting on Libraries" (guidance on finding data on libraries, library services, the library workforce in Australia, reading habits, cultural trends, the publishing industry etc.) and "Public Libraries and Australia (2003-2004)" - catalogue no. 8561.0 (operational statistics)
- Australian Copyright Council
- Australian School Library Association of New South Wales - Professional Links
- Children's Book Council of Australia
- Copyright Agency Limited
- CAUL: Council of Australian University Librarians - Statistics
- CAUL: Council of Australian University Librarians - Surveys and Questionnaires
- EdNA Online - Teacher Librarians
- Edwards, A (2000), Library Industry Statistics in Australia: A Bibliography
- Infonet, Victoria's Virtual Library
- The Lending Right (PLR and ELR) schemes
- Lonsdale, M (2003), Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement: A Review of the Research
- The Lu Rees Archives of Australian Children's Literature
- PADI: Preserving Access to Digital Information, National Library of Australia
- VATL: Victorian Association for TAFE Libraries - TAFE Library Statistics
International
- AACR2 - Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - AACR2 homepage
- Cataloger's Desktop
Provides online access to a range of cataloguing resources including Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2), Library of Congress Rule Interpretations, Subject Cataloging Manuals, MARC 21 Formats, and latest editions of all MARC code lists.
- Cataloger's Reference Shelf includes MARC data formats and code lists and cataloging manuals for serials, looseleaf publications, graphic material, television and film, maps, rare books and more.
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- Digital Library Building Blocks: Glossary search or browse through several glossaries of digital librarianship.
- IFLA Mailing Lists
- ILLWeb interlibrary loans, document delivery and resource sharing.
- The Internet Archive is a digital library of internet sites; the Wayback Machine allows people to visit archived versions of web sites.
- LibraryHQ.com: Resources for the Wired Librarian library technology including organizations, conferences, and library management systems.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings Database
- LISnews.com a collaborative blog by librarians focusing on library and information science news.
- LOCKSS: Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe creates low-cost, persistent digital caches of authoritative versions of http-delivered content.
- MARC Standards
- OCLC: Online Computer Library Center
- ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
- The Researching Librarian contains web resources useful for library research: freely searchable citation and full-text databases, funding, journals, statistics and statistical methods, research tools, current awareness sources, and conference papers and proceedings.
- Technical Services Unlimited links for acquisitions, cataloguing and serials library staff.
Libraries
Australian
International
Catalogues
Australian
International
Associations
Australian
International
Conferences
Education
Australian
International
- InformationR.net world-wide courses in library, information science, information management, information systems, and archives.
Awards, Grants and Scholarships
Library-specific awards, grants and scholarships
General directories that include awards etc. for libraries and library staff
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Author: Erika Dunstan
(edunstan@swin.edu.au) updated January 2007
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