Politics
Finding Journal Articles
Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic:
- Academic Search Complete on Ebscohost A comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database, with more the 5,300 full text periodicals.
- APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text) on Informit Current articles on Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs.
- Ejournals Database on Ebscohost Indexes thousands of electronic journal titles. Full text available online for selected titles.
- Expanded Academic ASAP on Gale A multidisciplinary database covering 2000 titles (more than half in full text) and a wide range of subject areas.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Collection on Informit Provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials. Covers a broad range of subjects including Arts, Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Education, Health, History, Indigenous Studies, Law, Media, Political Science and Social Sciences.
- Humanities International Complete on Ebscohost Includes the Humanities International Index (indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals) plus unique full text content including over 800 fulltext journals in the humanities, with some politics journals.
- Sage Premier Full text access to over 450 journals published by Sage, access is generally from 1999 onwards. Includes political science journals.
- Scopus The world’s largest abstract and indexing database. It also includes the journals indexed by ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect is a full text science database with some politics journals.
- SpringerLink Full text articles from almost all journals published by Springer. Includes politics titles.
- TVNews on Informit Provides online access to news, current affairs and selected documentary programs that have been broadcast on Australian television such as Four Corners, Catalyst and Cutting Edge.
Here's a Four Corners program in which Australian Liberal Party members discuss John Howard's leadership and the 2007 election campaign, Howard's end, 45 min.
- Web of Science Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. You can search most disciplines and time spans back to 1982 to uncover information relevant to your research.
Tip: If full text is not provided use the Full Text? button 
to link to the full text in other databases (if available).
Finding Newspaper Articles
- Factiva Full text articles from hundreds of major newspapers from Australia and around the world.
- Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre on Ebscohost Full text articles from selected Australian newspapers.
- Elibrary Australia Full text articles from selected Australian newspapers.
Ebooks
Selected titles:
- Australian politics and government the Commonwealth, the states and the territories (Cambridge University Press)
- Concise Oxford dictionary of politics (Oxford University Press)
- Dictionary of politics and government (Bloomsbury)
- The Penguin Macquarie dictionary of Australian politics (Penguin)
- The Macquarie encyclopedia of Australian events (Macquarie)
- Oxford companion to Australian history (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford companion to Australian politics (Oxford University Press)
- Routledge dictionary of politics (Routledge)
- See the ebooks guide for more the ebook databases.
New Material
Find out about new books, ebooks, DVDs and streamed video added to the library collection in the last 12 months.
- American politics
- Australian politics
- Democracy
- Middle East politics
- Find out about more new items, covering a range of topics, added to the library collection in the last month.
Australian Government and Politics
- australianpolitics.com
- Australian political parties Current list of all Australian political parties
- Hansard Online access to the transcripts of proceedings of the Australian Parliament back to 1901.
- Hansard Online access to the proceedings of the Victorian Parliament back to 1998. Searchable back to 1991.
- Parliament of Australia
- Political parties and organisations Parliamentary Library
- Selected Australian political records Parliamentary Library web page listing which prime ministers lost their seats at a federal election, who was the first female political candidate, etc.
Internet Resources
- Australian Dictionary of Biography Scholarly biographies of individuals who were significant in Australia's history including politicans, law reformers, etc.
- Political Resources on the net
- Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
- SlowTV A free Australian TV channel on the internet hosted by The Monthly magazine providing access to interviews, public lectures and debates by key academics, authors, commentators and politicans on important political and social issues.
Online Tutorials
Learn how to improve your research skills and use library services effectively - watch our short online tutorials!
- Searching for an article in an Ebscohost database: basic searching (2min 38)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 1: the reading list (1min 21)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 2: finding an article (1min 36)
- How do I place a hold? (1min 52)
- How do I renew a loan? (1min 34)
- Booking a computer or room at Hawthorn or Prahran (text instructions)