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Finding Journal Articles

Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic:

  • Academic Search Complete and Business Source Premier Ebscohost databases that index multidisciplinary and business journals. Statistical data is included in many journal articles.
  • Business & Company ASAP and Expanded Academic ASAP Gale databases that index business and multidisciplinary journals. Statistical data is included in many journal articles.
  • Passport GMID (Euromonitor) An integrated database providing key business intelligence on countries, markets and companies. It provides historical statistics and forecasts, analysis of consumers' lifestyles, information sources, brand and company information, plus full-text market analysis.
  • Factiva Full text from Australian business newspapers and journals.
  • IBISWorld Industry Market Research Reports
    Industry definitions, detailed financial analyses, executive summaries, major players in the industry, 5 year forecasts, and details of recent industry performance.
  • OECD iLibrary Provides full text access to subscribed titles: Main economic indicators, Monthly statistics of international trade, OECD economic surveys, Quarterly national accounts, Science & Technology database and the OECD factbook. Some free content is also available.
  • 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 short Media Watch story about how statistics were misused in a Herald Sun article about crime committed by migrants, Crime stats, 4 min.

    Tip: If full text is not provided use the Full Text? button to link to the full text in other databases (if available).

Ebooks

  • STATSnetBASE A collection of more than 150 ebooks about statistics published by CRC Press.

Selected titles:

New Material

Find out about new books, ebooks, DVDs and streamed video added to the library collection in the last 12 months.

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  • Find out about more new items, covering a range of topics, added to the library collection in the last month.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics The ABS website provides access to the free statistics compiled by the ABS. A couple of easy ways to access data are:
  • Topics @ a Glance Find statistics by topic
  • Yearbooks Annual publications providing basic statistics and different feature articles. In addition to Year Book Australia, similar publications are available for each state and territory.
  • Spotlight A fun, interactive animation that explains what census data can tell us about ourselves and Australia.

Education

Family, Health and Welfare Statistics

Political Statistics

Opinion Polls

Financial Statistics

Television, Radio and Internet Ratings

  • Radio ratings Nielsen ratings for Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Search the website for the latest figures.
  • Roy Morgan Television ratings

Links to other Australian Statistics

International Statistics

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