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Key databases for Education
A+ Education via Informit Online (1978 - present) An indexing and full-text database that provides access to information on all aspects of Australian education.	Terms & Conditions (pdf)
APA-FT : Australian Public Affairs Full Text via Informit Online (1978 - present) References journal articles and other published material in the social sciences and humanities. Selected full-text from 1994/1995.	Terms & Conditions (pdf)
ERIC : Educational Resources Information Center (1966 - present) via Proquest via OvidSP via WEB References journal articles and unpublished documents on educational theory and practice. Indexes research on education policy and practice in development contexts.
International Encyclopedia of Education This encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of research in education and curriculum studies. All articles are authored by experts. Articles includes references and links to related articles in the encyclopedia and within ScienceDirect	Terms & conditions
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences This online encyclopedia comprehensively maps the social and behavioral sciences. It encompasses all fields within the social and behavioural sciences. Individual chapters can be browsed, and the encyclopedia can also be searched as a database. Articles includes references and links to related articles in the encyclopedia and within ScienceDirect	Terms & conditions
LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts via Proquest (1960's - present) A key resource for Linguistics. LLBA references abstracts to peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, books and book review citations. An increasing number of articles are available in full text.	Terms & Conditions
Libraries Australia Searches the combined catalogues of Australian libraries and also includes Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW), PictureAustralia, the British Library Catalogue, Consortium of [British] University Research Libraries,Library of Congress Catalogue, and OCLC WorldCat.	Help
Proquest Central A very large multidisciplinary service including multiple databases. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively including business and economics, social sciences , news and world affairs, technology, health and medical, and more. Access for Alumni	Terms & conditions Quick Start Guide
PsycInfo via OvidSP (1806 - present) Bibliographic references and abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations and technical reports in psychology and related fields including educational psychology. Contains links to selected full text on education and anthropology; psychology; social, clinical, cognitive and neuropsychology; psychiatry, and sociology.	Terms & conditions Help for OvidSP
Social Theory Brings together an extensive range of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day.	Terms & conditions
SPORTDiscus via EBSCO The major database for sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education and biomechanics.	Terms & conditions
Citation Databases
Scopus Scopus is a large multidisciplinary database covering published material in the humanities and sciences. It also provides citation analysis of authors and subject areas.	Terms & Conditions Interactive Tutorials
Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge Contains Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975. It allows the identification of key articles in a discipline and to search by cited reference, that is to trace references that refer to a particular work or author.	Terms & conditions
Journal Citation Reports via ISI Web of Knowledge (2000 - present) Includes bibliometric analyses of citations found in both the Science and Social Sciences Citation Index by providing quantitative tools for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing journals	Terms & conditions JCR training Citation Impact Centre
Higher Education
Higher Education Empirical Research Database(HEER) The HEER database brings together evidence-based published research on a range of topics in Higher education. The database is free but registration is required.
International Bibliographic Database on Higher Education (HEDBIB) Compiled and maintained by International Association of Universities (IAU) HEDBID includes references on higher education systems, administration, planning and policy, costs and finances, evaluation of higher education, issues related to staff and students, cooperation, mobility and equivalences of degrees, curricula, teaching methods and learning.
News and Media databases useful for Education
Factiva Full-text news, commentary, pictures and media transcripts from over 8,000 overseas and Australian news media sources. For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive includes The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and the News Limited archive includes The Australian 1996+. 15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstand databases for international & recent Australian news coverage.	Help (pdf)
Proquest Newsstand databases Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list. Use Factiva for access to ANZ titles prior to these dates.	Terms & conditions
TVNews via Informit Online (September 2007 - present) TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs programs, and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks and links to the video files. Provided access is restricted to University of Sydney staff and students, the material is used for educational purposes and the Copyright Part VA Warning Notice is displayed, possible uses of TVNews items include: Lecturers downloading a news items to a workstation and showing this in a class or tutorial, lecturers loading a number of news stories into a Learning Management System (eg WebCT) and making these available online to students, students viewing the items online or saving a copy on their workstation for later viewing.	Terms & conditions Help
Statistical databases
Australian Bureau of Statistics Australia's official statistical organisation. Freely available data on all aspects of Australian life and society. Includes statistical data on preschool, primary, secondary, tertiary, vocational, adult education, social, health, economic and demographic research and census data for 1996-2006. Links to other statistical agencies via the ABS subject themes page.
ASSDA : Australian Social Sciences Data Archive (1977 - present) Over 2,000 data sets from Australian and non-Australian studies. Data available for research includes census data, opinion polls, electoral studies, education, youth studies, social welfare and social attitudes. Access information is available from the ASSDA website.
CData Online 2006 Allows you to create your own tables of Census data on a range of topics such as, age, education, housing, income, transport, religion, ethinicity, occupation and more.
OECD iLibrary Full-text for all OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) publications, including documents, periodicals and statistical databases.	Terms & conditions Getting started [pdf]
Socio-Economic Index For Areas (SEIFA) Consists of four indices that summarise aspects of socio-economic conditions in Australia. Indexes are available for: advantage/disadvantage, disadvantage, economic resources, education & occupation. SEIFA data for 2001 and 2006 is available electronically using the above link. The 2001 Data is available with mapping on CDATA from Library workstations in Fisher Library via the Additional Databases icon.
Unesco Institute for Statistics This free site particularly focuses on education and media. It contains over 1,000 types of indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication.
World Bank Open Data (1960 -) Includes World Bank Development Indicators: 900 indicators organised in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. Click Data Catalog > Databank.	Terms & conditions
Source OECD see OECD iLibrary above
Educational Psychology/Counselling Databases
PsycINFO via OvidSP (1806-present) The major database for Psychology produced by the American Psychological Association. It contains bibliographic references and abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations and technical reports. Source material comes from a wide range of languages. Contains links to selected full text. Covers psychology: social, clinical, cognitive and neuropsychology; psychiatry, sociology, anthropology and education.	Terms & conditions
Counseling and Therapy in Video Vols I and II A collection of videos for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counselling	Terms & conditions
PsycBOOKS via OvidSP PsycBOOKS is a full-text database of books and chapters produced by the American Psychological Association.	Terms & conditions
PsycARTICLES via OvidSP PsycARTICLES is a full-text database of journal articles produced by the American Psychological Association. From the search screen tick the PsycARTICLES limit box.	Terms & conditions
PsycCRITIQUES via OvidSP PsycCRITIQUES is a full-text database of book reviews produced by the American Psychological Association. Films, software and other media are also reviewed.	Terms & conditions
Mental Measurements Yearbook Contains full text information about and reviews of all english language standardized test. Covers educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology and related areas. Only one user permitted at a time so if you get a busy message please logoff and try again later. Be sure to click Logoff at the end of your session.	Terms & conditions
Child Welfare Information Gateway References research on the maltreatment, safety, permanency and well-being of children.
Comdisdome Comdisdome is an information service for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and students in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders.	Terms & conditions
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : text revision, DSM-IV-TR Electronic version of 2000 edition published by the American Psychiatric Association.	Terms & conditions
More databases useful for Education (A - Z)
BEI : British Education Index Contains bibliographic references to articles and non-journal educational literature, eg reports,conferences and multi-authored works from more than 350 education and training journals published in the British Isles. Also includes the back files of the British Education Theses Index.	Help
BlackWords via Austlit BlackWords provides a platform for the investigation and articulation of what "Black writing" and "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literatures" might be. BlackWords also contains records describing published and unpublished books, stories, plays, poems and criticism associated with eligible writers and storytellers and includes works in English and in Indigenous languages.	Help
Current Contents Connect via ISI Web of Knowledge CCC is a bibliographic and alerting service which indexes more than 3800 science, social science, arts and humanities journals. It provides access to the table of contents of journals together with complete bibliographic information about each article.	Terms & conditions Tutorial CCC tutorial
Database of Research on International Education A database of research on various aspects of international education .The database encompasses Australian and international research and, where possible, includes links to the full text of catalogued research. It also includes links to other relevant web sites, databases, international education journals and publishers.
DELTAA : Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia via Informit This database, produced by NCELTR (Macquarie University), indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on English second language learning and teaching in Australasia.	Terms & Conditions (pdf)
Dissertation & Theses Full Text via ProQuest Includes abstracts of theses from North American colleges and universities from 1861 and elsewhere from 1988, when made available.	Terms & conditions
Education-line : Electronic Texts in Education and Training Managed by the British Education Index Office. An indexed, full text, electronic archive of conference and working papers in the field of education and training. Stores reports, policy and discussion documents and early research results of all kinds
Education Research Theses The Education Theses Database contains citations and abstracts for over 10,000 theses accepted at Australian universities and colleges in the field of education from 1919 to present.
Expanded Academic ASAP via Gale Infotrac Indexes and abstracts over 1500 journals including the full-text of 520. Covers education, humanities, communication studies, social science, science and technology, women studies, sociology, environment, and public affairs. Note: A search in Expanded Academic Index ASAP also searches IngentaConnect.	Terms & conditions
Indigenous Collection via Informit Online Offers a variety of content on both historical and topical issues within Indigenous studies.	Terms & conditions Tutorials: Basic Advanced
JSTOR Full-text for major journals from a wide range of disciplines such as: Education, African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics. Latest five years are not available in this database.	Terms & conditions
MAIS : Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies via Informit A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts a wide range of media from published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues including education.	Terms & Conditions (pdf)
MLA : Modern Languages Association International Biography via EBSCO (1890's - present) References scholarly works on linguistics, literature, literary theory and film. MLA contains some full text material.	Terms & conditions
Project Muse (Mid 1990's onwards) Project Muse provides full text access to over 300 peer-reviewed humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.	Terms & conditions
Taylor and Francis Online eBook Library A collection of 600 titles covering the areas of psychology, psychotherapy & Jung, education practice, education theory, health & society, and medicine & pharmacology.
VOCED : Vocational Education and Training Research Database Produced by the National Vocational Education and Training Clearinghouse network (Australia), VOCED covers vocational education and training research, policy, practice and published statistics. Holds Australian and key international material.	Help
Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities citation indexes, useful for citation and subject searching for articles, books and reviews in the social sciences and related disciplines. Allows the identification of key articles in a discipline.	Terms & conditions Help

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