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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection This link opens in a new window
The Gale Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection includes newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. Newspaper images can be magnified for easier reading or reduced for on screen navigation. You can save and print article images, create persistent links and email them to others. When trying to print entire newspaper pages, you will need to tile them to make them legible given the differing paper size between newsprint and common office paper sizes.
3D Anatomy for Massage and Manual Therapies This link opens in a new window
* Install Unity Web Player to view Primal Pictures 3D material correctly *
Incorporates anatomy, functional anatomy and massage therapy content, and an interactive, and labelled 3D anatomy atlas.

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A+ Education This link opens in a new window
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Encompasses early childhood to tertiary and adult learning. Full text articles: 2000 - Present; Index: 1978 - Present.

AAAS Science [see: Science AAAS]

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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eBook collection covering American history, Business; Current events, Crime, Economics, Geography and world cultures, Arts, Race and ethnicity, Popular culture, Politics, law and government, Psychology, Religion, Security studies, Environment, Science, Technology, World history, Women's studies, and Mythology.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes titles from the business press, key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and industry and market reports. Subjects: Business, Economic conditions, Corporate strategies, Management theory, Management techniques, Business trends, Competitive landscape and product information, Accounting, Finance. Coverage: 1971 - Present.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings and other publications. Subject areas covered Business, Computing and Engineering, Education, Law, Medicine, Social Science & Humanities, Science & Health.
AccessEngineering This link opens in a new window
Includes engineering books, instructional, faculty made videos, Excel spreadsheet calculator tools, interactive tables and charts, as well as personalisation tools to help organise crucial project information. Includes Data Visualisation tools.
-For help getting started with DataVis, watch video tutorial.
AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
Includes information on internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacy, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, and patient care, with video content included. Create/login to your free MyAccess personal account to access additional features. Includes access to John Murtagh's General Practice Collection.
AccessScience This link opens in a new window
AccessScience primary research material, videos, and downloadable images and animations illustrating key topics in the area of science. See: instructions for off campus access.
Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection This link opens in a new window
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Includes current news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting and tax issues of the day. Coverage: 1971 - Present.
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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The Association for Computing Machinery is an international learned society for computing and is the world’s most comprehensive database of full-text articles and bibliographic literature covering computing and information technology. Includes video, audio files and ACM Open articles, published between 1951 - 2000 are now open and freely available.
ACS In Focus via American Chemical Society This link opens in a new window
The ACS In Focus e-books help readers of all levels accelerate their fundamental understanding of emerging topics and techniques from across the sciences. In an instructional setting, these works bridge the gap between textbooks and literature.
ACS Publications This link opens in a new window
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American Chemical Society publications supports researchers through journals, eBooks, scientific programs, and the news magazine Chemical & Engineering News.
ACSESS Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Includes access to journals of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (ASSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).
Acumen Practice Notes This link opens in a new window
Acumen Practice Notes is an online resource of architectural practice material, providing an extensive database of advisory notes on managing architectural practice and projects in Australia, includes the primary streams: Practice, Project, Resource and most recently, Environment.
Adam Matthew databases This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew Digital, includes primary source for teaching and research, the collections from archives around the world for the social sciences and humanities.
- Archives Direct - Sources from The National Archives, UK.
- Children's Literature and Culture.
- China: Trade, Politics & Culture.
- Defining Gender.
- Empire Online.
- Gender: Identity and Social Change.
- Global Commodities.
- India, Raj and Empire.
- Mass Observation Online.
- Mass Observation Project.
- Meiji Japan.
- Migration to New Worlds.
- Research Methods Primary Sources.
- Research Source: Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
- Sex & Sexuality.
- Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda.
AdForum This link opens in a new window
Includes worldwide, award-winning advertisements; watch, listen and read through the catalogue of television, web radio, and print ads, as well as individual case studies of high profile works.
African Diaspora Online, 1860-Present This link opens in a new window
Includes digitised primary source documents, secondary sources and videos from around the world with a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France. With content from key partners like The National Archives and Records Administration (US), National Archives at Kew (UK), Royal Anthropological Institute, and Senate House Library (University of London), this resource offers a view into the experiences and contributions of individuals in the Diaspora, as told through their own accounts.
The Age [via Factiva] This link opens in a new window
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AgeLine This link opens in a new window
EBSCO AgeLine database is the premier source for the literature of social gerontology and includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine indexes over 200 journals, books, book chapters, and reports. Publication coverage is from 1978 to the present, with selected coverage from 1966-1977.
AGIS Plus Text This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of law. Full text articles: 1999 - Present; Index: 1975 - Present.
Agricultural Science Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains agricultural science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from AGRICOLA. AGRICOLA is the definitive bibliographic database to agricultural science literature. Coverage: 1970 - Current.
AHA Journals (American Heart Association) This link opens in a new window
Collection includes access to the following AHA (American Heart Association) journals: Circulation; Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging; Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology; Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine; Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions; Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes; Circulation: Heart Failure; Circulation Research; Hypertension; Stroke.
AIP: American Institute of Physics journals This link opens in a new window
Includes journals and conference proceedings from AIP Publishing and AIP Member Societies.
Alexander Street Press collection This link opens in a new window
Includes multidisciplinary collections and video for scholarly research, teaching, and learning.
Alexander Street Video This link opens in a new window
This interface provides a video-only focus for content available from the Alexander Street Press collection. Here you can quickly identify video content well suited to your area of study.
Altmetric Explorer This link opens in a new window
Create a free login using your Western Sydney email and a personal password (top right of the page) to monitor the online activity surrounding your academic and non-traditional research. Track the global engagement of your work via Twitter & Facebook activity, Wikipedia mentions, online opinion pieces (eg The Conversation), blog posts, news stories, citations in policy documents and more. Dimensions and Web of Science citations are also included so traditional and non-traditional metrics can be assessed holistically. Search results can be filtered by individual researcher or department within the University, or select the 'full database' to access the global dataset.
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) This link opens in a new window
Journals on intellectual and developmental disabilities including American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AJIDD), and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).
American Drama, 1714-1915 This link opens in a new window
The largest electronic collection of American dramatic writing of its kind. It provides literary researchers and historians with a comprehensive survey of American dramaturgy by the work of such playwrights as David Belasco, Clyde Fitch and William Vaughn Moody.
American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Includes digitised images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the start of the 20th century.
American Physical Society This link opens in a new window
The APS journals includes, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of Physics."
American Physiological Society This link opens in a new window
The American Physiological Society (APS) journals is a broad area of scientific, understanding of life, health and disease.
American Phytopathological Society This link opens in a new window
APS journals promotes the advancement of modern concepts in the science of plant pathology and in plant health management in agricultural, urban and forest settings.
American Society for Microbiology This link opens in a new window
Journal coverage includes both basic and clinical microbiology.
An@tomedia This link opens in a new window
This resource incorporates detailed images of real, serial dissection and medical images together with interactive, educational text and quiz questions. An@tomedia contains 4,000 images, 6,000 text questions and 30,000 image quiz questions using 1,500 interactive screens. Also includes online access to title: General Anatomy: Principles and Applications, Eizenberg et al, 2008, McGraw-Hill (ISBN 9780070134676).
Anatomy.tv This link opens in a new window
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* PLEASE IGNORE THE BANNER MESSAGE ABOUT FLASH ON THE ANATOMY.TV HOMEPAGE *
Derived from real human data, this software provides 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, and animations. Includes access to 3D Atlas, 3D Real-time, Functional Anatomy and Therapy, Anatomy & Physiology, Quizzing, Imaging [Ultrasound for Lower Limb], and Legacy products [Acupuncture, Hand Therapy, Sports Injuries of the Shoulder, Sports Injuries of the Knee, and Sports Injuries of the Foot]. The high resolution 3D models allow you to rotate, add or remove anatomy and identify and learn more about any visible structure. In addition to 3D anatomy, this resource also contains 3D cross sections with MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imagery) correlations and detailed text linked to dissection slides, video clips and animations.
The Annual Register: A Record of World Events This link opens in a new window
Year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758. Provides information on the major and minor events of the past 250+ years, with historical context and perspective and a mass of biographical information. Provides key insights into contemporary 18th and 19th century attitudes towards the political and social events, issues, developments, and trials of the time.
Anthropological Fieldwork Online This link opens in a new window
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This collection unfolds the historical development of anthropology from Margaret Mead Papers, Victor Turner Papers, Bronislaw Malinowski Papers, Ruth Benedict Papers, and Use Case: Victor Turner's Scholarly Process.
Anthropology Online This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. Includes cross-searchable access to Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online collections.
APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Psychology resource. Coverage: 1894 - Present.
APA PsycBooks This link opens in a new window
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APA PsycBooks (American Psychological Association) and other classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s, along with authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, with records and summaries dating back to the 1600s, and journal coverage from the 1800s to the present.
APAFT - Australian Public Affairs - Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes articles on current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. Full text articles: 1995 - Present; Index: 1978 - Present.
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Gale Archives Unbound is a digital collections of primary source historical documents from British and European History / Holocaust Studies; American Studies / Law, Politics and Radical Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Asian Studies / International Relations.
Archives Direct : Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963 This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew Digital, Macmillan Online provide access to files from the former British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan's Private Office. Included are records of meetings, key policies, correspondence and memoranda to and from government advisors, files on Ministers, etc.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new window
The Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender contain primary sources for research on the history of gender, sexuality, enables scholars to make new connections in LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, health, political science, policy studies, gender studies and other related areas of research.
Art and Architecture Archive This link opens in a new window
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Coverage include fine and applied arts, through to interior design, industrial design, and landscape gardening.
Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
Topics include antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design.
Art, Design & Architecture Collection This link opens in a new window
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Includes a comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts. Subjects: Art history, Architecture and architectural history, Crafts, ceramics, glass and jewellery, Decorative art and antiques, Fashion, textiles and dress, Furniture and interior design, Industrial design, Modern and contemporary art, Museums and conservation, Photography. Coverage: 1973 to Current.
The Artforum Archive This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to the backfile of Artforum, the leading magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020. Access to the database through ProQuest Central. Select All Databases from menu and select change databases and choose The Artforum Archive from the list of individual databases.
Arts and Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
Includes titles relevant to the arts, humanities, applied arts and cultural studies.
Arts Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Encompasses cross-searchable databases with thousands of journal titles, ensuring deep searches of extensive collections in specialist subject areas not covered in more general databases. Subjects: Art, Design, Architecture, Humanities, Film/Screen Studies, Music, Performing Arts, and more. Coverage: 1864 - Current.
ASCE Library This link opens in a new window
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American Society of Civil Engineer is the world’s largest full-text database of civil engineering research and practical publications, content includes journals and conference proceedings.
Please note, due to licencing, clients are limited to download 2 GB per hour.
Asia-Studies Full-Text Online This link opens in a new window
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Asia-Studies brings together full-text reports covering over 50 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.
Asian & European Business Collection This link opens in a new window
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Offers detailed information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. Includes country information and statistics, people and institutions; and policy and analysis. Relevant to medicine, law, computing, engineering, mathematics, nursing, business, and science. Coverage: 1971 - Present.
AustLII: Australasian Legal Information Institute This link opens in a new window
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free access to Australasian legal materials includes; Cases & Legislation, Journals & Scholarship, law reform documents and journal articles.
AUSTLIT: The Australian Literature Resource This link opens in a new window
Resource for Australian literature and storytelling, including exhibitions, awards, and rich online content, with material dating largely from c.1788 to the present - children's literature not included. Coverage: 1988 - Present.
Australasian Literature: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands This link opens in a new window
Brings together creative works from throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s to the present. Includes interviews and video content.
Australasian Video Online This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary collection, with topics and themes particularly relevant to the region include indigenous issues from indigenous perspectives, Asian culture and Asian-Australian relations, immigration issues, and the environment, with teaching guides for the top titles.
Australia & New Zealand Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Newspapers service including leading regional and local sources from Australia and New Zealand which allows users to track news from their preferred sources and search the titles individually or collectively, and includes transcripts from leading current affairs TV and Radio programming. NOTE: Includes full-text access to The Australian, the Sunday Age, the Sun Herald, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sydney Morning Herald. For AFR see Factiva [search 'Australian Financial Review'].
Australia in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1808-1967 This link opens in a new window
This collection contains records compiled by the United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG), a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates around the world, includes letters, journals and supplementary material composed by the SPG’s Australian branches during the period 1808-1967. These documents contain reports on the progress of the mission, relations with the indigenous people, the passage to Australia, and insights into how monetary grants were spent. The papers provide an unparalleled insight into the establishment and subsequent development of the Church of Australia.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) This link opens in a new window
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Contains statistical data from the main demographic, economic and financial publications of the Bureau. Coverage is from 1998 onwards.
Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH) online This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based national drug reference with concise, reliable, comprehensive information and easy-to-find comparative drug data. Helps you compare drugs and make informed prescribing choices. Updated annually, the AMH helps you find information on drug indications, precautions, adverse effects, dosage, interactions and products.
Australian Standards (TechStreet) [choose login below, this link to introductory video] This link opens in a new window
For Students. - Log in using your Student ID@student.westernsydney.edu.au
For Staff. - Log in using Staff ID@westernsydney.edu.au
* First time user, please select your closest campus location *
Techstreet Enterprise is WSU new database for accessing Australian standards and codes (replaces Standards Online Premium, SAI Global from 1st July 2022).
With Techstreet Enterprise, you can:
• Read online by using the View Online button. However, you cannot copy or print from the online reader.
• Download and read any standard in your subscription.
• Create lists of related standards for easy access and updates.
In order to open a standard you have downloaded in Secure PDF format, you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader with the FileOpen plug-in. FileOpen is compatible with the following versions of Acrobat:
• Windows: Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat 9.0 or later
• Mac: Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat 9.0 or later
• Linux: Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat 7.0 or 8.0 only
Techstreet Enterprise User guide
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (AVERY) This link opens in a new window
Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.

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The BBC Video Collection This link opens in a new window
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Alexander Street combines the BBC's most-viewed films, titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Benchmarking & Analytics [see InCites: Benchmarking & Analytics]

Biological Science Database This link opens in a new window
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A full-text database includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
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The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine.
BMJ: Journals This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly general medical journal including audio and video titles embedded in the article pages.
BMJ Best Practice This link opens in a new window
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* When you access BMJ Best Practice, please click on the 'X' to close the pop-up box if you don't wish to create a personal user account *
A point-of-care tool which provides research evidence, guidelines, and expert thought, with drug information provided via the database Martindale, integrated medical calculators.

To use the Best Practice decision support app:
* Register for an account on the Best Practice website. You will receive a confirmation email with a temporary password.
* Log in through the link in the email to change the temporary password to a more preferrable password.
* Download the Best Practice decision support app. Use your Best Practice account details to log into the app for institutional access.
Books@Ovid This link opens in a new window
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Online access to a large number of core medical, nursing and allied health resources from the world's most prestigious scholarly publishers. including Doody’s Core Collection 2022.
Border and Migration Studies Online This link opens in a new window
Border and Migration Studies Online is a collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others. Featuring at completion 100,000 pages of text, 175 hours of video, and 1,000 images, the collection is organized around fundamental themes associated with border and migration issues. Access to the collection is from Alexander Street platform.
Brill Online Books This link opens in a new window
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Brill Multidisciplinary online collection of ebooks. Covers the humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and Biology.
Brill Journals This link opens in a new window
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Covers the humanities and Social Science, international law and selected area in the Sciences.
Brill Online Reference Works This link opens in a new window
Provides access to reference works on Asian studies, language and linguistics, Middle East and Islamic studies, and religious studies.
British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Gale British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society. Coverage: 1800-1900.
British Nursing Database This link opens in a new window
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Supports the practice, education, and research for nurses, midwives, and health providers in the UK and the greater nursing community. Coverage: 1994 - Present.

For further information see the ProQuest LibGuides homepage.
British Online Archives This link opens in a new window
BOA provides access to the humanities and social sciences with access to unique collections of primary source documents, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine.
London Life, 1965-1966
The Tatler, 1901-1965
The Graphic, 1869-1932 Coming Soon
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 1874-1970 Coming Soon
The Sketch, 1893-1958 Coming Soon
The Sphere, 1900-1964 Coming Soon
Britannia and Eve, 1926-1957 Coming Soon
Illustrated War News, 1914-1918 & 1939 Coming Soon
British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Provides access to British periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
Business Collection This link opens in a new window
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Covers a range of subjects within a business context. Full text publications: 1993 - Present; Index: 1993 - Present.
Business Education in Video This link opens in a new window
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Features interviews, video, films, and case studies that focus on all aspects of the global business environment.
Business Expert Press This link opens in a new window
The Business Expert Press digital library of business disciplines and special topic collections is a revolutionary new compilation of e-books. Each book represents the most current and applied review of the theory and practice of the author's area of expertise: from Economics, Accounting, Marketing, Finance, etc, for business students and professionals with precise, business information written by experts in their fields.
Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Reference resource of business information, featuring profiles of companies, industries, and key executives.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes access to the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. Includes access to MarketLine (Company Profiles and Industry Profiles covering automotive, consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare and technology sectors), and images/business videos under the More > dropdown list. See also Enhanced Business Searching Interface. Coverage: 1886 - Present.

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CAB Abstracts via Ovid. This link opens in a new window
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CAB Abstracts coverage of the applied life sciences includes agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science, and nutrition, from 1973 - current.
CAB Direct via CABI This link opens in a new window
Includes access to CAB Abstracts, CABI Full Text, and the journal Description of Fungi and Bacteria (DFB). CAB Direct contains over 11 million bibliographic records, full-text articles, news items and reports across the applied life sciences.
Cairo Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Academic Cairo Scholarship includes books in Middle East Studies in three subject areas: Religion; Political and Science; and Society and Culture.
Cambridge books via Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Core provides access to Cambridge University Press books online, includes a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students.
Cambridge Companions via Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
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Cambridge Companions Collection via Cambridge Core provides access to the content areas of literature, classic studies, philosophy, religion, culture and music. Written by leading experts, Cambridge Companions offers lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.
Cambridge Journals via Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Core provides access to Cambridge University Press journals online. Access to peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database This link opens in a new window
Relevant to current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Provides full access to articles, columns, editorials and features published in each major Canadian newspaper, with some backfiles dating as far back as the late 1970s.
Canadian Poetry This link opens in a new window
Offers a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth.
Capital Monitor This link opens in a new window
Alerts on parliamentary, political, legislative, regulatory and judicial news and information to subscribers almost as soon as it is available, with news and information filtered by a team at Parliament House, before being distributed by e-mail to subscribers. Coverage: 1996 - Present.
Career & Technical Education Database This link opens in a new window
Source of vocational information including various technical topics such as computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography. Coverage: 1991 (some indexing from 1975) - Present.

CAS Analytical MethodsTM & CAS Formulus® [please see: SciFinder-n]

CaseBase (student access) This link opens in a new window
CaseBase via Lexis Adance: a case citator for Australian Law, includes the High Court, Federal Court, Industrial Relations Court and the superior courts of all Australian States and Territories.
Click here for Staff Access to CaseBase.
CCH eBooks via ePlatforms Wheelers. This link opens in a new window
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CCH ePub provides fulltext access to selected titles published by CCH and Wolters Kluwer, subject includes Tax & Accounting, legal, finance & business.
Read online, or borrow via Adobe Digital Aditions or ePlatforms App. User Guide
CCH IntelliConnect This link opens in a new window
Covers commercial and company law, business law, taxation, property, torts, family and industrial law, and general business and commerce areas.
Chadwyck Healey - Proquest Literature Collection This link opens in a new window
These databases are uniquely comprehensive coverage of poetry, drama and prose in English.
- American Drama 1714–1915.
- Canadian Poetry.
- Early American Fiction 1789-1875.
- Early English Prose Fiction.
- Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare.
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
- English Drama.
- English Poetry, Second Edition.
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1901 - 2000).
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition (1901 - 2008).
Checkpoint This link opens in a new window
Australian Product Case citator. Search or browse cases for details and digest; search across tax, accounting, finance and trade content.
Chemistry World (RSC) This link opens in a new window
Chemistry World is a monthly chemistry news magazine published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, covered. Science news, research, reviews, features and opinions, keep up with stories from across the chemical sciences.
CHEMnetBASE This link opens in a new window
CHEMnetBASE used to provide access to the collection of chemistry databases from CRC Press and Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Databases: Combined Chemical Dictionary, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs, Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, and Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds.
ChemWatch GoldFFX This link opens in a new window
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GoldFFX is a complete chemicals management solution. Includes safety, toxicological and physical information on thousands of chemical products. Information is presented in internationally recognised Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). General access to the Materials module, access to SDS Review, SDS Authoring, and SDS Acquisition. Adobe Flash Player is required in IE for using eLearning tools. JRE is required for molecule drawing functionality from the Galleria web application. Cortona VRML Player is needed to display molecular structure. IMPORTANT: Access not available via mobile device. Windows edge is not supported.
Children's Literature and Culture This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew Children's Literature and Culture collection includes, rare books, games, ephemera, and artwork from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that reveals the socio-cultural history of these times. This resource examines the way in which new concepts were introduced to young readers, encouraging an engagement with the imagination which went on to fundamentally shape established notions of childhood.
China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 This link opens in a new window
Adman Matthew, China: Trade, Politics and Culture, Includes information on activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China from 1793 to 1980.
CHRONICLES - The Australian Chronicles: An Index to Sources of Australian Biography This link opens in a new window
Resource designed to help locate biographical information on as wide a range of Australians as possible. Coverage: 1879 - Present.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for journals (with no embargo) indexed in CINAHL, along with video tutorial content. Coverage: 1937 - Present.
CiteScore metrics This link opens in a new window
CiteScore includes current and free metrics for journal titles in Scopus. The CiteScore Tracker shows how the current year's CiteScore buids up each month. You can also report using these annual metrics and track the current year metrics via the links to each title’s Scopus source details page.
Classical Music This link opens in a new window
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Covers all major classical music genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas and the avant-garde.
ClinicalKey (Physician) This link opens in a new window
* Log in with your personal account details in order to download book chapters. Set up a personal account by registering online for remote access *
Contains cross-searchable, key resources for the medical sciences. Includes First Consult, AMH guides (drug monographs) content, local Australian content and all MEDLINE abstracts. Browse Multimedia for video content. This guide provides instruction on remote access.
ClinicalKey for Nursing This link opens in a new window
* Log in with your personal account details in order to download book chapters. Set up a personal account by registering online for remote access *
Please read the term and conditions of use that you agree to when you registered to download book chapters https://www.elsevier.com/legal/elsevier-website-terms-and-conditions.
You can print, download and store a reasonable portion of book chapters, however downloading all the chapters from one eBook or many eBooks would not be considered a reasonable portion and may result in losing your access to ClinicalKey for Nursing. Browse Multimedia for video content. Search for ebook title.
CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS is the only dark archive and is a not-for-profit that assigns Creative Commons Open Access licenses to all triggered publications to ensure they always remain available and openly accessible to everyone.

CNKI China Academic Journals Full-text Database [see: Global Academic Focus]
China Academic Journals / Tongfang Knowledge Network Technologies, collection of academic and non-academic journals published in mainland China. Topics covered include: academic, technical, policy-guiding, higher scientific and educational journals, and covers science and technology, agriculture, philosophy, medicine, humanities and social sciences. Coverage: 1915-Present.
Simplified Chinese version | User Guide
Traditional Chinese version | User Guide

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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Includes information on the effects of interventions in health care, and consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases. See also the video tutorial on Cochrane Library Systematic Reviews.
Colonial State Papers This link opens in a new window
Provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Communication Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete This link opens in a new window
Coverage includes the many engineering disciplines, computer theory and systems, new technologies, and social and professional context.
Computing Database This link opens in a new window
Computer topics include artificial intelligence, computer games, graphics, networks, programming, security, systems, database management, electronic data processing, hardware, information science and theory, and software. Coverage: 1998 - Present.
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture This link opens in a new window
Core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works This link opens in a new window
Searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.
Counseling and Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
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Counseling & Therapy in Video: Library provides the largest streaming videos collection for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Proquest Comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. Coverage: 1981 - Present.
Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video This link opens in a new window
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A collection of documentaries, training videos, and interviews illustrating the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals serving on the front lines of justice and public safety.
CSIRO This link opens in a new window
The CSIRO publishes journals presenting the latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists and covering a broad range of subjects.
Current Affairs in Video This link opens in a new window
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Collection of streaming video documentaries on key issues relating to immigration and border studies, including Middle East studies, urban studies, political science, globalisation, and human rights.
Current Contents Connect This link opens in a new window
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CCC Web of Science database helps busy researchers keep up to date by providing easy online access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, and bibliographic information, from the most recently published issues of leading scholarly journals.

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DatAnalysis Premium [MorningStar - incl. Annual Reports Online] This link opens in a new window
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Provides up-to-date financial information for all Australian ASX listed and delisted companies, as well as detailed historical financial data, and is updated daily. Includes historical financial data back to 1990, and interim and de-listed data going back to 1996; Australian Stock Exchange announcements going back to October 1998, including prospectuses.
To access Annual Reports Online data, go to Search Tool / ASX Announcements (PDF) Search / Section B – select Periodic Reports, then Annual Reports. Then you can define your start and finish date for the report. Annual Reports data provides access to Australian companies' annual reports dating back to 1995.
De Gruyter Online This link opens in a new window
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De Gruyter published multidisciplinary collection (selected titles) of ebooks and ejournals includes humanities, social sciences, STM and law.
Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories This link opens in a new window
This Gale database brings together material from within former British colonies and Commonwealth nations, alongside some from former French and Portuguese territories, to provide valuable primary source material created for local audiences by local actors during a period of enormous global change.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new window
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Adam Matthew, Defining Gender, examines constructions of femininity and masculinity through "five centuries of advice literature" from the medieval period through the nineteenth century, and includes image content.
Diagnosing mental disorders: DSM-5 and ICD-10 This link opens in a new window
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These video titles address criteria in the DSM-5 and ICD-10 for diagnosing various mental and related disorders, including obsessive-compulsive, depressive, bipolar, anxiety, schizophrenia spectrum, and trauma and stressor-related disorders. (Proquest, Alexander Street)
Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available, with each collection exhaustively covering the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century.
Digitised newspapers and more (1803-1982) This link opens in a new window
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Access historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (part of the Trove search service). Note: Includes full-text access to The Age [Melbourne], The Australian, Australian Financial Review (AFR), The Daily Telegraph, Sun Herald [Sydney], Sunday Age, and The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH).
Documents on British Policy Overseas This link opens in a new window
Collection of primary source documents from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, shedding light on diplomatic history throughout the twentieth century.
The Docuseek2 International Collection This link opens in a new window
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Exclusive documentaries for higher education, from leading film producers and distributors, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, BBC, National Film Board of Canada, CBC, TV Trust for the Environment, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and more...
Doody's Core Collection [2022] This link opens in a new window
Ovid LWW Doody’s Core Collection 2022 is a leading source for expert, authoritative quality assessment and collection development tools for medical, nursing, allied health books, and are considered must-have resources for practitioners, researchers, and students.
Duke University Press This link opens in a new window
Collection of books and journals for humanities, social sciences and more.

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Early American Fiction 1789-1875 This link opens in a new window
Offers the full text of first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Contains images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Early English Prose Fiction This link opens in a new window
Collection from the period 1500-1700.
Early European Books This link opens in a new window
Traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to 1701. Developed and produced with scholars, rare book librarians, bibliographers, and other experts. Offers full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of some of the world's most significant collections of early printed books in Europe. View Early European Books content plotted on the interactive historical map.
Early Experiences in Australasia: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1788-1901 This link opens in a new window
Provides a unique and personal view of events in the region from the arrival of the first settlers through to Australian Federation at the close of the nineteenth century.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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Proquest Ebook Central provides access to thousands of titles from scholarly sources, in all academic subject areas. Individual chapters can be downloaded as PDF. Titles may have download limits; downloading entire book requires Adobe Digital Editions. For more information visit ProQuest guide to Ebook Central.
eBooks: IET Ultimate Collection (1979-2019) This link opens in a new window
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology Collection of specialised ebooks on engineering and technology. Topics covered include: control, telecommunications, radar, electromagnetic waves, renewable energy, and computing.
EBSCO eBooks Collection This link opens in a new window
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The eBook Collection includes Open Access ebooks, it contains multi-disciplinary of academic subjects, including arts & humanities, business, literature, sciences, social sciences, and technology. Titles are from a wide range of publishers.
The amount of content which can be downloaded will vary from publisher to publisher.
EBSCO Megafile Complete This link opens in a new window
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Multi-disciplinary collection.

EBSCO Open Dissertations
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Freely available PhD and Masters theses.

Ecological Society of America (ESA) This link opens in a new window
Includes journals on ecology and environmental sciences.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
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EconLit (EBSCO) is a bibliographic database of economic literature, dating back to 1886 of abstract & Index from the American Economic Association.
The Economist Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Gale, The Economist Historical Archive has reported on the world's political, business, scientific, technological, and cultural developments and the connections between them, appealing to the world's elite for its economic and political analysis (1843-2015).
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare This link opens in a new window
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Contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-1866, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works.
Education Collection This link opens in a new window
Proquest Education database topics include primary and secondary education, adult education, homeschooling, language and linguistics, and special education. Coverage : Citations 1983- , Full text and abstracts 1994 - current.
Education Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Archive of magazines covering 20th Century education. Covers a wide range of educational topics, from general titles to subject-specific publications, and material devoted to women and ethnic minorities in education. Explore multiple perspectives on social history, childhood studies, women’s studies, psychology and politics.
Education in Video: Volumes I and II This link opens in a new window
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Provides resources for both new and experienced teachers tools to increase their knowledge and skills and for education faculty to link abstract theories of education to real-world students and classrooms. Consists of video content.

Education Routledge Resources by Taylor & Francis [see: Routledge Education]

Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
EduTV This link opens in a new window
Online TV streaming resource for Australian tertiary institutions including documentaries, drama and series complemented with study guides and articles are accessible via computer, tablet or smartphone. New programs added weekly. Archive: 2006 - Present.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
Access the Gale digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
Eighteenth Century Fiction This link opens in a new window
Proquest 18th Century Fiction Collection is a complete works of English prose from the period 1700-1780 by writers from the British Isles.
Elsevier eLibrary This link opens in a new window
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Elsevier eLibrary includes ebooks relevant to nursing. Read offline by clicking on the 'Read Offline' link in the book thumbnail. In Desktop environment, the file can be directly open or save it before open it. In iOS and Android environment, use your browser to find the ebook in Elsevier eLibrary. Click on 'Read Offline' to download the ebook file. The file will be visible in the Elsevier eLibrary APP installed on your device. Note: Users can print a maximum of 2 pages per job.
Elsevier eTextbooks This link opens in a new window
The content spans multiple subject areas across Science and Technology, and Health Sciences and covers a range of publication years from 1977 to 2023 with new content added as it is published throughout 2023. Access to the selected etextbooks on the ScienceDirect platform.
Embase via OvidSP This link opens in a new window
Embase is a Biomedical and Pharmacological bibliographic database of published international journals. Coverage: 1947 - Present.
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies This link opens in a new window
Includes case studies on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
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Covers topics on management, operations, HR, marketing, library, training and engineering articles, and the subject areas of business, management, economics and the social sciences, health and social care, engineering and education. Includes access to The CASE Journal and Emerging Markets Case Studies.
Teaching Notes in the Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies are only available to faculty members. Faculty members should contact the Library to gain login details to the Teaching Notes at Emerald Insight.
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew, Empire Online, includes material related to colonial history and culture, which spans across the last five centuries (1600 to 20th century) including literature, art, religion, race, and class, as well as imperialism and colonialism in the colonised and colonising countries.
Encyclopedia of Modernism This link opens in a new window
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism brings together a wealth of interdisciplinary content about the Modernist period and is the ideal starting point for any research in modernism. Over 2,000 articles from experts in the field, supported by over 130 images, cover eight key subject areas: Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents.
Endocrine Society Journals (ESJ) This link opens in a new window
Access to the Endocrine Society Journals on endocrinology is via Oxford Academic.
Engineering Case Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides a single, comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes.
Engineering Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers a range of subjects within an engineering context including civil engineering, mining, environmental engineering, road and rail, and municipal engineering. Full text publications: 1973 - Present; Index: 1973 - Present.
Engineering Village (including Compendex) This link opens in a new window
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Bibliographic database of research literature for engineering, computing, mathematics and related disciplines. Contains references, engineering journals and conferences. From September 2016 Engineering Village will include Knovel.com abstracts. Coverage : 1884 - current.
English Drama This link opens in a new window
Collection of plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.
English Poetry, Second Edition This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive archive of English verse which provides representation of both of the literary heritages of former colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.

English Reports [see: vLex Justis: English Reports]

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Archival research resource on the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000.
Entrepreneurship Database This link opens in a new window
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Bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneur in a wide range of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of the environment. Coverage: 1940 - Present.
Environmental Issues Online This link opens in a new window
Brings together multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more. The database is curated around specific environmental issues and events from the 20th and 21st centuries and relationships between people and the environment through social, cultural, economic, political, historical and ecological perspectives.
Environmental Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
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Contains film covering all realms of environmental studies, particularly ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology, planning, and environmental science.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
This ProQuest collection provides ready access to education literature to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) [see InCites: Essential Science Indicators]

eTG complete This link opens in a new window
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eTG complete provides searchable on-line access to all volumes of the Therapeutic Guidelines (disease-oriented guidelines for prescribing and give clear, practical and succinct recommendations for therapy). NOTE: Mobile access via the eTG complete app on iOS and Android is enabled by use of tokens. Please see instructions on how to register for a token via the University IP range and student/staff email address, and how to access the app. Users will be sent a reminder email with instructions when the token renewal is required (hint: check your junk mail if you can't see the email).
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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Current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.
Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. IV: Festivals and Archives This link opens in a new window
The Vol. IV: provides a space for visual anthropologists of today to showcase and disseminate the compelling work from contemporary ethnographic film festivals and archives.
Ethnographic Video Online, Vols. I & II: Foundational Films This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world.
Ethnographic Video Online: Volume III, Indigenous Voices This link opens in a new window
The third volume of the ethnographic film series to indigenous filmmakers is dedicated to indigenous voices to address issues from indigenous perspectives. Access to this database is provided from Alexander Street platform.

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Factiva This link opens in a new window
Access to a wide range of information & news sources from both local insight and global perspective on business issues and current events. Note: Includes full-text access to The Australian, The Australian Financial Review [ AFR has 72 hours embargo], The Age [Melbourne], Sunday Age, Sun Herald [Sydney], The Daily Telegraph, and The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH).
Families and Society Collection This link opens in a new window
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Covers a range of subjects within a social context. Full text publications: 1976 - Present; Index: 1976 - Present.
Fashion Studies Online : The Videofashion Library This link opens in a new window
The Videofashion Library brings together 1,200 hours of vivid video capturing the many faces of fashion—including nearly 40 years of worldwide fashion shows, designer profiles, documentary segments, and more—into one convenient online learning interface.
Content in the collection is diverse, covering both the behind-the-scenes work and the end garments that appeared in stores and on runways in Milan, Paris, London, and New York. It showcases decades of work from top designers and labels including:
- Giorgio Armani
-Chanel
-Oscar de la Renta
-Christian Dior
-Fendi
-Dolce & Gabbana
-Jean Paul Gaultier
-Marc Jacobs
-Donna Karan
-Michael Kors
-Karl Lagerfeld
-Ralph Lauren
-Yves Saint Laurent
-Alexander McQueen
-Valentino
-Versace
-Vera Wang
-Vivienne Westwood
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
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Mulitdisciplinary resource which includes award-winning documentaries, presenting points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. Includes Volumes I and II.
FirstPoint via WestLaw AU (Log in using your Student / Staff ID) This link opens in a new window
FirstPoint (in Westlaw AU) is an online case law research tool that provides citation information, reliable summaries of important cases, and includes subject based browsing.
Flipster This link opens in a new window
Flipster is the ultimate digital magazine platform. WSU have access to the following titles:
Acres, U.S.A. ;
Art Almanac ;
Artforum International ;
Choice : the journal of the Australian Consumers' Association ;
Communication arts ;
Future Music ;
Musicworks
Access Flipster via a computer, tablet, or phone. How to Get the Flipster App:
You can download and install the App from these links:
- iTunes for iPad and iPhone
- Google Play for Android Devices
- Kindle Fire Tablets
Mobile Device Requirements for the Flipster App
- iOS 9 and higher for iPad and iPhone
- Android Phones and Tablets running version 4.2.2 and Higher
- Kindle Fire OS up to version 5.4.0.0
Flipster for Mobile Devices – Tutorial
Flipster on Desktop Computers - Tutorial
Food & Drink in History, Module I & II This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew Food and Drink collection includes primary source material documenting the story of food and drink throughout history. The materials in this collection illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race and socio-economic status, as well as charting key issues around agriculture, nutrition and food production.
Fordham Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Academic Fordham Scholarship Online (FSO), a rapidly-expanding online research library, containing thousands of academic monographs in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.

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Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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This Gale platform combines and cross-searchable of GALE digital archives, which include monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps and more...
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender
- Archives Unbound
- British Library Newspapers
- Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- The Economist Historical Archive
- The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
- The Times Digital Archive
- The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
- Women's Studies Archive
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
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Collection of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. It's a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports.
Gender: Identity and Social Change This link opens in a new window
Essential primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This Adam Matthew collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
The Gerritsen Collection of Alleta H Jacobs This link opens in a new window
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The Gerritsen Collection of Alleta H. Jacobs is the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world.
Global Academic Focus (CNKI) This link opens in a new window
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China Academic Journals / Tongfang Knowledge Network Technologies, collection of academic and non-academic journals published in mainland China.Topics covered include: academic, technical, policy-guiding, higher scientific and educational journals, and covers science and technology, agriculture, philosophy, medicine, humanities and social sciences. Coverage: 1915-Present.
Simplified Chinese version | User Guide
Traditional Chinese version | User Guide
Global Commodities This link opens in a new window
This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices. Adam Matthews digital collection.
Discover the histories of fifteen key commodities that changed the world.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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To access subscribed material, set your preferences to 'Fulltext @ WestSydU Lib'. Detailed instructions are provided in this libguide.

Grove Music Online [see: Oxford Music Online]

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Halsbury's Laws of Australia [student access] This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive legal encyclopaedia covering all Australian law; includes hypertext links between Halsbury's Laws of Australia and Australian Current Law.
Click here for Staff Access to Halsbury's Laws of Australia
The Harper's Bazaar Archive This link opens in a new window
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Reproduced in high-resolution color page images, this resource provides access to a chronicle of 20th century American and international fashion, culture, and society, supporting researchers by offering a cultural lens into the modern era. Coverage: 1867 - Current.
HCPro This link opens in a new window
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Provides you with the latest regulations and standards, provide insightful examples and advice from industry experts, and offer practical and effective solutions.
Health & Fitness Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Health & Fitness Magazine Archive‎ (1950 - 2015) provides access to backfiles of US and UK consumer magazines devoted to health, fitness, exercise, nutrition, and medicine, charting trends in these areas from the mid-20th century to the 21st. Access to the database through ProQuest Central. Select All Databases from menu and select change databases and choose Health & Fitness Magazine Archive from the list of individual databases.
Health and Society in Video This link opens in a new window
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Defines and explores todays latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and their impact on society, with hundreds of documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews.
Health Business Elite This link opens in a new window
Includes journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.
Health Collection This link opens in a new window
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Covers a range of subjects within a health context. Full text publications: 1977 - Present; Index: 1977 - Present.

Health Library [see: LWW Health Library]

Health Management Database This link opens in a new window
Provides information on a wide range of topics, including: hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health economics, and public health administration.
Health & Medical Collection This link opens in a new window
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Combines the clinical research titles available in ProQuest Medical Library with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles for all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy and pharmacology, nursing, physical fitness and hygiene, and surgery.
Health Source - Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Contains information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which includes Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Provides researchers with electronic, searchable access to collections of the earliest legal periodicals, legal classics and older law reviews.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 onwards, including world history, military history, women's history, and history of education. Coverage: 1955 - Present.
History of Feminism This link opens in a new window
Covers feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776–1928). It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on its structural themes. Includes video introduction to the subject and an image gallery containing photographs and illustrations that can be used in teaching and study.

History of Romanticism [see: Romanticism]

Hong Kong Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Academic Hong Kong Scholarship Online (HKSO), a vast and rapidly-expanding online research library, offering full-text access to academic monographs from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Humanities & Social Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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Covers a range of subjects within an arts and social science context. Full text publications: 1940 - Present; Index: 1940 - Present.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
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Includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full-text content, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
Human Resource Management Online This link opens in a new window
Includes textbooks, book chapters, cases from well-known case providers, corporate training video, sample business documents and executive-oriented research reports.
Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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Research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.

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IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
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Collection of Industry Market Research, Industry Risk Ratings and Company Research including access to Australia Industry Reports (ANZSIC), Global Industry Reports, Australia Business Environment Profiles, Australia Company Reports, and Australia Specialized Industry Reports.
ICLR.3 This link opens in a new window
Includes judgments handed down in the Court of Appeal, Administrative Court and other divisions of the High Court from 2000 to the present day are available to all, free of charge. In addition, we’re opening up ICLR’s index of leading case law dating back to 1865 for the very first time.
IEEE - Princeton University Press eBooks Library This link opens in a new window
The collection features content from fields such as engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, astronomy and history of science. Titles in the collection come from Princeton University Press’s leading series, including the Princeton Science Libraries series, the Princeton Legacy Library, and Science Essentials Collection. The authors of the titles are some of the most influential scholars in their fields, including Nobel Prize winners and best-selling book authors. This collection is ideal for students, researchers, and technical professionals. WSU access content from 1945-2021 publications.
IEEE Xplore: Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Collection of standards, periodicals and conferences published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Coverage: 1988 - current.
Includes integrated Altmetric badge visualisations and related data
IET Digital Library eBooks This link opens in a new window
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. This ultimate ebooks collection (1979-2021) includes computing, electronic and electrical engineer, telecommunications, circuits, power, materials and IT research related.
IET.tv (The Engineering Research Engine) This link opens in a new window
IET.tv - The Research Engine is the world’s largest collection of engineering and technology video resource featuring: Content from leading engineers and technologists in academia and industry. Access to over 12,000 engineering videos – invaluable to researchers, instructors and students.– Engineering Video Intelligence ‘EVI’ – enabling the user to search video transcripts.
iG Library This link opens in a new window
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Provides single-search access to ebooks collections: HCPro Publications, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
IGI Global InfoSci This link opens in a new window
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IGI Global InfoSci database provides access to a selection of IGI Global’s world-class reference works, encyclopedias, handbooks of research, and scholarly journals focusing on emerging technology, innovative research trends and technological advancement across a number of subject areas.
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 This link opens in a new window
Gale, The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842–2003 includes every published issue, from the publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events -- including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts, and science -- with coverage in the first issue ranging from the Great Fire of Hamburg to Queen Victoria's fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace.
InCites: Benchmarking & Analytics This link opens in a new window
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A customised citation-based research evaluation tool which allows academics to benchmark their own and their institution's performance against peers and other institutions worldwide. Users need to register individually and create their own profile to use InCites Benchmarking & Analytics (From Sign In screen, click on "Register an email address" and complete the registration form).
InCites: Essential Science Indicators (ESI) This link opens in a new window
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Access the essential science performance statistics and science trend data derived from Thomson Scientific data.
InCites: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) This link opens in a new window
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Facilitates the evaluation and comparison of journals from publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
India, Raj and Empire This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew, India, Raj and Empire database drawn from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, this collection covers the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
Indigenous Collection This link opens in a new window
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Covers a range of subjects within an indigenous context. Full text publications: 1977 - Present; Index: 1977 - Present.
Informit databases This link opens in a new window
Informit collections by RMIT, content featuring coverage of Australian and international information resources. These covers a wide range of subjects includes:
- A+ Education
- AGIS Plus Text
- APAFT - Australian Public Affairs Full Text
- Business Collection
- Engineering Collection
- Families & Society Collection
- Health Collection
- Humanities & Social Sciences Collection
- Indigenous Collection
- Literature & Culture Collection
- POLICY - Analysis and Policy Observatory Database
- TVNews
- EduTV
INTAN MAS This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database on East Timor and Eastern Indonesia, on Australia's relations with South-East Asia, and with ASEAN and its member nations (Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar). Archive: 1989 - May 2002.

IntelliConnect [see CCH IntelliConnect]

International Business Online This link opens in a new window
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Includes learning items relevant to the modern international business syllabus.
IOP Science This link opens in a new window
Access to journals in the field of physics and The Institute of Physics Journal Archive from 1876 to 1996. See also IOP Science Extra for additional content.
ISEAS (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) This link opens in a new window
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Includes ebooks from the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), a regional research centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment.

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JAMA Network This link opens in a new window
American Medical Association provides insights that matter most to medical research and practice, including archives of neurology and psychiatry (1919-1959). Includes interactive features such as video, audio, and CME quizzes. Also includes a Multimedia including interactive Medical Cases section. Also available is the JAMA Network Reader for mobile devices.
JBI [previously titled: Joanna Briggs Institute] This link opens in a new window
The JBI evidence-based practice model is considered a benchmark in the healthcare industry. Institutional users have access to the JBI database and two JBI Tools (JBI PACES & JBI SUMARI). Users will need to create an OVID personal account in order to use the EBP Tools.
* See user guide 'Accessing JBI Tools for the First Time or Existing JBI users'.
* For more info and Training, see JBI Resource Centre

To access Rapid tools make sure that you are on Ovid page, via WSU:

1. Click on EBP Tools
2. Under JBI Tools, Log into your Ovid Personal Account
The John Johnson Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
John Murtagh's General Practice Collection. This link opens in a new window
John Murtagh’s General Practice Collection comprises six products - including the gold standard reference and most influential publication for general practice and primary health care, Murtagh’s General Practice that provide an indispensable source of information for medical professionals and students alike.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) [see InCites: Journal Citation Reports]
Journal Finder [See: Find Scholarly Publishing Outlets for your research]

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM) This link opens in a new window
Collection of journals ranging in scope from primary research to clinical practice, covering topics from experimental medicine to venous disease.
Journals@Ovid This link opens in a new window
Journals@Ovid provides online access to medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy journals.
JoVe Science Education collection This link opens in a new window
JoVE Science Education is a video library dedicated to teaching scientific fundamentals through simple easy-to-understand video demonstrations.
JoVE Science Education: Aeronautical Engineering
JoVE Science Education: Analytical Chemistry
JoVE Science Education: Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology
JoVE Science Education: Behavioral Science
JoVE Science Education: Biochemistry
JoVE Science Education: Bioengineering
JoVE Science Education: Biology 1: Yeast, Drosophila and C. elegans
JoVE Science Education: Biology 2: Mouse, Zebrafish and Chick
JoVE Science Education: Biomedical Engineering
JoVE Science Education: Cell Biology
JoVE Science Education: Chemical Engineering
JoVE Science Education: Cognitive Psychology
JoVE Science Education: Developmental Biology
JoVE Science Education: Developmental Psychology
JoVE Science Education: Earth Science
JoVE Science Education: Electrical Engineering
JoVE Science Education: Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
JoVE Science Education: Environmental Microbiology
JoVE Science Education: Environmental Science
JoVE Science Education: Experimental Psychology
JoVE Science Education: General Chemistry
JoVE Science Education: General Laboratory Techniques
JoVE Science Education: Genetics
JoVE Science Education: Immunology
JoVE Science Education: Inorganic Chemistry
JoVE Science Education: Lab Animal Research
JoVE Science Education: Lab Safety
JoVE Science Education: Materials Engineering
JoVE Science Education: Mechanical Engineering
JoVE Science Education: Microbiology
JoVE Science Education: Neuropsychology
JoVE Science Education: Neuroscience
JoVE Science Education: Nursing Skills
JoVE Science Education: Organic Chemistry
JoVE Science Education: Organic Chemistry II
JoVE Science Education: Physics I
JoVE Science Education: Physics II
JoVE Science Education: Physical Examinations I
JoVE Science Education: Physical Examinations II
JoVE Science Education: Physical Examinations III
JoVE Science Education: Sensation And Perception
JoVE Science Education: Social Psychology
JoVE Science Education: Structural Engineering
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR is a digital library provides digitized back issues of academic journals, ebooks and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences.
JSTOR Early Journal & Images Content Free This link opens in a new window
JSTOR free full text journals and Images archive published prior to 1870, content includes, arts & humanities, economics & politics, and in social sciences.
JSTOR Open Access Monographs This link opens in a new window
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The ebooks are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Each ebook carries one of six Creative Commons licenses determined by the publisher. The titles are easy to use, with no DRM restrictions and no limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing. Users will not need to register or log in to JSTOR.
JSTOR Sustainability This link opens in a new window
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Discover a wide range of journals, ebooks, and research reports in the field of sustainability. The subjects of resilience and sustainability are explored broadly, covering research on environmental stresses and their impact on society.

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LEGENDcom This link opens in a new window
LEGENDcom (LEGEND commercial) is a database maintained by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Border Protection which includes Migration and Citizenship legislation, policy documents, and the procedural advice manual (PAM). It provides current and historical versions of migration and citizenship legislation as well as migration series instructions, citizenship instructions, and legislative instruments.

See Govt. website for more information
Lexis Advance [choose login below, this link to User Guides) This link opens in a new window
For Students. - Log in using your Student ID@student.westernsydney.edu.au
For Staff. - Log in using Staff ID@westernsydney.edu.au
Lexis Advance includes Practical Guidance and Lexis Advance - US Research & International. First time users are advised to select Pacific Research as their starting point.

Australian legal materials including key Australian Law reports and unreported judgments. Includes the Practical Guidance database. Lexis Advance has replaced LexisNexis AU and Lexis.com. To access Legal Express, register for a free personal account and make sure you have logged into a session of Lexis Advance.
LGBT Magazine Archives This link opens in a new window
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Includes archival content of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. Some publications may contain explicit content. Coverage: 1954-2015.
LGBT Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
Multi-content perspective on the LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Hosts the key works and, in future releases, archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day, and includes materials covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as works that illuminate the lives of lesbians, gays, transgendered, and bisexual individuals and the community.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. Coverage: Back to the mid-1960s.
Library & Information Science Collection This link opens in a new window
Combines Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), the leading index for library science, with full-text for many titles. Coverage: 1951 - Current.
Linguistics Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Coverage: 1973 - Present.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)‎ This link opens in a new window
LLBA: this database abstracts and indexes the theoretical and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, etc. - journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
Literature & Culture Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers a range of subjects that inform central ideas and debates about Australian literary, cultural and social heritage. Full text publications: 1939 - Present; Index: 1939 - Present.
London Review of Books This link opens in a new window
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Incorporates high quality essays about literature, law, politics and society, and science, by leading scholars, public intellectuals and authors. As well as book reviews and reportage, each issue also contains poems, reviews of exhibitions and movies, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary.
LWW Health Library This link opens in a new window
The LWW Health Library Lippincott content - including most commonly required textbooks and multimedia assets—for use in medical, Nursing and other health sciences (Critial Care, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, ObGyn, Pathology and Pediatrics).

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Macquarie Dictionary Online This link opens in a new window
The Macquarie Dictionary is a dictionary of Australian English, and has been online since 2003. It is frequently updated with new words as they enter the Australian language.
MAH Complete (via MAG Online Library) This link opens in a new window
Includes select titles such as British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, British Journal of Healthcare Management, British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, British Journal of School Nursing, Gastrointestinal Nursing, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, International Journal of Therapy & Rehabilitation, International Paramedic Practice, Journal of Paramedic Practice, Journal of Wound Care, Nurse Prescribing, Nursing & Residential Care, and Practice Nursing.
Margaret Gee's Australian media guide This link opens in a new window
Allows searching for media details including newspapers, magazines, radio, newsletters and internet including key contacts and TV shows.
Mass Observation Online This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew Mass Observation online, access archives for the study of social history in the modern era: from the end of the 'Hungry Thirties' to the onset of the Second World War; the Blitz; and the post-War world of consumerism and television. Includes Parts I, II, III and IV.
Mass Observation Project This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew Digital Collection - Mass Observation Project Module I, II & III (1980-2000s) provides digital access to a unique life-writing archive, capturing the everyday experiences, thoughts and opinions of people living through the turbulent final decades of the 20th century and the advent of the 21st century.
MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
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EBSCOHost databases - Includes full text of periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues.
MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive database, contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines including America’s Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc.
MathSciNet: Mathematical Reviews This link opens in a new window
American Mathematical Society (AMS) provides access to mathematical sciences literature.
Medical directory of Australia (MDA Online) This link opens in a new window
Australasian Medical Publishing Company (AMCo) and known as The Medical Directory of Australia (MDA) is the country's leading online medical database used to search and locate doctors and health facilities nationwide.
Medieval and Early Modern Studies This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew Digital Research Source, Medieval and Early Modern Studies provide a huge range of primary source covering social, cultural, political, scientific and religious perspectives, from the 12th to early 18th centuries.
The breadth of sources provided within this collection from concerning the Black Death to the Restoration of the English monarchy and the Glorious Revolution.
MEDLINE (Ovid ) This link opens in a new window
Includes the most complete version of Ovid MEDLINE, with all year ranges and content from the various Ovid MEDLINE options. In-process articles for MEDLINE are available from this link. Coverage: 1946 to Present. OVID updates are also available.
Meiji Japan This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew complete collection of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925), he was a great polymath – notable for his work in natural history, ethnography and art history – but, perhaps most famous for his work in bringing Japan and the West closer together.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Contains abstract & Index, information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within areas such as psychology, education, business, and leadership, and serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available testing instruments currently in print in the English language.
The Merck Index Online This link opens in a new window
Includes information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals, and historic records not available in the print edition.
Migration to New Worlds This link opens in a new window
This Adam Matthew database showcases unique primary source material recounting the many and varied personal experiences of 350 years of migration, including the modern era. Take an in-depth look at the emigration of peoples from Great Britain, mainland Europe and Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Includes personal diaries, letters, travel journals and scrapbooks supplemented by original maps, watercolours, engravings, objects, emigration pamphlets, shipping papers and rare printed material. Includes audio files, and a virtual tour of two New York Tenement Museum apartments.
MIMS Online This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive pharmaceutical database of prescription and non-prescription drugs, incorporating information from MIMS Bi-Monthly and MIMS Annual.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, history of printing and publishing, listings on rhetoric and composition, and history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
Music & Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores online. Users can cross search music databases published by Alexander Street including:
* Music Online: African American Music Reference
* Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library
* Music Online: Classical Scores Library: Volume I
* Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Music & Performing Arts Collection This link opens in a new window
This Proquest database combines cross-searchable, seminal bibliographies in music and performing arts, with full-text from hundreds of journals. Subjects: Music, Performing Arts, Dance, Theater, Film. Coverage: 1864 - Current.

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Nature.com This link opens in a new window
Provides access to science and medicine journals. Archive: 1869-1945.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Collection of classical music, including also Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in the database.
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) This link opens in a new window
Working papers covering economics and economic aspects of industrial relations, education, health and related subjects. Coverage: 1994 - Present.
NCC: National Construction Code This link opens in a new window
The National Construction Code is Australia’s primary set of technical design and construction provisions for buildings, plumbing and drainage systems.
The current series - in addition to the historical versions - of the NCC (National Construction Code) are now available free to download in PDF format. To get your free copy, and notification of future updates, register via the ABCB (Australian Building Codes Board) website. For more information go to the NCC Online FAQs page.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Includes full-text newspapers, articles, along with television and radio news transcripts.
Nineteenth-Century Fiction This link opens in a new window
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Collection of British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s (popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature).
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) This link opens in a new window
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Covers a broad range of topics in computer science, philosophy and psychology, religion, social sciences, science, technology, arts and recreation, literature, and history and geography.
Nursing and Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window
Includes healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and coverage on topics including cytology, nursing, nutrition, oncology, pediatric care, pharmacology, public health, and radiology, with video clips from leading providers on assessment, procedures, anatomy, and more.
Nursing and Mental Health in Video This link opens in a new window
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Features videos of the most common mental health disorders nurses may encounter – whether in a primary care setting, emergency room, medical, psychiatric or other.
Nursing Assessment in Video This link opens in a new window
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Provides demonstrations and step-by-step instructions for performing physical assessments of patients.
Nursing Education in Video This link opens in a new window
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Collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers.
Nursing Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides access to recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases, patient education, labs and diagnostics, as well as drug and reference information.

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OAPEN This link opens in a new window
OAPEN is a not-for-profit organisation that works with publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation. to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books on a large subject of humanities and social sciences.

Full-text access and direct linking does not guaranteed to be available in all instances.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
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Includes industry reports, books and papers published since 1998, as well as a vast collection of statistics, with statistical data going back to the early 1960s. For more info @ OECD iLibrary User Guide.
Free OECD Podcast - Where policy meets people.
O'Reilly This link opens in a new window
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O'Reilly provides full access to tutorials, case studies, videos and ebooks from over 250 publishers. Includes on-the-go and on-demand access to thousands of books, videos, expert-curated courses, and interactive learning environments. Popular Topics: Analytics, Business & Management, Computer Networking, Databases, Engineering, Game Development, Information Technology/Operations, Leading Teams, Maths & Science, Project Management, Software Development and Web Development.

To download digital content go to the Your Account page, then click on the Your Products tab. You’ll see a list of your digital content. Choose your digital content type (ebook or video), click the title, and then click the button for each file type you want to download. Click Send Ebook to send your ebook file to either Dropbox or Google Drive. To locate audio books, add 'audio books' to your search terms.
OverDrive (Study Break) This link opens in a new window
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OverDrive offers current WSU students and staff to check out and download e-books and audiobooks 24/7.
There are multiple options for accessing ebooks and audiobooks from OverDrive:
• Install Libby app to download books to a computer, phone or other device.
• Read or listen online directly through your computer browser with OverDrive Read Devices and platforms.
For more info on installing and using Libby, see Libby Help page.
For help with troubleshooting visit OverDrive's support page.
For more OverDrive help visit OverDrive Help page.
Ovid Emcare This link opens in a new window
Nursing and allied health database covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions, and includes unique content not found in other nursing and allied health databases. 1995 to Present. OVID updates are also available.
MEDLINE (Ovid ) This link opens in a new window
Includes the most complete version of Ovid MEDLINE, with all year ranges and content from the various Ovid MEDLINE options. In-process articles for MEDLINE are available from this link. Coverage: 1946 to Present. OVID updates are also available.
Ovid databases This link opens in a new window
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Cross-searchable access to OvidSP databases. Includes Lippincott and American Heart Association (AHA) journals, and books from LWW Doody’s Core Collection 2022. Log in with your Ovid ID and password to access the Ovid Search Builder. OVID updates are also available.
Oxford Academic: Books This link opens in a new window
Cross search Oxford Academic Books for Oxford Scholarship Online, University Press Scholarship Online, Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Medicine Online and more.
Oxford Academic: Journals This link opens in a new window
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Includes journal titles in the fields of arts and humanities, law, medicine and health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
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Selected Oxford Academic Handbooks for archaeology, business and management, classical studies, criminology and criminal justice, economics and finance, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, psychology, and religion.
Oxford Historical Treaties This link opens in a new window
Cross-searchable resource for historical treaty research and home to the full text of The Consolidated Treaty Series - a collection of treaties of all nations concluded from 1648 through 1919.
Oxford Medicine Online This link opens in a new window
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Selected titles from Oxford Academic Medicine Online includes access to a few handbook titles on public health practice, global public health, and palliative medicine.
Oxford Music Online [including Grove Music Online] This link opens in a new window
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Cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location, including Grove Music Online.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Cross searchable access to Oxford Quick Reference and Oxford Reference Library.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online This link opens in a new window
OSEO provides full-text access to material written between 1485 and 1700, including all of Shakespeare’s plays, the poetry of John Donne, and works by John Milton and John Locke. WSU access to Shakespeare 2012 & 2013 online publication.
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Academic Scholarship Online includes, business and management, linguistics, psychology, economics and finance, neuroscience, law, history, public health and epidemiology, and social work.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Palliative Care This link opens in a new window
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Includes a range of titles for both clinical situations and hospice care; focusing on evidence-based palliative care, quality of life and ethics, as well as care for patients with non-malignant diseases requiring care at the end of life.

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PACES [see: Joanna Briggs Institute EBP (JBI) > EBP Tools]

The Paley Center Seminars This link opens in a new window
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Video collection of interviews and panel discussions recorded at The Paley Center for Media on industry insiders discussing the processes of television production, the impact of media on contemporary society, and much more.
Passport (Euromonitor) This link opens in a new window
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Provides key business intelligence on countries, markets, industries and companies, including historical statistics and forecasts.
PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window
PBS Video Collection: Fourth Edition is one of television’s most trusted networks. Proquest Alexander Street provides an exceptional range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS. From science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business & economics, and more.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Major archive of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across key subject areas.
POLICY - Analysis and Policy Observatory Database This link opens in a new window
POLICY Database (APO: Analysis and Policy Observatory) is an open access knowledge hub delivering policy and practice research and resources. It covers particularly grey literature reports, articles and data - it offers a wealth of material in a range of formats, including video, infographics, guides and website listings.
Politics Collection This link opens in a new window
Access to leading political science and international relations journals indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, on topics such as political science, international relations, comparative politics, political economy, international development, environmental policy, human rights, and migration. Coverage: 1985 - Present.
Portico This link opens in a new window
Among the largest community-supported digital archives in the world, consisting of e-journals, e-books, and other electronic scholarly content.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) This link opens in a new window
PNAS, the official journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, social sciences and the world's most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Indexes of journals in humanities, arts, social sciences, education, medicine, and health, and access to books via the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC).
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. Multidisciplinary database across subjects areas, covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, science, technology, social sciences and more. Choose to search individual databases or search all at once.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstract & Index This link opens in a new window
[Due to budget cuts for 2020, the library no longer has access to the full text database. Postgraduates and staff can request to purchase theses]
Database of dissertations and theses from around the world, from 1743 to the present day. Subjects include: business, health and medicine, history, literature and language, science and technology, social sciences, and the arts.

ProQuest Ebook Central
Proquest Ebook Central provides access to thousands of titles from scholarly sources, in all academic subject areas. Individual chapters can be downloaded as PDF. Titles may have download limits; downloading entire book requires Adobe Digital Editions. For more information visit ProQuest guide to Ebook Central.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: This link opens in a new window
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These historical newspapers digital archive empowering researchers to digitally travel back through centuries of history.
- The Boston Globe (1872 - 1988).
- Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1996).
- Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832 - 1953).
- Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1995).
- New York Tribune (1841 - 1922).
- San Francisco Chronicle (1865 - 1922).
- South China Morning Post (1903 - 2000).
- The Globe and Mail (1844 - 2015).
- The Guardian and The Observer (1791 - 2003).
- The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times (1859 - 2017).
- The New York Times with Index (1851 - 2015).
- The Scotsman (1817 - 1950).
- The Times of India (1838 - 2010).
- The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 2002).
- The Washington Post (1877 - 2002).

PsycArticles [see: APA PsycArticles]
PsycBooks [see: APA PsycBooks]
PsycInfo [see: APA PsycInfo]

PsychiatryOnline This link opens in a new window
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Psychiatry Online, American Psychiatric Association Publishing is the world’s premier publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health and behavioral science. Web-based portal that features Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5-TR) and The American Journal of Psychiatry as psychiatric references.
Psychological Experiments Online This link opens in a new window
Alexander Street provides multimedia collection that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries which impact on fields such as sociology, business, advertising, economics, political science, law, ethics, and the arts.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral includes topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Coverage: 1965 - Present.

Psychology in the Real World [see: Routledge Psychology in the Real World [Taylor & Francis] ]

Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
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Proquest provide access on psychological research, representing a range of psychology disciplines including behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, personality, physiological, psychobiology, psychometrics and social psychology, and includes curriculum-aligned psychology videos on psychology concepts and principles.
Public Library Of Science (PLOS) This link opens in a new window
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Nonprofit publisher and advocacy organisation founded to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. All articles submitted by any Western Sydney University author, and accepted for publication in any PLOS journals, will not be subject to any Article Processing Charges.
Publicly Available Content Database This link opens in a new window
This ProQuest database brings together or links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports. Open access content is identified by an icon in search results. Over 90% of the content is from outside of North America, with titles from over 70 countries. Use the 'Creative Commons Licenses' filter to filter for CC content. Locate the content you want to use, then check the Copyright CC Licence in the Abstract/Details tab.
* Full text for this publicly available content is not restricted when users link into it via Google Scholar, consistent with its open status.
* For many journals the full text articles are fully searchable and presented within the ProQuest platform. Where the full text is not available inside the platform, there are clear and reliable links direct to the external full text.
* Although not part of the Publicly Available Content Database as such, together with the release of this database a related enhancement to the platform provides an indicator of OA status and dynamic links to external OA sources based on DOIs in citation records. This helps users locate publicly available full text for OA articles published in journals which are not themselves fully open and do not license the full text of articles to ProQuest.
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PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and Library collections such as ClinicalKey via PubMed LinkOut. Includes additional content holding the NLM (U.S. National Library of Medicine) search service with access to citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases.
PubMed Central (PMC) This link opens in a new window
Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
PubMed Clinical Queries This link opens in a new window
Provides a quick way to use pre-defined filters for selecting MEDLINE studies in four areas: therapy, diagnosis, etiology and prognosis.

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Queen Victoria's Journals This link opens in a new window
The diaries cover the period from Queen Victoria's childhood days to her Accession to the Throne, marriage to Prince Albert, and later, her Golden and Diamond Jubilees.
Queer Pasts This link opens in a new window
Queer Pasts is a new digital queer history project consisting of primary source document collections and curatorial essays. The digital exhibits on this platform are designed for students, teachers, and scholars of queer history. Access to this database is from the Alexander Street platform.

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New RefWorks [login page] This link opens in a new window
*Access to RefWorks will cease 31/12/22 and it is recommended that you use EndNote Online instead. *
Online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help users gather, manage, store and share information, and generate citations and bibliographies. For further information see the New RefWorks LibGuide. See Release Notes for latest updates and information.
Alumni: Please provide the Library with details of your email address. You should then receive an email from New RefWorks. The email will include unique signup codes and instructions which will help you create your own account.
RCNi This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Royal College of Nursing journals, with each journal including practical application, clinical innovation and the latest research; research and development papers, double-blind peer review for clinical and original research articles, news of latest developments in treatments, essential continuing professional development material; and articles written by senior clinicians.
REEF - Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Province Database This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic online database about the Great Barrier Reef Region, and includes material on or about the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), the Region, or the World Heritage Area, with many records including spatial information. Coverage: 1982 - Present.
Rehabilitation Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video resource for the study of occupational therapy, physical/physiotherapy, and speech-language pathology.
Religion Database This link opens in a new window
Resource for religious studies programs covering formal theological studies, commentary and news on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many, worldwide religions. Including related content on philosophy and ethics. Coverage: 1986 - Present.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary resource which includes a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. Coverage: Full-text from 1971 to Present.
Research Methods Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew Research Methods Primary Sources collection comprising peer-reviewed essays, How-to guides and newly-commissioned video interviews, our learning tools introduce students to key concepts that underpin research in the humanities and social sciences, and share the core principles and practices for understanding and using primary sources.
Revolution and Protest Online This link opens in a new window
This collection examines the most studied and important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the 21st century. This collection will include at completion 175 hours of video, 100,000 pages of printed materials (personal papers, organizational and government documents, journals, books, reports, videos, monographs, and speeches), and more than 1,000 images. Access to the database is from Alexander Street platform.
Romanticism This link opens in a new window
Routledge Historical Resources online - Romanticism covers the fascinating subject of Romanticism and focuses on the period 1780-1830. It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays and videos, and
subject introductions on its five key structural themes:Critical Concepts
-Genre
-History and Politics
-Culture
-Modern Critical Approaches
[Taylor & Francis imprints].
Routledge Education [Taylor & Francis] This link opens in a new window
Routledge Resources Online – Education features brand new, specially commissioned content in 9 key areas: Assessment, Multicultural Education, Social and Emotional Learning, Educational Technology, Special Education, Educational Psychology, Curriculum, Instruction, and Educational Leadership, Led by General Editor Douglas Fisher.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism [see: Encyclopedia of Modernism]

Routledge Psychology in the Real World [Taylor & Francis] This link opens in a new window
Routledge Resources Online – Psychology in the Real World features brand new content that support the teaching and learning of Psychology in 7 key areas – law, education, social change, work, sport, relationships and health. Led by General Editor Regan Gurung and a world-leading team of academics, this is an ever-evolving online resource that allows students to explore the field of Psychology and investigate both established and emerging topics.
Royal Society (The Royal Society) This link opens in a new window
Royal Society Publishing is the publishing division of The Royal Society. Access to Biology letters, Proceedings. Biological sciences, including Open Biology and Royal Society Open Science.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) This link opens in a new window
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Scientific publisher of biology, biophysics, chemical science, materials, medicinal drug discovery and physics high-impact journals and books. Coverage extends back to 1941.
RURAL - Rural and Remote Health Database This link opens in a new window
RURAL is a major contributor to the understanding of rural and remote area health issues and the care, practice and educational needs of health providers, in particular medical practitioners and nurses. This resource consists of seven databases. Coverage: 1966 - Present. Note: Because the Rural and Remote Health Database is made up of seven separate databases, the structure of the records varies.

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SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
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SAGE journals discipline includes, health sciences, materials sciences & engineering, social sciences & humanities, life & biomedical sciences.
SAGE Business Cases This link opens in a new window
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SAGE Knowledge Business Cases: from Business & Management to cases includes the Kelloggs (content coverage upto 2021 publication). Further information: see Business Cases site.
SAGE Skills: Business This link opens in a new window
SAGE Knowledge Skills: Business, practical business skills for professional success includes a self-guided journey to gain the career-ready skill sets essential for professional success.
SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new window
SAGE Knowledge is home to an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content alongside SAGE Video. Content includes reference works, academic books, professional development titles and more.
- SAGE Knowledge Video
- SAGE Video: Business and Management
- SAGE Video: Counseling and Psychotherapy
- SAGE Video: Criminology & Criminal Justice
- SAGE Video: Education
- SAGE Video: Leadership
- SAGE Video: Media, Communication and Cultural Studies
- SAGE Video: Politics and International Relations
- SAGE Video: Psychology
- SAGE Video: Social Work
- SAGE Video: Sociology
SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
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SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library includes books, reference works, journal articles, cases, datasets and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.
- SAGE CASES
- SAGE DATASETS
- SAGE VIDEO
SAGE Research Methods: Data Visualization This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods: Data Visualization, step-by-step guides to teach both beginner and advanced researchers the fundamentals of data and design necessary to create impactful visualizations. Principles are taught through a series of practical video tutorials, text entries, and practice datasets, and teaches users which chart types best fit their specific data story (content coverage up until 31/12/2021)
SAGE Research Methods: Medicine & Health : Cases and Videos This link opens in a new window
The SAGE Research Methods: Medicine & Health, cases and videos collections cover primary clinical and epidemiological research, both interventional and observational, as well as systematic review and meta-analysis (content coverage up until 31/12/ 2021).
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System This link opens in a new window
Popular search tool for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Science [AAAS] This link opens in a new window
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) publish Science, a leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary.
Science Citation Index Expanded [via Web of Science] This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. Coverage: 1900 - Present.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect is the world's leading source for scientific, technical, and medical research includes more than 2,500 peer-reviewed with high-quality journals, books and reference content.
* When prompted, please register/log in using your institutional email address and password for Elsevier *
In 2023 WSU student and staff have access to over 290 selected Elsevier Textbook titles.
Training and user guide
SciFinder [first time user Registration] This link opens in a new window
CAS SciFinder Scholar registration link. Users will need to use an on-campus computer to create an account.
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
SciFinder’s new platform contains over five million formulation records extracted from patents, journals and product inserts. Helps with looking to understand the ‘real-world’ practicalities of product development and formulations for next-step product development.
* If you previously registered for SciFinder scholar, you don't need to register again for SciFinder-n *
CAS Analytical MethodsTM.
CAS Formulus®.
For more info & FAQs.
For Support & training.

Scitation [see AIP: American Institute of Physics journals]

SciTech Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes the Natural Science Collection, Science, and Technology Collection databases. Covers comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary. Subject Area(s):‎ Agriculture Science, Environmental Science, Biological Science, Earth Science, Atmospheric Science, Aquatic Science, Aerospace, Advanced Technologies, Materials Science, Engineering. Coverage: 1946 - Current.
SciVal This link opens in a new window
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SciVal is a citation analysis tool that uses Scopus data to provide metrics. Helps you assess your institution’s research performance from a variety of perspectives in order to establish, execute and evaluate strategies based on reliable evidence. Contains data on the research performance of 7,500 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Includes access to peer-reviewed titles in health, sciences, engineering, social sciences, psychology, and economics. Includes all Embase content. Coverage dates back to 1966.
Screen Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. Coverage: 1893 - Current.
Security Issues Online This link opens in a new window
Delves into conflicts, policies, and relationships that have impacted the global arena throughout modern history. It is organized around more than forty events and areas and includes a wide array of themes such as terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency, cybersecurity, ethnic conflicts and resolution, and nuclear threats.
Sex & Sexuality, Module I & II This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew, Sex and Sexuality, Module I & II: Research Collections from The Kinsey Institute and Self-Expression, Community and Identity. This collection explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
SIAM Reference Collection (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) This link opens in a new window
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* To access content off campus register your desktop computer. Enter the code on the mobile device when prompted to pair your mobile device for 30 day periods *
Covers a broad range of topics in applied mathematics, statistics/probability, computational science, data mining, dynamics, engineering and physics.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM books) This link opens in a new window
SIAM books are a leading source of knowledge for the applied mathematics and computational science communities (WSU access coverage 2011-2021 publication).
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary resource for core disciplines across social sciences, including sociology, social work, anthropology, politics, with topics including anthropology, communication science, demography, economics, education, political science, policy studies, psychology, social work, and sociology.
Social Sciences Citation Index [via Web of Science] This link opens in a new window
Access to bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, analyse trends, journals and researchers, and share findings.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Search across a range of ProQuest’s specialist index and full-text social sciences databases. Subject Area(s):‎ Criminal Justice, Education, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Politics, Social Science, and Sociology. Coverage: 1914 - Present.
Social Theory This link opens in a new window
Extensive collection of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day, including works by influential theorists.
Social Theory (second edition) This link opens in a new window
Social Theory second edition conceived in 2005, the database Included works by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.
Social Work Online This link opens in a new window
This resource pairs recently published social work textbooks with compelling documentaries, clinical demonstration videos, and engaging lectures that illustrate complex and challenging realities faced as practitioners.
Social Work Toolkit This link opens in a new window
This website includes content around four themes: Communication Skills; Developing your Practice; Ethics, Values and Diversity; and Assessment and Intervention. Each theme contains different resources, which will help you to explore some key issues and aspects of social work practice.
Socialism on Film This link opens in a new window
Adam Matthew Digital - Socialism on Film Module I, II & III, includes Wars and Revolutions, Newsreels and Magazines, Culture and Society. Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), this collection of documentary, newsreel and feature films reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, and Latin American filmmakers. Ranging from the early 20th century to the 1980s, material encapsulates the themes of war, revolution, news, current affairs, culture and society.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Sociology research database includes journals dating back to 1908, and full-text e-books and conference papers. Coverage: 1895 - Present.
Sociology Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Sociological Abstracts in combination with other databases covering the international literature in sociology and social services, along with related fields. Coverage: 1952 - Current.
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) This link opens in a new window
SAOA is a free & open access resource for research and teaching includes arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA's collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers,
census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. Coverage: 1800 - Present.
Sports and Therapy This link opens in a new window
An interactive 3D anatomy multimedia modules focusing on sports therapy and rehabilitation, including pilates, resistance training, and yoga.
Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video This link opens in a new window
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Extensive video collection in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more. Includes Volumes I and II.
Springer Nature Experiments This link opens in a new window
Collection specifically designed to help researchers find and evaluate significant, groundbreaking research, methods and protocols. From keywords through to citation history and latest citations, you can compare the full-text Nature methods and protocols articles to make sure that they have been successfully and consistently used in other research projects.
We don't have a subscription to the Springer Protocols package (LW/20191127). Springer Protocols are 'basic recipes' potentially useful for lab work for graduate students. Nature articles are more specialised (novel/new approaches; groundbreaking research).
SpringerLink Books This link opens in a new window
SpringerNature comprehensive eBook collections deliver complete access to impactful scholarly content includes Biomedicine, Business and Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Economics, Education, Engineering, Environment, Life Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine and Public Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, and Social Sciences. Coverage includes The Palgrave content.
SpringerLink Journals This link opens in a new window
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SpringerNature journals, books, book series, reference works and proceedings. Subject coverage includes: Biomedicine, Business and Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Economics, Education, Engineering, Environment, Life Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine and Public Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, and Social Sciences. Coverage includes The Palgrave content.
Springer Nature Open Access This link opens in a new window
Springer Nature publishes open access journals articles, books and chapters under its Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Apress imprints, across a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.
- OA Books
- OA Journals
Standards Online [see: Australian Standards (TechStreet)]

SUMARI [see: Joanna Briggs Institute EBP (JBI) > EBP Tools]

Sustainable Development Goals Online Collection [Taylor & Francis] This link opens in a new window
SDGO collection from Taylor & Francis provide sustainable development goals across 17 important areas, no poverty, zero hunger, good health & well-being, quality education, gender equality, clean water, affordable & clean energy, decent work & economic growth,
industrial innovation, reduces inequalities, sustainable cities, responsible consumption, climate action, life below water, life on land, peace justice & strong constitution and partnerships for the goals.
Sydney Morning Herald Archives This link opens in a new window
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*** Important: Click on 'Access Archive' to access full text ***
A Searchable online archive of every edition (exact digital reproductions) of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald between 1955-1995.

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TAIR: The Arabidopsis Information Resource This link opens in a new window
Database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Taylor and Francis provide access to ebooks, Sustainable Organization Library (SOL), Greenleaf Publishing, CHEMnetBASE, Combined Chemical Dictionary, CRC Press. Subject covers technology, engineering, medicine, science, humanities & social sciences. See also Student/Researcher FAQs.
Taylor & Francis Journals This link opens in a new window
Taylor and Francis multidisciplinary online journal collection, with content spanning all areas of the humanities, social sciences, behavioral sciences, science, technology, and medicine.
Taylor & Francis Open Access eBooks This link opens in a new window
Over 1,600 titles from Taylor and Francis Open Access eBooks permanently and freely available to read, download and share by anyone.
Telecommunications Database This link opens in a new window
Incorporates all telecommunications changes including: computer applications, data communications and data transmission systems, electronic data processing, information science and information theory, radio and television and wireless communications. Coverage: 1995 - Present.
THESES This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database that indexes theses submitted to the National University of Singapore (NUS) and its predecessor institutions, and which are deposited with the Library. Archive: 1947 - September 2007.

Thomson Reuters Westlaw Classic (International)
Includes primary law, analytical materials, practice area insights, litigation resources, public records, and provides full text access to case law, statutes, administrative materials, annotated reports, law reviews, current affairs etc from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong and Australasia. Database is also known as Westlaw International and WestlawNext.

The Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Gale, The Times Digital Archive is one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2014. This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context.
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
This Gale collection includes the complete run of The Times Literary Supplement. Among over 300,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles, users will find the contemporary criticism of scholars such as Christopher Ricks and George Steiner, the reviews of award-winning novels of A.S. Byatt and Joyce Carol Oates, and the philosophical works of Thomas Nagel, Daniel Dennett, and Richard Dawkins. They can also track the discoveries of explorers Redmond O'Hanlon and Robin Hanbury-Tenison.
Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War This link opens in a new window
Archival research resource containing a vast collection of rare magazines by and for servicemen and women of all nations during the First World War. Includes periodicals published between 1914 and the end of 1919.
Trip This link opens in a new window
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Trip is medical database designed to allow users to quickly and easily find high-quality research evidence including systematic reviews, practice guidelines, and critically appraised topics and research articles.

Requires free registration to access select full text resources. Important: When registering, please select the name of our Institution to view the links to full text under each journal article. Includes some DynaMed content.
Trove Digitised Newspapers and more This link opens in a new window
Online search engine developed by the National Library of Australia. Search Australian research outputs, including theses from within Trove.

Note: You can limit the search to 'theses only' by clicking on the thesis facet on the left hand side of the screen under 'Refine your results'.
TVNews This link opens in a new window
Index of television news and current affairs stories from the Australian free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format, and is updated daily. Key subjects include news, current affairs, politics and government, business and finance, lifestyle, environment, health, science and nature, IT and technology. Coverage: September 2007 - present.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry This link opens in a new window
C20th American Poetry Collection includes poems by many poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition This link opens in a new window
C20th American Poetry 2nd Edition brings together many of the most important and influential poems representing the full range of movements and traditions in American poetry from 1900 to the present day.

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U.K. Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window
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Collection of working documents of the British government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy. It covers Bills, Reports of Royal Commissions, Reports of Select Committees, Accounts and Papers and other materials. Includes access to 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Century Collections. Search by Command Papers by Number, Debates, or Members, Offices & Constituencies.
Ulrichsweb: Global Serials Directory This link opens in a new window
Source of detailed information on periodicals of all types, the Ulrich's records provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.
University Press Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Academic - University Press Scholarship Online provides access to the best scholarly publishing from around the world via a single online platform. Subjects includes Business, Law Health, Humanities and Social Sciences.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Access to the full text newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world. Major newspapers include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian and many other national and regional titles.

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The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to the latest research and best practice methods in the fields of counseling, mental health, and psychology through contemporary presentations, lectures, and workshops from renowned counselors, psychologists, and practitioners.
Visible Body This link opens in a new window
* Recommended for use on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. IE is not supported. Apps require iOS 11.3 or later installed on Apple devices. See minimum system requirements to access the Augmented Reality feature *
Visible Body is an interactive 3D human anatomy visualization and learning tool with highly detailed, anatomically accurate, 3D models of all human body systems including anatomy, physiology, muscles, the skeleton, and the circulatory system. It allows users to view in real time any combination of anatomical structures from any angle by zooming in, rotating, and making structures transparent or visible. It has dynamic search capability and includes easy-to-use 3D controls. The Visible Body apps are available for use on desktop and mobile devices.
* Mode of access: World Wide Web. Unity Web Player 4.3+ plug-in is required to view content. Plug-in can be downloaded at https://unity.com/
* Human Anatomy Atlas: To access MRI/CT scans when in cross-section, open up any of the options. See section on the far left titled 'images'. Click on the side tab and the MR or CT scan to see the images.
* Please note:
o Activation Codes can be used only one time on one device.
o Your Activation code does NOT expire (no matter how much time passes between you receiving the codes and actually getting around to using it).
o After you use an Activation Code within an app the app will be available to you for a 12 month period.
o To continue using your app offline and off campus, open your Visible Body app on campus at least once every 150 days.
vLex Justis: English Reports This link opens in a new window
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Justis gives you access to hundreds of thousands of case judgments and legislation from common law jurisdictions around the world. Covers UK legislation and case law, Irish law, EU law, Caribbean case law, and Human Rights. vLex Justis is also a legal citator tool. You will be able to see cases indexed on the platform from each jurisdiction as long as your jurisdiction settings are set to All.
The Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Topics covered include textiles and dress, fashion history, popular culture, gender studies, photography and graphic design, and marketing and advertising. Coverage: 1892 - Present.

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WARC This link opens in a new window
WARC (World Advertising Research Center) offers advertising best practice, evidence and insights from the world's leading brands, and includes campaign and online videos.
The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext); Washington, D.C. This link opens in a new window
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Online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time, relevant to humanities and communications, and social science and psychology.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Clarivate, WOS Core Collection (1900-present). Search the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network, ESI, JCR, InCites [You must be logged into Web of Science using your personal account details to access the InCites tab]
Westlaw AU (Log in using your Student / Staff ID) This link opens in a new window
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Westlaw AU contains Australian legislation, case law, commentary, journals, news and precedents. Includes the National Construction Code.
Westlaw Classic (International) (Log in using your Student / Staff ID) This link opens in a new window
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This platform includes International content and provides full coverage of statutes and regulations covering all 50 US states, and selected Jurisdictions international content from the United Kingdom, Canada, European Union, Hong Kong and Australasia.
WestLaw UK (Log in using your Student / Staff ID) This link opens in a new window
Westlaw UK is a dynamic, ever-growing and easily searchable source of case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal materials.

Wheeler's ePlatform
Provides access to Law, Economics, Finance, Business, Industry ebooks published by CCH and Wolters Kluwer. Read online, or borrow via Adobe Digital Aditions or ePlatforms App.

Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Wiley online provides peer reviewed journals, books and reference covering humanities, science & Health, business & management, chemistry, computing, engineering & Mathematics, social sciences & psychology.
Wiley Open Access This link opens in a new window
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Wiley Open Access publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences. Program of fully open access with all research articles published and immediately free to read, download and share.
Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present This link opens in a new window
Collection of primary materials, including the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made. Coverage: 1840 - Present.
Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919-2019 This link opens in a new window
This database examines efforts to foster gender equity through expanded economic and social participation of women on a global scale. Covering a century, the database highlights and evaluates activism through individual efforts, organizational initiatives, and socio-cultural projects led by or for women in the Global South. Access to the collection is from Alexander Street platform.
Women's and Gender Studies Video Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides films covering the study of gender, feminism, womens history, media studies, and politics, and addresses issues of social justice, gender/sexual identity, and gay and lesbian studies.
Women’s Studies Archive This link opens in a new window
Gale’s Women’s Studies Archive, focusing on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the archive provides materials on women’s political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women’s voices, from female-authored literature to women’s periodicals.
The Women's Wear Daily Archive This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive archive of Womens Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images.
World Biographical Information System Online This link opens in a new window
WBIS Online (via De Gruyter) is the most comprehensive biographical database available, providing biographical information on over 6 Million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present, based on the digitization of K. G. Saur's Biographical Archives. It compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 21st century, and reproduces these original documents as facsimile images on the screen in various languages.
World Constitutions Illustrated This link opens in a new window
Contemporary and historical documents and resources from HeinOnline.
World Scientific: WorldSciNet This link opens in a new window
World Scientific books and journals content including Engineering, Medicine, Information Technology, Environmental Technology, and Management Sciences.

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