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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.
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Incorporates anatomy, functional anatomy and massage therapy content, and an interactive, and labelled 3D anatomy atlas.
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.
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.
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.
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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 primary research material, videos, and downloadable images and animations illustrating key topics in the area of science. See: instructions for off campus access.
Includes current news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting and tax issues of the day. Coverage: 1971 - Present.
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.
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.
American Chemical Society publications supports researchers through journals, eBooks, scientific programs, and the news magazine Chemical & Engineering News.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Create a free account 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 X & 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.
Journals on intellectual and developmental disabilities including American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AJIDD), and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).
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.
The APS journals includes, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of Physics."
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.
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).
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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.
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.
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.
A comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. Includes cross-searchable access to Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online collections.
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.
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.
Includes articles on current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. Full text articles: 1995 - Present; Index: 1978 - Present.
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. Two core collections are: The Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 / The Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free access to Australasian legal materials includes; Cases & Legislation, Journals & Scholarship, law reform documents and journal articles.
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.
Brings together creative works from throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s to the present. Includes interviews and video content.
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.
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'].
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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A point-of-care tool which provides research evidence, guidelines, and expert thought, with drug information provided via the database Martindale, integrated medical calculators.
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Bloomsbury Video Library : Arts and Humanities collections offering a range of international content, features exclusive independent films and shorts, avant-garde performances, interviews with renowned writers, artists, choreographers, performers and practitioners, documentaries on an international range of themes, traditions, and historical figures, and much more.
Online access to a large number of core medical, nursing and allied health resources from the world's most prestigious scholarly publishers, including selected titles from Doody’s Core Collection 2023 publication.
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.
Britannia and Eve collection via British Online Archives provides critical insights into the history of fashion, gender history, and the history of British print culture.
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.
Supports the practice, education, and research for nurses, midwives, and health providers in the UK and the greater nursing community. Coverage: 1994 - Present.
Provides access to British periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
The Bystander collection via British Online Archives provides access to articles, featured reviews, topical drawings, cartoons and short stories reflect on everyday life amongst Britain’s social elite.
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.
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.
CAB Abstracts coverage of the applied life sciences includes agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science, and nutrition, from 1973 - current.
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.
Oxford Academic Cairo Scholarship includes books in Middle East Studies in three subject areas: Religion; Political and Science; and Society and Culture.
Cambridge Core provides access to Cambridge University Press books online, includes a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 iKnowConnect replaced CCH IntelliConnect end of 2023. The new beta site offers advanced search capabilities, customisable alerts, and personalised recommendations, along with a streamlined interface that allows users to easily switch between different Practice Areas and content types.
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 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.
GoldFFX is includes safety Data Sheets (SDS), toxicological and physical information on thousands of chemical products. Information is presented in internationally recognised Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). IMPORTANT: Access not available via mobile device. GoldFFX is a Chemwatch web application supported by the following latest version browsers: Google Chrome, FireFox, Edge, Apple PC (Safari). Training video & user guide
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.
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.
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 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.
ClinicalKey for Nursing (Australian edition) provides access to nursing content including books, journals, Mosby's Evidence-Based Nursing Monographs, point-of-care monographs, drug monographs, videos, and more. NOTE: Due to publisher restrictions, selected content are not available in PDF. *All users are required to register online for personal account to view PDF, save searches/content and for remote access. Online Registration * By accessing Clinicalkey for Nursing, you agree to be bound by Elsevier terms & conditions *
Try out the new and updated ClinicalKey App video instruction * ClinicalKey App Quick Sheet * This instructional guide outlines how to download and access the ClinicalKey mobile app and utilize its key features.
ClinicalKey Student provides access to Medicine and Nursing content including books, images, videos and more. NOTE: Due to publisher restrictions, content are not available in PDF. *All users are required to create a personal account with a WSU email in order to view content and save searches. Online Registration * By accessing Clinicalkey Student, you agree to be bound by Elsevier terms & conditions * Try out the new and updated ClinicalKey App video instruction * ClinicalKey App Quick Sheet * This instructional guide outlines how to download and access the ClinicalKey mobile app and utilize its key features. ClinicalKey Student Support Centre ClinicalKey Student Nursing Support Center
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.
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
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.
Proquest Colonial Legacies: Empire and Commonwealth Periodicals is a digital archive of British publications about the empire and titles published in Commonwealth countries (including Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada, South Africa, and Papua New Guinea) coverage ranging from the late-19th to the 21st century.
Provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
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 & Therapy in Video: Library provides the largest streaming videos collection for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
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.
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.
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.
Morningstar 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
Collection of primary source documents from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, shedding light on diplomatic history throughout the twentieth century.
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...
Selected titles from Ovid LWW Doody’s Core Collection 2022/2023 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
Edward Elgar Publishing offers an expanding range of Essentials Collections covering important topics such as Climate Change, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility, and the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals). WSU library has access to selected titles only.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Contains film covering all realms of environmental studies, particularly ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology, planning, and environmental science.
This ProQuest collection provides ready access to education literature to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
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).
Current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online of audio recordings from field expeditions around the world, particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s. These collectors’ bodies of work contain some of the most comprehensive surveys of regional music on record, including Mark Slobin’s survey of Afghan music, Nazir Jairazbhoy’s survey of classical Indian music, and Hugh Tracey’s survey of southern and central African music. (Alexander Street).
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.
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.
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).
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
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 (in Westlaw AU) is an online case law research tool that provides citation information, reliable summaries of important cases, and includes subject based browsing.
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.
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.
Alexander Street, Symptom Media’s Forensic Nursing Collection, produced in collaboration with the Academy of Forensic Nursing, features a variety of video case studies detailing stories of abuse, sexual assault, and injury.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 (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.
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.
Provides information on a wide range of topics, including: hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health economics, and public health administration.
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.
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.
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.
Routledge Historical Resources: History of Economic Thought is a Taylor & Francis imprints, and its authors. The resource covers the fascinating subject of the history of economic thought over the period 1700–1914. It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on key themes.
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.
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.
The Human Kinetics Library Core Collection combines Bloomsbury’s digital excellence with Human Kinetics’ market-leading sports and physical activity content including monographs and materials for practitioners, and videos for health, fitness and performance in sport and exercise. Bloomsbury help guide to using the Human Kinetics Library
Includes textbooks, book chapters, cases from well-known case providers, corporate training video, sample business documents and executive-oriented research reports.
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.
Includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full-text content, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
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.
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.
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.
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
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. This ultimate ebooks collection (1979-2022) includes computing, electronic and electrical engineer, telecommunications, circuits, power, materials and IT research related.
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.
IGroup Library provides single-search access to ebooks collections: Business Expert Press, HCPro Publications, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and World Scientific.
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.
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.
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News collection via British Online Archives provides key material for students and researchers of the history of sport, the history of Britain’s countryside, and the history of science and technology.
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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).
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.
Proquest Index Islamicus database is a comprehensive index to publications on Islamic subjects throughout the world. Records cover almost 100 years, the scope includes the Middle East, the Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere in the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The ProQuest digitized version is a selection from the full collection, drawn from five subject areas: crimes, murders, and executions; advertising; booktrade; nineteenth-century entertainment; and popular prints. The John Johnson Collection is a great source for studying Britain's cultural, social, industrial, and technological heritage.
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.
Journals@Ovid provides online access to medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy journals, includes NEJM journal content from 1990 to present, and NEJM Evidence from 2022 to present.
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.
Explore Archival Journal and Primary Sources collection includes, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland Collection, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa.
JSTOR free full text journals and Images archive published prior to 1870, content includes, arts & humanities, economics & politics, and in social sciences.
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.
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.
LEGENDcom is a database maintained by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Border Protection. It includes Migration and Citizenship legislation, policy documents, and the procedural advice manual (PAM). The database provides both current and historical versions of migration and citizenship legislation, along with migration series instructions, citizenship instructions, and legislative instruments.
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Lexis+ Australia - AI-powered legal knowledge is also known as Lexis Advance Pacific, Practical Guidance and Lexis Advance - US Research & International.
Proquest LGBT Magazine Archive Collection 1 & 2 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.
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.
Coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. Coverage: Back to the mid-1960s.
Combines Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), the leading index for library science, with full-text for many titles. Coverage: 1951 - Current.
LLBA: this database abstracts and indexes the theoretical and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, etc. - journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
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 Life collection via British Online Archives covers a wide range of topics, from music and film to sexuality and the thriving nightlife of London’s West End.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
EBSCOHost databases - Includes full text of periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues.
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.
The McGraw-Hill eBook Library provides titles published by McGraw-Hill Education. WSU Library has access to selected titles from Business & Medical collections.
McGraw Hill's eBook Library has an integrated eReader feature for reading book content online.
Click * Open eBook * next to any title that you have access to.
Users can create personal accounts to save searches, set up alerts, and bookmark titles. For more info please see McGraw-Hill eBook Library Help/FAQ
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. The Library has access to the current content from 1990 +, includes NEJM Evidence.
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).
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.
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.
Features videos of the most common mental health disorders nurses may encounter – whether in a primary care setting, emergency room, medical, psychiatric or other.
Alexander Street, Nursing Education in Video: Third Edition provide an up-to-date collection of demonstration and training videos designed to help students improve their clinical skills.
Provides access to recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases, patient education, labs and diagnostics, as well as drug and reference information.
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.
As of July 2024 OECD provides unrestricted access to all content. All data, reports and analysis in all formats are now available under an open licence, allowing users to freely access, use, translate, and share the Organisation’s work.
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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 provides digital e-books and audiobooks for current WSU students and staff.
To borrow items, simply sign in to OverDrive and select the sign-in option from the drop-down menu.
Here's how you can access 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.
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.
Cross-searchable access to OvidSP databases. Includes Lippincott and American Heart Association (AHA) journals, and books from LWW Doody’s Core Collection 2022/2023 selected titles. Log in with your Ovid ID and password to access the Ovid Search Builder. OVID updates are also available.
Cross search Oxford Academic Books for Oxford Scholarship Online, University Press Scholarship Online, Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Medicine Online and more.
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.
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.
Selected titles from Oxford Academic Medicine Online includes access to a few handbook titles on public health practice, global public health, and palliative medicine.
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 Academic Scholarship Online includes, business and management, linguistics, psychology, economics and finance, neuroscience, law, history, public health and epidemiology, and social work.
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.
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.
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Provides key business intelligence on countries, markets, industries and companies, including historical statistics and forecasts.
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.
Proquest major archive of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, the database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The Proquest Disssertation and Theses Abstracts & Index, content 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports. Open access content is identified by an icon in search results.
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 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.
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).
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Multidisciplinary resource which includes a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. Coverage: Full-text from 1971 to Present.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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 Publishing is the publishing division of The Royal Society. Access to Biology letters, Proceedings. Biological sciences, including Open Biology and Royal Society Open Science.
Scientific publisher of biology, biophysics, chemical science, materials, medicinal drug discovery and physics high-impact journals and books. Coverage extends back to 1941.
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.
SAGE Knowledge Business Cases: from Business & Management to cases includes the Kelloggs (content coverage upto 2021 publication). Further information: see Business Cases site.
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 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.
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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)
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).
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) publish Science, a leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary.
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’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®.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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Covers a broad range of topics in applied mathematics, statistics/probability, computational science, data mining, dynamics, engineering and physics.
The Sketch collection via British Online Archives includes the history of art, literature, and print culture, it also sheds light on the history of imperialism, colonialism, and slavery, and their representation within Britain’s most affluent circles.
SIAM books are a leading source of knowledge for the applied mathematics and computational science communities (WSU access coverage 2011-2021 publication).
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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 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.
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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.
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A Searchable online archive of every edition (exact digital reproductions) of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald between 1955-1995. SMH Archives.
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 and Francis multidisciplinary online journal collection, with content spanning all areas of the humanities, social sciences, behavioral sciences, science, technology, and medicine.
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.
The Tatler collection via British Online Archives, explore the evolution of British High Society, from the turn of the twentieth century to the "Swinging Sixties".
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.
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.
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 (Turning Research Into Practice ) 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. Free version.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
WARC (World Advertising Research Center) offers advertising best practice, evidence and insights from the world's leading brands, and includes campaign and online videos.
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.
Western Open Books is a publishing service that supports WSU academic authors to create and publish open textbooks to be used in the curriculum or microcredentials. Western Open Books is a member of the CAUL Open Educational Resources Collective which includes communities of practice for WSU authors and library staff interested in open publishing.
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 is a dynamic, ever-growing and easily searchable source of case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal materials.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Work in the Global Economy (Trial expires 10/12/2024)
Work in the Global Economy is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal focus on labour processes, labour markets, labour organising and labour reproduction.
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 Scientific provides ebooks and ejournals content, including Engineering, Medicine, Information Technology, Environmental Technology, and Management Sciences. WSU has access to selected titles only