Research authoritative Australian and global content. Select databases to begin searching. Note that databases with red padlocks contain Open Access and Pay-per-view (PPV) content.
EBSCO is the better of the many resources to use. EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries.
Below are a range of databases through which you will have standard public access.
For increased access AND the ability to search all of them at once, join the National Library of Australia (online).
If using these databases direct, just click the icons below for the reduced ‘free’ level of access.
Use good search terms to find supporting contentions that support your own thoughts in your work,
remembering to use APA referencing style, and avoid plagiarism by making sure you always use YOUR OWN WORDS.
WorldWideScience also known as Web of Knowledge is a bibliographic database.
A gateway to the millions of academic articles published by Elsevier, 1.4 million of which are open access. Journals and books can be searched via a single interface.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources, created by Bielefeld University Library in Bielefeld, Germany. It is based on free and open-source software such as Apache Solr and VuFind.
A global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
A database that specifically hosts education-related literature.
Journals, papers and conferences in business studies and economics.
The Social Science Research Network is a repository for preprints devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences, humanities, life sciences, and health sciences, among others.
A community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access.
A bibliographic database that cover scholarly literature from almost any discipline.
The ProQuest platform hosts multidisciplinary content containing scholarly journals, books, video & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more.
PubMed is the number one resource for anyone looking for literature in medicine or biological sciences.
IEEE Xplore digital library is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields.
The dblp computer science bibliography provides open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
Semantic Scholar is a research tool for scientific literature powered by artificial intelligence.