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Key databases for Accounting  
Business Source Premier via Ebsco (1922 - present)
Aggregation of business and management journals, indexes and abstracts. Includes many full text scholarly journals. Provides company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies.
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Proquest 5000 (1923 - present)
Multidisciplinary database, indexes and abstracts to over 10,090 publications, with full-text coverage beginning from 1986. This is a combination of Proquest's selected databases including ABI/INFORM & Accounting and Tax
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ECONLIT via CSA (1922 - present)
Bibliographic references and abstracts to articles in journals, books, higher degree theses, articles from collective volumes (eg conference proceedings, research papers), book reviews and economic working papers. 		Terms & conditions
Emerald Full Text (1994 - present)
Full text peer-reviewed journal articles including the major economics & business disciplines .
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ScienceDirect via Elsevier
A database for scientific research in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences including economics & business.

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Expanded Academic ASAP via Infotrac (1980 - present)
Contains an index and abstracts to over 1500 journals including the full-text of 520 journals indexed. Topics include economics & business related issues.
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Web of Science
Contains Science Citation Index Expanded 1945 - present, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956 - present, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975. Also allows cited reference searching to track a paper's influence. 		Terms & conditions
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JSTOR (Dates vary - many from the 1800s)
Access to the full text of journals from a wide range of disciplines including economics & business. 		Terms & conditions
Factiva
Provides both Australian and international news, commentary, pictures in addition to company information and share price data. The database contains more than 8,000 overseas and Australian newspaper and newswire publications and more than 9,000 web sites. For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive is 13-22 years [SMH 1986+] and the News Limited archive is 8 years [Australian 1996+].
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Access to the Australian Financial Review and BRW 		Helpsheet - (Company Search Tips)
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is free to all, but much of the full-text material it finds is not available without a subscription. By using this link via our website, you can access the full text of journals to which the Library subscribes. 		 
Non-bibliographic databases useful for Accounting A-Z  
ABS Statistics
The Statistics section of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) web site provides access to the full range of ABS statistical and reference information. Australian content
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Connect 4
Australian publicly listed company information (Our subscriptions are indicated with a red star).
Includes Annual Reports 2003 - present, Boardroom (senior salary packages), Company Prospectuses 1994- present, Mergers & Acquisitions, New Issues, & Takeovers 1997 - present. Australian content 		 
Fin Analysis
Fin Analysis provides a 12-year history of detailed financial information for all companies listed on the ASX.Includes Annual Reports More than 400 data items are provided. Detailed financial information is also available for delisted companies. Australian content 		Helpsheet
Kompass
Global access to information on: 1.8 million companies, 750,000 trade & brand names, 3.6 million executive names. In Australia contains: 32,685 companies, 56,041 executive names. 		Terms & conditions
Legal databases useful for Accounting  
AustLII
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free internet access to Australasian legal materials, including primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals). Australian content Australian content
AGIS Plus Text: Attorney General's Information Service via Informit Online (1975 - present)
Bibliographic database with selected full text (from 1999) covering all aspects of law including administrative law, banking, companies and securities, constitutional law, copyright law, environmental law, international law and trade practices. Australian content
Databases useful for Taxation  
ATP Taxpoint
Full text database of Australian taxation materials, including Australian Tax Reports, legislation and commentaries Australian content 		Get Password
for off-campus access.
AATD : Australian Accounting and Taxation
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on accounting and related business topics Australian content
TAXABS : Australian Taxation Abstracts
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journals primarily in the area of taxation law but also includes other areas of interest such as child support, accounting, business, finance and superannuation. Australian content 		 
RIA Worldwide Tax Law
Covers major laws including income and corporate tax law, VAT, corporation law, trust law, commercial codes, environmental law, money laundering and other regulations affecting financial transactions, labor law, and bankruptcy.
contains: Foreign Tax and Commercial Laws 		Get Password
Tax Planning International LibraryBNA
Includes profiles of 40 key tax regimes, and includes access to documents, forms, treaties. Each country profile gives you information and practical guidance on tax and company structures, including questions such as how to avoid double-taxation, anti-avoidance measures and how taxation of branches differs from that of subsidiaries. Also provides overviews and comparisons of international developments and tax regimes. 		Terms & conditions
Accounting and Tax (1990 - present)
Part of the ProQuest 5000 cluster and hence can be searched simultaneously with other related interdisciplinary databases on ProQuest. 		Terms & conditions

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