Australian Literature Databases
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| APA-FT : Australian Public Affairs Full Text via Informit Contains the journal indexing of the APAIS bibliographic database 1978 - present, with the addition of full text images of the top 200 Australian journals indexed, 1994/95 - present.  |
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| AUSLIT : Australian Literature Gateway Provides bibliographic and biographic references to Australian authors and their works, references to criticism, correspondence, interviews and theses dealing with Australian literature. |
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| Australian Studies Resource Literary and Historical Texts Access to more than 220 literary and historical texts. |
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| Australianscreen View clips from Australian film and television produced over the last 100 years, with curators notes and other information about each title. |
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| Factiva (Good coverage from the mid 1980's - present). Access to articles, recent book, film and theatre reviews from national and international newspapers. 15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstand databases for international & recent Australian news coverage. |
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| Expanded Academic ASAP A multi-disciplinary database which provides full text articles from Southerly, Meanjin, Australian Literary Studies and abstracts from Overland and other Australian literature journals. |
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| FIAF : FIAF International Film Archive Database via OvidSP (1972 - present) References over 300 academic and popular Film and Television journals. |
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| Film Index International References international films and provides bibliographies of particular films. |
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| Google Scholar Searches academic information on the internet and may allow access to publications subscribed to by the University of Sydney Library. |
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| JSTOR JSTOR provides full text access to the entire archive of key journals in the Humanities. |
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| Libraries Australia Searches the combined catalogues of Australian libraries and can also provide access to the British Library Catalogue, Library of Congress Catalogue and OCLC WorldCat. |
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| MLA : Modern Languages Association International Biography via Ebsco References scholarly works on Australian literature, literary theory and criticism, linguistics and film studies. MLA contains some full text material. |
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| Proquest Newsstand databases Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list. Use Factiva for access to ANZ titles prior to these dates. |
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| Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge One of the largest Humanities and Social Sciences databases, it also provides citation analysis of authors and journals. |
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