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Alumni databases
Conditions of access: these resources are strictly
available to the registered alumni library member for private educational
purposes only. Your password is not transferable. The library reserves
the right to withdraw usage privileges if these conditions are
not met. These resources will be available from most internet enabled
computers, however the library cannot guarantee this in all circumstances
due to security settings outside of our control.
Note: Alumni can only access databases via the
links on this page. You will be denied access if you attempt entry
from any other page on this site.
The following databases are currently available to Monash alumni
who have purchased the appropriate level of library
membership:
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This database features the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles
Burney (1757 - 1817). It represents the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English
news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published
mostly in London; however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a
few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
- Data format: Data Format: Electronic text, images and search engine
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Bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for
articles from over 170 US local and regional business journals,
newspapers and news magazines. It focuses on providing access
to business information on large corporations, privately held
companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance,and
industry news not typically found in U.S. national news sources.
Includes full text for selected titles.
- Data format: Articles available in full text and/or text
+ graphics and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1971 to present
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This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts more than
1000 business-related (mainly US) professional, academic and
industry journals. Covers all aspects of business. Includes full
text articles for many titles from 1987. Not recommended for
detailed information regarding most Australian businesses and
the business environment.
- Data format: Text (periodical article citations)
- Frequency of updates: Monthly
- Date coverage: 1971 to present
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Bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts
for articles from more than 1,000 business periodicals and newsletters
with an industry and trade focus. Includes the latest industry
news, product and competitive information, marketing trends,
and a wide variety of other topics. Covers publications on every
major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation,
construction, and many more. Includes full text for selected
titles.
- Data format: Articles available in full text and/or text
+ graphics and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1971 to present
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Bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts
for articles from journals, newspapers and news magazines published
worldwide, (though mainly US titles.), on financial management,
accounting and taxation. Includes full text for selected titles.
- Data format: Articles available in full text and/or text
+ graphics and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1971 to present
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Bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts
for articles from US newspapers containing the latest accounting
and tax news.
- Data format: Newspaper citations and abstracts in HTML.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1971 to present
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Bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts
for articles from periodicals published worldwide, (though mainly
US titles.), on financial management, accounting and taxation.
Includes full text for selected titles.
- Data format: Articles available in full text and/or text
+ graphics and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1971 to present
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Series One - Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970 - offers the widest range of original source material
from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour
Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1. Topics covered include the background
to the establishment of the State of Israel, Black September, the Border wars of the 1950s, the
British capture of Jerusalem, the Cold War in the Middle East, the formation of the United Arab
Republic, Jewish terror groups, and milestones in the Palestine-Zionist tension and their impact on
British policy leading to the Partition of 1948.
- Data format: Electronic text (HTML), images (JPEG), and search engine
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AustLit is a collaboration between eight Australian universities
and the National Library of Australia providing authoritative
information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical
Australian literature works relating to more than 75,000 Australian
authors and literary organisations. Its coverage spans 1780 to
the present day. AustLit indexes and describes Australian literature
published in a range of print and electronic information sources.
It also makes available selected critical articles and creative
writing in full text.
- Data format: Text (HTML)
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily
- Date coverage: AustLit includes material dating from European
settlement in Australia (c.1780) to the present. Contemporary
renditions of pre-1780 literary works will also be included
when relevant.
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News and information on trends and issues in the banking and
finance industry (US emphasis). Includes full text for selected
journals.
- Data format: Available in full text and/or text + graphics
and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates fully from 1986 to present
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This database provides abstracts, indexes, and full text articles
from 420 journals covering all aspects of vocational and technical
education.
- Data format: Available in full text and/or text + graphics
and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1986 to present
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Bibliographic database containing citations and selected abstracts
for articles from over 400 Canadian business journals, including
trade journals, general business publications, academic journals,
topical journals, and professional publications. Includes full
text for selected titles.
- Data format: Articles available in full text and/or text
+ graphics and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1982 to present
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Bibliographic database (formerly the Canadian Education Index)
containing citations and selected abstracts for articles from
over 400 journals which focus on Canadian information in the
field of education. Academic, administrative, professional, and
topical journals are all included, as are newsletters. It provides
a source for those interested in teaching, educational research,
and educational administration in Canada. Includes full text
for selected titles.
- Data format: Articles available in full text and/or text
+ graphics and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1982 to present
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Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 is a fully searchable database of
over 22,000 British Government records or almost 180,000 images or pages taken from PRO class
FO 371 in The National Archives at Kew. It provides researchers with a logical, interdisciplinary
research resource, and allows this unique primary source material (predominantly in English, but
containing some documents in a variety of Western European languages) to be quickly accessed
by academics and students, writers and researchers. In addition to document files from The
National Archives this digital edition includes a picture gallery illustrating key British operations,
SOE equipment and individuals, clips from Now it Can Be Told from the Imperial War Museum,
London, showing actual SOE agents reconstructing sabotage and intelligence operations in
occupied France, a film begun in complete secrecy in 1944 and released in 1946, and The
Chronology and Index of the Second World War, 1938-1945, compiled by The Royal Institute of
International Affairs.
- Data format: Text (HTML), images (still and moving), and search engine
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This database features more than 8,000 issues of The Economist since first publication in 1843. It
delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2006. New fullcolour
images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers
highlighting a key topic of each week - all combine to offer a primary source of research covering
the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Data format: Text (HTML), images (still and moving), and search engine
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online delivers every significant English-language and foreignlanguage
title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of
important works from the Americas. It includes a variety of materials from books and directories,
Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements and works by many well-known and lesserknown
authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth
century.
- Data format: Text and digital images
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Indexing and abstracting for more than 1500 scholarly and general
interest journals, plus the New York Times and full text coverage
of more than 500 titles. Subjects covered include agriculture,
arts, business, communications, law, economics, education, engineering,
history, languages, literature, philosophy and women's studies.
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"The Illustrated London News Historical Archive gives students and researchers unprecedented
online access to the entire run of the ILN from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in
2003. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full colour and every article and caption is fulltext
searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations."
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Iraq 1914-1974, offers a broad range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial
Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers (over 68,650 pages or approximately 400 British
government files on Iraqi affairs). It presents British government and diplomatic documents --
dispatches, monthly and annual reports, minutes, official correspondence and other primary
source documents -- covering the political and administrative history of the modern state which
has emerged from the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. Selected by Dr. Charles Tripp, School
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, these documents cover the political history
of Iraq in the 20th century, from the outbreak of World War I to the emergence of Saddam
Hussein as a leading member of the revolutionary Ba'ath party in the 1970s. Photographs and
colour maps, as well as contemporary film, help bring this vital strand of modern history to life.
- Data Format: Text (HTML), images (still and moving), and search engine
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Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published
from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers
access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
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This database provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on
economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12
million pages allows researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on
commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport. It is derived from the
collections of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London, England,
and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School; with
supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia
University, and from Sterling Library at Yale University.
- Data Format: Full text database
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This database comprises books, periodicals, and statistical
databases issued by OECD. It covers many themes: agriculture
and food; education and skills; emerging economics; employment;
energy; enterprise, industry and trade; environment and sustainable
development; finance and investment; general economics and future
studies; goverance; international development; nuclear energy;
science and information technology; social issues and migration;
statistics sources and methods; taxation; territorial economy;
transition economics; transport; etc. Users can build their own
tables and export them to Excel and other formats.
- Data format: Database of electronic books, journals and
databases; full text available in HTML and PDF formats. Data
available in Excel, Beyond 20/20 or .csv formats.
- Date coverage: 1998 to present for full-text books and
journals ; 1960 to present for databases (varies by database)
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This citation database indexes and abstracts about 20 specialized
journals in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology and
medical device industries. Full text coverage of some journals
is included.
- Data format: Available in HTML and PDF file formats.
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily.
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1986 to present
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Essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European
peoples in the aftermath of World War II. This online archive covers the politics and
administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival
of the refugees themselves. From The National Archives of the UK, and The Wiener Library,
London. Post-War Europe contains newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars. These essays
offer an insight into key themes and provide direct links to the documents mentioned and a
means to access for students unfamiliar with the original materials. Five documentary British
Pathe films provide visual evidence of key issues covered by the documents.
- Data format: Text (HTML) and video files.
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Database provides full-text online access to journals published
by the Johns Hopkins University Press and some other university
presses in the disciplines of arts, humanities and social sciences.
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Proquest is a leading electronic database providing indexing
and abstracting of over 7,000 scholarly and general interest
publications. It includes full text or full image coverage of
more than 3,000 of these publications. It provides access to
the combined information from a number of leading online databases
which cover subjects including: business, law, education, computing,
science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.
- Data format: Available in HTML and PDF file formats.
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily.
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1971 to present
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This indexing and abstracting database provides access to
news, commentary and information on business, management, trade
and finance in the Asian region. Includes full text for selected
journals.
- Data format: Available in full text and/or text + graphics
and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1986 to present
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This indexing and abstracting database provides access to
computer journals which contain computer industry news, product
reviews and, information on computer hardware and software, technology
management and electronic commerce. Selected full text is included.
- Data format: Available in full text and/or text + graphics
and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1986 to present
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This database contains over 600 leading journal titles on
education, including primary, secondary, and university level
topics, with most in full text. It includes the indexing and
abstracts from H.W. Wilson's highly regarded Education Abstracts,
and many more titles.
- Data format: Articles available in full text and/or text
+ graphics and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily.
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1988 to present
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Indexing and abstracting database that provides access to
more than 120 journals (predominantly European) covering business,
management, trade and finance. Includes full text for selected
journals.
- Data format: Available in HTML and PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1986 to present
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Indexing, abstracting and full text database that provides
access to more than 380 medical and health journals covering
all medical specialties, as well as titles suitable for the nonspecialist.
Most of the journals are available in full text and many of the
core 200 titles are also indexed in MEDLINE.
- Data format: Available in full text and/or text + graphics
and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1987 to present
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This database includes indexes and abstracts of periodicals
on religious affairs and religious thinking, most also providing
full text.
- Data format: Available in full text and/or text + graphics
and/or PDF formats.
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1986 to present
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Citation database with some full text articles from over 2000
periodicals in a broad range of general reference subjects including
arts, business, humanities, social sciences and the sciences
- Data format: Available in full text and/or text + graphics
and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
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Bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts
for articles from more than 350 science and technology journals.
Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications,
and transportation. More than 260 journals are available in full
text.
- Data format: Articles available in full text and/or text
+ graphics and/or PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Continuously updated
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1986 to present
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Gives access to over 100 journals, more than 80 of them offering
full text; they all deal with telecommunications, mostly United
States.
- Data format: Available in HTML and PDF formats.
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily
- Date coverage: Data cumulates from 1986 to present
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Abstracting and indexing database of scientific, technical,
medical and social science literature. Includes peer-reviewed
titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference
proceedings, trade publications, patent records and quality web
sources.
- Data format: Text (HTML)
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily
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Provides full text access to Springer journals and book series. Subject coverage includes: chemical sciences, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, law, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics and astronomy.
Note: The Library has not bought access to all of the electronic books listed here.
- Data format: Text (abstracts and full text) of electronic journals and books in HTML and PDF file formats.
- Frequency of updates: Updated daily
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The specialist publications of Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare are now available in one dedicated journals database.
- Data Format: Text (abstracts and full text) of electronic journals in HTML and PDF formats.
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This digital resource offers the unique resources of the World's oldest Holocaust museum,
including documents and rare printed materials from the Wiener Library, London. Alfred Wiener
fled Germany in 1933 and established his collection in London. The collection offers fully
searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, along with photographs, propaganda
materials such as school text books, limited circulation publications and rare serials in a uniquely
flexible format, enabling detailed research into the domestic policies of Nazi Germany, Jewish life
in Germany from 1933 to after the war, propaganda, life in the concentration camps, in hiding,
emigration and refugee life.
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Includes full page images and articles from The Times (London, England) and its predecessor, the
Daily Universal Register, from its first issue in 1785 to the end of December 1985. The archive also
includes digital reproductions in downloadable PDF files. Keyword searching and hit-term
highlighting can be used to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete
page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos
divided into categories to facilitate searching.
- Data format: Newspaper article citations in HTML format ; full text articles in HTML and PDF
formats
- Frequency of updates: Daily (excluding Sunday)
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More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the Times
Literary Supplement, a leading journal of the world's literary and cultural activity. Times Literary
Supplement Subscriber Archive covers October 1994 onwards in full text
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Wiley online library is an extensive multidisciplinary collection of
online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social
science, and the humanities. It offers integrated access to more than
4 million articles from 1,500 journals, 9,000 books, and hundreds of
reference works, laboratory protocols, encyclopedias, databases and
handbooks. Includes Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews, many essential
chemistry and evidence based medicine databases, including The
Cochrane Library, eEROS and SpecInfo and 1000's of laboratory
protocols from the distinguished Current Protocols series. The major
collections of the Wiley online library are: Journals, Journal
backfiles, Online books and book series, Online reference works, Wiley
interdisciplinary reviews, Current protocols laboratory manuals,
Evidence-based medicine databases, and Chemistry databases.
Note: The Library has not bought access to all of the electronic books
- Frequency of updates: Updated as titles released
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