Interdisciplinary Databases

The databases below are useful for interdisciplinary research.

For a full list of the University of Melbourne Library's research databases, go to the A-Z Journal and Databases list via the catalogue. Here you can browse for databases by title or subject, or search for databases.

You can also access relevant discipline-specific resources, including databases, by browsing the subject Library Guides.

If you need help to access resources relevant to your research, please book a research consultation with a librarian.

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Archival / Historical research

Primary Material

British History Online (1300 to 1800) - contains primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Includes sources such as Parliament rolls of medieval England (Edward I to Henry VII); nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey maps; journals of the House of Lords and House of Commons; the Victoria County History of the counties of England; the Survey of London from English Heritage; calendars of state papers; letters, diaries and more.

Early English Books Online (1473 - 1700) - contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (GALE) - contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. The collection is divided into seven subject areas: history and geography; social science and fine arts; medicine, science and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; reference.

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 - bibliographic database of European works written between 1493-1750 that relate to the Americas.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (GALE) - primary source collections of over 100 types of primary source documents, including Books and monographs, Newspapers and periodicals, Diaries and personal letters, Manuscripts, Photographs, Pamphlets, Maps, Sheet music and more.

Making of the Modern World 1450-1914 (GALE) - documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century into the beginning of the 20th century. It offers new ways of understanding the expansion of world trade, the Industrial Revolution and the development of modern capitalism. The collection provides full-text searching of an abundance of rare books and primary source materials, including Monographs, Serials, Political pamphlets and broadsides, Government publications, Proclamations, and a wide range of Ephemera.

South Asia Archive (Taylor & Francis) - fully searchable digital archive providing online access to documents ranging from the mid-18th to the mid-20th Century. The Archive contains both serial and non-serial materials, including reports, rare books, and journal runs from noteworthy, rare publications.

Historical Journal / Periodical Indexes

British Periodicals (1681 - 1939) - journal articles covering literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts, music, drama, archaeology and architecture and the social sciences.

Eight Centuries (formerly 19th Century Masterfile) (Paratext) (1106 to 1930) - a platform of over 70 indexes to journal literature, newspapers, books, documents, artwork and images, covering all subject areas. Includes:

JSTOR Early Journal Content 1769-1922
Cobbett’s Parliamentary Debates, 1066-1803
Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1937
Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906

Eighteenth Century Journals: a portal to Newspapers and Periodicals 1685-1835 - includes rare journals printed between c1685 and 1835, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Many are ephemeral, lasting only for a handful of issues; others run for several years. Topics include colonial life; provincial and rural affairs; the French and American revolutions; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and London coffee house gossip and discussion.

19th Century UK Periodicals (GALE) - coverage of about 100 periodicals - covering all aspects of life in the UK in the 19th century, from women to sports and leisure, and from children to humour.

Periodicals Archive Online (Proquest) - back files of hundreds of scholarly periodical titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Architecture / Engineering

Art & Architecture Complete (EBSCO) - full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and over 200 books. Comprehensive indexing and abstracts for over 780 academic and professional journals, and over 230 books.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (EBSCO) - index of architecture and design academic and professional journal literature from the USA, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.

Compendex (Elsevier) (1884 to current) - comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research in the broad subject areas of engineering and applied science including: nuclear technology; bioengineering; transportation; chemical and process engineering; light and optical technology; agricultural engineering and food technology; computers and data processing; applied physics; electronics and communications control; civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace, and automotive engineering.

Engineering Collection (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1973 to current) - index and full text journals, conference proceedings and reports on civil engineering, mining, environmental engineering, road and rail, and municipal engineering.

Asian studies

BERITA - Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei/ASEAN Database (INFORMIT) (1990 to current)
This interdisciplinary bibliographic database indexes published and unpublished articles on Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, South-East Asia as a whole (when the three countries are included) and ASEAN.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (EBSCO) (1971 to current) - indexing coverage of many important journals, particularly ones published in Asia, which are not indexed anywhere else. It also contains citations to English-language book chapters, conference proceedings and more. Covers all subjects, especially in the humanities and the social sciences, pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.

East & South Asia Database (Proquest) - full-text academic journals locally published in various East Asian and South Asian countries. Covers major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education and humanities.

South Asia Archive (Taylor & Francis) - digital archive providing online access to documents ranging from the mid-18th to the mid-20th Century. The Archive contains both serial and non-serial materials, including reports, rare books, and journal runs from noteworthy, rare publications.

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Book reviews

Book Review Index Online

Comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.

It supports research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. Contains the entire back file of Book Review Index print content from 1965 to the present.

Books in Print

Books listed in this database include reviews of the book.

New York Times Book Review

Book reviews can also be found:

On publisher websites - depending on the publisher, webpages for books often have reviews.

In journal article databases. Most book review are written in journals, so looking for the title of the book in journal databases will often find reviews. On some platforms, such as EBSCO, you can restrict your search to book reviews only.

Book & journal directories

These resources provide comprehensive worldwide lists of books and journals arranged by topic, title, etc.

Books in Print

Includes publications that are available as print or e-books from Australia, U.S.A., Canada, Europe and the U.K.

The Serials Directory (EBSCO)

Bibliographic information, as well as current pricing structures for nearly 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, journals and magazines. With data from more than 108,000 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet address, language, publication frequency, ISSN, Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal Classification, and more.

UlrichsWeb: Global Serials Directory

Detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, eJournals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more. Ulrichsweb covers more than 900 subject areas. 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.

Business / Economics

Business Collection (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1993 to current) - indexing and full text of Australian scholarly and professional journal articles. Covers all aspects of Australian business, including management, e-business, economics, commercial law, marketing and human resources.

Business Source Complete (EBSCO) (1886 to current) - indexing and abstracts for over 1,300 journal titles; many in full text.

EconLit (EBSCO) (1886 to current) - indexing and abstracts of journal articles from over 1000 journals, as well as books, theses, working papers, conference proceedings and book reviews.

Emerald - eBooks and journals in the areas of business management and economics.

Research Starters – Business (EBSCO) - provides business students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Includes comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics and sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.

For more databases, see the Business and Economics Library's Business and Economics Research Guides.

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Company information & analysis

For a comprehensive guide to company information databases, see the Business and Economics Library's Company, Industry and Country Information Research Guide.

Country / Region information

Country Reviews (EBSCO)

Each Country Review includes a detailed summary of demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information.

Country Briefs (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - free to access)

Information about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of almost 240 countries and economies.

CIA World Factbook (free to access)

information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

Criminology & Criminal Justice

AFPD: Australian Federal Police Digest (INFORMIT) - AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1991 to current) - covers policing, criminology, law enforcement, law, management, occupational health and safety, and social sciences. It include selected Australian and overseas journals, and conference papers

CINCH: Australian Criminology Database (INFORMIT) (1968 to current) - bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice, including corrections, crime, crime prevention, criminal law, criminology, juvenile justice, law enforcement, police and victims of crime.

Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO) - bibliographic records and abstracts of articles from hundreds of criminal justice and criminology journals.

Criminal Justice Database (Proquest) (1981 to current) - comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, crime blogs and other material.

Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice (GALE) - bibliographic records and abstracts of articles from over 250 criminal justice and criminology journals.

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Education

A+ Education (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1978 to current for Index; 2000 to current for full text articles) - covers curriculum, educational research, information science, librarianship, management, policy administration, psychology, sociology, teaching and training.

Education Research Complete (EBSCO) - covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialties. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 journals, many in full text, as well as books, and conference papers.

Educational Administration Abstracts (EBSCO) - index of over 60,000 journal articles and other scholarship related to the administration of educational, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research.

ERIC (EBSCO) - includes journal articles, conference papers, government documents, theses, reports, bibliographies, directories and books.

Environment / Agriculture

Agricola (EBSCO) (1970 to current) - contains nearly 5 million bibliographic records of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology, and earth and environmental sciences.

Agriculture (GALE OneFile) - over 600 journal titles covering all aspects of agriculture, from the practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture.

AHB: Australian Heritage Bibliography (INFORMIT) (1987 to current) - journal articles on the natural and cultural environment, including national parks, endangered species, wilderness areas, historical sites, structures and towns.

ANR-Index (INFORMIT) - AUSTRALIAN CONTENT - a bibliographic database with abstracts and full text for agriculture and natural resources, including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources.

ENDANGER: Threatened Species in Australia: A Select Bibliography (INFORMIT) - bibliographic database that indexes published and unpublished material on Australian threatened flora and fauna and related topics.

Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy (GALE) - indexing, abstracting and full text from over 300 hundred journal titles covering all aspects of the environment, including science, agronomy, agriculture.

GreenFILE (EBSCO) (open access) - a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles that cover all aspects of human impact to the environment, including climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.

IWA Publishing (International Water Association) - this database contains 15 journals as well as e-books on water, wastewater and related environmental fields, such as Journal of Water & Climate Change, Journal of Water & Health and Journal of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene for Development. Although this database is not a comprehensive index of journal literature, we include it because its journals are not indexed in the major indexing services such as Agricola.

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Gender / Diversity Studies

Diversity Studies - worldwide scholarly journal literature on cultural differences and influences.

Gender Studies (GALE OneFile) - index and full text journal literature on gender and family studies.

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Health sciences / Public health / Medicine / Bioethics

CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) (1937 to current) - content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine. Provides indexing for thousands of journals with selected titles available in full text.

EMBASE (Ovid) (1947 to current) - the Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE), is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine. The database is updated weekly.

Family Health Database (Proquest) - covers medical and consumer health journals and magazines.

Health and Medical Collection (Proquest) in-depth coverage of over 1,500 publications with almost 1,300 available in full text. Covers all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy, pharmacology, nursing, physical fitness and hygiene, surgery, consumer health and health administration.

Health & Society Database (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1980 to current) - index and abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, government publications, research reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, annual reports, bibliographies, and theses. Topics include public health, and the health and well being of families and individuals.

Health Collection (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1977 to current) - full text journal articles, books, conference proceedings and reports. Covers health subjects including therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health, mental health, complementary therapies, and health services management.

Health Management Database (Proquest) - covers all fields of health administration. Coverage of over 800 key journals and over 4,500 Doctoral Theses.

Journals@Ovid (Ovid) - includes full text coverage of hundreds of journals in science, medicine, and healthcare.

MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO) - includes over 1400 full text scholarly journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary science, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection (GALE) - index of over 6 million articles in over 1000 journals.

Nursing and Allied Health Database (Proquest) - provides abstracting and indexing of articles from more than 850 journal titles; over 715 in full-text, and more than 12,000 full text theses.

Public Health Database (Proquest) - includes coverage of over 800 publications; over 500 in full-text. Includes journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, news and reports.

History

America: History and Life with Full-Text (EBSCO) (1955 to current) - covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Index of over 1,700 journals; full-text coverage of more than 230 journals and 100 books.

AUSCHRON: A Chronology of Australian Historic & Current Events (INFORMIT) - an information database which provides a listing of significant events in Australian history with emphasis on current happenings, and covering all topics from politics and law to the arts and sport.

Bibliography of British and Irish History - bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, the British Empire and the Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.

Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) (1955 to current) - coverage of the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada). Includes indexing and abstracting coverage of more than 2300 academic journals in over 40 languages.

UK Parliamentary Papers - includes Commons and Lords sessional papers from the 18th through to the 21st centuries (with supplementary material back to 1688); Hansard from 1803 to 2005; Peter Cockton's Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900; Diplomatic and consular reports 1887-1916. Also includes Public Petitions to Parliament, 1833-1918, a collection of every petition accepted by parliament during this time, and enables the analysis of issues important to both the UK populace & Parliament.

Humanities

Humanities & Social Sciences Collection (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1940 to current) - full text journal articles, books, conference proceedings and reports. Covers subjects within an arts and social science context including education, history, media, political science and technology.

Humanities Index (Proquest) (1962 to current) - abstracting and indexing tool covering almost 400 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.

Project MUSE Journal Collection - full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses. Topics include covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.

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Indigenous studies

AIATSIS: Indigenous Studies Bibliography (INFORMIT) (1990 to current) - includes published and unpublished material on Australian Indigenous studies.

Indigenous Collection (INFORMIT) (1977 to current) - Full text scholarship. Topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies from material from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America and the Pacific.

Intellectual property

SNIPER: Searchable Networked Intellectual Property Electronic Resource (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (2000 to current) - bibliographic database of journal articles, conference papers, and other documents about issues in intellectual property.

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Language & Linguistics

Linguistics Database (Proquest) (1973 to current) - full text scholarly journal articles, book reviews, books and chapters, dissertations and working papers. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Library & Information science

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO) (mid-1960s to current) - indexes more than 650 journals, as well as books, research reports and conference proceedings.

Library Science Database (Proquest) (1970 - current) - full text scholarly journal articles

Literature & The Arts

Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCO)

Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300). The earliest journal to be indexed dates from 1914.

Arts Premium Collection (Proquest) - articles from thousands of journal titles. Subject areas include: Art, Design, Architecture, Humanities, Film/Screen Studies, Music, Performing Arts. Includes the following databases, which can also be searched separately:

Art, Design & Architecture Collection (1973 - current)
Music & Performing Arts Collection (1864 - current)
Screen Studies Collection (1893 - current)

Literature and Culture Collection (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1940 to current) - full text scholarship.

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Multicultural studies

MAIS: Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1988 to current) - bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts books, book chapters, journal articles, selected newspaper articles, government documents, conference papers, research reports, theses and multimedia on all aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues.

Media studies

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) - indexing and abstracts for over 750 journal titles; 450 in full text.

Multidisciplinary studies

General - multijurisdictional

Academic OneFile (GALE) - peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the over from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources. Covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) - multidisciplinary database, providing access to more than 12,500 journals; 8,600 in full-text. Includes monographs, reports, conference proceedings etc.

Research Library (Proquest) - multidisciplinary database covering 150 core academic subject reference areas. The database includes thousands of full-text titles. Includes scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines.

Periodicals Archive Online (Proquest) - backfiles of hundreds of scholarly periodical titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically.

Region Specific Multidisciplinary Databases

APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full Text (INFORMIT) (Indexed articles 1978 to current; full text 1995 to current) - selected scholarly articles on current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.

Australia & New Zealand Database (Proquest) - full-text academic journals published in Australia and New Zealand. Covers major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education and humanities.

Continental Europe Database (Proquest) - full-text academic journals locally published in many European countries, including France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

East Europe, Central Europe Database (Proquest) - full-text academic journals published in East and Central Europe. Covers major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education and humanities.

India Database (Proquest) (1988 to current) - full-text scholarly journals published in India. Covers major areas of study, including business, medicine, science, technology, social sciences and humanities.

Latin America & Iberia Database (Proquest) - full-text academic journals published in Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Covers major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education and humanities.

Middle East & Africa Database (Proquest) - full-text academic journals published in Middle Eastern and African countries. Covers major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education and humanities.

New Zealand Collection (INFORMIT) (1993 to current) - full text scholarship. Multidisciplinary, including Arts, Business, Conservation, Culture & institutions, Education, Family, marriage, women, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous studies, Law, Maori studies, Music, and Sociology.

Turkey Database (Proquest) - full-text academic journals published in Turkey. Covers major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education and humanities.

UK & Ireland Database (Proquest) - full-text academic journals published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Covers major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education and humanities.

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Newspapers & Newswires

Current

Canadian Newsstream (Proquest)

Full text database of over 190 Canadian newspapers. Includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, some dating back to the late 1970s. Updated daily.
Full list of titles and dates covered available here.

Factiva

Over 3000+ newspaper titles and more than 600 continuously updated newswires, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires.
News in 28 languages from nearly every country in the world.

Fairfax Papers Full Text

Premium access to The Age (with a 6 month archive), the Australian Financial Review and the Sydney Morning Herald (with a 6 month archive).

Global Breaking Newswires (Proquest)

Access to the best newswire content available from around the globe as well as a growing archive of indexed news.
Full list of included titles available here.

The International Newsstream (Proquest) includes the following databases, which can be searched together or separately:

Asian Newsstream
- more than 60 of the most respected national and regional sources of news in Asia and the Far East. Many titles are available in full text and are updated within 24 hours of publication. Publications include The Asian Wall Street Journal, the Jakarta Post, the South China Morning Post, and the Bangkok Post.
- Full list of titles and dates covered available here.

Australia and New Zealand Newsstream
- Full text articles from leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers, including The Age, the Australian, and the Dominion Post, as well as local, regional and national news. Combines content from Fairfax, News Limited, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and APP newswires.
- Full list of titles and dates covered available here.
European Newsstream
- Nearly 500 UK, Irish and European national, regional and local newspapers - including major UK papers such as The Times (London) (1996 to current), the Financial Times (1996 to current), the Daily Telegraph (2000 to current) and The Guardian (1992 - current).
- Full list of titles and dates covered available here.
Latin American Newsstream
- Full text recent and archived local, national, and regional news content from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
- Key titles include El Universal (Mexico City), O Globo (Brazil), La Nación (Argentina) and El Mercurio (Chile).
- In Spanish and Portuguese.
- Full list of titles and dates covered available here.
Middle East & African Newsstream
- Full text access newspapers, news wires, websites, and blogs from leading publishers throughout the region. Includes major papers such as the Jerusalem Post, the Gulf Daily News, Kuwait Times, Cape Times, and Yemen Times.
- Coverage: 1988 to current
- Full list of titles and dates covered available here.

Newswires (EBSCO) - near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire. Newswires is held for a rolling 30-day archive.

The Times (London) (GALE) 1985 - current

US Newstream (Proquest) 1980 - current

Includes newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. Full text access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also includes a large collection of local and regional newspapers.
Full list of titles and dates covered available here.

Historical

19th Century British Library Newspapers (GALE) - from the British Library. Includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from country or university towns and the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Google Newspapers Archive (open access)

Includes the scanned pages of thousands of worldwide newspapers. These can be browsed by paper and date, but not searched. The archive stopped adding content in 2011. Titles include:
- The Age - (32,807 issues; from Oct 17 1854 - Dec 31 1989)
- The Argus (106 issues; from Mar 6 1855 - Jun 30 1906)

Proquest Historical Newspapers

21 individual newspapers and news collections, including The Guardian & The Observer (1791-2003), the Times of India (1838-2008), the New York Times (1851-2013), the Wall Street Journal (1889-2000), the Washington Post (1877-2000), the Jewish Advocate (1905-1990), and the Chinese Collection (1832-1953).
The papers can be searched individually or together.

The Times Digital Archive (London) (1785-2012) (GALE)

TROVE Digitised Newspapers - from the Australian National Library (open access)

Includes scanned pages plus typed text for hundreds of Australian national, regional and local papers - from the 1800s onwards. This is an ongoing project and not yet complete, so it is currently better to search for older, rather than recent papers.
A list of titles included in the database and their date ranges is available here.

For a more detailed list of open access and subscription newspaper resources to which we have access, refer to the Library's Finding News Research Guide

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Organisations

Directory of Australian Associations - guide to every association and interest group in Australia, including the non-profit sector. Information includes the aims, objectives, affiliations, publications, and membership information of each organisation, events and conferences and the names and contact details of leaders, officers, staff details, state branches, membership data, frequency of meetings and history. Includes over 4,000 organisations

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Philosophy

Philosopher's Index (EBSCO) (1940 to current) - includes coverage of more than 1,500 journals.

Philosophy Documentation Center E-Collection - index (with abstracts) of hundreds of philosophy and religion journals, all from the first volume of each journal. No full text available.

PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online - an index and bibliography of philosophy journal articles, books, and open access archives. The index includes over two million entries. The bibliography categorises the entries into over 5000 topics.

Religion and Philosophy Collection (GALE) (1980 to current) - over 1 million articles from 200 academic journals and magazines on all aspects of religion and philosophy.

Politics / Public affairs / International relations

Political Science Database (Proquest) (1995 to current) - full text journal articles on international relations and political science.

Psychology / Behavioural sciences

PsychINFO (OVID) - indexing and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. Covers all aspects of the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes the PsycARTICLES Journals database, which can be searched separately.

Psychology Database (Proquest) - abstracts and indexing of articles in more than 640 journals; over 540 in full text. Coverage includes behavioural, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, as well as personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.

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Religious studies

General

Philosopher's Index (EBSCO) (1940 to current) - includes coverage of more than 1,500 journals. Covers all fields of philosophy, including the philosophy of religion.

Philosophy Documentation Center E-Collection - index (with abstracts) of hundreds of philosophy and religion journals, all from the first volume of each journal. No full text available.

Religion and Philosophy Collection (GALE) (1980 to current) - over 1 million articles from 200 academic journals and magazines on all aspects of religion and philosophy.

Religion Database (Proquest) (1986 to current) - scholarly full text articles on international religion and spirituality from over 200 journals, as well as coverage of professional journals, magazines, books, conference papers, theses, government and official publications, magazines, newspapers, and reports.

Islamic Studies

Encyclopaedia of Islam (BRILL) reference work for the Islamic world. It includes articles on political and religious institutions, geography, ethnography, history, topography, monuments and more. It covers historical Islamic empires, and modern Islamic countries. Contains the equivalent of over 12,000 printed pages and thousands of articles on the Islamic world. Includes indexes of names and subjects as well as genealogical tables and maps. Searches possible in both English and Arabic

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (BRILL) - reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. Covers the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.

Index Islamicus (EBSCO) - index of scholarship on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Indexes selected content of over 3000 journals.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online - includes reference content and commentary in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture. over 5,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines.

Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Islam - Research database focusing on modern Islamic theology and tradition.

Jewish Studies

Index to Jewish Periodicals (EBSCO) - extensive bibliographic coverage of English-language articles in over 160 journals, as well as book reviews, and feature stories.

Research methods / Empirical research

SAGE Research Methods - a research methods tool which links SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.

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Science / Technology

Biology Database (Proquest) (1998 - current) - scholarly articles from journals in all fields of biology, including biological chemistry, biophysics, botany, cytology and histology, environmental studies, microbiology, microscopy, and zoology.

Journals@Ovid (Ovid) - includes full text coverage of hundreds of journals in science, medicine, and healthcare.

SAGE: Science And Geography Education (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1990 to current) - bibliographic database that indexes popular journals on a broad range of subjects, including Agriculture, Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Ethics, Geography, Natural History, Physics, Sustainability and Zoology.

Science Direct (Elsevier) - Elsevier's leading platform of peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and medical scholarly journal articles, book chapters and open access literature.

SCOPUS (1788 to current) - abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature from over 5000 publishers. Includes scientific journals, books and conference proceedings in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine.

Science Database (Proquest) (1986 to current) - coverage of over 1030 journals; more than 760 in full text. All applied and general sciences topics covered, including general science, materials science, aerospace, engineering, computers, physics, telecommunications, transportation, and military.

Web of Science (1900 to current) - covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, as well as over 150,000 conference proceedings. Includes scientific journals, books and conference proceedings

Social science

Social Science Database (Proquest) - indexing and full text of articles from hundreds of academic journals, providing coverage of a wide range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.

Sociology

Families & Society Collection (INFORMIT) AUSTRALIAN CONTENT (1976 to current) - index and full text. Covers subjects within a social context related to family and community, social services and public welfare, family law, and culture and institutions.

Family & Society Studies Worldwide (EBSCO) (1970 to current) - contains articles on research, policy and practice and in the fields of human ecology, social welfare, family studies and human development.

SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) (1908 to current) - contains the full text of over 850 journals, as well as containing the full text of books and conference proceedings.

Sociology Database (Proquest) (1985 - current) - indexes and full text of hundred of international scholarly journals and theses. Covers sociology, social work, social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies.

Sport

SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCO) (1985 to current) - full text articles from over 550 sports and sports medicine journals.

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Theses & Dissertations

Dissertations & Theses @ University of Melbourne (Proquest)

Dissertations & Theses Global (1743 to current) - comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world. Full text for most theses added to the database since 1997.

American Doctoral Dissertations (EBSCO Open Access) (1902 - current) - indexes thousands of theses and dissertations accepted by American universities and provides links to full text on open access databases, when available.

Australian Theses on TROVE (for information on how to find theses on TROVE, refer to the Australian tab of the Library's Finding Theses Research Guide)

To see a comprehensive list of theses collections to which the University Library has access, see the Library's Finding Theses Research Guide.

Further help

If you need help to access resources for your research, please email law-library@unimelb.edu.au