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Databases

The databases are subject indexes to journal literature. That is, they are tools designed to help you find articles written about the subject you are researching. Most databases cover the literature in particular subject fields and you will often need to search several databases to satisfy your research needs. Some databases will have the entire text of an article available electronically but many will offer only an article's bibliographic details and an abstract (summary) of its contents.

To locate available databases, click on the 'Finding information' link at the top left of this screen and select 'library databases'. Details about which of these databases may be useful for business topics are listed below.

Guides to searching these databases can be found on the Library's Web site at: http://www.scu.edu.au/library/help/classes/guides.html

Those indicated with *Full text provide the entire text of documents for you to read immediately. If the article is only available in abstract form, look for the SFX 'find full text' button.

What is SFX?

SFX is software that works with the Library databases to link from article citations to a list of available access options, including the full text of the article if available. The full text options offered through SFX reflect the SCU Library's electronic journal subscriptions as well as a selection of journals that are freely available on the Web. If the full text is not available electronically through SCU Library, other search options will be provided, eg. search the Library catalogue or use a search engine. For more information about SFX go to the Library's 'Help with SFX' page.

Useful databases:

AusStats (ABS) (The Australian Bureau of Statistics) *Full text
Extensive collection of Australian statistics including demographics, finance, international trade, consumer income and expenditure, industry statistics and much more.

APA (Australian Public Affairs Fulltext) *Full text
APA is a multi-disciplinary index to published material from periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, papers and books. Useful when researching any topic pertaining to Australia or Australians in particular.

Blackwell Synergy *Full text
An online service that provides access to fulltext articles from approximately 290 journals published by Blackwell Science. Subject coverage includes business, economics, finance, accounting, mathematics and statistics.

Credo reference *Full text
A collection of online dictionaries and encyclopaedias. It includes specialised dictionaries of business, tourism, human resources and economics.

Current Contents Connect (ISI)
Current Contents is a database providing wide coverage of the scientific literature since the mid 1990s. As its name suggests, the great strength of CCC is the fact that it is updated on a weekly basis, thereby offering access to abstracted records from the most recent publications. The database does not provide access to fulltext material online.

ebrary *Full text
ebrary is a collection of more than 20,000 full text books from over 150 publishers. There are many titles covering a wide range of business topics. You can also limit your Library catalogue search to electronic books by adding the word ebrary to your keyword search.

Emerald Insight *Full text
Covers all major management disciplines including marketing, human resources management, operations management and more. For full text retrieval, check the 'Search only my subscribed journals' radio button.

Europa World *Full text
The online version of the Europa World Yearbook. Provides political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

Expanded Academic ASAP *Full text
Another multidisciplinary database, Expanded Academic offers good coverage of business literature. Many of the articles are available in full text.

Factiva *Full text
Extensive collection of Australian and international newspapers and news wires. Factiva also provides comprehensive company analyses and reports.

FirstSearch
For staff and postgraduate students only. Offers a wide range of databases including BusIndustry, BusManagement, EconLit and WilsonBusiness. Also contains indices to worldwide conference proceedings and papers. Contact the reference desk or your liaison librarian for login and password.

InfoRMIT Business Australia - Online
Subjects include accounting & taxation, management and training and industrial relations.

ProQuest *Full text
This is a multidisciplinary group of databases which include a large number of business journals. Many of the articles are available in full text. To select particular databases from the ProQuest collection, click the 'Databases selected' link on the top right hand corner of the Advanced search screen.

Web of Knowledge
Provides access to the Science Citation Index, a multidisciplinary index which allows researchers to search by topic, as well as by 'cited reference'. A Citation Index analyses the footnotes of each article to show who is citing whom. In this way, researchers can trace a particular paper to see who is citing it and thereby trace the debate surrounding a particular issue.

WebReports *Full text
Mergent WebReports offers a vast archive of corportate annual, quarterly, and interim reports from over 100 countries.

Who's Who in Business in Australia *Full text
A comprehensive directory of individuals and organisations in Australia. Contains over 8,000 companies, 24,000 biographies and 12,000 key staff references.

Wiley Interscience *Full text
An online service that provides access to full text articles from approximately 63 business related journals published by Wiley Interscience.

World of Learning *Full text
A directory of over 30,000 universities, colleges, schools of art and music, libraries, learned societies, and research institutes. Provides information on more than 550 international cultural, scientific and educational organisations, and details more than 200,000 staff and officials.

Theses and dissertations

Digital Theses *Full text
Browse or search for digital theses produced by postgraduate research students at Southern Cross and other Australian universities or search the ADT (Australian Digital Theses Program) for those produced at other Australian universities.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Index to over 100,000 business related dissertations from ProQuest Digital Dissertations. While not full text, titles published since 1997 have 24 page previews available.

Networked Digital library of Theses and Dissertations *Full text
provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses. Many are freely available in full text and can be viewed online.

Digital Library and Archives *Full text
from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Contains citations to over 6,700 digital theses and dissertations, many of them freely available in full text.

Australian Digital Theses Program
Links to a wide range of Australian and international theses - abstracts only

SCU hard copy theses
Click the SCU Catalogue button, search across all fields for your topic of choice and include the word thesis. You can also refine your search further by adding DBA for example.

Search engines

The Library's Search Engine page - http://www.scu.edu.au/library/finding_info/search_engines.html contains links to a wide range of search engines, including Google, that you can use for general Web site searching. The search engines listed below are specialised tools for finding scholarly and business information.

Google Scholar
Find scholarly information via Google. If Southern Cross University holds the item, you can link straight through to it.

BizSeer
BizSeer is a publicly available vertical digital library and search engine hosted at Penn State's Smeal College of Business that focuses on academic business documents including published articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, etc.

Business.com - a business search engine and directory
Search by keyword, or browse an extensive range of categories

Electronic books

The Library's electronic book collection - ebrary - contains thousands of full text books covering a wide range of business subject.

These are easily accessible via the Library Catalogue. Enter some keywords in the search box describing your topic of interest and add the word ebrary. This will refine your results to electronic books only.

The Library's electronic book page - http://www.scu.edu.au/library/finding_info/ebooks.html also contains links to a number of freely available electronic book collections that may be of use to you.