Databases
- A+ Education
Created in partnership with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), covers Early Childhood through to Tertiary Learning, Adult Learning, Assessment, Distance Learning, International Education, Indigenous Education and Literacy.
- AGIS Plus Text
Developed in partnership with the Attorney-General’s Information Service Australia and is an authoritative collection of legal resources developed for the legal profession and for the study of Commonwealth-based law. Informit AGIS Plus Text is only available via Informit. It is a comprehensive collection of abstracts and articles for primary legal research in comparative and Commonwealth law.
- APAFT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text)
Covers Australia's Political, Economic and Social Affairs on topics such as Current Affairs, Economics, Humanities, Law, Literature, Politics and Social Sciences.
- CINCH (Australian Criminology Database)
Covers all aspects of crime and criminal justice including Corrections, Crime, Crime Prevention, Criminal Law, Criminology, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, Police and Victims of Crime.
- Families & Society Collection
Covers Non-Traditional Families, Parenting, Marriage, Divorce, Division of Labour, Working Mothers, Birth Rates and Ageing.
- FAMILY (Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database)
Covers Child Development; Adolescence and Youth; The Aged and Services To The Aged; Marriage and Divorce; Adoption and Foster Care; Child Abuse and Domestic Violence; Child Care; Family Economics; Counselling and Therapy, and more...
- Health & Society Database
Covers Health Policy; Health Services; Quality of Life, Morbidity, Mortality and Life Expectancy; Mental Health and Illness; Aboriginal Health; Pregnancy, Birth; Abortion, Euthanasia and Reproductive Technologies; Health Education and Promotion; Health Administration; and Economic Issues.
- Health Collection
Covers Ageing and Aged Care, Child Health and Breastfeeding, Indigenous Health Issues, Mental Health and Rehabilitation.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Collection
The broad subject coverage ensures relevance to library users of all interests especially Aboriginal and Indigenous Studies, Arts, History, Law, Literary Studies, Media, Political Science and Sociology.
- Informit
An extensive range of authoritative subject-based databases featuring coverage of Australian and international information resources. Including Health, Engineering, Business, Education, Law, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Databases may be searched individually, or collectively by subject groupings or across all databases. - PsycINFO
Contains peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health specifically Psycho-social, Psychological or Human Experiences.
- Social Science Database
Indexes full text academic journals. Covers a wide range of social science disciplines including Anthropology, Communication, Criminology, Economics, Education, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology.
- Social Work Abstracts
Covers more than 450 social work and human services journals from 1965. Provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory, practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowA collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Find Systematic Reviews, Clinical Trials, Method Studies and more.
- BMJ Best Practice This link opens in a new windowPoint of care reference database. A clinical decision support tool known for its breadth of disease coverage, editorial quality and evidence-based methodology.
- Cochrane CENTRAL This link opens in a new windowCochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL).
- Trip Medical Database This link opens in a new windowA clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
- ProQuest Central (Current ECU Students & Staff) This link opens in a new window
International multidisciplinary database indexing a selection of journals in all subject disciplines. It is useful for a broad cross-disciplinary search, rather than in-depth in a subject. - APAFT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text) This link opens in a new windowCovers Australia's Political, Economic and Social Affairs on topics such as Current Affairs, Economics, Humanities, Law, Literature, Politics and Social Sciences.
- Informit This link opens in a new window
An extensive range of authoritative subject-based databases featuring coverage of Australian and international information resources. Including Health, Engineering, Business, Education, Law, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Databases may be searched individually, or collectively by subject groupings or across all databases. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Contains a wide range of journals, ebooks, and research reports in the field of Art, Business and Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Medicine and Allied Health, Science and Mathematics, and Social Sciences. - SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new windowSupports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process with 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.
- SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
SAGE publishes more than 1000 journals and over 800 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. Their growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. - ProQuest One Academic This link opens in a new windowCombines all four of ProQuest's multidisciplinary products: ProQuest Central, ProQuest Ebook Central, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and Academic Video Online (AVON).
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, and provides both author and journal metrics (performance analytics) of the literature indexed in the database. - Scopus This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, and provides both author and journal metrics (performance analytics) of the literature indexed in the database.
