What are databases?
Databases are collections of materials gathered to meet the needs of staff and students. Databases may contain periodical articles from Australia and around the world for a wide variety of subjects. Box Hill Institute Library also has databases of online books, Australian standards, and more.
You can search databases as you would the Internet but they provide much more reliable information
Many of our databases can now be searched via our Discovery catalogue. Search on shelf items, e-books and online journal articles all in a single search. See the Books, E-books tab on this guide for a search window.
LISTA provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Inside the databases there are eJournals. Rather than searching the whole of a database these links help you to search just a specific eJournal. The most recent publication date is listed
Australasian Public Libraries and Information services 2012
Peer-reviewed articles and shorter items on publicly accessible library and information services in Australia and New Zealand.
IFLA Journal 2020
Journal of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. It publishes original research, case studies, and essays
Library Journal 2020
You need to log in to StudentWeb to access these resources - click on the links below to access.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - Australian statistics.
Austlii Australasian legal databases - Federal and State acts and regulations.
Australian Dictionary of Biography - Biographical profiles.
Ebscohost - Periodical articles and reference materials. The primary source for Library Studies is 'Library, Information Science and Technology abstracts with full text', but it is often worth searching additional databases, such as 'Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre' (especially for Australian content and newspapers), 'Academic Search Premier' and 'Business Source Premier'
Informit APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs - Full Text) - Australian Periodical articles, general/humanities coverage. Contains quite a few Library focused titles. We now also have other Informit databases : A+ Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Health and Indigenous Collections.
Libraries Australia - Catalogue of holdings at Australian libraries.