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Selected databases

  • Informit online databases (choose Indigenous Peoples category to search across 12 databases). This is the major set of databases indexing Australian journals. Databases cover education, legal, cultural, health, environmental, social, economic and political research
  • AustLit : the resource for Australian literature includes a section 'Black words' which replaces the previous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers subset
  • AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute). Provides full text searching of Australian legal materials for eg the Native Title Act 1993; the High Court decisions on Mabo and Wik
  • Elizabeth Eggleston Library Catalogue for resources of the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Clayton. The material listed in the catalogue may be viewed at the Library but is not available for loan.
  • Factiva and NewsBank are full text newspapers databases. They include the full text of all Australian papers except the Australian Financial Review
  • MURA : the online catalogue of AIATSIS - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Library in Canberra. It holds books, journals, manuscripts, oral histories and photographs. The catalogue includes articles from its journal holdings
  • Native title infoBase covers all aspects of native title

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