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Library Studies

Information and resources to support Library Studies students at Box Hill Institute

Databases

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 hardcopy items, e-books and online journal articles all in a single search. When doing a search in the catalogue, you may like to select Books & eBooks and last 10 years.  

 

What are databases and why you need them?

Also explains why Google is not a good source of scholarly information. Video by Yavapai College 2011.

Key database resources

The key databases and electronic resources for Library Studies Students are listed below. 

You need to log in to StudentWeb to access these resources.

EBSCOhost  -  Periodical articles and reference materials. Try

  • 'Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre' (especially for Australian content and newspapers),
  • 'Business Source Premier'
  • 'Academic Search Premier'  

Academic Search Premier -  A multi-discilplinary full text database containing full text for more than 3,000 peer-reviewed titles. It covers areas such as computer sciences, engineering, science, language and linguistics, arts & literature and medical sciences.

 

Other databases:

Australian Bureau of Statistics -  Australian statistics.

Austlii Australasian legal databases - Federal and State acts and regulations.

Australian Dictionary of Biography -  Biographical profiles.

Libraries Australia -  Catalogue of holdings at Australian libraries.

Journals

Hardcopy Journals, or periodicals, are located in Dewey order, on the journal shelves in the CAE/City Library. All journals are available for loan.

4 copies of each journal are available. JALIA (to 2022), InCite (to 2022) & Good Reading (Issues to 2022). Good reading is a magazine for book lovers with book reviews.

 

eJournal

The articles from these journals can be found there in electronic form:

Please also note that there are many relevant journals other available online through the library's database collection. Click on the databases tab at the top of the screen for more information.

Audio Visual Resources

A.V. resources CD and DVD Roms to accompany books are interfiled in the CAE/City Library collection. This means that they will be physically located amongst the books in one Dewey sequence.

DVDs are filed in a separate section, under Dewey call number such as 791. 

There are also online videos that can be found through a normal catalogue search or via the library's database page. They show as 'Online Video' in the catalogue. In particular, the SafetyHub ( range that cover all aspects of occupational health and safety) may be useful. Access SafetyHub is from the Library Database page.

Search for specific subjects

Click the link below to see library resources on that subject or browse the library collection at that call number