Australian Indigenous Architecture, Place-making & Design

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders combined Informit Indexes - is a suite of databases that covers issues relating to Indigenous Australian & Torres Strait Islander communities.

Covers education and training relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, including learning, psychology, social and cultural influences, language, literacy, teaching strategies, schools, teacher training, and professional development. Produced by the Cunningham Library at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

Covers legal issues such as land rights, native title, customary law, Aboriginal deaths in custody, Aborigines in the criminal justice system, racial discrimination, indigenous intellectual property, and Aboriginal youth and juvenile justice.
Produced by the AGIS Section of the Lionel Murphy Library, Commonwealth Attorney-Generals Department in Canberra.
Coverage: 1975 - present.

Australian Heritage Bibliography - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset (AHB-ATSIS), formerly HERA-ATSIS, produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, is a subset of the AHB database. The AHB-ATSIS subset contains records that specifically relate to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. includes aboriginal rock art sites, ceremonial grounds and sacred sites; important historical and archaeological sites; historic buildings and structures; historic towns and precincts; coasts; forests; national parks; endangered species; wetlands; rivers; geological features; wilderness areas; and world heritage sites. It covers the period of 1987 to present.

Covers published and unpublished material on Australian Indigenous studies. Compiled by Pat Brady, Barry Cundy and Alana Garwood at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Library.
Coverage: 1990 - present

Covers current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. Produced by the National Library of Australia.
Coverage: Full text articles: 1995- ; Index: 1978-

APAIS is an index to the social sciences and humanities, and includes articles covering history, economics, politics, current affairs and culture. As far as possible, items are selected to represent various points of view on topics of importance such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights. It covers the period from 1978 to present.

Bibliographic database that indexes published and unpublished material on Australian Indigenous health. Source documents include theses, unpublished articles, government reports, conference papers, abstracts, book chapters, books, discussion and working papers, and statistical documents. Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people. It covers the period from 1900 to present.

Australian Criminology Database - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset (CINCH-ATSIS), produced by the JV Barry Library, Australian Institute of Criminology, is a subset of the CINCH database. CINCH is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice. CINCH-ATSIS includes information on the involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the justice system.

Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset Covers research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Coverage: 1980 - present.

The Far North Queensland Collection (FNQ), produced by the Library, Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE, is a bibliographic database that was established in 1994 to meet the needs of the 2,500 Indigenous students at the Institute. By the beginning of 1998 some 50,000 items were held with some 22,000 items entered on the FNQ Collection database. Approximately 8,000 records are added each year.
Please note FNQ is no longer updated. FNQ will remain available on Informit as an archive database.

Indigenous Australia is a suite of databases that covers issues relating to Indigenous Australian & Torres Strait Islander communities.

Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset (MAIS- ATSIS), produced by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) Library, is a subset of the MAIS database. MAIS is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts a wide range of media from published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues. The MAIS-ATSIS subset contains records that specifically relate to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Produced by the Monash University School of Rural Health. Created from international literature. Includes indigenous peoples' health issues and care in rural and remote areas of the world. Edited by Dr Sandra Meihubers.
Coverage: 1975 - January 2006

indexes articles covering national parks, endangered species, wilderness areas, world heritage sites, aboriginal rock art sites, ceremonial grounds and sacred sites, historical and archaeological sites, structures and towns.

Provides access to Australian and New Zealand architecture and building information.

Art & Architecture Complete includes full-text coverage of more than 370 periodicals with content coverage dating back to 1937 and additional full-text for more than 220 books. It also includes cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 770 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as for nearly 230 books.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1740s) to the present.

the online subscription website version of The Pidgeon Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers. This continuing archive, to which new talks are being added regularly, is a unique library of contemporary attitudes which will become of priceless value to future generations.

is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

Academic Search™ Complete is a multidisciplinary full-text database, providing access to more than 8,600 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Emerald Journals cover a broad range of subjects, most notably in the areas of business management, economics and education. Content is selected for original contribution to the subject field, as well as practical relevance to policy making and future inquiry.

EVA - Environmental Abstracts covers sustainable development, air quality, environmental protection, recycling, waste management and disposal, and pollution and is produced by the EPA Victoria Library. Please note Environmental Abstracts is no longer updated and coverage is limited to 1987 - October 2011.

GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment and is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles that include content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

JSTOR is a digital library of thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources from a wide range academic publishers and university presses. Titles span across disciplines, including core areas such as business & economics, social sciences, education, history, language & literature and science. Current journals are linked and cross-searchable with archival journals and ebooks on JSTOR, helping patrons discover, use, and build upon a constantly expanding range of academic content.

Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.

The SAGE Journals collection includes hundreds of journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine. Many of the journals are published on behalf of learned societies and institutions.

SocINDEX™ with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.

Urban Studies Abstracts cover urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline of urban studies.

Wiley Online Library is a collection of online resources covering life, health, and physical sciences as well as social science and the humanities. It delivers access to journals, books, reference works, laboratory protocols, and databases from John Wiley & Sons and its imprints, including Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley-VCH, and Jossey-Bass

Collection of primary materials drawn from more than 300 libraries, archives and institutions. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life. Women’s international organizations have focused on issues related to peace, poverty, child labor, literacy, disease prevention, and global inequality.