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Business Collection Full text available

Covers all broad business fields, including: accounting, career development, commercial law, commodities, corporate governance, e-business, economics, employment, human resources, labour, management, marketing, occupational health, taxation, and unions. The Business Collection provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, and reference materials published by a myriad of small Australasian academic and professional associations, interest groups and research centres.

26488 records; Full text publications: 1993- ; Index: 1993-

Engineering Collection Full text available

Covers all broad engineering fields, including Civil engineering, Engineering of railroads & roads, Mining & related operations, and Sanitary & municipal engineering as well as specialist engineering areas. The Engineering Collection provides access to full content from a range of journal articles, conference papers, working papers and other grey literature sourced from the Engineers Australia library collection and is produced in collaboration with Engineers Australia.

53182 records; Full text publications: 1973- ; Index: 1973-

Families & Society Collection Full text available

Covers family, marriage, women; culture and institutions, private, civil and family law; social services and public welfare. Content includes peer-reviewed journals from government and specialist associations tackling modern debates on topics including non-traditional families, parenting, marriage, divorce, division of labour, working mothers, birth rates and ageing. Please note: This full text Collection replaces Family & Society Plus, which ceases 31st December 2010. For index only results you may also search FAMILY – Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database.

13354 records; Full text publications: 1976- ; Index: 1976-

Health Collection Full text available

Content includes research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles. Many titles included in the Collection are unavailable elsewhere online, including journals dedicated to specialist and current topics of interest such as ageing and age care, child health and breastfeeding, indigenous health issues, mental health and rehabilitation.

51658 records; Full text publications: 1977- ; Index: 1977-

Humanities & Social Sciences Collection Full text available

Covers agriculture, arts, Asian studies, business, cultural studies, education, history, indigenous studies, law, media, political science, reference, social sciences, science and technology. Content sources include peer reviewed journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials sourced and indexed by RMIT Publishing.

85218 records; Full text publications: 1940- ; Index: 1940-

Indigenous Collection Full text available

With a broad range of international Indigenous research resources brought together, the Informit Indigenous Collection offers a variety of content on both historical and topical issues within Indigenous studies. Readily available, the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework encompasses anthropology, community development, cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law and land rights, literature, politics and policymaking, (post)colonial studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts.

Warning: The records in this database may contain names and/or images of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

13273 records; Full text publications: 1977- ; Index: 1977-

Literature & Culture Collection Full text available

The Informit Literature & Culture Collection offers a number of Australia’s best known literary magazines that help define Australia’s literary and cultural heritage. Created in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, the Informit Literature & Culture Collection is an essential reference database for academic, school and public libraries and for teachers and students of literary studies, cultural studies and creative writing courses. Researchers and students of Australian literature, history and society will find this Collection a rich source of fiction, poetry, cultural politics and the ideas that have helped define the unique Australian identity.

48454 records; Full text publications: 1940- ; Index: 1940-

New Zealand Collection Full text available

Informit New Zealand Collection provides cover-to-cover access to core research published in, and relating to, New Zealand. This multidisciplinary resource will benefit anyone looking for unique content which offers a regional perspective. Content is comprehensively indexed and can be searched or browsed – title by title.

16526 records; Full text publications: 1993- ; Index: 1993-

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