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Key databases
The databases below (listed in alphabetical order) contain thousands of journal articles that are relevant to your topics. You can do a keyword search to find information that can be quoted in your assignments.
ProQuest is the most frequently used database in this discipline. Current news articles from local and foreign sources can be found on Newsbank.
ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics 
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Access all Australian Bureau of Statistics publications in full text from 1998.
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APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995. 
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APECLIT: APEC Literature Database Selected Full Text
APECLIT indexes items dealing with Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries and related topics.
ATI: Australian Tourism Index
ATI is produced by the Victoria University of Technology and selectively indexes relevant Australian material.
CSI: Consumer Sciences Index
Covers topics such as children, clothing, consumer economics, craft, family, fashion, food, health, home economics, housing, marriage, nutrition and textiles.
Emerald
A collection of over 190 peer-reviewed journals in management and related disciplines.
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Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research Selected Full Text
Access to published research in the field of economics through its RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) database.
Newsbank Full Text 
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
PsycARTICLES Full Text
PsycARTICLES contains full-text articles from 58 journals published by a range of publishers in the field of psychology and related disciplines. Publishers included are the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
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Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines. 
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ABS Directories — These show the details of data sources used in addition to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' own data. Each entry contains a description of the collection, data details, geographic coverage, frequency of data availability and historical data.
AustLII's Encyclopedias and Dictionaries — Includes various works for Law, Finance and Investment.
Business abbreviation sources — Business and marketing acronyms, abbreviations and symbols.
Gale Virtual Reference Library titles relevant to business and marketing include:
- Advanced Project Management
- Coaching for Change
- CRM Project Management Handbook
- Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
- Encyclopedia of Leadership
- Encyclopedia of Management
- Encyclopedia of Small Business
- Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce
- Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice
- Leading the Professionals
- Practice of Project Management
- Supply Chain Management: Issues in the New Era of Collaboration and Competition
- Theory and Practice of Training
Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Full Text
The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition. Note: Internet Explorer users require the free MathPlayer plugin for display of equations
SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a database of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
Among the useful Sage reference titles are: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society and 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook.
Web sites and Internet resources
Annual company reports
Australian company Web sites — Swinburne Institute of Technology's links to home pages of Australian companies
CAROL — Company Annual Reports Online for Asian, European and American companies. There is no charge, but registration is required.
EquitiesInfo — free annual reports and prices of equities for over 1,200 Australian companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Fortune — company profiles and news items
Northcote — free access to current and archive copies of UK company annual reports. Free registration to access the information.
Reports Gallery — access to over 2,200 annual reports covering most of the Fortune 500 companies.
Australian Share Market
Australian Stock Exchange and Futures Exchange
Worldwide Stock Exchanges
US Securities and Exchange Commission — includes access to EDGAR (for company information and all SEC filings)
Yahoo Finance — ASX stock quotes, business news highlights, financial news, financial glossary
General sites
Australian Government Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources — comprehensive site covering tourism, small business, industry with statistics, overviews and innovations.
Country Commercial Guides — an archive of full-text reports prepared annually by US embassies between 1996 and 2001. They present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis. An updated series of Country Background Guides are available at the US State Department site. The latest series of Country Commercial Guides is available at the US Export.Gov site. Access requires registration.
Index to Theses — provides abstracts to theses published in Great Britain and Ireland 1970-
United Nations system of organizations — an alphabetical index of direct links to all of the United Nations organizations, including joint initiatives, special projects, funds, programmes and specialised agencies.
Universal currency converter — Xenon Laboratories
Marketing and Management
Australian Graduate School of Management
BEP (Business Entry Point) — an online government resource for the Australian business community, providing a wide range of information about start-up, taxation, licensing and legislation.
Bplans.com — find, view, download and edit sample business plans optimized for the Web.
Business Council of Australia
CCH Benchmarking — for Australian industry-based financial information
ClickZStats — provides statistics and and articles on Web marketing information
Codes of Business Ethics — links to corporate codes of ethics, full-text publications and business ethics websitesDepartment of Industry, Tourism and Resources — Government site detailing competitive and sustainable business practices in AustraliaHarvard Business Online — the portal site for the Harvard Business School
ICAC — publications about eCorruption and the public sector
IDEAS: RePEc — Research Papers in Economics, a huge collection of full-text working papers and journal articles, plus software components.
Manchester Business School Working PapersTrade Marks — provided by the British Library. International in scope and providing sites about classification schemes, databases and gazettes, legislation and litigation, and official manuals on trade mark procedures. Includes links to Trade Mark databases.
Trademark Document Retrieval — US Patent and Trademark Office portal to 460 000 trademark applications.
US Census Quick Facts — demographic and business statistics to US County level with easy access to full Census data.
Warwick Business School Academic Publications
World Bank Monthly Commodity Price Data