European & Asian Cultures
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JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.
MLA
MLA is the standard guide to literary criticism of world authors. It also includes coverage of folklore and linguistics.
LLBA Selected Full Text
Language and Linguistic Behavior Abstracts covers all aspects of language and applied linguistics, including language teaching and learning.
Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.
SAGE Premier Full Text
SAGE Premier includes 550+ journal titles in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine with full-text back to 1999.
Taylor & Francis Full Text
Taylor & Francis journals cover the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
MAIS 
MAIS abstracts published and unpublished material on immigration and multiculturalism in Australia.
DELTAA:
DELTAA abstracts research in Australia and New Zealand into teaching English to Adults.
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ABIA
ABIA is a bibliographic index on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology.
ACLS Humanities E-Book Full Text
The Humanities E-Book Collection consists of nearly 2,000 full-text titles covering archaeology, history, art history, literature, musicology, political science and religion.
A+ Education Full Text
A+ Education provides full-text journal articles from more than 100 education journals.
Anthropological Index Online
Indexes periodical literature on languages, linguistics, culture, archaeology, ethnography, religion and civilisation.
Anthrosource Selected Full Text
Anthrosource is a searchable archive of the journals, newsletters, and bulletins published by the American Anthropological Society.
APA-FT Full Text
Australian Public Affairs Full-Text provides access to articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities.
Duke Scholarly Collection Full Text
The Duke Journals deal with academic research into the humanities and the social sciences.
ERIC
The ERIC database abstracts the academic literature in the field of education. ProQuest Help
NewsBank Full Text
NewsBank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
Web of Science
The Web of Science abstracts the scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Wiley Online Library Full Text
The Wiley Online Library includes current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Oxford Music Online Full Text
Oxford Music Online includes the full-text of Grove Music Online, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. Please logout when finished so other users can login. Guided Tour
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference offers a range of dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
There are online dictionaries for French, German and Italian and the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. A Guide to Countries of the World, World Encyclopedia and Dynasties of the World will give you statistical and other general country information. Other titles of interest include the Dictionary of Asian Mythology, Dictionary of World Mythology, Oxford Companion to World Mythology, Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, and Oxford Companion to Music.
Web sites and Internet resources
AsiaSource produced by the Asia Society, with news on arts & culture, business & economics, social issues and politics & government.
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library maintained by ANU.
China Digital Library in Chinese.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World and links to language websites.
iLoveLanguages guide to languages on the web.
Japan Society has excellent videos about Arts, Culture & Society and short Language Lessons
LearningLanguages.net is an excellent site for English speakers to learn Japanese, Spanish and French. It is designed for K-12 students and teachers but has wonderful audio exercises, educational resources and links to quality websites.
LingNet has reading and listening lessons for over 20 languages, legends and folktales and links to useful language websites.
Portal to Asian Internet Resources
Project Gutenberg has online books in many languages.
Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia.
Virtual CALL Library of downloadable CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) software. It has been developed by the Sussex Language Institute.
Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts has excellent images and information about Japan's fine arts, crafts, performing arts, traditional ceremonies, martial arts and more.