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Key databases
Engineering Village Selected Full-Text
Engineering Village incorporates the databases GeoBase and GeoRef on a single platform. Subjects covered include geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography and geomechanics.
SAGE Premier Full Text
SAGE Premier includes 550+ titles in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine with full-text back to 1999.
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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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Newsbank Full Text 
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.
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.
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.
Wiley Online Library Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines. 
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ENVIROnetBASE Full Text
ENVIROnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on environmental science, environmental engineering and environmental technology.
APA-FT Full Text
Australian Public Affairs Full-Text provides access to articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities.
ATI
The Australian Tourism Index indexes materials on tourism and related disciplines.
SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
Taylor & Francis Full Text
Taylor & Francis journals cover the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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AANRO Selected Full Text
Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online is a collection of free databases covering agriculture and natural resource management.
ATRI
The Australian Transport Index abstracts published and unpublished Australian material on transport.
CAB Abstracts Selected Full Text
CAB Abstracts covers agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources.
EVA: Environmental Abstracts
EVA abstracts journal articles on the Australian environment and related fields.
Humanities and Social Science Collection Selected Full Text
This database abstracts research on all aspects of cultural, creative, Indigenous and social life in Australia.
HeinOnline Full Text
HeinOnline includes 1,200 law journals on all aspects of the environment, history, politics, business, public policy, government, international issues and criminal justice. Check HeinOnline Titles for a full list. User's Guide (pdf) | Videos and PowerPoints
Sociological Abstracts Selected Full Text
Sociological Abstracts offers international coverage of sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied.
ScienceDirect Full Text
Science Direct offers full-text access to over 200 Elsevier journals.
STATSnetBASE Full Text
STATSnetsBASE contains the full text of more than 120 works on statistics, including biostatistics, statistics for psychology, social science and law, statistical theory, and statistics for the biological sciences.
Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Best of the Web: Geography
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography and Remote Sensing
Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online offers a range of dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
Oxford Reference Online includes the Dictionary of Earth Sciences, Dictionary of Geography, Dictionary of Weather, Encyclopedia of Global Change, Guide to Countries of the World, Oxford Companion to the Earth, World Flags, and World Maps.
SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a set of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
Sage eReference includes the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, and Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change.
UXL Encyclopedia of Landforms and other Geologic Features
UXL Encyclopedia of Water Science
World of Earth Science
Web sites and Internet resources
American Geographical Society — site, with programs, archives, e-resources
Current Geographical Publications — Bibliographical index of the additions to the research catalogue of the American Geographical Society Collection. Hosted by the University of Wisconsin
Geography — General geographical links and resources about specific countries and educational institutions
Geoscience Australia — All about Australian topographic mapping, geodesy and other essential geographic information
Geosource — A webdirectory for geography and the geosciences, created by Utrecht University in the Netherlands
Map and Geography Library — A large, categorized portal site provided by the library of the University of Wisconsin
National Geographic — The National Geographic online; with feature articles, maps, photographs, and online forums
Planner's Web — An e-journal accompanying the paper Planning Commissioner's Journal, this site contains articles, recommended book lists, and specialized links pages. Perfect for anyone interested in city and regional planning in the US
Planning Institute Australia
Planning Resources —A British site on planning issues and news
Royal Geographical Society — Maps, research, and publications about geography in the UK, in tandem with the Institute of British Geographers
University of Zurich's Links for Geography — Links to journals, maps, statistics, general geography pages, and also to e-dissertations of Zurich University students
World-wide Earthquake Locator — Developed by the Department of Geography at University of Edinburgh
WWW Virtual Library: Demography & Population Studies — Including international census information and electronic journals