Politics
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APA-FT 
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Australian Public Affairs Full-Text provides access to articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities.
Humanities and Social Sciences Collection Full Text
The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection provides access to journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials on a range of topics.
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.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.
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
HeinOnline also has a library of US Treaties and Agreements, US Attorney General Opinions and US Federal Legislative History of historically significant legislation. The US Presidential Library is a major resource that includes papers of all of the Presidents, Presidential documents from 1965, Inaugural Addresses, Impeachment trials and President's Commissions.
SSRN
The Social Science Research Network abstracts research in the social sciences and over 200,000 full-text items.
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
The Wiley Online Library includes current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
Web of Science
The Web of Science abstracts the scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
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BERITA
The BERITA database indexes material on public affairs related to Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and ASEAN in general.
Humanities and Social Science Collection Selected Full Text
This database abstracts research on all aspects of cultural, creative, Indigenous and social life in Australia.
INTAN MAS
INTAN MAS indexes the literature on East Timor and Eastern Indonesia, as well as Australia's relations with South-East Asia.
NewsBank Full Text
NewsBank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Cold War Reference Library
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Encyclopedia of Terrorism
Handbook of Human Rights Law
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference offers a range of dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
Useful titles are the Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, Guide to the Countries of the World, World Encyclopedia, Dictionary of Contemporary World History, Dictionary of World History, Dictionary of Political Biography, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, and Oxford Guide to the United States Government.
Political Parties of the World
SAGE Knowledge
SAGE Knowledge is a set of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
Check the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Encyclopedia of the Environment and Society, Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Encyclopedia of Social Problems, and the Encyclopedia of US Campaigns, Elections and Electoral Behavior.
Web sites and Internet resources
Australia.gov.au for links to Australian government websites and services.
Australian Development Gateway is a Government website suporting sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Australian Government Directory including Business Australia.
Australian Government publications search
Australian Policy Online developed by the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology.
IPSAportal Top political websites chosen by the International Political Science Association.
Key politics links from the Parliamentary Library in Canberra, including resources for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, the US and other countries.
Marxists Internet Archive Library of biographies, works, images and audios of around 600 Marxist and non-Marxist authors.
Parliament of Australia, its ParlInfo search and publications.
Parliament of New South Wales and its legislation.
Political Studies Association (UK) database of conference proceedings 1994-
PROL (Political Research Online) A pre-print showcase of emerging scholarship, developed by the American Political Science Association and other political associations.
Republicanism (the Republic Referendum) articles collated by Charles Darwin University.
Thomas Library of Congress' US legislative information
University of Michigan Documents Center for US and international government information.