Databases and journals
Key databases, general databases and recommended journals.
Databases
- Informit Complete This link opens in a new windowAustralasian scholarly research for the education, research and business sectors.
This package provides access to the full suite of Informit products, with full text cover-to-cover access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings and other research material.
- Anthropology plusRecommended for articles related to history and culture
Many more can be found by following the steps outlined on the previous page under Step 3 Select databases.
General Humanities and Social Science Databases will also index articles on Aboriginal issues.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowA large multidisciplinary database. Over 160 subject areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, social sciences, news and world affairs.
- Sociological AbstractsInternational literature in sociology and related disciplines.
- JSTORArchive of important scholarly journals, mainly in the humanities and social sciences.
Journals
Articles about Aboriginal art, music, film, literature, sport etc can be published in any journal about those topics not necessarily in Aboriginal specific journals, however here are a few examples:
- Australian Aboriginal studiesFocuses on the humanities and social sciences.
- Aboriginal historyAnthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and history.
- Australian Indigenous Law ReviewConsiders issues in Australian law and policy, and developments affecting Indigenous peoples around the world
- Australian Journal of AnthropologyAnalyses and ethnographic reports carried out in Australia and neighbouring countries.
- Rock art researchThe Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA)
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Ethnographic Collection
The AIATSIS Ethnographic collection includes some of the most significant works of ethnographic film produced in Australia.