Flinders University, Library Newsletter, March 2001

New electronic resources

ProQuest 5000

Proquest is the latest major full-text resource to be made available to the University community. It consists of 19 databases which can be searched separately or all together, including:

ABI/Inform Global

ABI/Inform Global consists of 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. It also includes information on 60,000+ companies.

Academic Research Periodicals

This database contains a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.

Accounting & Tax Periodicals

Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications appears in this quintessential accountant's database.

Applied Science & Technology Plus

This extended database is the old Wilson's Applied Science & Technology index plus full-text and images of the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications and transportation.

General Science Plus

General Science Plus is Wilson's General Science Abstracts index with full-text and images. General Science Plus Text provides quick, reliable access to the scientific information you need in a wide range of disciplines.

ProQuest Computing

ProQuest Computing includes the top computing journals in full-text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, the Internet.

ProQuest Education Complete

This database contains more than 550 titles on education, including primary, secondary, and university-level topics with nearly 300 in full text. Includes the indexing and abstracts from H.W. Wilson's highly regarded Education Abstracts, plus many additional titles.

ProQuest Medical Library

Proquest Medical Library combines MEDLINE indexing with full images for more than 200 key medical titles. It offers coverage of all the major healthcare specialties, including nursing, paediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy, and others.

Social Science Plus

Social Science Plus is Wilson's Social Sciences Index with full-text and images. The disciplines covered include addiction studies, gerontology, econometrics, international relations, minority studies, urban studies, and more.

In total, more than 3500 journal titles are available in full-text html or pdf formats.

Access Proquest

An online tutorial is also provided, or you can contact your subject liaison librarian for more information.

Wiley Interscience

The Wiley Interscience collection consists of over 300 full-text journals in the areas of: In most cases, full-text coverage extends back to 1997. A useful feature of the Wiley Interscience Collection is the ability to create a Personal Home Page which will allow you to create data files and links to Electronic Journals, articles of interest and search criteria which may be reused at any time.

Access The Wiley Interscience Collection

Please contact your subject liaison librarian for more information.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

CIAO is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991, and includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

CIAO is available on and off campus.

Please contact Chris Moore for more information.

Ageline

AgeLine provides bibliographic references and original abstracts for materials related to aging and middle age, from an interdisciplinary perspective of psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology, public policy, business, health and health care services, and consumer issues. Documents on health care and policy comprise about half the database. Document types include: journal articles, books, book chapters, reports, and government documents. Journal coverage includes research, professional and general interest titles. Time span: 1978 to present, with selective retrospective coverage.

It is available on and off campus.

Access Ageline

Please contact Tony Giorgio for more information.

Other major full text collections available via the Library's website that you may not be aware of include:

Synergy

A collection of medical and scientific journals from Blackwell Science & Munksgaard. Synergy is available on and off campus.

Access Synergy

Please contact Jessica Tyndall for more information.

Academic Press IDEAL

IDEAL is a collection of journal titles in the areas of: Articles as far back as 1996 are available, and the collection is accessable on and off campus.

Please contact Miranda Morfey (email: Miranda.Morfey@flinders.edu.au) for more information.

American Chemical Society Collection

All 25 of the American Chemical Society's journals are available online. This collection is available on campus only.

Access American chemical Society Collection

Please contact Miranda Morfey for more information.

Renewed subscriptions and contracts

MathSciNet

The subscription to MathSci Net has been renewed for 2001.

MathSciNet is a searchable database based on the data in Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, leading publications that catalog and review research literature in mathematics. MathSciNet, Mathematical Reviews, and Current Mathematical Publications are all produced by the American Mathematical Society. MathSciNet provides coverage of Mathematical Reviews from 1940 to the present. Both bibliographic data and review texts are available from 1980-present. Bibliographic data is also available from 1940-1979. Items listed in the annual indexes of Mathematical Reviews but not given an individual review are also included.

Current Mathematical Publications is a subject index of bibliographic data for recent and forthcoming publications. Most items are later reviewed in Mathematical Reviews. All items in Mathematical Reviews appear first in Current Mathematical Publications.

Please contact Miranda Morfey for more information.

Lexis-Nexis

The contract for Lexis-Nexis has been renewed for 2001.

Lexis/Nexis is a US based system which provides the full text (excluding diagrams, tables and charts) from thousands of newspapers, journals, cases and legislation. It is not just another index, it makes available the contents of a huge range of journals and newspapers that may not be available in print form in the Flinders Library, or easily accessible through other libraries. While its strengths are in law, legal studies, business and medicine, it also contains a great deal of valuable material for the social sciences, humanities and the sciences. There are 2 separate databases: Lexis which contains sources concentrating on caselaw and legislation, and Nexis which includes news and business information.

Lexis

The LEXIS service contains libraries of English, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, and South African law, as well as legal materials from Ireland and Scotland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia.

The LEXIS service also contains major archives of US federal and state case law, continuously updated statutes of all 50 states, state and federal regulations and public records from major U.S. states. The LEXIS service has 41 specialised libraries covering all major fields of practice, including tax, securities, banking, environmental, energy and international.

The Hot Topics library contains summaries of the latest legal and regulatory developments within nearly 40 practice areas. The 2NDARY library contains ALI Restatements of the Law, ALR® and LEd2d articles and selected state jurisprudence and is a great place to start researching secondary legal research materials.

Nexis

The NEXIS service is a news and business information service which contains more than 8,700 sources, of which 3,700 provide their entire publications online. These include US regional, national and international newspapers, news wires, magazines, trade journals and business publications.

The NEXIS service also offers several thousand other news sources including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Business Week, Fortune, and The Economist. It is a one-stop service for both national network and regional television broadcast transcripts, in addition to carrying CNN and National Public Radio news and features. Major news services of China, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the U.K., the unified Russian republics and the United States and Australia are vital sources of international business information and news. In addition, the NEXIS service contains more than 2,000 sources of abstracts including The Wall Street Journal.

A help sheet is available for accessing Lexis-Nexis via a Law Library or central library work station . There is also a help sheet for downloading articles from Lexis.

Access:

A Lexis only subscription can be accessed in the Law Library, and Lexis Nexis can be accessed either in the electronic information room in the Central Library or via Investigator, the online catalogue. Access is restricted to Flinders University staff and students. LEXIS-NEXIS Research Software Version 2.9 for Macintosh is also available for use on campus.

Please contact Amanda Nixon for more information.

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