Library guides: Indigenous Australian Studies: Databases and journals

Databases and journals

AustLit
An authoritative index providing bibliographic, biographical, critical and production information about Australian literature, authors and literary organisations. Full text is available for some works including poetry, criticism, novels, BlackWords, reviews and children's literature.
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Australian Public Affairs Full Text (APAFT) (Informit)
Covers Australia's political, economic and social affairs. Topics include current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.
Provides access to journal articles in the social sciences and humanities. Source documents include a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books. NOTE: Coverage - articles, 1995 to present ; index, 1978 to present.
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History Compass (Wiley)
Collection of peer-reviewed surveys of research and current thinking in History.
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Literature Compass (Wiley)
Literature Compass publishes peer-reviewed articles on the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline.
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Aboriginal History
Since 1977 the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people's and Torres Strait Islander's interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history.
Australian Aboriginal Studies
A publication of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues
The Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues (JAII) is an interdisciplinary academic journal publishing refereed articles in all areas of Australian Indigenous Studies.
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education
A peer reviewed research journal for educators devoted specifically to issues of practice, pedagogy and policy in Indigenous education in Australia. The journal has an international audience and is highly valued by its readers as a reliable source of information on Indigenous education issues.
Ngoonjook: A journal of Australian Indigenous Issues
Ngoonjook seeks to make relevant material available to an Indigenous readership and to all those interested in Indigenous Australian issues. Themes explored include: education, health, cultural identity, natural and cultural resource management, the arts and linguistics.