The Research Department at AFTRS has provide us with a list of academic databases. Please note - the ones that are listed as available from AFTRS are also mostly available from within other institutions.

Databases available through AFTRS Library

Factiva

The database contains more than 8,000 overseas and Australian newspaper and newswire publications and more than 9,000 web sites. For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive is 13-22 years [SMH 1986+, AFR 1982+] and the News Limited archive is 8 years [Australian 1996+]. There is also a briefer archive on media transcripts for the ABC, SBS and Channel 9 (up to 1 year archive). Overseas media transcript archives are longer (up to 5 years). Pictures of major news events and reports also are available.

EBSCO Research Database

CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State)providing full-text and abstracted articles in the communication and mass media fields..

APAIS

APAIS contains a selection of indexes to periodical articles on Australian social science, law, architecture, sport, criminology, leisure and education. These indexes enable subject access to citations for a wide range of Australian journal articles, and reviews of Australian books and films.

APAIS - Australian Public Affairs and Information Service.
This database is useful when searching for information about the Australian film, television and radio industries.

FIAF

FIAF International FilmArchive Database is an international index of information on film and television published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). It covers film literature from more than 300 periodicals since 1972 and television literature from 1979, and includes the FIAF subject thesaurus. Additionally, the database features print sources for 22,000 silent films, a bibliography of FIAF members' publications and a directory of film and TV documentation collections.

Film Index International

Film Index International is a database that covers films, feature films, shorts, documentaries, television movies, cinema, biographies of personalities, awards, directors, production companies, credits, cast, genre, plot synopsis, actors, actresses, communication. Provides information on 90,000 films produced from 1895. Also contains a bibliography of citations to reviews and journal articles, as well as cast and credits.

Film Literature Index Online database covers approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976 - 2001. 150 film and television periodicals have been indexed cover-to cover from 30 countries.

Other Free Public Access databases

International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication – Journal Database

A collection of free journals (some not in English), covering a variety of topics, hosted and/or produced by ICAAP (the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication) - a research and development organization devoted to the advancement of electronic scholarly communication.

http://www.icaap.org/list_journal.php

BUBL

Selected internet resources covering academic subject areas

http://www.bubl.ac.uk

SOSIG - Social Sciences Internet Gateway

Selected internet resources covering Social Sciences.

Section on ‘Research Tools’ contains links to huge number of bibliographic databases, as well as journals, research centres, data sources and research organisations

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

Intute

Database of academic resources on the web

http://www.intute.ac.uk

H-Net

Academic discussion networks, for Humanities and Social Sciences divided by subject area. Good book reviews list (h-review).

http://www.h-net.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals

Covers over 2000 journals in a variety of subject areas

http://www.doaj.org/

Dspace at MIT

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Digital Repository, including pre-publication versions of articles, technical reports, working papers, theses, conference papers.

https://dspace.mit.edu/index.jsp

OAIster

OAIster serves as a search portal for digital collections of electronic books, online journals, audio and image files, and movies provided by the research library community. Indexed content includes the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, various pre-print and e-print servers, and digital thesis and dissertation collections.

http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

PANDORA

Australia’s web archive

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html

Subscription sites (possibly available through universities)

Expanded Academic ASAP

(Link is to list of journals indexed in database)

http://www.gale.com/tlist/sb5019.html

JSTOR

Scholarly journal archive

http://www.jstor.org

FirstSearch