AUSTROM Databases Content

AEI: Australian Education Index (Education)
indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material at all levels of education and related fields.

AFPD: Australian Federal Police Database (Federal Policing)
indeses and abstracts articles from selected Australian and overseas journals, conference papers, and shapters of some books... to support the information needs of personnel in Federal law enforcement and community policing...

AGIS: Attorney General's Information Services (Law)
indexes and abstracts articles from over 120 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals and selectively indexes and abstracts articles from major law journals from the US, Canada and the UK.

ALISA: Australian Library and Information Science Abstracts (Library & Info Science)
attempts to index and abstract comprehensively all current Australian literature on library and information services and the library workforce.

APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service (Public Affairs)
indexes a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books on Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs.

ARCH: Australian Architecture Database (Architecture)
indexes Australian and New Zealand architecture and building periodicals.

AUSPORT: Australian Sport Database (Sport)
indexes and abstracts articles on sport from journals, monographs, congerence papers, government reports, theses, videotapes and audiocassettes.

CINCH: Australian Criminology Database (Criminology)
is produced by the library of the Australian Institute of Criminology and indexes and abstracts articles from journals, monographs, monograph chapters, conference papaer...

CSI: Consumer Science Index (Consumer Science)
indexes articles from periodical material published in Australia and overseas. Subjects include clothing, consumer economics, consumer education, craft, textiles, home economics, nutrition, etc

DELTAA: Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia (ESL)
indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on English second language learning and teaching in Australasia.

FAMILY: Australian Family and Society Abstracts (Family and Society)
is an index to current Australian writing and research on the legal, sociological, economic and demographic situation of Australian children and adults.

MAIS: Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies (Multiculturalism)
indexes and abstracts a wid range of media from published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues

Australian Government Website

The Australian Government Website http://www.australia.gov.au/

The Australian Government Directory ttp://www.agd.com.au

The NSW Government Directory http://www.directory.nsw.gov.au/

For Local Government http://www.datadiction.com.au/lincs

Citation Style Guide

PRINT SOURCES

MONOGRAPHS

Single author
Walsh, Maureen. May Gibbs : mother of gumnuts, Pymble, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1991.
Jones, Bob. Personality and learning, 2nd ed., New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Two author
Hodge, Stephen & Boord, Martin. The illustrated Tibetan travel book, New York : Sterling, 1999.

Three author
Gillespie, Paula, Lerner, Neal & Palmer, Willian. Allergies in children, New York : Random, 1998.

More than three authors
Smythe, John, et al. Not in front of the grown ups, London : Sphere Books, 1990.

Works with editors
Follow the same principles as with authors, but add the qualifier (ed.) or (eds.) in parentheses beside the name(s), e.g.:
Butler, J.D. & Walbert, D.F.(eds.). Abortion, medicine and the law, New York : Facts on File, 1986.

Corporate author
CSIRO. Division of Entomology. The insects of Australia : a textbook for students and research workers, Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1991.

Works with no authors or editors
Aussie pack : facts and figures from down under, Canberra : AGPS, 1998.

Conference proceedings
Words that wound : proceedings of the Conference on Freedom of Expression and Racist Propaganda, Melbourne, November 1982, Canberra : AGPS, 1983.

ITEMS WHICH ARE PART OF A LARGER PUBLICATION

An article within a book
Blaxter, M. "Social class and health ineaualities", in Carter, C. & Peel, J. (eds.)
Equalities and inequalities in health, London : Sun Books, 1976 : 31-52.

An encyclopaedia entry
"Spiders." Australian encyclopedia, 4th ed., 1983, vol. 9 : 153-160.

A dictionary entry
"Lpquacity." The Macquarie dictionary, 2nd rev. ed., 1987 : 1023.

A yearbook entry
"Grapes. Viticultural statistics : area production and value." Year book Australia, 1990 : 416.

A journal article
Dewhirst, C. "Hot air over the Himalayas." World geographic, vol. 1, no. 4, 1986 : 38-49.
New South Wales. Higher Education Board. "Higher education and work." Seminars on education, no. 2, 24 June 1978 : 25-31.

A newspaper article
Brandis, G. "The Liberals : just who is forgetting whom?" Weekend Australian, 24-25 Jan., 1987 : 19.

NON PRINT SOURCES

An audio tape
Hepburn, Katherine. Me : Stories of my life, London : Storybooks, 1990. (2 sound cassettes)

A videorecording
Handling printed books, London : British Library Preservation Services, 1990. (1 VHS videocassettes)
McCullough, Chris. What is your coping style? : and what you can do about it!, New York : Video Dialog, c1991. (1 VHS videocassette)

A CD-ROM
Investigating Lake Iluka : a simulated lake environment designed to support the teach of ecology, Wollongong, N.S.W. : Interactive Multimedia, c1995. (1 CD-ROM, with notes)

Asegment of a multimedia product
"Terra nullius : land rights for hunter gatherers", in From Mungo to Makaratta : Australian pre-history, Sydney : ABC, c1983. (3 sound cassettes)

A kit
A history of costume, London : Pitman, 2000. (1 kit)

ELECTRONIC SOURCES
Note that the conventions relating to authors which were illustrated above, also apply to electronic sources.
The following includes examples of citations for information retrieved from the World Wide Web and from electronic databases.

A Web site – no author
Cheat planet : the planet’s source for cheats. Retrieved December 4, 2001 from http://cheatplanet.com/index2.html

A Web site – with author
Costa, Tony. Etravelphotos.com. Retrieved February 8, 2004 from http://www.etravelphotos.com

Western Australia. Dept. of Conservation and Land Management. Naturebase. Retrieved December 10, 2003 from http://www.calm.wa.org.au
An article retrieved from a Web site

Poland, Dave. “The hot button.” Roughcut. Turner Network Television. Retrieved October 26, 2002 from http://www.roughcut.com

Barry, P. L., & Phillips, T. “Water on the space station.” Science@NASA. Office of Biological & Physical Research, U.S. National Atmospheric & Space Administration. Retrieved April 24, 2002 from http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast02nov_1.htm

An online journal
Thompson, Bill. (ed.) Birdwatcher’s digest. Retrieved January 23, 2004 from http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com

Fishing world. Yarra Publishing Group. Retrieved January 25, 2004 from http://www.yaffa.com.au/fw/

An article retrieved from an online journal
Primeau, Liz. “Roman holiday.” Canadian gardening. Retrieved December 4, 2001 from www.canadiangardening.com

Walker, Paul. “Australian War Memorial.” Architecture Australia. September/October 2003. Retrieved February 8, 2004 from http://www.archaust.com/aa/

An article from a Web reference source
“Tigers.” Microsoft Encarta online encyclopedia 2001. Retrieved March 25, 2001 from http://encarta.msn.com

O’Keefe, Tim. “Epicurus.” The Internet encyclopedia of philosophy. Retrieved February 8, 2004 from http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/epicur.htm

A reference to an article retrieved from an electronic periodical index
Borman, Willian. "The wine industry in the Barossa Valley." Australian wine journal, vol. 23, no. 6, 1990 : 33-50. Retrieved February 8, 2003 from APAIS CD-ROM database

Fox, Justin & Roche, Mary. "The impact of video games on pre-teen boys." Society issues, vol. 6, no. 10, 2001 : 45-56. Retrieved from November 22, 2003 from Family CD-ROM database

Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating disease outbreakes after biological and toxic weapon use." Emerging infectious diseases, vol. 6, no. 3, 2000 : 33-40. Retrieved December 5, 2002 from SAGE Online database heep://www.publish.sciro.au/sage/

Biographycal Sources

Online Sources
Biography.com
Who2?
Lives, the biography resource
Informationplease.comPeople

Directory type
Who's who. London, 1849-
Who's who in Australia. 1906-
Who's who in America. 1900?-
International who's who. 1935-

Universal or general dictionaries of biography
Chambers biographical dictionary. 1990
Macmillan dictionary of biography. 1994

Detailed essay type sources
Current biography. New York : Wilson, 1940-
- Monthly magazine, with cumulative indexes.