Online resources for alumni

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This curated collection of specially licensed online resources is for our UWA Alumni Library Members


As a UWA graduate, you can become a member of our Library and gain access to these journals, ebooks and primary resources from your home. We have also included some highly recommended open access resources.

These resources are in addition to borrowing from our physical collections and on campus access to the majority of our online resources.

These databases are provided to alumni solely for your personal research and educational use. Access cannot be used as a substitute for an alumnus’s business or employer obtaining access to the databases for commercial use.

Arts
  • AustLit
    Authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 100,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. It also makes available selected critical articles and creative writing in full text. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day.
  • British Periodicals
    Searchable full text of more than 160 British periodicals from the late 17th to early 20th centuries.
  • British Online Archives
    Digitized primary source collections support study and research of the territories colonised by Britain. Collections range from colonial, missionary and transatlantic relations to twentieth century political and social development, covering four-hundred years of world history.
  • Church Missionary Society Periodicals
    Documenting missionary work from the 19th to the 21st century, the periodicals include news, journals and reports offering a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounter.
  • Clásicos en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Portal dedicated to the classics of Spanish literature.
  • DigiZeitschriften
    Core German research journals across a number of disciplines, mainly in German.
  • The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2015
    A searchable historical archive for The Economist.
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online
    Significant books, broadsides, pamphlets and essays published in the UK during the 18th century.
  • Empire Online
    A wide range of primary source materials sourced from more than twenty archives for the study of "Empire", its theories, practices and consequences, dating from the late fifteenth century onward.
  • Érudit
    North American French-language research in Social Sciences and Humanities.
  • India, Raj and Empire
    Original manuscript material comprising diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works.
  • Knowledge Unlatched
    Open access to scholarly books on a range of topics, crowd-funded through Universities, including UWA.
  • London Low Life
    Rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to nineteenth and early twentieth-century London.
  • Medieval Family Life
    Images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise the Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armburgh family letter collections and provides access to full text searchable transcripts of many of these manuscripts.
  • MIT Press Journals
    Scholarly journals and books across a range of disciplines.
  • Open Book Publishers
    A UK based open access academic publisher covering mainly humanities.
  • Periodicals Archive Online
    Full text backfiles of journals in the humanities and social sciences from 1770 through to the early 20th century.
  • Periodicals Index Online
    An index only to journal articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 1770 through to the early 20th century.
  • Persee
    Selected French journals in the humanities and social sciences.
  • Project Muse
    Journals from John Hopkins University specialising in literature, arts, cultural studies, education, political science and economics.
  • Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
    Digitised collection of working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers.
  • The Scotsman
    Searchable historical archive for The Scotsman newspapers, 1817-1950.
  • Sage Research Methods Online
    A research tool that provides material to guide users through the steps of the research process.
  • Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
    Detailed analysis and commentary on the works of leading writers and thinkers (1902 to 2013).
  • Victorian Popular Culture
    English texts published between 1779 and the 1930s relating to spiritualism, mesmerism, psychical science and secular magic.
Business
Design
Education
  • Australian Curriculum
    Learning outcomes and levels for all Australian primary and secondary school students, together with supporting resources.
  • ERIC Education Resources
    Comprehensive index of education related materials, includes articles, reports, conferences and grey literature.
Engineering
Law
Medicine
  • Annual Reviews
    Covers disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences.
  • BioMed Central
    High quality, peer-reviewed, open access journals within science, technology, engineering and medicine.
  • Company of Biologists
    The Company of Biologists publish five specialist peer-reviewed journals which aim to advance excellence in the biological and biomedical sciences.
  • Knowledge Unlatched
    Open access to scholarly books on a range of topics, crowd-funded through Universities, including UWA.
  • Nursing and Allied Health Database
    Nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine across 70 health topics.
  • PTSDpubs
    Indexes literature on PTSD and other mental health issues related to traumatic events.
  • ProQuest Public Health
    Topics coverage from epidemiology to environmental health.
  • PubMed
    Biomedical literature from the US National Library of Medicine's Medline database.
Multi-Disciplinary
  • 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
    Newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets from 1672-1737.
  • 17th and 18th Century Nichols British Newspapers
    The most comprehensive collection of early English newspapers, pamphlets and books.
  • Australia and NZ Newsstream
    Covers leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers; content from Fairfax, News Limited, the ABC and APP for local, regional and national news.
  • ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
    Australian census data. Generates custom statistical reports on core demographic, economic, environmental and health indicators.
  • British Online Archives
    Digitized primary source collections support study and research of the territories colonised by Britain. Collections range from colonial, missionary and transatlantic relations to twentieth century political and social development, covering four-hundred years of world history..
  • Credo Reference
    Online reference library providing access to a large number of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology.
  • DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
    High quality, open access journals across a range of disciplines and broad number of countries.
  • De Gruyter Online
    Publishes over 1,300 new book titles each year and more than 900 journals across the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, with a digital library of over 110,000 scholarly books and 800,000 journal articles.
  • Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
    A rich visual record and social commentary of local and global events from 1842 to 2003.
  • International Water Association Publishing
    All aspects of water, wastewater and environment, spanning 15 industry-leading journals and a range of books.
  • Macquarie Dictionary
    A comprehensive Australian dictionary and thesaurus.
  • Neliti: Indonesia's Research Repository
    An index of publications from Indonesian universities, government and corporate publishers.
  • ProQuest Central
    Search across all ProQuest databases available to UWA Alumni. Does not include access to Ebook Central.
  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
    Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses spanning 1743 to today.
  • Sage Journals Online
    Topics include health and social sciences, humanities, engineering and life and biomedical sciences.
  • Springer Journals
    Wide collection of journals with topics including humanities, social science, engineering, science, life science, biomedical and health sciences..
  • Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
    Historical newspaper archive (1785-1985) covering all major international events.
  • Trove: National Library of Australia
    Searches across all National and State Library collections, and specialist cultural collections.
  • Wiley Online Library
    Journals cover the full spectrum of life, health and physical sciences, social sciences and the humanities.
Newspapers
Science
  • Annual Reviews
    Covers disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences.
  • BioMed Central
    High quality, peer-reviewed, open access journals within science, technology, engineering and medicine.
  • Company of Biologists
    The Company of Biologists publish five specialist peer-reviewed journals which aim to advance excellence in the biological and biomedical sciences.
  • CSIRO Publishing
    Journals by CSIRO Publishing presenting the latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists and cover a wide range of sciences.
  • International Water Association Publishing
    All aspects of water, wastewater and environment, spanning 15 industry-leading journals and a range of books.
  • MIT Press Journals
    Scholarly journals and books across a range of disciplines.
  • ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
    Global literature on natural sciences, engineering and technology.
  • SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
    Extensive library of ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of ornithology in North America over the last 120 years.

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