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These are the other main databases and online resources that have been purchased this year.
A comprehensive primary source record of women’s role in Britain’s war effort during the Great War. The collection, gathered by the Imperial War Museum, London and presented electronically, features more than 115,000 pages, 29,000 documents and images, 2,400 photographs, documents from more than 1,000 organisations and interpretive essays by leading scholars.
Using this database you can now access Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries. Users can search, browse, track and be alerted to television events and programs. It indexes transcripts and seamlessly integrates with existing databases allowing users to search and access broadcast content.
Note: MIBT students and staff are not permitted to access this resource due to license restrictions
This is the latest Jstor collection to be released. With a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) titles, the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will extend JSTOR's coverage in disciplines across the social sciences, economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.
Online access is now available to the 20-volume Second Edition and 3 Additions Series volumes, with quarterly udates.The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
The Business Who's Who of Australia online has fully searchable information on 40,000 Australian public and private companies. The data is updated nightly and searches can be conducted by such criteria as company name, location, brand name, size, type, ACN/ABN/DUNS number and SIC code. The database has help sheets which show new users how to conduct searches. There is a limit of one user at a time for this database.
The Macquarie Dictionary is the main Australian dictionary and is now available online together with the Thesaurus. The online version also has extra features including Drag & Drop, Add-a-World and Dictionary Wit.
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