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IEEE Xplore
Please note: Ebooks are not accessible on IEEE platform. IEEE Xplore contains full-text access to conference publication, journals, transactions, magazines, up-to-date IEEE standards and standards dictionary online. Provides full text access to high quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. The IET journal collection was removed from IEEE Xplore on December 31, 2020. All IET Conference Proceedings and the IET Enginering & Technology Magazine and its five predecessor titles remain on IEEE Xplore.
Scopus
Scopus is a large multidisciplinary database covering published material in the humanities and sciences. It also provides citation analysis of authors and subject areas. Also includes access to Scival via expanded top menu (Elsevier personal registration required). Tips and tricks | Browser support | For more information on text & data mining
Web of Science
This portal hosts Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, MEDLINE, and via the Additional Resources tab, Journal Citation Reports. Its CrossSearch feature enables a "quick overview" search of these databases and also searches Agricola and Pubmed. To access Journal Citation Reports, click link in top navbar, then Continue without signing in on right hand side of the screen. Save to BibTeX format only available in Web of Science Core Collections Training (YouTube) Note: If you encounter an error message when trying to access this database, please clear your browser’s cookies and cache before trying the link again.
JSTOR
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 virus, this database contains expanded access to journals and primary sources until 30 June 2023 • List of freely accessible titles and collection information offered by JSTOR JSTOR is a digital library containing digitized back issues of academic journals. It now encompasses books and other primary sources in the humanities and social sciences.
Access Australia : NewsBank
Access Australia from NewsBank provides comprehensive full text news coverage from across Australia. It includes local newspapers and major titles such as The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, and The Age. Access Australia includes content from over 500 of the most popular Australian daily, weekly and Sunday newspapers, as well as hard-to-find community regional and rural titles.
Locating information: buildings and historical buildings
Historical Atlas of Sydney
The Historical Atlas of Sydney provides access to the key maps and map series held by the City of Sydney Archives. The maps range from the 19th and 20th centuries and were produced variously by Council itself, other government authorities or private surveying firms and individuals. The Historical Atlas also provides background to Council’s evolving boundaries from 1842 until today.
Australian Indigenous architecture
Assembling the centre architecture for indigenous cultures : Australia and beyond
Housing design in indigenous Australia
Aboriginal housing has been topical in both architectural education and professional practice since the early 1970s. Despite the specialist nature of Aboriginal housing design there has been no book that deals with the subject from a broadly architectural perspective. Take 2 redresses the gap with an illustrated collection of writings.
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