Subject guides: Aboriginal Studies: Databases, Journal Articles, Newspapers &amp; Media

Free Databases

Learning Ground: Indigenous Education Resource Database/ ACER From ACER Australian Council for Education Research - Cunningham Library
TROVE / National Library of Australia Trove is a free database helps you find and use resources relating to Australia. It's more than a search engine. Trove brings together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations.
BlackWords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Storytellers BlackWords is a free database that records information about the lives, careers, and works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers; and the literary cultures and traditions that formed and influenced them. It forms part of a larger database called Austlit.
National Library of Australia eResources Access to indexes, databases, full-text ejournals and websites on topics including Aboriginal and Indigenous Australia. Most eResources in this list are freely available, others require you to login with your library card. Apply for a free Library card from the National Library of Australia's website.
Mura the AIATSIS Catalogue No login required, links to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Islander Studies(AIATSIS) library catalogue and includes audiovisual material. The catalogue covers many aspects of Indigenous Australian studies and includes both published and unpublished material.
Analysis & Policy Observatory APO is updated daily with the latest policy research ensuring policy makers and analysts can discover and access the best in policy knowledge and evidence APO includes over 34,000 resources, particularly grey literature reports, articles and data, over 21,000 authors and nearly 5,000 source organisations with detailed bibliographic information and classification of resources by topic, coverage and format.
ERIC ERIC is the largest education database in the world-containing over 1.7 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books. Coverage 1966 to present.
LIt.search: Lowitja Institute A freely available database which provides easy access to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health literature on PubMed, the US National Library of Medicine's free version of Medline, the premier database covering all aspects of health and medicine.
NINTIONE: Remote Australia Online Database Search here for evidence-based reports and resources about remote Australia.
OPUS database Open publications of UTS scholars

Open Access eJournals - free articles

Library Databases

Indigenous Collection via Informit Online
Unikey required. This is a full-text collection database. Also available via the State Library of NSW
A-Z of Usyd Library Databases for Aboriginal Studies
Unikey required.

Library eJournals - unikey required

No white turn by Adam Hill

Newspapers and Radio

Fibro Majestic by Adam Hill

Koori Mail Fulltext - AIATSIS Download the available Koori Mail issues as PDF files.
Australian Indigenous Index Index to the Koori Mail, also indexes biographical information from various magazines including Our Aim, Dawn, New Dawn and Identity. From the State Library of NSW
National Indigenous Times See also, Library Advanced Search for backfile holdings in Wingara Mura Library
First Nations Radio Stations See a map of Australia with links to First Nations radio stations.
ABC Indigenous Listen to ABC programs with Indigenous content and themes.
CAAMA Radio The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) is the largest Aboriginal media organisation in the country.
Koori Radio Koori Radio is Sydney’s only First Nations radio station broadcasting 24/7 from Australia’s Black Capital of Redfern.

Online Media, TV

Lead up to the federal election by Adam Hill

The Conversation - Indigenous The Conversation is an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public.
Indigitube indigiTUBE is the online media platform by and for First Nations people, preserving language and culture for future generations.
IndigenousX
NITV National Indigenous Television National Indigenous Television (NITV) is a channel made by, for and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
ABC Online Indigenous Australian Broadcasting Commission
The Guardian Australia - Indigenous Australians Latest news and comment on Indigenous Australians

Aboriginal Studies: Databases, Journal Articles, Newspapers & Media

Free Databases

Open Access eJournals - free articles

Library Databases

Library eJournals - unikey required

Newspapers and Radio

Online Media, TV

Indigenous Newsfeed from the ABC