Databases

Databases are searchable, up-to-date indexes of journal articles and other types of information. You can use a database to find articles on a topic. Most databases are available to Curtin staff and students only.

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WARC database Warc is a comprehensive marketing information service. It offers a combination of global marketing strategy and insight, leading advertising trends, and case studies. It also provides the latest in-depth information in the areas of marketing, advertising, and communications. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Available to walk-in users and alumni within the Library. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Business - Complete Finance Marketing Tourism and Hospitality
Water resources abstracts (ProQuest) Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Environment and Agriculture Humanities - Complete Science and Engineering - Complete Social Sciences Sustainability Urban and Regional Planning
Web of science Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It enables users to search current and retrospective Multidisciplinary Databases information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides cited reference searching. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Aboriginal Studies Applied Geology Architecture and Interior Architecture Business - Complete Chemical Engineering Chemistry and Biochemistry Civil Engineering Communication and Cultural Studies Computing Construction Management Design and Art Education Electrical and Computer Engineering Environment and Agriculture Exploration Geophysics Forensic Science Health - Complete Humanities - Complete Information and Internet Studies Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science Mechanical Engineering Media, Culture and Creative Arts Medical Radiation Science Metallurgical and Mining Engineering Petroleum Engineering Physics and Astronomy Science and Engineering - Complete Science and Mathematics Education Social Sciences Spatial Sciences Sustainability Urban and Regional Planning
WebCSD WebCSD is the online portal to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). Contains published crystallographic data on organic, organometallic, and metal complex structures whose 3D structures have been determined using X-ray diffraction or neutron diffraction. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Chemistry and Biochemistry Science and Engineering - Complete
Westlaw AU Covers Australian legal journals, case law, commentaries, precedents,encyclopaedia and legislation. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Accounting Banking Business - Complete Economics Finance Information Systems Law Management Mineral and Energy Economics Taxation
Westlaw International UK - see Westlaw UK Westlaw UK's United Kingdom materials include UK case law and court documents, legislation, journals and law reviews. Westlaw UK also contains legal materials pertaining to the European Union. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Subject(s): Accounting Banking Business - Complete Economics Finance Information Systems Law Management Property Taxation
Westlaw UK Westlaw UK's United Kingdom materials include UK case law and court documents, legislation, journals and law reviews. Westlaw UK also contains legal materials pertaining to the European Union. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Accounting Banking Business - Complete Economics Finance Information Systems Law Management Property Taxation
Wiley online library A multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Aboriginal Studies Applied Geology Architecture and Interior Architecture Business - Complete Chemical Engineering Chemistry and Biochemistry Civil Engineering Communication and Cultural Studies Computing Design and Art Education Environment and Agriculture Exploration Geophysics Forensic Science Health - Complete Humanities - Complete Information and Internet Studies Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science Mechanical Engineering Media, Culture and Creative Arts Medical Radiation Science Metallurgical and Mining Engineering Petroleum Engineering Physics and Astronomy Science and Engineering - Complete Science and Mathematics Education Social Sciences Spatial Sciences Sustainability Urban and Regional Planning Urban and Regional Planning
WORKLIT (Informit) WORKLIT, produced by the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on employment, industrial relations and related topics from 1907 onwards. Formerly part of Business Australia On Disc. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Business - Complete Economics Law Management Marketing Property
World higher education database Comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of information on higher education systems and institutions worldwide. Brings together data from the International Handbook of Universities and additional institutions offering at least a post-graduate degree or a four year professional diploma, to provide a cross-referenced and searchable database featuring information on institutions in more than 180 countries. Detailed information on the higher education system of every country is also included. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Education Humanities - Complete Social Sciences
World newsreels online This streaming video database captures the complete series of many of the most important newsreels from USA, France and Japan leading up to and during World War II with supplementary material up to the 1960s. Topics include health, scientific and industrial progress, religion, sports, fashion, politics, meterology, agriculture and disasters. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Available to walk-in users and alumni within the library View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Aboriginal Studies Communication and Cultural Studies Design and Art Education Humanities - Complete Social Sciences Sustainability
WorldCat WorldCat is the largest library network in the world. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their free resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information. WorldCat's coverage is both deep and wide. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos - all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also link to many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks you can listen to on many portable MP3 players. You may additionally find authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; abstracts and full-text articles; and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Aboriginal Studies Communication and Cultural Studies Construction Management Design and Art Education Humanities - Complete Information and Internet Studies Media, Culture and Creative Arts Science and Mathematics Education Social Sciences Sustainability Urban and Regional Planning
WorldTradeLaw.net WorldTradeLaw.net offers both a free resource library of current trade news and resources, as well as a subscription service (the DSC Service), which provides summary and analysis of all WTO reports and arbitrations; a current keyword index; a database of dispute settlement tables and statistics; and a user-friendly search tool for WTO cases, legal texts, and other documents. Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. View Record in Library Catalogue Subject(s): Business - Complete Company or Industry Economics Finance Law Mineral and Energy Economics

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The library's online resources such as databases, e-books and e-journals are covered by licences which specify the conditions under which the licensed material can be used. Library resources are provided to support academic research and study. They may not be used for commercial purposes, or for paid or unpaid work on behalf of an organisation other than Curtin University. Bulk, excessive or automated downloading of material, supplying licensed material to non-authorised users (including posting to websites) and actions in breach of the Copyright Act 1968 are not permitted. To access Library online resources, you must agree to these conditions.