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New Internet Resources for AESS

March 2001

This page is a listing, compiled from various sources, of some of the new sites on the web relevant to the Schools within the Faculty.

Previous lists will also be available. Some items will be added to the Subject Resources Guides. Please contact your School Librarian if you would like to make suggestions for additional items.


General Resources

  • ProQuest 5000
    ProQuest 5000 provides access to a number of index and full text databases including ProQuest Education Complete, Social Science Plus, ABI/INFORM Global, Applied Science & Technology Plus, General Science Plus, ProQuest Computing, ProQuest Medical Library. About half of the journal and newspaper titles provide full text; citations date from 1971 forward; full-text backfiles date from as early as 1987 forward. (Actual dates vary for each title.) There are different links for On Campus and Off Campus. For remote users a password is required - please contact InfoHelp for further information.
  • Cost of online education
    The cost of online education is the subject of a couple of articles this month in The Chronicle of Higher Education
    http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i23/23a04101.htm
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/02/2001022701t.htm
  • U.S. Guidelines for Distance Education
    In January 2001, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released DISTANCE EDUCATION GUIDELINES FOR GOOD PRACTICE, a "set of quality standards for distance education in colleges and universities " The entire report and a practitioner survey are available online (in PDF format) at http://www.aft.org/higher_ed/technology/
  • Behavioral & Brain Sciences Online
    (http://www.bbsonline.org/)
  • Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive
    An electronic archive for papers in any area pertinent to the study of cognition, e.g. psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, anthropology.
    (http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/)
  • Social Science Paper Publisher
    SSPP.net is an informal electronic journal serving as an academic resource and opportunity for scholars who would like to find a readership for broadly sociological work.
    (http://www.sspp.net/)
  • Australian National Women's Organisations
    An index of Australian women's organisations
    (http://www.nwjc.org.au/womensorgs.html)

Anthropology / Archaeology

  • Athena Review: Journal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration
    Published quarterly articles on both Old and New World archaeology are written by a variety of archaeologists, journalists, and other investigators, aimed at a general audience with readership in a number of countries. Each issue combines fully-illustrated feature articles on selected major archaeological regions with coverage of recent finds, plus reviews of books, videos, and internet sites. The website at www.athenapub.com, free to all, provides on-line articles from each issue along with a growing image archive with photos, maps, and site plans.
    (http://www.athenapub.com/)
  • Camping With the Sioux: Fieldwork diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
    Anthropologist Alice Fletcher lived with Dakota Sioux women on reservations in Nebraska and South Dakota for six weeks in the fall of 1881 and recorded her experiences in two journals.
    (http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/fletcher.htm)
  • Masks.org
    A digital library concentrating on masks, mask makers, and masquerade
    (http://www.masks.org/)
  • Pompeii: A Lost City Revealed
    Based on a travelling exhibition titled "Ancient People of Herculaneum".
    (http://www.discovery.com/news/features/pompeii/pompeii.html)

Education

  • Currents in Electronic Literacy
    Special Topic -- Technology and the Teaching of Writing in Primary and Secondary Schools in Issue 3 (Spring 2000)
    (http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/)
  • Psychology in the Schools
    New Ejournal, access restricted to University network
    (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/index.html)
  • Encyclopedia of ED Stats -- NCES
    Publications of the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics
    (http://nces.ed.gov/edstats/)

Humanities

  • English Matters
    A hyptertext journal edited by members of the English Department at George Mason University and devoted to the relations between the new media, teaching and the study of the humanities.
    (http://chnm.gmu.edu/ematters/)
  • History of the English Language
    Frequently updated site which provides a directory of quality sites related to the historical study of English. The annotations are brief, but informative, often including helpful technical information about the resource. The site is maintained by Dan Mosser at the English Department of Virginia Tech.
    (http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html)

Indigenous Studies

Psychology

  • PsycINFO
    Now available online - Abstract database of psychological literature from 1887 - present. A password is required for off-campus access (JCU staff and students only) - please contact InfoHelp or Cathy Yellowlees for details.
  • PsycPORT.com
    PsycPORT from APA offers a substantial collection of psychology resources for professionals and interested users. Designed as a portal for psychology information, PsycPORT features breaking psychology news stories; information on forthcoming and current books; recent tables of contents, abstracts, and some full-text articles for related journals.
    (http://www.psycport.com/)

Sociology

Social Work / Community Welfare

  • Current Australian Journal Abstracts - Australian Institute of Family Studies
    A weekly current awareness service (updates each Monday) provides a listing of Australian journals, articles by Australians in international journals and statistical publications which have been selected for inclusion in the Institute's database 'Australian Family & Society Abstracts' (FAMILY). The FAMILY database can be accessed via Informit Online from the Electronic Databases link on the Library & Computing Services page.
    (http://www.aifs.org.au/institute/info/jcurrent.html)
  • Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies
    A peer-reviewed full-text electronic journal that collates and distributes original material on disaster and trauma studies within Australian, New Zealand and the Pacific rim. It is funded by Massey University in New Zealand. Coverage includes disaster and trauma mitigation and prevention, response, support, recovery, treatment, policy formulation and planning and their implications at the individual, group, organisational and community level.
    (http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/)
  • Child & Family Social Work
    A full-text journal which publishes original and distinguished contributions on matters of research, theory, policy and practice in the field of social work with children and their families. Full-text and PDF articles are available from 1999 to present, and are published by Blackwell Science.
    (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/member/institutions/issuelist.asp?journal=cfs)

Acknowledgments

Some of the sources from which new resources are selected:

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