Australian Family & Society Abstracts / Family & Society Plus
One aspect of the information work of the Institute is the use of electronic means to disseminate the research and information collected and maintained by the Institute's Research Library. The Institute's bibliographic database, Australian Family & Society Abstracts was first produced in 1984. Family & Society Plus, an enhanced version of the database with a full text focus was launched in 2004.
Australian Family & Society Abstracts
Australian Family & Society Abstracts is a bibliographic database that records the research, policy and practice literature about Australian families and the social issues that affect them.
Key facts:
- Australian Family & Society Abstracts covers the literature from 1980 to date and offers more than 60,000 citations and abstracts, many of which have links to full text publications on the Web. Publications indexed in the database are drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines including sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work;
- Source documents include journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, research reports, discussion and working papers, unpublished papers, statistical documents and theses. Journal articles make up approximately 50 per cent of the literature indexed;
- Many items listed in Australian Family & Society Abstracts are held in the AIFS research library and can be borrowed via the interlibrary loan system;
- Many non-commercial documents included in the database are free, or can be purchased from the issuing organisation;
- Where documents are available online, a URL (Web address) will provide a direct link from the database to the document;
- Publications of the Australian Institute of Family Studies are either freely available from the Institute's web site or can be purchased from us;
- Australian Family & Society Abstracts can be accessed through Informit Online as a standalone subscription database, as part of a collection of social science databases, or as a subject specific subset - AUSThealth or ATSIROM: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections;
- Subscribe to Australian Family & Society Abstracts via Informit Online.
Family & Society Plus
Family & Society Plus is an enhanced version of Australian Family & Society Abstracts developed by the Institute in collaboration with RMIT Publishing. In addition to citations and abstracts, it offers a collection of full text journal articles supplied under licence from the journal publishers, as well as links to other full text material available on the Internet.
Subscribe to Family & Society Plus via Informit Online.
Family Thesaurus
Family Thesaurus is a list of subject terms developed for indexing and retrieving information in the Australian Family & Society Abstracts database. Terms included in the thesaurus reflect the database's multidisciplinary approach to factors affecting life in Australian society and are drawn directly from the literature being indexed.
The Thesaurus can be used to index documents, whether print or electronic and to organise reading lists and bibliographies. Thesaurus terms are also used to index resources in the AIFS Library catalogue.
Australian Family & Society Abstracts and Family & Society Plus are available via Informit Online the Australasian scholarly research information system.
This web-based Australian online service of research and education databases is operated by RMIT Publishing and offers more than 70 databases covering a range of disciplines as diverse as law, architecture, politics, economics, criminology, industrial relations, education, medicine, natural resources, sport and family studies.
For further details contact: RMIT Publishing, PO Box 12058, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne Vic 8006; Tel: +61 3 9925 8100; Fax: +61 3 9925 8134; E-mail (info@rmitpublishing.com.au)