The Library has access to a variety of databases that are useful in the study of Planning, this page intends to direct you to the best of them.

Australian Resources

• Australian Public Affairs Full-Text
  Australian economic, social, political and cultural affairs. 
  Informit Tutorial
• Local Government planning and Environment NSW
  Planning Law - All relevant legislation for matters in planning and environment.

International

• Science Direct
  Hosts a number of full-text planning journals, including: Habitat International, Landscape and Urban Planning, Cities, Journal of Housing Economics and more.
  Science Direct Tutorial
• Taylor and Francis Online Journals
  International database of the publications of Taylor & Francis, has urban studies content including a few Australian journals.
• Ebsco host
  Hosts a number of database collections. Recommended are Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier & Econlit. 
  Demonstration of Academic Search Premier
• Scopus
  Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It features plenty of information about planning.
  Scopus Tutorials
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. 
  Avery Tutorial 

Legal

• Cases - Australian
  Casebase / Firstpoint / AustLII
• Cases - International
  Westlaw / Lexis.com
• Journal articles - Australia
  AGIS plus Text (Attorney General's Information Service)
• Journal articles - international
  Westlaw / Hein Online

For assistance is using these databases visit the Research Help Desk.

Also see the Law Study Guides

Research Databases

• Current Contents
  Current Contents has tables of contents across all academic disciplines.
• Web of Science
  Web of Science consists of the citation indexes for Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities. Date range is from 1992 onwards.

Newspapers

• Newsbank Full text newspapers
  Sydney Morning Herald and other Australian and International newspapers.
• Factiva
  International and Australian news and business journals. Company information.
  Factiva Tutorial  - Finding Company info
  Factiva Tutorial - Finding Newspaper Articles