Modern history
Reference books and encyclopaedias
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides access to 100 reference books in a range of subjects.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
Contains over 250 reference works including key titles in the Oxford Companions series.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new windowUseful for finding background information about a topic.
Databases
- Library SearchSearch for all types of information resources. Most of the library subscriptions are indexed and searchable.
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- JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes the complete back runs of over 4500 full text titles. This archive does not include current issues.
Key fields covered include:
- arts
- humanities
- sociology
- language and literature
- film studies
- philosophy
- international relations
- economics
- mathematics and statistics
- law
- psychology
- public policy and administration
- business
- education
- ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database with over 9,000 titles in full text. Covers many subject areas including business and economic, health and medical, criminology, psychology, military, news and world affairs, technology.
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Database with a wide range of titles on a lending platform. Includes all titles on former EBL and Ebrary platforms.
Access to Ebook Central is now via Open Athens. A new user account is automatically created and any bookshelf titles which were created under the old user account are not available on the new bookshelf.
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- Taylor and Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Full text access to research journals covering the social sciences and humanities collection, science and technology collection, medical and fresh collections, expert opinion journals and expert review journals.
Access is available from 1997.
Titles and issues available are indicated by a green icon.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Full text from journals covering the areas of life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Full text access is from 1 January, 1997 to date. - Oxford Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary database of Oxford University Press (OUP) journals. The subscription includes all issues from January, 1996.
- Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Cambridge journals and eBooks. Bond does not have access to all eBook content.
Australian sources
- Trove This link opens in a new window
Trove is a discovery service focused on Australia, Australians, and items found in Australian Libraries. It includes:
- Books and journals in Australian libraries
- Digitised newspapers and magazines
- Images
- Maps
- Australian digital theses
Use the category options to limit by resource type.
Searching is free, however not all content is immediately accessible online. Availability and licensing are determined by partner organisations based on rights (copyright, cultural and moral rights) and other factors such as funding.
To request an item located in the national database, but not held by Bond University Library, please use Citation Search in Library Search.
- Books and journals in Australian libraries
- State Library of QldSearch the SLQ catalogue to find Qld history materials.
- National Archives of AustraliaDefence and war service records
- Australian Public Affairs - Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles from Australian journals and newspapers covering political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs.
- Informit This link opens in a new window
Informit provides access to full content from a range of Australian and Asia-Pacific journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials.
Recommended resources
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World by Peter N. StearnsISBN: 9780195176322Publication date: 2008-03-28
- The Journal of Modern HistoryTry searching for key events or people within this journal.
- The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World by Joel Krieger (Editor)ISBN: 9780195117394Publication date: 2001-08-02
- The Oxford Companion to World War II by I. C. B. Dear (Editor); M. R. D. Foot (Editor)ISBN: 9780198604464Publication date: 2002-01-24
- World History, Volume 2: from 1400Kordas et al. (2023)
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